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         DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Bar... " - 1/08/96 - ACT FIVE         51.
                           ACT FIVE                             

	FADE IN:

42   INT. SURGERY 

	Quark is lying on the examining table, hooked up to all
	sorts of medical equipment. Rom ENTERS and looks at
	his brother, aghast. Quark notices his brother
	watching at him.

					QUARK
			I thought I wasn't allowed to have
			visitors.

					ROM
			Doctor Bashir made an exception.
				(a small smile)
			He said you were almost killed.

	Quark realizes Rom's taking a little perverse pleasure
	in his plight.

					QUARK
			It's nothing to smile about.
			Those Nausicaans shattered my left
			eye socket, broke two of my
			ascending ribs and punctured my
			lower lung. If Odo hadn't come
			along when he did...

					ROM
			Does it hurt?

					QUARK
			Of course it hurts.

					ROM
				(without sympathy)
			Too bad.

					QUARK
			If you're going to stand there and
			gloat, you can leave right now.

	But Rom doesn't budge.

					ROM
			I'm not done gloating.