DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Assign... " - REV. 09/12/96 - ACT FOUR    44.

40   CONTINUED:

					O'BRIEN 
			I'll take care of those.

	As Rom, looking very scared, passes the Chief, O'Brien 
	reassures him with a wink. Rom tilts his chin up as
	he's marched off. O'Brien turns to the open panel.

					ODO 
			Coming, Chief?

					O'BRIEN 
			I'd better see what he's been up 
			to here.

	Odo strides off after his prisoner. O'Brien inspects 
	Rom's work. After a beat, under the guise of examining 
	Rom's tools, he checks the corridor. Odo's gone. 
	O'Brien picks up Rom's laser torch, gets back to work.

41   INT. HOLDING CELLS (OPTICAL)

	Captain Sisko, standing outside a cell's forcefield, 
	looks in on a disconsolate Rom, sitting on the holding 
	cell bunk with Odo looming over him. Rom hunches his 
	shoulders, tries a smile. Odo glowers back. This 
	"interrogation" is obviously going nowhere. After a 
	long beat of this, Odo EXITS the FORCEFIELD and steps 
	up to Sisko.

					SISKO
			Has he said anything?

					ODO 
			Not much. For the first forty 
			minutes, it was like pulling teeth 
			even getting him to admit his 
			name.

					SISKO
			You think he's working alone?

					ODO 
			I don't know. Rom admits to 
			nothing. And now he's asking for 
			Chief O'Brien. He won't talk to 
			anybody else.

					SISKO
			Then get the chief down here. I 
			want to know what's going on.

	As Sisko EXITS, Odo touches his combadge.