156:[1,#b],178:[4,#b]
         DEEP SPACE: "Equilibrium" - REV. 08/15/94 - ACT ONE        12.

6    CONTINUED:

	She moves off, fighting the urge to break into a run.  As 
	she comes around the free-standing directory console, she has 
	to stop short to keep from running into the masked figure -- 
	it's standing directly in her path, not six feet away.

	Before Dax even has time to react the figure reaches up and 
	tears off its mask, ripping it in half -- revealing a 
	sinister, identifiably masculine mask, from behind which 
	piercing humanoid eyes stare at her.

	Dax gasps, steps back... and bumps smack into someone -- she 
	reacts, startled, and we --

									CUT TO:

7    OMITTED

8    NEW ANGLE - NORMAL LIGHTING

	where we see that Dax has backed into QUARK.  The Promenade 
	is full of people as before.  Quark sees her troubled 
	expression.

					QUARK
			Something wrong, Lieutenant?

	Dax doesn't answer; when she turns back toward the masked 
	figure, he's gone.  Dax looks around, trying to find him in 
	the crowd -- but he's disappeared.  Off her troubled features 
	we...

									FADE OUT.

                        END OF ACT ONE