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    DEEP SPACE NINE: "Behind the Lines" - REV. 8/21/97 - ACT FOUR   49.

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					ODO
				(confused) 
			But... you are a separate being. 
			Aren't you?

					FEMALE SHAPE-SHIFTER 
			In a sense.

	Odo tries to put it another way...

					ODO 
			When you return to the Link, 
			what'll happen to the entity I'm 
			talking to right now?

	She answers with a phrase that seems to be self 
	explanatory to her.

					FEMALE SHAPE-SHIFTER 
			The drop becomes the ocean...

	Odo senses a glimmer of what this means, tries to grope 
	his way to understanding...

					ODO 
			And if you choose to take solid 
			form again?

					FEMALE SHAPE-SHIFTER 
			The ocean becomes the drop...

					ODO

			Yes... I think I'm beginning to 
			understand.

					FEMALE SHAPE-SHIFTER 
			Then can you answer your own 
			question? How many of us are 
			there?

	It takes him a moment, then it hits him with the force 
	of revelation.

					ODO 
			One... and many. It depends on 
			how you look at it.

					FEMALE SHAPE-SHIFTER
				(pleased) 
			Very good. You are beginning to 
			understand.
				(beat) 
			But there's so much more you don't 
			know.