Major Kira Nerys, the Bajoran liaison officer secretly leading the resistance against Dominion occupation, pleads for mercy for Rom with Weyoun, the station's Dominion administrator, but to no avail. Kira persuades Tora Ziyal, the daughter of Cardassian commander Dukat, to ask her father to show mercy, but he too is adamant, which distresses her belief that her father was a man of peace.
Major Kira Nerys, a Bajoran resistance leader fighting against Dominion occupation, pleads for Rom's life with Weyoun, the station's Dominion administrator, but her pleas are rejected. She then tries to convince Tora Ziyal, daughter of Cardassian commander Dukat, to appeal to her father for mercy, but he remains unmoved, causing Kira distress as she doubts her father's peaceful nature.