When Dax and Worf are sent to the Badlands to meet with a Cardassian double-agent, they receive an encrypted subspace transmission from Lasaran, the operative. He has information about where the Founders are located in the Alpha Quadrant, but before he will reveal anything, he wants Dax and Worf to help him defect. In three days, he plans to walk into the jungle on the planet Soukara. Since Dax and Worf will be unable to beam him off the planet, they are to rendezvous with him in the jungle. Seeing no alternative, they agree to the plan.

Todd Waring (Lasaran)

• Julian plays Quark in a Tongo tournament.
  
• When Dax becomes injured, Worf must leave her behind. Remembering the story of Kahless and his wife whose hearts beat as one, he turns around to save Jadzia, and Lasaran is killed.
  
• Worf won't get a formal reprimand on his record, but Sisko tells him that he probably will never get his own command, but that he would have done the same for his wife. Sisko also forbids the two of them from going on any missions alone together.