DEEP SPACE NINE: - "The Begotten" - REV. 11/12/96 - ACT FIVE    55.

40   CONTINUED:

	A moment as this sinks in, then Odo pushes his way past 
	Bashir into --

40A  INT. INFIRMARY

	where Mora is waiting for him. He puts a comforting 
	hand to Odo's shoulder... a beat, then Odo moves to 
	look at the goo...

41   NEW ANGLE

	as Odo approaches the goo, which is barely moving now.

42   CLOSE - ODO

	as he looks down at it, anguished. A moment, then he
	reaches down and out of frame.

43   NEW ANGLE

	Odo has taken the goo into his cupped hands... its 
	movement is ebbing, its life is slipping away...

					ODO
				(softly)
			Please, don't die... there's so 
			much I want to show you. I was 
			going to teach you how to become 
			a Tarkalean Hawk... remember? 

	As he looks down at it, the goo stops moving...

44   OMITTED

45   WIDER (OPTICAL)

	A moment, then the goo suddenly ABSORBS itself into the 
	palms of Odo's hands.

	A beat as Odo looks down at his now empty hands in 
	confusion and amazement. Bashir immediately flips open 
	his TRICORDER.

					MORA
				(to Odo)
			What happened, where did it go?

					BASHIR
				(off tricorder)
			It somehow integrated itself into
			Odo's body...