81:[1,#b] DEEP SPACE: "Whispers" - REV. 11/18/93 - ACT FOUR 38. 58 CONTINUED: O'Brien reacts... Jake immediately retreats away from O'Brien... JAKE (to O'Brien) It's gonna be okay... just surrender to them and you'll be fine... And takes off... O'Brien looks behind him... realizes he can't go back and can't go forward now that they know exactly where he is... so he opens a conduit panel and crawls inside... 59 INT. CONDUIT As he closes it behind him, covering him in darkness... he tries to catch his breath for a second... outside we can hear the sounds of arriving personnel... O'Brien holds his breath now... ODO'S VOICE (O.S.) Spread out... check all quarters... advise people to stay where they are... and not to let anyone in... The sounds of people move past... O'Brien tries to breathe silently... looks up... begins to climb in the gloomy crawl spaces above... and this begins a climbing sequence... unlike most of our crawlspace sequences, which are horizontal... this one is mostly vertical... 60 DARK VERTICAL CRAWLSPACE as he climbs higher and higher... 61 ANOTHER LEG OF THE VERTICAL CLIMB He's sweating heavily now... using every bit of strength to stay where he is... as his grip slips and he bangs against the side of the wall, almost falling, his phaser drops from his belt and we hear it clanging far below... he continues up...