DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Quickening" - 03/1-9/96 - ACT THREE     31.

20   CONTINUED:	(2)

					BASHIR 
			With any luck, you'll see him have 
			children of his own...

	A moment between them, then the SOUND of approaching 
	footsteps. A beat later the curtains part and Dax 
	appears.

					DAX
			There are some people here who 
			want to see you...

	She pulls back the curtain and reveals Epran standing 
	there with two other symptomatic (red welted) people. 
	He studies Bashir and his equipment with his typically 
	skeptical manner.

					EPRAN 
			I suppose you're going to want to 
			bleed me?

	Bashir smiles slightly when he realizes Epran has come 
	to volunteer.

					BASHIR
			Just a little.

	Epran sits heavily, offers his arm.

					EPRAN 
				(glum)
			I canceled my death for you... I 
			was really looking forward to it.


	Off this moment we...

									DISSOLVE TO:

21   INT. TENEMENT HOUSE - DAYS LATER - DUSK


	Most of the curtains and partitions that once divided 
	the room have been pulled aside -- the former 
	inhabitants have sacrificed their rooms to make space 
	for Bashir's expanding clinic.

	Twenty-fourth century medical scanners, diagnostic 
	readouts, and other equipment stand alongside primitive 
	makeshift beds. There should be plenty of BLINKIES and 
	LIT PANELS to indicate power is in use.

	In addition to Epran and the other two people we saw in
	the previous scene, there are about ten other patients 
	in various stages of the Blight (all with red welts).