DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Reckoning" - REV. 3/9/98 - ACT FIVE     50.

66   CONTINUED:

	Just ahead of Dax and the Kai, a BAJORAN WOMAN is 
	struggling with two SMALL CHILDREN. An ENERGY 
	discharge snakes across a nearby bulkhead and the 
	children recoil in fear.

					DAX
				(to the Kai) 
			Go on ahead. Airlock Eight is to 
			the right. 

	Dax stops to help the woman as the Kai moves on --

					DAX 
			Let me help you.

67   THE KAI

	reaches the intersection. She pauses, turns to see if 
	Dax is watching. A beat, then she makes a decision. 
	She heads against traffic, away from the airlock.

67A  EXT. SPACE (OPTICAL) 

	as a Runabout pulls away from DS9, a CRACKLE of energy 
	snakes across the station's outer hull.

68   INT. PROMENADE (OPTICAL)

	as the station SHAKES around him, Sisko watches the 
	battle between Kira and Jake. The PLASMA BALL is but 
	a few feet from Jake now, defeat seems certain.

69   JAKE 

	the LIGHT dances madly across his contorted features. 
	His face trembles with effort. BLOOD begins to trickle
	from the corner of one eye -- it looks as if his head 
	is about to explode.

70   SISKO (OPTICAL)

	Sisko watches, helpless, conflicted -- crushed by the 
	sacrifice he's been asked to make.

	Suddenly we hear the SOUND of some station system 
	engaging and the entire Promenade is BATHED in a BLUE 
	LIGHT. Kira and Jake both react with alarm, look 
	around as if some new danger threatens them both.