[Quark is in the Security Office]
None of these charges are gonna stick! I haven't broken any laws! [beat] I have a license to run holosuites.
But you don't have a license to sell weapons, do you?
[pause] I defy you to prove that I've brought a single weapon onto this station.
It's a mere technicality; we both know what you're doing. And I promise you, you're going to face the consequences.
[Sisko and Kira enter while Odo is saying this]
Not today, he isn't! [pause] Let him go.
[incredulous] Let him go?!
Major, tell the constable what you told me.
The Bajoran government insists that Deep Space 9 not interfere with the lawful transactions of Hagath and his associates. Hagath supplied arms to the resistance—without him or people like him, we would all be dead, and the Cardassians would still be in power. [beat] We owe him.
[exasperated] Captain!
I don't like it any more than you do.
[smug] Better luck next time. [a furious Sisko spins Quark's chair around to face him]
[angrily] You'd better hope there isn't a "next time," mister! I have cut you a lot of slack in the past—I even looked the other way once or twice when I could have come down hard on you—but those days are over! Now, we may not be able to get you for selling weapons, but you so much as litter on the Promenade, and I will nail you to the wall!!
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