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       DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/20/93 - ACT FIVE      57.

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	She just nods...

					ODO
				(continuing)
			Once I knew the eight names were a 
			list of collaborators... the murder 
			of Vaatrik made sense for the first 
			time.  He must have been a 
			collaborator too.  He had the money 
			for ginger tea.  He had the private 
			quarters.  I've never had a motive 
			for his murder until now. He kept 
			his wife in relative luxury.  She 
			surely wouldn't have killed him.  
			So, who would kill a Cardassian 
			collaborator?  Someone in the Bajoran 
			underground, of course.

	A painful beat for Kira.

					KIRA
			One of my colleagues was given the 
			job to sabotage the ore processor.  
			Vaatrik was my responsibility.

					ODO
			You were here to execute him.

					KIRA
			No.
				(with irony)
			I was here to find the list.  The 
			names of the Bajorans who were selling 
			us out.  We'd been informed that 
			Vaatrik was their direct link to 
			Dukat.

					ODO
			... That must have been why Dukat 
			chose me to investigate.  He had to 
			stay as far away from this incident 
			as he could... so he wouldn't endanger 
			his network of Bajoran sympathizers.