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       DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Quickening" - 03/19/96 - ACT ONE        8.
                            ACT ONE                             

	FADE IN:

	(NOTE: Episode credits fall over opening scenes)

13   EXT. RUINED CITY - DAY

	Norva is still in a great deal of pain; Bashir scans 
	her with his MEDICAL TRICORDER to find out why. In the 
	background, some of the inhabitants watch our people 
	with a mix of curiosity and suspicion.

	Dax returns, and oddly her hair is down, no longer 
	pinned by a barrette.

					BASHIR 
			The painkiller I gave her isn't 
			having much effect.
				(giving her another
				hypo)
			These people's neurophysiology is
			so different from ours, I doubt
			this "blight" is any danger to us.

	Dax nods an acknowledgment.

					DAX
				(gesturing)
			I got us transportation to the 
			hospital.

	Bashir looks over and sees a WOMAN approaching them, 
	pushing a CART. She looks older than her forty years, 
	beaten down by circumstance.

					BASHIR
				(sotto)
			How'd you manage that? These 
			aren't the friendliest people I've 
			ever met.

	As if in reply, Dax tosses her head to show her hair is
	unbound. Bashir looks, and the Woman has her scraggly 
	hair partially kept by Dax's barrette. The Woman 
	flashes a craggy grin, pleased with the trade and how 
	she looks. Off this moment...