DEEP SPACE NINE: "Homefront" - 11/04/95 - ACT FOUR           

41   CONTINUED:	(2)

					JOSEPH (Cont'd)
			You can't go around constantly
			making people prove they are who
			they say they are. That's no way
			to live and I won't go along with
			it.
				(that's his final word)
			Now if you want to make yourself
			useful, start boiling some water
			for the shrimp.

					SISKO
				(also trying to stay calm)
			Dad, don't be this way. If I have
			to, I'll get a warrant and...

					JOSEPH
			And what? Hold me down and force
			me to give you my blood? Because
			that's the only way--

	Suddenly Joseph flinches.

					JOSEPH
			Damnit. Now look what I've done.

	Joseph has cut his finger. He throws down the knife in
	disgust and goes to rinse off the wound with water.
	Sisko starts to follow him, then stops and looks over
	at...

42   THE KNIFE

	Which Joseph has left on the counter. There's a small
	drop of blood on the knife-edge.

					JOSEPH
			Jake, I've got a dermal
			regenerator under that...

	Joseph trails off as he realizes that Sisko is looking
	at the blood on the knife. Sisko looks up at Joseph,
	conscious of the fact that he's letting his paranoia
	override his common sense, but unable to overcome it.
	He looks back at the knife.

	The blood stays red.

43   CLOSE ON JOSEPH

	If he was angry before, he's furious now.