DEEP SPACE NINE: "Body Parts" - REV. 04/08/96 - ACT TWO      14.

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					ROM
			Did you get lots of bids?

					QUARK
			I wouldn't say "lots."

					ROM
			How many?

					QUARK
				(dripping irony)
			Let me count... ah, one.

					ROM
			Oh.

	Rom looks at the monitor and brightens.

					ROM
			Seventeen bars, three strips, and
			five slips of latinum for the
			entire collection. It's a
			generous opening bid.

					QUARK
			It's an insultingly low offer and
			it also happens to be exactly the
			sum total of your life savings...

					ROM
			Oh. What a coincidence.

					QUARK
			Stop it. I don't want your
			charity.

					ROM
			It's not charity. I want to have
			something to remember you by...
			when you're gone.

	Quark moves away from the monitor.

					QUARK
			I knew this was a mistake...

					ROM
				(re: the monitor)
			But Brother, you've got to give it
			time. Your body's only been on
			the Exchange for --

					QUARK
			Oh, forget the bidding. This has
			all been a mistake... my life...
			coming here...