STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"Necessary Evil"
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Written by
Peter Allan Fields
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Jim Conway
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STAR TREK: DS9 - "Necessary Evil" 09/16/93 - CAST
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"Necessary Evil"
CAST
SISKO PALLRA
KIRA GUL DUKAT
ODO GUARD
QUARK TRAZKO
BASHIR SECURITY COM VOICE
DAX
ROM
Non-Speaking Non-Speaking
N.D. BAJORANS CARDASSIAN GUARDS
STAR TREK: DS9 - "Necessary Evil" - 09/16/93 - SETS
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"Necessary Evil"
SETS
INTERIORS EXTERIORS
DEEP SPACE NINE DEEP SPACE NINE
PROMENADE/GHETTO AREA
SECURITY OFFICE/STORAGE ROOM
SHIP'S STORE
QUARK'S
CHEMIST SHOP
HABITAT CORRIDOR
INFIRMARY
HOLDING CELL AREA
PALLRA'S LIVING ROOM
STAR TREK: DS9 - "Necessary Evil" 09/17/93 - PRONUNCIATION
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"Necessary Evil"
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
PYRELLIAN pih-REHL-ee-uhn
HADAR hah-DAHR
CHESISO CHES-soh
CHESISARRO ches-SAHR-roh
MELDRAR MEHL-drahr
PULSATEL PULL-sah-tehl
CORTOLIN kohr-TOHL-ihn
VAATRIK VA-trik
GUL DUKAT gull du-KOT
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - TEASER 1.
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"Necessary Evil"
TEASER
1 OVER BLACK:
a quiet distant roll of thunder. Don't fade in; instead:
CUT TO:
2 INT. PALLRA'S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT
Muted lightning from candles, oil lamps. A Bajoran woman
(PALLRA) at a window... she's blonde, dressed entirely in
white. She opens the window as the lightning blinks lightly
outside, takes a deep cleansing breath of the rain breeze...
PALLRA
I didn't kill him, you know.
She turns and looks toward us... and as the lightning flickers
outside, half her body is illuminated as we see her face for
the first time... and it takes our breath away. She's the
kind of woman men kill for. Or die for. She moves away
from the window... it's hot... her skin shines vaguely like
a rain-slicked street. In another apartment, someone is
practicing an alien instrument, (not electronic). The music
floats in the window -- a hauntingly romantic and yet
disturbing melody with chromatic intervals... it is a theme
that will haunt us throughout our story...
PALLRA
A lot of people believed it was me.
That shape-shifter thought so. But
he was wrong.
She moves to a sofa where QUARK sits, sipping a drink,
listening curiously... why the hell tell me?, his face seems
to say. Sexual tension fills the air.
QUARK
It was a long time ago.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - TEASER 2.
2 CONTINUED:
PALLRA
(nods, beat, not ready
to get down to
business)
Say what you will about the
Cardassians... at least they could
keep the power on... do you want
more ice?
QUARK
I'm fine.
His eyes measure her... what does she want?
PALLRA
You were always very kind.
QUARK
Was I?
PALLRA
You made life a little easier.
QUARK
I ran a black market for anyone who
could pay. Never exactly thought of
myself as... kind.
PALLRA
But there was a little extra ginger
tea in the package you gave me, wasn't
there...
They look at each other a long beat... she isn't wrong...
they both know it...
QUARK
You didn't call me to Bajor to talk
about tea.
PALLRA
I need a favor.
QUARK
(dry)
For old times sake.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - TEASER 3.
2 CONTINUED: (2)
PALLRA
That's right.
QUARK
I'm still as kind as ever.
PALLRA
I can pay you.
QUARK
I'm listening.
She rises, moves back toward the window... the breeze blows
through her hair, moves through and under her dress...
PALLRA
My husband kept a strongbox in our
shop on the station. Buried in the
wall. I want you to bring it to me.
QUARK
What's in it...
PALLRA
Nothing anyone would value.
QUARK
Anyone but you.
PALLRA
Sentimental reasons.
QUARK
Why not take a sentimental journey
back to the station... if it's your
property...
PALLRA
I couldn't stand going back to that
shop... where my husband was
murdered...
QUARK
Or maybe you'd rather not let Odo
see you there.
PALLRA
I'm sure he's forgotten about all
that by now.
Quark smiles -- they both know she's lying.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - 09/16/93 - TEASER 4.
2 CONTINUED: (3)
PALLRA
(beat)
Can you neutralize the security
system... ?
Quark nods.
PALLRA
I knew I could count on you.
(beat)
It's behind the panelled wall to the
right as you enter. Four panels
in... and two up...
QUARK
Four in. Two up.
PALLRA
I'll give you five bars of latinum.
QUARK
(uncertain)
Five... ?
PALLRA
And as always... my personal
gratitude.
A beat as Quark studies her... the lightning flickers, she's
irresistible... no matter how tough he plays it, he knows it
and what's worse, so does she. He nods, rises.
QUARK
A day. Maybe two.
She smiles with promise. He leaves. A beat later, a heavy
set, muscular man (TRAZKO) appears from the shadows of the
other room. Pallra glances at him with cold eyes...
everything went exactly as planned.
FADE OUT.
END OF TEASER
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT ONE 5.
ACT ONE
FADE IN:
(NOTE: Episode credits fall over opening scenes)
3 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL) (STOCK)
Establishing.
4 INT. PROMENADE - LATE NIGHT
Seems deserted; all shops and other places sealed for the
night; almost all signage shut off. Dark and silent. Finding
the silhouette of ODO standing at his door, backlit, making
one last look down the Promenade. His voice over has the
undertone of somebody who'd prefer not to be bothered --
ODO (V.O.)
Commence Station Security log.
Stardate 47282.5. At the request of
Commander Sisko, I will hereafter be
recording a daily log of law
enforcement affairs.
5 INT. SECURITY OFFICE
As Odo comes in, and begins to turn off consoles and lights...
ODO (V.O.)
The reason for this exercise is beyond
my comprehension except perhaps that
humans have a compulsion to keep
records and lists and files... so
many in fact that they have to invent
new ways to store them
microscopically. Otherwise their
records would overrun all known
civilization.
(beat)
My own very adequate memory not being
good enough for Starfleet, I am
pleased to put my voice to this
official record of this day:
Everything's under control. End
log.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT ONE 6.
5 CONTINUED:
He moves to his back room...
6 INT. PROMENADE - POV OF THE SECURITY OFFICE
as the last light inside goes off...
7 ANGLE ON QUARK & ROM
QUARK
Now.
They move stealthily along the side of the lower Promenade;
flattening themselves as much as possible against the wall
to avoid detection by any possible passersby. ROM carries a
satchel of lightweight tools over his shoulder.
8 CLOSER - QUARK & ROM
looking every which way as they sneak along. They'll speak
in STAGE WHISPERS:
QUARK
When we get to the entrance, you
stay flat against the wall. It's a
pulsatel lockseal. I can get it to
release in about twenty-five seconds.
ROM
Twenty-five seconds... but somebody
will see us... let me do it...
QUARK
(scoffs)
You? We'd be at it all night.
ROM
No, only about ten seconds.
Quark stops dead -- stares at Rom.
QUARK
How would you release a pulsatel
lockseal in ten seconds?
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/22/93 - ACT ONE 7.
8 CONTINUED:
ROM
You have one on the storeroom door.
QUARK
So?
ROM
Sometimes when you forget to leave
me the desealer, I have to get the
storeroom open.
QUARK
(deadly)
You've unsealed the storeroom without
my knowledge?
ROM
Only to serve a customer's needs...
QUARK
In ten seconds?
ROM
You forget fairly often.
They're again moving surreptitiously to...
8A FRONTING SHIP'S STORE
Quark removes the satchel from Rom's shoulder -- will dig
into it for something, as:
QUARK
Ten seconds.
(searching satchel)
We'll see how you handle this
desealing rod.
ROM
(fishes in pocket)
That's all right; I have my own.
QUARK
(stops; gapes)
What?
Rom pulls forth a little penknife-looking gizmo -- which he
opens to reveal a short strip of metal, having key-like ridges
along both sides, and an icepick-like tip.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/22/93 - ACT ONE 7A.
8A CONTINUED:
ROM
Nog made it for me. Boy's always
been clever with his hands.
Quark's now gaping at the open desealer. Agog; his mind
on:
QUARK
... my storeroom.
Rom moves to the lockseal on the front door of the shop;
will go to work on it, as:
ROM
(cheerily)
Time this, Brother; you'll be very
proud.
QUARK
... my storeroom.
9 INT. SHIP'S STORE
as, from without, the front door-seal is broken open (just
enough of a SNAP-CRACK Sound to tell us it's a break-in,
rather than something being properly unlocked). Quark and
ROM sneak in, closing the door behind them. Both take palm
lights from the satchel. This is a shop that sells and
repairs techno gadgets that ships need. There's a
workbench... several gadgets and tools on display. Throughout
the above:
QUARK
(accusatory hiss)
Thief. Don't deny it. You've
been stealing from me...
ROM
Brother, I'd never...
QUARK
Tomorrow morning, I'm changing my
entire lock system.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT ONE 8.
9 CONTINUED:
Quark moves to the wall to his right... it is a panelled
wall, with multiple Cardassian duranium squares
checkerboarding the wall. Quark counts the squares as
ordered...
QUARK
Four in... two up... here... it's
behind this one...
Focusing on the right panel... attached at its four corners
as by 24th century equivalent of screws.
QUARK
Keep an eye on the Promenade...
Quark again starts rummaging around in the satchel, pulls
out a laser torch device as...
QUARK
(continuing)
... while I burn off the panel.
ROM
The glare could attract attention.
I have a better idea.
QUARK
A better idea.
Rom reaches into the satchel...
ROM
I took the liberty of bringing along
a small vial of magnasite drops...
He pulls it out...
QUARK
Magnasite drops? What are magnasite
drops?
Rom will take the container -- which looks exactly like an
eyedrop bottle (including the eyedropper itself) and begin
applying it to each of the four corner "screws" of the panel.
As he's doing so:
ROM
A compound that will eat through
duranium... one on each corner and
the panel will fall off...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT ONE 9.
9 CONTINUED: (2)
QUARK
(again, deadly)
How do you know that?
The four corners of the panel on which Rom has dabbed a bit
of the magnasite drops from the dropper, now BEGIN TO SMOKE...
ROM
(still happily working)
When you were in the Gamma Quadrant
overnight... we did very good
business... naturally, I had to keep
your profits safe. But you had the
only key to the latinum floor vault.
QUARK
(stupefied)
You got into my latinum floor vault
with...
(re: eye drop bottle)
... that?
The panel falls off...
ROM
I didn't want to tell you because
then you'd know I'd burned off your
floor plates. But I replaced them
out of my own salary, Brother...
QUARK
(softly)
... my vault...
Rom shines his light into the hole and sees through the
conduits...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT ONE 10.
10 INSERT - SMALL CONTAINER IN WALL HOLE
In a hole in the wall which had been covered by the panel,
rests a small, plain, sealed metal strongbox.
11 RESUME - SHOT
Rom, seeing the small box, waits for Quark to take it out.
But Quark -- still thunderstruck -- just stands there.
ROM
Should I take it out for you?
Quark finally alerts -- moves forward, reaching over and
between conduits, with:
QUARK
Don't touch it.
(taking box)
Don't you touch anything. Ever;
ever; again.
12 INT. QUARK'S (OPTICAL)
Closeup of the box. Still very late at night. A laser tool
carefully unseals the strongbox. As it opens to reveal a
piece of paper...
QUARK (O.S.)
Just a piece of paper... ?
Quark's hand pulls it out...
13 ANGLE ON QUARK AND ROM
ROM
A treasure map, perhaps?
Quark unfolds it, reacts as he studies it... Rom doesn't get
it...
ROM
What does it mean, brother?
QUARK
I have no idea.
14 INSERT - LIST
on the page, a handwritten list of eight Bajoran names.
QUARK
Eight names. All of them Bajoran...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - 09/16/93 - ACT ONE 11.
15 RESUME
QUARK
I want a picture of this list before
I reseal the box. Go; get me an
imager. Go.
As Rom scurries off to a rear (o.s.) room:
16 INCLUDING TRAZKO (OPTICAL)
as he emerges from the shadows -- weapon at-the-ready. Quark
senses his approach -- wheels around; bolts to his feet.
QUARK
You can't be in here; we're closed...
(sees the phaser)
Well, if you really want a drink...
A beat, as the agonizing force of the realization hits him...
that he's dead and he should have seen it coming...
QUARK
She sent you, didn't she...
TRAZKO
(shrugs)
She knew you couldn't resist opening
it.
(takes the list)
Sorry.
QUARK
Yeah. Me too.
Trazko shoots him full in the chest. Quark is blasted
backward, landing motionless on the floor. Trazko EXITS.
17 INCLUDING ROM
He RE-ENTERS from the opposite direction, carrying an imager --
which he drops, forgotten, at the sight of Quark.
ROM
Brother!
He rushes to stand over Quark.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - 09/16/93 - ACT ONE 12.
17 CONTINUED
ROM
Brother?...
(shouts)
Help!
18 ON ROM
Truly, helplessly panicked... frightened. He peers around
at the darkness, and:
ROM
Somebody, help!
19 ON QUARK'S BODY
Indeed, looks dead.
ROM (O.S.)
My brother's been killed!
MOVE IN and HOLD, until we...
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT ONE
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT TWO 13.
ACT TWO
FADE IN:
20 INT. QUARK'S
A few minutes later as SISKO ENTERS... emergency medical
treatment underway... BASHIR, hair tousled, wearing a T-shirt
with his Starfleet pants as though he got out of bed and
dressed in a hurry is working with a nurse to save Quark's
life, checks the wound with a tricorder... Odo is already
there, pressing Rom for answers...
ROM BASHIR
(to Odo) (urgent, to nurse)
I don't know! I don't Ten cc's of cortolin...
know! I want an anti-grav lift in
here, stat... ready the
cortical stimulator...
(repeating a
question he's
asked once
already,
to anyone as he
works)
... what kind of weapon...
I'm waiting for an answer...
Odo frustrated with Rom, moves to Bashir beside Sisko...
KIRA ENTERS in the background, observes...
ODO
I can't confirm it, Doctor... but
whatever it was had to get by the
scanners... My best guess is a
compressed tetryon beam weapon...
BASHIR
(nods, working
feverishly)
Okay. Okay. That's consistent with
what I'm seeing...
(to nurse)
Get the stimulator over here...
SISKO
Doctor... ?
Bashir sighs, I don't know... only glances at Sisko, doesn't
stop what he's doing...
BASHIR
Thoracic cavity ruptured. Extensive
neural trauma.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT TWO 14.
20 CONTINUED:
He places the stimulator on the side of the neck...
ODO BASHIR
(to Sisko) Now!
Rom says it was a
robbery attempt.
Quark jerks as the stimulator works... an anti-grav lift is
brought in bytwo Bajoran security men...
SISKO
What was taken?
BASHIR
ODO Increase five percent.
He says he doesn't
know. But he knows.
Quark jerks again... Bashir takes another tricorder reading...
KIRA
(to Sisko)
Security's stopping everyone at the
airlocks... but it took them five
minutes to get in position... the
assailant may already be on a ship...
SISKO BASHIR
Delay outgoing vessels We've got to get him to
as long as you can... surgery... help me get him
advise their respective up here...
security details...
She acknowledges, leaves... the two security men and the
nurse help Bashir lift Quark to the lift and they move him
quickly out of the room... Odo moves back to Rom... Sisko
casually joins him...
ROM
(lost)
He's dying, isn't he? He's dying.
What am I going to do if my brother
dies?
ODO
Do? Oh, you'll have a lot to do.
Once this place is yours.
ROM
But if he dies...
(beat as it soaks in)
Mine?
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT TWO 15.
20 CONTINUED: (2)
ODO
"Wives serve, brothers inherit."
Rule of Acquisition number one hundred
thirty-nine, if I'm not mistaken.
ROM
(brightens up)
I hadn't thought of that.
ODO
Really. I had. Because, it's a
solid motive for murder.
ROM
Yes, actually, I have heard of a few
untimely deaths that seemed... wait
a minute, you're not suggesting that
I...
ODO
I've had my eye on you for a long
time, Rom. You're not as stupid as
you look.
ROM
I am too. I would never...
Sisko moves easily into the good cop-bad cop routine... puts
a comforting hand on Rom's shoulder...
SISKO
Constable, it's his own brother...
ROM
My own brother...
SISKO
I hardly think...
ODO
Stay out of this, Commander. I know
these Ferengi. They'd sell their
own flesh and blood for a Cardassian
groat...
SISKO
Odo, he's a family friend. His son
is very close to my boy...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT TWO 16.
20 CONTINUED: (3)
ODO
Well, you'd better tell his son that
Dad's going to the lunar prison on
Meldrar One. Two hundred degrees in
the shade.
ROM
I didn't. It's not true. Oh, irony
of ironies. I finally get the bar
and I'm falsely accused of my
brother's murder.
SISKO
Rom, as a friend, if you know anything
that might be helpful, I think you
should tell us...
ROM
It was a list. The man who shot my
brother stole a list.
Sisko and Odo exchange a triumphant glance.
ODO
What kind of list?
ROM
Of names. Eight Bajoran names. It
was in this box we... we found...
He shows Odo the strongbox.
ODO
Found... ?
ROM
(sighs)
In a manner of speaking...
21 INT. PROMENADE - STILL NIGHT LIGHTS
Odo accompanies Rom as he leads them toward the ship's
store...
ROM
My brother was hired by someone on
Bajor to retrieve it.
ODO
Who?
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - 09/16/93 - ACT TWO 17.
21 CONTINUED:
ROM
He didn't tell me. He never told me
anything. I tried so hard to earn
Quark's trust. Now he's dead. And
I can never earn his trust.
ODO
(pressing him)
Just his share of the profits.
ROM
I swear I don't know who hired him.
All I know is that the box had been
hidden years ago...
ODO
How many years ago?
ROM
I'm not sure. When the Cardassians
were here. When the ship's store
used to be the chemist shop.
Odo reacts with special meaning...
ODO
The... chemist shop... ?
ROM
That's right.
They're at the front of the ship's store... Odo looks at it
with special meaning.
ODO
Here? This is where you found the
box?
ROM
Behind a duranium wall panel. I'll
show you which one.
Rom moves forward to the door, but Odo is still lost in his
thoughts...
ROM
Do you want me to open it? I can do
it in ten seconds...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT TWO 18.
21 CONTINUED: (2)
Odo doesn't bother to respond... he just steps forward
slowly, his mind still working, and silently presses a code
into the door security panel... the door slides open... and
as Odo walks in...
START FLASHBACK:
22 INT. CHEMIST SHOP
... It's five years earlier... as Odo ENTERS the shop. His
"attire" is different (appropriate to occupation times), but
his face looks the same. The doors don't, though... nor
does the chemist's shop into which he's walked (alone).
(NOTE: Odo himself is, in this period, quieter, and with a
far less open and decisive demeanor. His eyes dart everywhere --
not through cunning, but due to uncertainty in these
surroundings, and with these people. This is an earlier Odo
in personality as well as attire. At this point, he's an
outsider without status -- maybe even the neighborhood "freak" --
and used to being treated as such.)
ODO
You asked to see me?
23 FULL SHOT
We now see how the chemist's shop looked when this was the
Bajoran Ghetto section of the Cardassian station: A sparsely
supplied, ramshackled excuse for a shop. Sprawled on the
floor is the body of the Bajoran Chemist (who'll be referred
to as Vaatrik)... covered with a sheet. Sitting casually on
a desk, drinking a cup of hot, steaming liquid, reading a
PADD is GUL DUKAT, who looks up, gregarious.
GUL DUKAT
Yes, yes, please come in. We've met
before. Gul Dukat.
Odo hesitantly shakes hands, glances at the sheet. He doesn't
like Cardassians any more than anyone else.
ODO
Have we?
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/22/93 - ACT TWO 19.
23 CONTINUED:
GUL DUKAT
I don't expect you'd remember. I
was one of the guests at the
reception. At the Bajoran Center
for Science... it must have been two
years ago.
ODO
Ah yes, when the Cardassian High
Command was invited to... view me.
GUL DUKAT
You were very amusing that night.
ODO
(dry)
Was I.
GUL DUKAT
You did a Cardassian neck trick that
brought the house down.
ODO
The Bajoran scientist who worked
with me thought you might find it
entertaining. He made me practice
for weeks on the... Cardassian neck
trick.
GUL DUKAT
Gul Hadar couldn't stop talking about
it. He wanted to send you out to
entertain the troops.
(beat)
I, on the other hand, began to wonder
if you couldn't provide a more
valuable service to the Cardassian
Empire. I've stayed informed about
you, Odo... since you walked out on
your Bajoran keepers.
ODO
I simply felt I could learn more
outside a laboratory.
GUL DUKAT
Yes, you've become something of a
student of humanoid nature, haven't
you...
ODO
Just what is it you need, Gul Dukat?
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/21/93 - ACT TWO 20.
23 CONTINUED: (2)
Dukat raises the sheet to show Odo the body.
GUL DUKAT
Ever seen a dead man before?
ODO
Yes. In your mines.
GUL DUKAT
Those were casualties. This is
murder. I've decided you're going
to investigate it.
ODO
Me? Why me? I'm no investigator.
GUL DUKAT
But I have a suspicion you'd make a
good one. Shape-shifting your way
into places the rest of us can't
go...
ODO
I have no intention of being a
Cardassian agent.
And it's said with such force that Dukat has to blink at the
impertinence of it. Odo stares at him and won't back off
it. Dukat controls himself, smiles.
GUL DUKAT
Not an agent. An investigator.
ODO
There's a difference... ?
GUL DUKAT
We can't have these Bajorans running
around, murdering each other. I'm
talking about order. Justice.
Odo looks at him evenly.
ODO
There is very little justice in the
Cardassian occupation of Bajor.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/22/93 - ACT TWO 21.
23 CONTINUED: (3)
GUL DUKAT
(breaking character,
harsh)
Don't push me, Odo. My superiors
would have me "solve" this murder by
choosing ten Bajorans at random and
executing them! I am hoping you'll
give me a better alternative.
Odo looks at Dukat evenly, is already beaten, knows it...
waits for orders... a long beat, Dukat gets his mask back
on...
GUL DUKAT
Now, these Bajorans won't talk to
us... but they seem to trust you...
I understand you used to sort out
local disputes in some Bajoran village
or other.
ODO
(slight nod)
Now and then.
GUL DUKAT
And as I've heard it, you do the
same for our Bajoran laborers here
on the station. Petty disputes in
the barracks over food, blankets,
everyday things like that... They
come to you.
ODO
I suppose I'm considered a neutral
observer.
GUL DUKAT
Of course. You're not one of them.
And you should be thankful for it.
So here's another petty dispute.
Only this time I'm bringing it to
you. Find the murderer.
A beat... a surrender...
ODO
Are there any witnesses?
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/22/93 - ACT TWO 22.
24 INT. STORAGE ROOM/SECURITY OFFICE - CLOSE ON PALLRA
Pallra is not as glamorous as we saw her in the future...
but she's a handsome woman even in occupation clothes... in
fact, her clothes are just a cut above the rest we've seen...
she sits on one of two folding-type chairs... some crates
still are around. There should be a small computer that was
probably used for inventory.
GUL DUKAT (O.S.)
Sorry to keep you waiting, Mrs.
Vaatrik.
Moving to find Dukat ENTERING with Odo.
GUL DUKAT
This is Odo. He'll be investigating
your husband's death. Perhaps you
two already know each other.
PALLRA
(trying to recognize)
Have you been in the shop... ?
ODO
No. I don't use chemicals.
GUL DUKAT
(to Odo)
I've assigned this space to you.
We'll get you anything you need.
Good hunting. My sympathies, Madame.
He bows to her and EXITS. She looks to Odo. After a long
beat.
ODO
I'm sorry for your loss.
PALLRA
Thank you.
Odo searches for the right questions to ask. Nothing comes
natural to him here.
ODO
Do you have any idea who might have
done this?
PALLRA
I have a very good idea.
ODO
(reacts)
You do...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/22/93 - ACT TWO 23.
24 CONTINUED: (2)
PALLRA
(sighs)
May I be honest with you... ?
ODO
That might be helpful.
PALLRA
My husband was having an affair.
Some girl came on the station about
a week ago. He was... infatuated
with her, I don't know... Why are
men like that?
ODO
Believe me, I have no idea.
PALLRA
We had two wonderful years together...
until she arrived and now...
(sighs, angry, shaking
her head)
ODO
You loved him very much.
PALLRA
Of course I did.
ODO
Then, perhaps you might explain
something I don't understand.
PALLRA
What's that?
ODO
Mister Vaatrik was found dead two
hours ago. Mrs. Vaatrik hasn't shed
a tear.
PALLRA
(about to deny)
What makes you think...
ODO
By necessity I'm an observer, Mrs.
Vaatrik. When a humanoid cries, the
epidermis below the eyes swells
noticeably. Your epidermis is
perfectly normal.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/22/93 - ACT TWO 23A.
24 CONTINUED: (3)
PALLRA
I'm too angry to cry. The shock...
ODO
Of course. So you were about to
accuse this other woman of the murder,
I believe...
And Pallra who's played this scene in her mind several times
has had her entire rhythm thrown off by Odo's approach...
she tries to regain her balance...
PALLRA
He had confessed his indiscretion to
me days ago but said it was over...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT TWO 24.
24 CONTINUED: (3)
ODO
And when he broke it off with her,
she killed him in a jealous rage.
PALLRA
Something like that.
ODO
Do you know her name?
PALLRA
No, but I can point her out to you.
Odo nods, she rises and they EXIT to...
25 INT. PROMENADE GHETTO AREA
A wire-like fence in immediate f.g. separates the (o.s.)
Cardassian part of the Promenade from the part -- which we're
now seeing beyond the fence -- that is the Bajoran ghetto.
It's the equivalent of the Warsaw Ghetto of WWII. No lights
to mark the few little open shops; only cold, hungry, ragged
Bajorans sitting in open doorways, or trudging wearily to
and from their back-breaking labors; no color to anything;
no hope of anything. Odo and Pallra EMERGE from the chemist's
shop (just within the fence in f.g.), and head away from us
through the dreary ghetto... past a small campfire...
26 MOVING WITH ODO AND PALLRA
ODO
When was the last time you saw Mister
Vaatrik alive?
PALLRA
At dinner. He went back to the shop
to do some inventory work afterwards.
She chokes on the last words... Odo glances at her to see
tears are finally coming down her cheeks... he is unmoved...
ODO
You don't live in community quarters.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT TWO 25.
26 CONTINUED:
PALLRA
No. We were lucky enough to be
assigned a private room... I guess
because we ran the shop... at least
we had a little privacy...
(Odo grunts an
acknowledgement)
There... that's her...
As they pause near a soup kitchen... a few pathetic-looking
N.D. Bajorans are making use of it -- as is one young Bajoran
female whose face we cannot yet see. Following the direction
of her pointing finger...
27 NEW ANGLE TO REVEAL - KIRA
is sitting there. END FLASHBACK HERE, as we go:
28 CLOSE - ODO
... staring, just as he was, at that spot on the Promenade
where the "soup kitchen," and Kira, had been standing in the
Flashback... as we hear:
KIRA (O.S.)
Odo?
29 INT. PROMENADE - REGULAR LIGHTS - ANGLE FAVORING
KIRA
as she approaches Odo along the (present day)
Promenade.
KIRA
We haven't picked up anyone at the
airlocks. I can't hold up outbound
traffic any longer...
ODO
(acknowledges)
I'm sure he disposed of the weapon
before he left.
She begins to leave... pauses...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT TWO 26.
29 CONTINUED:
KIRA
I heard about the list...
(Odo looks at her)
... the one that Quark got out of the
wall...
ODO
Rom said it had been hidden there
during the occupation.
KIRA
(nods)
I couldn't help wondering if it had...
something to do with Vaatrik...
ODO
I've been wondering the same thing.
Kira acknowledges, leaves a tad awkwardly, and as we HOLD on
Odo concentrating on his memories, until we...
30 OMITTED
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT TWO
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT THREE 27.
ACT THREE
FADE IN:
31 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
ODO (V.O.)
Security log, Stardate 47284.1. In
this job, there is no unfinished
business.
32 INT. PROMENADE
Moving toward the Security office... where we can see Odo
inside pacing... perhaps barking a question to an unseen
witness...
ODO (V.O.)
(continuous)
The assault on Quark reopens a five-
year-old murder case that I've never,
not for a moment, closed. Patience
is a lost virtue to most. To me, an
ally.
33 INT. SECURITY OFFICE
The unseen witness is Rom... Odo is frustrated with him...
ROM
I barely saw it... I'm sorry... I
don't remember any of the names...
ODO
All right... all right... let's
just... relax a moment...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT THREE 28.
33 CONTINUED:
ROM
I really ought to be getting back to
my bar...
ODO
He's not dead yet, Rom.
ROM
They're not keeping him alive by
artificial means, are they... my
brother wouldn't want that...
ODO
No, he's clinging to life all on his
own.
ROM
(sighs)
Typical.
ODO
All right, let's try again...
(beat, a new approach)
Close your eyes...
Rom does.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT THREE 29.
33 CONTINUED: (2)
ODO
(continuing)
Take a deep breath, clear your mind
of everything in it... if there's
anything there... breathe...
Rom nods... picking up the pace...
ODO
Now what do you see...
ROM
The bar...
ODO
Yes.
ROM
With my name on it.
ODO
The past, Rom. Not the future. The
box opens. There's a piece of paper
in it...
ROM
Yes, yes, I see it...
ODO
Quark unfolds it... there's a list
of names... Bajoran names... the one
at the very top catches your eye...
and the first letter is...
Faster exchange --
ROM
"C!" It's a "C."
ODO
And the next letter is...
ROM
Uh...uh...
ODO
Skip to the last letter in the name,
Rom...
ROM
"O!" It's an "O."
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT THREE 30.
33 CONTINUED: (3)
ODO
Starts with a "C," ends with an "O."
ROM
And... and... there's a mark in the
name...
ODO
An apostrophe...
Rom opens his eyes.
ROM
Ches'so!
ODO
You're sure?
ROM
Yes. Maybe.
ODO
Maybe.
ROM
It's something like Ches'so. I think.
34 INT. PROMENADE
Odo and Rom come out of the security office... Odo has a
small PADD... somewhere during the following a couple of
young children will be running happily, with glop on a
stick...
ODO
Call me day or night if you remember
something else...
Rom moves down the Promenade... Odo watches him go a beat...
Kira moves beside him...
KIRA
Anything?
Odo hands her the PADD...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT THREE 31.
35 INSERT - THE PADD
shows the name "CHES'SO"...
KIRA (O.S.)
Ches'so...
36 RESUME
ODO
Might be the first name on the list.
Remember anyone from those days on
the station with that name?
KIRA
No, but I wasn't here very long.
There's private humor between them in that statement.
ODO
So I recall.
KIRA
(beat)
We've never talked about it.
ODO
We never had to.
KIRA
I would have been executed.
ODO
You were innocent of the crime I was
investigating.
KIRA
That wouldn't have mattered to the
Cardassians.
ODO
It mattered to me.
And as they walk out of frame, we HEAR the sound of an iron
gate closing... overlapping as we...
CUT TO:
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT THREE 32.
37 INT. PROMENADE (FLASHBACK) - ON THE GATE
sealing the ghetto off... the Cardassian guards closing it
behind some ragged Bajoran workers... children here, hang
onto the fence and peer outside, wondering about the other
side...
38 ANGLE - AT THE SOUP KITCHEN
as before... close on Kira at her seated position... alone,
thoughtful...
ODO (O.S.)
Do you mind if I join you?
As she looks up, move to reveal Odo sitting... she doesn't
choose to say anything, keeps to herself... and this is not
a compliment but an opening gambit --
ODO
A pretty girl like you shouldn't be
eating alone.
Not looking at him...
KIRA
I don't do whatever it is you want.
Not for money. Not for food.
And she's just hit Odo's most vulnerable spot - that male-
female area... it throws him... awkwardly --
ODO
No, you misunderstand... I'm sorry,
of course I can see how you could...
let me start over...
KIRA
Are you some kind of a security
officer?
ODO
(taken aback again)
How did you know that?
KIRA
You are, aren't you.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - 09/16/93 - ACT THREE 33.
38 CONTINUED:
ODO
Unofficially, I suppose that's true.
KIRA
"Unofficially?" What does that mean?
ODO
Gul Dukat asked me to investigate
the murder of a Bajoran man named
Vaatrik. I understand you knew him.
KIRA
(not trying to lie
well)
Who says I did...
Odo turns to motion toward Pallra who is standing several
yards away, across the thoroughfare...
ODO
His widow.
Kira looks at her, makes eye contact, ice forms along the
eye line and after a beat, Pallra turns and marches away...
KIRA
I suppose she told you I killed him...
ODO
Did you?
KIRA
(sincere, in the eyes)
No.
ODO
On the contrary, you were in love
with him.
KIRA
(beat, curious)
No.
Odo's expectations are again shaken.
ODO
But he was in love with you.
KIRA
No.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/22/93 - ACT THREE 34.
38 CONTINUED: (2)
ODO
It doesn't sound like much of a
romance.
KIRA
We weren't having a romance.
ODO
Then, why would he tell his wife you
were?
KIRA
(with irony)
You'll have to ask him.
ODO
(threatening)
If you were having an affair, I
promise you I'll find out about it.
KIRA
All you're going to find is that
I've been here for two weeks. I met
the man just after I arrived. He
had Pyrellian ginger tea... I don't
know where he managed to get it.
But I like ginger tea. We got to be
friends. Maybe he was attracted to
me. It never went anywhere.
ODO
You're suggesting this affair was
all in his head.
KIRA
Or she's lying to you. She rarely
tells the truth.
ODO
How do you know that?
KIRA
He told me.
ODO
What else did he tell you?
KIRA
More than you ever want to know about
the life of a chemist.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/22/93 - ACT THREE 34A.
38 CONTINUED: (3)
A beat as Odo measures her...
KIRA
Why do you think Dukat wanted you on
this investigation?
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT THREE 35.
38 CONTINUED: (4)
ODO
I'm sure he had good reasons.
KIRA
Why not his own security people?
ODO
No Bajoran would talk to them.
KIRA
That's never stopped the Cardassians
before. They have ways of getting
information.
(Odo doesn't know)
Something to think about.
ODO
Where were you last night?
KIRA
At the bar... I heard the Ferengi
are allowed to hire some Bajorans
for the dog work. Better than the
mines.
ODO
You haven't spent any time in the
mines.
KIRA
How do you know that?
ODO
Your hands.
KIRA
You're not bad at this... you're
right, my last job was in a replicator
plant on Bajor.
ODO
You're not allowed to quit those
jobs. What happened?
KIRA
I hit a supervisor... who tried what
I thought you were trying a few
minutes ago.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT THREE 35A.
38 CONTINUED: (5)
ODO
I appreciate your restraint this
time.
(she grins)
You're not planning on leaving the
station soon...
KIRA
If I were, would you have the
Cardassians stop me?
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - 09/16/93 - ACT THREE 36.
38 CONTINUED: (6)
ODO
Yes.
KIRA
Then, I'm not planning on leaving
the station soon.
Odo rises...
KIRA
I'll tell you something...
He looks down at her...
KIRA
(continuing)
"Unofficially" or not, you're working
for the Cardassians. Sooner or later,
you're going to have to decide whose
side your on.
ODO
I don't choose "sides."
KIRA
Everybody has to choose sides...
Constable.
Odo studies her... walks away... on her face as she watches
him go...
39 INT. HABITAT CORRIDOR
Odo comes out of a turbolift... moves down the corridor...
stops at a corner as he hears voices:
PALLRA (O.S.)
Goodnight.
GUL DUKAT (O.S.)
Trust me. You have nothing to worry
about.
Odo peeks around the corner to see Gul Dukat is standing at
Pallra's door... kissing her... Odo moves back behind the
wall, reacting.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT THREE 37.
40 ANGLE - ON DUKAT AND PALLRA
as they break their kiss, Dukat smiles and she goes inside...
he walks toward Odo, turns the corner and as he passes where
Odo used to be, there is now a picture on the wall of Dukat
and it's crooked... he walks by it, then stops, looks
curiously at the picture, straightens it and leaves.
41 ANGLE - ON PALLRA'S DOOR
Odo arrives and presses the chime... the door opens and Pallra
appears with a very personal smile, expecting that Dukat has
come back for something... her face changes perceptibly as she
sees Odo...
ODO
There were just a few more
questions...
PALLRA
I was... just about to take a bath...
ODO
I could come back later...
PALLRA
No... no, that's all right, come
in...
And as he enters and the door slides shut... END FLASHBACK
AS:
42 INT. PALLRA'S LIVING ROOM
The power is back on...
PALLRA
I don't know what you're talking
about.
ODO
You knew nothing about a list.
PALLRA
Nothing.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT THREE 38.
42 CONTINUED:
ODO
Why would your husband have hidden a
list of Bajoran names?
PALLRA
I can't imagine why. Are you sure
it was him?
ODO
No.
PALLRA
Maybe the Cardassians put it there.
Before they left.
ODO
Someone on Bajor told Quark where to
find it.
PALLRA
I wish I could help. I sort of liked
that little Ferengi.
ODO
Don't write his eulogy yet. He's
still with us.
PALLRA
I thought you said...
ODO
He was shot. At point blank range.
The Federation doctor saved his life.
PALLRA
Good for him.
ODO
Does the name "Ches'so" mean anything
to you?
PALLRA
I don't think so. Who is it?
ODO
Just someone I'd like to talk to.
She shakes her head, playing dumb. Odo, rises and moves to
the door...
ODO
Thank you for seeing me.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT THREE 39.
42 CONTINUED: (2)
PALLRA
If this has anything to do with my
husband's murder, I want to help in
any way I can.
Odo pauses...
ODO
Oh, there was one other thing... I
understand your power was recently
terminated for lack of payment.
She barely stiffens.
PALLRA
That's right.
ODO
But you were able to transfer funds
to the power company this morning.
PALLRA
(charming, not harsh)
I don't appreciate your looking into
my private affairs.
ODO
It's just part of a routine
investigation. If you could tell me
where you got the money.
PALLRA
A loan from a friend.
ODO
Of course. Your friend's name?
PALLRA
(smiles)
Odo, this really has nothing to do
with your investigation...
ODO
(smiles as best he
can)
Good, then you won't mind giving me
the name.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT THREE 40.
42 CONTINUED: (3)
PALLRA
I'm sorry. My "friend" is... married.
I won't drag him into this.
Odo thinks about pursuing it, doesn't, nods, EXITS. We stay
a beat on her face and...
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT THREE
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FOUR 41.
ACT FOUR
FADE IN:
43 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
44 INT. INFIRMARY - CLOSE ON QUARK'S UNCONSCIOUS FACE
attached to life support systems...
ODO (V.O.)
Security Log, supplemental. The
Ferengi holds on to life like it's
gold-pressed latinum.
45 REVERSE ANGLE - ODO
studying him... Bashir moves beside him...
BASHIR
The next several hours will tell the
story... we've done everything we
can for him...
Odo just stares at him, thoughtfully going over the events
in his head...
ODO (V.O.)
Maybe he just doesn't want his brother
to get the bar. Or maybe he knows
he's the only real witness I have.
Kira ENTERS... holding a PADD...
KIRA
I've got some good news and some bad
news.
She hands Odo a PADD for his scrutiny, as:
KIRA
(continuing)
I think I've found our Ches'so.
46 INSERT - PADD - A PHOTOGRAPH OF A MAN
Identified as "Ches'sarro Seeto" with an address: 14120
Paddock, Section Fourteen, N.P.
ODO (O.S.)
Who is he?
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FOUR 41A.
47 RESUME
KIRA
A Bajoran mining engineer... he's
been very active in charity work for
the war orphans...
ODO
What makes you think he's our man?
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FOUR 42.
47 CONTINUED:
KIRA
Some connections from my past
suggested he might be. His work
brought him to the station a lot.
Odo studies her closely... something doesn't add up here for
him... it will later.
KIRA
The bad news is he's dead.
(Odo reacts)
Drowned in a pond on his property
last night.
Odo is stunned by this revelation... turns, lets it sink
in...
ODO
I'm responsible...
KIRA
How?
ODO
I mentioned the name "Ches'so" to
the Vaatrik woman. If she recognized
it as "Ches'saro," and thought he
might lead us to her...
(hits his combadge)
Security to the Infirmary.
SECURITY COM VOICE
Acknowledged.
ODO
Major, I need some help. Advise the
Medical Examiner that I want a
complete autopsy on Ches'sarro, and
that his death is to be treated as a
suspected homicide. I'll need the
communication records for the Vaatrik
home for the past fifty-two hours...
and have the central bank keep a
supervisor on duty all night... I'll
need several bank records as well...
KIRA
Whose?
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/22/93 - ACT FOUR 43.
47 CONTINUED: (2)
ODO
I don't know yet.
She acknowledges with curiosity and EXITS... as a Bajoran
security GUARD ENTERS...
ODO
I want round the clock armed security
on Quark. No visitors.
GUARD
Yessir.
He pauses one last time to look at Quark...
48 QUARK CLOSE UP
Unconscious. Odo EXITS. BEGIN FLASHBACK AS:
49 INT. QUARK'S - ON QUARK LAUGHING, BEHIND THE BAR
chatting up a couple of Cardassians...
QUARK
Stop by one of the holosuites...
two programs for the price of one.
50 REVERSE ANGLE - ODO AT THE DOOR
looking at Quark and as he moves in, we see Quark's as it
appeared during the occupation... a club essentially for
Cardassians, Ferengi waiters and a few Bajorans doing the
cleaning up of tables and floors...
ODO
I'm looking for the proprietor of
this establishment.
QUARK
(tries to place him)
Does he owe you money?
ODO
No.
QUARK
Are you here to arrest him?
ODO
No.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/22/93 - ACT FOUR 44.
50 CONTINUED:
QUARK
Then you've found him. Quark. At
your service.
(glass on the bartop)
First drink on the house. An old
and dreadful Cardassian tradition.
What'll you have.
ODO
I don't drink.
QUARK
A soft drink then...
ODO
I don't drink.
Quark blinks a surprised reaction... puts the glass away...
QUARK
I guess that's why we don't see you
around here much...
ODO
I'd like to ask you a few questions
about the death of the Bajoran
chemist...
QUARK
Wait a minute... you're the shape-
shifter... you're the one who's
working for Dukat...
ODO
I'm not working for Dukat.
(beat, of course he
is and he knows it)
I'm just trying to solve a murder.
QUARK
No, I've heard about you... you do
some Cardassian neck trick, am I
right?
ODO
Not anymore.
QUARK
That could go over big in this room...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FOUR 45.
50 CONTINUED: (2)
ODO
I'm checking the alibi of a young
Bajoran woman, red hair, named Kira
Nerys... she says she was here last
night...
QUARK
Yeah, I remember her. She wanted a
job.
ODO
How long was she here?
QUARK
Long enough.
ODO
Long enough for what?
QUARK
You know.
ODO
No, I don't. Why don't you tell me.
QUARK
She was showing me... her initiative.
ODO
Is that some sort of sexual reference?
QUARK
(smiles)
These jobs are hard to come by. Her
credentials were very impressive.
Odo grabs Quark and pulls him halfway across the bar, spilling
drinks... several bystanders stop what they're doing and
stare at the outburst...
QUARK
Hey, listen... listen here, what's
the problem...
ODO
The problem is... you're lying.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FOUR 46.
50 CONTINUED: (3)
QUARK
You've got me all wrong.
ODO
I want the truth... or I'll just
turn you over to Gul Dukat and he
can get it for me...
QUARK
Okay, fine... I didn't realize we
were dealing with a murder here...
she didn't pay me enough for that
anyway...
Odo lets him down and the crowd goes back to what it was
doing...
ODO
She paid you for an alibi?
(Quark shrugs an
acknowledgement)
I wonder how Gul Dukat will react
when I tell him about that.
QUARK
(sighs, talking to
someone behind Odo)
I'm sure it'll cost me a case of
Cardassian ale.
GUL DUKAT (O.S.)
Two cases at the very least.
51 ANGLE - DUKAT
(who has entered from the door), moves to join them at the
bar...
GUL DUKAT
A broken alibi. That sounds like
progress. Is there someone you want
me to arrest?
ODO
Not yet.
GUL DUKAT
But soon. I need a name, Odo.
ODO
(sharp)
You'll get your name when I'm certain
it's the right name.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FOUR 47.
51 CONTINUED:
Dukat glances at Quark, laughs...
GUL DUKAT
Listen to how he speaks to me, Quark.
You're not afraid of anyone, are
you, shape-shifter? Not even me.
(Odo looks at him
evenly)
I was right about you... you are the
man for this job.
Quark looks to let bygones be bygones with Odo...
QUARK
Listen, I feel you and I... we've
gotten off to a bad start here...
let me make it up to you... you need
anything? A little ginger tea, no,
you don't drink...
As Odo reacts, appalled by this creature...
QUARK
(continuing)
Chocolate, maybe... companionship... ?
Dukat laughs and Quark looks at him, laughs too... We hear
others begin to join in the laughter... AND THE FLASHBACK
ENDS as we CUT TO:
51A ANGLE - A GROUP OF QUARK'S CUSTOMERS
laughing (melding with the sounds from the past to appear
continuous)... Pan to Sisko and Dax at a table... looking
toward the bar.
SISKO
You look like you just lost your
best friend, Constable.
52 REVERSE ANGLE
to see Odo moving to them, unusually grim and disconcerted,
carrying a PADD...
DAX
Is Quark...
ODO
Quark is stable.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FOUR 48.
52 CONTINUED:
He hands the PADD wordlessly to Sisko... takes a position
at the bar...
SISKO
What's this?
53 INSERT - THE PADD
Eight Bajoran names starting with Ches'sarro Seeto.
ODO
The list.
54 RESUME
DAX
You found it?
ODO
No, I assembled it. From the Vaatrik
woman's communication records. She's
been talking to each of these people
a lot. Odd thing is she'd never
talked to any of them... until two
days ago.
SISKO
When the list was stolen.
ODO
Interestingly, every one of them
transferred exactly one hundred
thousand Bajoran litas into her bank
accounts during the last twenty-six
hours...
SISKO
Blackmail?
ODO
Blackmail.
SISKO
What did they have to hide?
ODO
For one thing, that they had come
out of the occupation with this kind
of money...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FOUR 49.
54 CONTINUED:
DAX
You think they were working with the
Cardassians...
ODO
(acknowledges)
Selling out their own world for a
profit. Collaborators. Not even a
Ferengi would do that.
(beat, grim)
It explains a lot of things.
SISKO
Do you have enough to charge her?
ODO
Not yet. I'd like to bring her in
for questioning. With your
permission, I'll have the local
Bajoran authorities transport her
here...
Sisko nods his approval... and Odo EXITS... as he does we
find --
55 TRAZKO - AT A TABLE
He finishes his drink; unobtrusively EXITS. Hold on his
receding figure, until we...
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT FOUR
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FIVE 50.
ACT FIVE
FADE IN:
A56 INT. PROMENADE - NIGHT LIGHTING - WIDE SHOT
seeing the figure of Odo looking down at the last people on
the Promenade... the last shop's lights going out... and a
slow PUSH IN to him...
ODO (V.O.)
Nobody ever had to teach me the
"Justice Trick." That's just
something I know. A racial memory
from my species, I guess. It's really
the only clue I have to what kind of
people they are. Are these kinds of
thoughts appropriate for a Starfleet
log? I don't care.
56 INT. SECURITY OFFICE
Lights are low -- as Odo ENTERS; moves to his chair... places
his hand on the top of its backrest; looking down at it...
ODO (V.O.)
(beat, sighs)
There's no room in Justice for loyalty
or friendship or love... Justice,
as the humans like to say, is blind.
I used to believe that. I'm not
sure I can anymore.
He turns and looks to --
57 FLASHBACK BEGINS - CLOSE ON KIRA
sitting in the old security/storage area... already on the
defensive...
KIRA
Yes, I lied about my alibi... but
that doesn't make me a killer...
ODO
Where were you when he was murdered?
KIRA
Asleep. Alone.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FIVE 50A.
57 CONTINUED:
ODO
No one saw you in the community
quarters.
KIRA
I wasn't there... I've found a small
corner in the...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FIVE 51-51A.
57 CONTINUED: (2)
ODO
You're lying.
KIRA
(in trouble, struggling)
I...
ODO
Don't bother... your whole face
changes... I should have seen it
before... you don't lie well...
Silent.
KIRA
(softly, rueful)
Thanks.
ODO
So why don't you start telling the
truth.
Beat.
KIRA
(dark, still soft,
almost to herself)
Whose side are you going to be on,
Constable... ?
ODO
I'm not going to play your game.
KIRA
Once I tell you the truth, you'll
have to choose.
ODO
No. No, that's why I was given this
job. That's why all of you always
come to me with problems. I'm the
outsider. I'm on no one's side.
All I'm interested in is justice.
If you're innocent, you'll go free.
If you're not, I'll turn you over to
Cardassian authorities. That's the
only choice here.
KIRA
(sighs)
I didn't kill him. When he was killed
I was on Level Twenty-one...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FIVE 52.
57 CONTINUED: (3)
ODO
(reacts)
Twenty-one? Ore processing?
KIRA
Check the Cardassian security logs.
You'll find a breach on Twenty-one
last night...
Odo reacts, goes to his small computer console... and presses
a few panels...
KIRA
I'm in the Bajoran underground. I
came here to commit acts of sabotage
against the Cardassians. Last night,
I succeeded.
Reacting off his console --
ODO
The ore processor was damaged by a
sub-nucleonic device at twenty-five
hundred hours last night... it's
out of operation for two weeks...
KIRA
That'll give the mine workers a little
time off at least. I'll describe
the device I used if you still don't
believe me.
ODO
(realizing)
That's why you needed an alibi from
Quark...
KIRA
None of this will matter to the
Cardassians if you tell them the
truth. I'll be executed for the
sabotage. Who cares about Bajorans
killing Bajorans when you can hang a
rebel...
Suddenly, the doors open and Dukat ENTERS...
GUL DUKAT
Is this her?
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FIVE 53.
57 CONTINUED: (4)
ODO
I told you when I have the...
GUL DUKAT
Is this her.
And there is no more neutrality... it's time for Odo to choose
sides... A beat...
ODO
No.
Dukat turns and looks sharply at Odo...
ODO
(to Kira)
You can go.
Kira rises and leaves. Dukat grabs her arm and stops her.
GUL DUKAT
If you're lying, shape-shifter...
ODO
If you know as much about me as you
say you do, Dukat... you know I don't
lie. I'm convinced that she did not
kill Vaatrik.
A beat. Odo and Dukat's eyes lock. He finally lets her
go. She EXITS without looking back. After a beat, Dukat
leaves too... and the FLASHBACK ENDS as
58 REVERSE ANGLE - ON ODO
CLOSEUP to reveal him grim and alone in his modern Security
Office.
59 INT. INFIRMARY (OPTICAL)
Again, low light -- but this one illuminating the unconscious
Quark, who's still laid out under life support. A noise
(o.s.), and CAMERA PANS to discover Trazko ENTERING, carrying
a bouquet of flowers.
TRAZKO
Is it too late for visitors?
GUARD
I'm sorry, sir... no visitors are
permitted here.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FIVE 54.
59 CONTINUED:
TRAZKO
Oh, I see. Then, perhaps you could
just put these in water for him.
GUARD
Of course...
And Trazko hands the guard the flowers and gives a quick
little extra shove... the guard looks curiously down at his
stomach as the flowers fall out of hands, exposing the knife
in his belly... he crumples slowly to the floor...
60 ANGLE - TRAZKO
moves to the bed and shuts off the life support... takes a
pillow and begins to put it over Quark's face...
61 ROM
... arrives at the doorway, takes a step inside; reacts, sees
the Guard on the floor, his mouth falls open...
62 ANGLE - ROM & TRAZKO
Trazko looks back, sees him... and lunges at the wide-eyed
Ferengi... as Rom begins to make those dreadfully shrill
Ferengi shrieks from "Invasive Procedures"... Trazko grabs
him, but the little guy is all hands and legs like a screaming
child... finally pushes himself away, crashing into a stand
of medical equipment placed against the wall. The medical
equipment is sent loudly all over the place. Trazko realizes
that he has to get out of there, but his way is blocked by
Odo and another security man arriving... and onlookers behind
them. Trazko hesitates for barely a second, and Odo grabs
him and presses him against the wall... the other security
guard goes to check the wounded guard... Rom is continuing
to shriek throughout all this... Odo manages to hit his
combadge...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FIVE 55.
62 CONTINUED:
ODO
Odo to Bashir. Report immediately
to the Infirmary.
BASHIR
On my way.
ODO
(to the shrieking Rom)
It's over, Rom. Over. You're a
hero.
ROM
(stops shrieking)
I am?
ODO
You saved your brother's life.
Rom looks at Quark, breathing evenly in bed... realizes he
just lost having the bar, starts to shriek again...
63 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
64 INT. HOLDING CELL AREA
On Trazko...
PALLRA (O.S.)
I've never seen him before in my
life.
65 NEW ANGLE (OPTICAL)
to see Kira and Odo flanking Pallra by the cell...
ODO
Really. Your communications records
show you've made several calls to
his home. And received several as
well.
KIRA
You also transferred a large sum of
money into his account two days ago.
PALLRA
I want to confer with my advocate.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FIVE 56.
65 CONTINUED:
ODO
Of course. I'll make arrangements
for you to speak with him. In the
meantime, the two of you can introduce
yourselves to one another.
Odo turns off the forcefield to the second cell and Kira
begins to usher her in. Pallra shrugs her away, looks coldly
at Kira -- don't you dare touch me... she walks into the
cell and Odo puts the forcefield back on.
PALLRA
(staring at Kira)
I don't care what you think you know,
shape-shifter. You'll never be able
to prove that I killed my husband.
Because I didn't.
66 KIRA & ODO
ODO JUST STANDS THERE, BEFORE:
ODO
(beat; quietly)
I know.
Kira turns to look at him upon hearing this.
67 INT. SECURITY OFFICE
Odo comes in from lockup, followed a beat later by Kira. A
beat of silence. They don't look at each a lot in this scene.
Finally, softly...
KIRA
When did you realize?
ODO
The possibility occurred to me when
you got the name Ches'sarro so
quickly... Your friends from the
underground must have already
suspected him of being a
collaborator...
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/20/93 - ACT FIVE 57.
67 CONTINUED:
She just nods...
ODO
(continuing)
Once I knew the eight names were a
list of collaborators... the murder
of Vaatrik made sense for the first
time. He must have been a
collaborator too. He had the money
for ginger tea. He had the private
quarters. I've never had a motive
for his murder until now. He kept
his wife in relative luxury. She
surely wouldn't have killed him.
So, who would kill a Cardassian
collaborator? Someone in the Bajoran
underground, of course.
A painful beat for Kira.
KIRA
One of my colleagues was given the
job to sabotage the ore processor.
Vaatrik was my responsibility.
ODO
You were here to execute him.
KIRA
No.
(with irony)
I was here to find the list. The
names of the Bajorans who were selling
us out. We'd been informed that
Vaatrik was their direct link to
Dukat.
ODO
... That must have been why Dukat
chose me to investigate. He had to
stay as far away from this incident
as he could... so he wouldn't endanger
his network of Bajoran sympathizers.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FIVE 57A.
67 CONTINUED: (2)
KIRA
Obviously, I never found the list.
But that's what I was looking for in
the shop when he walked in on me. I
didn't have any choice.
A beat.
ODO
I misjudged you, Major. You were a
better liar than I gave you credit
for.
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - REV. 09/17/93 - ACT FIVE 58.
67 CONTINUED: (3)
KIRA
You were working for the Cardassians.
ODO
I haven't been for more than a year.
You've had all that time to tell me
the truth.
She looks down now at the floor... devoid of all but her
anguish, as:
KIRA
(very softly;
defenseless)
I tried to tell you the truth a
hundred times. What you think of
me... matters a lot. I was afraid...
ODO
... it might affect our friendship?
She looks at him, nods. Odo looks at her... and a part him
just sighs, a part of him is angry, a part of him wants to
put his arm around her and comfort her... the best he can
do, in the most gentle voice he can muster...
ODO
Maybe it doesn't have to.
She smiles, grateful... but then takes it one step too far...
KIRA
(almost a throwaway)
Will you ever be able to trust me
the same way again?
Odo looks at her evenly... the answer this particular man
tells himself is... no... and we hold for a long beat...
CUT TO:
DEEP SPACE: "Necessary Evil" - 09/16/93 - ACT FIVE 59.
68 BLACK
for the final credit and...
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT FIVE
THE END 57 INSERT - THE OKUDAGRAM (OPTICAL)
A beat, the three symbols representing the ships closer now...
then the graphic representing the Skrreean vessel suddenly
BRIGHTENS... and disappears...
58 RESUME SCENE (OPTICAL)
Haneek stiffens, grasps Sisko's arm, as if she herself has
been struck... Sisko holds her...
KIRA
Interceptor One... ?
PILOT'S COM VOICE
The Skrreean ship exploded.
(beat)
I didn't even think we hit it...
O'BRIEN
(grimly, to Sisko)
The phaser beam must've ignited the
radiation leak...
Still on the viewscreen, General Hazar looks saddened...
HAZAR
Commander... I'm so sorry...
SISKO
We all are, General...
Kira turns to Haneek... the two women look at each other...
there's nothing Kira can say... she feels Haneek's pain...
Haneek squares her shoulders, eyes Kira coldly... as if her
anger and pain fuses into her backbone... giving her an
emotionally charged, if icy strength...
58AA EXT. SPACE STATION (OPTICAL)
Re-establishing.
58A INT. DOCKING RING AIRLOCK
A stoic Haneek directs a procession of Skrreea through the
airlock door to a docked Skrreean vessel. Gai and Cowl wait
for her nearby. Several Federation and Bajoran security
guards help oversee the operation.
58B ANGLE - KIRA
as she approaches. Haneek sees her. A beat.
58B CONTINUED:
KIRA
(simply)
I just came by to wish you luck on
Draylon Two.
Haneek nods sadly.
KIRA
(continuing)
Haneek, I still believe this is the
best choice... for Bajor and for
you.
HANEEK
And you believe we would have been a
burden to your people...
KIRA
(a long beat)
Yes.
HANEEK
(nods; it's the answer
she expected)
I think you've made a terrible
mistake. All of you. Maybe we could
have helped you. Maybe we could
have helped each other. The Skrreeans
are farmers, Kira. You have a famine
on your planet. We might have made
that peninsula bloom again. We'll
never know, will we?
Kira nods... tries to think of the right thing to say.
HANEEK
(continuing)
Fifty years of Cardassian rule has
made you all frightened and
suspicious.
(beat)
I feel sorry for you.
58B CONTINUED: (2)
HANEEK
(beat; coldly)
You were right. Bajor is not
Kentanna.
Haneek turns and enters the Skrreean ship, leaving Kira
standing alone and feeling alone, as she ponders Haneek's
last words...
59
thru OMITTED
67
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT FIVE
THE END