[Image description: Nine screenshots from Deep Space Nine featuring Rom and Quark approaching Garak in his shop.
Garak: “Ah! And what can I do for you?” Quark: “I want to hire you, not as a tailor – as an assassin.” Garak: Looking puzzled, replies “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Quark: “Oh, yes, you do. You weren’t always a tailor.” Garak: Now squinting, “You’re right. / I used to be a gardener. Now, if you have something you want weeded, you let me know.” /end image description]
I just want to add to this because this is possibly one of the funniest yet underrated Garak scenes ever, the facial journeys are unparalleled
upon being told that Quark wants him to kill someone, le gasp
‘You want me to do what?? Even though everyone knows by now that I kill people and I literally seconds ago implied that I would wink wink do any weeding you needed??’
Absolutely no one asked for this level of dramatic
and then literally ten seconds later when Quark clarifies it’s him who he wants Garak to kill
‘Ah, why didn’t you say so? finally, my time has come’
the moral here is that garak has had a particularly trying day thanks to morn and has earned his one free murder per year by working in customer service, and he has been granted the perfect way to use it.
