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      DEEP SPACE NINE: "Inquisition" - REV. 1/29/98 - ACT THREE     34.

27   CONTINUED:	(4)

					SLOAN
				(sardonic) 
			How to win the war? You 
			recommended that the Federation 
			surrender!

	Bashir realizes Sloan has led him into a trap, angrily 
	defends himself --

					BASHIR 
			We were looking for a way to save 
			as many lives as we could. If 
			you'd take the time to examine our 
			findings --

	Sloan tosses the PADD aside and turns to Sisko.

					SLOAN 
			Captain, you took the time to 
			examine their findings, didn't 
			you?

					SISKO
				(uneasy) 
			I did.

					SLOAN 
			Did you agree with them?

	Sisko shifts uncomfortably in his seat. This was a
	painful and still unresolved source of conflict between 
	himself and his chief medical officer.

					SISKO 
			No.

					SLOAN 
			Of course not. No loyal Starfleet 
			officer could.

	Sloan's case is beginning to chip away at Sisko's 
	certainty about Bashir's innocence -- though he 
	continues to defend him, he doesn't have the same level 
	of conviction we saw earlier.

					SISKO 
			I won't deny that Doctor Bashir 
			has made some...
				(choosing his words 
				carefully) 
			-- questionable decisions in his 
			career, but you're a long way from 
			convincing me he's a traitor.