Babylon 5

[Opening narration, season 1]

Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair:
It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call, home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.

[Opening narration, season 2]

Captain John Sheridan:
The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace, a self-contained world five miles long located in neutral territory, a place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens, a shining beacon in space, all alone in the night. It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, the year the great war came upon us all. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2259. The name of the place is Babylon 5.

[Opening narration, season 3]

Susan Ivanova:
The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. It failed. But in the year of the Shadow War, it became something greater: our last, best hope for victory. The year is 2260. The place - Babylon 5.

[Opening narration, season 4]

Lennier:
It was the year of fire,

Zack Allan:
The year of destruction,

Citizen G'Kar:
The year we took back what was ours.

Lyta Alexander:
It was the year of rebirth,

Ambassador Vir Cotto:
The year of great sadness,

Marcus Cole:
The year of pain,

Delenn:
And a year of joy.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
It was a new age.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
It was the end of history.

Susan Ivanova:
It was the year everything changed.

Michael Garibaldi:
The year is 2261.

Captain John Sheridan:
The place, Babylon 5.

Delenn:
I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light.

Ta'Lon:
Congratulations citizen G'Kar. You are now a religious icon.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you!

Captain John Sheridan:
Are you trying to cheer me up?

Susan Ivanova:
No sir, wouldn't dream of it.

Captain John Sheridan:
Good, I hate being cheered up.

Susan Ivanova:
In that case we're all going to die slow, agonizing deaths.

Captain John Sheridan:
Thank you, I feel so much better now.

Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair:
Everyone lies, Michael. The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice.

Mr. Morden:
What do YOU want?

Ambassador Vir Cotto:
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. [waves] Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Everyone around me dies, Mr. Morden, except those who most deserve it.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Six months ago hardly anyone knew my name. Now everyone wants to be my friend. I wanted respect. Instead I have become a wishing well with legs.

Kosh Naranek:
Understanding is a three-edged sword.

Kosh Naranek:
A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the bristles.

Tech #2:
[repeated throughout all] Commander,we have a problem

Lorien:
We've lived too long, seen too much. To live on, as we have, is to leave behind joy, love, and companionship because we know it to be transitory; of the moment. We know it will turn to ash. Only those whose lives are brief can believe that love, is eternal. [pause] You should embrace that remarkable illusion. It may be the greatest gift your race has ever received.

[Repeated line]

Delenn:
In Valen's name.

[a telepathic implant prevents Garibaldi from shooting Bester]

Michael Garibaldi:
What have you done to me?

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
I've hit you with an Asimov.

Lord Refa:
Why should I do as you say?

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Because I have asked you; because your sense of duty to our people should override any personal ambition; and because I have poisoned your drink.

Citizen G'Kar:
The Earthers have a saying: "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." I believe they stole it from us.

Lt. Corwin:
Do we trust no-one then?

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
No, trust Ivanova, trust yourself, anybody else, shoot'em.

Citizen G'Kar:
As the humans say, up yours!

Lorien:
The universe began with a word. But which came first: the word or the thought behind the word? You can't create language without thought, and you can't conceive a thought without language, so which created the other, and thus created the universe?

Citizen G'Kar:
Our thoughts form the universe. They are always important.

Emperor Cartagia:
[to Londo Mollari] The trouble with being infallible is that you have to deal with everyone else making mistakes.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Vir, stay. If you go, as a matter of honor, I will have to go with you, and if I am forced to leave this place, with all its marvelous opportunities, I will have to kill you... What are friends for?

Citizen G'Kar:
If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth... for understanding. Too often, we assume that the light on the wall is God, but the light is not the goal of the search, it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does not search - who does not bring a lantern - sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light... pure and unblemished... not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe - God looks astonishingly like we do - or we turn to look at our shadow and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and in all its flaws; and in so doing, better understand the world around us.

Susan Ivanova:
If I live through this without completely losing my mind, it will be a miracle of Biblical proportions.

Lt. Corwin:
[aside] Well, there goes my faith in the Almighty.

Captain John Sheridan:
No surrender, no retreat.

Susan Ivanova:
So the next time we find out where the Shadows plan to strike, we can mine the area, and as soon as they come out of hyperspace...

Citizen G'Kar:
Then, as you so concisely say, Boom!

Susan Ivanova:
Ambassador, do you really want to know what's going on down there?

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Yes, absolutely!

Susan Ivanova:
Boom. Boom boom boom. Boom boom. Boom! Have a nice day!

Sinclair:
They say God works in mysterious ways.

Michael Garibaldi:
Maybe so, but He's a con-man compared to the Vorlon.

Susan Ivanova:
Vakar Ashok, our gun arrays are now fixed on your ship and will fire the instant you come into range. You will find their power quite impressive... for a few seconds.

Kosh Naranek:
Ah, you seek meaning?

Talia:
Yes.

Kosh Naranek:
Then listen to the music, not the song.

Citizen G'Kar:
The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements. Energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest.

Citizen G'Kar:
We all believe in something... greater than ourselves, even if it's just the blind forces of chance.

Citizen G'Kar:
Oh, why does the universe hate me.

Delenn:
The third principle of sentient life is the capacity for self-sacrifice, the conscious ability to override evolution and self-preservation for a cause, a friend, a loved one.

Susan Ivanova:
Worst case of testosterone poisoning I have ever seen.

[Addressing young recruits]

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
Reports of our depression have been greatly exaggerated.

Captain John Sheridan:
Delenn, I have been working up a good mad all day and I am NOT about to let you ruin it by agreeing with me!

[repeated line]

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Great Maker!

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
But this - this, this, this is like being nibbled to death by... what are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet... go 'quack'...

Ambassador Vir Cotto:
Cats.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Cats. Being nibbled to death by cats.

Marcus Cole:
That's a lot of ships! That's a bloody awful lot of ships!

Delenn:
We are star stuff. We are the universe made manifest trying to figure itself out.

Byron:
But where is it written that all our dreams must be small ones?"

Captain John Sheridan:
Our new friend just said all the security in the world can't stop a lone gunman dedicated to exchange his life for the target, and he is right. So you may as well live instead of being a prisoner.

Captain John Sheridan:
If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future.

G'Kar:
It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain matures into the promise of a better world, because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past.

Alfred Bester:
Being a telepath means you're special and rare and valuable.

Alfred Bester:
Much as it might offend their sense of perspective, not everything is about Babylon 5.

Zathras:
Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life... probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry.

Captain John Sheridan:
In breaking away from Earth, we have begun a difficult and uncertain journey, and none of us can see its end, but our cause remains a just one. That truth honours and sanctifies our fallen comrades who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that we might carry on the work that is ahead of us. We are gathered here today to honour their memory and their names.

Captain John Sheridan:
From the stars we came. From the stars we return. From now, till the end of time. We therefore commit these bodies to the deep.

Citizen G'Kar:
I believe that when we leave a place a part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in these halls, when it is quiet and just listen. After a while you will hear the echoes of all of our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Doesn't anyone listen to one damn word I say?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Have a seat, lend a hand, or get out of my way, but do not question me in my lab, doctor!

Captain John Sheridan:
I swear, the next person around here who acts irrationally, I'm going to shoot myself in the head.

Delenn:
[Delenn enters fuming] Bastards!

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Did she just...

Captain John Sheridan:
She did!

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I'll go get the gun.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
I would remind the Drazi Ambassador that the Centauri have already signed the declaration.

Citizen G'Kar:
And if the Centauri can sign it, anybody can sign it!

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Right!

Delenn:
We may be able to get the Pak'ma'ra on board to help, but they're going to need something in exchange.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Oh, offer them my body. Another 10 minutes of this, I'll be dead anyway!

Citizen G'Kar:
[Without looking up] I second the motion!

[an Earth Gov battle fleet have been prevented from seizing Babylon 5]

Delenn:
Your Government will think twice before engaging a Minbari fleet.

Marcus Cole:
They're not *my* government! Back on the colony, Earth was just a place that sent us books and vids, and took 30% of our income. Should have given them the boot years ago!

Captain John Sheridan:
[Bester has just revealed information he's uncovered] So, how did you find out about all of this?

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
I'm a telepath. Work it out!

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Fools to the left of me, feeders to the right... I need to find a real job.

Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair:
Mr. Garibaldi was right. He said this was going to be trouble.

Susan Ivanova:
There's nothing more annoying than Mr. Garibaldi when he's right.

Na'Toth:
The Narn regime has accomplished many things in its glorious past, but bodysnatching isn't one of them.

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
Mr. Garibaldi, on a scale of one to ten... just how stupid do you think I am?

Marcus Cole:
[noticing Ivanova's not paying attention to his report] There's always the threat of an attack by say, a giant space dragon. The kind that eats the sun once every 30 days. It's a nuisance, but what can you expect from reptiles? Did I mention that my nose is on fire? And that I have 15 wild badgers living in my trousers? [Ivanova glares at him] I'm sorry would you prefer ferrets?

Lennier:
[Lennier and Vir do not make eye contact during this conversation] Sometimes I get so close and yet it feels like I'm shut out of the important things.

Ambassador Vir Cotto:
It's a useless feeling. The Ambassador is definitely going through some changes. He even looks different.

Lennier:
Indeed. And now with the military starting to stampede over everyone and everything...

Ambassador Vir Cotto:
People coming and going and secret meetings...

Lennier:
You never know what it's all about until later when it's too late.

Ambassador Vir Cotto:
And they never listen to us.

Ambassador Vir Cotto, Lennier:
Makes me nervous.

Ambassador Vir Cotto:
[they finally look at each other] Same time tomorrow?

Lennier:
Sure.

Ambassador Vir Cotto:
As Mr. Garibaldi would say, it's been one hell of a day.

Lennier:
Yes. A hell of a day.

Ambassador Vir Cotto:
And a hell of a year.

Lennier:
A hell of a five years.

Ambassador Vir Cotto:
Hell of a life.

Lennier:
You win.

Citizen G'Kar:
[to Londo after they discover the Centauri are still building warships during peace time] Well, with everyone now on the same side, perhaps you're planning to invade yourselves for a change. I find the idea curiously appealing. Once you've finished killing each other, we can plow under all the buildings and plant rows of flowers that spell out the words, "Too annoying to live" in letters big enough to be seen from space.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Only an idiot would fight a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.

Captain John Sheridan:
You know, I just had a thought. You've been back and forth to your world so many times since you got here. How do I know you're the same Vorlon? Inside that encounter suit you could be anyone.

Kosh Naranek:
I have *always* been here.

Captain John Sheridan:
Oh, yeah? You said that about me too.

Kosh Naranek:
Yes. [starts to walk away]

Captain John Sheridan:
I really *hate* it when you do that.

Kosh Naranek:
[turns around] Good!

G'Kar:
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
If I live through this job... without completely losing my mind, it'll be a miracle of biblical proportions.

David Corwin:
Well, there goes my faith in the almighty!

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Always find the good in any situation, eh Captain?

Capt. John J. Sheridan:
Absolutely. If I didn't I might end up like you. [walks away]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Hey what's that supposed to mean? [to people in C&C] Did anybody else hear that? [to Corwin] Did you hear that.

David Corwin:
No Commander.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Good. I swear, if we live through this somebody's going to find their automatic shower preferences reprogrammed for ice water.

Ta'Lon:
I carry my sword in my hand. You carry yours in your heart and in your mind. As I see it, that gives you a two-to-one advantage in arms. Be fair, Citizen G'Kar.

[first lines]

Woman:
Transport Dionysius to Babylon Control. We've been sitting here for over an hour. Is there a problem?

Babylon Control:
We've instituted new policies to screen for weapons. It's slowing down the processing. Captain's meeting with the Transport Association now to work it out. I'm sure it won't be a problem.

[last lines]

[Vir is leaving]

Announcer:
Final boarding call for Minbari liner Zoful now departing from Bay 7 to Minbar. All passengers requiring loading assistance...

G'Kar:
If I stay here, your families are in jeopardy. Is anything more important than their safety?

Narn:
Yes. Their freedom. It's better to die in the cause of freedom than to live in comfort as a slave.

[arguing over a 'food plan' given by Dr. Franklin]

Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova:
I'll *gain* weight!

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
At first, yes.

Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova:
Fine! All my life I've fought against imperialism; now *I'm* the expanding Russian frontier!

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Yes, but with very nice borders.

[first lines]

Ogilvie:
Crews report they'll be finished by 1500 hours.

Capt. Jack Maynard:
Good. I want to send a message to Babylon 5, attention of Cpt. John Sheridan. And take this down exactly.

Capt. John Sheridan:
I wish I had your faith in the universe. I just don't see it sometimes.

Delenn:
Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. And as we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.

[last lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
Ever had a long talk with Ambassador Delenn, commander?

Susan Ivanova:
From time to time. Why?

Capt. John Sheridan:
She and the universe seem to have a special relationship.

Susan Ivanova:
Don't we all?

Capt. John Sheridan:
Star Stuff!

Capt. John Sheridan:
I'll tell you one thing. If the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they'd have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea! Hell, I always thought the opposable thumb was... overrated!

Capt. John Sheridan:
An old friend of mine once quoted me a ancient Egyptian blessing: "God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk."

Delenn:
The universe puts us into places where we can learn. They are never easy places, but they are right. Wherever we are is the right place and the right time. The pain that sometimes comes is part of the process of constantly being born.

Captain John Sheridan:
May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.

Marcus Cole:
I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

Michael Garibaldi:
What are you so nervous about? We went up against the entire earth alliance, and two carrier groups.

Security Guard #2:
Yeah, but this is the post office, this could get us in real trouble.

[first lines]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Well, that's the first [ship coming through the jump gate]. It'll take a long time to get the level of trade back to where it was before we broke away from Earth...

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
We can't just let him wonder around the rest of his life thinking he's King Arthur.

Marcus Cole:
Why not?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Because this is the truth.

Marcus Cole:
"Better the illusions that exalt us than 10,000 truths."

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Aleksandr Pushkin, yes.

Marcus Cole:
Let this one truth die, Stephen! Let him be Arthur, let him be anyone he wants.

[last lines]

[Marcus and Dr. Franklin have just seen 'Arthur' off]

Marcus Cole:
Where my people come from, his story has great power. I'll miss him.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Even if he wasn't Arthur?

Marcus Cole:
[as Kosh appears] Now, now! Next thing you'll be saying is he's not Merlin! - Merlin was a great teacher, you know!

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I'm not hearing this.

Marcus Cole:
They say he aged backwards. That was how he was able to foretell the future - by remembering it! Which means he came from the future! Maybe he had Arthur form the Round Table by remembering us! We're forming one of our own, after all. Which makes you Percival. I'm Galahad, him being sinless and all. Sheridan is Arthur. Ivanova, perhaps Gawain. I think we both know who Mordred is. So the question is - who is Morgana le Fay?

Marcus Cole:
The Minbari say the only way to understand the battle is to understand the language. War is as much concept as execution.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
What else did they teach you?

Marcus Cole:
Delight, respect, compassion. That for your actions to be pure they must proceed from direction, determination, patience and strength. I'm afraid I'm still working on patience. They taught me how to live, how to breathe, how to fight and how to die. And they taught me terror. How to use it. And how to face it.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I think I'd like to hear more about that.

Marcus Cole:
No. You wouldn't.

Marcus Cole:
The two figures on either side: one Human the other Mimbari. They blend together in the middle to signify the two halves of our souls uniting against a common enemy.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
This jewel?

Marcus Cole:
Mimbari call it Isil'zha. Means the future, birth, beginnings, dawn of a new age.

[after G'Kar passes out in front of them]

David 'Arthur' McIntyre:
Sir Gawain had the same problem, you know.

Marcus Cole:
Did he?

David 'Arthur' McIntyre:
Oh, yes. Come the morning we'd often take one look at him and called him the Green Knight.

[Delenn, wearing a little black dress, meets Sheridan for dinner]

Delenn:
It appears my choice was successful. The woman who sold me this told me that I would definitely - "turn heads"?

Capt. John Sheridan:
[laughing] Yeah, well, if they turned much further, you'd be sued for whiplash!

[... ]

Delenn:
We do not have cats on Minbar. We have gokks.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Gokks?

Delenn:
Gokks. I think such creatures are an attempt by the universe to make sure that we never take ourselves too seriously.

[first lines]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Earth Central reporting a 15 percent drop in station revenue over the past two months.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Why the drop?

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
We've had a lot of earth force military transports come lately and...

[Sheridan tells Franklin about the "bean counters" trying to charge him rent for his quarters]

Capt. John Sheridan:
They nibble a little bit here, a little bit there - next thing you know, you're not even in charge of your own command anymore!

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
No taxation without representation. Give me liberty or give me death!

Capt. John Sheridan:
Abso-fraggin-lutely!

[last lines]

Talia Winters:
[has removed her gloves]... I need someone to talk to, and strange as this sounds you're the only one I can think of. Unless my- my being here offends you.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
No. You don't offend me. But that does.

[Talia removes her Psi Corp badge]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Better!

Alfred Bester:
They must be getting desperate to try something like this. They know we're on to them. Why else would they try to kill me?

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Is this a multiple-choice question?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
So you don't think what I did was right?

Capt. John Sheridan:
I didn't say that.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Well, what are you saying?

Capt. John Sheridan:
I'm not saying what I'm saying. I'm not saying what I'm thinking. As a matter of fact I'm not thinking what I'm thinking. There's only one thing on my mind right now?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
What's that?

Capt. John Sheridan:
I need a drink.

Byron:
We were created to serve normals. Now that the Shadow War is over we deserve compensation. A home.

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley:
Won't happen. They'll see you dead first.

Byron:
Then we will die.

[Londo muses about how to free Na'Toth.]

Londo Mollari:
We have to do it without killing a guard, without raising any alarms, and without anyone noticing that she is gone. For my next trick, I shall fly around the room under my own power.

Alfred Bester:
My people are in there. And several others just tried to kill me, but then, what family doesn't have its difficulties?

Drazi Ambassador:
Every great fall begins with a single mistake.

[first lines]

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley:
Personal log June 16, 2282. My first CO once told me: "Wen someone asks you why you took on a job, the worst answer you can give is 'Because a friend asked me to.'" I should have listened. This place is one long exercise in frustration. After I denied permission to the telepaths who came here asking to form a colony President Sheridan overode my decision. Now they've walled themselves up in Brown Sector...

[last lines]

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley:
Personal log June 18, 2282. I don't think I've had a good night's sleep since I got here. Tonight's no exception. But I have to sleep. Tonight is the calm before the storm and I may not get another chance for some time. Tomorrow the storm comes. Tomorrow the killing begins. And God help me, I can't think of any way to stop it.

President John Sheridan:
She went where?

Michael Garibaldi:
Right down the shaft, right smack in the middle of them. Zack just gave me the news. You've got to give it to her, she's got guts.

President John Sheridan:
She is crazy! She was crazy when I knew her almost 20 years ago, she's just as crazy now.

Michael Garibaldi:
[laughing] *You* hired her.

President John Sheridan:
Don't remind me.

[Londo is studying some reports]

Londo Mollari:
I don't understand it. These reports, when we are at peace, we cut production on ships and weapons 25 percent and invest that money in domestic economy: Manufacturing, research and development.

G'Kar:
Sensible. Wise. Who thought it up for you?

Londo Mollari:
Right now, even though we are not at war with anyone our production of war material has increased 15 percent. Why?

G'Kar:
With everyone now on the same side perhaps you're planning to invade yourselves for a change. I find the idea curiously appealing. Once you finished killing each other, we can plow under all the buildings and plant rows of flowers that spell out the words "too annoying to live" in letters big enough to be seen from space.

[Lochley and Zack are examining the injured after an attack by telepaths]

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley:
This one's dead.

Zack Allan:
So is he.

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley:
Bester?

Alfred Bester:
Fine. A little depressed about the inflation rate and hemlines are going down again, but otherwise...

Zack Allan:
Shut up!

Mack:
That's why I like Sheridan. Always have. A lot of these bigwigs, they're only worried about protecting their own skin. Sheridan, he's down in the trenches with everybody else.

[...]

Mack:
You don't see that very often.

Bo:
Very true. He's a good man.

Mack:
Yeah, a good man.

Bo:
I heard he was dead once.

Mack:
Yeah, well, nobody's perfect.

Delenn:
What if the station falls?

President John Sheridan:
Then, as you said to me once, "I'll see you again in the place where no shadows fall."

Mack:
My mother used to tell me: "God knows the age of every tree and the color of every flower. And he knows just how wide your shoulders are. And he'll never give you anything to carry that's bigger than you can handle."

Bo:
Then maybe that's what this whole place is about. Maybe that's what you have to do to get by in a place like this.

Mack:
And what's that?

Bo:
Grow bigger shoulders.

[Byron holds the helmet of a fallen enemy soldier in his hands.]

Byron:
[quotes Hamlet] A fellow of infinite jest. I knew him, Horatio.

Mack:
It's Mack, actually. This is Bo.

[first lines]

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley:
[answering link] Lochley, go.

Lt. David Corwin:
We've got something on the long-range hyperspace probes, Captain.

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley:
Is it them?

Lt. David Corwin:
It could be. They destroyed the probe before we could get much information.

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley:
On my way.

[last lines]

Delenn:
Hello, Mack, Bo.

Mack:
Bo?

Bo:
Yeah?

Mack:
She remembered my name.

Bo:
Our names.

Mack:
I think I'm in love.

Bo:
She's married.

Mack:
Eh. We can work something out.

Bo:
So will you come on?

Mack:
Yeah. - So lunch?

Bo:
Sure, I'll treat. How about some spoo?

Mack:
At 15 credits an ounce? You're out of your...

Susan Ivanova:
Confirmed Survey 1. Upon arrival you will report for debriefing. And just one more thing, on your trip back I want you to take the time to learn the Babylon 5 mantra. Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And if this ever happens again

[shouts]

Susan Ivanova:
Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out! Babylon control out.

[to herself]

Susan Ivanova:
Civilians.

[looks up]

Susan Ivanova:
Just kidding about that God part. No offense.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[upon seeing the cavern] Commander.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Yeah.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I think I've got to go to the bathroom.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Tell me about it.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
[noticing Talia pacing in front of a transport tube] Problem with the transport tube?

Talia Winters:
No not really. It seems like every time I get into the tube, Mr. Garibaldi's there. It's like he knows.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Talia, Mr. Garibaldi's many things, but he's not omniscient. [Transport tube opens, Garibaldi smiles at both of them]

Talia Winters:
I think I'll take the stairs. [walks away from the tube]

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
I think I'll join you. [follows Talia]

[first lines]

Draal:
Excuse me, perhaps you might help me. I'm looking for Ambassador Delenn. Could you tell me where I might find her?

Security Guard:
Of course. This way.

[last lines]

Technician:
We've got a ship coming through the jump gate.

Michael Garibaldi:
Fine.

Tech #1:
Mr. Garibaldi, it's big!

Michael Garibaldi:
What the hell?

[to Be Continued]

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Physics tells us that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate them, they hate us back. And so, here we are, victims of mathematics!

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
This doesn't worry you in the slightest?

Dr. Tasaki:
On the contrary, scares the Hell out of me. But what better way to go out than in the cause of advancing scientific knowledge. [leaves]

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Is this a multiple-choice question? Because I have some ideas.

[to Garibaldi, who is depressed]

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
...Suddenly, I looked up and this beautiful dancer is leaning down over the stage, and looking right into my eyes. And she said, "Whatever it is, it can't be that bad." And then she kissed me, right here.

[Londo indicates the center of his forehead]

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Mr. Garibaldi! Whatever it is, it can't be that bad.

[long pause as Londo giggles until a smile creeps onto Garibaldi's face]

Michael Garibaldi:
[cheerfully] You try and kiss me and I'll break your arm.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
[laughs loudly] We're not that close, Mr. Garibaldi!

Michael Garibaldi:
And the dancer?

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Oh, I married her.

Michael Garibaldi:
No!

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Yes! That day! The next day I woke up, I saw her in the light of day, sleeping against my arm and I decided I would rather chew off my arm than wake her up.

Michael Garibaldi:
Oh that's sweet.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
No, no! She had a voice that could curdle fresh milk.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
[imitating a shrill voice] "Lon-DO?"

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
[timidly] "Yes, my darling?"

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
[imitating] "LON-do!"

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
[timidly] "Coming, my darling."

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
[giggling] "I'll be right there, my little love bug."

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. It's a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it.

Susan Ivanova:
I know, I know. It's a Russian thing. When we're about to do something stupid, we like to catalog the full extent of our stupidity for future reference.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
[commenting Garibaldis choice of beverage] Water. Fascinating. I never touch the stuff myself.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Worst case of testosterone poisoning I've ever seen.

[last lines]

Delenn:
...He discovered something inside him that he thought was buried long ago.

Michael Garibaldi:
Yeah, well, one thing I've discovered is that some things are better left buried. Good night, ambassador...

Delenn:
Good night, old friend. Sleep well.

[first lines]

Narrator:
Previously, on Babylon 5...

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Any change in those seismic disturbances?

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
The surface layers calmed down, but we're still picking up rumbles from further down.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Now, landing thrusters... landing thrusters, hmm. Now if I were a landing thruster, which one of these would I be?

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Situation is status quo.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Ah of course!. An Earth War Cruiser parked alongside the station. Mysterious trips to the planet beneath us. Rumors that you have found someone down there and brought him back here. This to you is status quo? You must lead a very interesting life.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Ambassador!

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
You did find something down there, didn't you. Something valuable, perhaps? I wish to remind you, that my government has contributed substantial amounts of money to this station. We are entitled to an equal share of anything you find down there.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Ambassador, do you really want to know what's going on right now?

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Yes. Absolutely

[Ivanova get's closer to Londo's ear]

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Boom. Boom boom boom. Boom boom. Boom! Have a nice day.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
So if we go down there it blows. If we don't it blows anyway just a little later. It's a good thing I'm Russian. We're used to hopeless situations.

[first lines]

Narn Second:
Environmental controls hit.

Narn Captain:
Do we have enough power to jump?

Narn Second:
Only if we go right now.

Narn Captain:
Prepare for jump.

Narn Second:
I'm picking up a distress signal. It's one of the evacuation transports... Seven hundred of our females and children. Centauri forces closing on their position.

Narn Captain:
Keep the jump point open as long as you can. And put us between the civilians and the War Cruiser.

Capt. John Sheridan:
[asking Delenn for help in providing covert assistance to Narn civilians without the approval of EarthGov]... Ambassador, I've learned the hard way that governments deal in matters of convenience, not conscience. If they fall behind, it is up to the rest of us to make up the difference. If we don't, who will?

[last lines]

Londo Mollari:
...It is good to have friends, is it not, Mr. Garibaldi? Even if maybe only for a little while?

Michael Garibaldi:
Even if only for a little while.

Londo Mollari:
Six months ago they where hardly aware of me. Now, suddenly, everyone is my friend. Everyone wants something. I wanted respect. Instead, I have turned into a wishing well with legs.

[first lines]

Lennier:
You wanted to see me, Delenn?

Delenn:
Yes. I've just received a message from the other members of the Grey Council. Now that we have a new leader in place, they wish to see me and discuss my status...

[last lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
...the bottom line: If anything goes wrong, we're on our own. Anybody wants to leave now before you hear anything you'll have to report: do so. Nothing will be said.

Michael Garibaldi:
I'm in.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Ditto.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Hey, I never did know when to butt out. We're with you, captain. Wherever this goes, however it ends, we're with you.

Lennier:
Being asked to serve on the Council is a matter of soul, not of flesh. The change you've gone through, it shouldn't matter.

Delenn:
But it does, Lennier. I made a decision, and now I must face the consequences.

Captain John Sheridan:
Now we gave you a promise. And we are bound by that promise! And damn you for asking for it! And damn me for agreeing to it! And damn all of us to hell because that is exactly where we're going! We talked about peace! You didn't *want* peace! We talked about co-operation! You didn't *want* co-operation! You want war! Is that it? You want a war! Well, you've got a war!

[first lines]

Captain John Sheridan:
Delenn, are you all right? You should sleep. It'll be morning soon. You'll need all your strength for what's ahead.

[last lines]

Captain John Sheridan:
What does the candle represent?

Delenn:
Life.

Captain John Sheridan:
Whose Life?

Delenn:
All Life. Every Life. We are all born as molecules in the hearts of a billion stars. Molecules that do not understand politics or policies or differences. Over a billion years, we foolish molecules forget who we are and where we came from. In desperate acts of ego, we give ourselves names, fight over lines on maps, and pretend that our light is better than everyone else's. The flame reminds us of the piece of those stars that lives on inside us. The spark that tells us: "You should know better." The flame also reminds us that life is precious as each flame is unique. When it goes out, it's gone forever. And there will never be another quite like it. So many candles will got out tonight. I wonder some days if we can see anything at all.

Londo Mollari:
Great Maker! Sometimes I feel I don't understand anything anymore.

[G'Kar tells Delenn that he plans to accompany Londo to Centauri and act as Bodyguard again]

Delenn:
Have you told him this yet?

G'Kar:
No, I was thinking of making it a surprise. I even booked the seat right next to his. It will give me someone to talk to during the flight.

Delenn:
Londo once told me he hates it when people talk to him on long flights. He prefers to sleep.

G'Kar:
I know. [laughing]

[Minister Cholini, acting under the regents orders, wants to place G'Kar under arrest. Londo objects]

Londo Mollari:
I told you before, where I go, he goes. And where he goes, I go.

G'Kar:
Mollari.

Londo Mollari:
Don't worry, even one as arrogant as this would not take it upon himself to imprison his own prime minister.

[cut to a cell as the door shuts behind Londo]

Londo Mollari:
Shut up.

G'Kar:
I didn't say anything.

[first lines]

Announcer:
We interrupt our regular evening schedule to bring you the following special program. September 16, 2259. The Interstellar Network News presents 36 Hours on Babylon 5 with your host, Cynthia Torqueman reporting live from the ISN News Center in Geneva.

G'Kar:
Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy a less advanced one? Because the land is strategically valuable, because there are resources that can be cultivated and exploited, but most of all - simply because they can. You have experienced much the same on your own world. There are humans for whom the words "never again" carry special meaning. As they do for us.

[last lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
[answering Torqueman's final question: "Given the danger, at the end of the day...is it worth it?"] ... We have to make people lift their eyes back to the horizon, and see the line of ancestors behind us, saying, "Make my life have meaning." And to our inheritors before us, saying, "Create the world we will live in." I mean, we're not just holding jobs and having dinner. We are in the process of building the future. That's what Babylon 5 is all about. Only by making people understand that can we hope to create a better world for ourselves and our posterity.

Cynthia Torqueman:
I'm Cynthia Torqueman, ISN News. Good night.

Reverend Will Dexter:
Every day, here and at home, we are warned about the enemy. But who is the enemy? Is it the alien? Well, we are all alien to one another. Is it the one who believes differently than we do? No, oh no, my friends. The enemy is fear. The enemy is ignorance. The enemy is the one who tells you that you must hate that which is different. Because, in the end, that hate will turn on you. And that same hate will destroy you.

Reverend Will Dexter:
You know, before I got married, Emily used to come by sometimes and help me clean out my apartment. Well, I asked her, "How come you're so eager to help clean up my place when your place is just as bad?" She said, "Because cleaning up your place helps me to forget what a mess I've made of mine, and - when I sweep my floor, all I've done is sweep my floor. But, when I help you clean up your place, I am helping you."

Reverend Will Dexter:
I'd rather do something and make a mistake than be frightened into doing nothing. That's the problem back home. Folks have been conned into thinking they can't change the world. Have to accept what is. I'll tell you something, my friends, the world is changing every day. The only question is, who's doing it?

[first lines]

Title Card:
Z Minus 14 Days

Michael Garibaldi:
Indira, Magda, you're with the Pak'ma'ra. Sorry. Try not to drink the water. Na'karee, you're gonna be rendezvousing with the Narn resistance in Sector 40. Thanks. Glendora...

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[voiceover] Commander's Personal Log: December 7, 2260. We're shipping out telepaths as fast as we can to the races that have signed on against the Shadows. Upon arrival they'll be assigned to warships already on patrol. ...

[last lines]

Delenn:
White Star was never intended to be one of a kind. It was only the first. We've been working around the clock to construct them. I said we needed time to prepare. This is why. The first wave of ships is finished at last. The Rangers will pilot them under our shared command. We are as ready for them as we will ever be. We finally have, as you say, a fighting chance.

Capt. John Sheridan:
I don't know what to say.

Delenn:
Then say nothing.

[They kiss.]

Title Card:
Z Minus 10 days

Michael Garibaldi:
This isn't going to be easy.

G'Kar:
Nothing worthwhile ever is.

Londo Mollari:
Big concerns grow from small concerns. You plant them, water them with tears, fertilize them with unconcern. If you ignore them, they grow.

Reverend Will Dexter:
I tell you, in 50 years of living and 40 years of serving the Lord I have never met a sorrier soul than Brother Theo here.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Well, I wouldn't say...

Brother Theo:
Thank you. But I'd prefer to leave judgments as to the state of my soul to someone better qualified and perhaps a bit less loud.

Reverend Will Dexter:
But it says in the Bible to make a joyful noise unto the Lord.

Brother Theo:
I've heard you sing, Will - and take my word for it: that is not what the good Lord meant when he said "a joyful noise"

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Hello?

Brother Theo:
Neither is that.

Computer:
Aft stabilizer hit. Weapon systems at zero. Defensive grid at zero. Power plant near critical mass...

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Not like this! Not like this! If I'm going out, I'm taking you BASTARDS with me! [pause] Target main cruiser! Set for full velocity ram! Afterburners on my mark! MARK!

[first lines]

Announcer:
Earth transport will be departing in one hour...

Guard:
[to arriving 'Knight Two'] Identicard, please.

Guard:
[handing it back] Thanks.

Frank Benson:
[greets, walking by] Commander.

Frank Benson:
[grabbed and pushed against the wall ungently by two guys] Ah!

Strongarm #1:
Benson, Dex wants his money.

Frank Benson:
It's coming. I'll have the credits for him first thing tomorrow.

[last lines]

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
I remember. I was taken inside a Minbari cruiser. Interrogated. Tortured. Was that - the Grey Council? Maybe. Maybe. Before they surrendered, they must have blanked my memory and let me go. And Delenn, what was she doing there? What is it they don't want me to remember? I have to find out. I have to.

Dukhat:
When others do a foolish thing, you should tell them it is a foolish thing. They can still continue to do it, but at least the truth is where it needs to be.

Dukhat:
Raise your eyes and look at me.

Delenn:
It is disrespectful.

Dukhat:
I cannot have an aide who will not look up. You will be forever walking into things.

Delenn:
[offering her hand] Take it. There's nothing to fear in the dreaming. Only that which we bring with us. Walk with me in the dreaming, Callen.

Lennier:
The guards resisted at first... I managed to - explain matters to them. They will recover, in time.

[first lines]

Zack Allan:
*Ouch*! - I'm telling you, I can't take much more of this.

Lennier:
Just a little longer. It is necessary.

Zack Allan:
Yeah, says who?

Lennier:
Mr. Allan, you are now the head of security. The rest of the command staff accepted Delenn's gift of these new uniforms. Do you not wish to fit in?

[last lines]

[Franklin and Marcus are on their way to Mars, in a cargo shuttle]

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Is this really the best ship you could find?

Marcus Cole:
Yes.

[he flicks his pike open, then closes it just as quickly]

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Smells like the inside of a Martian pleasure dome on Sunday morning.

Marcus Cole:
Wouldn't know about that.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Don't make me come over there and take that thing from you.

Marcus Cole:
Helps me relax.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Marcus, this is the kind of conversation that can only end with a gunshot!

Marcus Cole:
Would you like me to sing instead?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
No.

Marcus Cole:
You haven't heard me!

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Marcus, please!

[the episode ends with Marcus singing the Major-General's Song by Gilbert and Sullivan, and Dr. Franklin screaming]

[a hungover and limping Ivanova stumbles out of a transport tube after a Drazi religious celebration, much to Sheridan's surprise]

Capt. John Sheridan:
What the- ?

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Don't. Even. Ask.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Marcus, this is the kind of conversation that can only end in a gunshot.

Grey Council #1:
[while in The Dreaming, Delenn is remembering the death of Dukhat, as another member of the Grey Council runs up to her] Delenn, we need to strike back, but the Council is divided. Should we follow them back to their base, take revenge, or do we wait, try and find out what happened? Your's is the deciding vote, Delenn.

Delenn:
[Cradling Dukhat's head in her lap] He was the best of us... they struck without provocation, there was no reason... animals! Brutal! [she gently lays Dukhat down and stands] They deserve no mercy. Strike them down! [she beats on the Council member's chest in grief and anger] Follow them back to their bases and kill them, all of them. All of them! No mercy! [as the memory fades, Delenn is struck by the fact that she is the one who gave the order that started the Earth-Minbari War]

Marcus Cole:
[singing] I am the very model of a modern major general / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral / I know the kings of England and I quote the facts historical / From Marathon to Waterloo in order categorical / I'm very well acquainted, too with matters mathematical / I understand equations both the simple and the quadratical / About binomial theorem / I'm teeming with a lot of news with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse / Many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse / Many cheerful facts...

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
AAH!

Marcus Cole:
...about the square of the hypotenuse [director calls out "Take it back"] I'm very well acquainted to - with - what? [beep, beep] [laughter]

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
[after making Ivanova believe she slept through breakfast. Rises from table] I'll notify your next of kin.

Michael Garibaldi:
4... 3... 2... 1...

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[in the distance] OH! GARIBALDI! YOU'RE A DEAD MAN!

[first lines]

Sinclair:
Good morning, Lieutenant Commander.

Susan Ivanova:
Morning.

Michael Garibaldi:
Nothing personal. You look like hell.

Susan Ivanova:
I know. I know. C&C woke me up an hour early...

[... ]

Susan Ivanova:
God I hate mornings.

Sinclair:
We noticed. Personally I find it the best part of the day.

Susan Ivanova:
We all have our cross to bear.

Sinclair:
The time I learned to really appreciate mornings was during the three years I spent being taught by Jesuits. We used to get up at five o'clock every morning for sunrise mass, then one hour of meditation before class. We'd sit, quiet, in peace. Breathing in, breathing out. Breathing in, breathing out. Breathing in, breathing out.

Major Krantz:
What if we take you with us? Put you on trial?

Zathras:
Zathras not of this time. You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras.

[... ]

Zathras:
Zathras does not want to die. But if it is the only way, then Zathras dies. - It is life.

[last lines]

Sinclair:
We don't know where Babylon 4 was going. Or when it was going. Who knows? It may show up again sometime.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Well, if it does, this time I'm going and Garibaldi is staying here.

Sinclair:
The Flying Dutchman, he called her.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
What? I didn't get that reference.

Sinclair:
It's a legend. An ancient sailing vessel that vanished while trying to sail the Cape of Good Hope. According to the story, it's reappeared again and again over the centuries trying to find a way home.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Did the Flying Dutchman ever make it home?

Sinclair:
No.

Kosh Naranek:
The avalanche has already started; it is too late for the pebbles to vote.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I'm waiting. For an apology.

Sinclair:
You better check the temperature in Hell first.

[first lines]

Shon:
Am I going to die?

M'Ola:
If it is written in the streams of time, Shon, it will be so.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I'll tell you what is written in the streams of time. Very soon you will breathe much easier. And then you will grow up to be strong and wise, and bring much honor to your mother and your father.

M'Ola:
Please don't speak that way. No one knows what is written in the stream until the waters surround him.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I am never wrong about these things.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Sometimes you have to heal the family before you can heal the patient.

Sinclair:
Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't change anything.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
May God save us from false religion.

Sinclair:
What makes a religion false? If any religion is right, then maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers just as long as you say them.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
What if there's no God at all?

Maya Hernandez:
Sinclair will have you thrown off the station.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I'm already packed.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Oh, Lord, preserve this child.

Maya Hernandez:
Say again?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Nothing. - It was a prayer for his spirit.

Sinclair:
Who asked you to play God?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Every damn patient who comes through that door, that's who. People come to doctors because they want us to be gods. They want us to make it better - or make it not so. They want to be healed and they come to me when their prayers aren't enough. Well, if I have to take the responsibility, then I claim the authority too.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Maybe we'd all be better off if there was no God. If God had never been invented.

[last lines]

Michael Garibaldi:
What happened out there?

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Nothing.

Michael Garibaldi:
Nothing? I just got back the repair order on your fighter. It'll be in the shop for a week, minimum. And on top of that I hear you broke regs about leaving formation and engaging in combat without backup.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
It was an educated risk. - Sometimes it works out.

Michael Garibaldi:
And sometimes it doesn't. It's a long story. Come on, I'll fill you in.

Susan Ivanova:
Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander. Daughter of Andre and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you will ever see. God sent me.

A guard:
I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite.

Capt. John Sheridan:
[upon seeing Garibaldi] Michael... boy I was going to kick your *butt* for something... but I don't remember.

Michael Garibaldi:
[after Steven and Lyta have taken weapons from the Mars Resistence] Stephen...

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Shut up! This damn well better be worth it! Because if this story of yours turns out to be bogus, I'm gonna kill you twice! NOW you GOT THAT?

[last lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
With the permission of Captain James, I'm assuming the command of the Agamemnon. A friend asked me to command the last battle from here. - Put us on course - for Mars.

Crewman:
Aye, aye, sir. Set for Mars beacon M9915 alpha.

[first lines]

[Sheridan has been tortured and drugged and is hallucinating:
]

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
It's great to have you back, captain.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Thanks. It's good to be back. I was starting to think I'd never get out of that place.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Well, I wasn't worried. I knew they couldn't hold you.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Well that makes one of us.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
So, you never told me how you got back here after you escaped.

Capt. John Sheridan:
What's to tell? I sent word to the Mars Resistance, arranged for a pickup.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Who'd you work through?

Capt. John Sheridan:
My contact?

Interrogator 2:
Yes. Your contact.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Uh. It's- We don't use names.

Interrogator 2:
Codes, then?

Capt. John Sheridan:
Just - numbers.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Now why do you believe her, and not me?

Michael Garibaldi:
Because when you lie, it's all over your face. She's a much better liar than you are.

Lyta Alexander:
Thank you.

[pause]

Lyta Alexander:
Wait a minute!

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
This damn well better be worth it. Because if this story of yours turns out to be bogus, I'm going to kill you twice. Now you got that?

Marcus Cole:
Well, let me put it to you this way: you could either either have four hours and 59 minutes rest or four hours and 59 minutes of me bothering you about it.

Susan Ivanova:
You wouldn't.

Marcus Cole:
Rangers... never... bluff.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
[Lyta has just finished doing a deep scan of Garibaldi's mind to see if what he has said about Bester's manipulation of him is true] Michael are you alright?

Michael Garibaldi:
I just realized, I need a whole lot more fiber in my diet.

Lyta Alexander:
It's true... everything he said, it's all true.

Number One:
Like that mean a damn. How the hell do we know what you saw? Why in the hell should we even believe- [she freezes as Lyta turns around, her eyes completely black]

Lyta Alexander:
What do you know about Hell, hmm? Would you like me to show it to you? Mine and his? [she sends all the images she scanned from Garibaldi's mind into Number One's mind]

Number One:
[Reeling from the shock] It's true... every word of it... how did you...

Lyta Alexander:
The truth speaks for itself. I'm just the messenger.

Marcus Cole:
[Waking Ivanova from her nap on a Minbari bed] You slept well? Last time out you couldn't sleep at all on these things.

Susan Ivanova:
I still hate them. How long was I asleep?

Marcus Cole:
Four hours.

Susan Ivanova:
Four hours?

Marcus Cole:
We're still 45 minutes away from the target, plenty of time for you to get ready. You needed the rest.

Susan Ivanova:
That's the last time I'll ever trust you.

Marcus Cole:
Also the first.

Susan Ivanova:
Hey. The last time we were in this room together you said something to me in Minbari. I happen to have an eidetic memory. It went:

Susan Ivanova:
[speaking in Minbari] "You are the most beautiful woman I have ever met."

Susan Ivanova:
You told me it was just a greeting.

Marcus Cole:
[Somewhat stunned] Yes.

Susan Ivanova:
Well in case you hadn't noticed I've uh... learned a little Minbari since then. Thank you.

Marcus Cole:
[In Minbari] You're welcome.

Lyta Alexander:
Michael, if I do a deep scan, it could damage you.

Michael Garibaldi:
But if you don't, they're gonna kill me. Now, a headache I can get over. I'm not sure I'm gonna get over being dead any time soon.

[a shared field bottle gets passed from Stephen to Lyta and from her to Michael ]

Michael Garibaldi:
Alright, who gulped? Somebody gulped. Look we have got a long way to go. We're supposed to sip, not gulp.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I didn't gulp.

Michael Garibaldi:
No?

Lyta Alexander:
I sipped.

Michael Garibaldi:
You I believe.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
What? Now why do you believe her and not me?

Michael Garibaldi:
Cause when you lie, it's over your face. She's a better liar than you are.

Lyta Alexander:
Thank you. Wait a minute...

Michael Garibaldi:
[to Stephen] Look, the next time you carry the canteen, I'm gonna gulp.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
You are so petty, do you know that?

Lyta Alexander:
What do you mean I'm a good liar?

Michael Garibaldi:
Survival of the fittest.

Lyta Alexander:
But I don't like what I'm hearing here. I'm not a great liar. I'm a terrible liar. I don't know who's been saying these things, but I want you to know, that when we get back I am gonna sue somebody. I don't know who and I don't know how, but by God, I am gonna sue somebody!

Andrei Ivanov:
[on his death bed] Is that you, Susan?

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Yes.

Andrei Ivanov:
Oh dear god, I never thought I'd see your face again, it makes this easier. Susan, I know I haven't been the best of fathers to you. But when your mother passed on and your brother was killed in the war I was too wrapped up in my own grief to pay attention to your needs. And when you joined Earthforce against my wishes.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
You don't have to say this father.

Andrei Ivanov:
Yes, yes I must. There's no more time, I want you to know how proud I am of you Susan, I always have been. But a father should gve his daughter love as well as respect, and in that I failed you, I'm sorry, I'm ashamed. Forgive me.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[nods head slightly]

Andrei Ivanov:
Thank you, 'Dushenka moya'

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
'Little soul' You haven't called me that for... Papa!

[Ko D'Ath has just arrived]

G'Kar:
Oh, yes, I heard you were coming. But I wasn't expecting you for several yea - er, days.

G'Kar:
So your people will agree to concede the sector?

Londo Mollari:
I would sooner kiss a Jovian tree worm.

G'Kar:
You have kissed far worse things in your time, Mollari.

Londo Mollari:
And you can kiss my plump, Centauri [song in the club changes] Ah... ah... gentlemen, please!

Talia Winters:
I hadn't sensed so many lies since I worked for the political bureau.

Londo Mollari:
Vir, I had a thought. Why don't you represent our Republic in the talks today?

Vir Cotto:
Me?

Londo Mollari:
Yes, why not? You know the situation as well as I. It's the perfect oportunity to get your feet moist, as Earthlings say.

Vir Cotto:
I actually don't think it's a wise idea for me...

Londo Mollari:
Nonsense! I have every confidence in you. Which is why I'm giving you full diplomatic authority. Be proud, my boy! You are now the voice of the mighty Centauri Empire!

Vir Cotto:
Yes, sir! Thank you, sir!

Londo Mollari:
That's the spirit! Go now! I'll be along later to see how you're doing.

Vir Cotto:
Yes, sir!

Londo Mollari:
And, Vir

Vir Cotto:
Yes, sir?

Londo Mollari:
Don't give away the Homeworld

[first lines]

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Ambassador Mollari! We need to talk about the Euphrates treaty.

Londo Mollari:
My dear Sinclair. This is hardly the time or the place.

[last lines]

Londo Mollari:
Adira, you could stay. Now, that we have seen beneath our masks we could have great times together. We...

Adira Tyree:
Londo, you're sweet, but the wounds are too fresh.

Londo Mollari:
All right, then take this. And wear it proudly as a free woman. And some day come back to me.

Adira Tyree:
Goodbye, my ambassador.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?

Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair:
[referring to Vir and Ko D'Ath] Keep them talking. I'm going to find Londo and bring him here.

Talia:
What if he refuses?

Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair:
Then I hurt him.

Sinclair:
Are you telling me this is about a flower?

Sinclair:
You should never hand someone a gun unless you are sure where they will point it. Your mistake.

[first lines]

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Earthforce ship Omega, you may proceed to the jumpgate. Shuttle Copernicus, you're clear for dockingbay 4. Tal'Quith, please hold. Earthforce ship continue to hold. Minbari ship, hold.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Babylon 5, this is the captain of the Tal'Quith. What is the delay?

Narn Captain:
Tal'Quith, there's a priority shipment ahead of you. You'll be able to dock in 25 minutes.

Narn Captain:
Unacceptable! We have a very perishable cargo for Ambassador G'Kar and must deliver it immediately!

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I'll do what I can. Please stand by.

[last lines]

[G'Kar is conducting the G'Quan ceremony]

G'Kar:
The gift of Time. The gift of life. The gift of wisdom. The gift of light. For these things we are thankful. For these things we pray.

Narn Followers:
For these things, we are thankful. For these things we pray.

[G'Kar chants in alien language]

Orin Zento:
You know damn well you twisted the intent of that order. And you *won't* get away with it!

Sinclair:
I think Ms. Connally said it best the other day: Stuff it!

Neeoma Connally:
I underestimated you, Commander. I'm sorry, and thank you.

Sinclair:
Save it. We're both going to catch seven different kinds of hell over this down the road.

Neeoma Connally:
My dad used to say "There are no happily ever afters, just new battles."

G'Kar:
Commander, you are a far more spiritual man than I gave you credit for.

Sinclair:
There are a couple of Jesuit teachers I know who might disagree with you.

G'Kar:
[Londo enters his broken into quarters to see G'Kar sitting inside] You left your door unlocked, ambassador; careless of you. I thought it best to sit here and guard your room until you returned

Londo Mollari:
And did you find anything of interest in my humble quarters, while you were "guarding it."

G'Kar:
[Frustrated] No.

Londo Mollari:
No. Care for a drink? Oh I forgot, the Days of G'Quan forbid it, but they come to a close very soon. Do they not?

G'Kar:
You know why I am here.

Londo Mollari:
The G'Quan Eth, yes? Difficult to grow, expensive to transport, very expensive to own, but so very important to you at this festive time.

G'Kar:
[Barely controlling his temper] I understand that you are in possession of G'Quan Eth. If this is so, I am here to purchase it from you.

Londo Mollari:
Ever since we left your beautiful planet, G'Quan Eth plants have been hard to find. Mine, which is being cared for in a safe place, I have been saving for a special occasion. When you drop the seeds into a proper mixture of alcohol... Whole new universes open up. It's shame you Narns waste them, burning as incense.

G'Kar:
[Growling at the idea at an important religious item being used to get drunk] Name your price.

Londo Mollari:
[Thoroughly enjoying that reaction] Oh, you are asking for quite a sacrifice of me, but in the interest of interstellar peace and friendship, Um: 50,000 commercial credits, in cash, in advance.

G'Kar:
[Leaping to his feet] That's an outrage!

Londo Mollari:
Of course, it's an outrage! The question is how important is your religious ceremony is to you?

G'Kar:
I'm fed up with your fabrications, Mollari!

Mary Ann Cramer:
Commander, do you have a comment on this?

Londo Mollari:
I demand you arrest him!

G'Kar:
I demand you arrest him!

Sinclair:
That's enough! Get the hell out of here. All of you, now! Lieutenant Commander Ivanova, in 10 seconds you will escort any unauthorized persons still present to the brig and leave them there.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Yes, sir. Ten, nine, eight, seven...

Londo Mollari:
I'm filing an official protest.

G'Kar:
I'm filing two.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Six, five...

Mary Ann Cramer:
You are impeding the public's right to know, Commander!

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
FOUR, THREE...

Michael Garibaldi:
[G'Kar, Molloari, and Cramer leave, Garibaldi appears] Two. One. So, what'd I miss?

[Marcus has just cleared out a bar, single-handedly]

Lennier:
I see they trained you well back home.

Marcus Cole:
Well, they said I was carrying around a lot of repressed anger.

Lennier:
And?

Marcus Cole:
I'm not repressed anymore!

Marcus Cole:
[after beating someone for information] It's like I always say, you get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than with just a kind word.

Sparky the Computer:
You know, you look very stressed. This is not good. Hey, how about something to eat? Maybe a nice piece of briskit? Go suck an orange!

Michael Garabaldi:
Would somebody please fix this thing before I go out of my mind!

Delenn:
Yes, you have lost much, endured much, sacrificed greatly but you cling to the memory of your sacrifices of all the things you have lost or left behind. They drag behind you like chains of your own making. They can have a terrible power over you, Marcus: the power of grief, and loss, and of regret. Yes, you can let go of the people, places and things, but you have not let go of the pain. You have not forgiven yourself.

Marcus Cole:
For what?

Delenn:
Being alive.

Delenn:
The rebirth ceremony was part of your training on Minbar.

Marcus Cole:
I missed it. I overslept.

Delenn:
It lasts all day!

Marcus Cole:
Oh, yes. I was ill.

Capt. John Sheridan:
[to one of the people who held Delenn hostage] No more! No more of you! No more Nightwatch! No more hostages! No more LIES! Not on my station! Not on my watch! NO MORE!

[the command staff have used their command code passwords to reset the station's computer system]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Peekaboo?

Michael Garabaldi:
Would you have guessed it?

Thug #1:
We don't talk to security. Why should we talk to you?

Marcus Cole:
Because if you don't, then in five minutes, I will be the only person at this table still standing. [Thug starts laughing] . Five minutes after that, I'll be the only person in this room still standing.

Marcus Cole:
[to the last two conscious people in the room] Where... is... she?

Thug:
I - I -I don't know! I'd tell you if I knew.

Marcus Cole:
Then you know someone who knows someone who knows something! ANSWER ME! [one thug tries to attack, Marcus knocks both of them out] Bugger! Now I have to wait for someone to wake up.

[first lines]

[Several transports are leaving B5]

Capt. John Sheridan:
Are those the last of the Nightwatch?

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Well, it's the last batch we could find. Garibaldi's still trying to track down the rest. The others are civilians heading back for Earth, Mars, and the colonies on Proxima and Orion.

[last lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
The crisis, for now, is over. Tell the ships we're open for business.

Sparky the Computer:
Oh, not that my feelings would have any meaning for you, but why are you having these people poke me all over the place. I'm a perfectly reasonable Artificial Personality. Nobody's ever complained before, but I guess some people just aren't happy unless they're messing it up for everyone else. You know, you really should stand up straight. Your mother and I have been worried about this for years. We've been trying to talk to you about it but... [Garabaldi draws his gun and shoots the speaker]

[Garabaldi has reset the command codes and rebooted the computer]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
God, I hate this part. I'm always afraid I've broken something.

Michael Garabaldi:
It'll be fine. I've done this before.

[the computer restarts]

Michael Garabaldi:
Ah, Told ya. Computer

[pause]

Michael Garabaldi:
Computer?

Sparky the Computer:
Hey, what do you want?

Michael Garabaldi:
Run diagnostics.

Sparky the Computer:
What, you got a broken arm or something? I got a station to run here!

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Computer.

Sparky the Computer:
I know, do a diagnostic. So, maybe Level 42 doesn't get its quota of oxygen today because I'm distracted, but if it makes you happy!

Michael Garabaldi:
Stop!

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Garabaldi?

Michael Garabaldi:
I just remembered, they tried to install Artificial Intelligence subroutines when the station went operational. They shut it down right away because it didn't work right. Must have come back on-line when the system re-booted.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Great! How do we shut it down?

Sparky the Computer:
I heard that! Are you two easily offended, or what?

Londo Mollari:
Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.

[Londo Mollari asks Lord Refa to sever his relationship with the Shadows]

Lord Refa:
Oh Londo, you are a fool. You walked away from the greatest power I have ever seen. Now you expect me to do the same? They are the key to my eventual rise to the throne! Why would I abandon them?

Londo Mollari:
Because I have asked you. Because your loyalty to our people should be greater than your ambition. And because I have poisoned your drink.

Sniper:
Always bet on stupidity.

Lennier:
But what if you're wrong?

Delenn:
Then speak well of me when I'm gone.

[last lines]

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Nothing's the same anymore.

[first lines]

[arguing before the Council]

Londo Mollari:
These unprovoked attacks must stop!

G'Kar:
The attacks will stop when the Cenaturi government stops sending hostile ships across the border into Narn space.

Londo Mollari:
Quadrant 37 is neutral territory! The treaty makes that perfectly clear.

G'Kar:
The Narn government no longer recognizes the treaty since it was imposed upon our people by force.

Londo Mollari:
But this - this, this, this is like - being nibbled to death by, uh - Pah! What are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet, go "quack".

Vir Cotto:
Cats.

Londo Mollari:
Cats! I'm being nibbled to death by cats.

Kosh:
[to Sinclair] And so it begins... You have forgotten something.

Londo Mollari:
There comes a time, when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. Then you accept it or you kill yourself or you stop looking into mirrors.

[Surveying a scene in a bar below]

Sebastian:
Nothing changes: Decadence, immorality, chaos.

[last lines]

Sebastian:
Good luck to you in your holy cause, Captain Sheridan. May your choices have better results than mine - remembered not as a messenger. Remembered not as a reformer, not as a prophet, not as a hero, not even as Sebastian. Remembered only... as Jack.

[first lines]

G'Kar:
Does anyone here truly believe the Centauri will stop now that they've seized our territory? We are only the beginning. You, all of you are next!

Capt. John Sheridan:
Go to Hell!

Sebastian:
This is Hell, Captain, and you are its chief damned soul.

Delenn:
We all have a destiny.

Sebastian:
Do we? How magnanimous of you.

Delenn:
Sometimes we do not see it because we have been taught to believe we are not important.

Sebastian:
What a sad thing you are... Unable to answer even such a simple question without falling back on references and genealogies and what other people call you. Have you nothing of your own? Nothing to stand on that is not provided, defined, delineated, stamped, sanctioned, numbered and approved by others? How can you be expected to fight for someone else, when you haven't the fairest idea who you are?

Delenn:
If I don't see you again here, I will see you in a little while in a place where no shadows fall

[first lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
There you go.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Captain, you got a minute?

Capt. John Sheridan:
Sure, what's up?

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
We've got a Markab transport almost 10 hours overdue. I've been trying to raise her, but she's not responding. So I'd like to send a flight of starfuries out...

Delenn:
They are in pain. Frightened. Dying. Minbari are taught that, at such a times, the afflicted should be ministered to, comforted.

Capt. John Sheridan:
They're not your own people, Delenn.

Delenn:
I didn't know that similarity was required for the exercise of compassion.

Delenn:
She has separated from her mother. Please find her.

Lennier:
[looks around, somewhat lost] How?

Delenn:
[to Lennier] Faith manages.

Delenn:
[turning to Markab girl] What is her name?

Markab Girl:
Mama.

[Delenn turns and looks at Lennier again]

Lennier:
Faith manages.

Dr. Lazarenn:
[dying] I'm sorry, old friend. I don't think I can stay any longer. Will you give my love to...?

Capt. John Sheridan:
What happens next time?

Delenn:
What happens? - What happens is that we honor the memory of those who are no longer with us by using what we have learned to save others. To exercise faith and patience and charity. To reach out to those who are afraid. If we can do that, then their passing will have had meaning and we will grow from it.

[last lines]

Bartender:
Hey, what do you call 2 billion dead Markabs? - Planetary redecorating.

Bartender:
News. [turns off TV] News gives me the creeps. I heard it was the Vorlons that poisoned that place. You know how they are.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Nothing changes.

[after Ivanova told Keffer about the Captain's moratorium on Keffers explorations of hyperspace]

Lt. Warren Keffer:
But there's something out there.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Yes, there is. There's something out there. There's also something in here. This something in here is me giving you a direct order.

Capt. John Sheridan:
If you're going to wait for the universe to start making sense, you'll have a long wait ahead of you.

[first lines]

Ben:
Garibaldi. Garibaldi, I got your message. Okay, fine. So another pointless meeting. Here I am.

Michael Garibaldi:
[to previous client] Why don't you take off. I'll call you if I find out anything, all right?

Ben:
Three weeks, Garibaldi. Three weeks since I asked you to help find my daughter. I haven't been able to eat, I haven't been able to sleep since we were separated during the raid on the Aris Colony. And all I get from you is silence, except when you want more money or information. The same questions over and over.

[Ivanova is trying to get help from the Great Machine in setting up the Voice of the Resistance.]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I'm trying to put together a facility to broadcast messages back home and to the other colonies. We've got all of the pieces we need, but--

Zathras:
But not having enough power to reach far places! Yes, Zathras understand. Everyone always coming to Zathras with problems. Big responsibility but Zathras does not mind. Zathras trained in crisis management.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
That's great, but--

Zathras:
But only Zathras have no one to talk to. No one manages poor Zathras, you see. So Zathras talks to dirt. Or to walls, or talks to ceilings. But dirt is closer. Dirt is used to everyone walking on it. Just like Zathras. But we have come to like it. It is our role. It is our destiny in the universe. So, you see, sometimes dirt has insects in it. And Zathras likes insects. Not so good for conversation, but much protein for diet. Hmmm, huh, huh, very good! - Zathras fix now. Come, this way.

[last lines]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[as anchor for the Voice of the Resistance] This is Commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5, and this is the first official broadcast of the new Voice of the Resistance. We're sending this signal out to every ship that wants to hear the truth, to our fallen comrades and freedom fighters on Mars and Proxima 3, and to Earth, which, despite what you may have heard, is still our home and still the one dream that we are as loyal to now as we ever have been. Over the last three years, ever since President Clark took over after arranging the assassination of President Santiago, you have been hearing nothing but misinformation, propaganda, and outright lies. Now we're going to tell you the truth, and we're going to keep telling it until they shut us down or until President Clark steps down and returns Earth to the hands of its people. You can kill us, you can bomb our colonies, destroy our ships, murder innocent civilians, but you cannot kill the truth - and the truth is back in business.

[talking about the voice of resistance]

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
How's it going?

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Well, the recorders are all hooked up. We've adjusted the Stellarcom to transmit on a broadband frequency rather than point to point. So technically, we're ready to go.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
But?

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
There's just one little thing we don't have: power. The ISN uses tachyon relay stations to boost the signal through hyperspace. Without that, the signals would take years to get from Earth to here. Well have you tried patching into their system.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
We tried but it didn't work. We can transmit the signal throughout most of this sector but beyond that... If we gonna broadcast all the way to Earth, we need a hell of a lot more power than what we've got now. I don't know where we're gonna get it. I've been working on this for days. I don't have a clue.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
What about Epsilon 3? During the war, we evacuated a lot of the wounded down there for safekeeping. Now, I spent a lot of time looking around. There's enough power down there to broadcast clear to the Rim.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Or, just a crazy thought, we could try Epsilon 3.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Yeah, you could do that.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I mean, it's the logical choice. Anybody could see that in about two seconds. Only a fool would fail to see that.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Well, I wouldn't...

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
It's absolutely obvious.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Well, I wouldn't have thought of it for sure.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
You're far too modest Stephen.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
No no, that's why you get paid the big bucks after all.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Yep, that's my job. Well, if you'll excuse me, I think there's a shuttle with my name on it waiting for me. Just fee free, look around. I'll be back.

Michael Garibaldi:
[Sheridan starts stuffing his link down his shirt] No. Not there, that's the first place he'll look.

Capt. John Sheridan:
[holding the link] Well, where do you suggest I put it? [garibaldi gives him a look. Sheridan puts it in the back of his pants]

[first lines]

Michael Garibaldi:
Let me get this straight. You two are missionaries?

Drazi #1:
Yes. Great Sign. We hear you have recent visitation by Drazi higher being.

Michael Garibaldi:
Yeah, yeah. Drabonka.

Drazi #1:
Droshalla.

Michael Garibaldi:
Whatever.

Drazi #1:
Appeared in garden, we hear. Droshalla lights the way.

[last lines]

[Londo and G'Kar are about to be rescued from a bombed-out transport tube]

Londo Mollari:
There, you see? I'm going to live!

G'Kar:
So it would seem. Well, it is an imperfect universe.

Londo Mollari:
Bastard.

G'Kar:
Monster.

Londo Mollari:
Fanatic!

G'Kar:
Murderer!

Londo Mollari:
You are insane!

G'Kar:
And that is why we'll win.

Londo Mollari:
"Go be the ambassador to Babylon 5," they say. "It will be an easy assignment." - I hate my life.

G'Kar:
So do I.

Londo Mollari:
Shut up!

Michael Garibaldi:
Zach, do me a favor and explain the missionary ...eh... position to these folks.

G'Kar:
As the humans say, 'Up yours, die!'

[last lines]

Michael Garibaldi:
[to Lise] I want you to get out of this part of space and back home just as fast as you can. Because barring an act of God - and since I don't believe in God, that kind of narrows the odds a bit - by this time tomorrow, we're gonna be at war with the Centauri.

President John Sheridan:
Damn it Delenn, I have been working up a good mad all day and I am not about to let you undercut it by agreeing with me.

President John Sheridan:
Damn it, but I was hoping we were wrong.

Delenn:
So was I. But now that we know the truth, we have an obligation to follow where it leads.

[first lines]

[Garibaldi is dreaming...]

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Michael, we needed you. We couldn't stop him. We needed you.

Michael Garibaldi:
Who's out there? Who did this? Who are you? Who's out there?

Michael Garibaldi:
Nobody. Yes, yes, yes. We did it all by ourselves.

Michael Garibaldi:
That's not true. It's not true.

Michael Garibaldi:
Oh, don't fight it. No, you're not gonna win. The more you fight it, the stronger it gets.

[first lines]

Customs Officer:
Anything to declare?

Rebo:
I have nothing to declare, my dear man, except my genius!

Zooty:
And I have nothing to declare except Rebo's genius either. - Zooty-zoot, zoot, zoot!

Londo Mollari:
Now - pffft - anyone can be emperor. I can be emperor. Vir can be emperor. If Vir can be emperor - a small earth cat can be emperor!

[last lines]

[Zooty, covering his talking-machine with his hat, whispers something to Sheridan]

G'Kar:
What did he say?

President John Sheridan:
"Because it tells me to."

Lennier:
If you do not know the present, how can you claim to know the future?

[the captain appears to be the only one not amused by a performance of Rebo and Zooty the President doesn't notice this]

President John Sheridan:
Oh this is a moment you can tell your children about, Captain.

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley:
I'll get on to having some right away.

Kosh Naranek:
You are not ready for immortality.

Kosh Naranek:
Ahh. You seek meaning.

Talia Winters:
Yes.

Kosh Naranek:
Then listen to the music, not the song.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[to a Drazi ship threatening the station] Vakar Ashok, our gun arrays are now fixed on your ship. They will fire the instant you come into range. You will find their power most impressive - for a few seconds.

[last lines]

Michael Garibaldi:
Ambassador Kosh has been a busy boy.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
They say God works in mysterious ways.

Michael Garibaldi:
Maybe so. But He's a con man compared to the Vorlon.

[first lines]

Talia Winters:
Ambassador Kosh, is there something I can do for you?

Kosh Naranek:
I wish to engage your services.

Talia Winters:
For what?

Kosh Naranek:
Business.

Talia Winters:
What sort of business?

Kosh Naranek:
Important.

Deathwalker:
Not 'like' us? You will *become* us.

[first lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
Good morning, ambassador.

Delenn:
Captain.

Capt. John Sheridan:
I didn't know you read Universe Today.

Delenn:
After our last encounter with your reporters, I felt that I should be more prepared in the future. I find this notion of the press a fascinating but sometimes troubling concept.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Join the club.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Why is it that every time you finally get things calmed down and everything's going great life decides to kick you in the butt?

[last lines]

Lyta Alexander:
I'm back. I can't stay. The Captain's made sure I can get away before the Psi Cops get here, but I had to see you again, before my ship leaves. I never told them. I never told anyone. I hid it all away in the smallest, tiniest corner of my mind. They could've killed me and they still wouldn't have found it. Only at night, alone, would I open that small door in my mind where I kept the memory of you and listen to your voice. Listen to you sing me to sleep. I hope I can come back again. But I don't know. Until then - Kosh - I want to see you again. Just one more time before I go.

Michael Garibaldi:
I guess this wouldn't be a good time for me to suggest we all join hands and sing Kumbaya?

[first lines]

Shop Owner:
Look, I'm not taking this down.

Security Guard #1:
You want me to report this? Is that what you want? Because I can do that.

Shop Owner:
I didn't do anything wrong. Ah, captain, good.

Alfred Bester:
I'm in pursuit of an individual who's a danger to your station, Earth, and the Psi Corps.

Alfred Bester:
Well, that's two legitimate things to worry about.

[Londo rephrases Vir's report on the Minbari to make them look bad]

Vir Cotto:
They are deeply spiritual people!

Londo Mollari:
Yes, now that you can leave in. It always scares people.

[last lines]

Narn Image:
We are fighting to save one another. And some of us must be sacrificed, if all are to be saved.

Alfred Bester:
If I had my talent working, I could have warned you when he was coming.

Michael Garibaldi:
And if I had a baseball bat, we could hang you from the ceiling and play pi?ata.

Alfred Bester:
A pi?ata, huh? So, you think of me as something bright and cheerful, full of toys and candy for young children? Thank you! That makes me feel much better about our relationship.

Narn Image:
It no longer matters who started it, G'Kar, it only matters who suffers.

Vir Cotto:
Londo, are you deliberately trying to drive me insane?

Londo Mollari:
The universe is already mad. Anything else would be redundant.

Michael Garibaldi:
[talking about the danger of Bester scanning them] He turns us in, we're court-martialed then shot for treason or we kill him, before he has a chance to tell anybody.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I will not support murder. We can not kill him.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Can we wound him? Just a little?

[last lines]

Ranger Marcus Cole:
[as he's giving up his life energy to save Ivanova] I love you.

Captain John Sheridan:
These are your sons and daughters, whose loyalty has never wavered, whose belief in the Alliance has forced us to take extraordinary means. For justice, for peace, for the future... we have come home.

[first lines]

Delenn:
Marcus. Marcus. The transport has arrived. We have to send her back to Babylon 5. It's dangerous to keep her here. We're almost at Mars.

Ranger Marcus Cole:
[at Ivanova's bedside] She would want to be here for the battle, conscious or otherwise.

Delenn:
I know. But we must do what's best for her.

Ranger Marcus Cole:
She's dying. What is there to do?

Delenn:
Make her comfortable in her last hours. We cannot do that here. On Babylon 5, they will see to all her needs - as long as she has them.

Ranger Marcus Cole:
We've all been through six kinds of hell in the last few years.

Captain John Sheridan:
[over radio] We need you, Delenn.

Delenn:
[commanding the League's fleet] We are there.

General Lefcourt:
Engineering. This is General Lefcourt. In case you hadn't noticed, the enemy just pulled our shorts over our head and tied them in a knot. You will get this ship under control ASAP or I will come down there and skin the hide off every last one of you!

General Lefcourt:
Sorry for the delay, Captain. But we had some trouble on Mars. You might've heard something about it.

Captain John Sheridan:
Well, my apologies, General. We were only doing our jobs.

General Lefcourt:
Though you'll have to stand before a Board of Inquiry on this one Sheridan... still... Welcome home John... Welcome home.

Earthforce Officer:
[Upon being asked if he's seen Garbaldi on ISN] I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite.

G'Kar:
I have seen what power does, and I have seen what power costs. The one is never equal to the other.

[first lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
Captain's personal log: the Shadow War is over. We won. But I can't stop thinking about what it cost us and how much work is still ahead of us. Then again, maybe the doc's right. Embrace the moment. In the end, it's all we have. Trouble will come, in it's own time, it always does. But that's tomorrow. Give me today and I will be happy.

Alfred Bester:
Ms. Alexander has no business being here. She's a blip! By all rights, I should arrest her and take her back with me.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Oh, you could do that. And I could nail your head to the table, set fire to it, and feed your charred remains to the Pak'ma'ra. But - it's an imperfect world, and we never get exactly what we want. So get used to it!

Lyta Alexander:
Psi Cops are trained to make everyone nervous, but Bester can make even other Psi Cops nervous.

Zack Allan:
Hell, the man can make poison ivy nervous.

Delenn:
You're a problem solver. You're one of these people who will pick up a rope that's gotten all tangled up and spend an entire day untangling it because it's a challenge, because it defies your sense of order in the universe and because you can. - Sometimes I try to picture you sitting on a beach with absolutely nothing to do.

Capt. John Sheridan:
And?

Delenn:
And the picture always ends with your head imploding.

Capt. John Sheridan:
You haven't known me this long to know me so well.

Delenn:
We're old souls. Deal with it.

Alfred Bester:
Whatever's happened to you, you have a moral obligation to share it with the Corps, Lyta. The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father.

Lyta Alexander:
In that case, Mr. Bester, - I'm an orphan.

[last lines]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
So why do you look so worried?

Capt. John Sheridan:
I was just thinking about those ships we saw leaving Z'Ha'Dum. Delenn called them the allies of the Shadows, dark servants. We don't know what they took when they left, where they're going or what they plan to do.

[...]

Capt. John Sheridan:
I just wish I knew where they were going.

Minister:
[wakes up, scared] A dream. That's all. Just a bad dream.

Michael Garibaldi:
Mars... I can't believe I'm back on Mars. Three times before, this place almost killed me. I swore I'd never give it another chance to finish the job. Humans got no business being here. No business at all.

William Edgars:
How many people actually belonged to the Nazi party? The Communist party? The Jihad party? A very small number. But there were always plenty of other people who were happy to do the work for them, and others afraid enough to let it happen.

[monitored by a telepath, Garibaldi tells Edgars of his suspicions about his employment.]

Michael Garibaldi:
Everybody lies.

William Edgars:
That's a very sad view of the universe, Mr. Garibaldi.

Michael Garibaldi:
Yeah, well, it's the only one I got. And it works for me.

William Edgars:
Do you know how the ancient Greeks defined happiness?

Michael Garibaldi:
Not off-hand, but I'd be willing to bet it involved three goats and a jug of wine.

William Edgars:
"Happiness", they said, was "the exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope".

[first lines]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
This is Cmdr. Susan Ivanova, bringing you the Voice of the Resistance. The Liberation Fleet continues to retake territory held in violation of the Earth Alliance constitution. More ships on the other side continue to defect carrying stories of atrocities carried out under direct orders of President Clark. In addition to the liberation of Proxima 3 the colony at Beta Durani and the midrange military base have also been freed. The long march toward Earth continues.

[last lines]

Michael Garibaldi:
Three times before, this place almost killed me. And now, I've finally finished the job. I can't feel anything anymore. I don't know what I care about anymore. Except Lise. I screwed up both our lives pretty good. Now I get to make up for it. Assuming any of us can ever make up for anything we've done in the past. Maybe we can't. Maybe we just have to live with it and get on with it and do what we have to. Never what we want to. It has to be done. I hope he can see that one day.

[first lines]

Babylon Control:
Shuttle Dyson, you're our last shuttle for today. Logging off for now. Please remind passengers about customs procedures prior to debarkation.

Marcus Cole:
...Well thank you, Mr. Garibaldi, one of the leading minds of the 14th century. [goes on and on... ]

Michael Garibaldi:
Don't you ever shut up?

Marcus Cole:
Not until I get what I want. Why? Do you think silent meditation would work better?

[last lines]

[walking past Marcus, Ivanova throws the roses which actually Lt. Corwin had bought for her to him]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Keep them!

Marcus Cole:
Thank you. I will. Well, guess there's hope for us after all.

Lt. David Corwin:
What if it's not a date? I don't want to offend her.

Trader:
Roses never upset a woman. Except by their absence.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
There are three of them with guns against two of us with nothing. They'll cut us down before we get halfway across the room.

Marcus Cole:
All we need is for one of them to leave the room. Then there'll be only one man with a gun.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Excuse me, where I come from, one man from three leaves two.

Marcus Cole:
Where I come from is a far more interesting place.

[first lines]

Michael Garibaldi:
[interrupted assembling a motorcycle by beeping] Stop program. Open.

Lennier:
Forgive me for disturbing you in your quarters, Mr. Garibaldi. But I've had urgent orders from Ambassador Delenn.

Michael Garibaldi:
What can I do for the Minbari?

Computer:
And the last gasoline-powered motorcycle was built in 2035.

Michael Garibaldi:
Protests are as much use with the Vorlons as fairy wings on a cement truck.

Michael Garibaldi:
If I knew who God was, I'd thank her.

[last lines]

[Garibaldi and Lennier roar by on their Kawa-ZX-11 motorcycle]

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
It's good to have things back to normal.

Michael Garibaldi:
Woo-hoo!

Lennier:
Ah Mr. Garibaldi, I was just about to embark on the mysteries of the fuel injection system. Would you care to join me?

Michael Garibaldi:
Now do me a favor: Embark on a journey to your quarters so I can get some sleep.

Lennier:
Please forgive me. My enthusiasm for this project has made me insensitive to your needs. I will leave at once. When may I begin the work again?

Michael Garibaldi:
[to himself] If I kill him I would start a war. [to Lennier] Come back after 1200.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Are you going to arrest me, Garibaldi?

Michael Garibaldi:
No way. I wanna live to see the future.

Capt. John Sheridan:
[proposes to Delenn] I, um - I wanted you to have this. I got it down in the Zocalo. It's not what I had exactly in mind, but, um - It's temporary until I can get you a real engagement ring. Um, it's an Earth custom. See, you give someone you love an engagement ring as kind of a down payment for another ring. The kind you exchange when you get married. I don't know when we will be able to get around to that part of it. We may not survive the next two weeks, but I wanted you to have this and to know that whatever time I have left, I want to spend it with you.

[first lines]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
We're preempting your normal BabCom service to bring you another update in the continuing crisis. Two more deep-range planetary colonies have been eliminated by Vorlon forces. This footage was taken as the Vorlon fleet closed in on Ventari 3. The ship eclipsing the local star is presumed to be their main weapon, a planetkiller...

Lorien:
You heard?

Capt. John Sheridan:
I heard.

Lorien:
They need to believe.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Not in me.

Lorien:
You can't save them all.

Capt. John Sheridan:
I can try.

Lorien:
You'll fail.

Capt. John Sheridan:
We'll see.

[Ivanova and Garibaldi survey the fleet gathered around B5.]

Michael Garibaldi:
That is a hell of a lot of ships.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
And more on the way. The captain wants the biggest fleet in history if we're gonna end this war. The way things are shaping up out there it looks like he just might get it.

Michael Garibaldi:
And then what?

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
And then what what?

Michael Garibaldi:
Well if we lose, there is no "then what", and if we win, what next? We're still renegades. I don't think there's anybody left on this side of the galactic core we haven't already honked off. We can't go home. Sometimes I don't know which scares me more, winning or losing.

Michael Garibaldi:
God, I thought I was depressing.

[last lines]

[G'Kar is bloodstained and chained between two palace guards.]

Emperor Cartagia:
No, I don't care at all for the way he looks at me. Pluck out his eye!

Guard:
Which one?

Emperor Cartagia:
I don't know. Doesn't matter. - That one.

General Richard Franklin:
Every soldier lives with death, son. But I suppose, sometimes, we forget that our loved ones must live with it, too.

General Richard Franklin:
A man who won't stand up for his own principles is not really a man at all.

Gen. Richard Franklin:
I had an Alfredo Garibaldi under my command during the Dilgar Invasion. Excellent soldier.

Michael Garibaldi:
That was my dad.

Gen. Richard Franklin:
So much for genetics.

Gen. Richard Franklin:
You know what they say about old soldiers, don't you? They still kick butt with the best of them.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Whatever happened to just fading away?

Gen. Richard Franklin:
Well, that's not an option at present.

[first lines]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
No traffic. No complaints. No Noise. Traitors, troublemakers, and ambassadors all tucked snugly in their little beds. I love this time of night.

Delenn:
We are all slaves to our histories. If there is to be a bright future, we must learn to break those chains.

[last lines]

Lou Welch:
Chief?

Michael Garibaldi:
Yeah.

Lou Welch:
The first casualty reports are in from Akdor. You said you wanted to see them.

Michael Garibaldi:
Yeah. [reads]

Jane:
[ISN news] President Clark is expected to congratulate Gen.Franklin on this spectacular victory. [Lt.Keffer reading casualty report] Meanwhile, preparations are under way for yet more Earthforce divisions to join the 356th on Akdor. [casualties]

Pvt. Yang:
Were you, you know, scared?

Lt. Warren Keffer:
You're always scared. That's part of the job. But you're gonna do okay.

P.F.C. Large:
That's right. The man's right. Like Buffer used to say, "A gropo who ain't scared is either dead or stupid."

[first lines]

Van Braun crew man:
Babylon Control, this is transport Van Braun requesting clearance.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Transport Van Braun, you're cleared for docking in bay 7.

[a grey alien stands before an ombudsman]

Mr. Flinn:
We went through their archives, and we found proof that his great-grandfather abducted my great-grandfather, and just took him away in a spaceship. Frankly, Your Honor, we want damages!

Ombuds Wellington:
[to alien] How do you plead?

[the alien holds up a card with strange symbols]

Ombuds Wellington:
Could I please have a translation team in here? [to himself] Why is it Ombuds Zimmermann never gets these cases? Only me?

Michael Garibaldi:
[Last lines] No boom?

Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair:
No Boom.

Susan Ivanova:
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here! Boom. Sooner or later. BOOM!

Marcus Cole:
I am a Ranger. We walk in the dark places no others may enter. We stand on the bridge, and no one may pass. We live for the One! We DIE for the ONE!

Neroon:
[tosses his bloodied pike on the ground in front of Delenn, addresses Delenn] There is now blood between us, and there is blood between the warrior caste and the humans. I do not think they would die for me... but they would die... for you... ENTIL'ZHA!

Supervisor:
I'm telling you, it's like he just vanished into thin air.

Michael Garibaldi:
"Thin air." Why is it always "thin air"? Never fat air, chubby air, mostly-fit-could-stand-to-lose-a-few-pounds air.

Supervisor:
I'm sorry, Sir, that's not my department.

Neroon:
[after hitting Marcus] I've just broken two of your ribs.

[hits Marcus again]

Neroon:
Sorry, make that three.

[first lines]

Zack Allan:
Name?

Harry Sanders:
Harry. Harry Sanders.

Zack Allan:
And you're a telepath?

Harry Sanders:
Sure. What's the job pay?

Zack Allan:
Well, it's not a job, it's more like an adventure. A chance to fight the bad guys.

[Neroon visits Marcus in Medlab to honor him]

Neroon:
Denn-Shar, you said. To the death- and death there was. The death was mine. To see a Human invoke the name of Valen. To be willing to die for one of my kind when I was intent upon killing one of my own. The rightness of my cause disappeared. Strange, that a human in his last moments would be more Minbari than I. Perhaps it is true what Delenn said: That we are not of the same blood, but we are of the same heart.

[Neroon turns to leave]

Marcus Cole:
The next time - the next time you want a revelation - could you possibly find a way - that isn't quite so - uncomfortable?

[Neroon laughs out loud]

[last lines]

Michael Garibaldi:
Captain. You wouldn't believe the day I've had.

Capt. John Sheridan:
The day you've had? We had an assault on Marcus, someone got into the Rangers' ceremony, could have killed Delenn. And where were you?

Michael Garibaldi:
Okay. Well first, there was this missing maintenance man, only he wasn't missing. He was killed by a Zarg, but I'm getting ahead of myself. That was after I found out that the entire 17th floor of Grey Sector had completely disappeared. Well, not disappeared exactly. This weird cult had taken over the place, see. Then there was a dummy that shot tranqs out of its eyes. Very strange. But it was all supposed to be perfect. That was the thing about it. And there wasn't a way out, but there was. Except it was spiritual, you had to die a perfect death. That's where the Zarg came in and it was gonna kill me or I was gonna kill it, and - Am I going too fast for you?

Lennier:
Delenn, all we know is that we will die. It is only a matter of how, when and whether or not it is with honor.

Neroon:
Why? Why all this? Pride? Duty? You've been trained well, but you must've known you couldn't win! So why do it?

Marcus Cole:
For her... We live for the one, we die for the one. Isil'zha sendi, in Valen's name.

Lennier:
I'm trying to avoid breaking a promise, by breaking a promise. I promised Delenn that I would not speak of this to the captain or let him know. She did not mention you by name, but that was implicit. If I tell the others in the chain of command then Sheridan will find out and I will have broken the promise. But if I break my promise by telling you, since you are not in the chain of command, he may not find out about this and I will not have broken the promise.

Marcus Cole:
I:m in awe, Lennier. The way you can take a straightforward, logical proposition and turn it inside out so that in the end it says what you want it to say, instead of what it actually means. Did this come naturally, or did you attend some special martial arts class for the philosophically inclined?

Delenn:
No Minbari has killed another for a thousand years.

Michael Garibaldi:
[as Stephen's stiching up Garibaldi] You were his professor, what were his grades in sutures?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
4.0

Dr. Everett Jacobs:
3.7

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
What?

Michael Garibaldi:
Ow! Forget it! Just make sure my arms are the same length.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Won't you be recognized?

Michael Garibaldi:
No. First off when I'm down there, they don't see me, they see the badge. Second [putting on his hat] I've got an *excellent* disguise.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Why is my life suddenly flashing before my eyes?

[first lines]

David Corwin:
Can I help you?

Michael Garibaldi:
Yea. I'm looking for the captain and Ivanova.

David Corwin:
They went down to Bay 13. I can link in if you want.

Michael Garibaldi:
No, that's okay. I need to talk to them in person. Thanks. - Bay 13? Nobody goes into Bay 13.

Michael Garibaldi:
Maybe somebody should've labelled the future "some assembly required".

[last lines]

Sarah:
Until next time, captain.

Capt. John Sheridan:
There's always a next time, isn't there?

Sarah:
You better pray it stays that way, captain. Because as long as there is a next time, at least there's a chance we'll win. Because in this war, captain, we need all the chances we can get.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Michael, you ever consider climbing out of the barracks sometime and looking around at the world, huh?

Michael Garibaldi:
Yeah, I will. When people stop shooting at me.

Merchant:
I don't give out names. It's bad for business.

Michael Garibaldi:
Yeah well so is having your eyeballs spooned out and served on toast. Now make up your mind and make it up fast because it's getting awfully close to my breakfast time.

[after Byron tries to blackmail the Alliance council]

Michael Garibaldi:
Never, ever, ever trust a telepath. I swear to you, I'm gonna have that tattooed inside my eyelids.

G'Kar:
It's bad luck to die on an empty stomach.

Londo Mollari:
I've known the regent since the first time I came to the Royal Court. He doesn't drink. He cultivated sobriety as his only vice. A break with conventional, accepted behavior.

[first lines]

President John Sheridan:
All right, what's wrong now?

Michael Garibaldi:
This is my analysis of the latest reports from the Rangers. We've had a major increase in attacks against shipping lines of Alliance worlds in the recent weeks.

President John Sheridan:
Hit-and-run attacks, very efficient. No survivors, no warning.

[last lines]

Byron:
You could go, Lyta.

Lyta Alexander:
I don't want to.

Byron:
We can hold them off for a day. Two days, maybe three. No more. There will come a moment when I will ask you to leave me behind. When that moment comes you must do exactly as I say. Promise me that, Lyta. Promise me.

[Much to the disaproval of the court, Londo returns to Centauri Prime with G'Kar as his Narn bodyguard]

Minister Vole:
Mollari! This business has gone far enough. The palace guard should be protection enough for anyone. To bring one of those in here is a slap in the face to every Centauri who's given his life guarding the palace. And it recklessly endangers everyone here.

Londo Mollari:
Endangers? How?

Minister Vole:
Narns are barbarians. Primitives. Turn your back on them for a second, they'll stick a knife in it.

G'Kar:
A Narn would never stab a centauri in the back. It has always been our tradition to go for the chest. That way you can see the life go out of their eyes as they fall.

Londo Mollari:
G'kar.

G'Kar:
Just doing my best in the interests of accuracy.

[last lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
I let him go. But there is a price tag attached. You've been teaching me so we can understand each other. That's not what I want any more. I want you to teach me... how to fight them. How to beat them. Because one day I'm going to go to Z'ha'dum and I'm going to stop them.

Kosh:
If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Then I die, but I will not go down easily, I will not go down alone! You will teach me?

Kosh:
Yes.

[first lines]

Michael Garibaldi:
Zack, what've got?

Zack Allan:
Another 200 refugees in from Sector 29. And we've got 5 more ships due by the end of the day...

Morden:
What do you want?

Vir Cotto:
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this. [gives a mockingly cheerful finger waggle] Can you and your associates arrange this for me, Mr. Morden?

Delenn:
That is why Kosh cannot leave his encounter suit. He would be recognized.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Recognized? By whom?

Kosh:
Everyone.

Dr. Vance Hendricks:
Steven, there's a Martian war machine parked outside, they would like a word about the common cold.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Tell them to make an appointment.

Dr. Vance Hendricks:
Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

[Sinclair is fighting an extremely powerful organic robot soldier]

Sinclair:
I'm gonna try and make it mad.

Michael Garibaldi:
Make it mad? Are you nuts? Commander!

[first lines]

Mary Ann Cramer:
When is the commander due back?

Michael Garibaldi:
Soon.

Mary Ann Cramer:
How soon is "soon"?

Michael Garibaldi:
Longer than a little while, faster than later. He took out a fighter...

[last lines]

Mary Ann Cramer:
I have to ask you the same question people back home are asking about space these days. Is it worth it? Should we just pull back? Forget the whole thing as a bad idea, and take care of our own problems, at home.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
No. We have to stay here. And there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes, and - all of this - all of this - was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Last time I gave an interview, they told me to relax and say what I felt, ten minutes after broadcast I got transferred to an outpost so far off the star maps, you couldn't find it with a hunting dog and a ouija board

Michael Garibaldi:
Don't sweat it. Just be that charming effervescent commander we've all come to know and love. What's the worst that could happen? They fire you, ship you off to the rim and I get promoted to captain. I don't see a problem here.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
[quotes 'King Lear'] How sharper than a serpent's tooth.

[Mary Ann Cramer is trying to approach Commander Sinclair during a crisis]

Mary Ann Cramer:
Commander?

[Ivanova steps in front of her]

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Don't. You're too young to experience that much pain.

[last lines]

Delenn:
Then once Kosh's belongings are loaded into his ship it will activate itself. The ship was made for him. It was a part of him. In a curious way it is alive. It cannot live without him, so it will grief as we do, in its own way, and perform its last duty in memory of Kosh.

[first lines]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
August 3, 2260. Personal diary. Ten days ago, for the first time, the Shadows began attacking openly. So far they have been hitting targets close to the Rim: the minor powers, the few in the League of Non-Aligned Worlds. The attacks seem totally random, almost senseless. If we thought it was nuts around here before, this has only made things worse...

Kosh Naranek:
Incorrect!

[hits Sheridan with an energy wave]

Kosh Naranek:
Leave... *Now*!

Captain John Sheridan:
No!

Kosh Naranek:
Disobedience!

Captain John Sheridan:
[shouts] Up yours!

[gets hit again]

Vir Cotto:
[during the gag reel, through the BabCom] Ambassador?

Londo Mollari:
Yes, Vir, what is it?

Vir Cotto:
You asked me to remind you about Aldiras suite. [chuckles at his mistake]

Londo Mollari:
[smiling] Yes?

Vir Cotto:
[to the stage crew] Her name's not Aldira, right? [both laugh]

[Sheridan tries to encourage an imprisoned Drazi]

Capt. John Sheridan:
You just have to say "no, I won't" one more time than they can say "yes, you will".

Capt. John Sheridan:
You know, it's funny, I was thinking about what you said, that the preeminent truth of our age is that you cannot fight the system. But if, as you say, the truth is fluid, that the truth is subjective, then maybe you can fight the system. As long as just one person refuses to be broken, refuses to bow down.

Interrogator:
But can you win?

Capt. John Sheridan:
Every time I say "no."

[first lines]

[cutbacks:
]

Michael Garibaldi:
Captain, I just thought you should know. They've got your dad, John. They traced him through his medication, picked him up at a safe house two days ago, just outside of Chicago. Now look, we've got a couple of days before they can move on this, and we should be able to break him out. I've got some people who can help, but they want a meeting.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I mean it, John. I don't like the way this sounds, I dont like the way it looks, I don't like anything about it. It stinks of a setup.

[last lines]

Interrogator 2:
Good morning. Now, before we begin your interrogation, I'll need some information. Do you have any allergies or illnesses that I should know about? Are you currently taking any medication? Had any trouble with your heart? You'll answer my questions when they are asked. Resistance will be punished. Cooperation will be rewarded. Do you have any illnesses or allergies that I should know about? Are you taking any medication? Have you had any trouble with your heart? You'll answer my questions when they are asked, resistance will be punished, cooperation will be rewarded. Do you have any allergies or illnesses that I should know about? Are you currently taking any medication? Have you had any trouble with your heart? - You'll answer my questions when they are asked. Resistance will be punished. Cooperation will be rewarded.

Interrogator:
The truth is sometimes what we believe it to be, and sometimes it's what we decide it to be.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Morning gentlemen, this is your wake up call. [detonates a couple bombs, destroying Vorlon, and Shadow Vessels]

Lyta Alexander:
Captain?

Capt. John Sheridan:
Hmmm?

Lyta Alexander:
They're pissed.

Marcus Cole:
Did we just win?

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Don't jinx it.

Morden:
So what are you going to do, Mollari? Huh? Blow up the island.

Londo Mollari:
Actually, now that you mention it. [reveals a remote detonator]

Morden:
Noooooo! [Londo blows up the island]

[first lines]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Commander's personal log: We're still searching for First Ones to use in our war with the Vorlons and the Shadows. There's less that 24 hours left before everything hits the fan...

Vir Cotto:
I think you should feel happy.

Londo Mollari:
Yes perhaps. But every time I have been happy the universe has conspired to do something nasty to me.

Capt. John Sheridan:
It's a new age, Delenn. A third age.

Delenn:
Why third?

Capt. John Sheridan:
Well, we began in chaos, too primitive to make our own decisions. Then we were manipulated by forces from outside that thought *they* knew what was best for us. And now, - Now we're finally standing on our own.

[last lines]

Delenn:
Strange. The galaxy seems somehow smaller now that the First Ones are gone forever.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Feels like the magic's gone.

Delenn:
No. Not gone. Now we make our own magic. Now we create our own legends. Now we build the future. Now we stop...

Capt. John Sheridan:
Being afraid... of Shadows.

[in the Centauri throneroom, Palace Guards kill the Shadows accompanying Mr. Morden, which takes heavy fire from their special weapons]

Londo Mollari:
[looking at the collateral damage] I will have to have that painted over, I suppose.

Lyta Alexander:
I've heard that some of the Vorlons would be within striking distance of Centauri Prime about the same time we reach Coriana 6. So... why are we here instead of there?

Marcus Cole:
6 billion lives on Coriana. 3 billion lives on Centauri Prime. We have enough ships to make a stand at one of them, so which do you choose? It's numbers - cold, unsympathetic numbers. Let's just hope we pulled enough of the Vorlons away to give the Centauri a chance, or if they've gotten rid of any Shadow influences by now. Otherwise, I wouldn't give you 2 cents for their chances.

Lorien:
Only those whose lives are brief can imagine that love is eternal. You should embrace that remarkable illusion. It may be the greatest gift your race has ever received.

[first lines]

[Sheridan at baseballtraining]

Computer:
Home run.

[Sheridan hits another ball]

Computer:
Fair ball.

Michael Garibaldi:
You're swinging like you've had a rough day.

Londo Mollari:
You know, Vir, you have what the Earthers call a negative personality.

Vir Cotto:
No, I don't.

Londo Mollari:
There, you see?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Well, anyone willing to command Babylon 5 has got to be slightly insane, but I don't think that you're ready for the asylum just yet.

Vir Cotto:
Londo, this is insane!

Londo Mollari:
Insanity is part of the times. You must learn to embrace the madness. Let it fire you.

[last lines]

Londo Mollari:
I have made many choices lately, Vir. And today, for the first time I am not sure those choices were right.

Vir Cotto:
Perhaps some good has come out of this tragedy. It's not too late to make some new choices.

Londo Mollari:
No. The blood is already on my hands. Right or wrong, I must follow the path to its end.

Vir Cotto:
But, Londo...

Londo Mollari:
You can go now, Vir. I want to sleep. - If I can.

Capt. John Sheridan:
You always worry when things are going well.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I don't have time when they're not.

[Tennier is a Ranger in training, and he has been beaten almost to death. One of his teachers declares "Mora'dum," which means the application of terror]

Delenn:
Captain, this is not about revenge.

Captain Elizabeth Lochley:
[sarcastically] Oh, then what is this about?

Delenn:
Terror.

Captain Elizabeth Lochley:
So, what kind of terror are we talking about here, Delenn?

Delenn:
The kind that cripples; the kind that destroys. Not from without, but from within. As soon as he can stand, whether he is fully healed or not, Tennier will prepare to face his terror. Those who harmed him now have power over him. He must take back that power or he will never be whole again. We will go with him, and bring him to the point of his terror. And then, he will face it.

Captain Elizabeth Lochley:
But if he isn't fully healed, he could die in the effort.

Delenn:
As Anla'shok, we choose to do that which frightens us, knowing that there are no guarantees. He may lose; we cannot help him.

Captain Elizabeth Lochley:
Then he will stand alone.

Delenn:
At the end, Captain, we all stand alone.

[last lines]

Delenn:
I'm going to pretend that you were going to tell me this sooner or later.

President John Sheridan:
I was just looking for the right time.

Delenn:
Ten seconds after you thought of it would have been good.

President John Sheridan:
Yeah. Yeah, maybe so.

[first lines]

Durhan:
Meditation shapes us. It makes us strong but keeps us flexible. As fluid as thought itself...

Turval:
Anyone can meditate in silence. That is hardly a challenge worthy of a Ranger.

Rastenn:
A challenge is to stand alone, unarmed, prepared to die. I would hardly say sitting an thinking is a challenge.

Turval:
True. You do seem to have the sitting part down to an art so I suppose there is hope. As for thinking, well, let's leave that for the advanced classes. We shouldn't expect too much of you at once.

Delenn:
[Discussing a Pak'ma'ra ranger recruit] If the Pak'ma'ra cannot learn to be what we think they should be then perhaps we should learn to use them for what they are.

Durhan:
Well, we've already considered using them for garbage disposal but there are some things that even a Pak'ma'ra won't eat.

Turval:
We think.

Durhan:
We think, yes. We haven't actually discovered what that is yet.

Zack Allan:
Did it ever occur to you that just because somebody doesn't agree with you that doesn't mean they're the enemy?

Michael Garibaldi:
No.

[first lines]

Michael Garibaldi:
I still don't understand why we have to lay out the welcome mat for these guys.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
When the greatest warrior leader the Minbari ever had dies suddenly while on a diplomatic tour, it's natural they want to honour him on his journey home.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
We've fought long enough. Maybe it's time we started talking to one another. Branmer's life was more significant than his battles. Let the warrior caste praise his courage in war, and let the rest praise him for what he truly was: A man of peace.

Neroon:
You talk like a Minbari, commander. Perhaps there was some *small* wisdom in letting your species survive.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
We like to think so.

[last lines]

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
When you looked into Delenn's mind, did you see anything unusual?

Alisa Beldon:
One other thing. A word, "chrysalis." I don't know what it means.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
It's a cocoon, I think.

Alisa Beldon:
Cocoon? That's weird. She shut down real fast when I touched that. Why would she want to hide that?

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
I don't know.

Announcer:
Now boarding in docking bay 4.

Alisa Beldon:
I guess I have to go.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Good luck!

Alisa Beldon:
Thanks.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
"Chrysalis."

Pak'ma'ra Captain:
[sending a distress signal] Engines hit... life support no longer functioning... dark enemy!

Delenn:
This is Delenn of the Minbari. We are en route. How many ships are attacking you?

Pak'ma'ra Captain:
[his last words] Too many! Too many!

[first lines]

ISN Reporter:
As reports continue to come in about the harsh conditions aboard what was once the shining beacon of Earthforce, Babylon 5, messages smuggled out indicate that humans continue to be subjected to cruel oppression by alien groups aboard the renegade outpost. And every day more people are asking, "When will Earth intervene? How much lomger can we allow our citizens to endure this mistreatment?"

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Why do you keep watching that? You know it just upsets you.

Capt. John Sheridan:
I'm gathering intelligence.

Marcus Cole:
Touch passion when it comes your way, Stephen. It's rare enough as it is. Don't walk away when it calls you by name.

[last lines]

Delenn:
You've tried to act as if nothing had changed. But I know your heart, John. You can fool the others, but you cannot fool me. What is left requires that you be dangerous, and I think you would be more comfortable doing that if I were not here.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Would it make a difference if I asked you not to go?

Delenn:
Would you want it to make a difference?

Capt. John Sheridan:
No. I suppose not. Well, how long before you have to leave?

Delenn:
Tomorrow morning.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Dinner?

Delenn:
Love to. - Have you heard from Marcus and Stephen?

Capt. John Sheridan:
Not since before you left, which is what I figured. I'm sure Stephen has his hands full.

[cut to Mars]

Number One:
Ooh, Stephen!

Capt. John Sheridan:
During the last phase of the war, you were on the babcom system updating everyone on evacuations, safe zones, rescues which planets had falle.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Yes, I know, I hated it.

Capt. John Sheridan:
You were great at it. You have a face people trust.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I'd rather have a face people fear.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Well, that too, but... See, it occurred to me that if we could do that here, on a small scale why not on a larger scale? I mean, ever since we broke away from Earth solid information has been rare as gold. We've had to rely on smuggled data crystals, rumors, stories. All they have to go on back home is what ISN tells them. So why not solve two problems at the same time?Why not come up with a way to turn the war room into- I don't know, - The Voice of the Resistance! Susan, during World War II, the French Resistance used to go on the air for one hour a night, always from a different location, broadcasting the *real* news about the war. Providing intelligence for the resistance fighters, encouraging Germans to defect. Well, why can't we do the same thing here?

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Why do I get the ugly suspicion that you're volunteering me for this job?

Capt. John Sheridan:
I accept your offer!

Capt. John Sheridan:
I'm tired, Delenn. Sometimes I feel as if I've been carrying this station on my back and crawling through broken glass for three years.

Marcus Cole:
[Number One has just come on to Dr. Franklin, who is skeptical] Ask me, I think she likes you.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Ah, c'mon, nah... it's just business, that's all.

Marcus Cole:
Stephen...

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Look, I was just helping her out of a difficult situation, that's all...

Marcus Cole:
Fifty credits says that's not all she wants you to help her out of.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Oh, c'mon, Marcus you're such a...

Marcus Cole:
...romantic?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Yeah.

Marcus Cole:
We're still in a war here, Stephen. Only now it's a different kind of war, maybe the worst of the two. It's hard to know who to trust; a situation like this makes you afraid, makes you want to reach out to someone who may just feel the same way as you do about things, who might be willing to risk this much to help you when the rest of the world couldn't give a damn.

Number One:
Oh, Franklin, I almost forgot; since it was your hotel that was bombed this morning you're on your own. Maybe you'd like to join me for dinner tonight? I can't promise much, but it'll be the best we can pull together.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
[shrugs] Sure.

Number One:
[to Marcus] We're a little short-handed on guard duty tonight. If you could help out...

Marcus Cole:
Love to!

[Number One leaves]

Marcus Cole:
That'll be fifty credits...

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Now don't you start with me, Marcus. Don't.

Marcus Cole:
C'mon, you cheap bastard...

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Marcus, look...

Marcus Cole:
Sorry, gotta go. Guard duty. - Touch passion when it comes your way, Stephen. It's rare enough as it is. Don't walk away when it calls you by name.

[... ]

Number One:
[much later, as Marcus is keeping watch] Ohhhh. Stephen...

Delenn:
Lennier, have you ever seen the warrior caste training flights?

Lennier:
Yes.

Delenn:
Have you ever seen them skin dancing?

Lennier:
I have.

Delenn:
Can you do the same thing?

Lennier:
Not without approximately... five years of additional training.

Delenn:
That would be no, then.

Lennier:
But I can program the parameters into the ship's artificial intelligence matrix.

Delenn:
And what do you do then?

Delenn:
Touch that button, and pray very, very fast.

Number One:
A call takes ten seconds. Do you know what I can do to you in ten seconds? In ten seconds, I can cripple you for life. In ten seconds I can break your skull open and scoop out your brains for cat food!

Number One:
You don't breathe, you don't move, and you don't blow things up unless you check with me first!

Number One:
You know damn well what you did. That bombing was unauthorized.

Phillipe:
I checked with Donovan!

Number One:
Donovan's Earthside! Whatever he may think, he doesn't run the Resistance. Mars is my territory and you don't pull this kind of crap without authorization.

Phillipe:
I saw the security squad checking in. There wasn't time!

Number One:
A call takes 10 seconds. Do you know what I can do to you in10 seconds? In 10 seconds I can cripple you for life. In 10 seconds I can break your skull open and scoop out your brains for cat food. I've got 10 dead civilians on the deck, Phillipe and they're going to hold me responsible. They'll be looking for me long after you go home to Earth. I don't care what you do back home, but here you answer to me and you don't do anything! Yo don't breathe, you don't move and you don't blow thins up unless you check with me first! Clear?

[Phillipe nods]

Phillipe:
Tell me, is this how you treat all your former lovers?

Number One:
As a matter of fact, yes.

[Number One just had a loud confrontation with Phillippe and storms past Stephen and Marcus]

Number One:
Whatever you've got to say, it damn well better be worth it.

Marcus Cole:
[to Stephen] Looks upset.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Think it's something we said?

Marcus Cole:
Hope not. I'd sooner face an entire Shadow fleet than what just walked past us.

Capt. John Sheridan:
You can't kill the truth. Actually, you can kill the truth but it alway comes back to haunt you.

[first lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
Ambassador, I've been looking for you. Last week, after you saved my life, I didn't really get a chance to thank you properly. I've tried to reach you since then, but you haven't answered my calls. Is everything all right?

Kosh:
Being seen by so many at once was a great strain. I returned to my ship to rest. You have a question?

Capt. John Sheridan:
I hate being cheered up. It's - depressing.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
So, in that case - we're all going to die horrible, painful, lingering deaths.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Thank you. I feel so much better.

[last lines]

Delenn:
There are beings in the universe billions of years older than any of our races. They walked among the stars like giants, vast and timeless. They created great empires, taught the new races, explored beyond the rim. The oldest of the ancients are the Shadows. We have no other name for them.

Large Man:
This is my part of Downbelow. You wanna do business here, you gotta pay.

Marcus Cole:
I don't like extortion.

Large Man:
And I don't like insults.

Marcus Cole:
Funny, with a face like yours, I'd have thought you'd be used to it by now.

Michael Garibaldi:
I try never to get involved in my own life. Too much trouble.

Psi Cop:
There's something to this idea of a threat to planetary security I find very appealing. As long as we keep the real truth to ourselves there's no reason we can't use this situation...

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[Walking over to where Marcus is sitting at a console on the White Star] You haven't said much since we came aboard.

Marcus Cole:
I don't usually speak unless I have something to say.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Then we have something in common. How did you become involved with the Rangers?

Marcus Cole:
My brother joined six months before I did. I said he was being a fool... chasing legends, fighting monsters. My brother came back to warn me of a Shadow attack on the mining colony where I was working. I didn't listen. I got back just in time to see him die.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I'm sorry.

Marcus Cole:
Before he died he asked me to finish what he'd started. I keep my promises.

Michael Garibaldi:
And what kind of head of security would I be if I let people like me know things I'm not supposed to know. I know what I know because I have to know it. And if I don't have to know it, I don't tell me or let anybody else tell me either.

Montoya:
...Death is not the enemy. Death simply is.

Delenn:
I was beginning to wonder if you were going to make it, Lennier.

Lennier:
I said that I would never leave you, that I would be here when you needed me most. Tell me what you want done, I will make it happen, no matter the cost.

Londo Mollari:
Vir, we are not biologically equipped to handle fast food.

Vir Cotto:
I know. I know. But it tastes so great going down. Coming up again, it's not so terrific, but-

Lennier:
Well, I think I may have asked an indiscreet question.

Findell:
No. The captain does not believe in indiscreet questions. He believes the only way to get pertinent information is to ask impertinent questions.

G'Kar:
If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. Too often we assume that the light on the wall is God. But the light is not the goal of the search; it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it! Similarly, someone who does not search, who does not bring a lantern with him, sees nothing. What we perceive as God, is the byproduct of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light, pure and unblemished, not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe. God looks astonishingly like we do! Or we turn to look at our shadow, and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose; which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty - and in all its flaws. And in so doing better understand the world around us.

[first lines]

President John Sheridan:
Delenn?

Delenn:
Yes.

President John Sheridan:
Are you all right?

Delenn:
Yes. I- I just remembered I need some important papers from my quarters for tomorrow's Council meeting.

President John Sheridan:
At this hour?

Delenn:
I wouldn't be able to sleep anyway, so I wanna make sure I know where they are.

[last lines]

[Garibaldi stumbles into his quarters.]

Michael Garibaldi:
Sh- Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed. I had a little- oh, that's a big drink- about an hour ago and it went right to my head. - What did I do with that link? You here, Linky, Linky, Linky? Here, Linky? [finds his link] Oh, the missing link!

Michael Garibaldi:
[over link] ... Yep. I wanna suicide pizza and I want it right now.

Man:
Yes, Sir. We'll do our best.

Michael Garibaldi:
I bet you will.

[He lies down on the floor and pours himself another drink.]

Tough Guy:
[Pretending to hold his hand and flirt, Delenn has just snapped his middle finger] Ahhh! You broke my finger!

Delenn:
True, but you have nine others, for the moment.

[first lines]

Michael Garibaldi:
You know, I've been stuck in this tin can for three years. I haven't taken a vacation. Okay, okay, it's my fault, I had the leave coming, I just didn't take it. And the pay sucks, I knew that when I signed on! And nobody said I'd survive the job! Now, I give you all that. But where in my contract does it say I have to eat the same food... every day... for three years.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Paragraph 47, subsection 19, clause 9A. You can find it in the index under S.U.A.E.I.

Michael Garibaldi:
S.U.A.E.I.?

Capt. John Sheridan, Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Shut Up And Eat It.

Captain John Sheridan:
Full power! Give me everything you've got!

Lennier:
If I were holding anything back I would tell you.

[last lines]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Monitor on, find ISN.

ISN Anchor:
And to confirm earlier reports, President Clark has signed a decree today declaring martial law throughout Earth Central citing threats to planetary security. He's expected to provide information to support this action at a closed meeting of the full Earth Senate tomorrow. We repeat, Earth is now under martial law.

G'Kar:
Two weeks down, six to go before I've repaid my debt to society for attacking Mollari. I've taken the opportunity provided by my incarceration to meditate, think, even to sing.

[... ]

Michael Garibaldi:
You know what's odd? You seem, I don't know, happier in here than you were out there.

G'Kar:
In here, Mr. Garibaldi, you cannot hide from yourself. Everything out there has only one purpose. To distract ourselves from what is truly important.

Marcus Cole:
[giving his report to Ivanova] And according to one of our units on the border of Centauri space, they've continued massing their fleet. We don't know why. Maybe they expect a counterattack. It's hard to say. [notices she's not listening] And they have much to be concerned about. There's always the threat of an attack by, say, a giant space dragon, the kind that eats the sun once a month. It's a nuisance, but what can you expect from reptiles? Did I mention my nose is on fire, and that I have 15 wild badgers living in my trousers? [she gives him a look] I'm sorry, would you prefer ferrets?

Cook:
Excuse me, Commander [she places a covered tray with a note on top of it and whispers something in Ivanova's ear. Ivanova reads the note and gives an exasperated sigh]

Michael Garibaldi:
What, what what what?

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
It's nothing

Capt. John Sheridan:
[leans a bit closer to the tray] I smell bacon and eggs.

Michael Garibaldi:
Get outta here, do you know how hard it is to get eggs up here before they spoil? I have tried, it can't be- [he sniffs the air around the tray] Yeah... bacon and eggs, definitely. [he lifts the lid to find some strips of real bacon and a mound of scrambled eggs. Both he and Sheridan let out expressions of awe]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
It's from Marcus. [Sheridan and Garibaldi exchange looks] It's nothing like that, I did him a favor. I got him an Identicard so he could use some of the facilities on the station. He asked what he could do for me in return, I said 'Surprise me'.

Michael Garibaldi:
I can get anchovies, I can get olive oil, anything that doesn't spoil, I haven't seen a fresh chicken egg in over three years... I mean, cooked or otherwise.

Capt. John Sheridan:
And bacon? Forget it!

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[Letting out another sigh and looking slightly guilty] Look... if you want it, it's yours.

Michael Garibaldi:
Oh no we wouldn't dream of it.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Go on, eat.

Michael Garibaldi:
We'll just sit right here.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Uh-huh. And watch.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[Shaking her head in embarrassment] I'm gonna kill him. After breakfast... if I can find him.

Londo Mollari:
[arguing with Garibaldi] We made a mistake, I'm sorry. Here, open my wrists. [offers Garibaldi his wrists]

Michael Garibaldi:
Centauri don't have major arteries in their wrists.

Londo Mollari:
Of course not, what, do you think I am stupid?

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
The best way to understand someone is to fight them, make them angry.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Mr. Garibaldi, you're sitting at my station, using my equipment. Is there a reason for this, or to save time should I just snap your hand off at the wrist?

Vir Cotto:
[stuttering] The council meeting, the emergency session.

Londo Mollari:
The council, the council can go to hell, and the emergency session can go to hell.

[Vir helps him up - grasping his hand]

Londo Mollari:
And you, you can go to hell, too, I wouldn't want you to feel left out.

Kosh:
They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them pass.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Who, the Narn or the Centauri?

Kosh:
Yes.

[first lines]

Centauri #1:
Watch Commander Ayla reporting for duty. You're relieved. - Wait. Picking up disturbance. Trying to get a fix. Jump point forming in Sector 3. Great Maker! Activating mines. Notify Centauri Prime. Tell them we're under attack. Tell them it's the...

[last lines]

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Commander, there's a problem. Commander?

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Mr. Garibaldi, just now, would you really have killed me?

Michael Garibaldi:
Yes. Yes, I would've, but I'm just as glad I didn't have to. The paperwork's a pain in the butt.

G'Kar:
Your time has come and gone. It's our turn now. One night, you'll wake to find our teeth at your throat. Sleep well, Mollari. Slep lightly.

G'Kar:
Ah, Ambassador Mollari! Please join me. Would you like some spoo? It's quite fresh this week.

Londo Mollari:
Fresh is it? [spits into dish] You bastard! You won't get away with this. We'll strike back, and strike back hard.

G'Kar:
I assume you're referring to the attack on Ragesh 3 by our forces. I just found out about it myself. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation.

Londo Mollari:
What reasonable explanation is there be for the slaughter of unarmed civilians?

G'Kar:
Curious, we wondered the same thing when you invaded our world. The wheel turns, does it not, Ambassador?

Londo Mollari:
We should have wiped out your kind when we had the chance.

G'Kar:
What happened, run out of small children to butcher?

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
[after realizing Psi Cops have been communicating with him telepathically] GET OUT... OF MY HEAD!

[last lines]

Catherine Sakai:
Ambassador! While I was out there, I saw something. What was it?

G'Kar:
[points to a flower with a bug crawling on it] What is this?

Catherine Sakai:
An ant.

G'Kar:
Ant.

Catherine Sakai:
So much gets shipped up from Earth on commercial transports it's hard to keep them out.

G'Kar:
Yeah, I have just picked it up on the tip of my glove. If I put it down again, and it asks another ant, "what was that?",

[laughs]

G'Kar:
how would it explain? There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They're vast, timeless, and if they're aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants, and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know, we've tried, and we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot or be stepped on.

Catherine Sakai:
That's it? That's all you know?

G'Kar:
Yes, they are a mystery. And I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe, that we have not yet explained everything. Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957, and they must walk there alone.

[first lines]

starfury pilot:
This is Earth Alliance Squadron Black Omega to stolen transport. You are ordered to surrender and prepare to be boarded...

Talia Winters:
Do you know what it's like when telepaths make love, Commander? You drop every defense, and it's all mirrors: reflecting each other's feelings deeper and deeper - until, somewhere along the line, your souls mix.

G'Kar:
Let me pass on to you the one thing I've learned about this place. No one here is exactly what he appears. Not Mollari, not Delenn, not Sinclair... and not me.

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
Anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi. But you're welcome to try.

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
That's a lie.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Yes, it is. What's your point?

G'Kar:
Narns, humans, Centauri, we all do what we do for the same reason: because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

[after watching the commanders report of what has happened during the episode]

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
You realize of course my superiors will believe none of this?

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Yes, especially since in about an hour we'll have a small accident in data storage that'll erase the file you just saw.

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
So what do you suggest?

Michael Garibaldi:
Something close to the truth: That Ironheart's ship escaped Babylon 5 but exploded before it could enter the jumpgate.

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
And if I refuse?

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Then my report will mention how you lied to us, endangered the station and through your interference caused the death of your fellow Psi Cop.

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
Not much of a choice. Is it?

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
It gets better: Your report will indicate that Talia Winters was not responsible for her actions in helping Ironheart, that she was under his mental control and should not be penalized for her actions.

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
That's a lie.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
Yes, it is. What's your point?

Michael Garibaldi:
There's a transport leaving for Earth in 20 minutes, Mr. Bester. Be on it.

G'Kar:
Ah Ms. Sakai, I'm pleased to see that you have returned safely from your expedition.

Catherine Sakai:
Yes, thanks to you. Just one question: Why?

G'Kar:
Why not?

Catherine Sakai:
It's not an answer.

G'Kar:
Oh yes, it is. It's simply not an answer you like or the answer expected. There's a difference. Narns, humans, Centauri, we all do what we do for the same reason: because it seemed like a good idea at the time. There was no profit, no advantage in letting you fall to an untimely and most uncomfortable death. It would distress the Commander to no good effect. So once again we return to, "Why not?" I told you before you left: no one here is entirely what they appear. If I surprised you, all the better. Good day, Ms. Sakai.

Neroon:
[after taking Delenn's place in the circle of fire] I was born warrior caste. Now I see the calling of my heart is RELIGIOUS. The war is OVER! LISTEN TO HER! LISTEN. [gets vaporized]

[Bester works on Lyta's feelings of being exploited]

Alfred Bester:
I mean, being a freedom fighter, a - a force for good, it's - it's a wonderful thing. You get to make your own hours, looks good on a resume, but the pay - sucks.

Security Guard:
Mind your own business.

Alfred Bester:
[recites] "Humanity is my business."

[Guard shows no sign of understanding]

Alfred Bester:
Marley to Scrooge. Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

[Guard looks puzzled]

Alfred Bester:
Well, it's good to see they're continuing the fine tradition of hiring from the shallow end of the gene pool.

Neroon:
Is it wrong to value life? I thought that is why we fought.

Shakiri:
We fight because it is our nature. It is the calling of our heart. Life and death are simply two possible consequences, both equal, neither valued nor feared above the other. For a warrior death is simply the release from our obligation.

[first lines]

Michael Garibaldi:
Oh, what the hell is it with this place? I can't get just one solid night's sleep. - Lights. - Yeah, what is it?

Computer:
Incoming message from Mars, sent by William Edgars. Do you wish to receive?

Michael Garibaldi:
Yeah, put it through.

William Edgars:
Good Morning, Mr. Garibaldi.

Michael Garibaldi:
Mr. Edgars, have I ever mentioned to you that there is a seven-hour time difference between Babylon 5 and Mars?

[last lines]

[Ivanova brings news that Clark-loyal EA warships have destroyed civilian transports killing thousands of refugees from Proxima 3]

Capt. John Sheridan:
This stops, and it stops now. You tell the others. Starting right now, we fight back, and we fight back hard.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I thought you were looking for some other way than firing at our own ships. They were following orders.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Any crew that executes an order like that is guilty of war crimes. And they deserve whatever they get. Now we're riding in, Susan. Anybody who wants to defect and join us, fine. If they get in our way, we'll knock them down. If they kill one of our ships, we'll kill three of theirs, and we keep going. We never slow down and we won't stop. Now we're going after the colonies, then Mars, - then Earth. - And God help anybody who gets in our way.

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
Well, there is just no delicate way to say this.

[pause]

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
I want your body.

Lyta Alexander:
[shouts] What? Are you out of your mind?

Londo Mollari:
No. I said where you go, I go. It's become a matter of principle.

G'Kar:
You picked a terrible moment in your social evolution to develop principles. Perhaps you can start with something simpler. The moral equivalent of the opposable thumb, for instance.

President John Sheridan:
If you run into trouble--

Delenn:
I'll walk out of it. More dignified that way.

[first lines]

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley:
Personal journal, Captain Elizabeth Lochley, addendum. The Centauri war continues to spiral out of control. The threat of retaliation has already reached Babylon 5. Over a half dozen Centauri have been murdered in just the last three days.

[last lines]

Regent:
And there was something else they told me to do. And I did it just a few moments before I came to see you. The last thing I will ever have to do for them. And in a way I'm glad it's over.

Londo Mollari:
What did they ask you to do?

Regent:
To send away all the ships guarding Centauri Prime on a false emergency and turn off the planetary defense network.

Londo Mollari:
No.

Regent:
I think I'll stay and watch from here. The sky should be lighting up any time now. I imagine it will be quite beautiful.

Londo Mollari:
No! - - No!

Londo Mollari:
I couldn't stay there a moment longer. And the smell's not the worst of it, it was the burning in my eyes. I think my buttons are melting.

[Garabaldi has launched his Starfury without donning his flight suit, in order to stop the assassin plotting to kill Sheridan]

Michael Garabaldi:
If this cockpit breaches, I'm screwed!

Londo Mollari:
On my world, we have learned that an inauguration is simply a signal to assassins that a new target has been set up on the firing range.

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley:
As long as you're running an efficient operation and aren't looking for trouble, you are doing just fine.

Lt. David Corwin:
That's what I'm trying to tell you. Around here we don't have to go looking for trouble. On B5, trouble comes looking for us.

President John Sheridan:
If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards maybe we would get better leadership and a little more concern for the future.

Michael Garabaldi:
You know, granted, "military intelligence" is kind of an oxymoron. But anyway, the new head of covert intelligence for the Alliance is pleased to meet you.

[first lines]

Man:
[over radio] This is Earth Alliance Destroyer Acheron. We've got your package.

[last lines]

Michael Garabaldi:
By the way, just curious, which side were you on during the big fight back home?

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley:
I was on the side of Earth, Mr. Garibaldi. Weren't we all?

Citizen G'Kar:
You want to be president?

Captain John Sheridan:
Yes.

Citizen G'Kar:
Put your hand on the book and say "I do".

Captain John Sheridan:
I do.

Citizen G'Kar:
Fine. Done. Let's eat.

Capt. John Sheridan:
The hostiles might be splitting up so they can be with both groups to keep them in line.

Marcus Cole:
Unless they're all hostile, and some are just more hostile that others.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Well thank you for that ray of sunshine, Marcus. Next time I feel the need to be depressed, I'll remember to give you a call.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Trust Ivanova. Trust yourself. Anyone else? Shoot 'em.

[first lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
Captain's personal log. Septeber 2, 2261. Enough is enough.

Vir Cotto:
Londo, what do they want? What's going on?

Londo Mollari:
I don't know.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
They're waiting

Capt. John Sheridan:
[addressing the Council] Sorry to call you together at this early hour, but we don't have a lot of time. - Commander.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
For the last month or so ships from Babylon 5 have been patrolling the borders of your governments. Since we've been protecting you from Raiders and border skirmishes the number of incidences has decreased by 70 percent. May we assume that you are all happy with this arrangement?

[Council members nod and murmur affirmatively]

Capt. John Sheridan:
Good, because now there's a price tag...

[last lines]

Guard:
When you coming back?

Michael Garibaldi:
I'm not.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[as anchor for the Voice of the Resistance] The Centauri and Narn governments issued a joint statement today recognizing the legitimacy of the liberation of Proxima and throwing their support behind the new campaign. It is our hope that this unprecedented act of cooperation between two previously hostile governments will mark the beginning of a new age of cooperation and trust.

Commander Sandra Levitt:
It's not the role of the military to make policy.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Our mandate is to defend Earth against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Now Clark has become that enemy. Your oath is to the Alliance and to the people back home, not to any particular government.

Captain Edward MacDougan:
Splitting that hair mighty thin, John.

G'Kar:
[addressing the League of Non-Aligned Worlds representatives] During their war with the Minbari, I supervised arms sales to Earth. They promised to held us when we needed them. But where was Earth when our borders were being attacked? Where was Earth when the Shadows were rampaging across our territories? They did nothing! We owe them nothing in return.

Delenn:
When I had to learn English, one of the most difficult words for me was "goodbye." There is no corresponding word for "goodbye" in Minbari. All our partings contain within them the possibility of meeting again: in other places, in other times, in other lives. So you will excuse me if I do not say "goodbye."

Delenn:
There are moments when we all become someone else, something other than what we are. It takes only a moment. But we spend the rest of our lives looking back at that moment in shame.

President John Sheridan:
It's good to know that at least one of the old gang will be sticking around for a while.

Zack Allan:
Who, me? Absolutely. Hell, I'll probably still be here when they turn off the lights.

President John Sheridan:
Always be willing to fight for what *you* believe in. It doesn't matter if a thousand people agree with you or one person agrees with you. It doesn't matter if you stand completely alone. Fight for what *you* believe.

President John Sheridan:
You will lose some friends and gain new ones. The process is painful but often necessary. They will change, you will change, because life is changing.

President John Sheridan:
You may not be sure where you belong anymore, but home is always there. Because home is not a place. It's wherever your passion takes you.

Delenn:
Never start a fight - but always finish it.

[first lines]

President John Sheridan:
So, you couldn't sleep either.

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley:
Not really. I hear Delenn came back from Minbar last night.

President John Sheridan:
Yes. The new headquarters for the Alliance are just about finished. We can go anytime.

[last lines]

President John Sheridan:
Have I told you today how much I love you?

Delenn:
Yes. But you may continue to repeat it for as long as you like.

President John Sheridan:
Oh, I plan to. Every day that I can.

[first lines]

Number One:
I don't care what it says on your system. That's a perfectly valid passport...

Number One:
So it really couldn't...

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
No, you're right. It couldn't...

Number One:
So there we are.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
There you go, yeah.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
You know, I do have about an hour before my next shift starts, in case you wanted to - celebrate your new job.

Number One:
More than a hour or less than an hour?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
About an hour and ten minutes.

Number One:
You go on ahead. You know how I like the lights.

[last lines]

Delenn:
It occurs to me I have never walked the length of this place, end to end.

President John Sheridan:
Well, Delenn, it's 5 miles long.

Delenn:
I Know. Coming?

President John Sheridan:
Now?

Delenn:
Now is all we have.

G'Kar:
We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away.

G'Kar:
I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
When this place was built, I think irony was one of the primary materials used in construction.

Delenn:
We do not believe in any individual god or gods but rather, we believe that the soul is, um - What is a good term? A non-localized phenomenon.

[first lines]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
You realize this is an extremely dangerous situation.

Brother Edward:
He's been through much worse.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I think he's doomed.

Brother Edward:
Not a chance.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Care to put money on that?

Brother Edward:
Gambling is one of the lesser sins. I've always thought if you're gonna sin you may as well go for one of the really big ones.

Londo Mollari:
Lyta Alexander! As I live and breathe...

Lyta Alexander:
I suggest you remove your hand, Ambassador, or you won't be doing either for very long.

Londo Mollari:
Lyta, I understand the Psi Corps is looking for you. I would hate very much for them to find you.

Lyta Alexander:
So would I. Because I'm not with the Corps anymore. That means I'm not bound by their rules. So if someone were to turn me in, I'd find him. And before they took me, I'd plant a nightmare deep in his mind where no one else could find or remove it. And that person would spend every night for the rest of his life *screaming*!

Londo Mollari:
Fine! And keep your threats to yourself!

Londo Mollari:
[to himself] Nightmares. Hmph! The way my life has been going lately, who'd notice?

[last lines]

Brother Theo:
You must excuse the captain, Malcolm. You interrupted his train of thought. I believe you were saying that forgiveness is a hard thing but something ever to strive for. Were you not, captain?

Capt. John Sheridan:
Yes. Yes, I was. Good luck to you. I hope things work out.

Malcolm:
I'm sure it will. Thank you, Sir.

Brother Theo:
We must be going along now or you'll miss your flight.

Michael Garibaldi:
I'm an eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth kind of guy.

Delenn:
So you support a system that would leave everyone blind and toothless.

Michael Garibaldi:
Not everyone. Just the bad guys.

Delenn:
We believe that the universe itself is conscious in a way that we can never truly understand. It is engaged in a search for meaning. So it breaks itself apart, investing its own consciousness in every form of life. We are the universe trying to understand itself.

Delenn:
Among my people, it is considered an honor to aid any true seeker in his quest.

Lyta Alexander:
You can't change human nature, Byron.

Byron:
Then there's not much point in living, is there? If you can't hope for something better, something nobler, at least something kinder?

Alfred Bester:
Every race to develop telepaths has had to find some way to control them, through laws, religion, drugs, or extermination. We may not be pretty, but we're a hell of a lot better than the alternatives.

[first lines]

Alfred Bester:
A few words for those who've just arrived: A colony of rogue telepaths have been unwisely allowed to take up residence here. Since they are all humans, they fall under the jurisdiction of Earth law. The Alliance has agreed to respect the rights of each member world to control its own people. This leaves it to us. The rogues have engaged in unauthorized scans of several dozen ambassadors. They have extracted an unknown amount of privileged information intending to exchange those secrets for a Homeworld of their own. Since then, they've divided into two groups. Half of them are now holed up in Downbelow. They have reportedly begun a hunger strike, which they believe will create sympathy for their cause. This is all fine by me since it means that group one is already contained. Saving us the trouble. ...

Byron:
We are no longer who we were. We are what we have become. What you made us!

[last lines]

ISN newscaster:
In other breaking news, ISN has just learned that the main headquarters for the Psi Corps was bombed early this morning by unknown parties. The only clues found at the scene were the words "Remember Byron" painted on the side of the building. More after this.

Capt. John Sheridan:
As of now 0315 Earth Standard Time, I'm placing you under arrest for conspiracy to mutiny and failure to obey the chain of command. The order for Nightwatch to take over Babylon 5 Security came from the Political Office. The Political Office, despite its connection to the President, is a civilian agency outside the direct chain of command. Orders affecting Military Personnel, must come from within the Military hierarchy. Starting from the President, through the Joint Chiefs of Staff to your immediate superior officer. A Senator CANNOT give you a direct order. A GOVERNOR cannot give you a direct order! And neither can the Political Office. Make no mistake this is an illegal order. Now we've contacted Earthdome and requested confirmation of this order through proper channels, but since we seem to be having trouble with communications, this may take several days. Until then, you have two choices, you can stay where you are, or YOU CAN LEAVE... one at a time. On your way out, you'll turn in your link, identicard, and weapons. You'll be restricted to quarters until the revised orders come in. WHEN that happens anyone who wants to file a complaint against me, can do so. Otherwise have a pleasant stay.

Zack Allan:
[after leading Nightwatch into a cargo bay] They're all yours, Captain. [takes off his Nightwatch patch]

Capt. John Sheridan:
Thanks Zack.

Michael Garibaldi:
You did the right thing.

Zack Allan:
Everyone keeps saying that, I'm not really sure who means it, but this time, yeah I think I did.

[last lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
They'll be coming for us next, you know.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I know. - I never thought it would end like this.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Me either.

Jane:
[the ISN Anchor is reporting on the beginning of the EarthForce military coup, displayed on Zocolo monitors]... repeating this special bulletin. We have just received raw footage of a firefight between EarthForce ships taking place, even now, at the transfer point on Io. The main vessel has been positively identified as the Alexander, under the command of General William Hague. The Alexander and her two companion vessels have been surrounded by EarthForce cruisers and ordered to surrender. The Alexander has refused to surrender, and is calling for other EarthForce divisions to join in opposing President Clark. For the first time since the early days of the Mars Rebellion, Earth vessels are fighting one another.

[the crowd surrounding the monitors begins to clap... ]

Jane:
The Excalibur and the Schwarzkopf have been hit, allowing Hague and his companion vessels to escape!

Lady Morella:
Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in middle age, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst we do all we can to destroy it.

[first lines]

Londo Mollari:
No! No, this report is totally inappropriate. You have to do it again.

Vir Cotto:
But, Londo, why? I've spent weeks working on this report. I didn't even sleep on the flight back from Minbar so I could go over it again. I've checked every single detail myself. It's absolutely accurate.

Londo Mollari:
Yes, Vir, I'm sure it is, and that is the problem.

[... ]

Londo Mollari:
And here: "The Minbari put great emphasis on art, literature, and music." Yes, but say instead they are decadent people interested only in the pursuit of dubious pleasures. The dubious part is very important. It doesn't mean anything, but it scares people every time.

[... ]

Vir Cotto:
I thought the purpose of filing these reports was to provide accurate intelligence!

Londo Mollari:
Vir, intelligence has nothing to do with politics! - Here: "They're tolerant of cultural differences."

Vir Cotto:
Yes.

Londo Mollari:
No. Make that "They have no well-defined sense of morality." They'll love that back home.

Lady Morella:
There is always choice. We say that there is no choice only to comfort ourselves with a decision we have already made.

Vir Cotto:
[about Lady Morella] Why does she speak in plural?

Londo Mollari:
[quietly to Vir] When the emperor dies, it is customary for the royal consort to assume the spirit of her husband. Though power has now passed to Cartagia, it is assumed that she speaks for Turhan from the other side.

Lady Morella:
[calling out] Ambassador?

Londo Mollari:
[loudly] Coming, lady.

Ta'Lon:
Unfortunately, while all answers are replies, not all replies are answers.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I can only conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate.

[first lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
We'll swing back this way in a month, make sure everything's okay. If those hijackers so mach as blink in your direction, yell. We'll be here.

Pilot:
Roger, see you then.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Agamemnon out. - Initiate jump into hyperspace.

[Kalain is pointing a gun at Lennier]

Lennier:
[perfectly calm] If you are going to kill me then do so. Otherwiese I have considerable work to do.

[Dr. Franklin has described Garibaldi's medical condition]

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Well then, I'll say a prayer for him tonight.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
He's agnostic.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Then I'll say half a prayer.

[last lines]

[Sheridan is practicing his "good luck speech" in an empty C&C]

Capt. John Sheridan:
It was an early Earth president, Abraham Lincoln, who best described our situation. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial though which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation. We shall nobly save or meanly lose our last, best hope of Earth."

[he checks the time]

Capt. John Sheridan:
[with a satisfied smile] Five minutes to spare.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[to Sheridan] I learned a while ago that there is enough guilt in the world to go around without grabbing for more. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt.

Lennier:
[to Sheridan after Sheridan and Delenn have explored each other's pleasure centers] Woo hoo?

Marcus Cole:
I spy with my little eye something beginning with "B."

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Boxes.

Marcus Cole:
Right. I spy with my little eye something beginning with "M."

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
More boxes.

Marcus Cole:
Two in a row.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
And that's when I shot him your honor.

Marcus Cole:
I spy with my little eye something beginning with "E."

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I-I give up.

Marcus Cole:
Oh come on.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
This better not be what I -

Marcus Cole, Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Even MORE boxes!

Capt. John Sheridan:
There isn't much chance of me winning this argument.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
None whatsoever. I never give up when I'm right. Your only option is surrender.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Who taught you to negotiate like that?

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
You did.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Oh.

[first lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
Ivanova, good. I was just about to call you. I've been going over these reports trying to figure out how we're going to get along with all our supply shipments from Earth cut off by the embargo. We've got two, maybe three months of reserves. Then we are going to run out of things. Small things at first, then more important things. Something breaks, we may not be able to fix it. And you can forget the spare parts for the fighters.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
We can go black market if we have to.

Capt. John Sheridan:
We will. Even that's gonna be tough. The black market survives only so long as the money outweighs the risk. Now with imprisonment for anyone caught bringing supplies here, I-

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I'll start lining it up.

[last lines]

Wade:
Are you with us?

Michael Garibaldi:
I won't hurt him.

Wade:
No one's asking you to. You give him to us when we tell you to. We'll see to it that he gets the help that he needs. - Are you with us?

Michael Garibaldi:
I'm with you.

[Marcus and Stephen travel undercover as a gay couple on their honeymoon, they find out nobody on Mars knows about the shadow war]

Captain Jack:
Who won?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
We did. We all did.

Captain Jack:
Ah, yes, well, good for us.

Marcus Cole:
Just my luck. First time in my life I'm a war hero and nobody knows about it. And worst of all, I'm married to you.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Well, that's not my idea.

Marcus Cole:
Oh, you say that now. Tell that to your mother. She never stopped calling us about it. "So when's the big day, I've got to pick out patterns. Your father isn't going to live forever," and on and on and on and on.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I hate this. I really hate this.

Marcus Cole:
You're just nervous, that's all. You'll get used to it.

[to Captain Jack]

Marcus Cole:
Next thing, he'll be locking himself in the bathroom all night.

Delenn:
As you know, when Minbari become close as we have become close...

Capt. John Sheridan:
Not another ritual.

Delenn:
It is our tradition.

Capt. John Sheridan:
I'm just about ritualed out.

Delenn:
John...

Capt. John Sheridan:
How many more of these rituals are there?

Delenn:
Depending on the length of time we take before fully committing to one another, which clan is in dominance at the time, the types and amounts of offerings made at temple as many as

[counting]

Delenn:
47. No, no, no 50.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Fifty?

Delenn:
Fifty.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Anyone ever elope on your world?

Delenn:
It has happened, bit it is always a great disgrace...

Capt. John Sheridan:
A disgrace to the family, the caste, the clan. Got it.

Delenn:
That's why Minbari do not have problems with relationsships. We have a ritual for everything. For being together, for being apart, for meeting, for saying goodbye, for solving disputes...

Capt. John Sheridan:
All right, all right, all right. Which is this one?

Delenn:
It is called shan-fall. The third movement of preparation and mutual understanding.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Oh, that old one yeah.

Delenn:
In a little while, you come to my quarters where we spend the night together discovering one another's centers of pleasure. It is done with great deliberation, prayerfully, with respect and meditation. It is good for us to know all we can about one another should we continue the joining of our hearts and our blood. So you can meet me there. Unless of course you can find something of equal value sitting here and staring at plants while feeling guilty about things you cannot change.

Capt. John Sheridan:
[to himself after Delenn walks away] Nope.

G'Kar:
[quotes Yeats' "Second Coming"] Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. And what rough beast, it's hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[last lines]

Capt. John Sheridan:
So he's gone and all the evidence with him?

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I'm afraid so.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Have you notified President Clark?

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
He's not taking any calls.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Gets cold up here sometimes, doesn't it, lieutenant commander?

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Yes, sir. It does indeed.

[first lines]

Man #1:
[over radio] This is Team 3. We are in position and ready for transport.

Man #2:
[over radio] Team 3, ready that.

Londo Mollari:
This is madness! How much longer will this Council be held hostage to its missing members? Their behavior in inexcusable.

Lennier:
Ambassador Delenn remains indisposed.

Londo Mollari:
Indisposed. She's in a cocoon!

Lennier:
Yes?

Londo Mollari:
[to Na'Toth] And you. Do you have any idea when Ambassador G'Kar will decide to grace us with his presence? For that matter do you have any idea where he is? - There you see. One deserts his post without any explanation. The other one picks the most breathtakingly inconvenient moment possible to explore new career options. Like becoming a butterfly.

President Susanna Luchenko:
[to Sheridan after his forces free Earth] Half of Earth force wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the Medal of Honor. The other half wants you taken out and shot. As a politician you learn how to compromise - which by all rights means I should give you the Medal of Honor then have you shot.

[Returning from the wedding of Sheriden & Delenn]

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Stop eating that! You don't even know what it is.

Citizen G'Kar:
Something called..."rice."

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Yes. And if it was any good, do you think they would have been standing there, throwing it at people?

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
...they are quite a couple, aren't they?

Citizen G'Kar:
Yes, they are.

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
[chuckles] Almost makes you wish that you could peek in on them, see how it's going. - G'Kar, where is the eye that Dr. Franklin gave you?

[first lines]

Jane:
We can confim now that President Clark took his own life at 2:53 a.m. EST rather than face trial for his actions. The body has been left in place for examination and documentation by the Justice Department. After the battle Sheridan surrendered to Earthforce authorities who will now decide whether or not charges will be pressed for his actions...

[watching the ISN report on the new Interstellar Alliance]

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
So, how does it feel to make history, hmm?

Citizen G'Kar:
You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it.

[last lines]

Delenn:
It was the end of the Earth year 2261, and it was the dawn of a new age, for all of us. It was the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. The next twenty years would see great changes, great joy, and great sorrow. The Telepath War, and the Drakh War. The new Alliance would waver, and crack, but in the end, it would hold. Because what is built endures, and what is loved endures. And Babylon 5 - Babylon 5 endures.

Capt. Susan Ivanova:
[Sitting on the floor in Medlab, rocking herself back and forth, crying silently and staring at Marcus's body] I said go away!

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Susan it's me. You okay?

Capt. Susan Ivanova:
Damnit Stephen, why the hell did he do it?I didn't want him to, I never, *never* would have asked him to!

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I know. [he sits down next to her] I know.

Capt. Susan Ivanova:
And how the hell did he find out about that machine?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Look, after we gained control of the Alien Healing Device, Sheridan and I decided it was too dangerous to let others know about it, so I coded all my log entries. He must've hacked his way through half a dozen security overrides.

Capt. Susan Ivanova:
It's typical, he was always pulling crap that like, even I never knew what the hell to do with him. He was the most undisciplined, the most annoying... [glances back at his body] I was just lying there and I was feeling myself letting go of my body. And I remember the last thing I thought was, 'I'm gonna die now'... and it wasn't so bad. And then I heard this voice coming from far away saying 'I love you.' And I thought 'Is this God? Is this God?' I mean, he really did have an English accent just like in all those old movies. And then I felt myself being pulled down, and I got heavy, so heavy, you know, tired, and it was... I forced my eyes open, and there he was next to me. And we were hooked into that damn machine, and I tried to pull it apart, Stephen, I swear to God I tried. I just-I couldn't even move, I couldn't move! [breaks down sobbing]

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Look, there was nothing that you could have done, all right? Your system was traumatized. You can't blame yourself.

Capt. Susan Ivanova:
I don't, I don't, I don't. I just-you know, all my life I've had problems with relationships. You may have noticed.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
A little.

Capt. Susan Ivanova:
You know, the ones I loved always ended up hurting me or leaving me. And the ones who stayed, they had nothing inside. No depth. After awhile I just decided to forget about it. And then, here was Marcus. I knew he'd never hurt me... and I knew that he'd never leave me... and I knew that he loved me. I knew it. I just didn't want to admit it. And he gave so much, and he wanted so little in return. He just wanted a kind word, or a smile and all I ever gave him in two years was grief! It's because I think I saw what I wanted. And I was afraid.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I thought you knew it wasn't going to work out. You were just protecting yourself from being hurt again, that's all.

Capt. Susan Ivanova:
Maybe, but maybe I should've tried just one more time. I could've done that for him. Now I can't. At least I should have just boffed him once.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
'Boffed'? Did you just say 'boffed'?

Capt. Susan Ivanova:
[managing a weak smile through her tears] It's the type of thing he would've said. I mean hell, it's not like I was doing anything else.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Well I guess that's one way to deal with unrequited love, huh?

Capt. Susan Ivanova:
All love is unrequited, Stephen. All of it. [She leans towards Stephen and he gathers her in his arms, both of them now crying softly]

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
[noticing something is different about G'Kar] G'Kar... the artificial eye that Dr. Franklin gave you... where is it?

Citizen G'Kar:
[Grins mischievously as we see Sheridan and Delenn in bed, newly-married and blissfully unaware that G'Kar's prosthetic eye has been strategically positioned on a piece of furniture in their bedroom!]

Delenn:
[about Marcus] He followed the path of his heart. How many can say that?

Delenn:
[to Neroon] Yes, we've disagreed, even fought, but I would rather have someone who opposed me out of an honest belief in the rightness of his cause than someone who is always on my side because it was expected and required.

Delenn:
This is the second time I have seen you near death. You're starting to acquire bad habits.

Lennier:
It was much safer in temple. Also far less interesting.

[first lines]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Good morning, captain.

Zack Allan:
Top of the morning, captain.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Captain.

Marcus Cole:
Morning.

Zack Allan:
So, captain, Ivanova tells me you convinced Londo and G'Kar to go along with your idea about putting White Star ships along their borders as a peacekeeping force.

Delenn:
I've questioned your judgment, your wisdom, your temperament, but never your loyalty.

Neroon:
Was that a compliment?

Delenn:
After a fashion.

Neroon:
Then you trust me?

Delenn:
After a fashion.

[...]

Neroon:
Dukhat chose you above all to follow him. Slowly, dimly, I begin to understand why. I do not know what lies ahead of us, Delenn. But I do know that it is right that we are here together.

Delenn:
Was that a compliment, Neroon?

Neroon:
After a fashion.

[last lines]

Neroon:
Message from Alit Neroon to Shakiri, Shai Alit of the warrior caste. The mission has been successful. I have access to their plans to counter our forces in the capital city. They can be stopped and stopped easily. The religious caste is divided, and their support is weak. It is as you said, Shakiri. They do not have the stomach for a prolonged conflict. Tell our ships to stand by. Victory will be ours within the week.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Absolutely nothing happened in Sector 83 by 9 by 12 today. I repeat, nothing happened in Sector 83 by 9 by 12.

Delenn:
What is done is done, Neroon. What matters now is the future.

[first lines]

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Every day brings us something new at Babylon 5. Unfortunately, sometimes it also brings a new strain of bacteria or a new virus. My job now is to catalog all those possible infections for the new Alliance and compile a complete medical profile on all the member races...

Lyta Alexander:
Byron, the Vorlons changed me. More than you could possibly know. I don't know what it'll do once you get past my barriers and I get past yours. It could burn you.

Byron:
Then let it burn.

[last lines]

Byron:
They owe us a place where we can be among our own kind. We'll ask to speak to the Alliance, put our case before them, see if they can be persuaded to do the right thing.

Lyta Alexander:
And if they can't?

Byron:
Then we'll make sure they have no other choice.

Delenn:
[Delenn's fleet arrives after Earth Alliance attacks B5] This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw or be destroyed!

Earth Force Officer:
Negative! We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship.

Delenn:
Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari Fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!

Lt. David Corwin:
Jumpgate activated. Here they come!

[Earthforce destroyers arrive through the jumpgate]

Capt. Dexter Smith:
This is Captain Dexter Smith of the Earth Alliance Destroyer Agrippa to Babylon 5 and renegade ships. You are ordered to surrender your commands and prepare to be boarded.

Major Ed Ryan:
Launch fighters.

Major Ed Ryan:
Bring us in closer to the enemy.

Bill Trainor:
How close?

Major Ed Ryan:
Right down their throats!

Major Ed Ryan:
[speaking into the comms] Hiroshi! Get out of there! Get to the lifepods.

Captain Sandra Hiroshi:
Too late to get out! Our primary systems are hit. We've got fire on all decks now. There's nothing we can do now except...

Major Ed Ryan:
Hiroshi? HIROSHI! [Hiroshi rams her ship into another vessel]

Captain John Sheridan:
May I have your attention please. In the last few hours, we have learned that warships are coming this way from Earth. Their orders are to seize command of Babylon 5 by force. As commanding officer and military governor of Babylon 5, I cannot allow this to happen. President Clark has violated the Earth Alliance Constitution: by dissolving the Senate, declaring martial law, and *personally* ordering the bombing of civilian targets on the Mars colony. He is *personally* responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent people. Following these attacks, Orion 7 and Proxima 3 have broken away from the Earth Alliance, and declared independence. Babylon 5 now joins with them. As of this moment, Babylon 5 is seceding from the Earth Alliance. We will remain an independent state till President Clark is removed from office. At the end of this current crisis, anyone who wishes to leave for Earth is free to do so. Meanwhile for your own safety, I urge everyone to stay in your quarters until this is over. That is all.

[an acolyte tries to keep Delenn from seeing the Grey Council]

Delenn:
I served the Council for sixteen cycles. I was the chosen of Dukhat to replace him. I held him when he died; his blood is on my hands, his spirit in my eyes, his word on my lips. You will step aside in his name and mine, or in Valen's name I will tear this ship apart with my bare hands until I find them! Move aside!

David Sheridan:
What was the first lesson I ever taught you?

Captain John Sheridan:
Never start a fight; but always finish it.

[first lines]

Londo Mollari:
This is absurd! Two hours I have been standing in line. "Our staff are overwehelmed," they tell me. "Too many people to get home or escape here. Rumors of rebellion and war. Even the diplomatic lanes are clogged."...

[last lines]

Captain John Sheridan:
"Thank you" seems poor and inadequate. I don't know how much this cost you personally, and I suspect I never will. But I want you to know that seeing your face at that moment was probably the single finest moment in my life.

Delenn:
It seems that this is the only home we have left. How could I abandon, as you say, my partner?

[Delenn offers her hand, and Sheridan first shakes it, then kisses it]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Ahem.

Captain John Sheridan:
Oh, there you are. So how is she, Doc?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Well, we have a stubborn patient, with multiple bruises, a fractured rib and a bump on the back of the head...

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I'm fine. I just thought there's something you should see.

[they walk over to the Zocalo, where a large crowd cheers them]

Delenn:
[addressing the Grey Council] Three years. For three years I warned you this day was coming, but you would not listen. Pride, you said, presumption. And now the Shadows are on the move. The Centauri and the younger worlds are at war, the Narns have fallen, even the Humans are fighting one another. The pride was yours, the presumption was yours. For a thousand years, we have been awaiting the fulfillment of prophecy. And when it finally happens, you scorn it, you reject it because you no longer believe it yourselves. "We stand between the candle and the star, between the darkness and the light." You say the words but your hearts are empty, your ears closed to the truth. You stand for nothing but your own petty interests. "The problems of others are not our concern." I do not blame you for standing silent in your shame. You, who knew what was coming, but refused to take up the burden of this war. If the Warrior Caste will not fight, then the rest of us will. The council has lost it's way. If it will not lead, if we have abandoned our covenant with Valen

[takes staff from council leader]

Delenn:
then the council shall be broken!

[breaks staff in two]

Delenn:
As was prophesied. We must stand with the others now before it's too late. Between the Worker Caste and the Religious Caste, we control two thirds of our forces. To you, I say, listen to the voice of your conscience. Break the council and come with me. Our time of isolation is over. We move now, together or not at all.

[Delenn exits, followed by all but the Warrior Caste members of the Grey Council]

Drakhen:
[awakens in Medlab] Delenn?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Take it easy. You're safe now.

Drakhen:
No. None of us is safe anymore. [faces Delenn] The Shadows are moving. They have made alliances with many in the Non-Aligned Worlds and urged them to go to war with their neighbors.

Delenn:
No. Why would they go along with this?

Drakhen:
They listened to the Shadows out of fear, afraid that if they did not ally themselves with a greater force, they would be conquered by the Centauri. But... an alliance of defense has now grown into the dream... of conquest. They believe that as long as they are protected by the Shadows, they cannot be defeated, and so they go to war with one another.

Delenn:
Has the Grey Council been informed?

Drakhen:
The Grey Council has said... "the problems of others are not our concern."

Major Ed Ryan:
Captain.

Captain John Sheridan:
Major Ryan. [looks behind him] Where's General Hague?

Major Ed Ryan:
General Hague was killed in our last firefight. We were coming back from a meeting with some officials on Orion 7 when we were ambushed. He was on his way to the command deck when we were hit amidships by the Clarkstown. In his absence, I've tried to carry on as best I can. Between this and what's been going on back home, the crew is... just stunned.

Captain John Sheridan:
[continues] What's the latest on the coup?

Major Ed Ryan:
A few senators have managed to escape Earthdome, shock troops are out in force everywhere, Paris, London, New York, Moscow, New Delhi.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
How are the folks back home dealing with all this?

Major Ed Ryan:
That's the irony. Most of them have welcomed martial law. It's cut crime down to nothing. On the surface, it's peaceful.

Captain John Sheridan:
Yeah, the peace of the gun.

Michael Garibaldi:
Why haven't we seen any of this on ISN?

Major Ed Ryan:
ISN is walking a fine line. They know if they push too far, they'll be shut down. We have one chance. Mars has rejected martial law. If they can stand up to Clark, they might be able to rally support from some of the other colony worlds and push him out of power.

Michael Garibaldi:
Unless he pushes back.

Captain John Sheridan:
Oh, he's overextended already. Ah, his power base is back on Earth where he has Nightwatch and the bulk of our forces.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I just can't believe so many people in Earthforce would go along with all this.

Major Ed Ryan:
He spent the last year putting his people in key places. Anyone who raises a voice is immediately arrested and charged with treason, Under conditions like that, it's... it's easier to keep quiet. [link beeps] Yeah?

Bill Trainor:
We just intercepted a coded message from Earthforce Command. They've started bombing Mars. I repeat, they're bombing Mars. [everyone reacts with disbelief]

Captain Sandra Hiroshi:
Major Ryan, captain, we've just jumped in from Orion 7. They've declared independence.

Captain John Sheridan:
We've heard. What's the reaction?

Captain Sandra Hiroshi:
Clark's afraid of losing the other colonies, so he's sending elite forces to seize direct control of any colony or outpost that might move against him.

Major Ed Ryan:
If he finds out we're here...

Captain Sandra Hiroshi:
It's too late. He already knows. We intercepted attack orders relayed to the Agrippa and the Roanoke. They're hooking up with some heavy reinforcements on the way in.

Major Ed Ryan:
We'd better pull out before we jeopardize Babylon 5 further.

Captain Sandra Hiroshi:
Major, the ships receiving the attack order were already on their way here. He doesn't want to risk Babylon 5 breaking away. So those ships are ordered to seize command of Babylon 5, arrest and detain its captain and the rest of the command staff, and to put the station under the direct authority of President Clark and the Nightwatch.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
The other governments won't stand for it.

Major Ed Ryan:
They won't intervene. All the major powers are divided, distracted, busy with their own wars. We're on our own.

Captain Sandra Hiroshi:
I'm sorry to be the bearer of such bad news captain, but I thought you should know.

Captain John Sheridan:
How long until they get here?

Captain Sandra Hiroshi:
Six hours, tops. Maybe less.

Major Ed Ryan:
I'd better get back to my ship. I should be there when the others arrive. [sets mug he's holding on table and faces Sheridan] If you think it would be any help, we could try to jump, maybe draw some of the fire away from Babylon 5, give you a chance to negotiate.

Captain John Sheridan:
No. Thank you, Major. If this is where we make our stand then... this is where we'll do it.

Captain John Sheridan:
Bad news people. We are five hours away from a crisis situation. I just received a narrow-band transmission from the Alexander.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
That's General Hague's ship.

Captain John Sheridan:
He's suffered heavy damage and they need a place to make repairs. And they're coming here.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Well, we're screwed.

[last lines]

Anna Sheridan:
[entering Sheridan's room] Hello. I'm Anna Sheridan. John's wife.

Michael Garibaldi:
I just hope you found what you were looking for out there.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I don't know. I guess I found what I - what I needed not what I wanted.

Michael Garibaldi:
Which was?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Short sharp kick to the head.

Michael Garibaldi:
Oh well, hell. I could've done that for you. All you had to do was ask.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
[chuckling] Yeah, well, you would've enjoyed it too much.

Michael Garibaldi:
So you didn't meet yourself?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Yeah, I did. Found out I didn't like myself either

Michael Garibaldi:
Well, as revelations go, I guess I've heard worse.

Michael Garibaldi:
Sometimes people walk away because they want to be alone, and sometimes they walk away because they want to see if you care enough to follow them into hell. I think I went the wrong way.

[first lines]

Delenn:
[council meeting] If I can just- If I can just finish! We have before us an opportunity to strike at our enemy, the Shadows... We need all of you to cooperate.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
I realize that I always defined myself in terms of what I wasn't. I wasn't a good soldier like my father. I wasn't the job. I wasn't a good prospect for marriage or kids. Always what I wasn't, never what I was. And when you do that, you miss the moments. And the moments are all we've got. When I thought I was going to die, even after everything that's happened, I realized I didn't want to let go. I was willing to do it all over again, and this time I could appreciate the moments. I can't go back, but I can appreciate what I have right now. And I can define myself by what I am instead of what I'm not.

Captain John Sheridan:
And what are you?

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Alive. Everything else is negotiable.

Captain John Sheridan:
Bester.

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
Captain Sheridan.

Captain John Sheridan:
Get the hell out of my chair.

Captain John Sheridan:
Try not to drool over the controls.

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
Captain, did you say something?

Captain John Sheridan:
No, not a word. Just burped.

Captain John Sheridan:
Michael, you look like the proverbial cat that ate the equally proverbial canary.

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
We're not expendable; mundanes are.

Michael Garibaldi:
That would be us.

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
Got it in one, Garibaldi.

[first lines]

Michael Garibaldi:
Did you hear? They're putting ISN back online.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
If ISN's broadcasting again, maybe that means things are better back home.

[last lines]

Captain John Sheridan:
We have a weapon. My God, people, we have a weapon.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I just hope it's in time, because we're gonna need it. We just got a report. The Shadows have just started attacking Brakiri space, openly. They're not hiding any more. They're finally on the move.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
He who controls information controls the world.

Captain John Sheridan:
[Bester arrives in a Psi Corp Starfury] Mr. Bester, we no longer have any ties to Earth or to the Psi Corps. So we don't have to put up with *you* or your games. Now, I am sitting on four brand new uni-directional pulse cannons. Give me one good reason why I shouldn't blow you out of the sky.

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
Because you're curious. Kill me and you'll never know what brought me all the way out here. I think if you weigh that against the brief satisfaction of blowing me out of the sky, you'll do the right thing.

[long pause]

PsiCop Alfred Bester:
Captain?

Captain John Sheridan:
I'm thinking it over.

Delenn:
[after explaining to G'Kar that she knew of the Shadows' alliance with the Centauri and and told him nothing] You have come a long way, G'Kar... further than I could have guessed. Sheridan's promise binds me as well as it does him. We will take you into the Council, G'kar. And some day, when all of this is over, perhaps you will find it in your heart to forgive me.

G'Kar:
Perhaps... but not today.

Delenn:
The choice was mine. And now the responsibility is mine.

Captain John Sheridan:
Are you sure you wanna do this?

Delenn:
Want to: no. Have to: yes.

G'Kar:
I can only wait so long.

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[referring to an earlier statement of G'Kar] I thought your patience is infinite.

G'Kar:
Since space and time are curved the infinite sooner or later bends back upon itself and ends up where it began. And so have I.

Centauri Official:
Oh, I heard a new joke! [chuckling] What is more dangerous than a locked room full of angry Narns?

Vir Cotto:
I don't know. What is more dangerous than a locked room full of angry Narns?

Centauri Official:
One angry Narn with a key. [laughs] With a key!

[Vir leaves, and enters his room, which is full of sinister-looking Narns.]

Capt. John Sheridan:
Then let me say I'd like to see you in a *different* light. Candlelight, for instance. Over dinner?

Delenn:
Tonight?

Capt. John Sheridan:
Tomorrow we may be involved in another crisis, another battle! This may be the last chance we'll get for a while. You know, back home we have a saying. "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!"

Delenn:
Humans can be a very depressing people.

Capt. John Sheridan:
Only if we get turned down for dinner.

Delenn:
Well, we cannot have that, now can we?

[first lines]

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[coming to work at C&C] Good morning. Let's take a look at the manifests, see who's coming in today. [sighs] Couple of Drazi ships, Minbari personal transporter, even a few Vree. It's still not quite where we used to be, but it's a start. All right, put me online with the first ship, and let's get this show on the road.

Vir Cotto:
When I marry, I want it to be for love.

Lyndisty:
Oh! A radical.

[Vir and Lyndisty, his soon-to-be wife, kiss for the first time.]

Vir Cotto:
If kisses could kill, that one would have flattened several small towns!

[last lines]

Lyndisty:
So I take your gentle face with me transmuted into memory by the alchemy of my affection as deposit on our wedding night. - I will see you again, Vir. Soon. [leaves]

Vir Cotto:
[to himself] Well, what relationships don't have their ups and downs?

Ambassador Londo Mollari:
Do you really want to know what I want? Do you really want to know the truth? I want my people to reclaim their rightful place in the galaxy. I want to see the Centauri stretch forth their hand again and command the stars. I want a rebirth of glory, a renaissance of power! I want to stop running through my life like a man late for an appointment, afraid to look back or look forward. I want us to be what we used to be! I want... I want it all back the way it was. Does that answer your question?

[Londo leaves]

Mr. Morden:
Yes. Yes, it does.

[first lines]

Computer:
Good morning. The time is 04:30 Earth Standard, Wednesday, August 3, 2258. Personal log shows no outstanding appointments. Shall I download station logs for past six hours?

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[sighs] Sure. Grab it, store it, shove it.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I've always had a hard time getting up when it's dark outside.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
But in space, it's always dark.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[morosely] I know. I know.

[last lines]

[Lady Ladira shows Sinclair her vision of the destruction of B5]

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair:
This - Is it a vision of what will be or what might be?

Lady Ladira:
The future is always changing. We create the future with our words, our deeds, and with our beliefs. This is a possible future, commander. And it is my hope that you may yet avoid it.

Lord Kiro:
[dismissing his aunt's vision of B5's destruction] She's been wrong before. On my first birthday, she said that someday I would be killed by - "shadows."

Mr. Morden:
[Asked upon each ambassador] What do you want?

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Why does my mouth always taste like old carpet in the morning?

Computer:
Unknown. Checking medical logs.

Susan Ivanova:
An expedition to Coriana space found Sheridan's ship a few days later, but they never found him. All the airlocks were sealed, but there was no trace of him inside. Some of the Minbari believe he will come back some day, but I never saw him again in my lifetime...

[last lines]

Susan Ivanova:
Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for one another, because if we don't, who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope, that there can always be new beginnings. Even for people like us.

Susan Ivanova:
As for Delenn, every morning for as long as she lived, Delenn got up before dawn and watched the sun come up.

ISN newscaster:
And now, for those of you that have been archiving this ISN Special Documentary, the people responsible.

[single frame stills of department-crews; then a shot of the whole crowd]

ISN newscaster:
Funding for this program was made possible by grants from the Anla'shok Memorial Fund.

John Sheridan:
Goodnight, my love... the brightest star in my sky.

Delenn:
Goodnight, you, who were my sky, and my sun, and my moon.

John Sheridan:
A toast... to absent friends, in memory still bright.

Michael Garibaldi:
[Everyone raises their glasses] G'Kar.

Vir Cotto:
Londo.

Delenn:
Lennier.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Mar...

Susan Ivanova:
[cutting off Franklin] Marcus.

[first lines]

Michael Garibaldi:
[voiceover] The Interstellar Alliance, based on the Homeworld of the Minbari Federation, was founded in the Earth year 2261 shortly after the end of the Shadow War, 20 years ago. Twenty years of history. Those of us who survived have seen it all and those of us who understand have been waiting and dreading the arrival of this day.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
[after arriving] Is it always this busy around here?

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Yes, we like it that way.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
[last words] From the stars we came and to the stars we return, from now until the end of time. We therefore commit this body to the deep.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
It's all so brief, isn't it? Typical human lifespan is almost a hundred years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. It wouldn't be so bad if life didn't take so long to figure out. Seems you just start to get it right and then - it's over.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
Doesn't matter. If we lived 200 years we'd still be human, we'd still make the same mistakes.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
You're a pessimist.

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova:
I'm Russian, doctor. We understand these things.

[first lines]

Announcer:
Passengers transferring from Starliner Azimov to outbound flights should take shuttle 1A to docking area 7.

Dr. Stephen Franklin:
Commander Sinclair! It's good to see you again.