- Keevan: Once you've taken care of the Jem'Hadar, I'll give you the com-system, and surrender to you as a prisoner of war.
- Doctor Bashir: And you spend the war resting comfortably as a Starfleet PoW, while your own men lie rotting on this planet?
- Keevan: I see we understand each other. I'm going to order the Jem'Hadar to attack your position tomorrow regardless of whether you agree to my terms or not. So you can either kill them or they'll kill you.
- Chief O'Brien: Reroute the damn gyrodyne through the damn thruster array.
- Nog: Got it.
- Captain Sisko: Mr. Garak, where are those ships now?
- Garak: Bearing 310, Mark 215, still closing.
- Chief O'Brien: Nog, did you reroute that damn gyrodyne?
- Nog: I've tried, but the damn thruster array won't take the input.
- Chief O'Brien: Try the lateral impulse thrusters and watch your mouth!
- Major Kira: I keep going over it and over it in my mind. And I can't believe that... that I stood there, ready to use force to stop a protest against the Dominion. Me. When I was in the Resistance, I despised people like me. I'm a collaborator, Odo.
- Remata'Klan: Remember, "Obedience brings victory."
- Limara'Son: "And victory is life."
- Remata'Klan: Until we reestablish communications, we will hold this world for the Dominion.
- Limara'Son: And if we cannot reestablish communications?
- Remata'Klan: Then we will hold this world for the Dominion... until we die.
- [Remata'Klan has proposed on Keevan's behalf to return the hostages Nog and Garak in exchange for Captain Sisko and Doctor Bashir]
- Captain Sisko: Sounds like he wants to trade two low-ranking prisoners for two more valuable ones. Would you make a deal like that?
- Remata'Klan: No.
- Captain Sisko: Then why should I?
- Remata'Klan: You shouldn't.
- Captain Sisko: You're not a very good negotiator, are you?
- Captain Sisko: Keevan doesn't deserve the unwavering loyalty you're giving him.
- Remata'Klan: He does not have to earn my loyalty, Captain. He has had it from the moment I was conceived. I am a Jem'Hadar. He is a Vorta. It is the order of things.
- Captain Sisko: Do you really want to give up your life for 'the order of things'?
- Remata'Klan: It is not my life to give up, Captain. And it never was.
- Elim Garak: [while doing a survey, Nog won't allow Garak to get behind him] What are you doing?
- Nog: Following orders. The Captain told us to scan for fresh water or vegetation that might be...
- Elim Garak: [interrupting] You know precisely what I mean. You're deliberately trying to stay behind me and I want to know why. Does this have something to do with that unfortunate business between you and me last year?
- Nog: You tied me up and threatened to kill me.
- Elim Garak: There were extenuating circumstances.
- Nog: It happened. So you can either stay in front of me, or beside me. But I won't turn my back on you again.
- Elim Garak: Cadet... there may be hope for you yet.
- [Keevan has asked for the Jem'Hadar who had disobeyed orders]
- Remata'Klan: I may not be First, but I am the unit leader. You may discipline me, but only *I* discipline the man. That is the order of things.
- Keevan: You know, Captain, if I'd had just two more vials of white - you never would have had a chance.
- Nog: You can either stay in front of me or walk beside me, but I won't turn my back on you again.
- Elim Garak: Cadet, there may be hope for you yet.
- Keevan: That's a communication system. It needs repair, but I'm willing to bet that you brought one of those famed Starfleet engineers who can turn rocks into replicators.
- Chief O'Brien: There are rules, Garak, even in a war.
- Garak: Correction. Humans have rules in war. Rules that tend to make victory a little harder to achieve, in my opinion.
- [Bashir is about to operate on Keevan, when the Jem'Hadar encircle him very closely]
- Doctor Bashir: I am a doctor. I'm not gonna harm him.
- Keevan: They're not here to protect me. They've just never seen what the inside of a Vorta looks like.
- Vedek Yassim: Can't you see what is happening to you? You're becoming an apologist for them, a defender of evil. What will it take to make you act, Kira, to stop accepting them, and start fighting back?
- Major Kira: Vedek - you just don't understand.
- Vedek Yassim: You are right, I don't. Maybe tomorrow... we will both understand.
- Chief O'Brien: Oh no!
- Captain Sisko: What?
- Chief O'Brien: I can't believe it!
- Captain Sisko: What?
- Chief O'Brien: I tore my pants!
- Captain Sisko: You... you tore your pants?
- Chief O'Brien: Yeah, I tore my pants!
- [Everybody laughs]
- Chief O'Brien: I guess... I guess I'm really in trouble now, eh?
- Garak: Lucky for you, it ripped on the seam.
- Chief O'Brien: Can you fix it?
- Garak: Unlucky for you, my sewing kit went down with the ship.
- Doctor Bashir: Your insides are being held together by cellular micro-sutures and, uh... a lot of hope.
- [first lines]
- Captain Sisko: Captain's log, supplemental - O'Brien needed three days to restore main power to our commandeered Dominion ship. But he's not going to get them. Sensors have detected two Jem'Hadar fighters heading our way, and without main power our chances of survival are slim to none.
- Major Kira: We used to have a saying in the Resistance: if you're not fighting them, you're helping them.
- Major Kira: This is about me. This is about being able to get up in the morning and look in the mirror and not feel nauseated by what I see. Yassim was right. I have to do something. I have to start to fight back.
- [last lines]
- Captain Sisko: Chief, get this...
- [He controls his disgust at Keevan with some effort]
- Captain Sisko: Take him back to base camp and then get to work on that comm system.
- Chief O'Brien: Aye, sir.
- Captain Sisko: Lieutenant Neeley?
- Lieutenant Neeley: Sir?
- Captain Sisko: Form a burial detail.
- Lieutenant Neeley: Aye, sir.