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       DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Bar... " - 11 - 1/08/96 - ACT ONE        8.
                            ACT ONE                             

	FADE IN:

	(NOTE: Episode credits fall over opening scenes)

6    INT. INFIRMARY

	Bashir is treating Rom's infected ear with a high-tech
	medical instrument. Rom is still hurting but not as
	bad as he was before.

					BASHIR
			This is one stubborn infection.
			How long have you had it?

					ROM
				(guessing)
			A couple of weeks.

					BASHIR
				(outraged)
			You mean to tell me that you've
			been walking around with a seeping
			infection of the tympanic membrane
			for two weeks?

	Rom thinks it over.

					ROM
			More like three, actually.

					BASHIR
			Rom, you could have died. Another
			forty-eight hours and you'd've
			been bidding for a new life in the
			Divine Treasury.

					ROM
			I guess it's a good thing I
			fainted when I did.

					BASHIR
			Why didn't you come to see me
			sooner?

					ROM
			I couldn't. I was busy.

					BASHIR
			I'm sure your brother could've
			spared you for half an hour.