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           DEEP SPACE: "Vortex" - REV. 1/13/93 - ACT FIVE           45.

62   CONTINUED:

					ODO
			Whatever you came here to get, you 
			can forget it.  We're leaving.

					CRODEN
			Odo...

					ODO
			Now!

	Croden resists again... and Odo slams him against the cave 
	wall with his superior strength... with bitterness --

					ODO
			How much of it was true?  Any of it?  
			Any of it?

	Croden starts to lie... hesitates... decides against it.

					CRODEN
				(soft)
			No.  On Rakhar, we tell stories about 
			changelings.  I thought they were a 
			myth... until I met you.

					ODO
			The stone.

					CRODEN
			I don't know where it came from.  
			Rakhari merchants buy stones like it 
			from off-world traders.  It's used 
			as a key.

					ODO
			A key?  To what.

					CRODEN
			My only reason to live.  It's inside 
			the cavern ahead.

	Off Odo's reaction...

63   INT. CAVERN

	They ENTER... sitting on the ground is a stasis chamber... 
	covered with rocks... Croden reacts...