Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

In Purgatory's Shadow (1997)

Andrew Robinson: Garak

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• Elim Garak : [to Dukat]  You do have a lovely daughter. She must take after her mother.

• Elim Garak : You've come a long way from the naive young man I met five years ago. You've become distrustful and suspicious. It suits you.

  Doctor Bashir : I had a good teacher.

• Elim Garak : I just don't see why these runabout replicators can't provide a more varied menu. I'd like to get my hands on that fellow Earl Grey and tell him a thing or two about... tea leaves.

• Elim Garak : Lying is a skill like any other, and if you want to maintain a level of excellence you have to practice constantly.

  Worf : Practice on someone else.

  Elim Garak : Mr. Worf, you're no fun at all.

  Worf : Good!

• Elim Garak : [after being released from the parapet]  You know, I think that actually helped my back.

• Enabran Tain : Elim - promise me one thing.

  Elim Garak : I'm listening.

  Enabran Tain : Don't die here. Escape. Live.

  Elim Garak : Let me guess - so that I can make the Dominion pay for what they've done to you?

  Enabran Tain : You wouldn't deny an old man his revenge, would you?

  Elim Garak : I'll do as you ask - on one condition: that you don't ask me this favor as a mentor or a superior officer - but as a father asking his son.

• Enabran Tain : Elim - remember that day in the country? You must have been almost five.

  Elim Garak : How can I forget it? It was the only day.

  Enabran Tain : I can still see you... on the back of that riding hound. You must have fallen off a dozen times. But you never gave up.

  Elim Garak : I remember limping home... You held my hand.

  Enabran Tain : I was very proud of you... that day...

  [he dies] 

• Enabran Tain : A man shouldn't allow his enemies to outlive him.

  Elim Garak : Then you can die happy - unless you still consider me your enemy.

• Elim Garak : Let this be a lesson to you, Doctor, perhaps the most valuable one I can ever teach you: sentiment is the greatest weakness of all.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : If that's true, it's a lesson I'd rather not learn.

• Elim Garak : [to Jem'Hadar soldier]  Ah, are we glad to see you! Could one of you point us in the direction of the wormhole?

• Doctor Bashir : So let me get this straight: you want me to lie to my commanding officer, violate Starfleet regulations and go with you on a mission into the Gamma Quadrant, which will probably get us both killed.

  Elim Garak : I'm ready when you are.

• Elim Garak : Remember: it's not just Tain we're looking for. The Maryland, the Proxima, the Sarajevo, Starfleet ships that have been lost in the Gamma Quadrant for years; and their crews - brave soldiers, warriors of the Federation unaccounted for... We owe it to them to do everything in our power to find them and bring them home. It's the honorable thing to do.

  Worf : You use that word, but you have no idea what it means.

  Elim Garak : Maybe not. But you do.

• Elim Garak : [Garak, feeling angry and feeling rejected by his father]  I should have never have come here. I should have let that monster die forgotten and alone.

  Doctor Bashir : Well frankly I'm glad you came, misery loves company.

  Elim Garak : All my life, I've done nothing but try to please that man. I let him mold me, let him turn me into a mirror image of himself. And how did he repay me? With exile. But I forgave him. And here, in the end, I thought maybe, just maybe, he could forgive me.

  Doctor Bashir : From what I've seen of him over the past month he doesn't come across as the forgiving type.

  Elim Garak : I've been a fool. Let this be a lesson to you, Doctor - perhaps the most valuable one I can ever teach you. Sentiment is the greatest weakness of all.

  Doctor Bashir : If that's true, it's a lesson I'd rather not learn.

• Martok : [Worf and Garak have been taken to a Dominion prison camp in the Gamma Quadrant, and after seeing General Martok, one of the prisoners, fight and lose a bout with a Jem'Hadar guard, they rush over to help]  Do I know you?

  Worf : I am Worf, son of Mogh.

  Martok : Yes, I've heard of you.

  Elim Garak : How long have you been here?

  Martok : [still weak from the fight]  Two years.

  Elim Garak : Aren't you Klingons supposed to kill yourselves when you're taken prisoner?

  Worf : [contemptuous]  Not when there are still enemies to fight!

  Martok : Or hope of escape.

• Elim Garak : Because I'm exiled, and alone, and a long way from home. And when I'm with you... it doesn't feel so bad.

• Elim Garak : Brave soldiers, warriors of the Federation, unaccounted for. We owe it to them to do everything in our power to find them and bring them home. It's the honorable thing to do.

  Worf : You use that word, but you have no idea what it means.

  Elim Garak : Maybe not, but you do.

• Worf : [referring to Tain]  What is wrong with him?

  Martok : It's his heart.

  Elim Garak : Really? There are many people who'd say he doesn't have one.