DEEP SPACE: "Duet" - REV. 03/29/93 - ACT TWO            19.

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					MARRITZA
			Until now.

					KIRA
			And what did you teach?

					MARRITZA
			Believe it or not...
				(beat; confides)
			Filing.

					KIRA
				(anger flaring)
			I can verify that.

					MARRITZA
			Be my guest.

					KIRA
				(skeptical)
			I still think you're a liar.

					MARRITZA
			Ah.  So much for our search for the 
			truth.  Now we exchange insults.

					KIRA
			You admit you worked under Gul 
			Darhe'el.

					MARRITZA
			We all did.

					KIRA
			I take it, then... you witnessed the 
			atrocities.

					MARRITZA
			Atrocities?  What atrocities?

	He seats himself again; unperturbed, during:

					MARRITZA
			Oh, I do vaguely recall hearing a 
			scream now and then, but...
				(skeptical disbelief)
			Atrocities?

					KIRA
			Do you expect me to believe you knew 
			nothing about the murders... the 
			torture... You never saw the bodies?