109:[4,#b],191:[2,#b] DEEP SPACE: "Equilibrium" - REV. 08/15/94 - ACT ONE 11. 5A CONTINUED: Dax seems gripped with fear, visceral and intense. She tries to steel herself, swallow back her fear, but there's something about the figure that seems to cut deep into her. Suddenly she hears a strange SOUND... like an elongated musical note, distorted and eerie -- this is a stretched out version of the melody Dax played in the Teaser, and as the scene progresses, the piece will continue beyond the point we've already heard. Dax looks away from the figure to see if anyone else is around, but the place is deserted. When she looks back, the figure is gone. She looks around, trying to find him again. Something in her peripheral vision catches her eye -- she turns and sees the masked figure standing in the center of the lower level. It seems impossible that he could have moved there so quickly, but there he is. The figure stands with its hand held about face high... it slowly passes its hand across its face and in a single, impossibly seamless movement, removes the mask and reveals a second mask underneath. This mask is also eyeless, and the markings inscribed on it are more blunt and angular, with a somewhat masculine quality. 6 ON DAX as she reacts to this strange transformation. It's bizarre, frightening. The MUSIC continues and Dax decides to get the hell out of there.