Stardate 47581.2: When Chief O'Brien returns from a mission to the Paradas, everyone reacts strangely on him. His wife Keiko avoids intimacy, Bashir calls him for an unscheduled examination, crucial repairs on the station are carried out without him. He has no access to the station's logs for the time after his arrival, and his personal logs have been reviewed by someone else. When Odo returns from Bajor, O'Brien is glad to have a possible ally, but the security chief appears to be part of the conspiracy. When Kira attempts to disable O'Brien with a hypospray, he escapes to a runabout and heads to the Paradan homeworld. Witnessing a meeting of Paradan rebels with his fellow officers, he draws a phaser but is fatally wounded by a guard. Before he dies he learns that he is not the real O'Brien but a replicant who was created by the Paradas to kill someone on a conference to take place on Deep Space 9.

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