Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Necessary Evil (1993)

Rene Auberjonois: Constable Odo

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• Odo : Commence station security log, stardate 47282.5 - At the request of Commander Sisko, I will hereafter be recording a daily log of law enforcement affairs. The reason for this exercise is beyond my comprehension, except perhaps that Humans have a compulsion to keep records and lists and files. So many in fact, that they have to invent new ways to store them microscopically. Otherwise their records would overrun all known civilization. My own very adequate memory not being good enough for Starfleet, I am pleased to put my voice to this official record of this day. Everything's under control. End log.

• [Quark has been shot in his bar] 

  Rom : He's dying, isn't he? He's dying! What am I gonna do if my brother dies?

  Odo : Do? Oh, you'll have a lot to do once this place is yours.

  Rom : But if he dies...

  [stops short] 

  Rom : Mine?

  Odo : "Wives serve, brothers inherit". Rule of Acquisition number 139, if I'm not mistaken.

  Rom : I hadn't thought of that.

  Odo : Really? I had. Because it's a solid motive for murder.

  Rom : Yes, actually. I have heard of a few untimely deaths, that seemed...

  [stops short] 

  Rom : Wait a minute. You're not suggesting that I...

  Odo : I've had my eye on you for a long time, Rom. You're not as stupid as you look.

  Rom : I am, too!

• Odo : [playing the role of the investigator]  Oh, there was one other thing...

• [last lines] 

  Odo : I misjudged you, Major. You were a better liar than I gave you credit for.

  Major Kira : You were working for the Cardassians.

  Odo : I haven't been for more than a year. You've had all that time to tell me the truth.

  Major Kira : I tried to tell you the truth, a hundred times.

  [pause] 

  Major Kira : What you think of me... matters a lot. - I was afraid...

  Odo : That it might affect our friendship?

  [Kira nods] 

  Odo : Maybe it doesn't have to.

  Major Kira : Will you ever be able to trust me in the same way again?

  [Odo does not reply] 

• Rom : They're not keeping him alive by artificial means, are they? My brother wouldn't want that.

  Odo : No, he's clinging to life all on his own.

  Rom : Typical.

• Odo : I'm looking for the proprietor of this establishment.

  Quark : Does he owe you money?

  Odo : No.

  Quark : Are you here to arrest him?

  Odo : No.

  Quark : Then you've found him. Quark, at your service.

• Odo : [voice-over]  Nobody ever had to teach me the justice trick. That's something I've always known. A racial memory from my species, I guess. It's really the only clue I have to what kind of people they are. Are these kinds of thoughts appropriate for a Starfleet log? I don't care. There's no room in justice for loyalty, or friendship, or love. Justice, as the Humans like to say, is blind. I used to believe that. I'm not sure I can anymore.

• Major Kira : We never talked about it.

  Odo : We never had to.

  Major Kira : I would have been executed.

  Odo : You were innocent of the crime I was investigating.

  Major Kira : That wouldn't have mattered to the Cardassians.

  Odo : It mattered to me.

• Gul Dukat : Have you ever seen a dead man before?

  Odo : Yes. In your mines.

• Odo : I have no intention of being a Cardassian agent.

  Gul Dukat : Not an agent - an investigator.

  Odo : There's a difference?

  Gul Dukat : We can't have these Bajorans running around and murdering each other, now can we? I'm talking about order here, justice.

  Odo : There's very little justice in the Cardassian occupation of Bajor.

  Gul Dukat : Don't push me, Odo!

• Kira Nerys : My last job was at a replicator plant on Bajor.

  Odo : You're not allowed to quit those jobs. What happened?

  Kira Nerys : I hit a supervisor, for trying... what I thought you were trying a few minutes ago.

  Odo : Hm... I appreciate your restraint this time.

• Odo : Gul Dukat asked me to investigate the murder of a Bajoran man named Vaatrik. I understand you knew him.

  Kira Nerys : Who says I did?

  Odo : His widow.

  [Kira glances over to Mrs. Vaatrik] 

  Kira Nerys : I suppose she also told you I killed him.

  Odo : Did you?

  Kira Nerys : No.

  Odo : On the contrary. You were in love with him.

  Kira Nerys : No.

  Odo : But... he was in love with you?

  Kira Nerys : No.

  Odo : Doesn't sound like much of a romance.

• Odo : You're not planning on leaving the station soon?

  Kira Nerys : If I were, would you have the Cardassians stop me?

  Odo : Yes.

  Kira Nerys : Then I'm not planning on leaving the station soon.

• Kira Nerys : Unofficially or not, you're working for the Cardassians. Sooner or later you're gonna have to choose whose side you're on.

  Odo : I don't choose sides.

  Kira Nerys : Everyone has to choose sides, Constable.

• Odo : You don't lie well.

  Kira Nerys : Thanks.

• Odo : Close your eyes, take a deep breath. Clear your mind of everything in it - if there's anything there... Breathe... breathe... Now, what do you see?

  Rom : T-the bar!

  Odo : Yes?

  Rom : With my name on it.

  Odo : The past, Rom, not the future.

• Odo : Security log, stardate 47284.1 - In this job, there is no unfinished business. This assault on Quark re-opens a five-year-old murder case that I've never, not for a moment, closed. Patience is a lost virtue to most. To me, an ally.

• Odo : Security log, supplemental - The Ferengi holds onto life like it's gold-pressed latinum. Maybe he just doesn't want his brother to get the bar. Or maybe he knows he's the only real witness I have.

• Odo : She paid you, for an alibi. I wonder how Gul Dukat will react when I tell him about that.

  Quark : I'm sure it'll cost me a case of Cardassian ale.

  Gul Dukat : [entering the scene]  Two cases, at the very least.

• Odo : There's a list of names, Bajoran names, the one at the very top catches your eye, and the first letter is...?

  Rom : C. It's a C.

  Odo : And the next letter is...?

  Rom : Uuuhh, I...

  Odo : Skip to the last letter in the name, Rom.

  Rom : O! It's an O!

  Odo : Starts with a C, ends with an O.

  Rom : And, and there's a mark in the name...

  Odo : An apostrophe?

  Rom : Ches'so!

  Odo : You're sure?

  Rom : Yes!

  Odo : Aaahh!

  Rom : Maybe.

• Odo : That's why all of you always come to me with problems. I'm the outsider. I'm on no-one's side. All I'm interested in is justice.