- [Jake feels uneasy about being spotted by Odo on the promenade]
- Jake Sisko: You always used to chase me away.
- Odo: I never chased you away, I chased Nog. You just happened to be with him. So, unless you are planning on flicking sand peas at the passing throng, you are welcome to stay here as long as you like.
- Garak: The Intendant was bad enough. She was irrational, accusatory, unappreciative, but at least...
- Regent Worf: At least... what?
- Garak: At least... I was able to please her now and then.
- Regent Worf: You are not my type!
- Garak: I never said I was.
- [Jadzia slaps Sisko's face]
- Jadzia Dax: That's for making love to me under false pretenses. I was suspicious of you from the start.
- Captain Sisko: You hid it well.
- Jadzia Dax: If you ever touch me again...
- [she holds a large knife to his throat]
- Jadzia Dax: Do you get my point?
- Captain Sisko: I hope not.
- Chief O'Brien: [after Sisko has already taught O'Brien Evasive Pattern Delta] Shields are down to forty percent! That cruiser has us in weapons range! Do we make a run for it?
- Captain Sisko: We run, all right - right at it!
- Chief O'Brien: Ah. "Pattern Suicide".
- Chief O'Brien: Captain Bashir, Captain O'Brien, Captain Sisko. We may not have enough troops or ships or weapons, but we have plenty of captains!
- Regent Worf: Terek Nor will soon be ours again! Then you can spend the rest of your life contemplating your failure as you labour alongside the other slaves in the ore processing center!
- Garak: It's nice to have something to look forward to.
- Garak: Believe me, my Regent, it will take the blood of many rebels to quench the thirst of my revenge.
- Regent Worf: [laughs] Spoken like a Klingon!
- Garak: I'm trying.
- Intendant Kira: I could never make them understand, violence is a precision instrument. It's a scalpel, not a club.
- Intendant Kira: [of Jennifer Sisko] She's very attractive, but I've known Breen icicles that are warmer than she is.
- [Regent Worf suspects Garak to have stolen a key]
- Garak: You've searched me three times already. Where could I possibly be hiding it?
- Regent Worf: Perhaps you swallowed it.
- Garak: Impossible. I'm very particular about what I eat.
- Nog: You and I friends?
- [laughs]
- Nog: I don't think so.
- Jake Sisko: Why not?
- Nog: You're too tall. I don't trust tall men. Tall women... ah, that's a different story!
- Captain Sisko: All right, I'm here. And I'm going to help you. But I want you to leave my son alone.
- Jennifer Sisko: I can't.
- Captain Sisko: Why not?
- Jake Sisko: [from the background] Jennifer!
- Jennifer Sisko: Because he won't leave *me* alone.
- [Nog has helped the Intendant escape from her holding cell]
- Nog: Don't worry about me, I won't tell anyone where you are.
- [they separate. Kira, having second thoughts, goes back after Nog]
- Intendant Kira: Nog!
- [shoots him]
- Intendant Kira: You're right. You won't tell anyone.
- Intendant Kira: [to Jake] Give your father a message from me: tell him I spared your life. That's a debt I intend to collect.
- [Sisko has voluntarily taken command of the rebels' Defiant]
- Chief O'Brien: Captain, you never cease to amaze me.
- Captain Sisko: Sometimes I even surprise myself.
- Jennifer Sisko: I knew that Jake would want to meet me, that I'd remind him of his mother.
- Captain Sisko: You're nothing like his mother.
- Jennifer Sisko: I think Jake would disagree.
- Captain Sisko: Of course he would. In his mind, the three of us are already living together!
- Captain Sisko: There's a difference between interrogation and torture.
- Captain Bashir: The Alliance never made that distinction.
- Captain Sisko: But you should.
- Jennifer Sisko: By the way, you have done a good job with him. Jake, I mean.
- Captain Sisko: Well, you're not making that job any easier.
- Jennifer Sisko: Oh, he'll get over me.
- Captain Sisko: Maybe.
- Jennifer Sisko: [gloomily] I wish I could say the same.
- [Sisko looks at her surprised]
- Jennifer Sisko: Is that really a surprise? Think about it. My Ben Sisko is dead. I look at Jake... and all I see... is the son that I'll never have. Maybe bringing him here wasn't such a good idea after all.
- Guard: You sentenced my wife to death.
- Intendant Kira: Isn't that a coincidence? I was hoping you weren't married.
- [Nog has lent one of his women to Jake]
- Jennifer Sisko: Jake, isn't she a little old for you?
- Nog: Who are you, his mother?
- [Jennifer has been shot by the Intendant when trying to protect Jake]
- Jake Sisko: [bent over her holding her hand] She needs a doctor!
- Intendant Kira: Mm... I'm afraid it's too late - for both of you.
- [she points her gun at Jake]
- Intendant Kira: Just out of curiosity - why was she protecting you?
- Jake Sisko: [after a pause] She's my mother.