- [Dukat is pointing out to Sisko that his controls in the runabout are not illuminated]
- Gul Dukat: Commander, I'm not going to sit here and steal your little technical secrets, I promise you.
- Commander Sisko: I appreciate your assurances, but Cardassians are famous for their photographic memories.
- Gul Dukat: Oh, so you turn off my controls so I don't have enough light to take my photograph, is that it?
- Gul Dukat: Of all the Humans I've met, you strike me as the most joyless and the least vulnerable.
- Commander Sisko: I am when I'm with you.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: You know, Kira, sometimes I think you place too much emphasis on how men look.
- Major Kira: What's that supposed to mean?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Nothing.
- Major Kira: Look, when I kiss a man goodnight, I like to know where I'm kissing him.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: I guess seven lifetimes gives me a somewhat broader perspective.
- Major Kira: Well, since I just have one lifetime, I have to be a little more particular about whom I go out with.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: I never said I wasn't particular.
- Major Kira: I'm not the one who dates Ferengis.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: And what's that supposed to mean?
- Major Kira: Nothing.
- Quark: Now then - what kind of business proposition do you have in mind?
- Sakonna: I wish to procure weapons.
- Quark: [almost chokes on his drink] I beg your pardon?
- Sakonna: Guns, phaser banks, photon torpedoes...
- Quark: Sshhh!
- Sakonna: ...troop transports and a number of cobalt-thorium devices. My list is quite extensive.
- Quark: [incredulous] You're a gun-runner?
- Sakonna: I am prepared to pay in latinum, and I will very likely need a continuous supply for the foreseeable future.
- Quark: [flustered] You're not like other Vulcans, are you?
- Cal Hudson: Don't you find things a little uncomfortable?
- Commander Sisko: Oh no. She's a good officer.
- Cal Hudson: Yes, but Curzon was, uh...
- Commander Sisko: She is not Curzon.
- Cal Hudson: Now, you two aren't, I mean...
- [they burst out laughing]
- Commander Sisko: Oh no. She may not be Curzon, but she is Dax.
- Cal Hudson: Yes, that would be extremely... strange.
- Gul Dukat: [Dukat is trying to dispel Sisko's idea that the Cardassians "suicided" a Marquis prisoner] A good interrogator doesn't allow his subject to die; you lose the advantage.
- Commander Sisko: Where are we going?
- Gul Dukat: The Volan colonies.
- Commander Sisko: The demilitarized zone?
- Gul Dukat: Hm - not so demilitarized, I'm afraid.
- Major Kira: Feel like getting together for dinner tonight?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Can't. I'm having dinner with Captain Boday.
- Major Kira: The Gallamite? You're going out on a date with *him*?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Is something wrong with that?
- Major Kira: [ironic] No. Not at all.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: He happens to be brilliant. His brain is twice the size of yours and mine.
- Major Kira: I know, I've seen it.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: It's not his fault Gallamites have transparent skulls.
- Cal Hudson: [of Dax] That woman knows more about me than any woman ever has. More than my wife even.
- Commander Sisko: Tell me about it.
- Quark: Now, er, you mentioned a business proposition.
- Sakonna: It is a private matter. I would rather not discuss it here.
- Quark: Then we can discuss it over dinner. That is, we can plan the business meeting to coincide with when you think you might get hungry.
- Sakonna: That would be acceptable.
- Quark: That would be wonderful. How does eight sound to your tummy?
- [Sisko and Dukat have witnessed a space battle between Federation and Cardassian colonists]
- Gul Dukat: Now do you begin to see, Commander? That without any help from either one of us they've managed to start their own little war out here.
- Major Kira: I can tell you one thing for certain: the Cardassians are the enemy, not your own colonists. And if Starfleet can't understand that, then the Federation is even more naive than I already think it is!
- [last lines]
- Cal Hudson: I'm glad to see you had no trouble finding us, Ben. It seems that one disaster after another keeps bringing us back together again.
- Major Kira: Commander, we just received a general subspace transmission from somewhere in the demilitarized zone. A group there is taking credit for the kidnapping of Dukat. They're calling themselves... 'the Maquis'.
- [first lines]
- Lieutenant Dax: The Cardassian freighter Bok'Nor is requesting permission to depart upper pylon one in three minutes.
- Major Kira: We have an incoming Bolian vessel at co-ordinates 101 mark 38. Give the Bok'Nor a clear trajectory out of the traffic pattern.
- Lieutenant Dax: Acknowledged.