The Search: Part 2
Bashir: Business keeping you busy?
Garak: The tailoring business...or the spy business? (chuckles) Joking, of course.
Bashir: Of course (!)
TheSearch-Business.mp3 (129 kB)

Garak: If it means anything to you, commander, I happen to share your feelings about this Dominion treaty. I've though about it a great deal and the only explanation I can find is that our leaders have simply gone insane.
TheSearch-Insane.mp3 (234 kB)

Garak: Doctor, if you'd be so kind as to take his legs.
Bashir: If I didn't know better I'd say you were enjoying yourself, Garak.
Garak: Not at all, doctor, but after years of hemming women's dresses a little action is a welcome change of pace.
TheSearch-ChangeOfPace.mp3 (164 kB)

Bashir: Well, I guess this means the end of our Starfleet careers.
Garak: Oh, I wouldn't worry about that, docter.
Dax: That's easy for you to say.
Garak: Oh, you misunderstand me, lieutenant. All I meant was it's a little foolish to worry about your careers at a time like this, when there's a good chance we're all about to be killed.
TheSearch-Careers.mp3 (227 kB)

Jem'Hadar: Halt! Put down your weapons!
Garak: I have them! I have them. By all means, commander, do as they say.
Bashir: Garak...
Garak: You heard me, docter. I'm glad to see the plan is going as scheduled.
Jem'Hadar: What plan is that?
Garak: You mean no-one told you? You see, I pretend to be their friend and then I shoot you.
(Garak zaps two Jem'Hadar)
Sisko: Well done, Garak.
Garak: Well, it's just something I read once in a book.
Bashur: I'm sure!
TheSearch-ThePlan.mp3 (431 kB)

(Garak gets shot by a Jem'Hadar)
Bashir: Garak! Garak...
Garak: Docter, I'm afraid I won't be able to have lunch with you today.
TheSearch-NoLunch.mp3 (180 kB)

Second Skin
Garak: Why should I care what the Bajoran government thinks of me?
Sisko: I don't know. But it seems to me if someone were in trouble with the Cardassian Central Command a Bajoran space station under Federation control might just be the savest place in the galaxy.
Garak: Commander, this is extortion.
Sisko: Hmmm.....Yes, it is.
SecondSkin-Extortion.mp3 (359 kB)

Garak: I'll go along on your fool's errant, but I want one thing to be perfectly clear. I have no intention of sacrificing my life to save yours. If it looks like we're in danger of being captured, if there's any sign of trouble at all, you're on your own.
Sisko: Mr. Garak, I believe that's the first completely honest thing you've ever said to me.
Garak: How perceptive of you, commander.
SecondSkin-Honest.mp3 (360 kB)

Garak: Gul Benil...
Benil: You are not Kobheerians!
Garak: Very observant of you! Now turn your ships around.
Benil: Excuse me?!
Garak: This is an Alpha Red priority mission, clearance verification 9218 Black. By authority of the Central Command, you are ordered to turn your ships around, erase all records of this encounter from your logs and talk of it to no-one. Is that clear?
Computer: (bleeping) Clearance code verified.
Benil: My apologies. I had no idea.
Garak: You were doing your duty. End transmission. (sighs)
Sisko: Mr. Garak, I'm impressed.
Garak: It was just something I overheard while I was hemming someone's trousers.
SecondSkin-9218Black.mp3 (695 kB)

Garak: Major, I don't think I've ever seen you looking so ravishing.
SecondSkin-Ravishing.mp3 (53 kB)

Garak: I'd almost forgotten what a pleasure it was to be with my fellow Cardassians and though I'd like to stay and listen to you bluster I simply don't have the time.
(Entek pulls out a phaser but Garak zaps him in time.)
Garak: A pity. I rather liked him.
SecondSkin-EntekDies.mp3 (266 kB)

Civil Defense
Garak: Ironic, isn't it? The only place in the galaxy that still recognises my access code is a Bajoran space station.
CivilDefense-Ironic.mp3 (109 kB)

Garak: Tell me, docter, what is it exactly about this situation that's making you smile?
Bashir: You Garak. Just wondering how many other tailors can rewrite Cardassian security protocol.
Garak: I wouldn't even venture a guess. Which reminds me, those pants you wanted altered are ready to be picked up.
CivilDefense-Smile.mp3 (266 kB)

Garak: It's not going to work, you know?
Dukat: What are you babbling on about now?
Garak: I'm talking about major Kira.
Kira: What about her?
Garak: She's much to busy trying to save this station to be impressed with your incessant posturing.
Dukat: Garak!
Garak: And even if she weren't, she has much better taste than to be attracted to you. You, a married man.
Dukat: I should have executed you years ago.
Garak: Oh, you tried! Remember?
CivilDefense-MajorKira.mp3 (418 kB)

Distant Voices
Bashir: The trouble with Cardassian enigma tales is that they all end the same way: all the suspects are always guilty.
Garak: Yes! But the challenge is determining exactly who is guilty of what.
DistantVoices-Guilty.mp3 (188 kB)

Garak: Is lieutenant Dax throwing one of her surprise parties for you this year?
Bashir: Oh! So I'm told.
DistantVoices-SurpriseParty.mp3 (99 kB)

Quark: You know...we just introduced a new lunch menu at the bar...
Bashir: Goodbye, Quark!
Garak: Don't take it personally. He's turning thirty.
DistantVoices-30.mp3 (164 kB)

Bashir: How did I get here?
Garak: Oh, don't ask me. After all, we're inside your mind. It's a pity about lieutenant Dax.
Bashir: How do you know about her?
Garak: I'm a part of you, remember? I know what you know. Well, maybe a little more.
Bashir: Still the man of mystery.
Garak: Oh, you wouldn't have me any other way.
DistantVoices-AnyOtherWay.mp3 (343 kB)

Garak: I really must congratulate you, doctor, you have a fascinating mind!
DistantVoices-Mind.mp3 (79 kB)

Garak: You know, doctor, what I find most fascinating about this entire incident is how your unconscious mind chose people you know to represent the various parts of your personality.
Bashir: Well, it did make things interesting.
Garak: And what I find interesting is how your mind ended up casting me in the role of the villain.
Bashir: Ohhh, I wouldn't read too much into that, Garak.
Garak: How can I not? To think, after all this time, all our lunches together you still don't trust me. There's hope for you yet, doctor.
DistantVoices-Hope.mp3 (578 kB)

Through the Looking Glass
Intendant: Let's start with....him, him and her.
Mirror Garak: And do what?
Intendant: Execute them! I think you'll find that random and unprovoked executions will keep your workforce alert and motivated.
Mirror Garak: I bow to your brilliance! Though I do hope your mood improves before we run out of workers.
ThroughTheLookingGlass-Mood.mp3 (366 kB)

Mirror Jennifer: Please leave us.
Mirror Garak: What, and miss this touching reunion?
Sisko: You heard her!
Mirror Garak: If you need anyone to beat him into submission for you, please don't hesitate to call me.
ThroughTheLookingGlass-Submission.mp3 (203 kB)

Intendant: He always has to make things difficult.
Mirror Garak: It's one of his least endearing qualities.
ThroughTheLookingGlass-Qualities.mp3 (86 kB)

Improbable Cause
Garak: I'm sorry, doctor, I just don't see the value of this man's work.
Bashir: But Garak, Shakespeare is one of the giants of human literature.
Garak: I knew Brutus was going to kill Ceasar in the first act, but Ceasar didn't figure it out until the knife was in his back.
Bashir: But that's what makes it a tragedy. Ceasar couldn't conseive that his best friend would plot to kill him.
Garak: "Tragedy" is not the word I'd use, "farce" would be more appropriate.
ImprobableCause-Farce.mp3 (346 kB)

Sisko: Could this attempt on your life have anything to do with the reason you were exiled from Cardassia?
Garak: I seriously doubt the finance ministry would try to have me killed for failure to pay my taxes.
Odo: You expect us to believe that's the reason you were exiled?
Garak: You think I would lie about a thing like that? It's not something I'm proud of.
ImprobableCause-Taxes.mp3 (298 kB)

Garak: Why is it no-one ever believes me even when I'm telling the truth?
Bashir: Have you ever heard the story about the boy who cried wolf?
Garak: No.
Bashir: It's a children's story about a young shepard boy who gets lonely while attending his flock, so he cries out to the villagers that a wolf is attacking the sheep. The people comerunning, but of course there's no wolf. He claims that it's run away and the people praise him for his vigilance.
Garak: Clever lad! Charming story.
Bashir: I'm not finished. The next day the boy does it again and the next two and on the fourth day a wolf really comes. The boy cries out to the top of his lungs, but the villagers ignore him and the boy and his flock are gobbled up.
Garak: That's a little graphic for children, wouldn't you say?
Bashir: But the point is; if you lie all the time nobody's going to believe you, even when you're telling the truth.
Garak: Are you sure that's the point, doctor?
Bashir: Of course. What else could it be?
Garak: That you should never tell the same lie twice.
ImprobableCause-CryWolf.mp3 (1.06 MB)

Garak: Well, the truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination.
ImprobableCause-Lack.mp3 (69 kB)

Garak: They're all dead?!
Odo: I take it you're not going to mourn their passing?
Garak: Quite the contrary. In fact, if these were different circumstances I'd be celebrating tonight!
ImprobableCause-Celebrate.mp3 (168 kB)

Bashir: Is there anything you need me to do when you're gone.
Garak: Like what?
Bashir: I don't know. Any unfinished business?
Garak: Actually, doctor, there is something.
Bashir: Well, what?
Garak: If you go into my quarters and examine the bulkhead next to the replicator you'll notice there's a false panel. Behind that panel is a compartment containing an isolinear rod. If I'm not back within 78 hours I want you to take that rod and eat it.
Bashir: Eat it?
Garak: Hmm.
Bashir: You're joking.
Garak: Yes, doctor. I am.
Bashir: Very funny(!)
Garak: Well, I thought so.
ImprobableCause-EatIt.mp3 (606 kB)

Tain: (laughs) You blew up your own shop?! You, my friend, are a true original. If you hadn't betrayed me things would have been very different.
Garak: I never betrayed you! At least...not in my heart.
ImprobableCause-Betrayed.mp3 (328 kB)

The Die Is Cast
Odo: I have nothing to say.
Garak: Well, I had hoped a few hours alone might jog your memory but I see I'm going to have to take some steps I'd hoped to avoid.
Odo: Oh,no. You're going to torture me, aren't you? How I've been dreading this(!) Please, have mercy, Garak(!)
Garak: You do have a certain flair for sarcasm. It's one of the things I like about you.
TheDieIsCast-Sarcasm.mp3 (395 kB)

Tain: How could this be?! What could have happened?!
Garak: I'm afraid the fault, dear Tain, is not in our stars but in ourselves.
Tain: What?!
Garak: Something I learned from doctor Bashir.
TheDieIsCast-Fault.mp3 (160 kB)

Garak: You know what the sad part is, Odo? I'm a very good tailor.
TheDieIsCast-GoodTailor.mp3 (102 kB)

Odo: Garak...I was thinking that you and I should have breakfast together some time.
Garak: Why, Constable...I thought you didn't eat.
Odo: I don't.
TheDieIsCast-Breakfast.mp3 (235 kB)
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