- Chief O'Brien: [of Keiko] She always said I... I liked you more than I liked her.
- Doctor Bashir: That's ridiculous!
- Chief O'Brien: Right.
- Doctor Bashir: Well, maybe, maybe you do, a bit more.
- Chief O'Brien: What? Are you crazy? She's my wife, I love her!
- Doctor Bashir: Of course you love her - she's your wife.
- Chief O'Brien: Yeah.
- Doctor Bashir: I'm just saying, maybe you like me a bit more, that's all.
- Chief O'Brien: I do not.
- Doctor Bashir: You spend more time with me.
- Chief O'Brien: We work together!
- Doctor Bashir: We have more in common.
- Chief O'Brien: Julian, you are beginning to annoy me.
- Doctor Bashir: Darts, racquetball, Vic's lounge, the Alamo... Need I go on?
- Chief O'Brien: I *love* my wife.
- Doctor Bashir: And I love Ezri - passionately.
- Chief O'Brien: You do?
- Doctor Bashir: Yes.
- Chief O'Brien: Have you told her?
- Doctor Bashir: Not yet. But I will.
- Chief O'Brien: Oh, yeah? Huh... When?
- Doctor Bashir: When I'm ready. It's just that I... like you... a bit more. See? There, I've admitted it.
- Chief O'Brien: Yeah, well - I *love* my wife.
- [O'Brien finds a bottle of some spirit behind Quark's bar]
- Chief O'Brien: Aha! Here we go. I knew Quark was hoarding a bottle of the good stuff.
- Doctor Bashir: [inspects the label] This is older than I am.
- Chief O'Brien: What?
- [he also reads the label]
- Chief O'Brien: I'm drinking with a child!
- [Sloan has committed suicide to prevent the data of the cure from falling into Bashir's hands]
- Doctor Bashir: There must be some way to retrieve that data.
- Chief O'Brien: Maybe we should just let him die in peace.
- Doctor Bashir: Miles... I need a multitronic engrammatic interpreter.
- Chief O'Brien: Or maybe I'll find you a multitronic engrammatic interpreter.
- Doctor Bashir: I kept thinking just how many people had to have been involved in the conspiracy to infect him with the disease - computer experts, doctors, security officers, admirals, clerks... In the end, I came up with at least seventy-three people.
- Chief O'Brien: Phh! For a minute there, I thought you were gonna say seventy thousand.
- Doctor Bashir: This organization, this *thing*, that slithered its way into the heart of the Federation, it has to be destroyed.
- Doctor Bashir: What's that?
- Chief O'Brien: It's the tunnel.
- Doctor Bashir: What tunnel?
- Chief O'Brien: You know, the... the tunnel to the great beyond.
- Doctor Bashir: Oh - it is. I must say, I'm... a bit disappointed; I expected it to be more elaborate.
- Doctor Bashir: One thing's for sure: Sloan knew he had the perfect bait, that I wouldn't be able to resist it. But there was one thing he failed to consider.
- Chief O'Brien: And what's that?
- Doctor Bashir: You. To Miles Edward O'Brien!
- Chief O'Brien: To friendship.
- [Odo is dying of the Founder's disease, lying in sickbay]
- Odo: I want - you - to leave.
- Colonel Kira: Why?
- Odo: You watched Bareil... die in this very room. I know how that's haunted you, and... I don't want your last memory of me... to be witnessing my death.
- Colonel Kira: Isn't that my choice?
- Odo: Maybe it is. And maybe I'm being selfish telling you all the things I want. But I don't want... the last thing I see... to be... pain in your eyes.
- Colonel Kira: You'd be surprised how well I can hide my feelings, when I need to.
- Odo: Not from me.
- Colonel Kira: I've got so much to say, I... I don't know where to begin.
- Odo: Just say you love me. That's all I've ever cared about.
- Doctor Bashir: Romulan mind probes. They're not the most pleasant of devices, but they're very efficient.
- Sloan: They're also illegal in the Federation.
- Doctor Bashir: Oh, I hope you can appreciate the irony of that statement.
- Chief O'Brien: I wish I knew how long we've been in here.
- Doctor Bashir: 23 minutes and 11 seconds.
- Chief O'Brien: Show-off!
- Sloan: [to Bashir] I misread you. I thought you were just a misguided idealist. But you're a dangerous man. People like you would destroy the Federation if given a chance. Fortunately, there are people like me who will die to protect it.
- Chief O'Brien: I'm going with you.
- Doctor Bashir: What?
- Chief O'Brien: You heard me. And it's not open to debate. If you're determined to go on this lunatic mission inside Sloan's head, then somebody with an ounce of sanity has to be with you!
- Doctor Bashir: You just wanna come because you don't want Captain Sisko to find out what we're doing.
- Chief O'Brien: Well, there's that too.
- Chief O'Brien: Hey Julian - next time you take a trip inside someone's mind, you're going on your own!
- [in Sloan's mind, Sloan shoots Sloan]
- Chief O'Brien: Julian?
- Doctor Bashir: Don't look at me for explanations.
- Sloan: [saying his farewells to his family] As I stand here, reunited with my friends and my family for one last time, I want you, the people I love, to know just how sorry I am for all the pain that I've caused you. I dedicated my life to the preservation and the protection of the Federation. This duty, which I carried out to the best of my ability, took precedence over everything else - my parents, my wife, my children. I lived in a world of secrets - of sabotage and deceit. I spent so much time erasing my movements, covering my tracks, that now, as I look back on my life, I find nothing. It's as if I never really existed. I cheated you all out of being in my life. And what's more, I cheated myself as well. Now, I know a simple apology won't change that. Still, I feel the need to apologize anyway. No tears please. My death isn't a tragedy; it's a celebration. In death I can finally step out of the shadows and prove to myself that I existed - that I lived.
- [last lines]
- Chief O'Brien: Well, I'd better get home. Keiko is holding dinner for me.
- Doctor Bashir: This late?
- Chief O'Brien: Yeah, well, she's a helluva woman.
- Doctor Bashir: That's why you love her.
- Chief O'Brien: M-hm, that's right - that's why I love her.
- [he is about to leave but comes back once more]
- Chief O'Brien: You wanna come?
- Doctor Bashir: Sure.
- Chief O'Brien: Where 're we going?
- Doctor Bashir: I don't know. But we're not wasting any time getting there.
- [O'Brien finds Bashir playing darts in a deserted Quark's]
- Chief O'Brien: How'd you get in?
- Doctor Bashir: The lock isn't that complex.