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        DEEP SPACE: "The Alternate" - REV. 11/01/93 - ACT TWO       22.

23   CONTINUED:

					ODO
				(without emotion)
			Will he be all right?

					BASHIR
			The molecule appears to have quite 
			an unstable structure.  That might 
			mean the effect is temporary.

	Odo nods, EXITS.  Sisko follows him.

24   INT. PROMENADE - CONTINUOUS

	As Sisko and Odo walk together.

					SISKO
			I know how you feel, Constable.

					ODO
			Feel?  About what?

					SISKO
			When my father got ill... I remember 
			thinking how small and weak he looked 
			lying there in the bed.  He'd been 
			so strong... independent... to me it 
			always seemed there was nothing he 
			couldn't do.  In the end, I realized 
			that there was nothing he could do.  
			And nothing I could do to help him.

					ODO
			I appreciate your thoughts, Commander.  
			But Doctor Mora is not my father.

	Odo moves off... and as Sisko watches him a beat...

25   INT. SISKO'S QUARTERS

	Sisko, his mind still on the scene with Odo, ENTERS to the 
	sound of a Klingon tenor coming from the speakers... sees 
	Jake sitting at the computer... trying desperately to follow 
	the extensive Klingon dramatic text displayed on the screen... 
	looks up doe-eyed at Sisko as he ENTERS... "Satisfied?" his 
	eyes seem to say.