 After figuring out how to bypass a strange energy field that surrounds the planet with a shuttlecraft, the crew finds the long-decomposed remains of a woman's body deep in a cave, having been dead for about three years.O'Brien (Colm Meaney) theorizes that the energy field caused their communications to travel through time.Sisko orders them to collect Cusak's body and gives her a proper burial back on "Deep Space Nine" as a Starfleet officer and trusted friend.