Early in Eddington's run on the show I realized I didn't remember him and clicked through to his entry on Memory Alpha, and immediately regretted it. Right at the top was discussion about how he had been a Maquis agent the whole time and eventually turned against Sisko and the Federation. Since then I have been watching him with a close eye and honestly he hasn't shown nearly as many signs of being an agent as Bashir has of being an altered super person which is a little disappointing. While I don't really remember much about this I do vaguely remember Eddington's turn to evil being a bit out of nowhere.
The episode begins with Sisko and Yates in bed together and he is clearly enjoying having her there, but she has a meeting to rush off to. Later that day Sisko and the other senior staff receive a briefing from Eddington about some industrial replicators heading to Cardassia by way of the station. They make plans to keep the Maquis away but after the briefing Odo and Eddington pull Sisko aside. They have some evidence suggesting Kasidy Yates may be smuggling for the Maquis. Sisko refuses to believe it but agrees to let them search the ship if they can come up with an appropriate excuse. Cut to what I guess is the C story with Garak and Bashir watching a springball game Kira is competing in, but Garak only has eyes for Ziyal and despite Bashir's warning seems very interested.
Kasidy is back home but we can see Sisko isn't feeling as comfortable around her as he once did. As she gets ready to leave again Kasidy is upset to see they will be delayed for an inspection. Sisko tells them to let her go but orders Worf to follow her cloaked. He does and watches as he ship transfers supplies in the badlands to a Maquis vessel. Back on the station Ziyal stops by Garak's shop and invites him to try out a Cardassian spa program for the holosuite she acquired. He agrees but later than day while doing a fitting for Quark Kira stops by to threaten to kill him if he touches Ziyal which makes him think Ziyal isn't going to kill him which Quark points out may be just another layer of double cross. On the station Garak shows up in the holosuite and after some tense talk about if she is going to kill him he decides to take the risk and stay which clearly makes them both happy.
Kasidy gets back to the station and Sisko pretends everything is ok, but he is clearly worried sick. She tells him she has to leave again that night and Eddington convinces Sisko to take the Defiant out and leave him in charge of the replicators. Sisko follows Yate's ship but she just circles in the badlands. They eventually get suspicious, decloak and board but only learn that she was supposed to wait here with the supplies at which point Sisko realizes he has been betrayed. On the station Eddington has knocked out Kira and taken the replicators on a Vulcan transport. He calls Sisko to taunt him a bit but is gone afterwards. Kasidy returns to face justice after leaving her crew behind with the Maquis and the episode ends with her being hauled off to jail.
Review: A fairly average episode with some good Garak parts and solid Sisko drama. Relationships on DS9 are never simple and his with Yates is proving to be especially complex.
6 out of 10
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