- Elim Garak: I took the liberty of borrowing this from the gentleman who thought my nose needed adjustment.
- Odo: I see I'm going to have to add the word "pickpocket" to your resume.
- Elim Garak: It's only a hobby.
- [the crew in the runabout are discussing the conference on Bajor they are returning from]
- Captain Sisko: I thought the Bajorans bent over backwards to be polite to you, Garak.
- Elim Garak: Giving me a name tag that read, 'Elim Garak - Former Cardassian Oppressor' was hardly polite.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: And what did you want it to say - 'Former Spy'?
- [Odo has admitted that he was the one responsible for the death of the three Bajorans]
- Odo: I was too busy, too concerned with maintaining order, and the rule of law. I thought of myself as the outsider, a shapeshifter who cared for nothing but justice. It never occured to me that I could fail. But I did. And I never wanted anyone to know the truth... that seven years ago, I allowed three innocent men to die.
- [last lines]
- Major Kira: I guess the truth is that anyone who lived through the Occupation... had to get a little dirty. But I need to know... that no other innocent people died on your watch, Odo. That this was the only time.
- Odo: I'm not sure. I hope so.
- Elim Garak: [to Odo] It seems you have quite a fan club on Bajor. I half expected you to be signing autographs at the end.
- [Odo, Sisko and Garak appear with the identities of Timor, Ishan and Jillur respectively]
- Odo: Timor, Ishan and Jillur were the names of three Bajorans who were accused of attempting to assassinate Gul Dukat on the Promenade.
- Captain Sisko: Half the Resistance tried to kill Dukat.
- Odo: These three were innocent. However, no one knew that at the time, and... Dukat wanted to make an example of them, so he had them led out onto the Promenade and publicly... executed.
- Elim Garak: If we're them...
- Captain Sisko: If we're them, we'd better find a way out of here before Dukat makes an example out of *us*.
- Elim Garak: The Bajorans never did have a sense of style - turn the vase over and the Resistance appears!
- Elim Garak: You'd think they'd put us in our own cell block instead of with the common criminals. After all, we are accused of attempting to assassinate the station commander. That deserves some respect!
- Captain Sisko: [sardonically] Maybe they'll salute when they execute us.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: How do you feel?
- Gul Dukat: Better than the last time.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Last time?
- Gul Dukat: This is the forth assassination attempt I've survived.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Maybe you should find another job.
- Gul Dukat: Bad manners are the fault of the parent, not the child. My weakness is, I'm too generous, too forgiving. My heart is too big...
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: [knocks Dukat out] And so is your ego.
- Elim Garak: I never knew we were such messy conquerors. I remember the Occupation being a little more tidy than this.
- Captain Sisko: Everything's tidy when someone else is doing the cleaning.
- Thrax: The Occupation has lasted for fifty years, and it will probably last another fifty!
- Odo: I wouldn't be too sure about that.
- Thrax: Why not just accept it? If the Bajoran people would accept their place in history, none of this would be happening.
- Odo: We are talking about the attempt on Gul Dukat's life, not the socio-political ramifications of the Resistance!
- Thrax: It's all part of the same problem! When your people resort to terrorism and violence, they're fighting against order, against stability, against the rule of law, and this must be stopped.
- Odo: There is more to life than the rule of law.
- Thrax: It has been my observation that only the guilty make that kind of statement.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: What was it the moderator said? That you may have worked for the Cardassians, but your only master... was justice.
- Captain Sisko: And a legend is born.
- [Thrax suspects Quark to have dealings with the smuggler Livara]
- Thrax: Rumor has it that the Obsidian Order has had him under surveillance for several months.
- Quark: The Obsidian Order?
- Thrax: Rumor also has it that they're bringing in all of Livara's co-conspirators for... questioning.
- Quark: Well - you know how rumors are.
- Thrax: Yes - they're usually true.
- Odo: How much damage would it do to the timeline if Quark were to suffer a mysterious "accident"?
- Captain Sisko: I'm not sure. But maybe we should conduct a little experiment and find out.
- Odo: Captain! The authorities on Terok Nor will not be looking for reasons to help us, they will be looking for a reason to interrogate us, and believe me, you do not want to be interrogated by the Cardassians.
- Elim Garak: [about cleaning work] The Bajorans were much more suited for this sort of thing than we were. Servile work is in their nature.
- Captain Sisko: I'll remember to mention that to Major Kira when we get back.
- Elim Garak: There are exceptions to every rule.
- Odo: [as Timor] There's been a temporal displacement of some kind. We don't belong in this time. We are from the future!
- Thrax: I know.
- Odo: You know? Then what are you going to do about it?
- Thrax: What I am supposed to do; nothing more, nothing less. The question is - what are *you* going to do... Odo?
- Odo: I'm guilty. What more is there to say?
- Major Kira: Maybe nothing. Maybe a lot. I believed in you. A lot of people did. You were special; you were the one man who stood apart from everyone else, the one man who stood for justice. Now what?
- Odo: Now I'm... just another... imperfect Solid.
- Major Kira: Okay.
- Captain Sisko: This is Terok Nor, DS9 during the Occupation.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Time travel?
- Elim Garak: Er, no, it's more than that, our clothes have changed.
- Odo: Could we be in a holosuite?
- Captain Sisko: [testing] Computer, end program.
- [nothing happens]
- Captain Sisko: Let's assume that's a "no" for the moment.