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00:00:02SISKO: Station Log, Stardate 46910.1.
00:00:06Chief O'Brien has escorted his wife
00:00:08back to Earth to celebrate her mother's 100th birthday.
00:00:11In the meantime, the rest of us are trying to keep the station up and running.
00:00:20It's almost as if the refiltration processors were waiting for Chief O'Brien to leave before breaking down.
00:00:26This technology looks like something the Cardassians must have taken from the Romulans.
00:00:32Is that an RCL type-1 matrix field?
00:00:34Perhaps we should call in a Romulan repair service.
00:00:37Or an RCL type-2?
00:00:40Another raktajino?
00:00:42It'll keep me up all night.
00:00:44I can think of better ways of keeping you up and they're more fun than drinking Klingon coffee.
00:00:51Definitely type-1.
00:01:13Dax.
00:01:19I really should be getting to bed.
00:01:20May I escort you to your quarters?
00:01:23That's not necessary, Julian.
00:01:25Oh.
00:01:27Well, good night, then.
00:01:45"Not necessary, Julian."
00:01:50But not forbidden, either.
00:02:01Dax.
00:02:04Yes.
00:02:06You are Dax?
00:02:07What do you want?
00:02:16( muffled cry )
00:02:18Dax!
00:04:56Yes, Major?
00:04:57I'm just not sure, Commander.
00:04:59{\an8}What does it look like to you?
00:05:02{\an8}It looks like a residual charge in the graviton generator.
00:05:05{\an8}If that's what it is, it will bleed off.
00:05:07{\an8}Let's run a quick level-3 diagnostic, just to be sure.
00:05:15{\an8}-Bashir to Ops. -Ops.
00:05:17{\an8}Three people... I think they just took Jadzia.
00:05:22{\an8}She tried to struggle with them, and I tried to help, but...
00:05:26{\an8}Full station security alert.
00:05:28{\an8}Secure all turbolifts.
00:05:30{\an8}Seal off airlocks on levels four through 12.
00:05:32{\an8}Computer, locate Lieutenant Dax.
00:05:34{\an8}Lieutenant Dax is on level six, corridor one.
00:05:37{\an8}BASHIR: No, that's where I am.
00:05:38-They just left her comm badge. -How long ago, Doctor?
00:05:42Oh, I'm not sure, really.
00:05:44DAX: What are you doing?
00:05:48We turn right at the next corridor.
00:05:58They're managing to avoid the security tracking grid.
00:06:01{\an8}They seem to know a lot about the station.
00:06:04{\an8}Then they may know the speed of our runabouts.
00:06:05If they do, they probably have a faster ship to make their escape.
00:06:08Major, survey all ships in dock with a high warp capability.
00:06:17-Damn! -What?
00:06:20That's why we've got a residual charge in the graviton generator.
00:06:23They've disabled the tractor beam.
00:06:24We've got eight ships in dock capable of warp five or more.
00:06:27Three on docking pylons, five smaller ones in the ports.
00:06:30Seal off all docking ring airlocks.
00:06:32Security, all duty squads to the docking ring.
00:06:35Commence immediate inward sweep, levels 16 through 21.
00:06:46( beeping )
00:06:55I've got them-- Airlock 5.
00:06:58ODO: I'm on my way.
00:06:59Security, report to airlock, corridor five.
00:07:01We have a hostage situation.
00:07:03Isolating with cadderon force fields.
00:07:06Will you just tell me what you want?
00:07:24Move.
00:07:30( console beeping )
00:07:32Force field is down.
00:07:34They know the security override codes.
00:07:37They're boarding a ship.
00:07:38I'm trying to speed up the bleed-off process
00:07:40-in the graviton generator. -( beeping )
00:07:42We lost them.
00:07:50It's working.
00:07:52I'm increasing the flow to the EPS wave guides.
00:07:55The excess charge is neutralizing.
00:07:57Engage tractor beam.
00:08:06Gotcha.
00:08:09Bring it in to Docking Port 6, Major.
00:08:22Slowly!
00:08:24Extremities where I can see them.
00:08:27You're the Chief of Security?
00:08:35Are you all right?
00:08:38My name is Ilon Tandro, special envoy from Klaestron IV, in charge of this extradition procedure.
00:08:45Extradition? I call this kidnapping and assault.
00:08:47You'll find that to be a valid warrant for her arrest.
00:08:50The relevant treaty between Klaestron IV and your Federation allows for unilateral extradition.
00:08:55And the charge?
00:08:57The fugitive Dax is charged with treason... and the murder of my father.
00:09:19The warrant says Dax was responsible for the death of General Ardelon Tandro
00:09:2430 years ago.
00:09:26Thirty years ago?
00:09:27That would have been Curzon Dax.
00:09:29Mmm, when he was on Klaestron IV as a Federation mediator during their civil war.
00:09:36He never mentioned he'd even been to Klaestron IV.
00:09:39Strange.
00:09:40Not so strange, considering these charges.
00:09:43Odo, let me tell you something.
00:09:45Curzon Dax tended to be a little cavalier about life, even about his personal responsibilities from time to time.
00:09:54I think that was part of the reason I liked him so much.
00:09:58He had more faults than the usual socially acceptable Trill.
00:10:04He was not a murderer.
00:10:06How about a traitor?
00:10:08It says Dax betrayed the Klaestron government to the rebels.
00:10:11It's all nonsense, Constable.
00:10:13I'm telling you I knew the man.
00:10:16But did you know the symbiont inside the man?
00:10:22( door chimes )
00:10:28Come in.
00:10:33I've sent a subspace message to Klaestron IV requesting confirmation of the warrant.
00:10:39That's the only stall I could think of.
00:10:42Now, what the hell's going on, Dax?
00:10:47Dax. If I'm going to help you, you've got to help me.
00:10:51I don't expect any help, Benjamin.
00:10:54Thank you, though.
00:10:55Are you crazy?
00:10:57Treason and murder-- on Klaestron IV.
00:11:00Either of those gets you the death penalty.
00:11:09What's the matter with you?
00:11:12Talk to me, before I have to let these people take you.
00:11:15No. I'm sorry, Benjamin, but no.
00:11:30We've got 18, 20 years of friendship behind us.
00:11:35I'm Jadzia Dax now.
00:11:37That was Curzon Dax you knew for 20 years.
00:11:40So when the Dax part of you survived from one host to the next, it really didn't take our friendship along.
00:11:46Benjamin, you know you're still my very dear friend.
00:11:54I'm sorry.
00:11:59You've received your confirmation, Commander.
00:12:02Now we'd like to be on our way with the prisoner.
00:12:04You know, Mr. Tandro,
00:12:06I kept wondering why you tried to kidnap Lieutenant Dax rather than just present your warrant to me in the proper way.
00:12:12I couldn't figure that out at first.
00:12:14I trust you have figured out, Commander, that our extradition treaty with your Federation is current and valid.
00:12:20This station is technically Bajoran.
00:12:22What does that mean to us?
00:12:24You don't have an extradition treaty with Bajor.
00:12:26I think that's why you tried to abduct Lieutenant Dax.
00:12:30You were afraid the Bajorans would refuse extradition.
00:12:33That's absurd.
00:12:34No Bajoran interests are even involved here.
00:12:37How did you know your way around this station so well?
00:12:41My conversation is with the Commander.
00:12:43No, your conversation is with my first officer now.
00:12:47You Klaestrons are allies of the Cardassians.
00:12:49Your knowledge of this station confirms that.
00:12:51They must have given you the layout, which not only compromises Bajoran security, but also... annoys us.
00:13:00I'm afraid Bajoran interests are involved, and Bajor is adamant that--
00:13:06At least, I believe it's adamant.
00:13:08Oh. Oh, yes.
00:13:09You see, there will have to be an extradition hearing before I can lawfully release Lieutenant Dax.
00:13:21For how long?
00:13:22As long as it takes.
00:13:24That could be for days.
00:13:26Well, there's nowhere else on the station that's suitable.
00:13:28That's too bad.
00:13:31I'm not shutting down for any Bajoran hearing.
00:13:33I'm sure Lieutenant Dax would appreciate it.
00:13:40Business is business.
00:13:42Ah.
00:13:47You know, that wall's going to have to come in about five meters.
00:13:51What are you talking about?
00:13:53Of course, after you move the wall, that'll mean your second-level holosuites will have to come down.
00:13:59Come down? Why?
00:14:01New restrictions.
00:14:04Restrictions?
00:14:05Building codes.
00:14:07Since the provisional government took over, they've got their hands into everything and, of course, I'm the one who's expected to enforce their rules here.
00:14:17Ha.
00:14:20You know, I think this bar is just a little too near the exit.
00:14:28-This is blackmail. -No, it's just business.
00:14:34And business is business.
00:14:48I was just coming to see you.
00:14:50We still haven't found a place for the hearing.
00:14:53Holding it on Bajor would involve Dax leaving the station, and I don't want to risk that.
00:14:57Well, now that's a coincidence.
00:14:58Our good friend Quark just donated the use of his facility for the hearing.
00:15:02-Nice gesture. -I thought so.
00:15:04You know, I haven't been able to get a word out of Dax about any of this.
00:15:08So I thought someone might go do some investigating on Klaestron IV itself.
00:15:12What do you think?
00:15:13This case has 30 years of dust covering it.
00:15:16The extradition hearing will take about 30 minutes.
00:15:19I was hoping to make it a little longer than that.
00:15:21Good luck.
00:15:42This will be an informal hearing so I'm going to start with some informal advice.
00:15:47I am 100 years old.
00:15:48I do not have time to squander listening to superfluous language.
00:15:53In short, I intend being here until supper, not senility.
00:15:58Understood?
00:16:01Understood, Madam Arbiter.
00:16:06You seek the extradition. Make your case.
00:16:10The accused Trill, whatever its present appearance may be, was and is a Federation officer who committed capital crimes on our planet.
00:16:20Since there is no time limit on the prosecution of such crimes...
00:16:23Thank you, I have already read the warrant and the charges.
00:16:28The crimes described are 30 years old.
00:16:31What took you so long?
00:16:33The evidence was contained in military files which were officially sealed until recently.
00:16:38Fine. Sit.
00:16:43Commander, the warrant is in order.
00:16:46On what grounds do you ask that I deny extradition?
00:16:49You say the warrant's in order, but the name on the warrant is Dax.
00:16:53Certainly that doesn't refer to Jadzia Dax, a female, but to the now deceased Curzon Dax, a male.
00:17:00This young woman wasn't even born 30 years ago.
00:17:03You are arguing semantics.
00:17:05This creature is a Trill.
00:17:08The symbiont known as Dax has progressed from one host to the next.
00:17:12Exactly. From one host to the next.
00:17:14A different host, a different person.
00:17:15So I submit that the person he wants to extradite no longer exists, and I challenge him to prove otherwise.
00:17:22That's ridiculous.
00:17:23It would have been easier on me, Commander, had you not raised that particular point, but the penalty for these crimes on your planet is death, and that is rather permanent, so before I grant extradition, you will convince me, please, that the person named in your warrant is the person who is standing here now.
00:18:03She doesn't seem to care whether she gets out of this or not.
00:18:06I care.
00:18:08Doctor, we've given the opposition access to our computers and station library, so let's utilize them ourselves.
00:18:14I want you to find all the medical evidence you can to support the theory that Jadzia Dax and Curzon Dax are two entirely separate people.
00:18:21-Major... -Excuse me, sir.
00:18:23I don't know that there is any medical evidence on that.
00:18:26Assume there is, then find it.
00:18:28Major, I'm not asking you to be an attorney here, but if you could check the Federation computers for any precedents, legal decisions involving Trills.
00:18:37Is a Trill responsible for the conduct... for the acts... of its antecedent selves?
00:18:43Right, that kind of thing.
00:18:45What if I find the answer is "yes"?
00:18:47Then that answer is wrong.
00:18:49From this minute on, our answer is "no."
00:18:55But if you do find a wrong answer...
00:18:59I want to see it.
00:19:01I can't fight what I don't know about.
00:19:02( beep )
00:19:03CREWMAN: Commander Sisko, there's a subspace communication
00:19:06from Odo on Klaestron IV.
00:19:08We only have a few hours, people.
00:19:16What have you got for us, Constable?
00:19:17{\an8}Well, I know two things so far.
00:19:19{\an8}Whoever did murder that General Ardelon Tandro,
00:19:23{\an8}it got his troops so mad,
00:19:25{\an8}they went out and won their civil war.
00:19:27{\an8}They made the general a national hero.
00:19:30{\an8}There are statues of him all over the place.
00:19:33{\an8}The second... Everyone that's old enough to remember
00:19:35{\an8}says the General and Curzon Dax were the closest of friends...
00:19:39{\an8}comrades, inseparable.
00:19:41{\an8}Now that sounds like the Curzon Dax I knew.
00:19:44{\an8}But treason,
00:19:45{\an8}plus the murder of his own best friend?
00:19:47{\an8}Strange business.
00:19:49{\an8}If those charges are true,
00:19:50{\an8}I'd want to hang Curzon Dax up by his heels myself.
00:19:54{\an8}Thanks for the confidence.
00:19:56{\an8}Don't worry. I'll do my job.
00:19:58{\an8}The General left a widow.
00:20:00{\an8}If the two men were that close,
00:20:02{\an8}she has to remember something about Curzon Dax
00:20:04{\an8}that's not in the record.
00:20:06{\an8}You'll hear from me.
00:20:17Curzon Dax was not responsible for the death of my husband.
00:20:21-You're certain of that? -Without a doubt.
00:20:25But your own son...
00:20:27My son is obsessed with the death of a father he never knew.
00:20:32Oh, I tried to persuade him not to reopen the case.
00:20:36He won't listen to anyone, least of all to me.
00:20:40You have to understand,
00:20:41Curzon Dax was closer to the General than any other man on this planet.
00:20:47He was a dear friend to this family.
00:20:49Curzon would have died himself sooner than conspire against my husband.
00:20:54Is that a personal opinion, or are there any facts that would support this?
00:20:58The only facts I have are in my son's hands, and he intends to use them against Dax.
00:21:05It might help my people to know what they are.
00:21:08There is proof of a secret transmission that was made from our military headquarters to the enemy camp.
00:21:16It identifies exactly the route my husband was taking on his way back from the capital to the front.
00:21:24It was at that time that he was ambushed and kidnapped.
00:21:27A short time later, he was killed.
00:21:30Then your son must believe that Dax made the transmission.
00:21:35There were only five people, including my husband who knew that route.
00:21:40My son has established the whereabouts of all of them at the time of the transmission.
00:21:45All of them except Curzon.
00:21:49So Dax has no alibi.
00:21:52That cannot possibly be enough to convict him.
00:21:58Can it?
00:22:00I don't know.
00:22:04Thank you. You've been helpful.
00:22:11How is he?
00:22:14Ma'am?
00:22:16Curzon Dax.
00:22:20He's gone.
00:22:22The Dax your son is trying to extradite is Jadzia Dax, a 28-year-old woman.
00:22:28Curzon Dax died two years ago.
00:22:31Jadzia is the new host.
00:22:37I'm sorry.
00:22:40I didn't know.
00:22:55TANDRO: Madam Arbiter, I call on the expert knowledge of another Trill, Selin Peers.
00:23:04Minister Peers, we're fortunate to have you with us.
00:23:06Excuse me, it also seems rather convenient to have you with us.
00:23:10How do you come here?
00:23:11Because another Trill is involved, the Trillian government requested that I be present during the extradition.
00:23:17And do you know the accused personally?
00:23:21I do not.
00:23:22We accept you as an expert on Trills.
00:23:24Proceed.
00:23:25Minister, through how many hosts have you survived?
00:23:31The symbiont within me has survived through the adult lifetimes of seven hosts.
00:23:35Do you remember your very first host?
00:23:38Of course.
00:23:40It was a woman, as a matter of fact.
00:23:43Do you remember what you thought and felt when you were joined with your first host?
00:23:49Yes. The symbiont does carry memories of time shared with previous hosts.
00:23:54So, if a crime is committed by a Trill, then the symbiont's next host would remain aware of it, would recall that crime.
00:24:02Yes. Absolutely.
00:24:05Would recall the details of it.
00:24:07Yes, absolutely.
00:24:09And would still feel the guilt of it.
00:24:12Oh, yes.
00:24:14Madam Arbiter, this is not a trial, and Mr. Tandro is not the prosecutor.
00:24:17Mr. Tandro, you have made your point.
00:24:20I don't believe that I have, Madam Arbiter.
00:24:24The real point is that Commander Sisko would have you endorse his idea of a perfect Trill crime.
00:24:30To commit it, all one has to do is elude capture long enough to change hosts, and then he or she can go free.
00:24:40Minister Peers, you've said you were with your first host
00:24:44-throughout her adult life. -Yes.
00:24:47So, before a symbiont is joined with any host that host has lived a significant portion of his or her life from birth to what age, sir?
00:24:56-Early to mid-20s. -Why not younger?
00:25:00To give the prospective host a chance to develop, mature.
00:25:06They have to be old enough to make an informed judgment as to whether or not they really want to be joined.
00:25:12And once they are joined, this host's personality is completely suppressed by the symbiont.
00:25:17Oh, no. No, it's a joining.
00:25:22It's a total sharing, a blending of both symbiont and host.
00:25:27Neither is suppressed by the other.
00:25:30So with each new host, there does come, in fact, a new personality... a new combined person... a different person.
00:25:38From that standpoint, yes.
00:25:40Well, I, for one, don't know from what other standpoint we could be talking about.
00:25:45Thank you, Minister.
00:25:46Just to return us to what's important here, Madam Arbiter, the accused can remember any crime she committed as Curzon Dax, and nothing can be truthfully asserted in this hearing that can alter that fact.
00:25:59Yes. The memories were passed to an entirely new host, to an entirely different person.
00:26:04This is outrageous!
00:26:05You-- You can't let Dax get away with murder!
00:26:08Gentlemen, I said this would be an informal hearing, not riotous.
00:26:14We will take a two-hour recess.
00:26:29ARBITER: The answer seems simple enough to me... split her down the middle.
00:26:33Send the symbiont back to stand trial, and keep the host here.
00:26:38I'm afraid it's a bit more complicated than that.
00:26:40Oh, what a surprise.
00:26:43Please enlighten me.
00:26:45The symbiont and the host are biologically interdependent.
00:26:4893 hours after they've joined, neither can survive without the other.
00:26:53I see.
00:26:55Proceed, Commander.
00:26:58Doctor, you've heard the arguments.
00:27:01From a medical point of view, are Curzon Dax and Jadzia Dax the same person?
00:27:07Certainly not.
00:27:09Aside from the gender change, there's a marked difference in blood types, metabolism, nervous system, height, weight.
00:27:16This is not at all relevant.
00:27:17What is relevant, sir... is my analysis of the brain waves of Curzon and Jadzia Dax.
00:27:25Madam Arbiter.
00:27:27BASHIR: As you can see, they are distinctly different, which clearly illustrates that Curzon and Jadzia are two unique individuals.
00:27:39Thank you, Doctor.
00:27:43Doctor...
00:27:46I've looked through your research myself.
00:27:48It's quite impressive for such a young man.
00:27:51Thank you.
00:27:52As a layman, there are obviously things I don't fully understand.
00:27:57I'd be happy to explain anything you wish.
00:27:59Yes?
00:28:00Well, exactly how does the Trill brain work?
00:28:06It's quite complicated, actually.
00:28:09First of all, there are two cerebral nuclei...
00:28:11Two?
00:28:13One in the symbiont and one in the host.
00:28:15Two brains.
00:28:16And these two brains talk to each other?
00:28:19Like two computers linked together.
00:28:21That's very clear, Doctor. Thank you.
00:28:24Now, in your investigations, were you able to analyze the... separate wave patterns from each of these brains?
00:28:35They don't function separately.
00:28:38I didn't ask you how they function, Dr. Bashir.
00:28:40I asked if you could analyze the two distinct patterns.
00:28:45-I don't see the relevance-- -Could you?
00:28:47Yes.
00:28:48And have the brain wave patterns of the symbiont changed since it joined with its new host?
00:28:53With the available evidence, there's no way of telling.
00:28:56What's your best guess?
00:28:58I wouldn't care to guess.
00:29:01In fact, is there evidence of any change at all in the symbiont since it joined with its new host?
00:29:06Yes or no.
00:29:16No.
00:29:17Thank you, Dr. Bashir.
00:29:19You've been very helpful.
00:29:31Any more witnesses, Commander Sisko?
00:29:34Yes, Madam Arbiter.
00:29:36I'd like to call the one person in this courtroom who knew Curzon Dax. Me.
00:29:43You know where the witness stand is.
00:29:50With your permission,
00:29:51I'd like Major Kira to direct the questions.
00:30:02Tell us a little about Curzon Dax, Commander.
00:30:05He probably wasn't the ideal Trill.
00:30:08He drank a little too much.
00:30:11He could be more interested in women than maybe he should have been.
00:30:14I thought he was your friend.
00:30:15I'm simply pointing out that he was not at all like the young woman in this courtroom.
00:30:22What was, exactly, your relationship with Curzon Dax?
00:30:27He took a raw, young ensign under his wing and taught me to appreciate life in ways I'd never thought about before.
00:30:35He taught me about art, and science, and diplomacy.
00:30:40Whatever sense of honor I might have today, he nurtured.
00:30:44Treason, murder...
00:30:47He was not capable of those things.
00:30:50As you've already said Commander, this is not a trial.
00:30:53I'm describing my friend, Curzon Dax...
00:30:56A man I knew very well.
00:30:59On the other hand, I can't tell you too much about my new friend there.
00:31:04We're really just getting to know each other.
00:31:07Commander, Starfleet officers do have the reputation of being honorable, and I judge you to be an honorable man.
00:31:19As an honorable man, do you think this crime should go unpunished?
00:31:23I prefer no crime to go unpunished.
00:31:26Then, if it were possible, even you would not argue with punishing the symbiont part of Dax.
00:31:32How can you be so sure that the symbiont was the criminal influence?
00:31:37What if it were the Curzon host that was responsible?
00:31:41Then the surviving symbiont would be completely innocent.
00:31:44No. They'd both be guilty.
00:31:47You yourself have argued that the two personalities once joined, function as one.
00:31:52Your own Dr. Bashir confirmed it.
00:31:55When you put salt in water, the two become indistinguishable and inseparable.
00:32:02I think you've just made my point for me.
00:32:05When the water boils off, the salt returns to its original state.
00:32:10Pour that same salt into another liquid and you have something completely different.
00:32:15Jadzia Dax is an entirely new entity.
00:32:18( gavel bangs )
00:32:19Following a one-hour recess,
00:32:22Lieutenant Dax will take the witness stand.
00:32:26One hour.
00:32:42If you won't defend yourself, you're not going to testify.
00:32:46It's a hearing, not a trial.
00:32:49She has no choice.
00:33:00Sir.
00:33:03Odo's on subspace.
00:33:05It's urgent.
00:33:10I've made some progress.
00:33:12Good.
00:33:14Not good.
00:33:15Since the transmission to the enemy is the key evidence,
00:33:18I thought it might be a good idea
00:33:20to go through all the communications logs
00:33:22from headquarters during that period.
00:33:24I even found Curzon Dax's records.
00:33:27You can't tell me Curzon would log in a communiqué to the enemy.
00:33:30No, nothing like that,
00:33:32but the log does show a number of conversations
00:33:35between Dax's office and General Tandro's home.
00:33:38They were close friends.
00:33:40A number of the conversations took place while the General was away at the front.
00:33:47-The wife. -The wife.
00:33:52Curzon Dax and Enina Tandro.
00:33:56Maybe it was innocent.
00:33:58Maybe he was just providing a little emotional support
00:34:01during tough times.
00:34:02Or maybe they were taking advantage
00:34:05of the General's absence to get a little closer.
00:34:08If they were having an affair,
00:34:10that translates into a pretty solid motive for murder.
00:34:25The conversations were just the beginning.
00:34:27I've also found records of gifts, of holidays spent at an inn outside the capital.
00:34:31( sighs ) What purpose does this serve?
00:34:33-It serves the truth. -Oh, the truth.
00:34:36If there's more to this than meets the eye,
00:34:37I hope you'll explain, because as it stands this will severely hurt Dax's defense.
00:34:46My husband was not the hero in life that he was in death, Mr. Odo.
00:34:52In death, he became a legend and I became a legend's wife.
00:34:57There are people who did not even know my husband who still contact me.
00:35:01Decades after his death, they still mourn him.
00:35:04But you don't.
00:35:05No, because I knew the man before he became a legend.
00:35:10But I also know my place in history.
00:35:12My place is to carry on bravely, never to remarry, to represent my husband at the banquets given in his name.
00:35:19But never, never to talk about who he really was.
00:35:23Because nobody wants to hear that.
00:35:27They may have to hear it now.
00:35:31No matter what is said, they will still embrace his memory...
00:35:38For he was and always will be the hero who died for his people.
00:35:52But perhaps it's time for my place in history to change.
00:36:04You've been protecting her reputation.
00:36:06That's it, isn't it?
00:36:09That's why you won't even defend yourself.
00:36:17There are worse things than an illicit love affair.
00:36:21Curzon didn't murder anybody.
00:36:24He didn't commit treason.
00:36:26Are you really willing to commit suicide over something done in another lifetime?
00:36:31That is what you're doing, you know.
00:36:37My God, Dax.
00:36:39Young Tandro... That wouldn't be your son?
00:36:41You have an overactive imagination, Benjamin.
00:36:44Then what is it that's holding you back? Help me.
00:36:49( grunting )
00:36:50Damn it, if you were still a man...
00:36:54( bangs wall )
00:36:58I see your temper hasn't improved.
00:37:01Don't talk to me about my temper.
00:37:02Curzon always warned you about it.
00:37:04You're not going to get me off track here.
00:37:08Do you remember that Argosian Lieutenant who threw a drink in your face?
00:37:14( both laughing )
00:37:18And you knocked me down with a right cross before I could kill him.
00:37:23I still have a little scar here from your ring finger.
00:37:30I tried on that ring after Curzon died.
00:37:36It just slipped off my finger.
00:37:41If you don't help me, old man, they're going to take you because I don't know any more arguments.
00:37:50Then allow it to happen.
00:37:52It is my obligation to protect the lives of those in my command.
00:37:56You ought to know that, you taught it to me.
00:38:00That was Curzon.
00:38:03I'll stop trying to protect you the minute you tell me Curzon was guilty of these charges.
00:38:08I won't discuss it with you.
00:38:10As for Enina Tandro yes, I feel the shame of Curzon's indiscretion.
00:38:18When one of my kind stumbles, Benjamin, it is a mistake that's there forever.
00:38:24I can't tell you which part of Curzon Dax couldn't stop himself from acting shamefully with another man's wife.
00:38:32I can tell you... that he did love her for whatever that's worth.
00:38:40Enough to kill her husband?
00:38:44So you are questioning?
00:38:47What else can I do?
00:38:51Nothing, Benjamin.
00:38:53Nothing at all.
00:39:11Lieutenant Dax, you are either 200 years older than I am, or you're about the same age as my great-granddaughter.
00:39:19At first, I wondered which of those you were.
00:39:22Now, I am bothered by the likelihood that you may be both.
00:39:30Let's finish this, Commander.
00:39:34At what age did the host, Jadzia first want to be joined as a Trill?
00:39:39I wanted it since I was a child. I worked very hard for it.
00:39:42The competition to become a Trill is very strong, then, among potential hosts?
00:39:47Yes. It's considered a great honor.
00:39:49How did the young Jadzia finally become a host candidate?
00:39:53By winning scholarships, competing against other young people.
00:39:57You're tested in countless ways.
00:39:58Including psychological tests to determine strength of character of the prospective host.
00:40:02Is that true?
00:40:04Yes.
00:40:05And the young Jadzia excelled in those tests of academics and character-- of psychological stability.
00:40:13Yes.
00:40:15If you can remember other things, remember that as well.
00:40:22What academic degrees do you hold, Lieutenant?
00:40:26I hold Premier Distinctions in exobiology, zoology, astrophysics, and exoarchaeology.
00:40:35How many of those degrees did you earn before being joined with the symbiont Dax?
00:40:40All of them.
00:40:42All of them.
00:40:45As Jadzia.
00:40:46Alone.
00:40:50This brilliant and independent young woman has done nothing in her life but contribute to her society.
00:40:57Madam Arbiter, how can anyone justify trying her for a crime allegedly committed by another entity before she was even born?
00:41:08This will only take a minute.
00:41:11Lieutenant... as a Trill candidate, did Jadzia fully understand the responsibilities to be assumed upon becoming a Trill, and did you willingly accept those responsibilities and whatever consequences they might entail?
00:41:26Yes.
00:41:27And would that not obviously include the consequences of criminal acts committed by Curzon Dax?
00:41:33( door opening )
00:41:44May I speak?
00:41:46And you are?
00:41:49I am Enina Tandro, widow of General Ardelon Tandro.
00:41:54This hearing is unnecessary.
00:41:56The accusations are erroneous.
00:41:58Mother, what are you talking about?
00:42:02Madam Arbiter,
00:42:03Curzon Dax is accused of sending a transmission to the enemy that betrayed my husband.
00:42:12But I know where Curzon was at the exact time that transmission was sent.
00:42:22He was... in my bed.
00:42:45Mr. Tandro, you will want to reexamine your extradition request.
00:42:51Until then, this hearing is adjourned.
00:43:08It was kind of you to try and protect me... someone you'd never even met.
00:43:15There's much of Curzon that's still a part of me, that still remembers what you had together.
00:43:22But it was Curzon Dax who swore himself to silence to preserve the memory of General Tandro, not Jadzia.
00:43:30I felt it was important to keep that promise.
00:43:34The General's memory is cherished by your people.
00:43:38And it will continue to be.
00:43:42Oh, no one will ever know that he was the one who tried to betray us and that the rebels killed him for the favor.
00:43:53As for you, there is one favor I would ask.
00:43:59Of course.
00:44:02Live, Jadzia Dax.
00:44:13Live a long, fresh, and wonderful life.