DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Reckoning" - REV. 3/9/98 - ACT TWO      26.

21   CONTINUED:	(2)

					SISKO
			I never asked to be the Emissary.
				(a beat)
			But for better or worse, that's
			what I am.

									DISSOLVE TO:

22   OMITTED

23   INT. SISKO'S BEDROOM

	Sisko's lying on his bed in his nightshirt. He shifts 
	position, unable to sleep.

24   INT. SCIENCE LAB (OPTICAL) 

	as Sisko ENTERS the darkened room. The tablet sits on 
	the examining table, bathed in the light from the 
	overhead cowl. Sisko approaches it, his eyes searching 
	it for some hidden meaning. He reaches out and touches 
	it, half hoping to be thrown into another vision. 
	Nothing. After a beat --

					SISKO
				(softly) 
			Why do you always have to be so 
			damn mysterious?

	Sisko turns away, addresses the room at large, the 
	unseen Prophets.

					SISKO
			Answer me! I'm tired of your 
			riddles. If you need me to do 
			something, say so.

	Silence. Driven by some instinct he doesn't
	understand, Sisko turns and takes hold of the tablet.
	Without hesitation, without questioning what he's
	doing, he lifts it over his head and SMASHES it on the
	ground.

	Only then, when it lies on the floor SHATTERED, does 
	the instinct that compelled him to act pass from his 
	features.