STAR TREK: DEEP-SPACE NINE "A Man Alone" #40511-403 Story by Gerald Sanford and Michael Pillar Teleplay by Michael Pillar Directed by Paul Lynch THE WRITING CREDITS MAY NOT BE FINAL AND SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR PUBLICITY OR ADVERTISING PURPOSES WITHOUT FIRST CHECKING WITH THE TELEVISION LEGAL DEPARTMENT. Copyright 1992 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved. This script is not for publication or reproduction. No one is authorized to dispose of same. If lost or destroyed, please notify the Script Department. Return to Script Department FINAL DRAFT PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION SEPTEMBER 18, 1992 STAR TREK: DS9 - "A Man Alone" 09/18/92 - CAST STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE "A Man Alone" CAST BENJAMIN SISKO IBUDAN JAKE SISKO DABO GIRL MILES O'BRIEN BAJORAN MAN KIRA NERYS BAJORAN WOMAN ODO ZAYRA NOG BAJORAN OFFICER QUARK ROM JULIAN BASHIR BAJORAN #1 JADZIA DAX MALE VOICE (O.S.) KEIKO FEMALE VOICE (O.S.) MOLLY COMPUTER VOICE Non-speaking SUPERNUMARIES ALIEN CHILDREN STAR TREK: DS9 "A Man Alone" - 09/18/92 - SETS STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE "A Man Alone" SETS INTERIORS EXTERIORS DEEP SPACE NINE DEEP SPACE NINE PROMENADE SISKO'S QUARTERS OPS COMMANDER'S OFFICE SECURITY OFFICE QUARX I S INFIRMARY HOLOSUITE HOLODECK O'BRIEN'S QUARTERS IBUDAN'S SHIP QUARTERS STAR TREK: "A Man Alone" - 09/28/92 - PRONUNCIATION STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE "A Man Alone" PRONUNCIATION GUIDE KORRIS KOHR-ris ALTONIAN al-TOW-nee-an YADOZI Yah-DOH-zee IBUIDAN IH-boo-dahn AZNA AHZ-nah GARANIAN BOLITES Gahr-AN-sa-ahn BOH-Lits ROLLOPPED RAH-luhpt ROM RAHN RUJIAN Roo-JEE-ahn JURO Jew-Ro LAMONAY lah-MO-nay KRAN TOBAL krahn-TOH-bul DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - TEASER 1. STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE "A Man Alone" TEASER FADE IN 1 INT. HOLOSUITE - GRID WALLS - DAY - CLOSE ON A HUGE 2 SPHERE RISING SLOWLY (OPTICAL) with all colors of the rainbow rotating through and around it... 3 DAX'S FACE - EYES CLOSED concentrating... breathing deeply in meditation... 4 CLOSER ON THE SPHERE SLOWLY FALLING (OPTICAL) as though matching the breath, the colors change... a barely perceptible shift... 5 DAX (OPTICAL) a looser shot to find her sitting in a pose akin to an alien yoga position... behind her the holosuite doors open and BASHIR ENTERS... 6 ON BASHIR as he starts to speak to Dax, then stops himself... 7 TWO SHOT ... he walks over and studies her and the sphere curiously... DAX Do you need me, Julian? Dax speaks with great calm without opening her eyes and without changing her pose... BASHIR How did you know it was me? DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - TEASER 2. 7 CONTINUED: DAX There are different ways to recognize someone... the rhythm of their steps, for example. BASHIR (smitten) You're... remarkable. She opens her eyes... considers his interest for a quick beat, with light concern-- DAX Julian, you and I have to have a talk about Trills and relationships... BASHIR Fine... we'll do it over supper... Quark has found me a delightfully dry champagne, estate bottled on Korris One... DAX (trying to interrupt) Julian... BASHIR (without pause, examining the sphere) What is this? Dax studies him a beat, the facts of Trill life can wait... DAX An Altonian brain teaser. BASHIR Brain teaser? DAX A puzzle. BASHIR Really. I love puzzles. How does it work? He sits beside her. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - TEASER 3. 8 ANGLE (OPTICAL) to include the sphere... which as her concentration wanes, becomes more agitated, unruly in its color scheme... DAX It responds to neural theta waves. The goal is to turn the sphere into a solid color... BASHIR That's all... ? DAX (amused) That's all. I've been trying to master it on and off for, oh... a hundred and forty years... (off his reaction) Care to try? He closes his eyes... DAX Just sit comfortably... release your tension into my hands... She kneels behind him, runs her hands across his temples, down his cheeks... he smiles... BASHIR Your hands are cold... DAX That is a peculiarity of the Trill... BASHIR Cold hands, warm heart... DAX Concentrate on the sphere, Julian. Clear your mind. This requires focus and clarity of thought. BASHIR I understand completely. (beat) What is that exotic scent you're wearing? DAX Focus and clarity of thought. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - TEASER 4. 8 CONTINUED: BASHIR Yes, yes... I have it... DAX I'm going to release it to you now... Okay? BASHIR Okay. DAX Computer, transfer control to second player... The sphere promptly crashes to the floor and shatters like crystal... then disappears... Bashir opens his eyes and reacts... DAX Your mind is still a little busy, Julian... He struggles to find something to say for a beat and then goes with where his mind really is: BASHIR So, are you free for supper... ? 9 ANGLE as the holodeck door opens and Sisko looks in... SISKO Ready, Dax? DAX (to Bashir) I'm sorry. Perhaps another time. Why don't you try again... She stands and moves off to join Sisko... who looks back at Bashir, acknowledges the doctor with a vague nod... SISKO Doctor. And they EXIT... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - TEASER 5. 10 ANGLE ON BASHIR left alone, rejected, and on his face... BASHIR (grim) Computer... reset... And as the Doctor prepares to spend his evening with a computer game, we... FADE OUT. END OF TEASER DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT ONE 6. ACT ONE FADE IN 11 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL) Establishing. 12 INT. QUARK'S ESTABLISHMENT Full of activity... gamblers play the dabo tables... tables are full of people... finding Odo at the bar, observing the house... As Quark comes over, polishing the bar... ODO Business is good, Quark. You're almost making an honest living. QUARK A lot of new faces. A very strange alien face passes by... they do not react... ODO The wormhole does bring them our way, doesn't it... QUARK Everybody wants a piece of the new frontier... ODO And I'm sure you've already tried to sell it to a few of them... His eye's already caught during the above line by -- DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT ONE 7. 13 POV - O'BRIEN AND KEIKO at a table in a quietly, intense argument out of earshot... 14 RESUME ODO AND QUARK Quark leans in and whispers to Odo with a smarmy grin... QUARK Grapevine says Chief O'Brien and the Missus are having problems... ODO (a beat, nods, studying them) I'll never understand the humanoid need to... (beat) ...couple... QUARK You've never... coupled? ODO Choose not to. Too many compromises. (off Quark's curious reaction) You want to watch a Karo-Net tournament, she wants to listen to music. So you compromise. You listen to music. You like Earth Jazz, she prefers Klingon opera... so you compromise. You listen to Klingon opera. So here you were ready to have a nice evening watching the Karo-Net match and you wind up spending an agonizing night listening to Klingon opera... (a beat, watching the O'Briens) What could they be going on about like that anyway? QUARK She doesn't like it here. Odo nods, a beat. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT ONE 8. 14 CONTINUED: ODO (a throwaway) Who does? 15 ANGLE as Sisko and Dax come down the stairs and move toward a table... Quark's heart skips a beat at the sight of Dax... Odo notices... ODO Don't even think about it. QUARK I can so think about it. ODO You might as well try to find a drink of water on the Yadozi desert... (beat) ... besides I'd say our new Commander is interested in her... QUARK Not at all... I know for a fact, when she was a he... you know, before she got this new body, they were old friends. ODO (cynical) Things change. And now his eye is caught by something far more disturbing... 16 ANGLE - THE DABO TABLE Focussing on a rugged Bajoran (IBUDAN) in his mid- forties, he is playing, oblivious to Odo's attention... also we may note among the players in the background is a thin, Bajoran clerk in his fifties (ZAYRA)... 17 ODO - CLOSEUP reacts, significantly troubled... ODO (re: Ibudan) How long's he been here? DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT ONE 9. 17 CONTINUED: Pulling back to include Quark... QUARK Came in on a transport last night. Odo's eyes are cold as he stares at this new arrival... 18 NEW ANGLE - WITH SISKO AND DAX at a table... completing an order from a Ferengi waiter... DAX Just steamed Azna, please... The waiter acknowledges and moves away... Sisko smiles at Dax... SISKO Well some things are still the same... DAX (grins) If you'd listen to me, you'd be eating steamed Azna too... SISKO Dax, did I ever tell you about the meals my father used to cook for us when we were kids... DAX (smiles) All the time... SISKO (ignoring it, wanting to tell it again anyway) Every night at my house, my dad insisted that we have supper together as a family. He would try out his new recipes on us... he used to call us his "test tasters." DAX Steamed Azna will put years on your life. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT ONE 10. 18 CONTINUED: SISKO (with humor) I don't want years on my life. Not if I can only eat steamed Azna... sauteed... rolloped... fricasseed -- fine. But not steamed... Beat... he smiles, looks at her... this is familiar territory for them... SISKO I've missed your steamed Azna. But somehow, as crazy a line as that is, it is too intimate, too male-female... he breaks eye contact... DAX You must miss Curzon too... SISKO He was... you were... are... a mentor... another father to me... Sisko shrugs, uncomfortable. DAX This happens a lot to Trills, Benjamin. Sometimes, our friendships with other species don't survive because of the changes... SISKO It won't be like that with us. It's just... a little uncomfortable right now... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/25/92 - ACT ONE 11. 19 ANGLE - INCLUDING O'BRIEN'S TABLE IN THE BACKGROUND DAX I suggest you allow yourself to be comfortable with your discomfort. Time can do the rest... As he looks at her with familiar appreciation, they're interrupted in the background by the sound of O'Brien's voice... O'BRIEN Keiko... As they turn... 20 CLOSER ON O'BRIEN Keiko's leaving him at the table with a troubled look... she EXITS... he glances toward Sisko and Dax with embarrassment, wipes his mouth with a napkin, stands up and moves toward the exit... picking up Odo as they cross paths and now staying with Odo as he moves away from the bar toward the dabo tables and... 21 ANGLE ON IBUDAN DABO GIRL Dabo! Ibudan reacts with pleasure as he collects his winnings... turns and sees Odo standing in his face... ODO I don't want you on this station. IBUDAN That's too bad. I have every right to be here. ODO I decide who has rights and who doesn't on this Promenade. IBUDAN Better ask your Federation superiors about that. ODO I don't have to ask anyone. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT ONE 12. 21 CONTINUED: And he grabs his arm... and Ibudan pulls roughly away, knocking some people back... and Odo moves to grab him again, and they scuffle for a second as people around them react and move away and then in a flash Sisko moves into the fray and pulls them apart... Odo's face literally throbs with rage... ODO (controlled) You have twenty-six hours to get off this station. And he EXITS. Off Sisko's reaction... 22 INT. PROMENADE - SECOND LEVEL Keiko stares sadly out a window into space... as O'Brien moves to join her... O'BRIEN Look, I'm willing to ask for a transfer if that'll make you happy... KEIKO That's not fair either... you'd have to give up your promotion... O'BRIEN Not necessarily... KEIKO I wish I knew the right thing to do, Miles... I'm just lost here... (repeating something she's said a dozen times already) Starfleet doesn't need a botanist on this station... O'BRIEN Keiko, there's a whole new quadrant on the other side of the wormhole... full of new plant life to explore... KEIKO And ships going to explore it... and I'm not on any of them... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/30/92 - ACT ONE 13. O'BRIEN We'll be sending runabouts through the wormhole... I'll see to it that you get to go... KEIKO (sharp) I don't need favors from you. (beat) I just need to be useful. 23 NEW ANGLE She moves away from the window, looks down on the busy Promenade... sees Jake wandering through the crowd of alien characters... O'BRIEN Just think how much more attractive this place could be if you planted some trees and flowers along the Promenade... or you might even create an arboretum from the new specimens we bring back from the Gamma Quadrant... Keiko ignores his suggestion for busy work... KEIKO You really want to raise your daughter in "this place," Miles? O'Brien doesn't know quite what to say... KIRA'S COM VOICE Kira to O'Brien... O'BRIEN (hits his combadge) Go ahead. KIRA We've got a non-functional power transfer grid on level five... all the upper docking pylons are out of commission... O'BRIEN On my way, Major. He looks at Keiko forlornly staring down at the Promenade... he doesn't know what else to say... finally he just leaves. A beat on her and... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/18/92 - ACT ONE 13A. 24 INT. PROMENADE - LOWER LEVEL - ON JAKE walking down the street... looking kind of lonely... and he stops as he sees Nog getting some alien-looking glop-on-a- stick at a kiosk... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/18/92 - ACT ONE 14. JAKE Hi. Nog turns and reacts at the sight of the boy... with a toughness... NOG What do you want, Hew-man? He walks away. Jake moves with him... JAKE My name is Jake. NOG I know who you are. JAKE What's yours? NOG Why do you care? JAKE Not exactly a lot of friends to choose from here, you know what I mean? Nog looks at Jake... and perhaps he has long known that sense of loneliness too... NOG Nog... my name's Nog. As Jake smiles... 25 INT. COMMANDER'S OFFICE Odo and Sisko... Sisko sits behind his desk... Odo stands, moves... ODO His name is Ibudan... he used to run black market goods through here to the surface during the Cardassian occupation... gouging his fellow man who needed medical supplies and so forth... some Bajorans actually considered him a hero. But I saw him let a child die when the parents couldn't afford the drug that would've saved her life. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT ONE 15. 25 CONTINUED: ODO A few years back, he killed a Cardassian officer who wanted a payoff to look the other way. He went to prison for murder. (BEAT) I sent him there. SISKO For murder? What's he doing out? ODO (with quiet outrage) The provisional government let him go. Killing a Cardassian isn't considered much of a crime nowadays. Sisko takes a beat to consider... SISKO Doesn't sound like there's much we can do about it. ODO I can get him off my Promenade... SISKO (laying back, not in his face, diplomatic) If he hasn't done anything wrong, you can't just arbitrarily force him to leave... ODO Watch me. SISKO (beat, firmer) Mister Odo, you're not going to take the law into your own hands... ODO (interrupting) The law? Commander, laws change depending on who's making them... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/18/92 - ACT ONE 16. 25 CONTINUED: (2) ODO (Cont'd) Cardassians one day, Federation the next... but justice... is justice... and as long as I'm in charge of security... SISKO (interrupting) If you can't work within the rules, I'll find someone who can. A long hard look between the two of them... and Odo EXITS... 26 INT. HOLODECK - A SEX FANTASY A small room with an alien Geisha House-like setting... shadows and candles and bizarre ritualistic artifacts on the wall... long curtains blow softly in a breeze... a golden light from a sunset seems to peek from somewhere beyond them... moving to find Ibudan lying naked on a massage table... his lower body covered with a sheet... he is in ecstasy as an alien woman in a diaphanous ritual robe massages him gently with soft fingers... she leans down and kisses his upper back... his eyes remain closed and he takes a deep breath feeling the pleasure and... suddenly the woman is pushed away and a gloved hand holding a hideous alien knife raises it with deadly intentions and as it begins to come sharply down... CUT TO BLACK. END OF ACT ONE DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT TWO 17. ACT TWO FADE IN 27 EXT. SPACE - DS9 - (OPTICAL) 28 INT. PROMENADE - JAKE AND NOG in a corner... Nog opens a small "match" box... Jake looks inside... 29 INSERT - INSIDE THE BOX (OPTICAL) tiny alien critters inside. 30 RESUME JAKE What are they? NOG Garanian Bolites. C'mon... With a conspiratorial glance, he leads Jake down the Promenade... where they cross paths with Dax walking, and we stay with her as she finds herself joined by Bashir... moving with them... BASHIR Well, I guess I know the competition now... DAX What are you talking about, Julian? BASHIR (smug) Did you have a nice dinner with Commander Sisko? DAX (reacts, a beat, shakes her head) Julian... She stops... DAX It's time I explain that Trills don't look for romance the way humans do. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT TWO 18. 30 CONTINUED: DAX (Cont'd) In fact, we consider it quite a nuisance. BASHIR A nuisance... ? DAX It is a weakness of the young... and although a Trill host may have these kinds of... (beat, distasteful) ... feelings occasionally, it is our wish to live on a higher plane... to try to rise above those sorts of temptations... BASHIR (picking up on something, with hope) Aha... (off her reaction) You said "try to rise above"... which suggests you don't always succeed... DAX (I haven't gotten anywhere with this, have I?) Julian... SISKO'S COM VOICE Sisko to Doctor Bashir... BASHIR (hits his combadge) Go ahead. SISKO'S COM VOICE We need medical assistance above the bar in Holosuite four. BASHIR Acknowledged, Commander. (exit line to Dax) I still have that champagne on ice. She shakes her head, suppresses a smile... moves on... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT TWO 19. 31 INT. REPLIMAT (CAFE PROMENADE) - CLOSE ON JAKE in a hiding place... watching as -- 32 HIS POV - NOG glancing his way, casually opens the matchbox and leaves it by a bench where a Bajoran man and woman are talking... and then scurries quickly away... 33 WITH JAKE as Nog arrives breathlessly and scrambles beside Jake to watch the fun... Jake glances curiously at Nog who hasn't told him what's going to happen... 34 RESUME POV - THE COUPLE (OPTICAL) start scratching... and then really start scratching... and suddenly their skin is changing colors to red and green... and they panic and scream... BAJORAN MAN & WOMAN (overlapping one another) Help us! Somebody help us! Something's happening to us! Get a doctor! People run to see what's happening... and then as quickly as it began, it ends... and they return back to normal, confused, wondering what happened... as... 35 NOG AND JAKE start out from the hiding spot, unable to stop laughing, freeze as they look up and see... 36 BAJORAN DEPUTY has them nailed... he grabs them both by the shirt collars and leads them away... past... 37 KEIKO who has seen what has occurred and thoughtfully reacts... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT TWO 20. 38 INT. HOLODECK - GRID WALLS Sisko, Kira and Odo watch as Bashir examines the body of Ibudan, on the floor... the knife still in his shoulder blade... ODO The door opened only twice... first time when the computer logged Ibudan's check-in at seventeen hundred hours, sixteen minutes... the suite was secured so no one else could enter... He ran Lauriento massage halo- program number one-oh-one-A. Thirteen minutes later the door opened for the second time, but since Ibudan obviously didn't exit... we have to assume that's when the killer left... KIRA Any evidence of a beam-in during those thirteen minutes? ODO No... KIRA Then how did the killer get in... ? SISKO He might have entered the holosuite at the same time Ibudan did... Odo studies the body... doesn't offer another hypothesis... Bashir stands up... BASHIR Cause of death is no mystery. The knife was thrust directly between the left and right thoracic vertebrae... perforating the lower ventricle of the heart. The murderer apparently had a decent knowledge of Bajoran anatomy. SISKO Doctor, I want you to look for evidence that could establish someone was in here with him... BASHIR (acknowledges) I'll do a sweep for hair follicles, any skin or cellular remnants, and DNA fragments... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/25/92 - ACT TWO 21. 38 CONTINUED: SISKO (to Kira) How many ships have left since yesterday... KIRA Two. A Federation survey ship... and a Vulcan science vessel... SISKO (acknowledges) Advise all ships in dock that departures will be delayed until further notice... Kira acknowledges... as Sisko leaves... 39 INT. O'BRIEN'S QUARTERS as they sit down to a traditional supper... eating with chopsticks... KEIKO And they were just looking for trouble... those kids have no reason to be hanging around the Promenade... O'BRIEN It's about the only place they have to go... you can't keep them locked in their rooms... KEIKO It's not like a starship, Miles... the kind of freedom that children have on the Enterprise just won't work on a space station... there are too many ways to get into serious trouble here... (beat, thoughtful) What this place needs is a school. O'Brien studies her resolve and... 40 INT. COMMANDER'S OFFICE Angle at the door as Kira arrives... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT TWO 22. 40 CONTINUED: KIRA All ships have been informed of the delays, Commander... Move to reveal Sisko standing with Zayra, the man we saw in the bar near Ibudan... SISKO Major, do you know Mister Zayra, who operates the Transit Aid center... ? He nods to her... KIRA We've met... SISKO He was just telling me something disturbing. I think you should hear it... ZAYRA It's just that... the murdered man, Ibudan... I spoke with him yesterday, about an hour before it happened. KIRA Where was this? ZAYRA In Quark's. By the dabo table. It was right after his scuffle with the shape-shifter... I can only tell you that Ibudan was scared... he told me he was afraid Odo might kill him. Kira reacts, exchanges an incredulous glance with Sisko... KIRA There isn't a more honorable man on this station than the constable... ZAYRA Maybe so... all I know is an hour later, Ibudan was dead... Off her reaction... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT TWO 23. 41 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL) emphasizing a Bajoran transport ship docked on the docking ring. 42 INT. IBUDAN'S SHIP QUARTERS Dark as the door opens and a Bajoran ship's officer (different uniform than DS9) leads in Odo... He has a small computer PADD which he references occasionally... BAJORAN OFFICER Computer: lights. The lights come on... BAJORAN OFFICER This was Ibudan's quarters... feel free to look around... Odo silently acknowledges. He sees that there are twin beds... ODO (reacts) Double accommodations? BAJORAN OFFICER (checking PADD) That's what he requested... but only one passenger was logged in... he probably just wanted larger quarters... The officer prepares to leave... Odo already begins to search through closets and drawers... BAJORAN OFFICER If there's anything else you need... ODO I want a record of all the passengers on board... BAJORAN OFFICER Of course. I'll get you a copy of the ship's manifest. Odo nods. The officer EXITS and Odo continues his search. Ibudan was still living here at the time of his murder so there are a few clothes and belongings but he was travelling light. There is simply not much to find. Finally Odo goes to a computer panel... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT TWO 23A. 42 CONTINUED: ODO Computer... how many entries made from this terminal during the last seventy-eight hours. COMPUTER VOICE Seven entries noted in personal calendar files. ODO Show them to me. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 10/14/92 - ACT TWO 24. 43 ANGLE - ON THE SCREEN A standard time of day calendar... the first entries are of ship's activities... departure noted... some nondescript notations at certain times... a ship's concert, perhaps or something that would occur on a 24th century vessel... none of it matters terribly much to us or to Odo... ODO Take me to stardate 46384... Odo watches the computer make the change... 44 THE MONITOR shows "Arrival DS9" next to a time... As Odo manually moves the screen forward, the date changes and two more notations are there: One at thirteen-hundred hours says "Transit Aid"... the other, and this one deserves a zoom, at seventeen-hundred hours, it says "Odo"... 45 ODO reacts and... 46 INT. SISKO'S QUARTERS Sisko, Jake and Keiko... SISKO You won't get an argument from me, Mrs. O'Brien... when I found out what happened this morning on the Promenade... JAKE We weren't doing anything... SISKO (still angry) I don't want to talk about this now... (to Keiko) It's this Ferengi boy, Nog... Jake's not going to have anything more to do with him... JAKE He's the only one here even close to my age... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT TWO 25. 46 CONTINUED: KEIKO That's not exactly true, Jake. (to Sisko) There are twelve other children on board... ranging from eight to sixteen. The problem is there's no structured activity for them... (with compassion) Jake, don't you miss the schools you used to go to... ? JAKE (quick, defensive, and not true) No. (beat) I guess. Studying alone with the computer... it kinda gets boring sometimes. KEIKO I've never actually been a teacher, Commander... but it's something I've always thought about doing... Sisko looks at her with admiration... SISKO Mrs. O'Brien... as a Starfleet Commander and as a father, I think this is a terrific idea. What do you need? KEIKO Some space... SISKO We'll find it... KEIKO Computers.. SISKO You'll have them. Keiko is delighted... she rises to leave... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT TWO 26. 46 CONTINUED: (2) SISKO I hope you realize what you're getting yourself into... I can't force the Bajora, the Ferengi or anyone else to send their children to your school... and even if you do get them to come, every one of them has a different culture, a different philosophy... I mean, when you think of the values Nog's parents must have taught him... JAKE There's nothing wrong with Nog... SISKO (to Keiko) Last week I had him in jail for stealing... this week he's my son's best friend... KEIKO I know I'll have to come up with an innovative program... But I can't imagine any parent not welcoming the news of a school opening here. Thank you again, Commander. She EXITS... Jake and Sisko exchange a stern look. SISKO If I hear you're hanging around with him... Escaping toward the other room... JAKE I thought you didn't want to talk about this now... And they're out... 47 INT. INFIRMARY Bashir at a computer console... going through a series of microscopic slides... nothing we have to recognize... Odo, Dax and Kira look on... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT TWO 27. 47 CONTINUED: BASHIR These are the DNA sequence analyses, the cellular spectrographs, the particulate matter tracers... I asked Lieutenant Dax to confirm my findings... and I'm afraid she concurs... As he pauses at one slide... DAX (nods) There were no new DNA traces found in the holosuite. KIRA You're saying no one went into the room with him? BASHIR Aside from those of us who were in there after the body was discovered... (re: the screen) ... this was the only DNA present and we've identified it as Ibudan's. KIRA Wait a minute. Ibudan goes in the holosuite alone, locks the door... nobody transports in... a few minutes later he's murdered... how is that possible? ODO It's not. Unless the murder was committed by someone who could get through the cracks in the door... say... a shape-shifter. Off reactions... FADE OUT. END OF ACT TWO DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT THREE 28. ACT THREE FADE IN: 48 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL) As before. Ibudan's ship still docked. 49 INT. OPS Kira and Odo arriving on the Turbolift... moving to her station... ODO It's a pretty neat package. His calendar shows he was planning to meet with me at the time of the murder. No one except a shape-shifter could get into the holosuite. And since I'd obviously be called there after the body was discovered, traces of my DNA wind up at the scene of the crime. KIRA Do you have any kind of an alibi? ODO Major, I have to return to my natural state every eighteen hours to regenerate... to be quite honest about it, I was in a pail in the back of my office when Ibudan was killed. KIRA The killer might have known your regenerative cycle and planned the murder accordingly. ODO Like I said, a neat package. KIRA Who might want to frame you for murder? ODO I can think of about five hundred different people. But I haven't seen any of 'em around the station recently. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT THREE 29. 49 CONTINUED: ODO (Cont'd) (beat) You think that Federation doctor could do a sweep of Ibudan's quarters for me... see if he can find out if somebody else was using that second bed. KIRA I'll get him over there right away. ODO Thank-you, Major. He moves away... she watches him go with concern. 50 INT. QUARK'S Crowded as usual. The pit boss Ferengi, ROM is trying to keep an eye on the dabo tables activity as Keiko talks to him... ROM You want my boy to go to a Federation school? KEIKO Not just Federation. I'm developing a curriculum that will take a much broader approach... ROM Little lady, little lady... what do you know of Ferengi education? Keiko's been doing research. She's ready for this one... KEIKO I understand you employ a work-study approach with apprenticeships in a wide range of economic and business fields... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT THREE 30. 50 CONTINUED: ROM (laughs) We throw them into the cutthroat competition of Ferengi commerce... and anyone who survives, graduates. Are you prepared to teach that to my son? KEIKO (dry) I'm sure I couldn't improve on what you've taught him in that department... ROM Thank-you. Thank-you. I've taught him everything I know. It's so important that we prepare our youth for the challenges of the future. Keiko moves closer, conspiratorial, quietly... KEIKO Exactly. Consider the advantage your son will have over other Ferengi once he's been exposed to other cultures... once he learns how others run their economies, conduct business, negotiate... ROM You will teach my son these things? KEIKO Knowledge is power, Mister Rom. Rom thinks a long beat... finds the thought attractive... but... moves away, breaks the "conspiracy"... ROM It can't work... he will not listen to you... KEIKO Why not? ROM You are fe-male. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT THREE 31. 50 CONTINUED: (2) KEIKO So? ROM My son cannot learn anything from a fe-male human teacher. KEIKO Let him try it for a few weeks. He has nothing to lose... and... (trying the conspiracy again) ... so much to gain. It doesn't get to him this time... ROM I don't think so. Keiko frowns, crestfallen. KEIKO Will you promise to think about it at least? ROM Yes. Yes. Of course. Now, I'm really very busy. She leaves... after a beat, Rom watches her go, thinking about what she said... then back to business: ROM Place your wagers... place your wagers... get this lovely young woman a drink on me... 51 KEIKO moves by the bar toward the exit... and she leads us to a group of four Bajoran men including Zayra at the bar... and this should not be too intense, more casual, thoughtful, even with some humor... ZAYRA What do we know about him anyway? He isn't one of us. BAJORAN MAN #1 He isn't one of anything. They laugh. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT THREE 32. 51 CONTINUED: ZAYRA You know what really bothers me... ? (incredulous whisper) ... this shifter was the last security chief for the Cardassians here... BAJORAN MAN #1 He's the one who caught Ibudan for them... ZAYRA What's he still doing in charge of security... BAJORAN MAN #1 You're right. Somebody ought to talk to Major Kira... 52 ANGLE - TO INCLUDE QUARK LISTENING behind the bar... QUARK Nobody knows him like I know him. Let me tell you something -- he's an ill-tempered, over-bearing crosspatch. But he was no Cardassian collaborator. And he's no killer. ZAYRA I can't believe you're defending him, Quark. You're his worst enemy. QUARK (acknowledges) Guess that's the closest thing he has in this world to a friend. He moves on down the bar... passing another customer as he goes... an old man dressed in black with a hat on. We see him only from the back... as he turns and glances at Zayra's group... we see only one eye, dark and curious, watching them... and we linger on this man for a mysterious beat until... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT THREE 33. 53 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL) as before, emphasizing Ibudan's ship... 54 INT. IBUDAN'S QUARTERS Bashir is using a modified tricorder, taking samples of dust from a table top with a 24th Century mini-vac or other forensic tool -- something with individual sample containers that Bashir can snap on and reattach... he moves around, thinking about what else he might check... moves to the wall and a matter reclamation unit (waste disposal)... he moves to examine the slot... 55 EXTREME CLOSEUP As his eyes move close to the slot, we can see some tiny glass-like fragments on the edge, not quite inside the unit... he uses the mini-vac to suck several into a new container... 56 INT. OPS Sisko, Dax and Kira are listening to the complaints of a citizens group including Zayra, Bajoran #1, and now four others... including a woman... SISKO I understand your concerns... ZAYRA We're not saying he's innocent or guilty, Commander... but it just seems reasonable under the circumstances that he... KIRA (impatient) Thank-you for coming... They take her cue and EXIT... and after they leave, Kira controls her emotions by turning away and just shaking her head... KIRA This is wrong... SISKO What would you suggest we do? Turning back. KIRA He didn't do it. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/30/92 - ACT THREE 34. 56 CONTINUED: SISKO The man we have in charge of a murder investigation is the prime suspect, Major. Those people have a right to complain... DAX Even if he's innocent, it's still could be seen as a conflict of interest, Kira. KIRA (to Sisko) You're going to relieve him of duty. SISKO I don't see any other choice. KIRA (still arguing) He's been completely candid about the investigation... he could have covered his tracks half a dozen times already if he were guilty. SISKO I appreciate how you feel. But the decision stands. I'll inform him myself. On Kira's reaction... 57 INT. INFIRMARY Bashir and Odo on the move... Bashir carrying a sample case... his mind working two steps ahead of his conversation with Odo... BASHIR The only curious thing I found were seofurane fragments near the matter reclamation unit... it appears he was trying to get rid of them... ODO Have any idea what they're from? BASHIR I know exactly what they're from... a biological sample container. I use containers like them all the time. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT THREE 34A. 57 CONTINUED: He moves to a work area where a microscopic analysis device is being set up by a NURSE... as Bashir installs the samples and turns on the equipment... ODO What would Ibudan be doing with a biological sample container... BASHIR That I'm not so sure about... but when I analyzed the fragments, I detected... traces of a complex organic structure... 58 ANGLE - INCLUDE THE MONITOR to see inert traces of the organic system... Bashir glances at them... ODO Translate, Doctor. Bashir continues to work on his experiment... using a 24th century device (tech) to treat the samples... or perhaps it can be done with manual computer entries... BASHIR It suggests Ibudan may have been conducting some sort of medical experiment on board his ship... ODO He wasn't a doctor or a scientist. BASHIR (shrugs) Let's see what a standard electrophoretic analysis tells us... He completes the procedure and turns to the monitor -- the inert proteins suddenly begin breaking down into DNA fragments... Bashir reacts... BASHIR What the... ? (off Odo's look) The complex proteins are breaking down into DNA fragments... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT THREE 34B. 58 CONTINUED: ODO What does that mean? BASHIR (thinking) It means... (turning to the nurse) ... we should set up a bio- regenerative field to accelerate the cellular development... (she acknowledges, moves to prepare, to Odo) If I can reconstruct the DNA sequence, it might give us an idea what he was up to... 58A NEW ANGLE Moving to a unit... a small, glass-covered case filled with a colored liquid... the nurse is prepping it and during the following, Bashir opens to put in the samples... SISKO Sisko to Odo. ODO (hits combadge) Here. SISKO May I see you in my office, please. ODO Acknowledged. Bashir turns on a switch and an optical charge zaps into place inside the container and disappears... Odo studies the busy scene, muses a beat about what it all means, then EXITS... Bashir returns his attention to the container... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT THREE 35-36. 59 INT. COMMANDER'S OFFICE The door opens as Odo arrives... ODO Yes, Commander? SISKO Sit down. He does. Sisko looks him in the eye. SISKO I'm temporarily relieving you of duty. I'm sure the reasons are obvious. A beat. ODO (non-responsive) Who will be taking over the investigation. SISKO I've placed Major Kira and Lieutenant Dax in charge. A beat. Odo stands. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT THREE 37 ODO Is that all, Commander? Sisko stands... SISKO I want you to know... I don't personally believe that you were responsible for this... ODO (even) Really. Now how can that be true? Sisko reacts, what does that mean? Cold and direct -- ODO (continuing) You don't know me. You have no reason to believe that I wouldn't kill Ibudan if it suited my fancy. So don't tell me there isn't some doubt inside of you, some question about whether or not I murdered the man. SISKO I simply feel that putting Kira and Dax in charge of the investigation will be in everyone's best interests including your own... ODO I'll take care of my own best interests. And EXITS. On Sisko's reaction... FADE OUT. END OF ACT THREE DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT FOUR 38. ACT FOUR FADE IN 60 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL) 61 INT. PROMENADE Odo walks tall ignoring a few stares from people he passes. At the security office, he hits a touch pad, the doors open and he ENTERS... 62 INT. SECURITY OFFICE He reacts as he sees it has been vandalized... his chair knocked over... things that used to be on top of his desk have been thrown to the floor... a file cabinet turned over... on the wall in red letters, there is simply scribbled the word: "SHIFTER." And in that moment, alone, we can see the vulnerability within the man sneak through, the hurt is revealed, as it would never be revealed to another living soul. From behind him -- QUARK (O.S.) I can find out who did it for you... Odo pulls it all back inside, turns and looks evenly at Quark... ODO Not for me. Tell it to Starfleet. I'm not in charge here any longer. QUARK Well now, there's a piece of good news to brighten my day... ODO Better take advantage of my absence while you can, Quark... QUARK Oh, I will, I will. Count on it. I'll have every confidence man in the sector on board by tomorrow... ODO You do and I'll... Beat. Quark grins. Realizing Quark was just trying to get a rise out of him, Odo shuts up... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT FOUR 39. 62 CONTINUED: ODO You're gonna get sloppy without me to keep an eye on you... QUARK I don't think so. You've kept me on my toes for too long now. ODO Sure. I've turned you into a better crook. QUARK Like it or not. ODO (beat, straight) Think you could use a shape- shifter in your organization? Quark reacts, taking him seriously a beat, then breaks into a smile... Odo almost grins... QUARK You had me going... ODO I did, didn't I... QUARK Yes you did... A moment of awkward silence, two adversaries closer in their way than most friends... Quark turns to leave, pauses at the door... QUARK I've been asking some friends at Kran-Tobol prison about Ibudan... if he made any enemies while he was there. (he shakes his head) Couldn't find any. Mostly he stayed around the Bajoran dissidents the Cardassians locked up... Odo nods thanks for trying... and Quark hits the touch pad and EXITS. Odo begins to straighten his office... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT FOUR 40. 63 INT. INFIRMARY Close on the bio-regenerative field... within it, the jelly- like mass has expanded and stretched the limits of the field... there is a monitor that displays a quick changing automatic display of readings... there is a Bajoran nurse in the background preparing a much larger containment field... BASHIR (O.S.) It's growing exponentially... we're going to have to increase the metabolic field energy... Pulling back to reveal Sisko and Dax watching... SISKO Just what is it that's growing in there... ? DAX (studying the monitor) Aren't those DNA patterns humanoid, Julian? BASHIR (scientifically excited) That's what they look like to me... but there's a genetic drift I can't put my finger on... SISKO (musing aloud) What the hell was Ibudan up to? BASHIR I'm afraid we'll have to wait to see what this becomes before we have a clue... (to the Bajoran nurse) You can transfer it to the larger field now... As the nurse acknowledges to Bashir whose head has turned away from Sisko and Dax, Sisko turns to Dax -- SISKO Care for some lunch? Before she can answer, Bashir, without looking, says-- BASHIR Sure. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/25/92 - ACT FOUR 41. There's an awkward glance between Dax and Sisko which Bashir doesn't pick up... DAX No thanks. Major Kira is waiting for my report... She EXITS and Bashir and Sisko exchange a quick glance. Bashir smiles, flattered that he's been invited to lunch by the boss. 64 INT. QUARK'S ESTABLISHMENT Finding Sisko and Bashir eating... BASHIR Just how many different lives do you think she's led... SISKO (shakes his head) I'm not even sure. He'll... she'll... go through a list of them... and then another one comes out in a later conversation... I'd guess Jadzia is at least the sixth host... BASHIR Has she changed much? SISKO Changed? BASHIR From the last one, Curzon Dax... I understand a Trill integrates the personality of each new host... SISKO (shrugs) I guess I'll have to find that out... (beat) If I told you about some of the mischief he and I got into... there was a time when I was no older than you are... we were at the running of the Rujian Steeplechase... Dax loves the races... anyway, there were these gorgeous seven foot Ruji twin sisters that Curzon knew and he and I... 156:[5,#b] DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT FOUR 41. 64 CONTINUED: He stops himself in mid-sentence... a half-smile comes to his lips, a touch of loss... SISKO I guess we won't be doing that again soon. Will we. A beat. Bashir studies him. BASHIR You care a great deal for her, don't you... SISKO Dax and I are just friends, doctor. If you're interested, you have nothing to fear from me. BASHIR Are you sure? If I were in your shoes, knowing Dax as intimately as you do, I think I'd find her hard to resist... SISKO You don't understand, Doctor. Dax used to beat me regularly at bare fist Juro Counterpunch. BASHIR (reacts) I guess you won't be doing that again soon either... Sisko studies him... but his attention is drawn away to -- 65 ANGLE - ODO who has just entered... he moves to the crowded bar, his usual spot... his back is to us and one by one the other people at the bar move away... until he is left completely alone... 66 ON SISKO AND BASHIR'S REACTION... 67 INT. SCHOOLROOM Starfleet officers are bringing in desks and computer equipment... a large computer teaching module is already at one end of the room... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/18/92 - ACT FOUR 43. 67 CONTINUED: The walls are sparsely decorated with 24th century educational aides... some galactic maps, etc. KEIKO In a semi-circle... facing the module... that's right... And this activity continues as O'Brien enters, carrying Molly... and a gift-wrapped small box. O'BRIEN Here's Mommy... The toddler's eyes light up and she reaches out for Keiko... Keiko takes her in her arms and Molly puts her hands around her neck... MOLLY Mommy, where'd you go? KEIKO I'm getting ready for school tomorrow, honey... MOLLY Can I come to school? KEIKO I wish you could... at least I'd know one student would be coming... but you have to wait a year or two... O'BRIEN How's it going? KEIKO We'll be ready in time. In time for what, I'm not sure. Aside from Commander Sisko, I haven't had a firm commitment from any of the parents I've spoken to. (re: the box) What's this? O'BRIEN Oh, just something I replicated on the way over. She puts down Molly and begins to open the box... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT FOUR 44. 67 CONTINUED: (2) KEIKO Help Mommy with her present, Molly... Molly pulls on the ribbon and paper with Keiko doing the serious work... when she gets inside, she pulls out an old- fashioned school bell. She rings it... KEIKO (with appreciation) Miles... O'BRIEN I want to see you standing in the Promenade tomorrow morning ringing your school bell... And she illustrates with a laugh... hands it to Molly who rings the bell incessantly as Keiko hugs Miles... KEIKO Thank-you. She kisses him... and as she does, they hear a great deal of noise outside... jeers and yelling... they react... O'Brien concerned, moves to exit... O'BRIEN (re: Molly) You'd better take her home... Keiko acknowledges, picks up Molly as O'Brien EXITS... 68 INT. PROMENADE Picking up O'Brien coming around a bend (unless the school is to be located near the security office)... reacting to louder noise... 69 ANGLE - TO SEE ODO moving back toward the security office... a group of about fifteen people including the core group we've seen before... taunting him, yelling at him -- he looks at them with curiosity, some trepidation, not knowing what to make of this... he moves into the security office, but the crowd doesn't disperse... others continue to join it during the following... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/25/92 - ACT FOUR 45. 69 CONTINUED: CROWD (VARIOUS, AD LIB) Killer... get out of here, shape-shifter... shifter... shifter... you're nothing but a freak... freak... shifter... we don't want you here... murderer... freak... shifter... 70 RESUME - O'BRIEN Watching with concern... hits his combadge... O'BRIEN O'Brien to Ops... security to the Promenade on the double... 71 INT. OPS Kira responding... Sisko coming out of his office... KIRA Acknowledged. She nods to two Starfleet security officers and they move toward the Turbolift... quickly trailed by Sisko... O'BRIEN'S COM VOICE O'Brien to Sisko... SISKO (hits his combadge) I'm here, Chief... what's going on... 72 INT. PROMENADE The crowd taunts continue... O'BRIEN We have a crowd... more like a mob outside Odo's office... you better get down here... SISKO'S COM VOICE I'm on my way... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/25/92 - ACT FOUR 46. 73 ANGLE - BASHIR looking outside the infirmary at the mob... reacts... goes back inside... . 74 INT. INFIRMARY And moves across the room to the new, larger bio- regenerative field... it is now about five feet wide... the mass inside is about four and a half feet and still growing in depth and bulk... it has no clearly-defined shape yet but there is a series of artery like structures within it... branches of a bone structure forming... perhaps the barest beginnings of appendages... 75 ON BASHIR'S FACE as he wonders what the hell it is... FADE OUT. END OF ACT FOUR DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT FIVE 47. ACT FIVE FADE IN 76 INT. PROMENADE A Starfleet security officer, unarmed, moves to join a pair of Bajoran deputies at the front of the security office... the crowd has grown to about thirty people (a variety of races, mostly Bajoran, no humans)... the yelling and chants continue as before... (Note: all security officers, Starfleet and Bajoran, remain unarmed as a rule. Starfleet officers report to Sisko. Bajoran deputies to Odo. A future subplot will deal with conflicts over jurisdiction.) 77 ANGLE - SISKO AND KIRA AND TWO STARFLEET SECURITY OFFICERS are moving to the scene... measure the situation... move to O'Brien... SISKO Odo's inside? O'BRIEN Yessir, he went in a few minutes ago... the crowd followed him from the bar... SISKO (softly) I want more security here... and I want them armed... O'BRIEN Aye, sir... He exits... KIRA It's going to be harder to control them if the numbers keep growing... we can secure all Turbolifts... slow down the traffic onto the Promenade... SISKO Good idea... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/25/92 - ACT FIVE 48. 77 CONTINUED: She moves off... Odo is seen glancing out a window which only raises the crowd's pitch higher... from somewhere, someone throws a metal fragment and hits the window where Odo just was... shattering it... the crowd cheers... and pushes forward, the guards push them back... 78 ANGLE at the rear of the crowd... we get a partial view of the mysterious old man with the hat on... watching... 79 INT. INFIRMARY - CLOSE ON THE MONITOR (OPTICAL) flashing figures and numbers that are incomprehensible to us... moving to find Dax studying it... the noise of the crowd is in the background... DAX Julian, look at this... BASHIR The chromatin pattern is changing... DAX It's definitely humanoid... Bashir studies the figures a beat... BASHIR (repeating thoughtfully) It's definitely humanoid... it's definitely... my god, Dax, I think I know what it is... run a chromosome analysis... I think we're going to find a gene-sequence degradation... As Dax goes to work... pan down to find within the bioregenerative field... the mass looks more solid than before... and definitely looks more human... but without features... 80 INT. PROMENADE - ANGLE Two men in their twenties return (well away from Sisko) with more metal fragments (from a construction site near-by -- they're still rebuilding post Cardassian reign of terror) and begin to hand them out... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT FIVE 49. 81 ANGLE - THREE MORE STARFLEET SECURITY OFFICERS arrive... Sisko pushes through the crowd, leading them in front... they have phasers, but not drawn... 82 IN THE REAR O'Brien and Kira return... O'Brien hands Kira a phaser... 83 ON SISKO pushing through, knocking people out the way to get to the front... when he reaches it... he holds his arms up and the crowd reacts to his authority for the moment and quiets down... SISKO What the hell do you people intend to accomplish here? BAJORAN MAN #1 We want the shape-shifter! SISKO And what do you think you're gonna do to him if you get him... ? ZAYRA He's right. Might be hard to get a rope around the neck of a shape- shifter... Laughter from the mob... SISKO Listen to me. You will disperse immediately... return to your quarters... return to your ships... The crowd noise swells again and they surge forward... metal fragments are thrown, one deputy is hit... 84 O'BRIEN AND KIRA move into the crowd, struggle with the metal fragment throwers... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT FIVE 50. 85 SISKO (OPTICAL) Sisko grabs the phaser from the holster of a Starfleet security man... and fires a shot in the air over their heads... Odo emerges from the security office, prepared to defend himself if necessary... FEMALE VOICE (O. C.. ) He's a murderer... MALE VOICE (O.S.) We want justice... SISKO Do you? Justice. Really? Is it justice you're after... or just some way to express your anger? And fear. Look at yourselves... in an hour, you'll regret what you've tried to do here. Do not condemn this man because he is different than you are... ZAYRA We condemn him because of the evidence... SISKO Then, take that evidence to a court of law. There will be no "justice" served here today. BASHIR (O.S.) Commander Sisko... I believe there's new evidence to consider... 86 ANGLE TO SEE BASHIR moving through the crowd... Dax in the background... BASHIR The man who was murdered was not Ibudan... The crowd, Sisko et al reacts... stunned... ODO What? BASHIR Come with me... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT FIVE 51. 86 CONTINUED: And as Sisko and Odo follow Bashir... Kira and O'Brien take over crowd control... O'BRIEN All right... break it up now... KIRA Move on, people... let's clear this area... 87 INT. INFIRMARY Bashir, Sisko, Dax and Odo ENTER, go to the bioregenerative chamber... and as they look down, they react as they see -- 88 THEIR POV -- A DUPLICATE OF IBUDAN not fully complete, wet like a newborn chick... BASHIR (O.S.) A clone. That's what Ibudan was working on. Creating a clone of himself. 89 RESUME - REACTIONS ODO (realizing) And then he killed the clone... to frame me for his murder. SISKO How can we be sure the victim was a clone? DAX A clone has identical DNA as the donor... but certain cloning methods cause a characteristic gene-sequence degradation which can be identified... BASHIR (self-congratulation) ... if you know to look for it. (beat) We've matched the victim's gene- sequence with the fellow in the jar here. They're definitely both clones. DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT FIVE 52. 89 CONTINUED: ODO (re: the new clone) What happens to this one? BASHIR In about two days, he becomes a living, breathing member of Bajoran society. ODO Let's hope he doesn't follow in his donor's footsteps. SISKO What about Ibudan... ? ODO (musing) I have an idea where to find him... 90 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL) Emphasizing Ibudan's ship... 91 INT. SHIP'S QUARTERS This is on the same ship as Ibudan so it is similar to his quarters but must clearly be a different room. The door opens and the old man ENTERS... clearly unhappy... OLD MAN/IBUDAN Computer, lights... The lights come on and he walks across the room... 92 ANGLE (OPTICAL) as he moves to a closet and takes off his black coat... behind him a chair METAMORPHOSIZES into Odo... 93 THE OLD MAN turns, reacts... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT FIVE 53. 93 CONTINUED: OLD MAN/IBUDAN Who are you? How did you get in here? ODO Oh, I think you know... OLD MAN/IBUDAN I warn you... I'll call Ship's security... ODO Do that... I have some interesting questions to ask them... for example, I am especially curious to know how the name "Lamonay S." came to appear on this ship's passenger list yesterday... OLD MAN/IBUDAN That is my name. And I arranged for transport on this vessel. What is so strange about that? ODO You did not arrive on this ship... OLD MAN/IBUDAN No... ODO Well, just what ship, did you arrive on, Mr. Lamonay S.? I can't find any record of your arrival on any vessel that has docked here in the last three weeks. OLD MAN/IBUDAN I assure you, you have made an error... ODO I think in fact you did arrive on this ship... and that you've spent the last few years in a prison among Bajoran dissidents... one of them, I've learned, was a scientist who was arrested by the Cardassians for doing experimental research into tri- phasic cloning... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/30/92 - ACT FIVE 54. 93 CONTINUED: The old man tries to bolt past Odo... but Odo with powerful arms, grabs and easily holds him and then grabs his face and pulls, tearing off... 94 CLOSEUP - THE MASK to reveal Ibudan. 95 RESUME ODO Killing your own clone... is still murder. Off Ibudan's reaction... 96 INT. SCHOOLROOM - CLOSE ON THE SCHOOL BELL sitting silent on the teaching module... moving to find Keiko, pacing, concerned... KEIKO Computer... what time is it? COMPUTER Oh-nine-oh-seven hours... She frowns, loops up to see... Sisko and Jake arriving, reacting to the sight of an empty classroom. She looks up and exchanges a glance with Sisko... grimaces... KEIKO I guess you were right... it isn't going to be easy... Sisko pats Jake on the back... motions to him to sit down... SISKO Maybe it's just going to take a little time to... He's interrupted by the sudden arrival at the door of Nog who is pushed bodily in... followed by his father... ROM (to Nog) Sit down! Rom and Sisko exchange an uncomfortable glance between parents whose children have gotten in trouble together. Nog reluctantly goes next to Jake who grins but before he can sit down... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT FIVE 54A. 96 CONTINUED: ROM Not next to that human boy... I don't want you to have anything to do with him... Nog sighs, moves to the other end of the semi-circle... DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/28/92 - ACT FIVE 55. 96 CONTINUED: ROM (grudging, to Keiko) We'll try it for a few weeks. Keiko acknowledges and smiles... and as Rom leaves he has to stop to let in a Bajoran boy of eight along with a Bajoran girl of ten... Sisko smiles at Keiko, nods good luck and EXITS... KEIKO Please come in... take any seat... try to be on time from now on... my name is Keiko O'Brien... and I'll be your teacher... 97 OMITTED 98 EXT. SPACE - DS9 As ships leave and arrive... FADE OUT. THE END