(music) [Outside the Assembly room]
(light music) Kai Winn.
Your pagh is strong, my child.
Be at peace.
In time you will learn I am not your enemy.
I hope that's true.
I know you do.
Oh, and tell Commander Sisko I must postpone appearing with him before the Assembly.
At least for now.
(Winn leaves, and other religions come out of the Assembly room.)
Nerys?
I didn't expect to see you here.
You forgot to erase the transit files.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
Oh, you did a wonderful job erasing the transmission records, but you forgot all about the transit
files.
The files that prove you weren't a collaborator.
It's over.
Let it rest.
The people have chosen Winn.
Only because you withdrew and you didn't have to.
The transit reports clearly show you were on a personal retreat at the Dakeen monastery
during the week leading up to the massacre.
I checked the Dakeen transmission reports.
You had contact with no one except one transmission after the massacre, ordering you back to the
Vedek Assembly.
That's enough.
No, it is not enough.
There is no way you ordered Bek to reveal the location of the Kendra Valley encampment.
You were covering up for someone else.
Someone who meant more to you than me.
More to you even than becoming Kai.
Please, Nerys.
Don't.
Why not?
It's the truth, isn't it?
Who else meant that much to you?
It had to be Kai Opaka.
Opaka knew where the resistance cell was located because her son was a member.
She was the collaborator, wasn't she?
She sacrificed her own son to save a thousand people.
I had to protect her.
So instead of you, we have Winn to lead us.
It is the will of the Prophets.
The question is, where will she lead us?
Down paths, she cannot possibly imagine.
She's going to need our help along the way, even if she doesn't realize it yet.
And what happens to us?
What do you want to happen?
(Kira kisses him.)
(light music) Let's go pay our respects to the new Kai.(light
music)