Rene Auberjonois credited as playing...
Constable Odo
- [last lines]
- Odo: Garak... I was thinking that you and I should have breakfast together sometime.
- Elim Garak: Why, Constable - I thought you didn't eat.
- Odo: I don't.
- Odo: Garak, this is pointless. There's nothing I can tell you about the Founders that you don't already know.
- Elim Garak: I wish I could believe that.
- Odo: Then why don't you?
- Elim Garak: Because you and I are so alike. We both value our privacy, our secrets. That's why I know there's something about the Founders you haven't told anyone, something you didn't even share with Starfleet and Commander Sisko. Hm? But you are going to tell *me*, Odo.
- Odo: There's nothing to tell!
- Elim Garak: Well, perhaps something will come to you. I can wait. The question is - can you?
- Lovok: [just as Odo and Garak are to make their escape, Colonel Lovok arrives armed with a disruptor, but he then hands Odo a PADD] You will need this in order to gain access to your Runabout.
- Odo: [surprised] Why are you doing this?
- Lovok: Because no Changeling has ever harmed another.
- Elim Garak: [even more surprised] You are one of the Founders.
- Odo: [with realisation] Of course. This whole plan was the Founders' idea in the first place. You wanted the Tal Shiar and the Obsidian Order to combine forces and come into the Gamma Quadrant so you could wipe them out.
- Lovok: Not exactly. Tain originated the plan, and when we learned of it, we did everything we could to carry it forward. The Tal Shiar and the Obsidian Order are both ruthless, efficient organisations. A definite threat to us.
- Odo: [his realisation is deepening] But not after today.
- Lovok: After today, the only real threats to us from the Alpha Quadrant are the Klingons and the Federation. And I doubt either of them will be a threat for much longer.
- [the Lovok Changeling steps towards Odo, as this conversation clearly excludes Garak]
- Lovok: It is not too late for you, Odo. Come with me. You can still become one with the Great Link - if you wish.
- Odo: [Odo leaves that last sentence up in the air for a moment before he responds] Thankyou, but my answer is still no.
- [the Lovok Changeling returns to his previous position and then beams away in a Dominion transporter]
- Odo: They're still my people. I tried to deny it, I tried to forget. But I can't! They're my people, and I want to be with them, in the Great Link!
- Elim Garak: [Enters with two Romulans] I realized it must be nearly time for you to return to your liquid state, so I thought I'd bring you something to relax in.
- [Gives him a bowl]
- Odo: [Dubious] How kind...
- Elim Garak: But before you go for a swim, I have some questions I'd like to ask you.
- Odo: I have nothing to say.
- Elim Garak: Well I had hoped a few hours alone would jog your memory but I see that I'm going to have to take some steps I had hoped to avoid.
- [the Romulans set up a device on the table]
- Odo: [Heavily sarcastic] Oh no... You're going to *torture* me, aren't you? How I've been dreading this! *Please* have mercy Garak!