Sisko is furious when he learns O'Brien has vanished while on a secret trip to New Sydney, where he was searching for the widow of a criminal named Bilby, whom he befriended while undercover. Because Ezri's family owns a mining operation in the system, Sisko asks her to help find O'Brien. Ezri returns home, where she's reunited with her domineering mother, Yanas Tigan—a shrewd business woman—and her brothers Norvo and Janel, who work for the business.

Leigh Taylor-Young (Yanas Tigan)
Kevin Rahm (Norvo Tigan)
Mikael Salazar (Janel Tigan)
John Paragon (Thadial Bokar)
Clayton Landey (Fuchida)

• New Sydney is in the Sappora System.
  
• Ezri hasn't talked to her mother since she was joined six months ago and hasn't been home in over 3 years.
  
• Norvo calls Ezri "Zee."
  
• Norvo killed Morica Bilby and was sentenced 30 years.
  
• According to Trill tradition, the symbiont name replaces the family name of the new host: Ezri Tigan became Ezri Dax. (This was always assumed to be the case.)
  
• O'Brien met Bilby while undercover in the episode "Honor Among Thieves".
  
• According to producer Ron Moore, there was a line in which "Ezri refers to the fact that her father makes it his business to stay away from home for long periods of time because of some unnamed conflict with Ezri's mother. However, the show was long and we cut the line in the editing process."
  
• A scene cut from the final edit: Yanas: "EZRI! No more wire hangers! EVER!" Just kidding! :)