Garak's shop mysteriously explodes, launching Odo on an investigation to determine who is trying to kill the Cardassian exile — and why.

Andrew Robinson (Elim Garak)
Paul Dooley (Enabran Tain)
Carlos LaCamara (Retaya)
Joseph Ruskin (The Informant)
Julianna McCarthy (Mila)
Darwyn Carson (Romulan)

• Garak admits that he was once part of the Obsidian Order. He was Tain's protégé.
  
• The Romulan Tal Shiar and Cardassian Obsidian Order have been building a fleet of ships in the Orias System to attack the Dominion, which is continued in the next episode "The Die is Cast".
  
• The Orias fleet was discovered in the episode "Defiant".