DEEP SPACE NINE: "Paradise Lost" - REV. 11/14/95 - ACT TWO     23.

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					LEYTON
				(shakes his head)
			I wish I could've told you the
			truth from the beginning. But
			somehow I suspected we wouldn't
			see eye-to-eye on this thing.

					SISKO
			Then why did you bring me here?

					LEYTON
				(simply)
			Because I needed someone who knew
			how to fight Shape-shifters. And
			that's you.
				(a beat)
			And I suppose on some level I
			hoped that once you saw what we
			were accomplishing, you'd join us.
				(a beat)
			You always had a strong sense of
			duty.

	Leyton is reaching out to Sisko, but Sisko refuses to
	cross the gulf between them.

					SISKO
			My duty is to protect the
			Federation.

					LEYTON
			Which is what we're trying to do.

					SISKO
			What you're trying to do is seize
			control of Earth and place it
			under military rule.

					LEYTON
			If that's what it takes to stop
			the Dominion.

	Sisko makes one last attempt to get Leyton to see the
	irony in what he's doing.

					SISKO
			You're willing to destroy paradise
			in order to save it.

	Leyton studies Sisko for a beat, trying to figure out
	a way to reach his former executive officer.