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- Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
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- Ivanova requests a favor from Delenn. She wants to borrow a White Star
- ship to go in search of First Ones like the ones found at Sigma 957
- ([9]"Voices of Authority") who might assist them in their desperate
- mission next week against Z'ha'dum.
-
- Vir and Londo hear a party in the throne room. Draped in chains and
- garbed in a punishing jester's costume which is thrusting spikes into
- his head and body, G'Kar silently suffers the merry abuse of
- Cartagia's courtiers.
-
- Ivanova and Marcus are having no success in their search, which is no
- wonder considering that they are relying on wild stories that
- travelers have told of godlike beings or ancient civilizations. So
- far, they all lead only to dead ends.
-
- Zack has located the transport which is supposed to have found
- Garibaldi's Starfury, and he takes a wing out to investigate.
-
- Alone with Londo in the imperial pleasure gardens, Vir finally erupts
- in outrage against G'Kar's humiliation and agony and Londo's seeming
- unconcern. Once again Londo counsels biding their time. The entire
- business of plotting against the Emperor is too disturbing for poor
- Vir. That is, until the Emperor chances upon them, waving bloody hands
- and complaining strenuously at G'Kar's refusal to scream under
- torture. Without a bit more action, Cartagia regrets that he will just
- have to kill the Narn. It's really no fun any other way. After
- Cartagia departs, Vir decides regicide isn't so objectionable after
- all.
-
- Delenn pays a visit to Lyta Alexander. There is nothing in the
- telepath's quarters but a mattress and the standard communications
- console. A bit embarrassed, Lyta explains that the new Vorlon
- ambassador has required her to remove everything else because they are
- distractions, and since he can force her to obey, she has. Delenn
- wants Lyta to find out why the Vorlons are not assisting in the
- mission against Z'ha'dum. Lyta replies that the Vorlons appear to have
- plans of their own and they don't seem to be interested in what
- happens to others any more. Although terrified of the ambassador, Lyta
- vows to try to help Delenn.
-
- Zack and his team find the transport they are looking for and order it
- to surrender. When it maintains radio silence they fire to disable it.
- It ejects a life pod and explodes. Inside the pod is Garibaldi, meshed
- down to a table, unconscious, and wearing a week-old beard. A computer
- voice says, "Activating program," and Garibaldi awakens for a moment.
- Zack rushes him to the station, where Dr. Franklin is disappointed
- that Zack can't tell him anything about who was holding Garibaldi; but
- the prognosis is good and Garibaldi is expected to recover.
-
- The Vorlon streams out of Lyta to her great discomfort. She angrily
- shouts that she deserves some respect for her sacrifices to the
- Vorlons, and some answers. "Respect? From whom?" the Ambassador
- replies. As she dejectedly turns to go she decides to chance it and
- mentally probes the Vorlon. He slaps her across the room with a blast
- of energy. Then, leaning forward, he says chillingly, "You would know
- my thoughts? Would you?" The disk on the head of his suit dilates and
- her screams begin.
-
- "A little scream. Is that so much to ask for?" Londo begs. If G'Kar
- will just put aside his pride and give the emperor the reaction he
- craves, he can live to fulfill his bargain with Mollari. G'Kar
- refuses, arguing that he would no longer be a Narn if he gave in, and
- that of course Londo can't possibly understand.
-
- "Yes I do," Londo retorts savagely, as he leaves G'Kar's cell. "Yes I
- do!"
-
- Ivanova broods in the captains chair. With a couple of hours to kill,
- Marcus asks her about her plans if they live through this war. She
- wants to return home, travel some, pay her respects to her dead
- father, but there's no one special waiting. Marcus has someone
- special, he says, but she doesn't know it yet. He's never actually had
- relations with a woman, it turns out.
-
- "I thought First Ones were rare," Ivanova mutters.
-
- Just then, the ship's controls pick up some odd signals which appear
- to indicate a pocket in hyperspace hidden by a distortion field. They
- switch course to investigate. As they enter the pocket, they can see
- from the forward windows a vast fleet including some absolutely
- enormous ships. The smaller vessels shooting around the edges reveal
- that this is a Vorlon fleet on the move.
-
- Garibaldi comes to in Medlab. He tells Zack that he's having bad
- dreams, but doesn't elaborate on the visions of Shadow ships and
- incarceration that are hounding him. He seems surprised that two weeks
- have passed since Sheridan left for Z'ha'dum, but not very surprised
- that Sheridan died there.
-
- An enormous bird-shaped ship travels though hyperspace on an unknown
- trajectory.
-
- Delenn thanks the Brakiri ambassador for bringing information
- regarding what the other races are planning. Those who oppose the
- decision to attack Z'ha'dum intend to hold a rally in the Zocalo to
- gather support for stopping the assault. Delenn insists that the
- Shadows will attack in any case so it's better to strike now when they
- are weak. As he departs, the Ambassador asks if she knows anything
- about the large vessel that seems to be approaching Babylon 5. She
- does not.
-
- Vir and Londo are roused in the middle of the night and led by a
- taciturn guard to a secret alcove. Vir is terrified. And well he
- should be, for they are guests in Cartagia's personal torture chamber.
- They are not the entertainment however... G'Kar is. The Emperor has
- decreed that there and now, G'Kar will either cry out under the stroke
- of the electro-whip, or die on the 40th beat. G'Kar suffers mightily,
- as Londo surreptitiously mouths "scream" at him. At the 39th stroke,
- the Narn finally gives a mighty wail and sinks to the floor.
-
- Jumping into B5 space, Ivanova orders an immediate meeting with Lyta
- Alexander and a thorough scan of sector 70x10x53.
-
- Lennier sees an unusual level of activity in the Zocalo and notifies
- Delenn.
-
- The huge birdlike ship exits the jump gate and initiates docking
- procedures without the station's approval. Ivanova orders a security
- red alert. Garibaldi struggles off his bed to go investigate.
-
- From a catwalk above the Zocolo, the Drazi leader begins to stir up
- the crowd with anti-Minbari rhetoric.
-
- Zack isn't happy to see the Chief out of Medlab but can't stop to send
- him back. Security forces square off against the personnel transport
- as it approaches the floor of the docking bay. Two forms are visible
- inside. But when the door opens, all Garibaldi can say is, "Well, I'll
- be damned."
-
- The crowd in the Zocalo begins to grow more rowdy as the Drazi
- continues. He claims that they will all be destroyed if anyone attacks
- Z'ha'dum, just as Sheridan was. To the astonishment of them all, the
- dead man himself steps up onto their platform.
-
- "Captain. We're sorry. We thought you were dead."
-
- "I was. I'm better now," Sheridan says ironically, sharing a look with
- Lorien standing in the shadows.
-
- The Captain begins to address the crowd. No more hesitation. They must
- now assemble the greatest fleet in the history of the galaxy. The only
- man to have survived Z'ha'dum calls on them and their governments to
- end this war once and forever, not just until next time. The crowd
- cheers their support.
-
- Delenn rushes to his side, and as they embrace, John promises never to
- leave her again.
-
- Ivanova finds Lyta collapsed in her quarters. "You know, don't you,"
- Lyta says. "It's started."
-
- The war council gathers in Sheridan's office for a briefing. He
- explains what he has learned about the Vorlon and Shadow objectives,
- and how the balance between them has been lost. "Something, Mr.
- Garibaldi?" Sheridan snaps at the Chief who is glaring at Lorien
- suspiciously.
-
- "I just want to know who our new best friend is," Garibaldi growls. He
- isn't satisfied with just a name, or Sheridan's assurances, or the
- rest of the secrecy surrounding the Captain's return.
-
- Ivanova and Marcus enter with Lyta. The joy of reunion is quickly
- overshadowed by the report of the vast Vorlon fleet followed by the
- telepath's news. To everyone's horror it appears that that fleet has
- just destroyed an inhabited planet because it had harbored a Shadow
- force. The Vorlons have decided that it's time to destroy everything
- that has been touched by the Shadows. Now the Army of Light must stop
- both the Shadows and the Vorlons if anyone hopes to survive this
- struggle.
-
- Meanwhile, the Vorlon planet-killer ship cruises towards its next
- target.
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