DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Quickening" - 03/19/96 - ACT FIVE      47.

39   CONTINUED:	(2)

					BASHIR
				(gently)
			I can induce labor in another two
			weeks... the baby will be old
			enough then.

	Ekoria nods, sets this as her goal in her mind...

					EKORIA
			Two weeks... 

	Off her determination...

									DISSOLVE TO:

40   INT. TENEMENT HOUSE - NIGHT

	Ekoria's resting fitfully, her disease having 
	progressed still further. She moans in her sleep,
	shifts uncomfortably. A HAND reaches into FRAME, dips 
	a brush into a beaker... then dabs the yellow salve 
	onto Ekoria's inflamed welts. After a moment, her eyes 
	flutter open, she focuses...

41   WIDEN

	to include Trevean, sitting at her side with the brush 
	in his hand, looking down at her with kindness. Bashir 
	is not in the room, having gone to fetch supplies.

	She reacts to Trevean's presence in the dim light cast 
	by the oil lamps --

					EKORIA
			Trevean...
				(softly)
			Am I... dead?

					TREVEAN
				(gently)
			Is that what you want?

	Part of her wants it, but another part of her wants to 
	hang on...

					TREVEAN
			I can end your suffering...

	He touches her belly gently...