DEEP SPACE NINE: "Indiscretion" - REV. 08/21/95 - ACT THREE    34.


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	Dukat puts down his pack.

					DUKAT 
			First things first.

	Dukat opens the pack and takes out a folding trench 
	shovel.

					KIRA
			What are you doing?

					DUKAT 
			We need to identify these bodies.

	Kira takes off her pack.

					KIRA
			I'll help.

					DUKAT
				(strong) 
			No.
				(eases up) 
			Our funeral rites are very strict. 
			It would dishonor the dead if a 
			non-Cardassian were to view the 
			remains.

					KIRA
			There could be Bajorans buried 
			here too.

					DUKAT 
			No doubt. But if I remember 
			correctly, Bajorans are much more 
			concerned about the souls of the 
			dead than about their physical 
			remains. How did Kai Meressa put 
			it, "What remains after death is 
			but a shell... a sign that the 
			pagh has begun its final journey 
			to the Prophets."