12:[2,#b] DEEP SPACE: "The Alternate" - REV. 10/28/93 - ACT FOUR 37. ACT FOUR FADE IN: 53 INT. SURGERY A lot of activity. A Starfleet engineer and a science officer examine the area. O'Brien is up on a ladder shining a palm beacon into the open ventilator shaft. Dax is using a tricorder to pick up any organic traces on the floor in the lab. Bashir is seated nearby. Doctor Mora is dressed now, stands with Odo and Sisko talking to the shaken Bashir. Weld is still unconscious in bed. BASHIR It happened so quickly. I'm sorry I can't tell you more about it. It was behind me, then it was gone. But it was big. Very big. SISKO How badly did you injure it? BASHIR I don't know. I don't know if I injured it at all. I just hit it once with a laser scalpel on its arm, or leg, or tentacle... whatever it was, and it moved up the wall and... was gone. MORA (with scientific distance) It appears our lifeform has survived and grown into something interesting. ODO Did you notice anything else about the room when you entered, Doctor... anything out of place, anything unusual... (Bashir shakes his head, doesn't think so) Was it unusually warm, perhaps? Mora observes Odo at work... BASHIR (beat, thinking) Now that you mention it, it was a bit warm in here...