DEEP SPACE NINE: "Wrongs... " - REV. 1/20/98 - ACT TWO       29.

41A  CONTINUED:	(3)

					MERU
			Why do you keep doing that?

					KIRA 
			What?

					MERU 
			Helping me. First, at the refugee 
			center and now here...

					KIRA
			I don't have many friends.

					MERU
				(smiling) 
			Well, you have one now.

	Kira smiles, grateful in ways her mother can never 
	know. And off this moment --

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42   INT. WARDROOM

	The next day. Kira and Meru, clean and dressed to the 
	nines, are lined up for inspection along with four 
	other Bajoran women, equally well-dressed -- think high-
	class dabo girls. Kira has styled Meru's hair in such 
	a way that the scar is cleverly concealed.

					BASSO
				(pleased) 
			Well done. I can hardly believe 
			that you're the same women I met 
			yesterday.
				(a beat)
			In fact -- you're not. Your old
			lives have ended. Your pasts have
			been erased. You have one purpose
			and one purpose only: to provide
			comfort and care to the Cardassian
			officers stationed here. Do that
			well, and you'll want for nothing.
			Fail, and you and your family will
			be sent to a labor camp.