1 00:00:27,780 --> 00:00:29,750 I believe that when we leave a place... 2 00:00:29,850 --> 00:00:33,350 part of it goes with us, and part of us remains. 3 00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:37,490 Go anywhere in the station when it is quiet and just listen. 4 00:00:37,590 --> 00:00:41,360 After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations... 5 00:00:41,460 --> 00:00:44,290 every thought and word we've exchanged. 6 00:00:44,390 --> 00:00:48,960 Long after we have gone, our voices will linger in these walls. 7 00:01:42,690 --> 00:01:45,310 Get out of my head! 8 00:01:45,860 --> 00:01:48,190 No! 9 00:01:53,860 --> 00:01:58,870 Personal log, Colonel Elizabeth Lochley, commanding officer, Babylon 5. 10 00:01:58,970 --> 00:02:03,530 In the nine years since I took over day-to-day operations on B5... 11 00:02:03,710 --> 00:02:06,280 I've requisitioned some pretty odd things. 12 00:02:06,380 --> 00:02:10,870 Strange foods, alien booze, exotic dancers... 13 00:02:11,050 --> 00:02:13,950 for a Centauri business meeting. 14 00:02:14,580 --> 00:02:19,950 But this... This is a new one even for me. 15 00:02:24,190 --> 00:02:28,320 Begin docking procedure. All hands, stand by. 16 00:02:40,980 --> 00:02:44,010 Father Cassidy, Colonel Elizabeth Lochley. 17 00:02:44,110 --> 00:02:46,820 Welcome to Babylon 5. A pleasure. 18 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:48,990 I hope your trip in wasn't too bad. 19 00:02:49,090 --> 00:02:51,650 The only ship we could get was a cargo transport... 20 00:02:51,750 --> 00:02:54,050 and they can be pretty awful. 21 00:02:54,260 --> 00:02:56,390 I've been in far worse places than that. 22 00:02:56,490 --> 00:02:59,500 Though I must say, there was quite a line at the customs area. 23 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,170 We're getting ready for the big celebration party... 24 00:03:02,270 --> 00:03:04,830 for the anniversary of the Interstellar Alliance. 25 00:03:04,930 --> 00:03:08,470 President Sheridan himself is coming in from Minbar to be here for it... 26 00:03:08,570 --> 00:03:13,330 so things are a bit crazier than usual, which is saying something. 27 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,580 Well, please, this way. 28 00:03:20,650 --> 00:03:23,950 I hope you don't mind that we're meeting here in my quarters. 29 00:03:24,050 --> 00:03:26,320 I felt it best to keep this away from the crew. 30 00:03:26,420 --> 00:03:28,860 The clergy specializes in private conversations... 31 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,390 in small, quiet places. 32 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,930 I'm just sorry it took my superiors so long to respond to your request. 33 00:03:36,030 --> 00:03:40,240 I'm afraid there aren't many priests in this sector of space... 34 00:03:40,340 --> 00:03:43,470 or any sector, to tell the uncomfortable truth. 35 00:03:43,570 --> 00:03:46,080 We're something of a vanishing breed out here. 36 00:03:46,180 --> 00:03:48,300 I'm sorry. - Don't be. 37 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,020 A decline in faith and the influence of the Church was to be expected... 38 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,890 once humans penetrated heaven and found there no angels... 39 00:03:55,990 --> 00:04:00,540 no choir eternal, not even a delinquent seraphim left behind... 40 00:04:00,620 --> 00:04:02,920 by the general evacuation. 41 00:04:03,090 --> 00:04:05,960 Just infinite space. 42 00:04:06,130 --> 00:04:09,230 For 200 years, mankind has walked among the stars... 43 00:04:09,330 --> 00:04:13,370 on legs of fire and steel, daily encountering profounder wonders... 44 00:04:13,470 --> 00:04:15,470 than the burning bush. 45 00:04:15,570 --> 00:04:19,910 True, but still, there are a lot of scientists that believe in God. 46 00:04:20,010 --> 00:04:21,410 Oh, sure. 47 00:04:21,510 --> 00:04:23,880 Physicists have tried to soften the blow... 48 00:04:23,980 --> 00:04:27,200 with quantum-mechanic consolation prizes... 49 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,550 noting mysteries yet to be resolved in tiny subatomic particles... 50 00:04:31,650 --> 00:04:35,360 whose actions hint at the presence of intelligence. 51 00:04:35,490 --> 00:04:39,050 But where, in those infinitesimal spaces... 52 00:04:39,230 --> 00:04:44,220 can be found the God who stopped the sun in the sky over Jericho... 53 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,300 parted the Red Sea, birthed the universe... 54 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:53,500 and shaped molecules of dust until their name was man and woman? 55 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:58,150 Once we got into space, the deck was stacked and the clock was ticking. 56 00:04:58,250 --> 00:05:00,020 But that doesn't scare me. 57 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,590 I think the Church still has a few surprises up her sleeve. 58 00:05:03,690 --> 00:05:09,390 Well, if it's surprises you're looking for, you have come to the right place. I... 59 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:14,390 Before you go any further, I have to ask, are you religious yourself? 60 00:05:17,870 --> 00:05:22,070 Yeah, sometimes I think I'm pretty religious. 61 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:27,910 Then I realize I haven't been to church in ages and I feel guilty, so then I go... 62 00:05:27,940 --> 00:05:32,630 but then, am I going because I'm faithful or because I'm guilty? 63 00:05:32,750 --> 00:05:34,250 Ah. 64 00:05:34,350 --> 00:05:37,220 So you're just like the rest of us, then. 65 00:05:37,350 --> 00:05:40,580 Good. Go on. 66 00:05:47,530 --> 00:05:52,520 Well, it started with this smell in Brown Sector... 67 00:05:52,740 --> 00:05:56,370 which isn't surprising because there's always a smell in Brown Sector... 68 00:05:56,470 --> 00:05:58,610 but this one wouldn't go away. 69 00:05:58,710 --> 00:06:03,440 And the repair crews, they kept hearing voices in the hallways... 70 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:05,720 even when we could determine for sure... 71 00:06:05,820 --> 00:06:09,110 on the monitors that there was nobody there. 72 00:06:09,490 --> 00:06:11,490 And then... 73 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,960 Then a few days ago... 74 00:06:16,130 --> 00:06:20,120 there's this guy that works in security, Simon Burke. 75 00:06:20,300 --> 00:06:24,130 He had come back from a vacation on Earth a few weeks earlier... 76 00:06:24,230 --> 00:06:27,330 seemed fine, and then... 77 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:30,540 Suddenly, in the middle of a shift... 78 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:34,410 he just started screaming and saying that he wasn't alone... 79 00:06:34,510 --> 00:06:38,810 and that something was inside him, and then he disappeared. 80 00:06:38,980 --> 00:06:43,610 He'd barricaded himself inside the chapel on Blue 4. 81 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:51,090 But when we got to him, it really wasn't him anymore. 82 00:06:52,860 --> 00:06:54,860 It was... 83 00:06:57,470 --> 00:06:59,660 Father Cassidy... 84 00:07:01,740 --> 00:07:05,100 do you feel qualified to perform an exorcism? 85 00:07:16,250 --> 00:07:17,850 Is there anything in his file... 86 00:07:17,950 --> 00:07:21,460 showing a history of mental instability, psychosis, erratic behavior? 87 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,590 No. No more so than anybody else around here, myself included. 88 00:07:24,690 --> 00:07:27,280 You understand why I have to be sure. 89 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,070 In situations like this... 90 00:07:29,170 --> 00:07:33,510 a mundane answer is far more likely than a supernatural one. 91 00:07:33,540 --> 00:07:37,110 The last recorded case of possession was almost a hundred years ago. 92 00:07:37,210 --> 00:07:38,610 Yeah, I know. 93 00:07:38,710 --> 00:07:41,280 We've got a little piece of the 14th century here... 94 00:07:41,380 --> 00:07:43,610 right in the middle of all this technology. 95 00:07:43,710 --> 00:07:47,480 Hardly seems to fit, does it? - No, I... 96 00:07:50,290 --> 00:07:55,660 It's cold. And dear Lord, that stench. 97 00:07:55,860 --> 00:07:57,960 Knocks you back on your heels, huh? 98 00:07:58,060 --> 00:08:02,540 Two feet that way, it's 72 degrees. Drops another 20 right there. 99 00:08:03,230 --> 00:08:05,230 His cell is up here. 100 00:08:20,020 --> 00:08:22,040 Hello, Father. 101 00:08:22,220 --> 00:08:24,550 Please come in. 102 00:08:25,350 --> 00:08:27,950 I could use the company. 103 00:08:32,060 --> 00:08:35,830 Mr. Burke? - After a fashion. 104 00:08:39,470 --> 00:08:41,470 Are you or are you not? 105 00:08:42,540 --> 00:08:45,600 I'm sure he's in here somewhere. 106 00:08:46,710 --> 00:08:48,610 Why is he restrained? 107 00:08:48,710 --> 00:08:51,240 For our protection, and his. 108 00:08:51,410 --> 00:08:55,450 The night we found him, he attacked two of my security guards. 109 00:08:55,550 --> 00:09:00,100 And then last night, we came in and we found him covered in blood. 110 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:01,520 We checked him for wounds... 111 00:09:01,620 --> 00:09:04,990 not a cut, not so much as a scratch anyplace on him. 112 00:09:05,090 --> 00:09:07,090 And the blood? 113 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:08,660 Well, according to the tests... 114 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:12,720 not a single strand of DNA was anyplace in the blood. 115 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:16,670 Platelets, red cells, white cells, but no DNA. 116 00:09:16,870 --> 00:09:19,680 You wanna explain that one to me, Father? 117 00:09:19,780 --> 00:09:22,570 The devil is in the details. 118 00:09:22,750 --> 00:09:25,130 Are you saying you are the devil? 119 00:09:25,820 --> 00:09:29,110 No. Just a humble servant. 120 00:09:32,990 --> 00:09:35,290 Does the smell offend you? 121 00:09:36,330 --> 00:09:39,270 Would you like me to change it? - Can you? 122 00:09:50,210 --> 00:09:52,210 Roses? 123 00:09:53,010 --> 00:09:56,100 Impossible. - Of course it's possible. 124 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:00,550 Are not all things in heaven and Earth possible for those who believe? 125 00:10:00,650 --> 00:10:03,240 But this is neither heaven nor Earth. 126 00:10:03,420 --> 00:10:08,860 Then this must be hell. So why then are you surprised to find me here? 127 00:10:09,690 --> 00:10:12,210 If this is hell, and you hold sway... 128 00:10:12,230 --> 00:10:15,630 then you shouldn't mind telling me your name. 129 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:17,570 Names have power. 130 00:10:17,670 --> 00:10:19,540 Yes, they do. 131 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,640 You first. 132 00:10:21,670 --> 00:10:25,940 If you are what you claim, then you should already know my name. 133 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,040 So, what is it? 134 00:10:28,180 --> 00:10:33,310 Your name is sadness... 135 00:10:33,950 --> 00:10:38,250 loneliness, uselessness. 136 00:10:38,490 --> 00:10:40,870 Those are descriptions, not names. 137 00:10:40,990 --> 00:10:43,130 That's why they have power. 138 00:10:43,230 --> 00:10:45,320 That's why my name has power. 139 00:10:46,030 --> 00:10:48,030 And that name would be? 140 00:10:48,660 --> 00:10:50,690 Asmodeus. 141 00:10:51,770 --> 00:10:55,870 You're a long way from home. Home is where the heart is. 142 00:10:55,970 --> 00:10:59,780 You're very clever, at least in English. Do you know any other languages or...? 143 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:03,470 Do not waste my time or yours, Father Cassidy. 144 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:07,020 We have more important matters to discuss. 145 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:12,380 And those matters would be? - My removal from this flesh. 146 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:15,520 Get to it or leave. 147 00:11:15,690 --> 00:11:19,130 Let me get this straight. You want to be exorcised? 148 00:11:19,230 --> 00:11:22,100 Cast out, yes. 149 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:26,220 You have the authority to bind me. 150 00:11:26,870 --> 00:11:30,360 Speak the name, abjure and command me... 151 00:11:30,540 --> 00:11:34,100 and I will be removed from this body. 152 00:11:35,540 --> 00:11:39,040 Look, if you wanna leave, then why not just leave? 153 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:44,110 We were bound here among the stars long ago. 154 00:11:44,290 --> 00:11:49,420 Bound to remain, and bound to possess. 155 00:11:49,630 --> 00:11:51,630 Bound by who? 156 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,530 Oh, we cannot speak the name. 157 00:11:57,100 --> 00:12:01,040 Are you saying that God himself bound you to this part of space? 158 00:12:01,140 --> 00:12:03,170 Why? Why would God do that? 159 00:12:03,340 --> 00:12:08,300 It was inevitable that, in time, man would cross the sea of stars. 160 00:12:08,740 --> 00:12:14,770 Inevitable that their faith would wane as they gloried in their accomplishments. 161 00:12:15,450 --> 00:12:18,480 And as you reshape distant planets... 162 00:12:18,650 --> 00:12:21,160 becoming yourselves creators of worlds... 163 00:12:21,260 --> 00:12:27,990 whence comes the desire to crawl on bended knees for salvation? 164 00:12:29,100 --> 00:12:31,400 Where can be heard the cry of the terrified... 165 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:34,400 and the lost raised in the hope of heaven... 166 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:38,670 and the intercession of divine providence? 167 00:12:41,140 --> 00:12:43,300 Nowhere. 168 00:12:45,310 --> 00:12:47,050 Nowhere. 169 00:12:47,150 --> 00:12:52,710 But before there can be hope, there first must be fear. 170 00:12:52,890 --> 00:12:58,120 Before man can seek salvation, there must be the smell of damnation. 171 00:12:58,290 --> 00:13:05,360 There must be a reason to reawaken the love of God. 172 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,630 But in the absence of humility... 173 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:13,800 that reason is the fear of hell... 174 00:13:14,540 --> 00:13:21,420 the terror of we who fell and walk among you still. 175 00:13:21,980 --> 00:13:28,820 Man sought his God in the stars and found only silence. 176 00:13:29,430 --> 00:13:32,860 But if the hand of darkness can be found... 177 00:13:33,030 --> 00:13:35,930 does that not imply its opposite? 178 00:13:37,570 --> 00:13:43,530 Proving the presence of hell also proves the existence of heaven... 179 00:13:43,710 --> 00:13:45,880 bringing people back to God. 180 00:13:45,910 --> 00:13:49,280 Is that it? - Yes. 181 00:13:50,350 --> 00:13:52,780 And for this reason... 182 00:13:52,950 --> 00:13:55,990 the one you worship salted us among the stars... 183 00:13:56,090 --> 00:14:00,450 to wait the silent centuries for your arrival. 184 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:05,690 To remind you of your limitations. 185 00:14:05,860 --> 00:14:08,500 To renew the fear you thought you left behind... 186 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,260 when you stepped beyond your cradle. 187 00:14:12,900 --> 00:14:17,700 To keep you from getting too far off your leash... 188 00:14:17,870 --> 00:14:21,970 and forgetting your place. 189 00:14:25,550 --> 00:14:27,550 Remarkable. 190 00:14:27,620 --> 00:14:31,110 The most remarkable pathology I've ever seen. 191 00:14:31,290 --> 00:14:34,020 What, you don't think he's really possessed? 192 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:38,660 Demonic possession carries with it several very specific signatures... 193 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:43,000 none of which were present here. No demonstration of special powers... 194 00:14:43,100 --> 00:14:46,600 no ability to speak in more than one language... 195 00:14:46,770 --> 00:14:48,500 no special knowledge. 196 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,730 He knew your name. 197 00:14:50,910 --> 00:14:54,130 He could have heard it from one of the guards. 198 00:14:54,310 --> 00:14:55,740 What about the smell? 199 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:57,910 Interesting, but not conclusive. 200 00:14:58,010 --> 00:15:00,220 There's an element of suggestion... 201 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,390 that could even be some kind of elaborate hoax. 202 00:15:03,490 --> 00:15:06,690 Before I could bring the Church into this, we'd need a lot more... 203 00:15:06,790 --> 00:15:10,350 Just a second. You hear that? - Hear what? 204 00:15:11,790 --> 00:15:12,900 Lochley, go. 205 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,570 Colonel, we're getting an unusual energy spike. 206 00:15:15,660 --> 00:15:17,070 Where is it? - Unknown. 207 00:15:17,170 --> 00:15:18,900 We're tracing it now, but we... 208 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:22,700 CandC, do you receive? 209 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,370 Blue 32. - That's his cell. 210 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:28,700 You know, it's funny. 211 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:33,400 As a member of the clergy, you talk about miracles every day. 212 00:16:33,540 --> 00:16:35,840 Of course, that's the problem. 213 00:16:36,010 --> 00:16:42,080 Everybody talks about miracles, but nobody does anything about them. 214 00:16:43,420 --> 00:16:47,620 Without the proof offered by such signs and wonders... 215 00:16:47,820 --> 00:16:51,780 as the parting of a Red Sea or the dead raised up... 216 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:55,040 after a while, any member of the clergy... 217 00:16:55,060 --> 00:16:57,720 will have doubts from time to time. 218 00:16:59,230 --> 00:17:01,600 But you keep going... 219 00:17:02,770 --> 00:17:05,290 because that's what faith is for. 220 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:11,940 To believe in everything that reason tells you is impossible. 221 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:16,580 The terrible thing is, he's... 222 00:17:16,750 --> 00:17:20,350 It's right. 223 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:23,490 Two minutes of what we just saw in there... 224 00:17:23,590 --> 00:17:27,510 would be the best recruiting tool the Church ever had. 225 00:17:27,630 --> 00:17:31,060 I always thought the devil was the prince of lies. 226 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:36,970 Oh, without question, but even the devil will use the truth when it's convenient. 227 00:17:37,140 --> 00:17:41,740 The question is, if there is a lie, then where is the lie? 228 00:17:41,910 --> 00:17:47,180 And most important of all, why is the lie? 229 00:17:50,020 --> 00:17:52,020 I have to go back in there. 230 00:17:52,590 --> 00:17:54,160 You don't have to come with me. 231 00:17:54,260 --> 00:17:57,690 In fact, for your own safety, I'd urge against it. 232 00:18:03,830 --> 00:18:07,130 You say you were forced to possess this man... 233 00:18:07,300 --> 00:18:10,010 that your kind were put here by God himself... 234 00:18:10,110 --> 00:18:15,440 that this is all part of his strategy to keep mankind at his side. 235 00:18:16,310 --> 00:18:19,040 What if I say I don't believe you? 236 00:18:19,210 --> 00:18:21,810 Then cast us out. 237 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,450 Those are your only choices. 238 00:18:24,620 --> 00:18:26,690 Cast us out... 239 00:18:26,790 --> 00:18:30,460 or allow us to remain in this body and let the whole of mankind know... 240 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,190 that we are here. 241 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:37,700 Would you not sacrifice a single life... 242 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:42,170 if it meant bringing back billions to the Church? 243 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,610 I think you're saying it's God's will that you remain here... 244 00:18:46,710 --> 00:18:49,340 because you want to hold on to your foothold here. 245 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,450 You could have told me you wish to be exorcised... 246 00:18:52,550 --> 00:18:56,190 precisely because you do not wish to be exorcised. 247 00:19:01,690 --> 00:19:03,690 Perhaps. 248 00:19:03,730 --> 00:19:06,060 But if that were the case... 249 00:19:06,230 --> 00:19:09,000 then why did you tell me anything in the first place? 250 00:19:09,100 --> 00:19:13,330 Because this way, knowing what you now know... 251 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,970 your soul is at risk... 252 00:19:17,070 --> 00:19:19,800 and we take pleasure in such things. 253 00:19:19,910 --> 00:19:22,340 How is my soul at risk? 254 00:19:22,510 --> 00:19:27,480 If you believe that by leaving us in this body, it will serve your God's intent... 255 00:19:27,580 --> 00:19:33,520 then you must willingly sacrifice the soul of this innocent man... 256 00:19:33,690 --> 00:19:38,240 and thus lose your own soul, comforted only in the knowledge... 257 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:42,260 that the result will be a return to the Church. 258 00:19:42,430 --> 00:19:46,700 Expel us in secret... 259 00:19:46,870 --> 00:19:50,270 and you defeat your God's plans... 260 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,430 and again doom your immortal soul. 261 00:19:54,610 --> 00:19:59,050 But what if I allow you to stay, and none of this was God's plan? 262 00:19:59,150 --> 00:20:01,150 It does not matter. 263 00:20:02,020 --> 00:20:05,790 Whether this be God's will or not, the news of our existence... 264 00:20:05,890 --> 00:20:10,020 the fear of us, will lead to a Church restored. 265 00:20:11,230 --> 00:20:14,890 To pews filled to overflowing. 266 00:20:15,060 --> 00:20:17,660 To believers by the planet-full. 267 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:21,160 The result is the same, Father. 268 00:20:21,340 --> 00:20:23,900 The result is the same. 269 00:20:24,070 --> 00:20:28,840 But if you simply cast us out, here and now... 270 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:33,240 you will have no proof that any of this is real. 271 00:20:33,420 --> 00:20:36,480 Nothing to show for your faith. 272 00:20:37,150 --> 00:20:42,280 Without that, you and your Church will continue... 273 00:20:42,460 --> 00:20:46,990 to become more irrelevant with every passing day. 274 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:50,990 But if you leave us here... 275 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:56,970 and allow the world outside to know that we are here... 276 00:20:57,270 --> 00:21:01,000 you and your order will again be needed... 277 00:21:01,180 --> 00:21:05,770 necessary, important. 278 00:21:05,950 --> 00:21:11,150 You will no longer wake in the middle of the night and wonder: 279 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,320 'Why am I here?.' 280 00:21:14,390 --> 00:21:16,690 You will know... 281 00:21:17,490 --> 00:21:22,050 because we will be here... 282 00:21:22,230 --> 00:21:25,360 to define you. 283 00:21:27,340 --> 00:21:29,400 So, what are you gonna do? 284 00:21:30,010 --> 00:21:31,740 I don't know. 285 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,340 I mean, this is so far outside my usual experience. 286 00:21:35,740 --> 00:21:39,410 What, you're not thinking of leaving that thing inside him, are you? 287 00:21:39,510 --> 00:21:43,810 No, no, of course not, but there is the question of timing. 288 00:21:43,990 --> 00:21:48,420 Do I attempt this on my own or bring in others of my order to assist? 289 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,090 But once I do that... - Word will get out. 290 00:21:51,190 --> 00:21:53,930 A phalanx of priests converging on Babylon 5? 291 00:21:54,030 --> 00:21:56,030 Oh, I should think so. 292 00:21:56,130 --> 00:21:59,330 Putting together a group of that size and level of expertise... 293 00:21:59,430 --> 00:22:01,070 would require weeks. 294 00:22:01,170 --> 00:22:04,670 They'd want to study him, examine him, during which time... 295 00:22:04,770 --> 00:22:07,140 even more people would find out about this... 296 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,610 leading to precisely the result it described. 297 00:22:10,780 --> 00:22:12,550 And that's the larger question. 298 00:22:12,650 --> 00:22:19,180 What if these creatures really were seeded here among the stars... 299 00:22:19,350 --> 00:22:23,650 for some divine reason we cannot ourselves determine? 300 00:22:24,690 --> 00:22:27,180 But why would God do that? 301 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:29,970 Why did God create Lucifer and all the others... 302 00:22:30,070 --> 00:22:32,630 who went with him, knowing they would fall? 303 00:22:32,730 --> 00:22:36,800 Why allow plague, pox, fires and earthquakes? 304 00:22:36,970 --> 00:22:40,370 Why allow possession in the first place? 305 00:22:40,540 --> 00:22:42,280 Amos 3:6: 306 00:22:42,380 --> 00:22:45,680 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city and the people not be afraid? 307 00:22:45,780 --> 00:22:51,910 Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord has not done it? 308 00:22:52,550 --> 00:22:56,590 Sometimes God uses what we, in our narrow frame of reference... 309 00:22:56,690 --> 00:23:01,720 may think is evil, only to achieve a greater good. 310 00:23:02,230 --> 00:23:06,290 Either we do it now or we wait. Those are the only options. 311 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:09,790 Which of those is God's will? I don't know. 312 00:23:09,970 --> 00:23:13,270 If there's a plan here, I can't see it. 313 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,810 There's a piece missing. 314 00:23:17,250 --> 00:23:21,050 Well, we're not gonna find it tonight. We're both exhausted. 315 00:23:21,150 --> 00:23:25,000 Get some sleep, Father. We'll pick it up in the morning. 316 00:24:06,860 --> 00:24:10,700 Screw it. I can't sleep. 317 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:17,900 Computer, access status of prisoner in Blue 32. 318 00:24:18,070 --> 00:24:24,210 Prisoner, Simon Burke. Maintenance. Status, unchanged. 319 00:24:25,810 --> 00:24:29,050 Simon, you poor bastard. 320 00:24:29,550 --> 00:24:32,990 What did you ever do to deserve this? 321 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,420 You're here at this place for four years... 322 00:24:36,590 --> 00:24:43,500 hard worker, mind your own business, no trouble, then this... 323 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,800 No. 324 00:24:49,570 --> 00:24:52,060 No, no, no, wait a minute. 325 00:24:54,910 --> 00:25:01,080 Simon, you weren't here the whole time. 326 00:25:02,050 --> 00:25:04,050 You were... 327 00:25:04,050 --> 00:25:08,220 Computer, access personnel files. Burke, Simon. 328 00:25:08,390 --> 00:25:14,520 Subject took leave approximately two months ago, correct? 329 00:25:14,700 --> 00:25:16,030 Confirmed. 330 00:25:16,130 --> 00:25:19,230 One round-trip ticket to Earth via Io jumpgate. 331 00:25:19,330 --> 00:25:21,870 And he returned about two weeks ago on... 332 00:25:21,970 --> 00:25:24,040 Commercial Starliner Asimov. 333 00:25:24,140 --> 00:25:26,010 Purchased one coach, seat number... 334 00:25:26,110 --> 00:25:28,940 Not important. Can you access the ship's logs? 335 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,070 Confirmed. 336 00:25:32,750 --> 00:25:37,230 Search out any unusual entries on the return flight to Babylon 5. 337 00:25:37,390 --> 00:25:39,580 Stand by. 338 00:25:42,290 --> 00:25:43,630 A decline in faith... 339 00:25:43,730 --> 00:25:46,060 and the influence of the Church was to be expected... 340 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,800 once humans penetrated heaven and found there no angels... 341 00:25:49,900 --> 00:25:53,610 no choir eternal, not even a delinquent seraphim... 342 00:25:53,770 --> 00:25:57,430 left behind by the general evacuation. 343 00:25:59,010 --> 00:26:04,740 No seraphim, no choir eternal. 344 00:26:07,020 --> 00:26:09,150 But none of those things either. 345 00:26:09,250 --> 00:26:12,020 Entry found. Playing. 346 00:26:12,190 --> 00:26:14,990 It was there again today, that smell. 347 00:26:15,090 --> 00:26:16,830 We just can't seem to get rid of it. 348 00:26:16,930 --> 00:26:20,700 We've checked the galley, the recycling systems, everything. 349 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,060 Just can't figure out where it's coming from... 350 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,690 and it's cold all the time. 351 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:27,870 We've considered diverting for repairs... 352 00:26:27,970 --> 00:26:31,910 but there's nothing to indicate trouble with navigation... 353 00:26:32,010 --> 00:26:34,080 so we'll stay on course for Babylon 5... 354 00:26:34,180 --> 00:26:36,180 End record. 355 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,480 That's it. 356 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:46,420 That son of a bitch. That's the missing piece. 357 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,690 Are you sure you know what you're doing? 358 00:26:49,790 --> 00:26:51,630 No, but it's never stopped me before. 359 00:26:51,730 --> 00:26:54,730 You sure if we sedate the body, that thing will go under too? 360 00:26:54,830 --> 00:26:58,270 That's what the literature says, but... - Did you give him the sedative? 361 00:26:58,370 --> 00:27:02,900 Doc and I loaded him up with tranquilizers to knock out five guys, but he's strong. 362 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,370 You got 10 minutes before he's out like a light. 363 00:27:05,470 --> 00:27:07,470 Good. 364 00:27:13,820 --> 00:27:15,920 On the way here, Father Cassidy told me... 365 00:27:16,020 --> 00:27:19,420 that he's decided to go ahead and perform the exorcism now... 366 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,080 even if it means putting his soul at risk. 367 00:27:23,590 --> 00:27:26,040 That would amuse you, wouldn't it? 368 00:27:26,090 --> 00:27:29,530 Making him live with that fear? 369 00:27:30,730 --> 00:27:33,220 Too bad it's not gonna happen. 370 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,510 You almost had us convinced that we only had two choices. 371 00:27:37,610 --> 00:27:42,510 Perform the exorcism here and now or wait. 372 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,510 But there's a third option... 373 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,980 sending you somewhere else. 374 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:53,780 After all, you didn't possess Simon when he was here, did you? 375 00:27:53,990 --> 00:27:58,250 No, no, you moved in while he was back on Earth. 376 00:28:00,930 --> 00:28:03,090 A fantasy. 377 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,800 I saw the ship's records. You were there. 378 00:28:07,870 --> 00:28:10,900 Your presence was felt by her crew. 379 00:28:12,140 --> 00:28:14,540 But you kept a low profile. Why? 380 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,240 And how could you possess him on Earth... 381 00:28:19,410 --> 00:28:23,820 if you were bound out here among the stars waiting for us? 382 00:28:28,090 --> 00:28:30,280 Know what I think? 383 00:28:30,460 --> 00:28:35,520 I think you can't leave Earth on your own. 384 00:28:37,030 --> 00:28:40,260 I think you're trapped there, not here. 385 00:28:40,470 --> 00:28:44,880 The only way you could slip out was by hitchhiking inside Simon. 386 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,600 You're gonna be exorcised, all right, but not here. 387 00:28:50,780 --> 00:28:53,020 We're sending you back to Earth. 388 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,480 Back to your cage. 389 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,220 You know, when I was a little girl... 390 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:08,160 I remember reading how heaven was above and hell below. 391 00:29:08,330 --> 00:29:10,270 And it never made much sense to me... 392 00:29:10,370 --> 00:29:16,430 because if hell was underground, then where was it? 393 00:29:19,810 --> 00:29:22,780 The truth is much simpler, isn't it? 394 00:29:23,810 --> 00:29:29,810 When you fell, when you got cast down, you got cast down to Earth. 395 00:29:29,980 --> 00:29:32,290 Bound to Earth. Trapped on Earth. 396 00:29:33,890 --> 00:29:37,620 Denied heaven, denied the heavens. 397 00:29:37,790 --> 00:29:42,350 Denied the sky. Denied the stars. 398 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,220 Earthbound. 399 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,860 Yours was no divine mission. 400 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,740 It was an ecclesiastical jailbreak. 401 00:29:56,180 --> 00:30:00,200 The only way that you could escape Earth... 402 00:30:00,380 --> 00:30:06,580 was to crawl inside the skin and hitchhike out here among the stars... 403 00:30:06,750 --> 00:30:09,590 and then do everything you could to make sure... 404 00:30:09,690 --> 00:30:14,720 that you got cast out by a servant of God, here in the stars. 405 00:30:14,930 --> 00:30:21,160 It was the only way you could slip your bonds, escape the inevitable. 406 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,600 You see... 407 00:30:24,770 --> 00:30:29,640 the day will come when the last of us leave Earth behind for other worlds... 408 00:30:29,740 --> 00:30:33,510 because we know that another day will come. 409 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,710 A far-off, distant day... 410 00:30:36,890 --> 00:30:41,150 when the sun will burn out in a final blaze. 411 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:47,290 The sky will go black, the seas will boil, the ground will turn to ash... 412 00:30:47,460 --> 00:30:50,690 consumed by a brilliant light. 413 00:30:50,870 --> 00:30:53,530 Any of this sounding familiar to you? 414 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:58,200 And on that day, trapped on Earth with no escape... 415 00:30:58,410 --> 00:31:02,870 you and your kind will at last come to an end. 416 00:31:03,580 --> 00:31:07,910 But the heavens will remain, and so will we. 417 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,640 A new start. A new universe. 418 00:31:11,820 --> 00:31:15,950 A new dream. 419 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,960 And you... 420 00:31:19,730 --> 00:31:22,630 You don't belong in that dream. 421 00:31:31,940 --> 00:31:37,940 We will remember you. 422 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,280 I'll be here. 423 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:06,340 He may have been the first to try to slip out, but he won't be the last. 424 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,180 I'll be sure to brief the Holy Father on my return to Earth. 425 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,510 I've always wanted to meet him in person. 426 00:32:12,610 --> 00:32:15,780 Now I have a story he'll want to hear. 427 00:32:16,450 --> 00:32:20,790 I'll put out the word to some others on Earthforce that I can trust, quietly... 428 00:32:20,890 --> 00:32:25,950 and if this ever happens again, they'll call me, and I'll call you. 429 00:32:27,260 --> 00:32:31,390 President Sheridan once said that with Babylon 5... 430 00:32:31,570 --> 00:32:34,970 he would draw a line against the darkness. 431 00:32:35,670 --> 00:32:38,370 He was righter than he knew. 432 00:32:38,970 --> 00:32:40,740 Oh, crap. Oh, sorry. 433 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,250 Um, I'm sorry, it's just that Sheridan's supposed to call me any minute... 434 00:32:44,350 --> 00:32:45,880 and I've gotta go take it. 435 00:32:45,980 --> 00:32:48,620 You can take it from here, right? - I can. 436 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:54,660 Colonel, if you ever decide to look for another line of work, give me a call. 437 00:32:54,820 --> 00:32:56,720 We could use someone like you. 438 00:32:56,820 --> 00:33:00,920 Yeah? What, you think I'm religious enough? 439 00:33:04,230 --> 00:33:06,330 You'll do. 440 00:33:15,910 --> 00:33:18,780 Personal log, Colonel Elizabeth Lochley. 441 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:24,610 Every few days, a new Starliner arrives from Earth, Mars or some damn place. 442 00:33:24,820 --> 00:33:29,160 Among the passengers are always some who have never been in space before... 443 00:33:29,260 --> 00:33:33,600 and they'll stand at a porthole, looking out at the infinite horizon... 444 00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:37,790 at the intersection of what's known and what's not... 445 00:33:37,970 --> 00:33:42,830 and comment on how cold and dark it is in space. 446 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,440 They're wrong. 447 00:33:44,540 --> 00:33:48,130 When I look out into space, into the sea of stars... 448 00:33:48,340 --> 00:33:53,440 I see a billion times a billion lights, each calling out to someone:. 449 00:33:53,610 --> 00:33:55,610 'Remember me, my child.' 450 00:33:55,750 --> 00:34:00,120 Each of them whispering to someone, 'Come home.' 451 00:34:00,990 --> 00:34:04,060 My friends back on Earth don't understand why I'm still here... 452 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,720 when I could be at a comfy desk job or commanding a warship. 453 00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:12,960 I'm here because this is my home now... 454 00:34:13,130 --> 00:34:15,670 and because when the darkness comes... 455 00:34:15,770 --> 00:34:18,510 it's good to know you're standing in the one place... 456 00:34:18,610 --> 00:34:21,910 where the lights are always on. 457 00:34:47,100 --> 00:34:50,600 Mr. President, your ship is here. 458 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,660 Be right there. 459 00:35:07,620 --> 00:35:09,780 Ten years. 460 00:35:11,060 --> 00:35:14,520 Ten years since the world changed. 461 00:35:14,930 --> 00:35:17,330 Ten years since I changed. 462 00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:23,990 Ten years of press conferences, bureaucracy, politics and arm-twisting. 463 00:35:24,210 --> 00:35:27,080 Every day, somebody points me to the big picture. 464 00:35:27,180 --> 00:35:32,840 Every day, I wonder if I'm missing the small picture, the details. 465 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:35,980 Yes. 466 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:37,590 Mr. President... 467 00:35:37,690 --> 00:35:41,820 the ISN reporter is asking to see you again. 468 00:35:41,990 --> 00:35:45,430 Tell her I'm dead and throw her down the stairs. 469 00:35:45,590 --> 00:35:47,590 Sir? 470 00:35:48,060 --> 00:35:51,500 All right, all right. Let her in. 471 00:35:51,670 --> 00:35:56,660 Because sometimes it's the details, the small picture... 472 00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,940 that can change the future. 473 00:35:59,970 --> 00:36:01,970 Mr. President? 474 00:36:03,580 --> 00:36:05,450 Is there a problem, Miss Chambers? 475 00:36:05,550 --> 00:36:09,210 No, sir. It's just rather stark in here. 476 00:36:09,380 --> 00:36:11,380 Oh. 477 00:36:11,750 --> 00:36:15,620 The Minbari are minimalists. 478 00:36:15,890 --> 00:36:17,290 For the last 400 years... 479 00:36:17,390 --> 00:36:21,050 their viewing rooms didn't even have chairs. 480 00:36:21,230 --> 00:36:23,700 They stood the whole time. 481 00:36:24,430 --> 00:36:27,960 Yeah, a group of nine standing out in the void. 482 00:36:28,140 --> 00:36:33,870 When I suggested we put in some chairs, I almost triggered a full-scale revolution. 483 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,950 I'd go for some throw pillows next, but I'm afraid of being assassinated. 484 00:36:41,550 --> 00:36:46,080 Well, speaking of chairs, please, sit. - Thank you, sir. 485 00:36:48,620 --> 00:36:51,840 So gearing up for the big party at Babylon 5? 486 00:36:51,890 --> 00:36:54,420 Just meditating on the familiar. 487 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,130 I spent four years of my life in that place. 488 00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:00,820 The best years of my life. 489 00:37:01,170 --> 00:37:04,900 And also the hardest years of my life. 490 00:37:06,140 --> 00:37:09,340 It's a place of beginnings. - And endings? 491 00:37:12,050 --> 00:37:14,050 Some day. 492 00:37:19,350 --> 00:37:22,750 This might not be the best time for an interview. 493 00:37:23,090 --> 00:37:25,660 Maybe later. - I've seen your schedule, sir. 494 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,130 You don't have a later. 495 00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:31,160 Life's full of disappointments. 496 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,300 You don't like reporters, do you? 497 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,600 Of course I do, properly cooked. 498 00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,670 It's pak'ma'ra humor. 499 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,480 I just got back from a state visit to their homeworld. 500 00:37:45,580 --> 00:37:49,680 Now, if I'd have said that there, they would be laughing for days. 501 00:37:49,780 --> 00:37:51,490 Mr. President... 502 00:37:51,590 --> 00:37:54,220 Actually, all their jokes end with 'properly cooked.' 503 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,350 They just scream. Even their cat jokes. 504 00:37:57,530 --> 00:38:00,930 I don't understand it, but it seems to make them happy. Who am I to...? 505 00:38:01,030 --> 00:38:03,300 So how does it feel coming back to Babylon 5... 506 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,930 after all this time, Mr. President? 507 00:38:06,030 --> 00:38:09,530 I didn't realize the interview had started. - Mm-hm. 508 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,040 And where's your camera? 509 00:38:13,810 --> 00:38:15,580 Right here. 510 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:21,550 My director said it would help make sure that people look at the camera a lot. 511 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,210 So Babylon 5... 512 00:38:26,390 --> 00:38:28,590 Point of demarcation from starship captain... 513 00:38:28,690 --> 00:38:30,460 to station commander, renegade... 514 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,230 and now here you are returning in triumph... 515 00:38:33,330 --> 00:38:36,060 as president of the Interstellar Alliance. 516 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,430 How does that feel? 517 00:38:38,630 --> 00:38:42,000 Well, speaking on behalf of the Alliance... 518 00:38:42,170 --> 00:38:45,310 we appreciate Babylon 5 making itself available... 519 00:38:45,410 --> 00:38:49,540 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the I.A. 520 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:54,260 Its position in neutral space makes it ideal for everyone involved. 521 00:38:54,420 --> 00:38:57,120 I understand there will be ambassadors and diplomats... 522 00:38:57,220 --> 00:38:58,950 from a hundred different worlds. 523 00:38:59,050 --> 00:39:00,420 And there's also a rumor... 524 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,090 that Emperor Mollari from the Centauri Republic... 525 00:39:03,190 --> 00:39:05,220 might show up. - No. 526 00:39:06,190 --> 00:39:08,290 No, he won't be coming. 527 00:39:09,900 --> 00:39:16,200 Londo's been in a very strange, dark place for the last few years. 528 00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:22,840 When people laugh, sometimes they laugh... 529 00:39:22,940 --> 00:39:28,180 from a little back in the mouth, you know, that kind of fake laugh? 530 00:39:29,220 --> 00:39:31,410 Well, Londo... 531 00:39:31,750 --> 00:39:34,390 he would laugh from the bottom of his shoes up. 532 00:39:38,730 --> 00:39:42,180 Yeah, I hear he doesn't laugh much anymore. 533 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,720 So, no, he won't be attending. 534 00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:47,600 We will be picking up Prince Vintari on the way. 535 00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:52,670 He's third in line for the throne, so there will be a Centauri presence. 536 00:39:53,470 --> 00:39:55,470 And Citizen G'Kar? 537 00:39:59,310 --> 00:40:02,080 He's out there somewhere. 538 00:40:02,250 --> 00:40:04,770 Beyond the Rim. 539 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,190 Also, um... 540 00:40:10,290 --> 00:40:14,360 Delenn won't be attending. She has responsibilities of her own. 541 00:40:14,460 --> 00:40:16,700 Which brings us back to my question. 542 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,900 I already answered your question. - Mm-mm. 543 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,070 You gave me the press release as to why you're going and where. 544 00:40:22,170 --> 00:40:23,270 The question... 545 00:40:23,370 --> 00:40:27,440 was how does it feel coming back to Babylon 5 after 10 years? 546 00:40:27,540 --> 00:40:30,240 You only give two interviews a year, Mr. President. 547 00:40:30,340 --> 00:40:33,490 I'm not letting you off the hook that easily. 548 00:40:36,620 --> 00:40:38,850 It feels good. 549 00:40:40,650 --> 00:40:43,560 I'll confess, I've missed the place. 550 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,820 It'll be strange but good. 551 00:40:49,060 --> 00:40:51,600 Well, that is the signal to let everyone know... 552 00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:54,270 we're about to jump into quantumspace. 553 00:40:54,370 --> 00:40:56,170 Quantumspace, sir? 554 00:40:56,270 --> 00:40:59,870 Yeah, it's a new technology we acquired from what the Vorlons left behind. 555 00:40:59,970 --> 00:41:03,260 It's a step up from hyperspace, twice as fast... 556 00:41:03,540 --> 00:41:08,640 twice as, um, disorienting, shall we say? 557 00:41:08,820 --> 00:41:11,390 Makes you feel like you're being turned inside out. 558 00:41:11,490 --> 00:41:16,980 It messes with your inner ear, your balance, your sense of reality. 559 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,130 It takes some getting used to. 560 00:41:19,230 --> 00:41:21,500 Wouldn't normal hyperspace be good enough to...? 561 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,560 No, no, no. We'd never make it in time. 562 00:41:24,730 --> 00:41:28,940 And as I was saying, the first time some folks make the jump to quantumspace... 563 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,210 they just puke their guts out... 564 00:41:31,310 --> 00:41:34,640 fouling themselves in the most awful ways you can imagine. 565 00:41:34,740 --> 00:41:36,610 Mr. President, I... 566 00:41:36,710 --> 00:41:38,800 Here we go. 567 00:41:46,850 --> 00:41:48,790 The problem isn't that I only give... 568 00:41:48,890 --> 00:41:50,520 two interviews a year, Miss Chambers. 569 00:41:50,620 --> 00:41:55,590 The problem is that so few reporters ever seem to come back for seconds. 570 00:41:59,030 --> 00:42:01,330 Was that a new dress? 571 00:42:37,300 --> 00:42:39,740 Look familiar? 572 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,640 No? 573 00:42:43,410 --> 00:42:45,780 Of course, my mistake. 574 00:42:45,950 --> 00:42:47,950 The black dust, you see. 575 00:42:48,020 --> 00:42:52,320 It hides stars and the moon, clouds and sky... 576 00:42:52,490 --> 00:42:55,650 hope and pity, despair and... 577 00:42:56,260 --> 00:42:58,950 Here, I'll fix it. 578 00:42:59,130 --> 00:43:04,000 As the saying goes, let there be light. 579 00:43:26,220 --> 00:43:28,220 New York. 580 00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:32,280 The city that never weeps. 581 00:43:32,490 --> 00:43:34,060 Get out of the road! 582 00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,380 What do you think you are doing? Learn to fly. 583 00:43:37,460 --> 00:43:39,690 Up yours. 584 00:43:44,170 --> 00:43:47,630 This is what was... 585 00:43:47,810 --> 00:43:50,240 and for this one moment out of time... 586 00:43:50,340 --> 00:43:52,340 still is. 587 00:43:53,150 --> 00:43:56,510 And this is what will be. 588 00:44:01,490 --> 00:44:04,010 Up there somewhere... 589 00:44:04,190 --> 00:44:07,720 far above us, above the clouds... 590 00:44:07,900 --> 00:44:12,360 a thousand vast war machines are warping into normal space. 591 00:44:12,730 --> 00:44:16,760 Each of them armed with terrible engines of destruction... 592 00:44:16,970 --> 00:44:23,400 capable of devastation on a scale never seen before... 593 00:44:24,410 --> 00:44:27,970 until right now. 594 00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:36,560 No. 595 00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,080 This was not a dream. 596 00:44:58,510 --> 00:45:00,310 Do you understand me? 597 00:45:00,410 --> 00:45:04,210 Do you hear me? This was not... - I hear you. 598 00:45:04,390 --> 00:45:06,550 I hear you. 599 00:45:07,090 --> 00:45:10,660 You're not the only techno-mage I've dealt with over the years, Galen. 600 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,430 I've had enough experience to know the difference... 601 00:45:13,530 --> 00:45:16,960 between dream-real, magic-real... 602 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:19,230 and real-real. 603 00:45:19,330 --> 00:45:21,960 You're wiser than I thought. 604 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,930 Yeah, wiser... 605 00:45:25,110 --> 00:45:27,110 older... 606 00:45:28,180 --> 00:45:30,980 and I'm tired of you guys crawling inside my head... 607 00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:32,950 and showing me this kind of crap... 608 00:45:33,050 --> 00:45:37,320 every time I think that my life might be going good for a change. 609 00:45:37,420 --> 00:45:40,520 What is wrong with you people? Don't you have any other hobbies? 610 00:45:40,620 --> 00:45:43,460 Well, that's hardly what I'd call a warm welcome. 611 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,430 Not a 'good to see you again, old friend.' 612 00:45:46,460 --> 00:45:49,360 Maybe a hug or a peck on the cheek, in a manly sort of way. 613 00:45:49,460 --> 00:45:52,050 Why show me this kind of stuff, huh? 614 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:53,730 Why me? 615 00:45:53,830 --> 00:45:57,790 Because for those of us who dwell... 616 00:45:57,970 --> 00:46:01,510 in the infinite space between science and magic... 617 00:46:01,610 --> 00:46:05,270 between illusion and ultimate truth... 618 00:46:05,450 --> 00:46:09,850 who are sworn by our order not to interfere... 619 00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:15,950 you are known to us all as a nexus. 620 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,120 Where others doubt... 621 00:46:18,230 --> 00:46:21,660 you believe what you see when we speak to you. 622 00:46:22,530 --> 00:46:25,330 That belief has saved lives. 623 00:46:25,500 --> 00:46:28,160 It may yet again. 624 00:46:29,370 --> 00:46:34,860 Or I can simply go, if that's what you prefer. 625 00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:39,380 What I just saw, is that what is going to happen... 626 00:46:39,810 --> 00:46:41,840 or what may happen? 627 00:46:42,850 --> 00:46:47,880 There are ways to prevent this. 628 00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:50,320 There is hope... 629 00:46:50,420 --> 00:46:52,730 but it is at best a slim hope. 630 00:46:54,230 --> 00:46:58,530 Yeah, well, I've never known hope when it wasn't on a diet. 631 00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,040 All right, go on. 632 00:47:04,570 --> 00:47:06,440 In one day... 633 00:47:06,540 --> 00:47:10,810 you will pick up Prince Vintari to convey him to Babylon 5. 634 00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:15,940 In two days, you will arrive for the celebrations. 635 00:47:16,150 --> 00:47:18,150 In 20 years... 636 00:47:18,290 --> 00:47:24,020 he will ascend to the throne of emperor of the Centauri Republic. 637 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,920 In 30 years... 638 00:47:27,090 --> 00:47:31,270 he will decide that his plan to bring the republic back to its former glory... 639 00:47:31,370 --> 00:47:34,560 requires the elimination... 640 00:47:34,740 --> 00:47:37,670 of the one power that could stop him. 641 00:47:37,870 --> 00:47:41,810 The one power that has stopped the Centauri in the past. 642 00:47:41,980 --> 00:47:43,810 Earth. 643 00:47:43,910 --> 00:47:47,970 It is he who will cause the horrors that you have seen. 644 00:47:48,220 --> 00:47:50,220 But this can be stopped. 645 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:54,520 No, I came all this way to show you this because nothing can be done. 646 00:47:54,620 --> 00:47:56,790 Because I like the way your pupils dilate... 647 00:47:56,890 --> 00:47:59,590 in the presence of total planetary Armageddon. 648 00:47:59,690 --> 00:48:03,990 Yes, it can be stopped. 649 00:48:05,130 --> 00:48:07,130 How? 650 00:48:07,630 --> 00:48:09,730 Oh, President Sheridan... 651 00:48:09,900 --> 00:48:14,270 I would have thought that that would be eminently obvious. 652 00:48:14,940 --> 00:48:18,280 All you have to do... 653 00:48:19,450 --> 00:48:21,180 is kill... 654 00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,340 Prince Vintari. 655 00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,450 They call it spoo. Now, it's supposed to be their favorite food. 656 00:48:57,550 --> 00:49:03,460 I've only tasted it, but I call it the other gray meat. 657 00:49:03,620 --> 00:49:05,790 President Sheridan? 658 00:49:09,030 --> 00:49:11,030 Prince Dius Vintari. 659 00:49:13,300 --> 00:49:15,300 It is an honor to meet you. 660 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:19,640 And you. 661 00:49:26,580 --> 00:49:29,680 This is the new Valen-class cruiser, isn't it? 662 00:49:29,780 --> 00:49:32,480 Yeah. You know your ships. 663 00:49:32,650 --> 00:49:34,420 A hobby of mine. 664 00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,990 I take special interest in the technology of other races. 665 00:49:38,090 --> 00:49:43,030 The starfuries used by Earth are a particular favorite of mine. 666 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:47,390 So simple, so elegant, and so deadly. 667 00:49:49,870 --> 00:49:55,600 I was surprised when I got the request to transfer you aboard my cruiser. 668 00:49:55,810 --> 00:49:59,310 The ship you were on could've easily taken you all the way to Babylon 5. 669 00:49:59,410 --> 00:50:04,250 Emperor Mollari was concerned I might not be safe among my own people. 670 00:50:04,420 --> 00:50:06,580 As third from the throne... 671 00:50:06,750 --> 00:50:11,320 I am something of a target in a small, confined space. 672 00:50:15,430 --> 00:50:17,450 A target? For whom? 673 00:50:17,630 --> 00:50:21,530 Numbers four, five, six and seven, I'd imagine. 674 00:50:21,700 --> 00:50:25,610 The only one I don't have to worry about is that idiot Vir Cotto... 675 00:50:25,710 --> 00:50:27,340 who wouldn't be in line... 676 00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:30,810 except the Centarum wanted to punish me for what my father did. 677 00:50:30,910 --> 00:50:35,080 I've known Vir for a very long time. He's a good man. 678 00:50:35,550 --> 00:50:37,550 He murdered my father. 679 00:50:38,950 --> 00:50:42,440 At least, that's the rumor. 680 00:50:42,990 --> 00:50:47,650 So he got what he wanted... 681 00:50:47,860 --> 00:50:50,130 second in line. 682 00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:52,730 No threat to me... 683 00:50:52,900 --> 00:50:57,300 but in time, maybe... 684 00:50:58,140 --> 00:51:00,970 I might just be a threat to him. 685 00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:11,280 Anyway, Emperor Mollari thought I'd be safer with you. 686 00:51:11,490 --> 00:51:14,820 He said, 'I would trust Sheridan with my life.' 687 00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:16,720 Well, that's... 688 00:51:16,820 --> 00:51:20,860 Then he corrected himself and said he would trust you with my life... 689 00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,760 because he had plans for next week. 690 00:51:23,930 --> 00:51:27,370 Then he left the room, laughing. 691 00:51:32,410 --> 00:51:35,310 Oh, he always did have a sense of humor. 692 00:51:40,010 --> 00:51:42,810 My father made many enemies... 693 00:51:42,980 --> 00:51:46,210 and it seems I have inherited them. 694 00:51:46,420 --> 00:51:49,220 There are many in the Royal Court who would see me dead... 695 00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:51,430 before they'd see me on the throne. 696 00:51:51,530 --> 00:51:55,900 Now that I'm of age, I may have to leave Centauri Prime for some time... 697 00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:00,370 before it is safe for me to return and claim the throne. 698 00:52:00,530 --> 00:52:02,830 But I give you my word... 699 00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,240 when that day comes, there will be a reckoning... 700 00:52:06,340 --> 00:52:10,110 the likes of which has not been seen since the early days of the republic. 701 00:52:10,210 --> 00:52:13,180 And that will be just the beginning, I... 702 00:52:18,820 --> 00:52:20,880 So I appreciate your gesture. 703 00:52:22,060 --> 00:52:25,560 I'm sure my presence here must be an inconvenience for you... 704 00:52:25,660 --> 00:52:30,630 but it will be nice to sleep without a knife beside my bed for a change... 705 00:52:30,730 --> 00:52:36,500 to know that I am safe here with you. 706 00:52:53,090 --> 00:52:56,420 So how are the preparations going at your end, colonel? 707 00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:58,260 As well as can be expected. 708 00:52:58,360 --> 00:52:59,890 Meaning not at all. 709 00:52:59,990 --> 00:53:02,860 It's Babylon 5. Nothing's ever easy. 710 00:53:03,030 --> 00:53:04,400 Speaking of which... 711 00:53:04,500 --> 00:53:07,100 I know how you hate publicity stunts... 712 00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:09,000 Elizabeth... - But ISN has asked... 713 00:53:09,100 --> 00:53:11,270 if you 'd mind riding back to Babylon 5... 714 00:53:11,370 --> 00:53:13,710 in a starfury instead of a shuttle. 715 00:53:13,810 --> 00:53:18,180 You know, the conquering hero coming home on the airborne stallion... 716 00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:21,740 on which he won the Shadow War. 717 00:53:21,950 --> 00:53:25,080 Congratulations. I think I'm about to be ill. 718 00:53:25,250 --> 00:53:29,290 Come on, it would really mean a lot to the people who've shown up. 719 00:53:29,390 --> 00:53:31,630 And you know the power of symbolism. 720 00:53:31,730 --> 00:53:33,730 All right, all right. 721 00:53:34,790 --> 00:53:38,960 I haven't been in a starfury in ages. 722 00:53:40,130 --> 00:53:43,100 Well, who knows, it might be fun. 723 00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:48,230 So any of the old gang coming in for this shindig? 724 00:53:48,410 --> 00:53:50,840 Some. Talked to Garibaldi. He's gonna try to come. 725 00:53:50,940 --> 00:53:53,450 But he's dealing with some situation on Mars. 726 00:53:53,550 --> 00:53:56,450 And Stephen? Oh, I thought you heard. 727 00:53:56,550 --> 00:53:59,550 Dr. Franklin went with G' Kar, exploring beyond the Rim. 728 00:53:59,650 --> 00:54:01,320 You know how he is. 729 00:54:01,420 --> 00:54:06,600 He'll take any chance to explore new territory before anyone can get there. 730 00:54:06,660 --> 00:54:09,820 That's too bad. I'll miss him. 731 00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,090 You're looking tired, Elizabeth. 732 00:54:15,300 --> 00:54:17,170 Is everything okay? 733 00:54:17,270 --> 00:54:20,430 It's been crazy. 734 00:54:20,610 --> 00:54:25,200 I always knew Babylon 5 was neutral territory, but until today... 735 00:54:25,380 --> 00:54:29,860 I never knew it was on the crossroads between heaven and hell. 736 00:54:29,980 --> 00:54:33,490 Hey, it's a long story. I'll tell you all about it when you get here. 737 00:54:33,590 --> 00:54:35,590 Travel safe. 738 00:54:41,290 --> 00:54:46,990 Interesting how the universe always provides, isn't it? 739 00:54:47,730 --> 00:54:49,730 Now what? 740 00:54:49,970 --> 00:54:54,000 Your return to Babylon 5 on a starfury... 741 00:54:54,170 --> 00:54:58,090 and Vintari's interest in these primitive vehicles... 742 00:54:58,510 --> 00:54:59,910 Don't you see? 743 00:55:00,010 --> 00:55:02,520 All you have to do is offer him the chance... 744 00:55:02,620 --> 00:55:06,210 to ride alongside you in a second starfury. 745 00:55:06,850 --> 00:55:09,620 And that accomplishes what exactly? 746 00:55:11,060 --> 00:55:15,330 My agents aboard Babylon 5 will ensure a slight technical malfunction... 747 00:55:15,430 --> 00:55:17,860 in your ship's weapons systems. 748 00:55:18,030 --> 00:55:22,900 The moment your ship achieves a speed of, say, 5000 kilometers an hour... 749 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:26,030 the system will short-circuit and fire. 750 00:55:26,210 --> 00:55:32,200 In the course of this terrible accident, his ship will be struck and... 751 00:55:33,450 --> 00:55:36,980 Well, as I said, it will be a terrible accident, much to be regretted... 752 00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:41,710 followed by some posturing and harsh words from Centauri Prime. 753 00:55:42,260 --> 00:55:44,260 But in the end... 754 00:55:44,390 --> 00:55:47,750 they'll be as glad to be rid of him as we are. 755 00:55:48,460 --> 00:55:51,290 You mean as glad as you are. 756 00:55:51,460 --> 00:55:53,560 Christ, he's only a kid. 757 00:55:55,540 --> 00:55:58,400 Once upon a time, back on Earth... 758 00:55:58,570 --> 00:56:02,770 Adolf Hitler and Genghis Khan were just small boys... 759 00:56:02,940 --> 00:56:07,170 playing with toys and growing slowly... 760 00:56:07,380 --> 00:56:10,910 slowly into monsters. 761 00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:15,220 If either of those candles had been extinguished at an early age... 762 00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:19,220 how many millions of lives might have been spared? 763 00:56:20,290 --> 00:56:23,320 But no one took that opportunity... 764 00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:27,090 because no one knew. 765 00:56:27,730 --> 00:56:29,900 But you do. 766 00:56:32,740 --> 00:56:36,640 The fate of billions of lives... 767 00:56:36,810 --> 00:56:39,280 is in your hands. 768 00:56:59,670 --> 00:57:02,260 In 30 years... 769 00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:06,640 he will decide that his plan to bring the republic back to its former glory... 770 00:57:06,740 --> 00:57:09,800 requires the elimination... 771 00:57:09,980 --> 00:57:13,780 of the one power that could stop him. 772 00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:47,580 Yes? The president's cruiser... 773 00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:49,750 has jumped out of quantumspace. 774 00:57:49,850 --> 00:57:53,120 Well, fire up a starfury and get it out there ASAP. 775 00:57:53,220 --> 00:57:56,290 And I want an honor guard at Docking Bay 6 as soon as he docks. 776 00:57:56,390 --> 00:57:58,090 Confirmed. Uh, just one thing. 777 00:57:58,190 --> 00:58:01,330 President Sheridan has asked for two starfuries. 778 00:58:01,430 --> 00:58:03,830 Two? Why two? - He didn't say. 779 00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:05,500 Maybe he wants a backup. 780 00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:07,800 We do have another starfury on standby... 781 00:58:07,900 --> 00:58:09,300 Well, he is the president. 782 00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,210 If he wants two starfuries, then give him two starfuries. 783 00:58:12,310 --> 00:58:15,930 Roger that. - I wonder if Custer had staff like this. 784 00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:17,840 Vintari. 785 00:58:17,940 --> 00:58:21,250 Just the prince regent I was looking for. - Is it time to go? 786 00:58:21,350 --> 00:58:25,340 Yes, and I've arranged a little treat for you. 787 00:58:25,820 --> 00:58:29,950 How would you like to ride fire alongside me in a starfury? 788 00:58:30,190 --> 00:58:32,590 You're serious? - Always. 789 00:58:32,830 --> 00:58:35,730 Unfortunately, we don't have a EVA suit that'll fit you... 790 00:58:35,830 --> 00:58:38,830 but I'm not wearing one, since we're not going into combat. 791 00:58:38,930 --> 00:58:41,770 It'll just be a little drive around the block. 792 00:58:41,870 --> 00:58:44,940 Do you have a problem with that? - No, no, please. 793 00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:47,370 To do even this would be... 794 00:58:48,140 --> 00:58:51,470 You see, they keep me so controlled. 795 00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:53,880 There's so little chance for... 796 00:58:55,780 --> 00:58:57,480 Fun? 797 00:58:57,580 --> 00:58:59,580 You must understand. 798 00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:05,560 Where I am from, no one does anything except for to get something in exchange. 799 00:59:05,730 --> 00:59:10,140 I know all about how to use people, to exploit and manipulate... 800 00:59:10,230 --> 00:59:14,260 but very little about real kindness. 801 00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:18,000 Thank you. 802 00:59:20,270 --> 00:59:23,340 I assume you're up-to-date on how to pilot one of these things. 803 00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:25,470 I could fly it in my sleep. 804 00:59:25,650 --> 00:59:28,510 Well, you wouldn't be the first. 805 00:59:43,630 --> 00:59:46,290 Pull back on your thrusters. 806 00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,530 Maintain your XYZ axis. 807 00:59:53,610 --> 00:59:55,840 Now, ease off. 808 00:59:57,780 --> 01:00:01,210 How does she feel? - Magnificent. 809 01:00:01,410 --> 01:00:05,050 So this is what it's like to ride a ship into battle. 810 01:00:05,190 --> 01:00:08,970 Minus the part where they're shooting at you. 811 01:00:09,860 --> 01:00:12,480 We'll increase our speed slowly... 812 01:00:13,460 --> 01:00:15,950 to 5000 kph. 813 01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:18,100 Slow but steady. 814 01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:20,200 Right. 815 01:00:25,070 --> 01:00:27,070 You have done your homework. 816 01:00:27,210 --> 01:00:29,710 You handle that fighter like you've done it before. 817 01:00:29,810 --> 01:00:31,840 I have. 818 01:00:32,450 --> 01:00:34,450 In a dream. 819 01:00:36,350 --> 01:00:40,490 For the last seven days, I have seen myself in this very ship... 820 01:00:40,590 --> 01:00:42,850 in front of a great fleet. 821 01:00:43,590 --> 01:00:47,080 Dreams are very powerful to my people, you know. 822 01:00:47,730 --> 01:00:51,390 Mm. They carry some weight with mine as well. 823 01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:54,850 In the past, I have had similar dreams. 824 01:00:55,070 --> 01:00:57,370 Commanding a fleet against our enemies... 825 01:00:57,470 --> 01:01:02,200 raining fire from the skies, whole cities burning. 826 01:01:04,340 --> 01:01:08,280 A dream, nothing more. 827 01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:12,750 But this dream was prophetic... 828 01:01:12,990 --> 01:01:17,510 for I have seen myself in this very ship just last night. 829 01:01:19,030 --> 01:01:21,030 I get in... 830 01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:25,700 I ride before you in triumph, and then... 831 01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:31,600 What happens? What? 832 01:01:32,940 --> 01:01:37,000 Something wonderful. 833 01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:39,640 That's all I remember. 834 01:01:45,290 --> 01:01:47,910 Computer, cut outgoing transmissions. 835 01:01:48,090 --> 01:01:50,520 Shutting down transmissions. 836 01:01:50,620 --> 01:01:52,230 Assess weapons system. 837 01:01:52,330 --> 01:01:55,410 Four Omega-grade torpedoes online. 838 01:01:55,460 --> 01:01:59,830 System confirms pulse cannons at full power, ready to be armed. 839 01:02:00,030 --> 01:02:03,470 Countdown velocity on approach. 840 01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:06,940 Four thousand five hundred kilometers per hour. 841 01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:08,710 Four-K-six. 842 01:02:08,810 --> 01:02:12,770 Detecting power surge in primary weapons control system. 843 01:02:12,950 --> 01:02:16,970 Should I take weapons off-line? - Negative. 844 01:02:17,150 --> 01:02:20,280 Keep weapons online. 845 01:02:20,450 --> 01:02:24,320 Confirmed. Four-K-seven. 846 01:02:25,060 --> 01:02:27,080 It was an accident. 847 01:02:29,300 --> 01:02:30,860 I tell you, it was an accident. 848 01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:33,930 I didn't know the weapons system was live. 849 01:02:34,770 --> 01:02:37,030 I didn't know. 850 01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:39,870 Four-K-eight. 851 01:02:40,070 --> 01:02:43,040 I'm sure my presence here must be an inconvenience for you... 852 01:02:43,140 --> 01:02:48,460 but it will be nice to sleep without a knife beside my bed for a change... 853 01:02:48,580 --> 01:02:53,210 to know that I am safe here with you. 854 01:02:55,990 --> 01:02:59,550 You must understand, where I am from... 855 01:02:59,730 --> 01:03:04,300 nobody does anything for any reason other than to get something in exchange. 856 01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:09,040 I know all about how to use people, to exploit them and manipulate... 857 01:03:09,140 --> 01:03:14,100 but very little about real kindness. 858 01:03:22,820 --> 01:03:27,220 What I just saw, was that what is going to happen... 859 01:03:27,550 --> 01:03:29,710 or what may happen? 860 01:03:30,420 --> 01:03:34,590 There are ways to prevent this. - Ways. 861 01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:36,760 He said ' ways.' 862 01:03:36,930 --> 01:03:39,400 Four-K-nine. 863 01:03:49,410 --> 01:03:51,410 Reduce speed. 864 01:03:57,650 --> 01:04:02,290 You have fired your forward thrusters. Are you all right? 865 01:04:02,390 --> 01:04:04,120 I'm fine. 866 01:04:04,220 --> 01:04:06,220 Fine. 867 01:04:06,290 --> 01:04:09,730 Just wanted to slow down a bit, enjoy the trip. 868 01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,300 And besides, I'm not a kid anymore. 869 01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:16,930 I don't need to be hot-dogging around the galaxy. 870 01:04:19,770 --> 01:04:21,770 Do you mind if I...? 871 01:04:21,910 --> 01:04:23,970 By all means. 872 01:04:24,610 --> 01:04:26,610 Indulge yourself. 873 01:04:53,510 --> 01:04:56,730 That was amazing. We must do it again. 874 01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:59,210 I haven't had that much fun since... 875 01:04:59,310 --> 01:05:02,680 Since I don't even remember. - Yeah, well, I'm glad you enjoyed it. 876 01:05:04,620 --> 01:05:06,740 Are you all right? 877 01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:08,920 You seem rather thoughtful. 878 01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:12,560 I was just thinking about what you said. 879 01:05:12,660 --> 01:05:16,720 About having to leave Centauri Prime to avoid being killed. 880 01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,530 You've had a very difficult life. 881 01:05:20,730 --> 01:05:22,830 One that can harden a person. 882 01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:26,070 Make them into something even they wouldn't like. 883 01:05:26,170 --> 01:05:30,370 Your point being, you do not desire or appreciate my company. 884 01:05:30,610 --> 01:05:32,250 Is that it? 885 01:05:32,350 --> 01:05:34,350 Not exactly. 886 01:05:37,050 --> 01:05:41,150 When we're finished with this party, I'm inviting you to come back to Minbar. 887 01:05:41,250 --> 01:05:44,520 You can stay at the Royal Palace with Delenn and myself. 888 01:05:44,620 --> 01:05:46,560 I just checked in with her on the way... 889 01:05:46,660 --> 01:05:49,530 and, well, she said she thought it was a great idea. 890 01:05:49,630 --> 01:05:52,370 I guarantee you, you'll be safe from your enemies there. 891 01:05:52,470 --> 01:05:54,700 Why? - Why not? 892 01:05:54,900 --> 01:05:59,170 I mean, there's plenty of room. We have a son, David. 893 01:05:59,340 --> 01:06:01,340 He's 9. 894 01:06:01,510 --> 01:06:04,180 He could use an older brother to learn from. 895 01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:07,500 Or at least someone who could be that for him. 896 01:06:07,780 --> 01:06:13,340 You would have me come to live with your family on Minbar? 897 01:06:14,690 --> 01:06:16,690 That pretty much covers it, yeah. 898 01:06:16,790 --> 01:06:18,220 If I were a cynic... 899 01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:21,230 I might believe you were doing this for your own reasons. 900 01:06:21,330 --> 01:06:25,110 To try and gain a foothold in the Centauri Royal Court. 901 01:06:25,900 --> 01:06:27,990 I'd think the same thing. 902 01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:32,830 You're not going to try to convince me otherwise? 903 01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:35,910 I'll let life do that for me. 904 01:06:37,710 --> 01:06:40,200 Trust doesn't come overnight. 905 01:06:41,010 --> 01:06:43,950 I'll teach you, if you'll let me. 906 01:06:45,950 --> 01:06:48,050 President Sheridan... 907 01:06:48,620 --> 01:06:50,420 welcome to Babylon 5. 908 01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:53,110 Colonel, it is good to see you again. 909 01:06:53,830 --> 01:06:58,020 So after all this time, this by you is a hello? 910 01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:02,400 Come here. 911 01:07:05,970 --> 01:07:08,570 You look great. - You too. 912 01:07:09,410 --> 01:07:13,510 Colonel Lochley, Prince Regent Vintari of the Centauri Republic. 913 01:07:13,610 --> 01:07:15,610 An honor. - Thank you. 914 01:07:16,650 --> 01:07:19,850 So everyone's waiting for you. You ready to go over to the party? 915 01:07:19,950 --> 01:07:21,950 Absolutely. 916 01:07:22,090 --> 01:07:24,390 But, um... 917 01:07:24,990 --> 01:07:27,690 Why don't you go ahead? I'll be right there. 918 01:07:27,790 --> 01:07:31,420 I just want to, you know, savor the moment. 919 01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:33,600 Of course. 920 01:07:34,270 --> 01:07:36,270 Please. 921 01:07:42,310 --> 01:07:45,570 You violated our agreement. 922 01:07:49,950 --> 01:07:51,780 Yes, I did. 923 01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:53,320 Why? 924 01:07:53,420 --> 01:07:57,010 You said there were ways to avoid that future. 925 01:07:57,190 --> 01:07:59,190 Ways, plural. 926 01:07:59,960 --> 01:08:02,790 They are harder. This was simpler. 927 01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:06,760 But just as valid. - Possibly, but we can't be sure. 928 01:08:06,930 --> 01:08:10,460 Only with his death can we be sure. 929 01:08:10,940 --> 01:08:14,430 Then I will take my chances. 930 01:08:15,310 --> 01:08:18,210 Delenn and I will show him another way of looking at things. 931 01:08:18,310 --> 01:08:21,840 Maybe we can help him, change him... 932 01:08:22,010 --> 01:08:25,090 and avoid that future that you showed me. 933 01:08:25,220 --> 01:08:27,220 And if you can't? 934 01:08:29,160 --> 01:08:31,650 Then I'll take care of it. 935 01:08:32,220 --> 01:08:36,790 When and if I decide there's no other way. 936 01:08:37,660 --> 01:08:44,030 One other thing, Vintari said that he had a dream that he was in that starfury... 937 01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:48,540 and that something wonderful was going to happen. 938 01:08:49,480 --> 01:08:51,650 That was your work, wasn't it? 939 01:08:52,010 --> 01:08:54,010 I get around. 940 01:08:55,380 --> 01:08:57,850 Because, see, I was thinking. 941 01:08:57,950 --> 01:08:59,950 Maybe... 942 01:09:00,650 --> 01:09:05,650 Maybe you wanted me to kill him all along, just like you say. 943 01:09:05,830 --> 01:09:11,260 And maybe you were hoping that things would turn out the way they did... 944 01:09:11,460 --> 01:09:13,960 and I'd take him under my wing. 945 01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:19,560 And maybe you boxed me in precisely so I'd make this decision. 946 01:09:19,770 --> 01:09:24,040 And that was the something wonderful that he saw in his dream. 947 01:09:25,480 --> 01:09:27,480 What do you say to that? 948 01:09:27,610 --> 01:09:29,670 I say... 949 01:09:30,420 --> 01:09:36,220 that we are surrounded on all sides by mysteries, President Sheridan. 950 01:09:36,390 --> 01:09:41,880 And mysteries, once solved, are never quite as interesting... 951 01:09:42,260 --> 01:09:43,930 are they? 952 01:09:46,630 --> 01:09:49,640 Good evening, everyone, and welcome. 953 01:09:49,740 --> 01:09:52,810 We are honored to have President Sheridan with us tonight. 954 01:09:52,910 --> 01:09:56,130 He will be up here shortly to say a few words. 955 01:09:56,210 --> 01:09:58,310 And among our other distinguished guests... 956 01:09:58,410 --> 01:10:01,480 we are fortunate enough to have Prince Vintari joining us. 957 01:10:01,580 --> 01:10:03,580 Well... 958 01:10:04,550 --> 01:10:06,950 here we go again. 959 01:10:10,420 --> 01:10:12,580 Ten years. 960 01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:15,920 Ten years since the world changed. 961 01:10:16,100 --> 01:10:19,000 Ten years since I changed. 962 01:10:19,170 --> 01:10:22,460 But it feels like I never left the place. 963 01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:27,730 Babylon 5 is a place of beginnings and endings. 964 01:10:28,570 --> 01:10:31,410 I wonder which this will be.