Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Improbable Cause (1995)

Rene Auberjonois: Constable Odo

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• Commander Sisko : The question still remains, why would the Romulans want to have Garak killed?

  Odo : I don't know. Considering those uniforms of theirs, you'd think they'd appreciate a decent tailor.

• Commander Sisko : Someone tried to kill you, Garak. Whoever it was may try again, so if I were you, I would give this matter some serious thought.

  Elim Garak : Well, let me see. I mean, there's the Nausicaan whose wedding suit I misplaced; and the Yridian I owe money to; and of course, there's always Major Kira.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : This is serious, Garak.

  Elim Garak : I'm being serious. I don't think she likes me.

  Odo : She doesn't. But if she wanted you dead, you would be.

  Elim Garak : You do have a point.

• Enabran Tain : [referring to Garak]  Cunning, isn't he? He makes a racial slur within earshot of two Romulans, putting me in the position of either defending them, thus giving away my allegiance to them, or letting the comment pass, in which case he's managed to plant a seed of discord between us.

  Odo : Frankly I don't find any of this interesting. You both go to such lengths to hide the true meaning of your words, you end up saying nothing.

  Enabran Tain : I think you'll find when I have something to say, you won't have any trouble understanding it.

• [Garak is going through passenger lists in Odo's office] 

  Elim Garak : Don't worry about me, Constable. I can manage on my own.

  Odo : I'm not about to leave you alone in here so you can look through my security files.

  Elim Garak : What makes you think I haven't already looked through them?

  [Odo reacts alarmed] 

  Elim Garak : I'm joking, of course.

  Odo : [less than convinced]  Of course...

• Elim Garak : It's been my observation... that you always act from a sense of justice, or at least what you consider justice. There's no feeling behind what you do, no emotion beyond a certain distaste for loose ends and disorder. You don't know what it means to care about someone, do you? People are just interesting creatures to be studied and analyzed.

  Odo : Is there any point to this?

  Elim Garak : Only that... I find it interesting that you ascribe feelings and motivations to me that you know nothing about. Or am I wrong? Tell me - is there one person in this universe you do care for? One person who's more than just an interesting puzzle to be solved? Is there, Odo? Anyone?

  Odo : If there were, I certainly wouldn't tell you.

  Elim Garak : [smiles]  And that would be a wise decision.

• [last lines] 

  [Tain has offered Garak to join the Order again and take his place by Tain's side] 

  Odo : Garak, this is the man who put you into exile, this is the man who just two days ago tried to have you killed.

  Elim Garak : Yes, he is. But it doesn't matter.

  [he walks over to Tain and clasps his arm] 

  Elim Garak : I'm back.

• Elim Garak : You wanted to see me.

  Odo : I have bad news for you. Major Kira has an airtight alibi.

• Odo : I've had enough of your dissembling, Garak! I am not Dr. Bashir and we are not sparring amiably over lunch!

• Odo : I think you secretly enjoyed destroying your own shop.

  Elim Garak : Well, I admit watching it burn wasn't exactly tragic.

• Elim Garak : Head for the Cardassian border. We're going to the third planet of the Unefra system.

  Odo : How do you know that's where Tain has gone?

  Elim Garak : I don't. But he has a safe house there that no one's supposed to know about, especially me.

• Informant : Garak isn't the only former operative in the Order who had an 'unfortunate incident' yesterday, but he's the luckiest. The other five didn't survive.

  Odo : Five operatives were killed yesterday?

  Informant : Killed? No. Three died from "natural causes", the other two perished in "accidents".

  Odo : Quite a coincidence.

  Informant : If you believe in coincidence.

• [Garak is putting in a transmission code] 

  Odo : That's an interesting way of scrambling a signal.

  Elim Garak : Yes, I thought you might appreciate it on an esthetic level.

• Informant : [about a potential Romulan invasion into Cardassian space]  It has occurred to us, and we're ready for it if it should happen. But it doesn't make any sense.

  Odo : Does war ever make sense?

  Informant : Still the wry observer of humanoid folly?

• Elim Garak : The Flaxian left two minutes ago. If we're going to follow him we'd better get moving.

  Odo : What makes you think I'm going to follow him?

  Elim Garak : I happen to know that you're too dogged an investigator to allow the only witness in this case to simply disappear.

  Odo : Oh, congratulations, your powers of deduction are truly astonishing. Now, if you will kindly disembark, I will get on with my "dogged" investigation.