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            DEEP SPACE: "Babel" REV. 10/16/92 - ACT FIVE           56A.

84D  CONTINUED:

					SURMAK
			Major, this is kidnapping.  Turn 
			this ship around or I swear you'll 
			spend the rest of your life in Kran-
			Tobol Prison.

					KIRA
			Fine.  But first we need your help.  
			The aphasia virus is spreading through 
			the station.

					SURMAK
			But why come to me.

					KIRA
			You helped create the virus didn't 
			you.

	Surmak sits down beside her, nervously trying to cover any 
	suggestion of guilt.

					SURMAK
			No!  I had practically nothing to do 
			with it.  Dekon Elig created the 
			virus.  I was merely his medical 
			assistant.
				(half to himself)
			It all seems like a life time ago.  
			I was only with the underground six 
			months before we were captured.
				(to Kira, urgent)
			I am not responsible for this.

					KIRA
			I'm not looking to place blame.  All 
			I want is the antidote.

					SURMAK
			But I don't know of any antidote.  
			If Dekon made one, he never told me.

					KIRA
				(reacts, a beat)
			Look, all I know is I have a station 
			full of dying people, and you're the 
			closest thing to an expert on this 
			virus.