DEEP SPACE NINE: "A Simple... " - REV. 1/20/97 - ACT THREE     42.

30A  CONTINUED:	(3)

					BASHIR 
			Rejects you?

	Odo's reaction tells Bashir he's hit the nail on the 
	head...

					BASHIR 
			She might. But you can't go 
			through life trying to avoid 
			having your heart broken. If you 
			do, it'll break from loneliness, 
			anyway. So you might as well take 
			a chance. If you don't, she'll 
			move on, and you'll never know 
			what you might have had.

	Odo looks at him... though he doesn't know it, Bashir 
	is describing what happened with Kira...

					BASHIR 
			And living with that would be 
			worse than having a broken heart, 
			believe me.

	Odo considers Bashir's words, and we get the sense that 
	Bashir has gotten through to him. Suddenly there's a 
	KNOCK on the window. As Bashir rolls it down.

					BASHIR
			We're almost done, darling...

	But his only reply is the muzzle of a GUN through the 
	window... an eyepatched O'Brien, dressed as Falcon, 
	sticks his face in the window.

					O'BRIEN 
				(as Falcon) 
			Car trouble, Mister Bashir? 
				(normal voice) 
			Oh. Hi, Odo.

					ODO
			I should go. Thank you, Doctor.

	And with that, Odo slips out the other door.

					BASHIR 
			This isn't fair, Chief. Odo and 
			I were talking.

	O'Brien smiles grimly at Bashir...