- Quark: [of Dax] Poor woman. She's obviously infatuated with me.
- Odo: [scoffs] You're deluding yourself.
- Quark: There's nothing wrong with a good delusion. I sell them upstairs to dozens of people every day. Besides, there is something in her eyes when she looks at me.
- Odo: Hmm - an allergic reaction no doubt.
- Lieutenant Primmin: If you want my opinion...
- Commander Sisko: Actually, I don't. You and I are guests of the Bajorans, Lieutenant. You don't have to forget what you learned at the Academy; you just don't throw it in anyone's face here.
- [last lines; all that's left of the criminal is a few neural cells in a specimen container]
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: What do you intend to do with it?
- Ty Kajada: May I assume that you return custody of the prisoner to me, Commander Sisko?
- Commander Sisko: [indicates the container] The prisoner... what's left of him.
- Ty Kajada: Good.
- [She draws her phaser, disintegrates the container, and walks out without another word]
- [first lines]
- Major Kira: I've never seen anything like that.
- Doctor Bashir: Hm?
- Major Kira: I've never seen anything like that.
- Doctor Bashir: What, the woman?
- Major Kira: She was dead! The tricorder clearly showed...
- Doctor Bashir: Ah yes, well, tricorders - very accurate with live people, not so accurate with dead ones. We learn that first year medical school.
- Doctor Bashir: Fate has granted me a gift, Major - a gift to be a healer.
- Major Kira: I feel privileged to be in your presence.
- [Ltd. Primmin is complaining about Odo talking openly about a deuridium shipment to Quark]
- Commander Sisko: It's hard to keep a secret in a place like this, Lieutenant; it's not a starship.
- Lieutenant Primmin: I understand that...
- Commander Sisko: I'm sure almost everyone knows about the shipment by now. Odo was probably making sure that Quark knows we know he knows.
- [Bashir wakes up after being freed from Vantika's control]
- Doctor Bashir: [groans] I have the worst headache...
- Commander Sisko: Miss Kajada, I must admit I'm having a tough time with your theory.
- Ty Kajada: Then you're making a fatal mistake.
- Commander Sisko: Three passengers were on your ship. Two bodies are in our morgue. Unless the ghost of Vantika is...
- Ty Kajada: Don't patronize me, Commander!
- Commander Sisko: Isn't it more likely that some accomplice did this?
- Ty Kajada: Rao Vantika is obsessed with his own survival. He's prolonged his life with the use of drugs, cryogenics, transplants. As a medical supervisor in a high-security penitentiary, he used prisoners for his illegal experiments in cellular longevity. He's organised raids on government labs to steal bio-regenerative research. I promise you when he started that fire on board my ship, he had a plan to survive. I'm not sure what that plan was, but I'm convinced it succeeded.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: The body dies, the consciousness lives on.
- Doctor Bashir: In another brain?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Possible.
- Doctor Bashir: Well the closest thing I've encountered is sybaptic pattern displacement, but that's never been done by a non-Vulcan
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: I'm convinced Vantika was working on it.
- Major Kira: Confirm that each distribution amplifier is at 100% efficiency. If there's more than a 0.03% fall-off, replace it. And that won't mean a thing if any of the power waveguide outlets fail. Double-check them.