Field of Fire Line-by-Line

[Orac]

Joran: This photo.

 

[May 20]

EZRI: That's it. It's the pictures! He's laughing!

[Vanderweg's quarters]

EZRI: She's laughing.

[Ilario's quarters]

EZRI: That's what the victims have in common. Pictures of laughing faces.

 

[Athena28]

JORAN: A killer who hates laughter. Who hates emotion.

 

[May 20]

EZRI: A Vulcan.

 

[Orac]

Joran: All Vulcans distrust emotions, but they don't go around killing people for smiling.

 

[CaptVader]

EZRI: This one does. Something happened to him, something so emotionally painful it's making him lose control. When he looks through the targeting sensor and sees those pictures, the laughter seems to mock him.

 

[Orac]

Joran: You're thinking like he thinks. Good, Ezri.

 

[Oddish]

EZRI: "Computer. How many Vulcan Starfleet Officers are on the station?"

 

[May 20]

COMPUTER: There are forty eight Vulcans serving on Deep Space Nine.

 

[Orac]

Joran: Now all we have to do is eliminate forty seven of them.

 

[CaptVader]

EZRI: I should tell Odo.

 

[May 20]

JORAN: Not until we have proof.

 

[CaptVader]

EZRI: Then let's get some.

(The next line is separate not a continuation)

 

[Oddish]

[Science lab]

EZRI: "We still have twenty eight suspects. Vulcans who have suffered a personal loss of some kind."

 

[Poltargyst]

JORAN: We've narrowed the field.

 

[CaptVader]

EZRI: Not by enough.

 

[Oddish]

[Promenade - upper level]

(There are Vulcans seemingly everywhere.)

EZRI: "There's one thing I don't understand. If he hates laughter, then why doesn't he seek out his victims in Quark's or in a holosuite?"

 

[Orac]

Joran: Maybe it's not just the laughter.

 

[Athena28]

EZRI: You're right. Maybe it has something to do with the way the photograph freezes the emotion, making it seem like the laughter is going to last forever.

[Turbolift]

EZRI: Level 12, central core.

 

[May 20]

JORAN: So, what do we do now?