DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT ONE        9.

9    CONTINUED:	(2)

					QUARK
				(again, deadly)
			How do you know that?

	The four corners of the panel on which Rom has dabbed a bit 
	of the magnasite drops from the dropper, now BEGIN TO SMOKE...

					ROM
				(still happily working)
			When you were in the Gamma Quadrant 
			overnight... we did very good 
			business... naturally, I had to keep 
			your profits safe.  But you had the 
			only key to the latinum floor vault.

					QUARK
				(stupefied)
			You got into my latinum floor vault 
			with...
				(re: eye drop bottle)
			... that?

	The panel falls off...

					ROM
			I didn't want to tell you because 
			then you'd know I'd burned off your 
			floor plates.  But I replaced them 
			out of my own salary, Brother...

					QUARK
				(softly)
			... my vault...

	Rom shines his light into the hole and sees through the 
	conduits...