DEEP SPACE: "Rules of Acquisition" - 09/03/93 - ACT THREE     31.

40   CONTINUED:

					ZEK
				(shrugs)
			Just thought I'd ask.

	He grins to show there are no hard feelings.  Kira turns to 
	walk off then flinches as Zek gives her another pinch.  Kira 
	forces herself not to turn around.

					KIRA
				(to herself)
			Dax must be crazy.

	Zek admires her departing figure.

					QUARK (O.S.)
			Nice view...

41   NEW ANGLE

	Quark and Pel have just come up the Promenade stairs and 
	make their way over to Zek.

					QUARK
				(continuing, re: the 
				Promenade)
			... isn't it.

					ZEK
				(pleased)
			Don't tell me the negotiations are 
			already over.  That's fast work, 
			Quark.  Now let's see the contract.

	Quark lowers his head in contrition.

					QUARK
			There is no contract.

					ZEK
				(immediately hostile)
			No contract?  You offered to buy a 
			hundred thousand vats, didn't you?

					QUARK
			Yes...

					ZEK
			And?

					QUARK
			And that's when they left.