Quark is injured in an attack which Odo suspects is related to a murder committed five years before, in which Kira was the prime suspect.
Jack and Dylan begin a new life together, living aboard a yacht with Dylan's enormous trust fund at their disposal. Everything seems perfect, but Jack has some dangerous enemies.
When Diana seals off the Open City with an impenetrable force field which destroys humans on contact, Donovan and Ham must kidnap the alien genius responsible for its development.