Stardate 50049.3: A small survey team is on a runabout in the Gamma Quadrant when they discover a crashed Jem'Hadar vessel. While Sisko, Dax, Worf, O'Brien, T'Lor and Muniz are investigating the ship, which is fairly intact but whose crew is dead, another Jem'Hadar ship appears and destroys the runabout. T'Lor and the runabout crew are killed, Muniz is wounded. A female Vorta named Kilana demands that Sisko relinquish the ship, but he refuses. After an assault by a Jem'Hadar secretly beamed into the vessel fails, Kilana lowers her demands and requests just an unspecified item that is aboard, but Sisko doesn't trust her. Muniz dies in an unsuccessful attempt to lift off. It turns out that the valuable item Kilana wanted to have was a Founder, and that his critical condition was the reason for the Jem'Hadar not to openly attack the away team. Now the Founder is dead, and the Jem'Hadar commit mass suicide for their failure. The Defiant arrives to salvage the crashed vessel.

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