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.
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