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  4. President Santiago has decided to visit Babylon 5, ostensibly in order
  5. to present a new fighter wing to the station (though some people
  6. believe his real purpose is to drum up popular support for his new
  7. alien trade and immigration policies, which have met with opposition
  8. in the Senate).
  9. [INLINE] The Presidential cruiser.
  10. Ivanova and Garibaldi are en route to the president's arrival site on
  11. B5, and they are discussing the president's arrival. Ivanova tells
  12. Garibaldi that the president and his staff have not informed B5
  13. command of their travel plans because the president feels it's safe if
  14. nobody is aware of these plans till the last minute (though Garibaldi
  15. jokes that, if B5 is unaware of the president's plans, the president's
  16. staff can blame B5 if anything goes wrong). Garibaldi feels that the
  17. president's visit is simply a waste of time and money; Ivanova
  18. responds that at least they're getting a new fighter wing out of the
  19. visit. Garibaldi is not grateful--he explains that B5 should have had
  20. those fighters a long time ago. Ivanova shares in the cynicism--now,
  21. B5 will have to renovate bays that haven't been maintained for years,
  22. using untrained crews rushed for time--and all of this at B5's
  23. expense. When Garibaldi claims he's no longer surprised by anything
  24. the government does (he's come to expect it), Ivanova compliments him
  25. on his very "Russian" outlook.
  26. Suddenly, there is an explosion in the bay. Garibaldi and Ivanova are
  27. almost injured, and Sinclair, from the observation dome, sees a body
  28. in a spacesuit fly away from the station.
  29. Down in the Med Lab, Franklin has diagnosed the person who flew out of
  30. the station--he flew out of the bay before the pressurization doors
  31. were activated. When Sinclair asks if the patient can say anything,
  32. Franklin replies that any procedure that could be used to rouse the
  33. patient would kill him. Garibaldi, meanwhile, has finished his
  34. evaluation of the damage ("You can put what's left of [the bay] in a
  35. shot glass," he tells Sinclair). Garibaldi still doesn't know what the
  36. cause of the explosion was, but he feels it was probably caused by
  37. negligence or fatigue on the part of the overworked crew. Sinclair
  38. asks about the possibility of sabotage, and though Garibaldi claims he
  39. never rules that possibility out, he feels that the inexperience and
  40. possible exhaustion of the crew was "inviting an accident."
  41. Ivanova reports that Major Lianna Kemmer, an official on the
  42. president's security staff, has arrived. Kemmer requests an immediate
  43. briefing on the explosion. Garibaldi, when he hears Lianna's name,
  44. becomes lost in thought--he explains to Sinclair that he knew Lianna
  45. seventeen years ago (her father was his friend). "She's a real sweet
  46. kid," comments Garibaldi.
  47. [INLINE] Lianna Kemmer.
  48. The meeting between Garibaldi and Lianna is somewhat cold, however.
  49. Lianna largely ignores Garibaldi and introduces herself to Sinclair.
  50. Sinclair comments that Garibaldi will brief her on the situation, but
  51. she requests that her own team handle the investigation. Sinclair is
  52. reluctant, but because Lianna, as chief of presidential security, has
  53. the legal authority to take over the investigation ("with or without
  54. your permission," she comments. "I would much rather my report
  55. reflected full cooperation on your part). Sinclair hesitantly agrees
  56. (after Garibaldi bitterly tells him to let Lianna take over the
  57. investigation), and Garibaldi moves away bruskly, commenting that he
  58. has "better things to do."
  59. Sinclair follows Garibaldi out and asks what the problem is between
  60. Garibaldi and Lianna. Garibaldi is hesitant to answer, but Sinclair
  61. feels that if their relationship affects B5, Sinclair has a right to
  62. know. Abruptly, Ambassador G'Kar interrupts them--he has a problem
  63. with the seating arrangements for the president's banquet ("The entire
  64. Narn delegation has been seated next to the Vree," says G'Kar. "An
  65. intolerable situation! Have you ever seen them eat? That's horror for
  66. you.... This is a deliberate slap in the face to the entire Narn
  67. Regime.")
  68. Meanwhile, Garibaldi, who had walked away slightly after G'Kar
  69. interrupted his conversation with Sinclair, has caught a thief trying
  70. to steal something. He begins angrily yelling at the thief (whom he
  71. has caught several times before in the past month), and when he treats
  72. the thief somewhat violently, a fight erupts between the two. Sinclair
  73. interrupts G'Kar in order to break up the fight.
  74. [INLINE] Garibaldi accosts the thief.
  75. Later, Sinclair and Garibaldi are eating together, and Sinclair asks
  76. Garibaldi what is wrong. Garibaldi finally comments that seventeen
  77. years ago, he was working as a security officer on Europa ("a real
  78. cesspool," he claims). "Ever try and uphold the law when nobody cares?
  79. After a few weeks, I started drinking hard just to get through the
  80. night." Eventually, Garibaldi met Frank Kemmer, Lianna's father.
  81. Kemmer was a shuttle pilot--"a real decent guy." Garibaldi explains
  82. that when his job got tough, he spent some time with Kemmer and his
  83. family--this is when he first met Lianna, who used to call him "Uncle
  84. Mike." "With all the madness, [staying with Kemmer] kept me sane and
  85. sober for a while," Garibaldi explains. However, as Garibaldi was
  86. beginning to have a certain amount of success upholding the law, he
  87. ended up making a few enemies. Garibaldi knew that some people were
  88. trying to kill him, but he also felt that he could handle it.
  89. Unfortunately, his enemies worked indirectly: they exploded one of
  90. Kemmer's shuttles, thereby killing Kemmer. They blamed the explosion
  91. on Garibaldi's negligence. Since the government didn't want a scandal,
  92. they kept the situation quiet and "blackballed" Garibaldi throughout
  93. the system. "But none of that was as bad as telling Frank's family
  94. what had happened. Lianna didn't even cry; she just died inside... I
  95. crawled back into the bottle, and didn't come out again for a long,
  96. long time." Suddenly, Dr. Franklin calls Sinclair into the Med Lab.
  97. At the Med Lab, Lianna and her staff have violated Franklin's wishes
  98. and are trying to rouse the explosion victim in order to try to get
  99. information from him. When Sinclair arrives, the victim has already
  100. been roused, and he claims that the explosion was no accident--it was
  101. caused by a bomb. Sinclair orders Kemmer to leave the patient
  102. alone--for Franklin feels that any procedure to rouse the patient will
  103. kill him--but Lianna refuses. Just as the victim dies, he names the
  104. person who planted the bomb: "It was Garibaldi."
  105. Major Kemmer has called a hearing in response to the allegation
  106. against Garibaldi. Garibaldi, however, cannot believe that Kemmer and
  107. the rest of the president's staff are placing so much importance in
  108. the accusations of a dying man. Garibaldi claims that the victim "had
  109. it in for me" -- that is, he resented Garibaldi because Garibaldi had
  110. arrested him a few months ago for "trashing an alien shop." Further,
  111. Garibaldi argues that the initial damage reports showed no trace of a
  112. bomb, but Kemmer contends that the explosion may have destroyed any
  113. traces of it. Lieutenant Cutter, a member of Kemmer's staff, adds that
  114. perhaps no bomb was found because Garibaldi didn't *want* to find one.
  115. This accusation angers Garibaldi, but Kemmer doesn't seem to care--she
  116. asks Sinclair to suspend Garibaldi from duty because of Garibaldi's
  117. possible criminal involvement. Though Sinclair doesn't want to suspend
  118. Garibaldi, Kemmer -- as head of presidential security -- effectively
  119. *orders* Sinclair to carry out the suspension. Sinclair, who has
  120. little choice but to submit to Kemmer's legal authority, is forced to
  121. remove Garibaldi from active duty. Major Kemmer, now that Garibaldi
  122. has been removed from duty, temporarily assumes the position of B5
  123. security chief.
  124. Garibaldi, upon returning to his quarters, is confronted by a security
  125. officer who refuses to allow Garibaldi entry. Major Kemmer and
  126. Lieutenant Cutter arrive, and Garibaldi pleads with Kemmer to allow
  127. him to speak with her. When he moves to grab Kemmer in order to speak
  128. with her, however, the security guard roughly forces him to withdraw
  129. his grasp. Kemmer orders Cutter to leave and see what the scanning
  130. team has discovered concerning the explosion in the bay; she then
  131. dismisses the other security guard so that she and Garibaldi can be
  132. alone.
  133. Once they are alone, Garibaldi explains to Lianna that he "loved Frank
  134. like he was my own brother." Lianna angrily tells him that Frank died
  135. because Garibaldi was concerned only with protecting himself, but
  136. Garibaldi denies this. He admits that he "made a mistake," but he
  137. claims that he would never have let Frank die to save himself. When he
  138. pleads with her and asks her to believe him, she replies that it's too
  139. late for Garibaldi to ask to be trusted: "I might [believe you], if
  140. you had told me then, but you just got drunk and ran, like you always
  141. do," she says. Cutter has meanwhile returned, and he informs Kemmer
  142. that the explosion was indeed caused by a bomb, for the burns of the
  143. victim (the one who originally implicated Garibaldi) showed traces of
  144. certain explosives. Cutter also informs Kemmer that schematics of the
  145. bay, as well as substantial amounts of Centauri currency, has been
  146. found in Garibaldi's quarters. Garibaldi again tries to reason with
  147. Kemmer: "Come on, Lianna, this is a frame. If I were guilty, why would
  148. I leave the evidence in my own quarters?" he asks.
  149. "Maybe you just made another mistake, just like you did seventeen
  150. years ago," replies Kemmer, who orders Cutter to take Garibaldi into
  151. custody. Garibaldi, however, who is angered by the whole situation,
  152. runs away and attempts to escape Cutter. Kemmer orders her security
  153. officers after Garibaldi and posts a stationwide security alert for
  154. Garibaldi.
  155. [INLINE] Garibaldi makes his escape.
  156. On the observation dome, Ivanova and Sinclair are surprised to see an
  157. alert against Garibaldi. Sinclair orders Ivanova to cancel the alert,
  158. but Kemmer--who has just arrived at the observation dome--tells
  159. Sinclair that he can't cancel the alert because there is now hard
  160. evidence that Garibaldi is a saboteur. Sinclair responds angrily to
  161. Kemmer and tells her that "Garibaldi is many things but he's no
  162. saboteur"; further, Sinclair tells Kemmer that he is quite annoyed
  163. with her personal vendetta against Garibaldi. Sinclair again orders
  164. Ivanova to cancel the alert, and Ivanova gladly complies with the
  165. order. Kemmer responds that if Sinclair keeps "obstructing" her, she
  166. will have no choice but to invoke presidential authority; however,
  167. Sinclair tells Kemmer that he's tired of "presidential authority"
  168. excuse. "This is my station, and it's time you realized that," says
  169. Sinclair. Sinclair proceeds to order Ivanova to escort Kemmer off the
  170. observation dome. Ivanova gladly complies with this order as well
  171. ("You are going to resist, I hope," she tells Kemmer). After Kemmer
  172. leaves, Ivanova warns Sinclair that Kemmer will probably contact Earth
  173. Central; Sinclair says he's aware of that, but at least the delay will
  174. buy him enough time to find Garibaldi before Kemmer's staff does.
  175. Ivanova suddenly has an idea: she smugly orders the B5 staff to begin
  176. a "Level 6 maintenance check" on all off-station communication
  177. channels--a move which will tie up the communication channels for
  178. hours.
  179. Garibaldi has discreetly moved down to the Zocalo, where he seeks out
  180. Londo. He tells Londo that he is looking for information about the
  181. explosion in the bay. He explains that someone tried to frame him by
  182. planting substantial amounts of currency in his quarters; he then
  183. explains that the currency was Centauri. Londo picks up the
  184. implication, and stares with feigned disbelief at Garibaldi; "Oh, Mr.
  185. Garibaldi, do you really think that I would do such a thing to you, my
  186. good and dear friend?"
  187. "In a minute," responds Garibaldi.
  188. "You're right," answers Londo, "but I didn't, though I may have an
  189. idea who did...."
  190. [INLINE] "Don't turn around."
  191. Meanwhile, Kemmer angrily contacts Ivanova and asks why all
  192. communications channels are offline. Ivanova replies that a
  193. communications check is being conducted, for they don't want the
  194. president to be "out of touch" when he arrives at B5. Kemmer demands
  195. that Ivanova open a channel, but Ivanova brushes her off ("I'm a
  196. lieutenant commander in Earth Force, major. I do not take 'demands.'
  197. If you have a request, I'll consider it," Ivanova says. When Kemmer
  198. 'requests' that Ivanova open a channel to Earthdome, Ivanova simply
  199. denies her request.).
  200. Kemmer comments to Cutter that Ivanova and Sinclair are "doing
  201. everything they can to protect Garibaldi," but Cutter isn't
  202. surprised--their files show that Ivanova and Sinclair are Garibaldi's
  203. only real friends, aside from Londo Mollari. Kemmer sends Cutter to
  204. question Londo; she sends another officer to return to their ship and
  205. open a communication channel with Earth Force One (President
  206. Santiago's ship)--specifically, with General Netter on Earth Force
  207. One. Kemmer explains that Earth Force One should be close enough to
  208. pick up the signal from Kemmer's ship, which is docked at B5.
  209. Londo, meanwhile, has explained to Garibaldi why he feels that G'Kar
  210. is the one who's trying to frame Garibaldi. Londo says that during the
  211. Narn occupation of Ragesh 3, some important scientific material was
  212. "lost," but the Narns claimed they could find it again--for the right
  213. price. Thus, G'Kar could possibly have had access to large amounts of
  214. Centauri currency, which he could have planted in Garibaldi's
  215. quarters. Garibaldi says that he wants to visit G'Kar. Without his
  216. usual security clearance, however, Garibaldi knows that he might have
  217. a hard time gaining access to the ambassadorial wing, where G'Kar's
  218. quarters are located. Garibaldi therefore asks Londo for a loan;
  219. Garibaldi claims that, with enough money, he can gain access to the
  220. ambassadorial wing. Londo appreciates the irony in the situation--he
  221. has switched roles with Garibaldi for the time being--but he
  222. eventually extends a fairly generous loan to his "good, dear friend."
  223. Londo explains that he sees certain parallels between himself and
  224. Garibaldi (Londo feels that, like Londo himself, Garibaldi is
  225. sometimes "the odd man out"); it therefore gives him a certain comfort
  226. to be able to help Garibaldi in a time of need (however, the more
  227. practical side of Londo claims that the Centauri goddess of luck, with
  228. whom Londo has had a "long and rather dubious relationship," has been
  229. smiling on him lately--he can therefore afford the loan). "If they
  230. catch you," warns Londo, "I will deny ever seeing you. Good luck!"
  231. Garibaldi successfully gains access to the ambassadorial wing; when he
  232. arrives at G'Kar's quarters, he's surprised to find that G'Kar has
  233. been expecting him ("... you've been talking to Mollari. It was
  234. inevitable he would send you to me.... My people watch him; his people
  235. watch me; we all watch one another here, Mr. Garibaldi.") G'Kar also
  236. explains that the security monitors are "malfunctioning" at the
  237. moment, so Garibaldi need not worry about the security officers
  238. finding him here (especially since G'Kar took the liberty of telling a
  239. security guard that he had seen Garibaldi on the next level). G'Kar
  240. says that he's sure Londo blamed Garibaldi's present situation on the
  241. Narns; however, he denies any part in the incident (though he admits
  242. he doesn't think it's a bad idea). G'Kar offers Garibaldi a chance to
  243. escape B5; G'Kar says that Garibaldi's talents and services could be
  244. useful on Narn. Once on Narn, if Garibaldi were to ever become
  245. "homesick," G'Kar says he's sure the Narns could arrange for Garibaldi
  246. to return--as a genetically altered spy. Garibaldi immediately
  247. declines G'Kar's offer, however; he refuses to even think about
  248. betraying Earth. G'Kar advises Garibaldi to stop seeing things in
  249. "such absolute terms" ("The universe is run by the complex
  250. interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened
  251. self-interest. Unless you comprehend that fact--and soon--you will be
  252. cornered and caged," warns G'Kar), but Garibaldi still refuses G'Kar's
  253. offer. G'Kar makes one last plea: "Without your position, this station
  254. is not safe for you. You have made many enemies."
  255. "Call it a lifestyle," replies Garibaldi, as he leaves.
  256. From the observation dome, meanwhile, Ivanova is giving instructions
  257. to the new fighter wing, which has just arrived.
  258. Down in the alien sector, Garibaldi is trying to purchase a high-level
  259. security card from N'grath, but N'grath refuses because Garibaldi is
  260. "still police," even though he's a fugitive. N'grath abruptly forces
  261. Garibaldi to leave, and when Garibaldi is thrown outside N'grath's
  262. doors, he is almost caught by some of Kemmer's guards.
  263. [INLINE] Garibaldi and n'grath.
  264. He narrowly escapes and eventually returns to the human sector of B5,
  265. only to be attacked by a group of angry aliens. Just when it appears
  266. that Garibaldi has no hope left, Sinclair (who has been monitoring
  267. security reports concerning Garibaldi's whereabouts) suddenly finds
  268. him and helps to fight off the aliens. Sinclair suggests that
  269. Garibaldi go to Med Lab, but Garibaldi refuses to go anywhere before
  270. he figures out who framed him. Ivanova contacts Sinclair and tells him
  271. that he has a Gold Channel message from General Netter; meanwhile,
  272. when Sinclair turned his head to speak with Ivanova through his comm
  273. link, Garibaldi ran off. By the time Sinclair turns around again,
  274. Garibaldi is gone.
  275. General Netter's message has come through, and Netter orders Sinclair
  276. and his staff to fully cooperate with Kemmar. After Netter ends
  277. communication, Sinclair explains to Kemmer that he wants to find
  278. Garibaldi as much as she does--"the only difference is," says
  279. Sinclair, "I haven't already judged him.... But the fact is, Garibaldi
  280. is as loyal as you are, and if you weren't so twisted up inside about
  281. what happened to your father you'd realize that. It's not justice
  282. you're after, major, it's blood." Just then, Cutter contacts Kemmer
  283. and says that the guards have sighted Garibaldi and have discovered
  284. that Garibaldi has been paying for things with Centauri currency.
  285. Kemmer believes that the currency found in Garibaldi's quarters was
  286. only part of the payoff; she orders the guards to move in on
  287. Garibaldi. After Kemmer leaves, Sinclair contacts the security guard
  288. who had been stationed outside Garibaldi's quarters when Garibaldi
  289. first found that his quarters were being guarded.
  290. Garibaldi, meanwhile, has entered a club. He sits down and suddenly
  291. notices that a security guard has moved into the same club. He borrows
  292. an alien's hat and tries to avoid notice--and he succeeds, at least
  293. for the moment. The guard leaves, and when Garibaldi gives the alien
  294. back his hat, the alien replies, "Don't want hat? Take bottle.... I go
  295. casino." As the alien gets up, he pushes a bottle of some alcoholic
  296. drink toward Garibaldi. Garibaldi fights with himself for a long
  297. moment--will he give up the sobriety that he has worked toward for so
  298. long? The past few hours have been excruciatingly difficult for
  299. Garibaldi--how appealing the drink must seem--how easy it is to simply
  300. forget about all of his problems.
  301. [INLINE] Temptation.
  302. At last, Garibaldi decides to drink -- and he drinks heavily. Quite
  303. soon, he's experiencing quite a hangover--despite his trouble standing
  304. up, he is sharing jokes with the aliens, and, in general, parading
  305. around the room making a fool of himself. ("You got a real nice place
  306. here! Great ambiance, terrific decor, friendly people. Yeah, this
  307. place should be on all the chartered tours--'see and experience the
  308. real Babylon 5.' Hell, in a couple month, I could see a few of you
  309. people topside," he mumbles, as he stumbles out the door).
  310. Meanwhile, one of the people in the restaurant has notified the
  311. security guards of Garibaldi's whereabouts, and when Garibaldi wanders
  312. out of the restaurant, Kemmer, Cutter, and their guards are waiting
  313. for him. "Drunk again, Uncle Mike?" asks Lianna. The confused
  314. Garibaldi remembers how the young Lianna, seventeen years ago, often
  315. said the same thing. Kemmer's guards take Garibaldi into custody;
  316. Cutter, meanwhile, comments that the new fighter wing are getting
  317. ready to be launched, and he feels he should check the bays one more
  318. time.
  319. Lianna is questioning Garibaldi; she's trying to get him to confess.
  320. At one point, she confronts him and asks, "You never change, do you,
  321. Michael?" He replies that he thought he had--until she showed up.
  322. Garibaldi tries to reason with her again. He asks her if she really
  323. wants to destroy his life, just as she feels he destroyed hers years
  324. ago. "If I could have gone in Frank's place, I would have," says
  325. Garibaldi. "I didn't know, Lianna. I didn't know."
  326. Just then, the security officer whom Sinclair contacted earlier
  327. arrives at the room where Garibaldi is being interrogated. He explains
  328. that Sinclair ordered him to search the explosion victim's
  329. quarters--and when he carried out that search, he found a detonator
  330. and a few Homeguard pamphlets (the security officer also explains how
  331. there had been some trouble with the Homeguard a while ago, and he
  332. mentions that Garibaldi cleared it up). Garibaldi says that security
  333. had suspected the victim of being a Homeguard member for a long
  334. time--but they never could prove it. Garibaldi says that he feels that
  335. the victim was killed by a bomb that the victim planted in the
  336. bay--but the victim was unaware of the use of a plasma driver in the
  337. bay. Such a plasma unit would have created enough vibration to trigger
  338. the bomb prematurely. When Lianna asks about a possible motive,
  339. Garibaldi explains that the president was planning to announce new
  340. alien trade and immigration policies -- policies that the Homeguard
  341. would strongly oppose.
  342. Cutter calls in and informs Kemmer that the president is about to
  343. arrive for the fighter wing presentation ceremony. Kemmer orders
  344. Cutter to make sure the bays are secure.
  345. Kemmer admits that she'd like to believe Garibaldi, but she still sees
  346. no explanation for how the Centauri currency and the bay schematics
  347. got into Garibaldi's quarters. She explains that nobody knew that the
  348. victim had named Garibaldi except her, Garibaldi, Franklin, and
  349. Sinclair.
  350. "And Cutter," remembers Garibaldi. "He was there just when the
  351. evidence against me was found." Lianna is skeptical, however; she
  352. claims that Cutter is one of their best agents. Garibaldi just
  353. comments that perhaps the Homeguard was counting on that--though the
  354. first bomb didn't work, Cutter can finish the job, so to speak. He
  355. advises Kemmer to check the bays herself--just to be sure.
  356. As Earth Force One approaches the B5 docking bay, Kemmer and Garibaldi
  357. walk down to the bay themselves. Kemmer tells Cutter that she wants to
  358. scan the bay herself; however, as she moves to do so, Cutter knocks
  359. her out with the weapon he is carrying. He points a gun at Garibaldi,
  360. but when he bends down to recover the weapon that he used against
  361. Kemmer, Garibaldi kicks the gun out of his hand. A struggle ensues,
  362. but Garibaldi gains the upper hand long enough to grab hold of a comm
  363. link and warn Ivanova to abort the docking procedure.
  364. Later, in the Med Lab, Franklin tells Garibaldi that he'll be all
  365. right (though Garibaldi feels like he "just made love to a meteor
  366. shower")--and so will Lianna. Sinclair tells Garibaldi that explosives
  367. were found on the bay doors--if the doors had opened, the new fighter
  368. wing, as well as half of the station, would have been lost. Sinclair
  369. also ran a check on Cutter and found that someone on Earth deposited a
  370. large sum of money in Cutter's account an hour after the explosion
  371. victim named Garibaldi. Cutter then withdrew it on B5 in Centauri
  372. currency, which he planted in Garibaldi's quarters. Sinclair
  373. congratulates Garibaldi on his actions, and places Garibaldi back on
  374. active duty, but Garibaldi feels that he lost a personal battle: "I
  375. blew it, Jeff ... just like I always do. When things get too rough, I
  376. crawl right back into the damn bottle. What really scares me is how
  377. much I enjoyed it." Sinclair still feels that Garibaldi shouldn't be
  378. upset with himself--he crawled back out of the bottle and saved the
  379. station. Garibaldi, however, feels that he just got lucky--this time;
  380. what will happen next time, he asks? Sinclair says he hopes there
  381. won't be a "next time," but if there is, he wants Garibaldi to promise
  382. not to try to fight the battle alone. "You're more trouble than a
  383. toilet full of snakes," says Sinclair, "but I couldn't run this
  384. station without you."
  385. President Santiago successfully completed his address and reception.
  386. In his address, he called for alien governments to work more closely
  387. with earth--"a position certain to cause much controversy in the weeks
  388. to come," according to a news broadcast.
  389. Garibaldi finds Lianna just as she's about to leave. Lianna thanks
  390. Garibaldi for his favorable report of the situation; Garibaldi
  391. replies, "I figured if you could nab me on my own turf, you might just
  392. have a career in this game." Lianna admits that she messed up--she
  393. apologizes for what she put Garibaldi through (and she says that
  394. Sinclair was right--she was out for blood, not justice), but he tells
  395. her there's no need to apologize. He explains that people are not
  396. machines, and when they're angry, they lash out. "Seventeen years
  397. ago," he says, "we both died inside. But somehow, we survived. For
  398. better or worse, that's all we can do--survive. And, maybe one day,
  399. forget how much it can hurt to be human."
  400. As she leaves, Lianna tells Garibaldi that President Santiago is "fond
  401. of Babylon 5." Garibaldi half-humorously tells her to make sure to
  402. keep the president safe, for B5 needs all the allies it can get. They
  403. hug, and Lianna leaves quietly. Garibaldi stares after her, afraid
  404. that he really hasn't changed at all in seventeen years. If it's so
  405. easy to crawl back into the bottle, how can he ever be sure that he
  406. won't do it again?
  407. Shawn Bayern _bayern@cshl.org_
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  415. [15]Last update: January 18, 1996
  416. References
  417. 1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
  418. 2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
  419. 3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/011.html
  420. 4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/011.shtml
  421. 5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/011.html
  422. 6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/episodes.php
  423. 7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/010.html
  424. 8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/012.html
  425. 9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
  426. 10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/011.html#TOP
  427. 11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
  428. 12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/episodes.php
  429. 13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/010.html
  430. 14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/012.html
  431. 15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html