DEEP SPACE NINE: "Paradise Lost" - REV. 11/14/95 - ACT FIVE    49.

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					LEYTON
			Under no circumstances is that
			ship to reach Earth.
				(a beat)
			The Lakota's carrying quantum
			torpedoes, isn't she?

					BENTEEN
			Yes, sir.

					LEYTON
			Then use them.

					BENTEEN
			Admiral, my orders were to disable
			the Defiant, not destroy her.

					LEYTON
			Your orders are to keep the
			Defiant from reaching Earth by any
			means necessary. Is that
			understood?

	Benteen looks troubled. She knows Leyton is telling
	her to destroy the ship.

					BENTEEN
			Yes, it is.

					SISKO
			Captain, you know as well as I do
			that there aren't any
			Shape-shifters on the Defiant. Use
			those quantum torpedoes and you'll
			be killing fifty Starfleet officers.

					LEYTON
				(to Sisko)
			Captain Benteen knows where her
			duty lies.
				(to Benteen)
			You have your orders.

	Benteen is clearly conflicted by what Leyton wants her
	to do.

					BENTEEN
			Yes, sir.

	She ends the transmission.