He tells Odo that he's still welcome back in the Great Link, but Odo again refuses. ![]() It turns out he's a changeling and served as a Dominion mole during the entire plot's planning. But rather than stop them, he tells them what they need to to do get a runabout and escape with their lives. As they make their escape, Lovok steps into their way with a disruptor. He convinces the shapeshifter to come with him. ![]() Meanwhile, Garak realizes that the ship is doomed and runs off to rescue Odo. Lovok runs off to Engineering and leaves Tain in charge. A massive battle breaks out, and the Romulan-Cardassian fleet is doomed. Garak realizes that the lifesign readings are fake, and this whole thing has been a trap. Lifesigns on the planet, however, remain unchanged. The fleet uncloak and open up with everything they've got on the planet, destroying 30% of the surface in the first salvo. Tain doesn't even seem to care, as they've arrived at the Founder's homeworld, and it's time to attack. When he reports back to Tain, however, he says that Odo never broke under torture. Garak deactivates the device, allowing Odo to return to liquid state. The delirious Odo says that he wants to return home to rejoin the Great Link, something he'd never mentioned in any of his reports. Garak is an emotional wreck as well, begging Odo to give him anything, even a lie, to end the affair. On the Warbird, Odo is literally falling apart from his inability to regenerate. Sisko is about to confine Eddington to quarters, but the security chief insists that the ship will need him if it's attacked, so Sisko trusts his word to follow orders from now on. Rather than turn back, Sisko simply assigns O'Brien to fix it on Scotty Time. Eddington admits that he sabotaged the device on direct orders from Toddman. The Defiant is hot in pursuit, but suddenly their cloaking device fails. Garak presents the device to Odo, whose bravado is finally shaken at the thought of being unable to regenerate. Lovok is upset that he was not informed of this device, but the Cardassians don't seem to care about the feelings of their Romulan allies. Tain gives Garak a device that will prevent Odo from returning to liquid state as a means to torture the changeling. ![]() Garak has been unable to get anything useful from the uncooperative Odo. But of course, Sisko announces a "volunteer mission" into the Gamma Quadrant, taking his senior staff including Security Chief Eddington. Sisko asks for permission to rescue Odo, but the vice admiral tells him to stay on the station and protect Bajor from any potential counterattack. Toddman doesn't hide the fact that he's rooting for Tain's success. On the station, Sisko consults with Vice Admiral Toddman, who shows them an intercepted communication recorded by Tain announcing his intentions. The captain of the ship, the Romulan Commander Lovok, announces that they are traveling to the Founders' homeworld at Warp 6 under cloak to avoid detection. As a test of his loyalty, Tain assigns Garak the job of extracting whatever Odo knows about the Dominion and the Founders, but suddenly Garak doesn't seem so enthusiastic. Onboard the lead Warbird, Garak is champing at the bit to reclaim his old life as a ruthless spy and interrogator. The crew of Deep Space Nine can't fail to notice and alert Starfleet. ![]() The two biggest alien State Secs of the Alpha Quadrant get their collective asses kickedIn the second half of the two-parter, the Obsidian Order/Tal Shiar joint fleet of twenty cloaked ships enters the Gamma Quadrant with the intention of destroying the Founders' home world.
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