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37   CONTINUED:

					SISKO
			Could the file have been purged?

	Bashir considers for a beat.

					BASHIR
			If part of it's been deleted, the 
			data compression ratio might be off.

	He works the console for a moment.

					BASHIR
			Look at this... the ratio is for a 
			file five times larger.  There 
			definitely used to be more 
			information here.

	Sisko stares intently at Joran's birth and death dates.  
	After a moment --

					SISKO
			Call up Dax's records... put them 
			side by side with Joran's.

	Bashir works the console...

37A  INSERT/INTERCUT

	the screen splits in two -- Joran's file on the left, Dax's 
	on the right.  Sisko reaches for a control and Dax's records 
	start scrolling backward in time, through her previous hosts.  
	He stops when he gets to Torias.

					SISKO
			Wait a minute...
				(gesturing)
			-- look at these dates.

	Bashir looks where Sisko indicates.

					BASHIR
				(stunned)
			Belar died the same day Torias Dax 
			died...

					SISKO
				(mind working)
			The same day the Dax symbiont was 
			put into Curzon.

					BASHIR
			This has to be more than a 
			coincidence.