I had completely forgotten this episode, but I am really glad it exists. Up to this point Ezri has been little more than the girl who got Jadzia's memories but doesn't really have much going on other than that. Now we see that she is the daughter of an overbearing mother and that joining starfleet must have been a big leap for her. It also ties up the events that happened when O'Brien was sent undercover to try and deal with part of the Orion Syndicate. It left me wondering what would happen to her family afterwards though as the local police were clearly in the pocket of the syndicate.
We begin with Kira, Odo, Dax and Julian hanging out in Quarks only Julian isn't really with them. He explains he is waiting for Miles which they dismiss as being about their holosuite adventures, but in reality it is something much darker. He goes to the airlock to see if Miles is on the days transport, but he isn't. Julian goes to Sisko's office and tells him that Miles went to New Sydney to find out what happened to the wife of the syndicate operative he got killed last season. Sisko is upset but also wants Miles back so he goes to Ezri who's family has mining interests in the system. Ezri calls her mother who agrees to help, but only if Ezri comes to visit. Clearly not wanting to Ezri agrees. As soon as she arrives she is greeted by her brother Norvo whose paintings are hung up around the families luxurious home. Their older brother Janel arrives still in his uniform from the mine. Their mother arrives and she is both happy and annoyed with Ezri.
It seems Norvo has been working on the books for their mother and when they are alone we learn that Norvo and Janel have been having secret dealings with the Orion Syndicate. That night Ezri tries to convince Norvo to leave home and either come to DS9 or go out and work on his art, but instead he gets drunk and destroys most of his work. That day O'Brien is brought in handcuffed by local authorities, it seems they interrupted a brawl between him and some Nausicaans. He tells them that he found the woman he was looking for, but she was dead in a river. Ezri's mother sends O'Brien and Janel into the mine to work on a broken drill and O'Brien quickly diagnosis it as a mislabeled part. They are confronted by a shady character named Bokar who after Miles leaves tells Janel that O'Brien is Starfleet intelligence and that he should leave soon.
While the rest of the family gets back to work O'Brien and Ezri start digging through the family financial records and O'Brien finds that his contacts wife was on the payroll, and that she stopped being paid the day she died. They confront Janel and Norvo who admit they were paying her as a favor to the syndicate but that she kept demanding more money. Ezri asks Janel if he killed her but quickly realizes it wasn't him, it was Norvo. Norvo gets convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Review: I slightly above average episode that works to add some depth to a late add on to the series. Pretty decent for an episode almost entirely lacking the main cast, but kinda weak for the series.
5 out of 10
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