Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Past Tense, Part I (1995)

Frank Military: B.C.

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  B.C. : I've waited a long time for this. And I know I won't be disappointed. Ain't that right, new boy?

  Commander Sisko : The name is Bell - Gabriel Bell.

• B.C. : [on Sisko and Bashir]  Gimmies. No sense of fun.

• B.C. : Enjoy your stay. And in a few days, I know you're gonna feel right at home!

• B.C. : [to Bashir, warming himself over a burning trash can]  Hey, gimme! I'm talkin to you! Let me see your food card.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : [stays his hand]  What for?

  B.C. : [laughs it off and grabs Bashir by his lapels]  Because I said so.

  Commander Sisko : Let him go!

  B.C. : [feigning surprise and puts a hand to his ear]  What?

  Commander Sisko : I said... let him go!

  B.C. : Oh, well when you put it like that.

  [things quickly erupt into a brawl] 

  Gabriel Bell : [a black man emerges from the crowd of onlookers and decides to get involved]  Leave him alone!

  [he pummels B.C. and then tends to Bashir] 

  Gabriel Bell : Are you alright?

  [while the man's back is turned B.C. draws a knife and stabs him with it] 

  B.C. : [to his cronies]  Get his card! Get his food card!

  [he can hear the sound of a police chopper] 

  B.C. : Come on, let's get outta here! Come on, let's go!

  Commander Sisko : [rushing over to the stabbed man]  Help him. He never would have got hurt if it wasn't for us.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : [performing CPR]  Breathe, damn you, breathe! Oh, he's gone!

  Commander Sisko : [more cops are on the way]  Come on, we've got to get out of here!

  [they disappear into the crowd] 

  Commander Sisko : Cover!

  [they hide under some blankets as the chopper flies overhead and some cops on foot run past them] 

  Dr. Julian Bashir : [once the coast is clear they reveal themselves]  They're gone.

  Commander Sisko : For now, but they're the least of our worries. That man who just got killed trying to help us.

  [Sisko produces an ID card] 

  Commander Sisko : That man... was Gabriel Bell.

  [Bashir sighs, wondering how losing such an important man will impact the future]