STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"The Passenger"
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Story by
Morgan Gendel
Teleplay by
Morgan Gendel
and
Robert Hewitt Wolfe & Michael Piller
Directed by
Paul Lynch
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NOVEMBER 25, 1992
STAR TREK: DS9 - "The Passenger" 11/25/92 - CAST
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"The Passenger"
CAST
BENJAMIN SISKO KAJADA
KIRA NERYS VANTIKA
ODO DURG
QUARK
JULIAN BASHIR
JADZIA DAX
COMPUTER VOICE
PRIMMIN
SECURITY VOICE (O.C.)
Non-Speaking Non-Speaking
2 FERENGI 2 BAJORANS
N.D. CREWMEMBER NORKOVA CAPTAIN
MAINTENANCE CREW NORKOVA HELMSMAN
SUPERNUMARIES NORKOVA CARGO OFFICER
STAR TREK: DS9 - "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - SETS
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"The Passenger"
SETS
INTERIORS EXTERIORS
DEEP SPACE NINE DEEP SPACE NINE
PROMENADE
OPS NORKOVA
COMMANDER'S OFFICE
SECURITY OFFICE RUNABOUT
QUARK'S
INFIRMARY THE WORMHOLE
CORRIDOR
LAB
ODO'S OFFICE
STASIS ROOM
KOBLIAD TRANSPORT
CORRIDOR
HOLDING CELL
NORKOVA
BRIDGE
RUNABOUT
STAR TREK: DS9 - "The Passenger" - 11/30/92 - PRONUNCIATION
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"The Passenger"
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
DEURIDIUM der-IHD-ee-um
DURG DURG
KOBLIAD KOE-blee-ad
NORKOVA Nor-KOE-vuh
PRIMMIN PRIH-muhn
RAKTAJINO ROCK-ta-GEE-no
RAO VANTIKA RAY-oe VAN-ti-kuh
REYAB REE-yab
TY KAJADA TIE kuh-JAH-duh
BAILIWICK BAY-leh-wick
GLIAL GLEE-uhl
CEREBROSPINAL suh-REE-broe-SPY-nuhl
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - TEASER 1.
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"The Passenger"
TEASER
FADE IN:
1 EXT. SPACE - RUNABOUT (OPTICAL)
The Runabout Rio Grande cruises through empty space.
2 INT. RUNABOUT
KIRA is at the controls. BASHIR is working on a PADD...
preparing a medical report... after a beat, Kira pushes
herself into saying with admiration...
KIRA
I've never seen anything like that.
BASHIR
(working)
Hmm?
KIRA
(repeating)
I've never seen anything like that.
BASHIR
The woman?
KIRA
She was dead... the tricorder clearly
showed...
BASHIR
Ah yes, well tricorders... very
accurate with live people, not so
accurate with dead ones... we learn
that in the first year of medical
school...
Trying very hard to give him a compliment...
KIRA
Well, I was impressed, Doctor.
BASHIR
(working)
Hmmm. And well you should be.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 12/09/92 - TEASER 2.
2 CONTINUED:
That leaves her mouth open... and now he gets quite expansive
about himself... given the opportunity...
BASHIR
I impressed myself on this one
actually. I can't imagine what other
Doctor would even consider examining
the scapular nodes for parasitic
infection. I just seem to have a
talent. A vision that sees past the
obvious, around the mundane... right
to the target. Fate has granted me
a special gift, Major. A gift to be
a healer.
And now her mouth is dragging on the floor...
KIRA
(what an ass)
I feel privileged to be in your
presence.
BASHIR
(the sport)
Glad to have you along.
Luckily for him, a warning light flashes on the console.
COMPUTER VOICE
Detecting a priority one broad band
distress signal.
Kira and Bashir are instantly all business. She presses
some panels... the audio message comes through a little
distorted, but intelligible. The voice on the message is
female and belongs to TY KAJADA, whom we will meet soon.
KAJADA (O.S)
Kobliad transport Reyab to any
ship. Our central power linkage
has exploded. We're losing life
support. Please respond...
Bashir consults a console.
BASHIR
Just picking it up on long range
sensors. Bearing three four seven
mark zero eight.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 12/09/92 - TEASER 2A.
2 CONTINUED: (2)
KIRA
(pressing information
into panels, then
checking)
I'm reading massive energy leakage...
its aft structural integrity field
is failing...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 12/09/92 - TEASER 3.
2 CONTINUED: (3)
Kira lays in a new course and activates the Runabout's
subspace radio.
KIRA
(to com)
This is the Federation Ship Rio
Grande. We're on our way.
3 EXT. SPACE (OPTICAL)
The Runabout alters course and moves away.
4 INT. KOBLIAD TRANSPORT - CORRIDOR (OPTICAL)
A smoke-filled hallway... a Kobliad woman (KAJADA) dressed
in a military type uniform is unconscious on the floor...
she's burned slightly... Bashir and Kira BEAM IN. They
immediately feel the effect of falling life support... hard
to breathe... They take tricorder readings.
BASHIR
O-2 pressure dropping rapidly...
toxic gas levels rising... we have
no more than ten minutes breathing
time left in here...
KIRA
Automatic fire suppression must be
off-line. I'll check the central
power linkage...
She moves through the corridor and EXITS... Bashir moves to
Kajada... examines her with his tricorder... she moves with
a start at his touch...
BASHIR
Relax. I'm a doctor...
He shoots Kajada with a hypospray from his medkit. Kajada
slowly comes around.
KAJADA
(groggy)
What happened?
BASHIR
You lost consciousness.
(a beat)
We've got to evacuate your ship.
How many others are on board?
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 12/09/92 - TEASER 3A.
4 CONTINUED:
KAJADA
(struggling to maintain
consciousness)
The pilot... is dead...
Bashir is already looking at his tricorder which leads him
to a door near Kajada...
BASHIR
I'm reading another lifeform...
KAJADA
No... don't open that...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - TEASER 4.
4 CONTINUED:
Bashir ignores her warning, presses the panel... it doesn't
open the door...
BASHIR
It's sealed...
KAJADA
Prisoner... I'm transporting... he
started the fire... to escape...
BASHIR
He's dying. Where's the manual
override...
KAJADA
No...
Bashir scans the hallway... moves down the hallway to a
panel... opens it and hits a padd... the door slides open...
flames shoot out into the corridor... Bashir braves them to
go inside... Kajada driven by her own determination gets to
her feet and follows...
KAJADA
Don't...
5 INT. KOBLIAD TRANSPORT - HOLDING CELL
A small room, full of fire and smoke. A Kobliad male (RAO
VANTIKA) is collapsed on the floor. He is badly burned,
barely alive. Bashir opens his medkit and goes to work.
KAJADA
He's... dangerous.
BASHIR
I assure you, in this condition,
he's no threat to anyone.
Kira runs in from the corridor with a 24th century fire
extinguisher...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 12/09/92 - TEASER 5.
5 CONTINUED:
KIRA
Power linkages are completely shot...
maneuvering subsystems are out...
I've managed to stabilize the
structural integrity field, but I
don't know how long that will last...
we'll have to tow it in...
As she shoots nitrogen on the fire, Bashir injects Vantika
with the hypospray, but the criminal remains comatose.
BASHIR
His synaptic fields are dissipating...
I can't get a neural reading... I
have to get him to the emergency
unit in the Runabout.
KIRA
(nods, hits combadge)
Computer, four to transport...
Suddenly, Vantika reaches out with one hand and grabs Bashir
by the throat. He pulls Bashir down until the two men are
eye to eye. Bashir struggles, trying to pull back from
Vantika's badly burned face.
VANTIKA
(harsh, gravelly voice)
...make... me... live...
Bashir wrestles to free himself from Vantika's vice-like
grip. Kira rushes to the doctor's rescue, but, before they
can do anything, Vantika releases Bashir and slumps to the
ground. Bashir scans Vantika with his tricorder. Touches
his neck. Almost immediately, Kajada slumps and Kira supports
her...
BASHIR
(shakes his head)
This one I can't bring back.
As they exchange a glance...
FADE OUT.
END OF TEASER
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - ACT ONE 6.
ACT ONE
FADE IN:
(NOTE: Episode credits fall over opening scenes.)
6 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
7 INT. INFIRMARY
Close on Ty Kajada's face, her eyes closed. The HISS of a
hypospray can be heard in the background. Kajada's eyes
flutter open. Pull back to take in...
8 BASHIR
looking down at Kajada in concern.
KAJADA
(weakly)
Where am I?
BASHIR
You're on Station D.S. Nine... I'm
Doctor Bashir...
KAJADA
Ty Kajada... Kobliad Security...
(late reaction)
D.S. Nine... but that's where he was
going...
Kajada tries to get up... panicky...
KAJADA
(continuing)
Where is he? Where is Vantika?
BASHIR
Your prisoner? He's dead.
KAJADA
You're certain.
BASHIR
Yes. You were the only survivor.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT ONE 7.
8 CONTINUED:
KAJADA
Where's his body?
BASHIR
I have it in stasis.
KAJADA
I want to see it.
BASHIR
Later, when you're feeling stronger...
KAJADA
Now.
Bashir reacts and...
TIME CUT TO:
9 INT. STASIS ROOM - A BODY CABINET (OPTICAL)
Vantika has been laid out on the shelf... Bashir hits a
button... the shelf slides out of the wall and a stasis
forcefield ZAPS off.
BASHIR
The preliminary examination indicated
that the subject died of a massive
respiratory failure, brought on by
the pulmonary trauma suffered in the
fire.
KAJADA
Are you sure it's the same body?
BASHIR
(a little surprised
at the question)
Quite certain. It's been sealed in
here ever since our arrival.
She picks up a small laser penlight, looks in his eyes...
KAJADA
Have you run a retinal imaging scan?
BASHIR
What for... ?
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - ACT ONE 8.
9 CONTINUED:
KAJADA
To confirm there is no residual
activity in the visual cortex...
BASHIR
Miss Kajada, I assure you he is
dead...
KAJADA
He's faked his death more times than
I can tell you, Doctor. The last
time someone thought he was dead,
they didn't live to regret the
mistake.
She looks around the workstation and casually picks up a
long, narrow-tipped tool.
BASHIR
He was a murderer... ?
KAJADA
That description doesn't do justice
to the horrors he is responsible for
on my world.
(beat, studying him)
He is quite brilliant in his way. A
man of science. Who killed others
to prolong his own life. I've tracked
him for twenty years.
A beat. Then, Kajada takes the tool and plunges it down in
Vantika's chest. Bashir reacts with shock.
KAJADA
(calmly)
Please perform an autopsy. I want
his identity confirmed with a DNA
reference scan.
BASHIR
(still shaken)
Of course.
KAJADA
And have someone scan my ship to
make sure there are no anomalous
life forms on board...
BASHIR
Are you sure that's necessary?
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT ONE 9.
9 CONTINUED: (2)
KAJADA
Very sure.
On her determined look... Bashir reacts and...
10 INT. QUARK'S
On Quark's hand as QUARK places a cup of iced coffee on the
bar.
QUARK
Iced Raktajino. Extra cream.
Pull back to take in...
11 THE WHOLE BAR
DAX takes the cup of Klingon coffee.
DAX
Thank you, Quark.
QUARK
(smitten)
At your service. Day or night.
Dax smiles slightly and walks away with her coffee. Quark
watches her go with a lascivious eye.
QUARK
(an aside)
Poor woman. She's obviously
infatuated with me.
ODO snorts in derision from his usual seat at the end of the
bar. A few yards away, within earshot is LIEUTENANT PRIMMIN,
a Starfleet security officer in his mid-thirties. He has a
friendly face, an easygoing smile and a passing resemblance
to a teddy bear.
ODO
You're deluding yourself.
QUARK
There's nothing wrong with a good
delusion. I sell them upstairs to
dozens of people every day.
(beat)
Besides, there's something in her
eyes when she looks at me.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - ACT ONE 10.
11 CONTINUED:
ODO
An allergic reaction, no doubt.
QUARK
I think she's lonely.
ODO
Dax? She has ten lifetimes of friends
to call on before she calls you.
And every man on the station would
like to be buying her a Raktajino.
QUARK
Ah, but I'm the one with the Raktajino
machine.
ODO
She seems to prefer to spend most of
her time alone... which I understand
perfectly.
QUARK
Well, then that must make her the
perfect woman for you.
ODO
I wouldn't intrude on her privacy as
some would.
QUARK
You're pathetic. You think everyone
in the galaxy should be as lonely
and miserable as you are.
Quark looks longingly at Dax, who has taken a seat at one of
the tables and is reading from a PADD and sipping her coffee.
QUARK
As hard as it may be for you to
understand, some of us like company.
The sound of a friendly voice. The
sight of a familiar face.
(stares hungrily at
Dax)
The feel of smooth, pliant flesh.
Quark is almost drooling.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - ACT ONE 11.
11 CONTINUED: (2)
ODO
(re: Dax)
Why do you bother?
QUARK
It's good to want things.
ODO
Even things you can't have?
QUARK
Especially things I can't have.
ODO
(casual)
Like the Deuridium shipment?
QUARK
(not a blink,
"innocent," new game)
Deuridium shipment. Is there a
deuridium shipment coming here?
ODO
I'm watching you, Quark.
Moving away... staying with Quark a beat... still looking at
Dax across the room...
QUARK
(sighs, to himself)
And I'm watching you, Jadzia.
12 ANGLE - OVER HIS SHOULDER
At Dax as she looks up and makes eye contact with Quark...
and it's that quick moment with a woman that takes your breath
away... she smiles and looks back down at her PADD...
13 ANGLE - QUARK
feels his heart jump to his throat... as we move to find
Primmin moving to join Odo just before he exits...
14 CLOSER ON ODO AND PRIMMIN
PRIMMIN
Interesting technique.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT ONE 12.
14 CONTINUED:
Odo pauses to see who's addressing him.
PRIMMIN
Do you always get ready for an
important operation by leaking word
about it to the local black market?
Odo looks at Primmin with disapproval.
ODO
The way I handle my business is none
of your concern.
Odo EXITS. Primmin follows.
15 INT. PROMENADE - CONTINUOUS - MOVING WITH THEM
PRIMMIN
I'm afraid it is.
Primmin tries to keep up with Odo.
PRIMMIN
(continuing)
Lieutenant George Primmin. Starfleet
security.
No response from Odo.
PRIMMIN
If you don't mind, I'd like to talk
to you about the deuridium shipment
from the Gamma Quadrant.
ODO
We have nothing to discuss. Security
is already in place.
PRIMMIN
I'd appreciate it if we could go
over it anyway. It took me three
weeks to get here. I'd hate to think
it was for nothing.
ODO
(begrudgingly)
If you insist. Meet me in my office
at seventeen hundred hours.
Odo walks away... Primmin studies him a beat...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT ONE 13.
16 INT. OPS
SISKO, Kira, Dax and Bashir are conferring.
BASHIR
The autopsy revealed nothing out of
the ordinary. Fingerprints, cerebral
cortex scan, and retinal patterns
all match up perfectly with the
records Kajada provided. Vantika
may have faked his death before, but
I don't think he's faking this time.
SISKO
Why was he coming here?
BASHIR
(self-evident)
They're Kobliad.
DAX
(understands
immediately)
The deuridium.
KIRA
I'm sorry... ?
SISKO
The Kobliad is a dying race. They
need deuridium to stabilize their
cell structure. It prolongs their
lifespan...
DAX
The Federation's been working to
supply them with deuridium, but even
the new deposits from the Gamma
Quadrant won't be enough to service
the whole population. It's so scarce,
some of the Kobliad have gone
underground to get it.
KIRA
So he was coming here to hijack the
shipment.
SISKO
Is Kajada satisfied with your autopsy?
BASHIR
I don't think anything's going to
convince her he's dead, Commander.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/01/92 - ACT ONE 14.
16 CONTINUED:
DAX
Vantika has been the focus of Kajada's
attention for most of her adult life.
In a way, they were as intimately
connected as any two people could
be.
SISKO
(a thoughtful beat)
Let's do her the courtesy of granting
her requests as long as they're not
too far out of line. A quick sweep
of her ship isn't too much to ask.
Dax nods and Sisko rises signaling the meeting is ending...
SISKO
I'm more concerned that he might
have had help waiting here to hijack
the shipment.
Over the last line, Primmin is arriving on the Turbolift...
as Sisko sees him...
SISKO
Mister Primmin, good. In my office.
I need to brief you on an unusual
security issue that's been raised...
KIRA
(protecting her own)
I'll get Odo up here...
PRIMMIN
(reacts)
Ah... that's okay, Major. I'll fill
him in later on anything he needs to
know.
He moves toward Sisko's office. Kira doesn't like Odo being
cut out of the briefing, looks to Sisko for a response.
He's noticed Primmin's attitude, but chooses not to give her
one... moves after Primmin into his office.
16A INT. COMMANDER'S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS
SISKO
How are you getting on with Constable
Odo, Lieutenant?
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/02/92 - ACT ONE 14A.
16A CONTINUED:
PRIMMIN
I'm sure he's good at keeping order
down there on the Promenade...
(implied "but")
SISKO
(beat)
But...
PRIMMIN
Frankly, isn't the security of a
deuridium shipment a little over his
head... I mean he was chatting about
it in the bar with that Ferengi
Quark... if I could overhear it, so
could half-dozen others...
SISKO
It's hard to keep a secret in a place
like this, Lieutenant. It's not a
starship...
PRIMMIN
I understand that, but...
SISKO
I'm sure almost everyone knows about
the shipment by now. Odo was probably
making sure Quark knows we know he
knows.
PRIMMIN
(too chummy for a
subordinate)
Well, it's not how we learned it at
the academy, is it, sir. If you
want my opinion...
SISKO
Actually, I don't.
(beat, off Primmin's
take)
You and I are guests of the Bajorans,
Lieutenant. You don't have to forget
what you learned at the academy...
just don't throw it in anyone's face
here. If you're really smart, you
might even learn a few new things
about station security from our
Constable. Clear?
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/02/92 - ACT ONE 14B.
16A CONTINUED: (2)
PRIMMIN
Very clear, sir.
Sisko nods a satisfied acknowledgement... to button the scene
he sits down... as Primmin licks his wounds silently --
SISKO (O.S.)
Now, regarding the shipment, we've
been made aware of a possible Kobliad
plot to hijack the deuridium... you
and Odo ought to have a talk with
Kajada, the Kobliad security officer
who arrived yesterday...
17 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
Stock.
18 INT. ODO'S OFFICE
Primmin ENTERS Odo's office.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT ONE 15.
18 CONTINUED:
PRIMMIN
Before we get started, I want to
apologize for us getting off on the
wrong foot.
ODO
(dismissive)
Think nothing of it.
PRIMMIN
Listen, this is your bailiwick. I
know that. And I don't mean to be
throwing my weight around. No hard
feelings.
He sticks out his hand again.
ODO
(barely warming)
None at all.
This time Odo shakes it.
PRIMMIN
Just because I'm from Starfleet
Security doesn't mean I don't respect
your opinion. How about showing me
what you've got and I'll see if
there's anything we can work with.
ODO
(stiffens)
Lieutenant, you're welcome to see my
plans, but I assure you, I've taken
every precaution regarding the
shipment.
Odo sits, punches up the information on his computer...
ODO
Of course, if you have any
suggestions, I'll be happy to hear
them.
He throws a guarded glance at the Starfleet officer... he
looks back at the computer, reacts... as does Primmin...
ODO
What the...
(presses combadge)
Odo to Ops...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT ONE 16.
18 CONTINUED: (2)
KIRA'S COM VOICE
Go ahead.
ODO
Major, are we having some sort of
computer problem?
19 INT. OPS
Kira is at the Operations Table, consulting the readouts
with concern.
KIRA
Everything in active memory has been
accessed and purged.
20 INT. SECURITY OFFICE
SOUND of a door opening.
ODO
That's impossible.
KAJADA (O.S.)
Oh, it's possible.
Odo and Primmin turn around and see Kajada standing in the
doorway to the Promenade...
KAJADA
Vantika did the exact same thing on
Rigel Seven.
And on Odo's reaction...
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT ONE
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT TWO 17.
ACT TWO
FADE IN:
21 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL) STOCK
22 INT. OPS
The table. Kajada addresses Sisko, Kira, Dax, Bashir, Odo
and Primmin... she is impatient...
KAJADA
I know Vantika. I've learned to
think as he thinks...
BASHIR
(exasperated)
Kajada, our best evidence suggests
Vantika stopped thinking two days
ago...
KAJADA
(calm)
He's alive. And he's on board this
station... and the minute he came on
board, his first thought was to plan
a way to access your security files
on the deuridium shipment... which
is exactly what he's done.
PRIMMIN
Even if he was alive, it doesn't
make sense that he would purge an
entire computer memory to go after a
single file...
ODO
It makes perfect sense.
(off reactions)
Try to access the single file and
you'd be stopped by a dozen different
lock-outs that I put in to protect
it.
KAJADA
But you would never consider locking
out the active memory of your whole
system...
KIRA
That would make it impossible to use
the computers at all...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/03/92 - ACT TWO 18.
22 CONTINUED:
KAJADA
So that's where you're vulnerable.
Dax stands, thoughtful, on the way to her station --
DAX
But how would he gain access?
KAJADA
(a beat, thinking as
Vantika)
In the past, he's used a subspace
shunt attached to a secondary system,
something that runs through the entire
facility but isn't covered by
security.
KIRA
(suggestions)
The lighting controls or maybe the
replicators.
Dax presses some panels... reacts, Kajada's right... she
looks up...
DAX
I'm showing an unauthorized tap into
the computer system at a temperature
control panel... Level twenty-one.
Section ten.
ODO & PRIMMIN
(in unison)
Security to...
They stop a beat to look at each other...
ODO
(stern, finishing)
... to L-twenty-one, S-ten. We're
looking for a subspace crossover
link to the computer system...
SECURITY VOICE
Acknowledged.
KAJADA
Tell them to be careful. Vantika
undoubtably equipped the shunt with
an auto-destruct system.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT TWO 19.
22 CONTINUED: (2)
KIRA
(very curious about
this woman)
You know that for certain... without
even checking.
KAJADA
I know Vantika.
Sisko rises thoughtfully... he's heard enough, tries to make
sense of this... paces...
SISKO
Miss Kajada, I have to admit I'm
having a tough time with your
theory...
KAJADA
Then you're making a fatal mistake.
SISKO
There were three passengers on your
ship... two bodies are in our morgue.
Unless the ghost of Vantika is
wandering our halls...
KAJADA
Don't patronize me, Commander...
SISKO
Isn't it more likely that some
accomplice did this?
And now she rises...
KAJADA
Rao Vantika is obsessed with his own
survival. He's prolonged his life
with drugs, cryogenics, transplants.
As a medical supervisor in a high
security penitentiary, he used
prisoners for illegal experiments in
cellular longevity. He organized
raids on government labs to steal
bio-regenerative research. I promise
you when he started that fire on my
ship, he had a plan to survive. I
don't know what that plan was, but
I'm convinced it succeeded.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - ACT TWO 20.
22 CONTINUED: (3)
She shares a long look with Sisko... finally he turns to
Bashir.
SISKO
Doctor, how soon before we get the
results of the DNA trace?
BASHIR
I sent it to Starfleet Command
yesterday... they'll have to
coordinate with Kobliad security...
I'd guess another twelve hours.
SISKO
(beat)
Until then, we'll operate under the
assumption that Vantika's alive.
He nods, the meeting is over, moves toward his office... Odo
follows him...
ODO
Commander... may I have a word with
you...
Sisko acknowledges and they walk into...
23 INT. COMMANDER'S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS
SISKO
What's on your mind.
ODO
My resignation.
SISKO
You're overreacting.
ODO
Oh, so you already know about this.
SISKO
Lieutenant Primmin mentioned to me
that...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - ACT TWO 21.
23 CONTINUED:
ODO
You asked me to stay in charge of
security when you took command of
this station... I didn't ask you...
SISKO
(warm, disarming)
Constable, no one knows this station
like you do...
ODO
Yes, I've noticed that. "Constable."
Very cute.
SISKO
It's an expression of affection... I
believe Major Kira was the first
to...
ODO
(overlapping)
I don't need anyone's affection. I
do need clear jurisdiction. Or I'm
out.
A long beat as Sisko studies him...
SISKO
I like you, Odo. I like to know
where a man stands. And there's
never any question of that with you.
I need you here. No Starfleet officer
can do the job you do.
ODO
You've got that straight.
SISKO
But you have to realize that Starfleet
is not going to take command of a
station in deep space without
assigning some security to protect
its interests.
ODO
Understandable.
SISKO
You're going to have to work with
Primmin. The two of you have to
find a way to get along.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT TWO 22.
23 CONTINUED: (2)
ODO
Tell that to him.
SISKO
I already have.
ODO
Who's in charge.
SISKO
(beat)
In joint operations like this one,
you are.
ODO
I can live with that arrangement.
And he EXITS. Sisko almost smiles.
24 INT. LAB (VPB)
Sisko ENTERS...
SISKO
What have you got, Dax?
DAX
Not exactly sure, yet. I finished
the sweep of Kajada's ship... no
anomalous readings but I did notice
one odd thing...
SISKO
What's that?
DAX
Somebody tried to break into the
ship's cargo bay.
SISKO
Since it's been docked?
DAX
(acknowledges)
Kira confirmed that there was no
damage to the cargo area when they
brought it in.
SISKO
What do you think they were after?
DAX
This, maybe...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - ACT TWO 23.
24 CONTINUED:
She holds up a small chip... as she puts it into a
reader...
DAX
I found it with Vantika's personal
belongings.
On the monitor... a complex sub-atomic map... with a variety
of equations noted... and a vast array of chemical and
electrical patterns... and complete medical terms...
SISKO
What the hell is it?
DAX
A map. Of a humanoid brain.
Off Sisko's reaction...
25 INT. QUARK'S SECOND FLOOR - NIGHT
The bar is closed... Quark is on his hands and knees,
examining the floor... his eyes catch a gleam and he crawls
over and picks up a coin and puts it in his pocket, shakes
his head... stands...
26 ANGLE LOOKING DOWN
A PAIR OF FERENGI are downstairs straightening up...
QUARK
You call this clean?
They look up and then at each other with fear...
QUARK
I've already found three coins on
the floor up here... who knows what
else there might be... somebody might
have lost some valuable jewelry or
something... fine, never mind, I'll
do it myself... and I'll keep it
myself. Leave...
They scurry away... Quark turns and examines more of the
floor...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - ACT TWO 24.
QUARK
You just can't find good help any
more.
Out of the shadows, from behind him, a dark figure moves and
grabs him from behind, a gloved hand covering the Ferengi's
mouth... he struggles for a beat... as the rasping voice
whispers in his ear...
VANTIKA (O.S.)
Have you made the preparations?
QUARK
Preparations? What preparations?
VANTIKA (O.S.)
The deuridium shipment. You were to
hire mercenaries to help me.
QUARK
Help you...
(beat, gasps)
But. You can't be... Vantika...
VANTIKA (O.S.)
I told you to expect me on this date.
QUARK
Yes, and I contacted some very
reliable soldiers of fortune in
anticipation of your arrival... but
I was told you were dead...
VANTIKA (O.S.)
Almost. But not quite.
He pushes Quark away and disappears out the door before Quark
can see him... as Quark reacts...
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT TWO
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT THREE 25.
ACT THREE
FADE IN:
27 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
28 INT. INFIRMARY
Kajada ENTERS the Infirmary. Bashir is running an instrument
over the back of an N.D. Starfleet CREWMEMBER and doesn't
notice her.
KAJADA
You wanted to see me?
Bashir looks up from his work.
BASHIR
Kajada. Be right with you.
Bashir finishes using the instrument on the Crewmember.
BASHIR
(to the crewmember)
There, now remember, next time lift
with your back straight and use the
anti-gravity generator.
The crewmember nods and EXITS. Bashir turns to Kajada.
BASHIR
I'm sorry. Come in. I have the DNA
scan results. I thought you might
want to see them.
(a beat)
In fact, I tried to contact you last
night, but you never responded to
the com.
Kajada looks uncomfortable.
KAJADA
I... I have trouble sleeping. Last
night was... particularly bad... I
used an Alpha Wave inducer to help
me.
BASHIR
(professional concern)
You should be careful with those.
They're only meant for occasional
use.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - ACT THREE 26.
28 CONTINUED:
KAJADA
(changing the subject)
The scan results, Doctor.
Bashir moves to a console, calls up a report we don't need
to see... she studies it closely...
BASHIR
There wasn't even a trace of diploid
variation. It's definitely not a
clone.
He changes a page.
BASHIR
Positive identification. Rao Vantika.
KAJADA
(unwavering)
They must have overlooked something.
She continues to read the report...
DAX'S COM VOICE
Dax to Bashir.
BASHIR
Yes, Jadzia...
DAX
I need some medical advice... can
you come to my lab... ?
BASHIR
With wings on my heels. Bashir out.
(to Kajada)
Every conceivable test has been done,
Kajada.
He EXITS... she frowns, continues to read... changes a page...
29 INT. PROMENADE
as Bashir moves down the thoroughfare toward a Turbolift, he
passes an airlock tunnel... he does not notice three men
emerging. One of them is a fierce alien named DURG along
with TWO BAJORANS. They walk toward Quark's.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT THREE 27.
30 INT. LAB - CLOSE ON THE MONITOR (VPB)
A closer look at an area of the brain on Vantika's map...
DAX (O.S.)
Here's the hypothesis... the body
dies... but the consciousness lives
on...
Revealing Dax and Bashir studying...
BASHIR
In another brain... ?
DAX
Possible?
BASHIR
The closest thing I've encountered
is synaptic pattern displacement.
But that's never been done by a non-
Vulcan.
DAX
I'm convinced Vantika was working on
it... there are over seventy different
computer simulations in his file...
all involve identifying neural energy
patterns and storing them in different
areas of the brain...
BASHIR
There'd be plenty of room... a
humanoid uses only a small portion
of the brain.
DAX
So what if another entity shared the
unused portion...
BASHIR
(realizing)
Hypothetically, Vantika's
consciousness could be occupying
someone else's brain while he waits
for the deuridium to arrive. But
whose?
A beat as they come to the same guess.
BASHIR
Kajada?
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - ACT THREE 28.
30 CONTINUED:
DAX
(a real possibility)
They're both Kobliad. What better
place to hide than in the mind of
your worst enemy?
31 INT. COMMANDER'S OFFICE
Odo, Primmin, Sisko, Dax, Bashir. Reacting to the theory
he's just been told.
SISKO
It doesn't make sense. She's been
doing everything she can to convince
us Vantika is alive. If Vantika's
controlling her, why would he call
attention to himself?
DAX
We're not suggesting he's controlling
her.
BASHIR
Look, this is all theoretical, but
to extend the logic, there's no reason
to believe she would even be aware
of his presence...
DAX
Like a stowaway on a ship... the
pilot is still at the helm, but
someone else is along for the ride.
Sisko considers this.
SISKO
Would an examination of Kajada confirm
any of this?
BASHIR
We don't know what we're looking for
yet. We have to identify the method
of transfer first.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/03/92 - ACT THREE 29.
31 CONTINUED:
BASHIR
Even if Vantika could isolate the
patterns of chemical and electrical
interactions in his own brain, he'd
still need a way to move them from
one brain to another...
DAX
Kobliads don't have psychic abilities
like Vulcans, so we're assuming that
we're looking for a physical transfer
method of some kind.
BASHIR
If we can find it, that might give
us a way to flush him out of there.
ODO
I could assign some personnel to
maintain continuous surveillance on
Kajada...
PRIMMIN
(shakes his head)
We're already stretched to the limit
preparing for the shipment... why
don't I just set up the computer to
track her movements, alert us if she
goes near a secured area...
Sisko nods his approval.
ODO
At the very least, she has to be
left out of our security plans...
BASHIR
She won't like that...
SISKO
I'm afraid we have no choice.
DAX
What do we tell her?
ODO
(I take the hard jobs)
Nothing. She'll figure it out. And
when she does, send her to me.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - ACT THREE 29A.
32 INT. SECURITY OFFICE
Kajada is in Odo's face...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT THREE 30.
32 CONTINUED:
KAJADA
The computer security codes have
been changed... I've been denied
access... why?
ODO
Because I ordered it.
KAJADA
What kind of fool are you?
ODO
My own special variety.
KAJADA
I'm the only one here who has
experience with Vantika...
ODO
I'm sorry... I believe it's necessary
at this point to limit access to the
security files to four people --
myself, Lieutenant Primmin, Major
Kira and Commander Sisko.
KAJADA
(sighs with frustration)
When is the shipment scheduled to
arrive?
ODO
I can't give you that information.
KAJADA
(more frustrated,
another tack)
What about this Ferengi, Quark?
ODO
(new interest)
What about him?
KAJADA
From what I understand, he has his
hands into everything around here.
Is he under surveillance?
ODO
I always keep an eye on him.
KAJADA
I hope so. Because he's exactly the
kind Vantika would use in his plans.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/02/92 - ACT THREE 31.
32 CONTINUED: (2)
And she storms out... Odo muses a beat...
33 INT. QUARK'S SECOND FLOOR
It's late. The place is closed. In the shadows of the second
floor, a meeting is taking place between Quark, Durg and the
two Bajorans. But our attention quickly is drawn to the
third floor... where an unseen figure moves in shadows to
overhear the conversation...
DURG
So when do we meet this Kobliad...
QUARK
When he decides it's appropriate...
DURG
All right then, a better question --
when do we get paid...
QUARK
When the job is completed of course...
The figure moves out of the shadows into a streak of light
on the stairwell... it's Kajada...
34 ANGLE - ON QUARK ET AL
DURG
Not acceptable. We will require an
advance payment of seventy percent.
QUARK
Durg. Wake up. This is Quark, you're
talking to. Remember.
DURG
All past debts have been settled.
QUARK
They'll never be settled. You'd
still be rotting in a Cardassian
jail if I hadn't...
Suddenly a woman's scream... they jump up and look over their
heads to see --
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT THREE 32.
35 ANGLE - KAJADA
hanging from the third floor railing... a beat later her
grasp slips and she falls past them all the way to the bottom
floor...
On Quark's startled reaction, we...
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT THREE
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT FOUR 33.
ACT FOUR
FADE IN:
36 INT. INFIRMARY
Close on Kajada is laid out on an examining table half buried
in medical machinery. She is semi-conscious, but barely
coherent.
BASHIR
Can you speak... ?
KAJADA
(quietly)
Pushed. Vantika.
That's all she can say, move up to find Sisko, Quark, Odo...
Bashir shakes his head to Sisko...
BASHIR
I can't keep her conscious any
longer... if she moves around too
much, she could suffer permanent
paralysis...
Sisko nods.
SISKO
Did you see anybody behind her?
QUARK
(shakes his head)
I just heard the scream and looked
up... she fell from the balcony...
what was she doing up there anyway?
ODO
She had an odd feeling you might be
helping someone hijack this deuridium
shipment.
QUARK
I resent the inference.
ODO
It's not an inference. It's a
definite suspicion.
SISKO
Was there anyone else in the bar?
QUARK
Anyone else?
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/02/92 - ACT FOUR 34.
36 CONTINUED:
SISKO
At the time of the accident.
QUARK
No. No. Just me. Just tidying up.
Which if you'll excuse me, I really
must finish...
EXITING together --
ODO
Not so fast, Quark. I want to take
a look at that third floor before
you get rid of all the evidence.
QUARK
Be my guest. I'm telling you she
was alone up there... and she had no
business invading the privacy of a
law-abiding member of the community...
And they're out.
SISKO
(to Bashir)
What do you think, Doctor? Could
this have been a suicide attempt?
BASHIR
I didn't notice any indication of
suicidal behavior... but who knows
what the effect of... sharing one's
brain might be?
SISKO
(frowns)
I'd still like some confirmation of
that.
BASHIR
I'll have to tend to her injuries
before I can conduct any brain
scans... but until we identify the
transfer method Vantika used, I'm
not even sure what to look for.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/02/92 - ACT FOUR 35.
36 CONTINUED: (2)
SISKO
(acknowledges, hits
his combadge)
Computer, location of Lieutenant
Dax.
COMPUTER VOICE
Lieutenant Dax is in the stasis
room...
He nods to Bashir, EXITS...
37 INT. STASIS ROOM
Close on the dead hand of Vantika... as Dax uses a small
instrument to run under his fingernails and pull out some
residue... Sisko arrives in the background, reacts to the
odd scene...
SISKO
Find something under his fingernails?
DAX
Not yet.
SISKO
What were you looking for?
DAX
Confirmation of a theory. I hope.
She puts the tiny dirt sample on a 24th century Petri dish...
and moves to a small work station with microscopes and other
equipment one would use in autopsy work... during the above
action --
DAX
I've been asking myself why anyone
would want to induct a bio-electrical
charge into a glial cell?
SISKO
(dry)
A question I've always wondered
about...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/02/92 - ACT FOUR 35A.
37 CONTINUED:
DAX
It might make sense if you wanted to
send a bio-coded message along the
glial cells of someone's nervous
system... all the way to the brain.
My guess is that's what Vantika was
trying to do...
SISKO
Using his fingernails?
During the following, Dax brings up and adjusts the Okudagram
of the sample on the monitor...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/02/92 - ACT FOUR 36.
37 CONTINUED: (2)
DAX
Frankly, I can't think of another
way he could have delivered the bio-
coded message. He must have used a
very weak electrical charge, or the
sensors on Kajada's ship would have
detected it. Ideally, he would have
injected the coded message directly
into his victim's skin... but there
were no hyposprays or needles anywhere
on the ship.
Dax's eyes light up. She shows Sisko her monitor.
DAX
A microscopic generator.
38 ANGLE (OPTICAL)
Sisko looks at the Okudagram. It shows a very small device,
buried in the material from under Vantika's nails.
SISKO
You're suggesting he had his
consciousness stored in that thing?
DAX
(nods)
His neural patterns encoded as bio-
electrical pulses. He could have
placed that device under his nail
months ago... just in case he needed
an escape route in an emergency.
His last resort before death.
SISKO
Will this show up in Kajada?
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/02/92 - ACT FOUR 36A.
DAX
Now that we know what to look for,
we should be able to confirm it with
a glial scan.
SISKO
Do it as soon as Bashir stabilizes
her condition. Nice work.
He EXITS...
39 INT. PYLON CORRIDOR
Kira is supervising a MAINTENANCE CREW that is checking
through all panels...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT FOUR 37.
39 CONTINUED:
KIRA
(to one)
Confirm that each distribution
amplifier is at one hundred percent
efficiency... if there's more than a
point-zero-three percent fall off,
replace it...
(to another)
And that won't mean a thing if any
of the power waveguide outlets fail...
double-check them...
He acknowledges... Odo arrives...
ODO
You better make this the final
check... we've only got an hour...
(she acknowledges)
Where's Primmin?
KIRA
I thought he was with you.
ODO
I sent him to help you with the final
security sweep of the docking area...
KIRA
He hasn't been here all morning.
Off Odo's curious reaction...
40 INT. CORRIDOR TO RUNABOUTS
Quark leads Durg and the Bajorans...
QUARK
No, I won't be going with you... I
am simply a middleman... a
facilitator...
DURG
A profit monger...
QUARK
And proud of it.
DURG
How did you get your hands on a
Federation Runabout, Quark?
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT FOUR 38.
40 CONTINUED:
QUARK
I can take no credit for that. Your
employer has somehow managed to
arrange security access...
They turn a corner...
41 INT. AIRLOCK CORRIDOR
They move to the airlock...
DURG
When do we meet this "employer"?
QUARK
His message said he would be waiting
for us on board.
Quark presses the door panel... it doesn't open...
COMPUTER VOICE
Secured area, access to security
clearance seven and above.
QUARK
Seven... seven... let me see... that
should be no problem...
He reaches into a wallet-sized case and pulls out a security
PADD... places it to the door panel... the door begins to
roll open...
DURG
I'm beginning to believe this Vantika
is invisible...
QUARK
His funds are quite real... they
were transferred into my accounts
this morning... and will be waiting
for you upon your return...
As the second door rolls open,
42 QUARK
reacts to what he sees, gasps, sputters...
QUARK
Oh, I'm terribly sorry... we seem to
have made a wrong turn...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/02/92 - ACT FOUR 39.
43 REVERSE - BASHIR
QUARK
We didn't mean to disturb you, Doctor.
In a whispered voice --
VANTIKA (BASHIR)
Not at all, gentlemen. I've been
expecting you.
And on Quark's reaction... and a cutback to Bashir --
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT FOUR
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT FIVE 40.
ACT FIVE
FADE IN:
44 INT. INFIRMARY
Dax ENTERS looking for Bashir.
DAX
Julian?
It's a small room; he's obviously not there.
DAX
Computer -- location of Doctor Bashir.
COMPUTER VOICE
Doctor Bashir is in the Infirmary.
She looks around curiously... then she sees...
45 BASHIR'S COMBADGE
on a counter.
46 ON DAX
As she picks up the badge... and wonders what's going on.
47 INT. CORRIDOR
A huge wall panel is open as Odo arrives... looks inside to
see Primmin...
ODO
What the hell are you doing in there?
I told you to sweep the docking bay
again...
PRIMMIN
I took a cue from you...
ODO
From me?
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT FIVE 41.
PRIMMIN
You understood the logic of Vantika's
M-O when he downloaded the computer
memory -- avoid the single file and
attack the system...
ODO
I'm not following.
PRIMMIN
Vantika has to know that all of our
security efforts will be focused on
the docking ring. I figured if he
holds true to form that's not where
he'd try to hurt us... so I ran a
diagnostic of all systems that could
shut our whole defense array down...
ODO
I already did that twice today...
PRIMMIN
I know. I didn't find anything
either. But then I went to the back-
up systems and I found a glitch there
I couldn't explain... so I tracked
it back to the waste reclamation
system... where no one would ever
think to look because it's considered
non-essential...
He holds out a tech device...
PRIMMIN
I found this.
ODO
Another subspace crossover shunt.
Just like the one Vantika used to
tap into the computer.
PRIMMIN
It was set to feedback into the
primary command and control
functions...
ODO
(examines the device)
We would have been shut down for
close to an hour.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT FIVE 41A.
PRIMMIN
Long enough for him to grab the
freighter and warp it off to who-
knows-where...
Off Odo's reaction...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/01/92 - ACT FIVE 42.
48 EXT. SPACE - THE WORMHOLE (OPTICAL)
lights up and the deuridium freighter Norkova emerges...
49 INT. OPS
Kira at her station... Sisko coming in from his office as
though he was just called...
SISKO
Yes, Major?
KIRA
The Norkova's just come through the
wormhole... requesting permission to
dock...
SISKO
Let's go to security alert yellow...
what bay do you have assigned in the
plan...
KIRA
Number eight.
Odo and Primmin arriving on the Turbolift...
SISKO
Odo, maintain a visible contingent
of security at bay eight... but I'm
sending the Norkova to the second
back-up...
(checking panels)
Bay twelve.
Kira acknowledges, moves away to a console to coordinate the
new orders...
PRIMMIN
(to Odo)
I'll send additional forces over to
twelve...
He moves to O'Brien's console... enters some commands...
ODO
(acknowledges)
Commander, your Lieutenant Primmin
there just saved us all a lot of
problems...
He shows Sisko the tech...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" - 11/25/92 - ACT FIVE 43.
49 CONTINUED:
ODO
Another subspace crossover that would
have crippled us long enough for
them to escape with your deuridium...
50 ANGLE - TO INCLUDE KIRA
KIRA
Odo, did you deploy a Runabout to
escort the Norkova...
ODO
No...
KIRA
(concerned)
Then how come the Rio Grande's going
out to meet it...
SISKO
(reacts)
On screen.
51 ANGLE (OPTICAL)
to include the Viewscreen. A Runabout moves toward the larger
freighter... Dax ENTERS...
DAX
Benjamin, Julian's missing.
SISKO
Missing...
DAX
His combadge was in the Infirmary.
I can't find him anywhere.
SISKO
Computer, who authorized access to
Runabout Rio Grande?
COMPUTER VOICE
Authorization access code four-one-
two-one. Doctor Julian Bashir.
On reactions...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 11/30/92 - ACT FIVE 44.
52 OMITTED
53 INT. NORKOVA BRIDGE (OPTICAL)
A crew of three: CAPTAIN (female), HELMSMAN and CARGO OFFICER.
The cargo officer EXITS into a side room... Suddenly, Durg
and the two Bajorans MATERIALIZE, weapons drawn and before
the crew can react, they blast the Commander and her helmsman,
killing them.
54 THE SIDE DOOR (OPTICAL)
Reopens, the cargo officer returning to the cabin to see
what the commotion is... and he's blasted by Durg.
55 ANGLE (OPTICAL)
DURG
(hits an alien combadge)
It's safe.
Bashir MATERIALIZES... calmly approaches the control panel...
Durg sits at the Conn position...
VANTIKA (BASHIR)
Shields up.
DURG
(presses panels)
Done.
VANTIKA
(to the two Bajorans)
Secure the rest of the ship... be
sure to account for all twelve members
of the crew... if they resist, kill
them...
(they EXIT, to Durg)
Enter the new course...
DURG
Aye...
Suddenly, they're shaken...
DURG
The station has locked a tractor
beam on us...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/01/92 - ACT FIVE 45.
55 CONTINUED:
VANTIKA
That's not possible... they should
be shut down by now...
He can't believe this, checks sensor readings...
DURG
Well, they're not. They're hailing
us...
VANTIKA
(controlled panic)
Hailing us... ?
Thinking a beat...
VANTIKA
Engage engines, full impulse...
DURG
We're not going anywhere with a
tractor beam on us...
VANTIKA
Do it!
DURG
Full impulse engaged. The tractor
beam is holding.
VANTIKA
But they won't be able to pull us
in.
DURG
We can't just sit here and wait.
What do you intend to do?
VANTIKA
(beat, thinking)
Open a channel.
Sisko appears on the Viewscreen.
SISKO
This is Benjamin Sisko, Commander of
D.S. Nine.
VANTIKA
Rao Vantika is my name. But I assume
you know that by now.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/01/92 - ACT FIVE 46.
55 CONTINUED: (2)
SISKO
I want to speak to Doctor Bashir.
VANTIKA
Unfortunately, he's not available at
the moment.
SISKO
Is he all right?
Bashir gives himself a cursory self-examination.
VANTIKA
His body is... how do you humans say
it... "fit as a fiddle." Looks rather
good on me, don't you think?
SISKO
(angry, impatient)
What have you done to his mind,
Vantika?
VANTIKA
(calm)
It was necessary to render him
unconscious for the time being.
However, I might consider leaving
his body and returning him to you.
But first you must release your
tractor beam.
SISKO
I can't do that.
VANTIKA
If you don't, I'll take this vessel
to warp.
SISKO
The tractor beam would rip your ship
apart. You and everyone else on
board would be killed.
VANTIKA
Exactly. So if you care at all about
the welfare of your Doctor, you will
release your hold on us. You have
one minute to decide.
He touches a panel and the monitor returns to the space
station...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/01/92 - ACT FIVE 47.
56 INT. OPS
Reactions. With urgency --
SISKO
Can you get a Transporter lock on
him?
PRIMMIN
(pressing panels, at
O'Brien's station)
Negative. Their shields are up.
SISKO
(to the group)
Suggestions... ?
KIRA
A small ship like a Runabout might
be able to get close enough to
overload their shield generators
with directed phaser fire... we used
to do it to Cardassian freighters
all the time...
ODO
But you'd be risking a hull breach...
and with all the deuridium on board...
SISKO
He's right... we can't risk releasing
deuridium into this system... every
populated area would have to be
evacuated...
(beat)
Dax... is there any way to disrupt
Vantika's control over Bashir?
Moving to her station and already beginning to work...
DAX
I have an exact model of Vantika's
neural energy patterns. If I can
design an electromagnetic pulse to
disrupt those patterns, Julian might
emerge... But we still need a way to
get it there.
SISKO
What if we send it right along the
tractor beam... at the same frequency
as their shields... ?
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/01/92 - ACT FIVE 47A.
56 CONTINUED:
DAX
(seeing it work)
The pulse would resonate off the
shields... and create a reflected
EM field inside the ship...
KIRA
He's hailing us...
DAX
I need some time...
SISKO
I'll give you as much as I can. On
screen.
57 ANGLE (OPTICAL) - INCLUDE THE VIEWSCREEN
VANTIKA
Have you decided?
SISKO
If I permit you to leave, what
guarantee do I have that you'll return
Bashir?
VANTIKA
You're ready to capitulate far too
quickly, Commander. Would you be
planning a rescue attempt, perhaps?
SISKO
I'm only interested in my doctor's
safety.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/01/92 - ACT FIVE 48.
57 CONTINUED:
VANTIKA
You insult my intelligence.
(to Durg)
Prepare to go to warp...
Durg looks at him like he's crazy...
SISKO
You've gone to great lengths to
survive, Vantika. I don't think
you're ready to kill yourself.
VANTIKA
And I don't think you're ready to
risk spreading deuridium all over
this system...
58 INT. NORKOVA BRIDGE (OPTICAL)
Sisko still on monitors...
VANTIKA
(to Durg)
Ready to engage warp engines.
DURG
(hesitates)
You must be crazy... I want no part
of...
Bashir fires a blast from his phaser, knocking Durg out of
his chair, brutally killing him... moves to the console...
VANTIKA
No more middlemen, Sisko. No more
delays. What's it to be?
59 INT. OPS
SISKO
All right... we're prepared to release
the tractor beam...
(turns to)
Dax?
DAX
(scrambling with her
hands)
Ready.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/01/92 - ACT FIVE 49.
59 CONTINUED:
SISKO
Do it.
She hits a panel...
60 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
A pulse zaps across the tractor beam to the freighter...
61 INT. NORKOVA BRIDGE (OPTICAL)
The air shimmers as the EM field washes over the bridge.
The charge hits Bashir who grabs his head with incredible
pain and doubles over... drops to his knees... groans...
SISKO
Doctor Bashir... answer me...
Bashir...
BASHIR
(struggling for
consciousness)
What... yes... ?
SISKO
Doctor. Lower the shields.
BASHIR
What? What shields? Where am...
SISKO
I'll explain later. Lower the
shields. Now.
Dizzy, disoriented... Bashir moves to the panel... and as he
reaches out... Vantika's voice groans out of his mouth,
pulling him back...
VANTIKA
Nooooo...
His arm reaches out trying to reach the panel as his head
seems to be pulled backwards... but the arm finally wins...
and he hits the switch...
62 INT. OPS (OPTICAL)
ODO
(off console)
Shields are down.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/02/92 - ACT FIVE 50.
62 CONTINUED:
SISKO
Get him out of there.
PRIMMIN
Energizing.
Bashir MATERIALIZES on the Transporter pad... he stands there
for a beat... as if in shock...
BASHIR
It's okay... it's me.
Or is there the barest hint of a hiss in his voice...
63 SISKO (OPTICAL)
His face is impassive as he aims his phaser and stuns
Bashir...
SMASH CUT TO:
64 CLOSE ON BASHIR
Lying on a gurney, unconscious, as it's being wheeled into --
65 INT. STASIS ROOM
Dax positions the gurney with Bashir's head directly over
the de-mat zone. A portable Transporter device is in place.
On the next pad is a hi-tech disk-shaped piece of equipment.
Dax takes a deep breath and adjusts the controls.
DAX
I've programmed the Transporter to
isolate any glial cells with Vantika's
neural patterns... and beam them
from Julian into this micro-
containment field...
66 ANGLE - TRANSPORTER PAD (OPTICAL)
Bashir's head partially DEMATERIALIZES while the beams flicker
over the disk.
DAX
(continuing)
Once they're out... Julian should be
back to normal...
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/02/92 - ACT FIVE 50A.
66 CONTINUED:
When the process is complete, Bashir is as he was... and the
indicator lights on the disk flash in a complex pattern.
Odo and Sisko flank Bashir. Dax approaches and scans his
head with a tricorder.
DAX
I'm only reading human neural
patterns... he's clear.
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/01/92 - ACT FIVE 51.
66 CONTINUED: (2)
She gives him a hypo... his eyes open slowly...
BASHIR
I... have... the worst headache...
Off Sisko and Dax's smile...
67 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
The Norkova is gone.
68 INT. INFIRMARY
Sisko, Dax and Bashir with Kajada about to leave. Bashir is
still shaken from the experience... none of the usual
lightness in his attitude...
KAJADA
Doctor Bashir... I'm so sorry for
this...
BASHIR
I guess... we should have listened
to you when you said he was alive...
KAJADA
There was no way for you to control
what he was doing to you...
BASHIR
I'm afraid... I don't even remember
it... I feel quite... humiliated
actually...
Dax moves to take his arm and comfort him... he appreciates
it...
SISKO
No one blames you, Doctor.
KAJADA
It wasn't you... it was... that.
Motioning toward the energy containment cell.
DAX
What do you intend to do with it?
DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/01/92 - ACT FIVE 52.
68 CONTINUED:
A beat.
KAJADA
May I assume you've returned custody
of the prisoner to me, Commander
Sisko?
SISKO
The prisoner. What's left of him.
KAJADA
Good.
69 ANGLE (OPTICAL)
She calmly raises her phaser (she's a security officer so
its okay for her have one) and fires it at the containment
device... it disintegrates...
70 KAJADA
doesn't smile... just holsters her weapon, nods to the others
and EXITS...
71 ON REACTIONS
72 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
And off the station, turning ever-so-slowly...
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT FIVE
THE END