Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Wire (1994)

Andrew Robinson: Garak

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• [last lines] 

  Dr. Julian Bashir : You know, I still have a lot of questions to ask you about your past.

  Elim Garak : I have given you all the answers I'm capable of.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : You've given me answers all right; but they were all different. What I want to know is, out of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?

  Elim Garak : My dear Doctor, they're all true.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : Even the lies?

  Elim Garak : Especially the lies.

• Elim Garak : Here, I've brought you something.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : What is it?

  Elim Garak : "Meditations on a Crimson Shadow", by Preloc.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : More Cardassian literature?

  Elim Garak : I think you'll find this one more to your taste. It takes place in the future, during a time when Cardassia and the Klingon Empire are at war.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : Who wins?

  Elim Garak : Who do you think?

  Dr. Julian Bashir : Never mind, don't tell me. I don't want you to spoil the ending.

• Elim Garak : Doctor, did anyone ever tell you that you are an infuriating pest?

  Dr. Julian Bashir : Chief O'Brien ALL the time, and I don't pay any attention to him either.

• Dr. Julian Bashir : [examining a hypospray Garak has been using]  Triptacederine? How much of this did you take?

  Elim Garak : A mere thirty ccs - not nearly enough, I'm afraid.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : Thirty ccs would anesthetize an Algorian mammoth.

  Elim Garak : Oh, we Cardassians must be made of sterner stuff. I barely feel it.

• [Garak tells Bashir how during the war he once let some Bajoran prisoners escape] 

  Dr. Julian Bashir : And so they exiled you.

  Elim Garak : That's right! And left me, to live out my days with nothing to look forward to but having lunch with you.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : I'm sorry you feel that way. I thought you enjoyed my company.

  Elim Garak : Oh, I did. And that's the worst part. I can't believe that I actually enjoyed eating mediocre food and staring into your smug, sanctimonious face. I hate this place, and I hate you.

• Elim Garak : My dear Doctor...

• Elim Garak : Has it ever occurred to you that I might be getting exactly what I deserve?

  Dr. Julian Bashir : No one deserves this.

  Elim Garak : Oh, please, Doctor. I'm suffering enough without having to listen to your smug Federation sympathy. And you think that because we have lunch together once a week you know me? You couldn't even begin to fathom what I'm capable of.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : I am a doctor. You're my patient. That's all I need to know.

• Elim Garak : My implant was given to me by Enabran Tain himself, the head of the Obsidian Order. If I was ever tortured, it was designed to stimulate the pleasure centers of my brain, to trigger the production of vast amounts of natural endorphins. I do hope you appreciate the irony, Doctor. The whole purpose of the implant was to make me immune to pain.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : What caused it to malfunction?

  Elim Garak : It was never meant for continuous use.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : Continuous use? What do you mean?

  Elim Garak : Living on this station is torture for me, Doctor. The temperature is always too cold, the lights always too bright, every Bajoran on the station looks at me with loathing and contempt. So one day, I decided I couldn't live with it anymore. And I took the pain away.

• Dr. Julian Bashir : [Garak is struck by a sudden headache]  Are you all right?

  Elim Garak : I'm fine.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : You don't look fine. Your skin is clammy and your pupils have contracted.

  Elim Garak : I assure you. I'm in perfect health. Now, you were asking about other Cardassian novels... Something maybe a little more accessible...

  [Garak feels another headache coming on] 

  Dr. Julian Bashir : "Perfect health". Then Cardassian standards must be a little lower than mine. Come on.

  Elim Garak : Doctor, what do you're think you're doing?

  Dr. Julian Bashir : Taking you to the Infirmary.

  Elim Garak : That won't be necessary.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : Maybe not, but humour me.

  Elim Garak : Frankly Doctor, I'm getting a little tired of humoring you. There's nothing wrong with me that a little peace and privacy wouldn't cure. Now, if you'll excuse me. I seem to have lost my appetite.

  [Garak walks away but that headache still hasn't gone] 

  Major Kira : [Kira's also at the Replimat and witnessing the whole thing, walks up to Bashir]  What was that all about?

  Dr. Julian Bashir : I have no idea.

• Dr. Julian Bashir : Listen to me, Garak. I've had just about enough of your nonsense. Now, you're coming back to the Infirmary with me.

  Elim Garak : Oh, I don't think so. Believe me when I tell you, there's nothing you can do for me.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : Oh. And Quark can, is that it?

  Elim Garak : I thought *I* was supposed to be the spy.

• Doctor Bashir : There's always Quark's.

  Elim Garak : True, but I'm really not in the mood for noisy, crowded and vulgar today.