DEEP SPACE: "Vortex" - REV. 1/13/93 - ACT ONE            6.

9    CONTINUED:

					QUARK
			A question's been raised about the 
			origin of this bauble.  A similar 
			item was taken during a raid on a 
			Vanoben transport just two light 
			years from here.  If you had a bill 
			of sale...

	Ro-kel grabs Quark and lifts him against the wall...

					RO-KEL
			You didn't ask for any bill of sale 
			when we contacted you...

					ROM
			Gentlemen, gentlemen please... try 
			some rare Cardassian Langour, it 
			will sooth you...

					RO-KEL
				(to Quark)
			You will find another buyer...

					QUARK
			A buyer who will ask no questions... 
			that could take a long time...

					AH-KEL
			We don't have a long time.

	Suddenly, the door opens again and Croden ENTERS wielding a 
	Ferengi phaser... Croden is nervous, not a man who has done 
	this before.

					RO-KEL
			What's this?

					QUARK
			Don't fire.  What do you want?

					CRODEN
			No one will be hurt.  Just give me...
				(motioning)
			...that...

					AH-KEL
				(threatening)
			You're making a mistake.

					CRODEN
			It wouldn't be my first.  And probably 
			won't be my last.  Give it to me.