"The Search" Line-by-Line!

KIRA: Then stop interrogating these people. This is the moment you've been waiting for all your life. Enjoy it. He really is happy to be here. Aren't you?

 

Odo: Yes, of course. It's just this is all very sudden.

 

FEMALE CHANGELING: And you have many questions.

 

Odo: Yes. Please, what exactly is this Great Link?

 

FEMALE CHANGELING: The Link is the very foundation of our society. It provides a meaning to our existence. It is the merging of thought and form, the sharing of idea and sensation. Is something wrong?

 

ODO: I've lived a very solitary life.

 

Female: That's unfortunate but necessary, as you'll learn in time. But now, that part of your life is over. You're home.

(She holds out her hand to Odo.)

 

MALE CHANGELING: What are you doing?

 

FEMALE: Take it.

 

MALE CHANGELING: It's not time. He isn't ready.

 

Female: He's been gone too long. He needs to remember, if only for a moment. Don't be afraid.

(Odo takes her hand and their limbs blend for a short while before reforming again. Odo appears overwhelmed.)

 

KIRA: Odo. What have you done to him?

 

Female: I allowed him to experience the Link.

 

KIRA: Odo..

 

ODO: Yes, Major?

 

KIRA: Are you all right? What happened?

 

ODO: I'm not sure. But I know one thing. She's right, I am home.

 

[Shuttlepod]

SISKO: Commander's log, supplemental. It's been six days since we had to abandon the Defiant after the Jem'Hadar attack. We still don't know what happened to the rest of the crew. Doctor Bashir and I have plotted a course back to the wormhole. Whether the shuttle can get us back there or not is questionable at best. Our engines are failing, our external sensors are barely functioning and life support systems are at twenty percent and dropping.

 

Bashir: But other than that we couldn't be in better shape.

 

Sisko: I thought you were sleeping.