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the evils of war
Pallra (Katherine Moffat), a Bajoran widow, hires a greedy, unsuspecting Quark to break into an unused store front on DS9 and to remove a strongbox from a hidden panel. How does she know it's there? What's inside? Quark will be paid well to just give her the box, but he can't resist opening it once he finds it and it nearly gets him killed. Rom demonstrates that he's not really stupid - just that he has a low self-esteem because his brother treats him like a moron. <
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>Quark & Rom open the strongbox and find only a piece of paper with Bajoran names written on it. Not reading Bajoran on a daily basis, it's a chore for them to read it at a glance, so Rom goes to get an imager to take a picture of the document before they reseal the box and give it back to the widow. <
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>An intruder shoots Quark at point blank range with a phaser and he is close to death - and the list is gone. Odo does investigating while Rom now celebrates that the bar is finally his. When Odo discovers that they stole the strongbox from what was once the old chemist's shop, Odo has mental flashbacks of the past - when he was strong-armed by Gul Dukat into investigating a murder of the chemist. He first met Kira and was obviously touched by her in some way and felt the need to protect her, even though he felt she really did have something to do with it, he defended her to Gul Dukat and it was the only crime on the station he was never able to solve. <
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>Rom can only remember a few of the letters of the first name on the list and when he puts together a name and confronts the chemists' widow on Bajor with this name, she feigns ignorance - but the next day the man with that name is found drowned on his own property. Only now does Odo put security on Quark in the infirmary - you'd think that someone had already tried to murder him once would be enough of a reason to already have security watching him, but that's just me. <
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>The retrospective flashbacks are of a time that the now liberated station inhabitants long to forget. Bajorans were forced to mine and work for the Cardies under horrendous conditions. As part of the underground, Kira had to fight and terrorize just to protect the lives of her fellow Bajorans and she did whatever she had to do to carry out her plans. <
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>Odo was the man trapped in the middle. Both the Cardassians and Bajorans trusted him because he wasn't one of them, yet they distrusted him as well. Odo had to watch as the Cardassians brutalized Bajorans and was forced to obey Dukat's whims to save as many Bajorans as he could. <
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>The ending is so elegant - you don't have it ending in a tight little bow. Both Odo and Kira face the past and each other and both confront each other with the raw truth. Will it ruin their friendship or embolden it? We don't know as the intimate silence between them speaks volumes and yet says nothing. An awesome episode.

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Odo's latest case reopens his very first case aboard DS9
Constable Odo has been on Deep Space Nine longer than anybody else and in "Necessary Evil" we not only learn how he came to the station but also of an early encounter with Kira Nerys. When Quark is shot, Rom explains to Odo how the two Ferengi had just discovered a list of Bajoran names on the other side of a wall plate in one of the promenade shops. This information leads Odo to reopen the unsolved murder case that had caused Gul Dukat to bring the shapeshifter to DS9. The shop had belonged to a Bajoran named Vaatrik, whose widow had accused Kira of the murder. The episode goes back and forth in time as Odo pursues both investigations and finally arrives at the truth. "Necessary Evil" is a much better detective story that all of the Dixon Hill fantasies Picard sloshed through on The Next Generation. Besides, this is one of the few times Odo gets to work a case without somebody interfering, which makes it a first rate DS9 episode for fans of the Constable.

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Trek noir
This episode had a spectacular film noir feel to it, with Odo serving as the PI figure and Kira and Pallra as mysterious femme fatales that could lead to Odo's untimely demise if he trusts the wrong one. It's a great story of murder, blackmail, and lies set against a dark, spaceborne version of a Nazi concentration camp.