DEEP SPACE: "Cardassians" - REV. 08/17/93 - ACT TWO        22.

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					O'BRIEN
			Good idea.

					KEIKO
			What?

					O'BRIEN
			Three settings.  I assume you sent 
			Molly over to stay with the 
			Fredericks.

					KEIKO
			She's asleep.  She and Rugal played 
			all afternoon.  He wore her out...

					O'BRIEN
			You let them play together?

					KEIKO
			Why not?

					O'BRIEN
			The boy almost bit somebody's hand 
			off...

					KEIKO
			I was with them all day.  He's not 
			like that... he's really very 
			gentle...

					O'BRIEN
				(sotto)
			"Gentle" was bred out of these 
			Cardassians a long time ago.

	She takes a beat, trying to hold it in, but can't.  Stops 
	what she's doing, turning her back to Rugal so he can't 
	hear...

					KEIKO
			You know, that's a very ugly thing 
			you just said.

					O'BRIEN
			I only said...

					KEIKO
			I don't need to hear it twice.

	She hands him a casserole dish from the replicator; he looks 
	at it curiously, sees an interesting-looking stew (oddly 
	shaped vegetables, green meat, white broth), reacts to the 
	smell...