DEEP SPACE NINE: "Strange... " - REV. 03/19/99 - ACT THREE     31.

24E  INT. QUARK'S - FIRST LEVEL (FORMERLY SCENE 33A)

	O'BRIEN and Bashir are at the bar, nursing a couple 
	of drinks. O'Brien is watching Quark carefully pour 
	a drink into a glass and set it in front of an empty 
	chair, while Bashir is brooding and staring into his 
	glass.

					O'BRIEN 
			Do you have to do that?

					QUARK 
			I do it every day at this time.

					O'BRIEN 
			I know. But it's sort of... 
			morbid.

					QUARK 
			Morbid? That implies she's not 
			coming back.

	Bashir looks at him sharply too.

					O'BRIEN 
			I'm not trying to imply anything 
			of the kind.

					QUARK 
			One of these days Ezri's going to 
			come walking through those doors 
			again and this drink is going to 
			be sitting right here waiting for 
			her when she does.

					O'BRIEN 
			Well, in the meantime, all you're 
			doing is reminding us that she's 
			missing.

					QUARK 
			No one's forcing you to sit here.

	Beat.

					BASHIR 
				(mutters) 
			It was the Badlands...

					O'BRIEN 
			What?

					BASHIR
			What?