While overseeing an evacuation mission, Kira must try to persuade a stubborn old farmer to leave his home. Back on the station, Jake and Nog set out to turn an inordinate amount of seemingly worthless condiments into profit.

A visiting Lwaxana Troi becomes enamoured with Odo after he retrieves a stolen item of hers from a thief. Meanwhile, an alien computer program wreaks havoc with the station's systems.