DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Quickening" - 03/19/96 - ACT FOUR      40.

29   CONTINUED:	(3)

	Bashir sees what he's going to do, moves to intervene.

					TREVEAN 
			Get out of my way!

					LATIA
				(imploring)
			Trevean...

					TREVEAN 
			She's asking for me! You have no 
			right to interfere!

	A terrible moment as Bashir struggles with what to 
	do... until finally, he let's Trevean push past him...

	He watches as Trevean pours the contents of the vial 
	into the dying woman's eager mouth...

					LATIA
				(through her pain)
			Thank you...

	A moment, then she dies... other patients spot Trevean 
	and his Assistants in their midst, start calling out to 
	them...

	Dax looks to Bashir for guidance, sees that he's 
	decided not to interfere... she watches as they go 
	about their grim business... off Bashir's devastated 
	features...

									DISSOLVE TO:

30   INT. TENEMENT HOUSE - MORNING

	The room is now completely silent. In the span of one 
	night, the once-thriving clinic has become a morgue. 
	Every one of the Patients is now dead, every body on 
	every bed covered with a dingy sheet.

	Trevean and his men have gone, their work done. Bashir 
	sits in a corner, shattered. Dax approaches him... 
	after a quiet moment, he speaks, his voice far away...

					BASHIR 
			I remember running a hematology 
			scan on Epran the other day... 
			there were changes in the viral 
			base-pair sequence, and I didn't 
			know why...

					DAX
			There's no way you could've known 
			it was because of our instruments.