Deep Space Nine · Season 1, Episode 19
“Duet” · Season 1, Episode 19
In this episode: Kira Nerys (5), Gul Darhe'el (5), Quark (1), Odo (1)
[Bajoran survivors of a Cardassian labor camp have gathered on DS9]
Who are they?
Survivors of Gallitep. They arrived here this morning. They've come to see justice done.
Gallitep... imagine living through that hellhole... the pain... the sorrow... Do you think they like to gamble?
[after being told that his war crimes tribunal is being prepared]
War crimes? How can there be war crimes when there hasn't been a war? Oh, I can understand your wish that there had been a war. Your need to indulge some pathetic fantasy about brave Bajoran soldiers marching to honorable defeat, but in fact, Major, you and I know there was no war. No glory. Bajor didn't resist. It surrendered.
The Bajorans were a peaceful people before you came. We offered no threat to you. We could never understand why you had to be so brutal.
Well, we can't have that, Major. I want no more secrets between us. Anything you can't understand, I'll explain to you.
My word, my every glance was law! And the verdict was always the same: Guilty!
You're insane!
Oh, no, no, major. You can't dismiss me that easily. I did what had to be done! My men understood that and that's why they loved me. I would order them to go out and kill Bajoran scum. And they'd do it! They'd murder them! And they'd come back covered in blood, but they felt clean. Now why did they feel that way, Major? Because they were clean.
Don't you see, it doesn't change anything! Kill me, torture me, it doesn't matter! You've already lost, Major! You can never undo what I've accomplished! The dead will still be dead!
Look! I regret a lot of what I had to do!
How convenient for you.
You're Marritza, aren't you?
You mistake me for that bug? That whimpering nothing? Ho-ho, you stupid Bajoran girl! Don't you know who I am? I'm your nemesis! I'm your nightmare! I'm the Butcher of Gallitep!
The Butcher of Gallitep died six years ago. You're Aamin Marritza, his filing clerk.
That's not true, I am alive! I will always be alive! It's Marritza who's dead! Marritza...who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman! Who would, every night, cover his ears, because he couldn't bear to hear the screaming for mercy of the Bajorans...
[He breaks down and sinks onto his bunk, sobbing uncontrollably.]
I covered my ears every night. But I couldn't bear to hear those horrible screams. You have no idea what it's like to be a coward. To see these horrors... and do nothing. Marritza's dead. He deserves to be dead.[With a look of tragic sympathy, Kira deactivates his cell] What are you doing?
I'm letting you go.
Security! Get in here! [Kira enters his cell and he backs away from her into a corner]
You didn't commit those crimes, and you couldn't stop them. You were only one man.
No, no, don't you see? I have to be punished, we all have to be punished! Major, you have to go out there and tell them I'm Gul Dar'heel! It's the only way!
[close to tears herself] Why are you doing this?
For Cardassia! Cardassia will only survive if it stands in front of Bajor and admits the truth! My trial will force Cardassia to acknowledge its guilt. And we're guilty, all of us! My death is necessary!
What you're asking for is another murder. Enough good people have already died. I won't help kill another.
[Aamin Marritza has just been stabbed by Kainon on the promenade]
[holding the rapidly dying Marritza] Why!?! He wasn't Darhe'el!
He was Cardassian! That's reason enough!
No. No, it's not.
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