DEEP SPACE NINE: "Siege of AR-558" - REV. 10/13/98 - ACT ONE    18.

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					NOG
			I saw it happen... he was just
			walking along and the next
			minute...

	Sisko is perplexed by something.

					SISKO
			You must've swept the compound
			for anti-personnel mines...

					LARKIN
			A hundred times. It doesn't help
			-- not with Houdinis.

	Bashir rises. There's nothing he can do for the
	soldier.

					BASHIR
			"Houdinis?"

					REESE
			Find one and you disappear.

					LARKIN
			They "hide" in subspace and
			appear at random.

					VARGAS
			You can walk past the same spot a
			hundred times and nothing
			happens. And then... bang.

					REESE
				(at Sisko)
			You're wasting your breath,
			Vargas. It's not the captain's
			problem. He's leaving.

	And with that, Reese turns his back on Sisko and
	walks back to his position on the barricade. Sisko
	can't help wishing there was more he could do for
	these people.

					SISKO
				(to Larkin)
			I wish I could tell you that
			things are going to get easier
			for you...

					LARKIN
			Don't worry about us, captain.