- Renora: This will be an informal hearing, so I'm going to start with some informal advice: I am one hundred years old. I do not have time to squander listening to superfluous language. In short, I intend to be in here until supper, not senility.
- Major Kira: You Klaestrons are allies of the Cardassians; your knowledge of the station confirms that. They must have given you the layouts, which not only compromises Bajoran security but also... annoys us.
- Renora: Lieutenant Dax, you are either 200 years older than I am or you're about the same age as my great granddaughter. At first I wondered which of those you were; now I am bothered by the likelihood that you may be both.
- Ilon Tandro: [after trying to abduct Dax off the station] My name is Ilon Tandro, special envoy from Klaestron IV, in charge of this extradition procedure.
- Commander Sisko: Extradition? I call this kidnapping and assault.
- Commander Sisko: I want you to find all the medical evidence you can to support the theory that Jadzia Dax and Curzon Dax are two entirely separate people. Major...
- Doctor Bashir: Excuse me, sir, I-I don't know that there is any medical evidence on that.
- Commander Sisko: Assume there is, then find it.
- [Sisko has asked Kira to search for precedents involving Trills]
- Major Kira: Is a Trill responsible for the conduct - for the acts - of its antecedent selves?
- Commander Sisko: Right, that kind of thing.
- Major Kira: What if I find the answer is yes?
- Commander Sisko: Then *that* answer is wrong. From this minute on, our answer is 'no'.
- Renora: The answer seems simple enough to me: split her down the middle, send the symbiont back to stand trial and keep the host here.
- Doctor Bashir: I'm afraid, it's a bit more complicated than that.
- Renora: Oh, what a surprise.
- Enina Tandro: My husband was not the hero in life that he was in death, Mr. Odo. In death, he became a legend, and I became a legend's wife. There're people who didn't even know my husband, who still contact me. Decades after his death, they still mourn him.
- Odo: But you don't?
- Enina Tandro: No. Because I knew the man before he became a legend. But I also know my place in history. My place is to carry on bravely, never to remarry, to represent my husband at the banquets given in his name, but never, never to talk about who he really was. Because nobody wants to hear that.
- Odo: They may have to hear it now.
- Enina Tandro: [smiling wryly] No matter what is said, they will still embrace his memory. For he was, and always will be, the hero who died for his people.
- Enina Tandro: [after a pause] But perhaps it's time for my place in history to change.
- Odo: This case has thirty years of dust covering it. The extradition hearing will take about thirty minutes.
- Commander Sisko: I was hoping to make it a little longer than that.
- Odo: Good luck.
- [Quark has refused to close his bar for the extradition hearing out of business reasons]
- Odo: Since the provisional government took over, they've got their hands into everything and of course, I'm the one who's expected to enforce their rules here.
- Quark: Ha!
- Odo: You know, I think this bar is just a little too near the exit.
- Quark: This is blackmail.
- Odo: No, it's just business. And "business is business".
- Odo: It says Dax betrayed the Klaestron government to the rebels.
- Commander Sisko: It's all nonsense, Constable, I'm telling you, I knew the man!
- Odo: But did you know the symbiont *inside* the man?
- Major Kira: What was exactly your relationship with Curzon Dax?
- Commander Sisko: He took a raw young ensign under his wing, and taught me to appreciate life in ways I'd never thought about before. He taught me about art, and science, and diplomacy. Whatever sense of honor I might have today, he nurtured. Treason, murder - he was not capable of those things.
- Odo: Treason plus the murder of his own best friend, huh - strange business. If those charges *are* true, I'd want to hang Curzon Dax up by his heels myself.
- Commander Sisko: Thanks for the confidence.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: When one of my kind stumbles, Benjamin, it is a mistake that's there forever. I can't tell you which part of Curzon Dax couldn't stop himself from acting shamefully with another man's wife. I can tell you that he did love her - for whatever that's worth.
- Commander Sisko: Enough to kill her husband?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: So you are questioning?
- Commander Sisko: What else can I do?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Nothing, Benjamin. Nothing at all.
- [first lines]
- Commander Sisko: Station log, Stardate 46910.1. Chief O'Brian has escorted his wife back to Earth to celebrate his mother's 100th birthday. In the meantime, the rest of us are trying to keep the station up and running.