DEEP SPACE NINE: "Statistical... " - REV. 10/1/97 - ACT TWO    23*.

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		PATRICK                                   DAMAR
	   (realizing)                     The peace we seek will
	He killed someone.                 honor their memory, and
								preserve the gains for
		LAUREN                        which they gave their
	   (agreeing)                      lives.
	Someone close to him.    			(beat)

	Bashir and O'Brien exchange a look. They can't 
	understand how Jack and the others are seeing all these 
	things.

		O'BRIEN						DAMAR
		(to Bashir)				Today I challenge the
	How could they know that?		Federation to answer my
								call for peace. I'm
		JACK                          ready at any time to meet
	   (pointing at Damar)             with its representatives
	Pretender! You don't			to discuss how we can
	belong on that throne and		bring an end to
	you know it.   				hostilities. As your
								leader, I pledge that I
		PATRICK   				will do everything in my
	Someone's making him say 		power to protect
	all this. He doesn't			Cardassia and allow us
	want to.  					to move forward into a
								new era.
									(beat)
								This I vow with my life's
								blood.

	And with that, the transmission ENDS and the screen 
	returns to the Cardassian emblem. Bashir looks at the 
	group trying to understand what's happened.

					BASHIR 
			Did any of you know who Damar was 
			before today?