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       DEEP SPACE NINE: - "Hard Time" - REV. 2/05/96 - TEASER        3.

4    CONTINUED:

					RINN
			No matter.
				(a beat)
			Your correction is completed. You
			are free.

	O'Brien reacts with surprise and disbelief.

					O'BRIEN
			Free?

					RINN
			The crime of espionage requires a
			minimum of fifteen cycles of
			correction. You've been here for
			twenty. It's time for you to go.

	The older O'Brien makes no move to exit his cell. He
	looks haunted, a shadow of the man he once was.

					O'BRIEN
			But I can't leave. Where would I
			go?

					RINN
			That's not my concern.

	Rinn gestures to the guard, who steps toward O'Brien.

5    NEW ANGLE (OPTICAL)

	The guard shoves his baton into O'Brien's gut and it
	discharges like a high-tech cattle prod. O'Brien
	collapses to the ground.

					RINN
			Remove him.

	The guard yanks O'Brien to his feet and shoves him out
	the doorway and into the blue light, and suddenly we...

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6    O'BRIEN'S FACE

	As he opens his eyes and shouts in horror as if awaking
	from a nightmare. O'Brien is now completely normal in
	appearance, no longer twenty years older like the
	O'Brien we've just seen. But all is not well. We...

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