"Homefront"/"Paradise Lost" Line-by-Line

ODO: I'll be in the next room if you need me

 

Leyton: Mind if I get a cup of coffee?

 

SISKO: Help yourself.

 

LEYTON: I haven't been getting a lot of sleep lately. Too much to do.

 

SISKO: Maybe you need a vacation.

 

LEYTON: Mmm. Somehow replicated coffee never tastes this good. I'm afraid I owe you an apology, Ben.

 

SISKO: The way I see it, you owe a lot of people an apology.

 

LEYTON: I wish I could have told you the truth from the beginning, but somehow I suspected we wouldn't see eye to eye on this thing.

 

SISKO: Then why did you bring me here?

 

LEYTON: Because I needed someone who knew how to fight Shape-shifters. And that's you. And I suppose on some level I hoped that once you saw what we were accomplishing, you'd join us. You always had a strong sense of duty.

 

SISKO: My duty is to protect the Federation.

 

LEYTON: Which is what we're trying to do.

 

SISKO: What you're trying to do is to seize control of Earth and place it under military rule.

 

LEYTON: If that's what it takes to stop the Dominion.

 

SISKO: So you're willing to destroy paradise in order to save it.

 

LEYTON: Do you remember when we were on the Okinawa fighting the Tzenkethi? That time when I wanted to take the ship into an asteroid belt to chase down those three raiders. We talked it over at the staff meeting...

 

SISKO: And I said it was an unnecessary risk.

 

LEYTON: You spoke your mind. Which is exactly what a good executive officer is supposed to do. But I overruled you. After the staff meeting you followed me into my ready room and tried to argue your point again.

 

SISKO: That's right, I did.

 

LEYTON: And remember what I told you?