Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Assignment (1996)

Rosalind Chao: Keiko O'Brien

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Quotes 

• [Jake and "Keiko" are talking about the myth of the Bajoran Pah-wraiths] 

  Jake Sisko : Maybe the next time you go to the Fire Caves, I could come along. I've always wanted to meet a Pah-wraith.

  Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : Maybe you will, you never know.

• O'Brien : [O'Brien and Keiko are at an Upper Pylon where through a window there's a view of the wormhole closing and O'Brien is trying to explain the death of Keiko's beloved bonsai trees while she was away on Bajor]  It was Julian. He was trying to be helpful. He overwatered them. It's not his fault but you know how he is. Sometimes he doesn't even know what he's doing. I'm sorry, sweetheart. We'll buy some new ones.

  Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : [Keiko is munching away on some chocolates O'Brien gave her and seems oddly disinterested in this conversation]  Forget it, Miles. They're just plants.

  O'Brien : [pleasantly surprised]  Exactly!

  Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : It's not as if something happened to Molly or the baby.

  O'Brien : [getting more surprised by the minute]  Right! Right! Everybody's fine! No problems!

  Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : Good. What about Kira? Is she back yet?

  O'Brien : No, she's still with Shakaar. They're traveling around Dahkur Province. I thought you were going to visit them.

  Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : I didn't get a chance.

  O'Brien : So, how were the Fire Caves?

  Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : Fine. And now it's time for me to tell you some news.

  [there's now a strange look in Keiko's eyes] 

  Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : I'm not Keiko.

  O'Brien : [thinks she's teasing]  Oh, who are you?

  Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : [takes his arm and starts walking down the corridor]  Listen carefully, Miles. I have taken possession of your wife's body. I will hold it hostage until you do everything I tell you to... accurately, and without question.

  O'Brien : Hmm, everything?

  [moves in to kiss her] 

  Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : If you don't do precisely what I ask I'll kill your wife.

  O'Brien : [frowning at the turn this conversation has taken]  Are you alright?

  [feels her head for a temperature] 

  O'Brien : Maybe there's been an outbreak of Rudellian brain fever on Bajor? We should go see Julian...

  Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : [sighs and dumps her travel bag on the floor]  I see I'm going to have to give you a demonstration of my sincerity.

  [Keiko suddenly has a seizure, cries out in pain and collapses] 

  O'Brien : Keiko! Keiko!

  [her eyes wide open... totally unresponsive... dead] 

  O'Brien : No!

  Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : [O'Brien is about to tap his combadge when Keiko suddenly recovers]  No Miles, you're not telling anyone. If you do, I'll stop her heart forever.

• Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : Strange, these corporeal bodies of yours - so fragile. Burst even a tiny blood vessel in the brain and every memory, every passionate emotion gone forever.

• Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : Another weakness of you corporeal lifeforms, your need for physical intimacy. It's especially irritating in your young.

• O'Brien : [a Pah-wraith possessed Keiko wants O'Brien to target the wormhole and destroy the Prophets]  Let's get on with it!

  Keiko O'Brien/Pah-wraith : Miles, you have a lot to learn about patience.