Ezri returns to her family's home on New Sydney to find a missing O'Brien and uncovers a dark secret among the Tigans.
O'Brien disappears on New Sydney while searching for Morica Bilby, the widow of the Orion Syndicate man he befriended undercover. Because the Tigan family runs a mining business nearby, Ezri Dax is sent to find him and reunites with her domineering mother Yanas and her brothers Norvo and Janel.
O'Brien turns up and suspects the Syndicate killed Morica. Checking the family's books, he finds that she was on the Tigan payroll, part of a deal Janel made to repay a Syndicate debt. Janel denies murder, but Norvo confesses that he killed Morica when she tried to extort more money, and he is sentenced to prison. Ezri is left unable to tell her mother she bears no blame.