"The Search" Line-by-Line!

[BlueStuff]

KIRA I'm the one they don't trust, not you.

 

[Athena28]

FEMALE SHAPESHIFTER: How perceptive, Major. If our history has taught us anything, it's to avoid contact with Solids whenever possible.

 

[BlueStuff]

KIRA: Solids?

 

[Orac]

Female: Our name for mono-forms like yourself, who'll never know the joys of the Great Link.

 

[Athena28]

KIRA: I don't intend to stay long. There's a chance Sisko and the others survived the attack. I'm going to go back to the shuttle and try contacting them.

 

[Orac]

Female: I'm sorry. I cannot allow you to send any communications from the planet's surface. They could be traced back here. We value our isolation.

 

[BlueStuff]

ODO: Yes, of course.

 

[Orac]

Female: Tell me, Odo, have you made good use of the arboretum?

 

[Athena28]

ODO: In what way?

 

[BlueStuff]

FEMALE: By assuming the various shapes surrounding you.

 

[Athena28]

ODO: Why would I do that?

 

[BlueStuff]

FEMALE: To become a thing is to know a thing. To assume its form is to begin to understand its existence.

 

[Athena28]

ODO: Understand it? How?

 

[BlueStuff]

FEMALE: Living among the Solids has damaged you far worse than I realised. It has left you ignorant of the gifts you possess.

 

[Orac]

Odo: Then teach me what I need to know.

 

[Athena28]

FEMALE SHAPESHIFTER: I'll do what I can. But in the end, this is another journey you'll have to make on your own.

 

[Orac]

(She hands him a rock.)

Female: And when it is over you'll be ready to take your place in the Great Link.

(She leaves.)

 

[BlueStuff]

KIRA: Odo.

 

[Orac]

Odo: I'd like to be alone if you don't mind.

 

[Athena28]

KIRA: All right. But if you need me, I'll be in the shuttle trying to contact Sisko. Don't worry. When I was in the resistance I learned to camouflage subspace messages with quantum interference. I taught the method to Commander Sisko. If anyone intercepts the signal all they'll read is elevated levels of background radiation.