DEEP SPACE NINE: "Hard Time" - REV. 2/05/96 - ACT FIVE       53.

78   CONTINUED: 

	Bashir continues talking quietly and calmly, not making
	any sudden moves.

					BASHIR
			Look, I can't claim to know what
			you're going through, but whatever
			it is, it's not worth dying for.

					O'BRIEN
			You don't understand at all. I'm
			not doing this for me. I'm doing
			this to protect Keiko, and
			Molly... and everyone else on
			this station.

					BASHIR
			Protect us from what?

					O'BRIEN
				(anguished)
			From me. Don't you get it? I'm
			not the same man I used to be.
			I'm dangerous.
				(furious at himself)
			I almost hit Molly today. Did you
			know that? All she wanted was a
			little attention and I almost hit
			her.

					BASHIR
			But you didn't. You're a good
			man, Miles Edward O'Brien. And
			whatever it is you think you've
			done wrong, you don't deserve to
			die.

					O'BRIEN
				(forgetting himself)
			You sound like Ee'char.

	Bashir looks surprised. He doesn't recognize the name.

					BASHIR
			Who's Ee'char?