DEEP SPACE NINE: "Hard Time" - REV. 2/05/96 - ACT ONE       12.

17   CONTINUED:	(3)

					BASHIR
				(sympathetic)
			I can't imagine what it must've
			been like. Twenty years in that
			cell.

					O'BRIEN
			It was bad.

					BASHIR
			In all that time, were you able to
			talk to anyone? See anyone?

	O'Brien shakes his head. The memory obviously pains
	him.

					O'BRIEN
			I was alone.

	And as soon as O'Brien utters these words we...

									CUT TO:

18   INT. ARGRATHI CELL - FLASHBACK (OPTICAL)

	O'Brien, still young and in a clean uniform, is flung
	into the rough stone cell by an Argrathi Guard. He's
	been starved, beaten and abused during his
	interrogation and looks terrible.

	O'Brien collapses to the floor as the cell door is
	closed and sealed with a forcefield.

19   CLOSE ON O'BRIEN 

	As O'Brien lays there, semiconscious and in tremendous
	pain, a hand reaches out and squeezes juice from an
	alien-looking piece of fruit onto O'Brien's lips.

	O'Brien reflexively drinks the juice and slowly comes
	around. He looks up to find out where the juice is
	coming from, and pries his eyes open to see...

20   NEW ANGLE - O'BRIEN'S POV (OPTICAL)

	Which is blurry and obscure at first but slowly comes
	into focus. O'Brien is looking up at the face of an
	Argrathi prisoner, about the same age as O'Brien, but
	lean and grizzled from years of confinement. This is
	EE'CHAR. He's been imprisoned for a long time, and
	knows what O'Brien's going through.