This dark episode deals with the consequences of Kira's involvement in what she views as a resistance group that to the Cardassians was a terrorist group. In this case I feel like Kira's actions were justified, but I can see how someone on the other side would feel differently. The moral dilemma is made a bit simpler by the clearly crazy antagonist, but it isn't hard to see how he would feel about being the target of a bombing as a servant. This kind of deep moral question is only ever really dealt with in DS9, sure people tried to get revenge on Kirk, but his actions are a lot easier to defend than Kira's.
The episode opens with vedek being killed by a hunter probe hidden in prayer candle. Kira is busy being examined by Bashir and told to keep taking her herbs despite how they block the action of her sleeping sedative. Odo arrives with news of the vedek being killed, it turns out he was in Kira's resistance cell. Back in her/the O'Brien's quarters Kira gets a mysterious message saying, "that's one," in a distorted voice. Kira tells Sisko about the attacks and the message and he gets the crew working on investigating, but there are too many suspects. Kira gets a call from an informant to the cell and they send Dax and Worf to pick her up. But when they try to beam her onto the runabout something goes wrong and she is killed in the transport beam. That day while walking on the promenade Kira hears the same voice saying, "that's two," and sees Quark with a data pad that he found in a case of brandy. It was addressed to Kira and has her friends face on it.
Kira talks with Odo about creating a list of suspects and while she is there his computer is hacked. The face of another friend of hers appears on the monitor with the voice saying, "that's three." Odo gets a search team sent to find him on Bajor and Kira returns to her quarters with an armed guard. He goes in with her and while she heads to bed he heads to the replicator. But she hears a thud and goes for her gun. She turns off the lights and opens the door. She almost shoots two more members of her cell who snuck onto the station and hit her guard. The guard leaves and she starts catching up with her friends. The next day she is working with Nog and Dax on the messages. They eventually descramble them enough to figure out it is her voice. Just then the sensors report an explosion in the habitat ring, in the O'Brien's quarters. Her friends were both killed but fortunately Miles and his family weren't home.
Kira wakes up in the infirmary and takes matters into her own hands. She beams to Odo's office and steals, then erases his copy of the list of suspects. Kira then beams to a runabout and heads out to start tracking down the people on the list. The fourth one she looks into is hiding on a desert world. She beams into his house and gets distracted by a holograph and is captured. She wakes up in a stasis field and finds she has been captured by the man who has been killing all her friends. He was crippled in a bombing she carried out and blames her for it, but Kira is unrepentant. He plans to cut the baby out of her and kill her, but she convinces him to give her a sedative which he does and she appears to pass out, but as soon as he turns off the stasis field she knocks him down, grabs her gun and kills him. Sisko arrives sometime later and Bashir confirms she is ok, and that the herbs he prescribed counteracted the sedative and let her fight back.
Review: A dark but very well put together episode. Classic DS9 for dealing the the darker sides of a bitter resistance war against an occupying army. A very strong Kira episode with some great moments from the other characters, especially Nog.
8 out of 10
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