"In Purgatory's Shadow/By Infernos Light" Line-by-Line

Kira: We're on our way.

 

[Ops]

SISKO: One of our listening posts in the Gamma Quadrant picked this up a few minutes ago.

 

Dax: It looks like a Cardassian military code, but the computer doesn't recognise it.

 

KIRA: Oh, it's Cardassian all right. But I didn't think there were any Cardassians in the Gamma Quadrant.

 

SISKO: None that we know of.

 

ODO: Not Elgol-red or Fifth Order military encryption.

 

KIRA: Try courier code five nine.

 

Odo: Strange. Most Cardassian codes use a recursive encryption algorithm, but this has a completely different coding system.

 

KIRA: Bajoran Intelligence has a lot of experience breaking Cardassian codes. Why don't you send it to them?

 

Jadzia: We did, as soon as it came in. We still haven't heard from them.

 

Odo: It might take some time.

 

Sisko: If someone's sending coded Cardassian messages from the Gamma Quadrant, I want to know what they're saying. Now.

 

ODO: We do have an expert in Cardassian codes living on the station.

 

Sisko: You're right. Dax, get me Mister Garak.

 

Replimat

GARAK: Sorry for the interruption.

 

Ziyal: Well, how did it go?

 

GARAK: I'm afraid I disappointed them. I think they were hoping that message they picked up would contain the key to defeating the Dominion. You should've seen the looks on their faces when I told them it was a five-year old planetary survey report.

 

BASHIR: A planetary survey report?

 

GARAK: That's the look exactly.

 

BASHIR: I would have thought you'd be a little disappointed, too. After all, it could have been from one of the survivors of the Cardassian fleet that was lost in the Gamma Quadrant.