DEEP SPACE NINE: "Chimera" - REV. 12/16/98 - ACT ONE         6.

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					ODO
			You've never met another
			Shape-shifter?

					CHANGELING
				(stepping forward)
			I've been trying to find others
			of my kind for a long time.

					O'BRIEN
				(brandishing his
				phaser)
			I told you to stay where you
			were.

	O'Brien can see that Odo's starting to believe the
	Changeling's story, but he's not so sure.

					O'BRIEN
			How do we know he's not a
			Founder?

	The Changeling doesn't seem to recognize the word.

					ODO
			He isn't.
				(trusting his
				instincts)
			He's one of the hundred.

					CHANGELING
			The hundred?

					ODO
			Over the centuries, our people
			sent a hundred "infant"
			changelings out into the galaxy.
			We were to learn about other
			species, and eventually return
			home to share what we'd
			experienced.