Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Duet (1993)

Harris Yulin: Aamin Marritza

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• Marritza : I am alive. I will always be alive! It's Marritza who's dead! Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman. Who every night covered his ears because he couldn't bear to hear the screaming... for mercy... of the Bajorans...

  [breaks down into tears] 

• Marritza : You have no idea what it's like to be a coward... See these horrors and... do nothing... Marritza is dead, he deserves to be dead.

• Major Kira : Nothing justifies genocide.

  Marritza : What you call genocide, I call a day's work.

• Marritza : Who do you think started the rumors about brutality at Gallitep? It was Gul Darhe'el himself. Now there was a leader. Brilliant, extraordinary man! He knew that to rule by fear was to rule completely. Why bother with actual mass murders, when just the reports of such incidents had... had the same effect?

• Major Kira : If your lies are gonna be this transparent, it's gonna be a very short interrogation.

  Marritza : Well, in that case I'll try to make my lies more opaque.

• Major Kira : I still think you're a liar.

  Marritza : So much for our search for the truth. Now we trade insults.

• Major Kira : You're Marritza, aren't you?

  Marritza : You mistake me for that bug? That whimpering nothing? Oh you stupid Bajoran girl, don't you know who I am? I'm your nemesis. I'm your nightmare. I'm the Butcher of Gallitep!

• Major Kira : I hope it won't disturb your dinner if I ask you a few questions?

  Marritza : If I refuse to answer?

  Major Kira : I'll ask them anyway.

  Marritza : Of course.

  Major Kira : This is my job.

  Marritza : Persecuting Cardassians goes far beyond your job, Major; it's your passion.

• [Kira has asked "Gul Darhe'el" how he knew about her past in the resistance] 

  Marritza : [posing as Darhe'el]  Oh my, my, you are a strutting little egotist. You forget the brilliance of Marritza's filing system. He made sure that I was provided with information on all your little terrorist bands. What I particularly enjoyed were the termination reports.

  [he chuckles] 

  Marritza : Yes, life in a force labor camp can be so isolating. At times I felt that I alone bore the burden of cleansing Bajor of its rabble; but those reports reassured me: I was not alone!

• Marritza : You and I know, there was no war, no glory. Bajor didn't resist. It surrendered.

• Marritza : You see, you're the one who's lying now, Major. It's not the truth you're interested in; all you want is vengeance.

• Marritza : Well, there you are. My secret's out, my crimes laid bare - I await execution.

  [He mockingly holds up his black dinner napkin over his face like a hood] 

  Major Kira : I hope we don't keep you waiting long.

• Major Kira : What was your rank at Gallitep? What were your duties?

  Marritza : You don't want to know.

  Major Kira : Just answer the question.

  Marritza : [sing-song]  You'll be disappointed.

  Major Kira : [looks up from her datapad; deadpan]  I'll risk it.

• Marritza : Don't you see, it doesnt change anything. Kill me, torture me, you've already lost, Major! You can never undo what I've accomplished!

• Marritza : How could there be war crimes when there hasn't been a war?