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- Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
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- As Sheridan's forces approach Earth, the fighting grows more fierce.
- Outgunned and unable to flee, Clark's remaining ships still refuse to
- surrender.
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- Meanwhile, Dr. Franklin and Lyta find themselves on Mars again with
- their disturbing cargo.
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- Garibaldi matter of factly informs Edgars that John Sheridan's trap
- has been baited with his father. Pleased, Edgars again promises
- Garibaldi the elusive reward of the whole truth. "I think the last guy
- got thirty pieces of silver for the same job," Garibaldi remarks with
- distaste as he leaves.
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- Sheridan orders the opposing vessels to stand down again. One captain
- finally breaks silence saying that Sheridan is only going to execute
- them if they surrender. Sheridan's new ally Macdougan convinces the
- young captain that its safe to stand down just as a new ship jumps
- into the melee. To Sheridan's relief it's his old ship, the Agamemnon,
- come to join his fleet.
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- Number One is livid to discover that Franklin has brought a teep into
- her facility without even thinking of consulting her. The dozens of
- frozen telepaths he brings are equally unwelcome.
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- Sheridan and the Agamemnon's crew share a fond reunion when he goes on
- board. He's still there when Garibaldi's transmission catches up with
- him. Garibaldi explains that Clark's people have captured Sheridan's
- dad, and says he has a rescue plan which requires Sheridan's presence.
- Against everyone's advice Sheridan decides to go to Mars alone, and
- the Agamemnon agrees to transport him there.
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- The hostility towards Lyta is not limited to Number One. Franklin is
- baffled, until Lyta explains the Bloodhound program. Anyone suspected
- of being in the Resistance is simply picked up and scanned. No due
- process. Quietly Lyta begins to explain the other things Psi Cops have
- done. One serial killer of telepaths now lives in an institution,
- screaming all the time at the "things [we] planted in his mind." When
- that happened she left Psi Cops for Commercial work, but from then she
- became afraid of what telepaths could do. "Someday there's going to be
- a war between telepaths and mundanes, Stephen," she predicts direly.
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- Ivanova leaves the station to take command of the fleet in Sheridan's
- absence, and Delenn agrees to keep watch over B5 until she returns.
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- John pilots a fighter down to the surface of Mars. Garibaldi is
- waiting in a smoky bar. As soon as the Captain sits, Garibaldi slaps a
- tranquilizer patch on his hand. Furiously Sheridan stands and attempts
- to escape, but like a lion brought down by jackals, the men who have
- come for him are too many and too strong. Garibaldi just sits in his
- place and watches impassively as his former friend and CO gets beaten
- to a pulp.
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- ISN's gloating begins immediately. Ivanova and Marcus watch in stunned
- silence.
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- Garibaldi returns to his boss, furiously demanding to be finally told
- the truth. Edgars and Wade reveal that they have genetically
- engineered a virus that attacks only telepaths. They have also
- developed an "antidote" that needs to be administered to infected
- telepaths every two weeks. Turning telepaths into a virtual slave race
- is the only way they see to counter the threat of the "death of human
- liberty and human thought." As a side-effect, by removing Clark's
- power base in the Psi Corps, they will be free to overturn his
- government easily. Garibaldi affirms that he is still on board and
- Edgars informs him that now that Clark is distracted by the capture of
- Sheridan, he can begin the process of releasing the virus.
-
- "The telepath prob--" he utters and stops. Hearing the holocaustic
- parallel in his own words, he continues in a broken voice, "The
- telepath problem...will finally be over."
-
- Unbeknownst to them all, a horrified Lise has heard everything from
- her hiding place behind a column.
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- When they have left the room Garibaldi sits quietly and pops a cap off
- his tooth revealing a miniscule transmitter. Lise finds him later
- waiting stony faced in a tube. She begs him to help stop her husband.
- With eerily muted urgency Garibaldi only tells her to go home.
-
- Moments later a new passenger joins him and the car leaves the
- station. Without hesitation, Bester jumps straight into Garibaldi's
- mind and extracts Edgars' nefarious plan. Even the imperturbable Psi
- Cop is stunned by the extent of this "final solution." Having finished
- what he came for, Bester muses about what to do with Garibaldi next.
- "I can feel you, you know...the real you, beating at the inside of
- your skull, screaming to get out." Should he let Garibaldi free?
- Should he keep him penned up forever? He explains to Garbaldi what
- happened when he was captured by the Shadows.
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- Bester got control of Garibaldi during the Shadows' attempt to
- "adjust" him and managed to handle the procedure on his own terms.
- That way he could thwart his enemies the Shadows (the virus of Edgars'
- was surely Shadow technology after all), take revenge on the officers
- of Babylon 5, and use Garibaldi as a weapon against his other enemies,
- all in one move. Accentuating his naturally rebellious and suspicious
- instincts turned Garibaldi into the perfect tool for digging to the
- bottom of anti-telepath conspiracies. The odd messages Garibaldi
- received from time to time tuned his conditioning until his real
- personality was completely buried under the new one.
-
- And now Bester wonders what to do. Toying for an instant with a gun in
- Garibaldi's face, Bester comments that now that Garibaldi's friends
- know he betrayed Sheridan, he "can't go home again." Deciding to let
- the real Garibaldi free, Bester exits the car and the train leaves the
- station.
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- Garibaldi sits impassively on the bench. A flash of reality slams his
- mind. He shakes his head. Then another. And then again. He screams in
- rage and whacks his head into the wall of the train.
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- When Marcus informs Ivanova that Garibaldi has attempted to contact
- them, she orders that if he shows up on the station he be shot on
- sight. In the interim, with Sheridan captured and the fleet in limbo,
- she vows to finish the job her Captain began.
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- Garibaldi frantically searches Edgars' home for Lise but only finds
- Edgars dead, the virus removed and Wade mortally injured on the floor.
- Wade manages to whisper that Lise hadn't been there when they were
- attacked.
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- The ISN anchor reports the assassination of William Edgars apparently
- by Free Mars terrorists. She also proudly congratulates former Chief
- Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi for rescuing the renegade Earth
- Force Captain John Sheridan. While Sheridan continues to be pummeled
- by his captors, she reports that now that he has been freed of alien
- influences, Sheridan is expressing regret for his actions against his
- home world.
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