Field of Fire Line-by-Line

[Oddish]

BASHIR: "Instead of a phaser?"

 

[Orac]

O'Brien: Yeah. I mean, why use a rifle if you're going to shoot somebody from close range?

 

[Athena28]

BASHIR: I don't know. He or she may have originally intended to kill their victims from a great distance, so they replicated a long-range weapon. Or they had some special connection to this particular rifle. A fetish or psychological obsession, perhaps?

 

[Oddish]

O'BRIEN: "I suppose so."

 

[May 20]

BASHIR: Did you ever read that biography I gave you on Davy Crockett last month?

 

[CaptVader]

O'BRIEN: No. But I'll get to it.

 

[Orac]

Bashir: There was this fascinating section about the mythology that grew up around Crockett and his rifle. There was this notion that a man could have a special relationship with a weapon. Some frontiersmen even went so far as to give their rifles names, female ones at that, thus changing the relationship between owner and object to something resembling man and woman.

 

[Oddish]

O'BRIEN: "Maybe I'll start calling my tricorder Sally."

 

[CaptVader]

BASHIR: There's some great tall tales in that book. There's one particular story where Crockett was supposed to have put up a target against a tree and arranged a series of tin frying pans nearby in a complicated pattern. The idea was that he was going to shoot a bullet at one of these pans which would then ricochet to another and then to another and then to another and then to another.

 

[Tiran O'Saurus]

O'BRIEN: Wait a minute. That's it. Displaced targeting. That's how he did it.

 

[CaptVader]

BASHIR: Who?

 

[Orac]

O'Brien: The killer. He set up an alternate bullet trajectory, one that didn't require a direct line of sight between him and the victim. Julian, you're a genius.

 

[CaptVader]

BASHIR: Don't thank me, thank Davy Crockett.

 

[Orac]

[Science lab]

Ezri: What do you think?

 

[Athena28]

ODO: Nice melon.

 

[CaptVader]

EZRI: But what does it have to do with us?

 

[Orac]

Odo: I have no idea. All I know is that Chief O'Brien wanted me to bring you here. He said he had something to show us.

 

[Athena28]

O'BRIEN: O'Brien to Science Lab.

 

[May 20]

ODO: Go ahead, Chief.

 

[Orac]

O'Brien [OC]: Are you ready?