DEEP SPACE: "Vortex" - REV. 1/13/93 - ACT FOUR           41.

57   CONTINUED:

					CRODEN
			Drop your suspicious nature for a 
			minute, changeling.  Can't you see 
			it's our only chance.

	Odo frees Croden from the restraints.  Croden reaches for 
	the controls.

58   EXT. SPACE - THE VORTEX (OPTICAL)

	The Runabout plunges into the swirling clouds of the Vortex 
	and is soon swallowed up by the brightly colored gasses.

59   INT. RUNABOUT

	Croden carefully navigates the Runabout through the billowing 
	multicolored Vortex.

					ODO
			Why are we slowing down?

					CRODEN
			The Vortex is riddled with volatile 
			pockets of a gas we call toh-maire.  
			If we destabilize them, they could 
			ignite and blow this ship apart.

					ODO
			You really have been through here 
			before.

					CRODEN
			Sometimes I do tell the truth.

					ODO
			How do you remember what's true and 
			what isn't?

	Odo and Croden exchange a grim smile, then the ship rocks 
	again as it's brushed by an explosion.  Odo looks at the 
	instruments.

					ODO
			I thought you said they couldn't 
			detect us in here.