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(Ivanova) Commander's personal log.

The war to liberate Earth and her colonies continue.

[laser gunshots]

(Ivanova) We have more Earth ships on our side than ever before.

But the battles are becoming more desperate

the closer we get to home.

[explosion]

Near-proximity hit.

Ten percent damage to the hull.

Auto-repair systems are moving as fast as they can to keep up.

Status?

The Hydra and the Delphi

are out of commission and withdrawing.

The rest are moving in for a counterstrike against us.

Dammit, they're outnumbered.

Their jump engines are down.

They can't beat us, they can't escape.

Why don't they surrender?

[explosion]

(Ivanova) This is the hardest part of all.

Fighting our own.

[explosion]

(Ivanova) Franklin and Lyta should be on Mars by now

along with their cargo.

Our resources are stretched to the limit.

Everything's riding on what happens in the next few weeks.

This is endgame.

We'll be okay as long as nothing goes wrong.

- You took care of it? - Yeah.

Yeah, it's done.

Captain Sheridan's father is in custody.

He's being shipped to a temporary staging area on Mars

so we can keep an eye on him.

I'll contact Sheridan as soon as

everything is in place.

Are you sure he'll come?

Yeah, he'll come.

Good. Good.

Let me know when he's in custody.

Yeah, alright.

Mr. Garibaldi.

I know this is hard for you

but, uh, it really is for his own good.

It's for everyone's good.

Once he's out of the picture

President Clark will lower his guard.

Then we can deal with him and the Psi Corps.

In the final analysis

once he's better, Sheridan may even thank you.

Somehow I doubt it.

Well, we'll have to see.

Still, once this is done, I can tell you the rest.

The truth.

The whole, absolute truth is only a few days away.

How many people can say that?

I don't know.

But I think the last guy got 30 pieces of silver

for the same job.

[instrumental music]

(Lennier) It was the year of fire.

(Zack) The year of destruction.

(G'Kar) The year we took back what was ours.

(Lyta) It was the year of rebirth.

(Vir) The year of great sadness.

(Marcus) The year of pain.

(Delenn) And the year of joy.

(Londo) It was a new age.

(Franklin) It was the end of history.

(Ivanova) It was the year everything changed.

(Garibaldi) The year is 2261.

(Sheridan) The place Babylon 5.

[theme music]

[music continues]

[explosion]

White Star 20 is hit.

- How bad? - Minimal.

They're withdrawing until the auto-repair systems can cut in.

No, I just don't understand.

They have to know they can't win.

Why don't they surrender?

They can't wanna die.

Not for Clark.

This is John Sheridan to Earth Fleet.

I say again, you are ordered to stand down

and surrender your vessels.

We have no desire to destroy your ships

but if you continue to fight

we'll have no choice.

(Leo) 'What difference does it make?'

'We're dead anyway!'

It's the Cadmus. Captain Leo Frank.

What are you talking about?

(Leo) 'What do you think I'm talkin' about?'

'We've been briefed on your campaign, Sheridan.'

As soon as our forces surrender

our crews are taken out, executed

and then replaced by Minbari crews.

Is that what you've been told?

It is, and I believe it.

(Mackie) 'Then you're even dumber than you were at the academy.'

Who's that? Mackie?

Mackie, is that you?

- 'Alive and well.' - 'But we heard you--'

Yeah, I know what you heard, and it's a load of crap.

I'm alive. Every member of my crew is still here.

I don't care what you've heard about Sheridan.

You know me, Leo.

Everything I tell you is on the up and up.

Stand down. You won't be harmed.

(Marcus) 'Nothing yet.'

Come on. Don't be stupid.

Picking up a signal.

'They're standing down.'

Sheridan to attack fleet.

They've given the surrender order.

Cease fire. I repeat, cease fire.

- Tell the others-- - 'Just a minute!'

There's a jump point opening.

(James) 'Agamemnon to Sheridan.'

'Agamemnon to Sheridan.'

That's my old ship.

Sheridan to Agamemnon.

Tell me you're not here for a fight.

(James) 'Negative, captain.'

'We've been chasing you for days, but you're too fast.'

We couldn't catch you.

We're looking to join up, if you don't mind.

Mind? Hell, you've just made my whole day.

Stand by. I'm comin' aboard.

Is that a good idea?

They're my crew.

I trained them myself

including her captain.

I trust them implicitly.

You have the helm, Marcus.

Ah, Stephen, good to see you.

- Good to see you too. - You got here fast.

Yeah, well, with so many ships called away to fight our forces

we were able to slip through.

This is Lyta Alexander. She's a telepath.

Lyta, this is Number One.

Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.

You came through here a couple of years ago.

You didn't say anything about being a telepath.

I couldn't. I was on the run from the Psi Corps.

You should've told us.

And, you, are you out of your mind?

What the hell are you doing bringing a teep down here

when we are ready to move?

Are you trying to compromise my security?

Look, it's okay.

No, it's not okay.

I didn't know about her, but you did.

You should've warned me.

You can trust her.

Alright, I'd put my life in her hands.

Fine. That's your choice.

But when it's my life, I'd like to have a thing or two

to say about it, if it's all the same to both of you.

Alright, alright. I'm sorry.

If it's a problem, I can go topside.

I'll find a place to stay un-until you need me.

No. It's okay.

Now, she needs to stay here with the rest of us.

We may need her at a moment's notice.

What for?

Our cargo.

What cargo?

That cargo.

Hold it.

- More telepaths? - Yep.

- How many? - A lot.

Mister, you've got one hell of a lot of explaining to do.

(female #1) 'Captain's on deck.'

As you were.

The place hasn't changed.

Well, not perceptibly, sir.

We have updated the DX-419 tracking system.

It's about time.

Of course, the main reason for the update

was to make it easier to find you, sir.

Well, at least some good has come out of this.

That thing never worked right from the first day we got it.

- How's the crew? - Good. Good.

Lieutenant Chase is out on pregnancy leave.

Miller is back Earthside

recuperating from injuries he sustained in a firefight

against raiders off of Io a couple of months ago

and the rest of the crew

has been busy following your adventures, sir.

Ever since you made it known that Clark was responsible

for Santiago's assassination.

To tell you the truth, captain

some of us thought maybe you were out of control.

We just kept hearing these stories.

I understand.

And then came Nightwatch

and the illegal orders to take out civilian targets

so we knew who was telling the truth.

The crew trusts you, captain.

They believe that you're a pain in the ass, sir

but they trust you.

So we voted to join up with you as soon as we could.

Well, I can't tell you what it means to have you aboard.

Makes me think we might actually win this one.

Well, you haven't lost one yet, sir.

Oh, I've lost a few.

Just made damn sure nobody heard about it.

We've got a signal coming in for you, sir.

Alright, put it through to my..

Main console.

Marcus, what's up?

We're receiving a transmission from Mr. Garibaldi.

He needs to speak with you. Says it's important.

Alright. Put him through.

Mr. Garibaldi.

What is it?

Captain, I just thought you should know.

Okay, look, we're not exactly on the best terms right now

but they've got your dad, John.

They traced him through his medication

and picked him up at a safe house two days ago

just outside of Chicago.

Is he alright?

It's hard to get good information, but I think so.

Now they're gonna use him to get to you.

If you don't surrender, they're gonna kill him.

'Now, look, we've got a couple of days'

'before they can move on this'

and we should be able to break him out.

And I've got some people who can help

but they want a meeting.

They know your rep

but thanks to Clark's police state

they're afraid of being set up.

So it's gotta be just you and me.

Nobody else.

Come on, John, if we're gonna do this, we got to move fast.

I need an answer. I need it now.

Captain, I don't think you should..

If it were your father what would you do?

Alright.

I'll need to verify this through my people.

'But if it's true..'

'...you tell 'em I'll be there..'

...alone.

[instrumental music]

Captain, I strongly object.

- Your objection is noted. - 'I mean it, John.'

(Ivanova) 'And I don't like the way this thing sounds'

'I don't like the way it looks, I don't like anything about it.'

- 'It stinks of a setup.' - Look, Susan.

Michael and I have had our problems lately

but he has never given me reason to think he meant me harm.

Well, maybe so, but what if his information is wrong?

(Sheridan) It's not.

I just got word from my contacts on Earth.

They got my dad two days ago, just like Michael said.

(Ivanova) 'Well, at least let me send Marcus with you.'

Marcus needs to be here as your liaison

with the rest of the fleet while I am gone.

Now, I will listen to what Garibaldi has to say

and if there's any way we can make this work

we'll find it.

Wh-what do you mean, my liaison?

I want you to take my place during my absence.

You take White Star 40 and get here as fast as you can.

- But shouldn't Delenn? - 'No, she's not back yet.'

(Sheridan) 'We need to keep this a clean fight.'

That means human commanding officers only.

Last time an assault fleet came to Earth

it was under Minbari command.

We don't want the folks back home thinkin'

the Minbari war is happening all over again.

- It has to be one of us. - Alright.

I guess you have to try and get him back.

I have to.

If I don't

I'll regret it the rest of my life.

Take care, Susan.

'I'll see you soon.'

Are you sure you want to go along with this?

We've got the current access codes.

We can get in and out of the area

surrounding the colony without setting off

the early warning system.

Alright.

As soon as we make the jump from hyperspace

I'll take down one of your thunderbolts

land just outside the colony.

If everything goes right, I'll be in and out in a few hours.

You'll have the best fighter we've got.

Stand by to change course.

(male #1) 'Standing by.'

(James) 'Transfer navigation to beacon 1-1-9-1-7-6.'

(male #1) 'Aye, sir.'

[indistinct chatter]

Maybe I should just go.

No, no. It's alright.

Says you.

What?

You really don't know?

Well, I'll bet she does.

Well, in that case, you only have to let me know

what the hell is goin' on.

She can do it.

Someone's dumped several dozen cryonic freezers on me

and I have to find room for them.

I have no time for this.

[sighs]

She's talking about the new bloodhound units.

The telepaths assigned to the military divisions

occupying Mars.

Anyone suspected of being in the resistance is scanned.

They're very deep scans.

The trouble with deep scans is they can cause

heart attacks, seizures, strokes..

There's been several deaths.

She's right to be upset.

Well, how did you find out about this?

Once I got taken off the rogue list, I began to hear things.

But we always keep it inside the Corps.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

"Always?" This has happened before?

Lyta.

When I interned with the Psi Corps..

...there were a number of murders.

Someone was killing commercial telepaths.

And the mundanes didn't care.

For them, it was just one less teep to worry about.

So the Psi Corps took care of it.

What'd you do?

What we had to.

We scanned anyone who might've had a lead.

No warrant, no permission

and no trace.

Just gaps in their memory

missing hours, headaches.

Did you find him?

- Did you, uh.. - No.

That would have been too quick.

And we couldn't go to the police because we didn't wanna

explain how we found him.

Somewhere on Beta Colony there is..

...an institution.

In one room of that institution there is a man..

...who spends his days and nights screaming at..

...things only he can see.

Things we planted in his mind.

They have to keep him in a straitjacket 24 hours a day

or he'd claw his own eyes out

just to make it stop.

My God.

When it was over, I-I transferred to commercial work.

I wanted out.

The Corps took me in when I was just a few years old.

They taught me what a telepath was.

What we could do.

And all that time I'd never been afraid of who we were.

Until that day.

When we did what we had to do because no one else would.

Someday there's gonna be a war

between telepaths and mundanes, Stephen.

I just hope I don't live to see it.

Maybe, uh..

Maybe after the captain takes care of President Clark

we're gonna work on this, okay?

We're gonna, we're gonna build some bridges

a-and then find a more positive way of dealing with the Corps.

You're going to have a long wait.

We just received a coded message from Babylon 5.

It's about Sheridan.

I hope he told you what to do with those frozen telepaths

'cause it looks like you're on your own for a while.

Delenn. Lennier. I'm glad to see you.

I was just about to leave.

It's good to be back, commander.

- Is there a problem? - I'm afraid so.

President Clark's people have found John's father.

They're holding him captive.

Mr. Garibaldi thinks he can help.

The captain's en route right now.

He wants me to take over the fleet in his absence.

I was hoping you can keep an eye on things

around here until I get back.

Of course.

We'll do everything we can.

- Goodbye. - Thank you.

Do you think the captain's alright?

He knows what he's doing. He'll be fine.

Assuming Mr. Garibaldi can still be trusted.

[indistinct chatter]

♪ I only want ♪

♪ Only want ♪

♪ But cannot have ♪

♪ Will not have ♪

Hello, Michael.

Captain, I was starting to think

you weren't gonna make it here.

Have you heard anything else about my father?

Well, just that he's being held at a facility here on Mars.

He's not being heavily guarded right now

'cause Clark hasn't announced that he's been captured yet.

So we need to move before that happens?

Yeah.

Alright.

And what do you want me to do?

You've already done it.

It's a trank. Don't fight it.

Just give it up, or they're gonna hurt you!

[grunts]

♪ Will only want ♪

♪ But cannot have ♪

♪ Will not have ♪

♪ When I fly ♪

♪ In my mind ♪

♪ I get away ♪

[grunts]

♪ I wake the wind ♪

♪ Fly away ♪

♪ I only want ♪

♪ To fall to the wind ♪

(male #2) 'I may not be there..'

[instrumental music]

[music continues]

I got here as soon as I could.

(Marcus) 'Susan..'

What's going on?

You all look like a Pak'Ma'Ra just ate your cat.

We picked this up off the ISN feed

just as you were coming out of hyperspace.

We interrupt our regular programming

for this important announcement.

[groans]

The leader of the renegade fleet

'that has been attempting to destabilize Earth for months'

'has finally been located and detained.'

[groans]

[groaning]

Captain John Sheridan, formerly of Earthforce

was captured earlier today by forces loyal to President Clark

and is now being held in a secure facility.

Unlike many of his victims

he is being given proper care and treatment

'until a hearing can be convened.'

[grunts]

[groans]

John!

Something's happened.

Wade just brought me a message from President Clark.

He's ecstatic over Sheridan's capture.

Sends his thanks and his compliments.

He seems to think the whole resistance movement

will fall apart now.

He's wrong.

Possibly.

But it'll take them a while to regroup

and that'll give us the time we need to get everything in place.

And what's that?

You said you'd tell me the rest of it when I proved

my loyalty when Sheridan was in custody.

Well, I held up my end of the bargain. Now I want the truth!

Fair enough.

Wade.

We're engaged in a very dangerous game, Mr. Garibaldi.

In this game

you have to pick your target very carefully

because you only have one shot.

And this is much, much bigger than you suspect.

(William) President Clark isn't the real problem.

He's trivial.

In one way or another he'll be gone in a few years.

But the telepaths he put in power, the Psi Corps

those will be with us forever.

That's the real danger.

If information is power

then telepaths represent the greatest threat

to freedom we've ever seen.

We have to deal with that

or face the very real possibility

of our own extinction.

The danger before us is nothing less

than the death of human liberty and human thought.

Do you recognize this?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's the package I helped Wade smuggle

past customs on Babylon 5.

Lise said it was a cure for telepaths

against some kind of genetic mutation.

Lise. A very good woman.

She believes me when I tell her these things

but, uh, lately..

...I couldn't tell her the truth because I knew

that the Psi Corps were after this.

They don't know what's going on

but they do know enough to be worried.

And that's the reason why you didn't come yourself

and why you had me fire Lyta.

Any telepath is a potential risk to my work.

If they knew for certain what was going on

I'd be dead in five minutes.

This vial does contain a cure, Mr. Garibaldi.

It took my people three years to develop it.

Almost as long as it took us to develop the virus itself.

This virus is encoded to embed itself in the gene

that activates a telepath's abilities.

It's airborne, 100 percent contagious

and utterly harmless to normals.

Only telepaths are susceptible.

Once infected, they have to receive

injections of the antidote every two weeks.

If they miss even one injection..

They die.

And your people and the government control the antidote.

It's insurance against the day

when they try to do to us what we've done to them.

Turn us into second-class citizens.

If they try it we simply withhold the antidote.

And the net result is you create a slave race to serve..

...or die.

(Wade) It's the tyranny of evolution.

Sooner or later, you have a species

that will have a genetic or technological advantage

and that species will always conquer

species without that advantage.

Carthage, the triumph of the Homo-sapiens

over the Neanderthal showed us that.

Now what do we have?

We have Homo-superior versus Homo-sapien.

On a level playing field

Homo-superior wins every time.

Unless we cheat.

I turned this company into

one of the biggest medical research facilities in existence

because I wanted to help people, not harm them.

But I won't stand by and let telepaths

turn into a ruling class!

So, first we remove that danger.

Then we'll deal with President Clark.

Telepaths are his power base.

Neutralize them, and you take away

the instrument of terror he's used..

...to suppress and intimidate others.

Does any of this

pose a problem for you, Mr. Garibaldi?

No. No, it doesn't.

I think what you're doing is right.

Telepaths have an unfair advantage.

I think it's right that we make

an advantage of our own in return.

Exactly.

I am very tired.

It's been a long day.

But we made a good beginning.

With Sheridan out of the way

Clark will relax and..

...I expect we can start moving the virus out in a few days.

Three weeks after that, according to our projections

of the infection rate..

...the telepath prob..

The telepath problem..

...will finally be over.

Now that you know, you'll have to stay on the compound

until the virus starts moving out.

I'm sure you can understand the danger.

[instrumental music]

Michael.

I heard what Bill told you.

I-I can't go back there, not now.

'You gotta help me stop him.'

What he's doing, I understand

why he's doing it, but it's wrong.

I've felt that something was going on for a while

but I had no idea.

(Lise) 'Michael?'

'Michael, are you listening to me?'

'You've gotta do something.'

You have to leave here.

- But I-- - Now!

But what am I going to do?

Go home.

[door closes]

Hello, Mr. Garibaldi.

I received your signal.

Now, tell me what you know.

All of it.

This virus is encoded to embed itself

in the gene that activates a telepath's abilities.

It's airborne, 100 percent contagious

and utterly harmless to normals.

Once infected, they have to receive injections

of the antidote every two weeks.

If they miss even one injection..

They die.

Well..

Thank you. Not that you had much choice.

I knew there were forces out there with plans

for my telepaths but this..

I had no idea.

The sheer scope of it.

Well, we'll stop it now, of course.

In our own way.

(Bester) 'I can feel you, you know.'

'The real you.'

Beating at the inside of your skull

screaming to get out

to know what's going on.

For a long time, I've been debating

what to do when this day came.

Do I let you know what happened to you

or do I leave you like this..

(Bester) '...trapped in a prison of meat and flesh and bone..'

'...forever?'

I've decided to be magnanimous, Mr. Garibaldi.

Not that you'll appreciate it.

Because you have prevented a new holocaust..

...the enslavement and murder of several million telepaths.

Though I doubt very much you'll appreciate that, either.

Go back, Mr. Garibaldi.

Go back..

And remember.

Movin' into position. Everybody hang tight.

(Bester) The Shadows had come to Babylon 5

and Sheridan had gone to Z'Ha'Dum.

So why don't you just kill me?

It doesn't work.

Somebody'd just come around and replace you.

(Bester) They knew there were three people who could replace him

Delenn, Ivanova and you.

Given your checkered background..

...they thought you would be the easiest

to turn to their side.

What the hell?

(Bester) Once Sheridan was dead

Ivanova and Delenn would be eliminated.

They left the station intact

on the theory that it could be used for their purposes.

And you, they took back with them

to...adjust you.

By this time I knew they had infiltrated the Corps.

So when they pulled in some of my people

to help in your adjustment

I was able to intervene.

Not so much on your behalf as my own.

This virus that kills only telepaths..

...I'd bet good money it's Shadow technology.

They probably got it to him through third parties

helped his people work out the details.

We both know that telepaths were a threat to the Shadows

one they wouldn't mind eliminating.

It's ingenious, really.

They played Clark's drive for power on one side

and Edgar's fear of telepaths on the other

leaving us in the middle.

Controlled or dead.

But let's get back to you.

(Bester) I arranged to have you rerouted

to our research facility here on Mars.

Then we got to work.

Alright, I want a complete neural workup.

I wanna know all the soft points where we can go in

without disturbing the neural landscape.

We can't leave any fingerprints.

He may have to pass a telepathic scan.

You don't want us to do a full reprogram on him?

Unnecessary.

By nature, Mr. Garibaldi is rebellious

stubborn, and suspicious.

He has an innate distrust of authority figures.

'And he's very good at figuring out when a conspiracy'

is taking place and tracking it back to its source.

We need that part of him.

So I don't wanna risk tampering with it.

We don't have to reprogram him

just accentuate his natural instincts.

More rebellious, more stubborn, more suspicious

of his fellow officers.

Then all we have to do is nudge him

in the right direction from time to time

and let nature run its course.

(Bester) After we finished, we had to make sure

that you didn't remember anything we had done to you.

That was the hard part.

We were, shall we say, less than gentle.

I said I don't remember anything! Nothing!

(Bester) Once we felt it was safe

we put enough information out there

to let your people find you.

After that, all we could do was wait

and hope for the best.

It worked even better than I could have imagined.

You resigned your position, something I hadn't expected.

But it put you in the perfect position to be recruited

by William Edgars

and it isolated you from the people who cared about you

and might try to help you.

I've decided to resign as head of security

effective immediately.

(Bester) From time to time, we updated

your conditioning continued to point you

where we needed you to go.

Until, in the end, the old Garibaldi was gone

and the new one worked only for us.

You would do anything to find what we wanted you to find

even sell out Sheridan.

Your final orders were to report back

when you had all the information we needed.

So, now the question becomes

'what do I do with you now that I have no further use for you?'

I could kill you, I suppose.

In some ways, it might be a mercy.

By now your friends know that you betrayed Sheridan.

So, as the saying goes

you can't go home again.

And your current employer

is not gonna be around much longer.

Or..

I could leave you just like this..

...forever.

Whatever you think of me, Mr. Garibaldi

I'm not capricious or cruel.

I used you because I had no other choice.

I have what I want.

My interest in you is over.

[tone chimes]

We'll be docking in a moment.

I've just sent the all-clear signal telepathically.

After I'm gone, you'll be able to move again.

You'll remember it all.

You'll be yourself again.

You can try to tell the others what happened..

...but under the circumstances

I doubt very much anyone will believe you.

Be seeing you, Mr. Garibaldi.

[instrumental music]

No!

Did you get through? Is it true?

They've got the captain, alright.

It was a setup..

And Garibaldi was behind the whole thing.

(Marcus) 'I just heard he's tried to contact Babylon 5.'

You tell Corwin to refuse his signals.

There's nothing that he has to say to me right now

that I have the slightest interest in hearing.

And you tell them that if he turns up on the station

I want that son-of-a-bitch shot on sight.

- Susan. - I mean it.

What's our status?

The other ships want to know what we're going to do now.

We finish what we started.

If Clark thinks this is gonna slow us down

he's in for a very big surprise.

The captain once told me

"The person is expendable, the job is not."

We keep going.

(Garibaldi) 'Lise! Lise!'

[panting]

Lise?

Lise!

'Lise?'

[groaning]

Wade.

Wade.

Wade, what happened?

Five of them.

Hit us outta nowhere.

They knew.

Where's Lise?

'Where?'

I don't know. She wasn't here.

She was gone when they got here.

She..

Wade?

[panting]

Oh, dammit.

(Alison) 'This is Alison Higgins with an update'

on our earlier stories.

President Clark declared today

a day of celebration and rest

noting that the capture of renegade Earthforce captain

John Sheridan signals that

the war of aggression against Earth is unraveling.

Sheridan continues to be well-fed and well-treated.

Now that he has been freed of alien influences

he has reportedly indicated feelings of remorse and regret

for his actions against his own Homeworld.

We hope to have more on this soon.

In other news, William Edgars

founder of Edgars Industries

one of earth's ten largest medical research corporations

was found dead this morning along with

at least one of his staff.

Two personal bodyguards outside the estate were also killed.

Preliminary reports from investigators on the scene

indicate that the resistance may have been responsible

for the attack as they continue their assault against business

and political targets.

Nothing is known yet concerning

the whereabouts of his wife, Lise Edgars.

Finally, ISN sources within Earthdome

have indicated that Captain Sheridan

may have been turned in by his own former head of security

Chief Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi.

If this is true, we at ISN

want to convey our personal thanks and gratitude

to a true hero of the people.

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