DEEP SPACE NINE: "Penumbra" - REV. 01/19/99 - ACT ONE        8.

5    CONTINUED:

	Quark looks her square in the eye and tells her in
	no uncertain terms:

					QUARK
			He'll be back before you know it.

					EZRI
				(hopeful)
			You really think so?

					QUARK
			Absolutely. The night before he
			went on patrol, he brought the
			Koraga's crew in here and bought
			them three barrels of bloodwine.

					EZRI
			And?

					QUARK
			And he didn't pay the tab. You
			really think he'd go to
			Sto'Vo'Kor owing me money?

					EZRI
			He doesn't even like you.

					QUARK
			Exactly. He couldn't enjoy the
			afterlife knowing that I had
			something over him.

	Ezri smiles and shakes her head...

					EZRI
			Thanks, Quark.

	Quark smiles, glad to have taken her mind off things
	if even for a moment. Off this...

6    EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)

	Re-establishing.

7    INT. EZRI'S BEDROOM (OPTICAL)

	where Ezri is lying sleeplessly in bed. A long
	moment, then a COM VOICE interrupts.

					COM VOICE
			Ops to Lieutenant Dax.