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       DEEP SPACE NINE: "Covenant" - REV. 10/14/98 - ACT FOUR       42.

50   CONTINUED:

	Kira sees an ALARM LIGHT FLASHING on the airlock
	control panel, rushes forward, and looks inside the
	airlock to see

51   MIKA

	gasping for breath near the open door leading out
	into space.

52   KIRA

					KIRA
			Mika.

	Kira quickly works the control panel, and the
	airlock door begins to slide SHUT.

52A  NEW ANGLE

	revealing Dukat hiding just around the corner, a
	look of barely controlled panic on his features.

53   INT. EMPOK NOR - INFIRMARY/PROMENADE

	The Midwife is bent over Mika's unconscious form.
	The girl's skin is PALE, and she has faint HEMATOMAS
	on her cheeks and neck. Kira and Fala stand a few
	paces away from the bio-bed, watching with concern.

					MIDWIFE
			You got to her just in time.

	Dukat ENTERS, pushing past Benyan and Brin, who are
	standing near the entrance to the Infirmary with a
	small group of worried BAJORANS.

	Kira stares at him, suspicious that Mika -- the only
	person besides Dukat that knows the truth about the
	child -- would so conveniently have an "accident."

					DUKAT
			How is she?

					MIDWIFE
			The depressurization caused
			swelling in her meningeal tissues
			-- I'm going to keep her sedated
			until morning.