- Crewmembers on Enterprise are hard at work searching the ship. No luck so far.
- Valeris is skeptical that the boots are here, but Spock is certain. Chekov suggests that the killer could have destroyed them with a phaser, but there's no way of doing that without alerting the ship.
- Uhura and Scotty arrive. Uhura tells Spock that Starfleet still wants them to return home.
- Spock tells Scotty that the warp drive is too damaged to travel (it isn't). This is just a ruse to buy more time for their investigation.
- Spock is confident that Kirk is currently "planning his escape."