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"The Maquis" Line-by-Line!

Hudson: We'll talk later, you go on.

Amaros, Kobb and others leave

Hudson: (to Tall Native American man) Get him out of here.

Samuels is taken away.

Later, Sisko and Hudson are still in the meeting room, alone.

Hudson: I knew him. Bill Samuels was a farmer. He cultivated his land for 20 years. He raised 2 kids on that land. He made something out of that land and the Federation told him he had to give it all up to the Cardassians. Well, he was just not willing to do that.
 
SISKO: And it was people like him who made both sides realise that some accommodation had to be made for the colonies so they could stay.
 
Hudson: The Cardassians have no intention of allowing these people to stay. They will either force them out, or they will kill them. It's already started. Not a day goes by when there's not some random act of violence against our people. Every Federation colonist knows you do not go out alone at night. Can you imagine living in that kind of fear?
 
Hudson: Enforcing the laws?! The Cardassian authorities were part of a mob that stoned two colonists in the streets of Ropal City 3 days ago.
 
Hudson: Well, that will help a lot. The word is, the Cardassian High Command is arming their colonists to the teeth.
 
SISKO: Not long ago, we caught the Cardassians shipping weapons to Bajoran extremists through a third party, the Yridians (was actually the Kressari).
 
HUDSON: That sounds about right. Could the Bok'Nor have been transferring weapons to someone else to bring in here?
 
SISKO: If it was, the transfer was made before the ship reached the station. The cargo holds of the Bok'Nor were empty. Do you think he did it?
 
HUDSON: Samuels? I don't know. They could have forced him to make a false confession and then killed him.
 
HUDSON: Then maybe he did do it, Ben. I don't know. Damn! I've got to go see his wife. I don't know what I'm going to tell her. Makes you pine for the good old dull days in New Berlin, doesn't it? Sausage and beer all around, and everyone's idea of a good time was the mazurka festival.
 
SISKO: I still have the hat. Is there something larger going on here, Cal? Are these colonists organizing some kind of terrorist campaign?
 
HUDSON: Well if they are, they're not about to tell me about it. But I'll tell you one thing, Ben, between you and me, those people have every right to defend themselves. When the Federation said goodbye to them, they left them no other choice.
 
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