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- Overview
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- While G'Kar and Garibaldi are trapped in the core of Babylon 5,
- Captain Sheridan races to save them and stop a Narn assassination
- at the same time.
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- Issue 10 (November 1995)
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- Setting: Between [7]"The Geometry of Shadows" and [8]"A Distant Star"
- Writer: David Gerrold
- Penciller: Rebecca Guay
- Inker: Rick Bryant
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- Synopsis
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- Sheridan breathes a sigh of relief as he barely makes it onto the
- shuttle. He accuses Greegil of trying to kill him; Greegil denies it.
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- The cleaning robot chases Garibaldi and G'Kar through the station
- axis. As they somehow propel themselves forward, the robot grabs
- Garibaldi's boot and pulls it off, slowing down to process it. G'Kar
- suggests that Garibaldi feed it more; Garibaldi volunteers G'Kar's
- boots. G'Kar refuses and suggests they play another game of
- laser-mirror-starweb to decide whose boot will be next. G'Kar cheats.
- Garibaldi tosses a boot to the robot and grabs G'Kar, demanding to
- know what's going on. G'Kar reveals that he received a message telling
- him an assassin by the name of Greegil D'Farkin was coming to Babylon
- 5 to kill him.
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- Sheridan manages to stabilize the shuttle, but its diagnostics show
- "massive decalibration in the external transfibulator phase
- controllers" as well as damage to the oxygen recyclers. Sheridan dons
- a suit to go out and fix the transfibulator antennas, and advises
- Greegil not to waste their air complaining about the situation.
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- Garibaldi and G'Kar continue to flee the robot. G'Kar notes that he
- promised his clan he would die honorably; Garibaldi says he intends to
- die in bed, on his 92nd birthday, in the arms of a beautiful redhead,
- shot by her jealous husband. G'Kar is puzzled; Garibaldi would be
- doing the husband a great service. As the robot nears, they play
- another laser-mirror-starweb game. This time, Garibaldi cheats more
- outrageously than G'Kar does, and G'Kar tosses a boot to the robot.
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- Sheridan fixes the problem and finds that Greegil has locked him
- outside in space. He reminds Greegil that he has the code key to
- operate the ship, and uses that to bargain for information: why G'Kar
- fled. Greegil says his job is to stop G'Kar from sabotaging Babylon 5.
- Abruptly, Sheridan is back inside the ship. He proposes using
- electrolysis to produce oxygen from the ship's water supply.
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- G'Kar and Garibaldi float away from the robot in their undershorts;
- it's still gaining. Garibaldi spots a maintenance hatch and pops it
- open; the two of them leave the inside of the axis tube and hang by
- handrails high above the Garden while the robot passes. Garibaldi
- doesn't let G'Kar back inside until he has the truth about Greegil:
- he's chasing G'Kar because of a woman, Greegil's wife, in fact. G'Kar
- refused to have sex with her to seal an alliance between two clans,
- even though it was his obligation as a high-ranking clansman; that was
- a grave insult to Greegil, who vowed revenge.
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- Sheridan's shuttle returns to Babylon 5; Sheridan places Greegil under
- arrest. Ivanova reports that G'Kar and Garibaldi are still missing.
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- Garibaldi somehow displays a message on the outside of the axis tube,
- indicating their location to the security staff and Sheridan. When the
- two of them emerge from the tube, Sheridan, Greegil, and a security
- team are waiting. Garibaldi arrests G'Kar for kidnapping him.
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- In a security station, G'Kar, Greegil, Garibaldi, and Sheridan argue
- about whether Greegil should be allowed to kill G'Kar. Greegil even
- presents a license, signed by the council of clans. Sheridan dismisses
- it as invalid on his station. Greegil pulls out a laser pistol.
- Garibaldi and G'Kar duck behind a nearby mirrored table, reflecting
- the laser beam. Sheridan calls out for a starweb, which one of the
- security staff gladly fires at Greegil.
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- G'Kar and Garibaldi walk away together. G'Kar explains that sleeping
- with Greegil's wife would have shifted the balance of power among the
- five clans... "And besides, she wasn't attractive enough to justify a
- war."
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- Elsewhere, Sheridan admits to Ivanova that they can't really press
- charges against G'Kar... but keeping him busy with lawyers for a while
- will be punishment enough.
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- Backplot
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- Take with a grain of salt; inconsistencies with the series abound in
- this story, and none of it should probably be considered canon.
- * Narn aristocrats consider education beneath them, something for
- servants.
- * There are five main Narn clans; G'Kar belongs to one of them.
- * Narn alliances are sealed with sexual liaisons.
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- Unanswered Questions
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- Analysis
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- Notes
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- jms speaks
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- * I wasn't terribly pleased with the artwork on 9 and 10, I thought
- it could've been much better. As for the story, David Gerrold had
- proposed (and written) that as an outline for an episode; I said I
- didn't think it worked for our show. Which opened the door for DC
- to pick it up, and since he felt so strongly that it *did* work, I
- figured I'd let him proceed.
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