Stardate not given: An
explosion in Garak's clothing shop brings the
attention of Odo to
bear on the usually elusive Cardassian tailor. One
lead indicates it could be the work of a Flaxian
assassin, but the moment Odo tails the suspect's
spacecraft, it is destroyed by the Romulans who claim
he was on their wanted list. Odo takes a solo trip to
a rendezvous with a Cardassian who gives him some
information - that the attempt on Garak's life is
part of a much larger plot, and that other former
members of the Obsidian Order have not survived
similar attacks on the same day. Odo and Garak now
set out to find ex-Obsidian Order mastermind Enabran
Tain on Garak's hunch that Tain may also be an
assassin's target, but they are intercepted en route
by a Romulan ship carrying Tain as a passenger. Tain
invites Garak to rejoin him on a joint mission of the
Obsidian Order and the Romulan Tal Shiar to attack
the Founders of the Dominion on their own turf - and
Garak accepts.
