DEEP SPACE NINE: "Time's Orphan" - REV. 4/15/98 - ACT FIVE     55.

84   CONTINUED:	(2)

					O'BRIEN
				(to Molly)
			Go on, honey.

	Molly looks at her parents a last time.

					MOLLY-18
				(softly)
			Molly loves you.

	The O'Briens hold each other close, and watch as Molly 
	turns and steps into the portal, DISAPPEARING into the 
	VORTEX.

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85   INT. CAVE - PAST - DAY (OPTICAL)

	The portal is TILTED on its side as it was when we 
	first found it. A shaft of SUNLIGHT pierces the cave 
	from the opening above. O'Brien, Keiko, and the 
	equipment they had with them are all gone.

	The SOUND of a NEARBY STREAM lets us know that in this 
	time period a small brook flows through the cave. The 
	stalactites are SLICK WITH MOISTURE, and the walls 
	GREEN WITH MOSS. The fallen beam is back where we 
	first saw it, laying atop some dusty equipment. The 
	console is OFF.

	Molly emerges from the VORTEX in a crouch, the bag 
	slung over her shoulder. She looks around the room, 
	visibly relieved to be back in her own environment. 
	She reaches her hand out to the shaft of sunlight and 
	watches as it glistens on her fingers, then tilts her 
	head back to follow the beam to its source at the mouth 
	of the cave.

					MOLLY-18
				(smiles)
			Home.

	With practiced skill, she starts to climb toward the 
	light, but her ascent is halted by a SOFT WHIMPERING. 
	Molly-18 cocks her head to listen. She drops back to 
	the floor and moves toward the sound, which seems to be 
	coming from behind a BOULDER. She moves to it and sees --

86   YOUNG MOLLY 

	cowering there. The eight-year-old Molly is a pathetic 
	sight. Her CLOTHING'S TORN, her hair a mess. Her face 
	and arms are SCRATCHED and DIRTY.