DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Quickening" - 03/19/96 - ACT ONE       16.

15   EXT. RUINED CITY - DAY

	Bashir sits on a discarded crate of some kind, alone 
	with his thoughts.

	Alien SUPERNUMERARIES move through the street, going 
	about their meager tasks, casting the stranger wary 
	glances. The man we saw earlier carting bodies out of 
	the city is now returning, his cart empty, his grim 
	work done.

	Dax approaches...

					DAX
			I found the distress beacon in an 
			abandoned building not far from 
			here. It has its own power 
			source. My guess is that it's 
			been repeating the same message 
			for the last two hundred years.


					BASHIR 
				(resigned)
			There's nothing for us to do 
			here... we should go...

	A small voice from off-screen interrupts.



					EKORIA (O.S.)
			Are you really a doctor?

	Our people turn and see that Ekoria, the pregnant girl 
	from the "hospital," has been standing in the shadows 
	watching them.

					BASHIR 
			Yes.

					EKORIA 
			I've never met a doctor before.

					DAX
			Now you have. 
				(smiles)
			What do you think?

	She half-smiles, disarmed by Dax's light manner.