DEEP SPACE: "Armageddon Game" - 11/08/93 - ACT FOUR        45.

					SISKO
				(finishing her sentence)
			... they would've been alive after 
			the fail-safe device went off...

	Sisko and Dax exchange knowing looks.

					SISKO
			Good work, Lieutenant.

	Dax permits herself a small smile...

52A  INT. MILITARY COMMAND CENTER

	Bashir, holding the phaser rifle, is on guard at the door.  
	O'Brien, who appears to be sleeping, begins to cough.  The 
	cough builds into a violent hacking.  He gasps for air.  
	Bashir races over, grabs a hypospray, injects him in the 
	neck.  O'Brien continues to gasp.  Bashir pulls him up into 
	a straight position...

					BASHIR
			Come on, Chief... don't leave me... 
			breathe... !

	O'Brien finally is able to take air into his lungs.  He 
	inhales and exhales greedily, wheezing.

					BASHIR
			That's it... you're doing it...

	O'Brien calms a little, nods... he can breathe again...

					O'BRIEN
			Tell me, Julian... you ever talk to 
			that ballerina of yours... ?

					BASHIR
			Not since I left Earth...

					O'BRIEN
				(after a beat)
			Maybe you should...

					BASHIR
				(beat)
			Maybe one day I will.

	Suddenly both of them hear the sound of FOOTSTEPS moving 
	outside.  Bashir takes up the rifle, aims it at the door 
	as...