When Bashir asks why, Rom says that he didn't have any vacation time. Rom is sent to the infirmary, where Doctor Bashir finds that he has a severe ear infection that had been left unattended for weeks. Quark asks Broik to clean up the mess caused by Rom falling down and leaves. As the two argue, Rom collapses and Quark's only action is an intention to dock his pay for lying down on the job. Quark, as usual, doesn't care and tells Rom to get to work while Leeta stands beside Morn and defends him.

While Quark bemoans this, Rom is suffering pain in his ear and not for the first time. Things are pretty quiet at Quark's, due to the month long Bajoran Time of Cleansing where Bajorans abstain from many pleasures, causing a downturn in the number of customers.

Having found no sign of Dominion activity, Worf dismisses everyone to prepare for the next day's debriefing, and Dax coyly notes that Worf is quite taken with the Defiant. The USS Defiant returns from a reconnaissance mission to the Gamma Quadrant under the command of Lieutenant Commander Worf.

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