DEEP SPACE NINE: "Inquisition" - REV. 1/29/98 - ACT TWO      24.

21   CONTINUED:	(4)

					BASHIR 
			Human beings tend to be better at 
			adapting to incarceration than 
			Klingons.

					SLOAN
				(icy smile) 
			Especially if they're genetically 
			engineered.

					BASHIR
			Meaning what?

	Sloan isn't about to let Bashir ask him questions -- he
	picks up another PADD, presses on.

					SLOAN 
			Let's move on to the matter of 
			your escape from the camp. I'll 
			quote from your own report.
				(reads from the PADD) 
			"We constructed a transmitter 
			using components from the 
			barracks' life-support system. We 
			used it to contact our runabout 
			and beam ourselves out of the 
			camp."
				(sets the PADD down) 
			Forgive me, doctor, but that 
			sounds a little hard to believe.

					BASHIR
			It's what happened.

					SLOAN
				(approaching him) 
			Why would the Dominion leave your 
			runabout orbiting the camp 
			unattended?

					BASHIR
			They didn't expect us to be able 
			to contact it.

					SLOAN 
			Why not? They left you everything 
			you needed to build a transmitter.

	Bashir tenses. In this context, their escape does 
	sound farfetched.