Traveling in a Runabout, Kira and Bashir pick up a distress signal from a disabled ship and beam over to discover an injured security officer named Ty Kajada. Her passenger - a murderer named Rao Vantika, had set the ship on fire in order to escape, but dies from his injuries after attempting to strangle Bashir. When strange things begin to happen on the station, his captors believe he is not dead, despite the body in Bashir's morgue.