DEEP SPACE: "Rivals" - REV. 10/20/93 - ACT FIVE          63.

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81A  EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)

	TIME CUT:

82   INT. RACQUETBALL COURT

	CLOSE on O'Brien's hand as the ball flies into it again.  
	WIDEN TO REVEAL that Sisko and Dax have joined O'Brien and 
	Bashir.

					BASHIR
			It goes right to his hand.  Every 
			single time.

					O'BRIEN
			I must've done it a dozen times by 
			now.  And I haven't missed once yet.

					BASHIR
			Nobody can be that lucky.  It's 
			impossible.

					DAX
			Not impossible.  Just extremely 
			improbable.

	Everyone looks to Dax.

					O'BRIEN
			Improbable?

					SISKO
				(gets it)
			Like the neutrinos on the station 
			spinning the same way.  Or a few 
			dozen people having minor accidents 
			at the same instant.  Or a system 
			failing at just the wrong time.

					DAX
			Exactly.  Someone or something on 
			this station is distorting the laws 
			of probability.