Diane Louise Salinger

With Victoria in Germany, Ted faces the pitfalls of long-distance relationships, and Marshall has trouble fitting in when he takes a job at Barney’s company.

Larry finally enters the world of cell phones, but his first call leads to a major mix-up with the chef at his new restaurant. The end result leaves Richard's new girlfriend with a serious case of the hives...just as the couple is about to be scrutinized by Joan Rivers at the Emmy(R) Awards.

Six-year-old Didi Lowenstein is rushed to the hospital with dried blood on her head. Detectives Greevey and Logan are summoned to an Upper West Side elementary school. Their investigation into why Didi is comatose leads to charges against her mother Carla, a battered wife and cocaine addict and her father, Dr. Jacob Lowenstein, a psychiatric therapist. Neither mother nor father paints a clear picture of the nature of the abuse nor who is most responsible. Anxious to prosecute, both Prosecutors Stone and Robinette realize that "the truth will come out only if one of the parents turns against the other."

Kai Winn, Bajor's spiritual leader has aspirations of also becoming First Minister of Bajor's Provisional Government. To secure her position, she employs Kira to retrieve farming equipment that is being held illegally by the leader of her old resistance cell.

One by one, members of the Shakaar resistance cell are murdered, and Kira becomes increasingly worried that she will be next.