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[1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
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### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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_Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
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- [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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Overview
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Franklin and Marcus arrive on Mars to begin their undercover
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mission. Sheridan confronts Garibaldi about his behavior. [15]Mark
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Schneider as Wade. [16]Donovan Scott as Captain Jack. [17]Clayton
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Landley as Number Two. [18]Marjorie Monaghan as Number One.
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[19]P5 Rating: [20]7.73
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Production number: 410
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Original air week: April 21, 1997
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Written by J. Michael Straczynski
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Directed by Jesus Trevino
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Plot Points
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* Mars has been subjected to a news blackout and an embargo for at
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least as long as Babylon 5 has, likely as far back as their
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refusal to submit to martial law in [21]"Severed Dreams." People
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on Mars have heard little more than vague rumors about the Shadow
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War. They also appear to know nothing about the Rangers.
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* Someone has begun planting Keepers ([22]"War Without End, Part
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Two") on members of the Earth resistance movement with the
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apparent intent of wiping it out.
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* A Keeper can be partially removed, but portions remain embedded in
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the victim, and the rest of the organism grows back, sometimes
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within hours.
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* Garibaldi has pledged to support a group that claims to feel the
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Army of Light has become a cult of personality centered on
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Sheridan, and that this will ultimately damage the cause.
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Garibaldi feels the same way, he says, and that's why he said what
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he did during the ISN interview.
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* Ivanova has begun setting up amnesty deals with smugglers to keep
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the station supplied with food and spare parts.
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Unanswered Questions
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* Who planted the Keeper on Captain Jack?
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* How did they know about his involvement with the resistance?
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* Who are the people Garibaldi promised to help?
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* What was the large ship being escorted toward Mars by a group of
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Starfuries?
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* "Woo hoo?"
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Analysis
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* The head of the group that recruited Garibaldi may have betrayed
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his true intentions with a slip of the tongue. When he first spoke
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to Garibaldi, he said Sheridan's actions weren't good for Earth,
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weren't good for business, and weren't good for the President --
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not something likely to come from the mouth of someone opposed to
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Clark.
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* The second time Garibaldi met with the mysterious group, the
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leader made a point of saying, "Are you with us?" several times.
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Could that be some kind of key phrase related to whatever was done
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to Garibaldi while he was captured ([23]"Whatever Happened to Mr.
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Garibaldi?")
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* That phrase, or one like it, was used by someone else: Sheridan,
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who shouted, "Are you with me?" to the assembled crowd in [24]"The
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Summoning."
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* If "Are you with us?" was indeed a key phrase, Sheridan
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inadvertently foreshadowed it earlier in the episode, when he told
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Delenn that he could make Garibaldi come around "if I could just
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find the right words."
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* Since Garibaldi knows the group is planning to move against
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Sheridan at some point (they told him as much,) perhaps his
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acceptance of their offer is, instead of a rejection of Sheridan,
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actually part of a plan to root out possible threats to Babylon
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5's security. If so, a natural question is, does Sheridan know
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about that plan, or is it Garibaldi's doing? Was the confrontation
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between Sheridan and Garibaldi just a premeditated ploy to help
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Garibaldi gain the trust of the new group? Sheridan's conversation
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with Delenn after the first confrontation argues against that
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idea, but it's still plausible.
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* It's also possible the Brakiri woman was a setup, sent by the
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group to fawn over Sheridan at just the right time and push
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Garibaldi over the edge.
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* Garibaldi's rejection of Sheridan parallels Judas' rejection of
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Jesus. Both were part of their leader's inner circle. Sheridan's
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warning to Garibaldi to stop undermining him can be read as
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analogous to Jesus' warning to Judas at the Last Supper
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([25]Matthew 26:24: "woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is
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betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.")
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[26]John 13:2 says the Devil caused Judas to betray Jesus;
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Garibaldi has also been influenced in some way, in his case by Psi
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Corps ([27]"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?")
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Many scholarly analyses ascribe motives similar to Garibaldi's to
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Judas. Tim Rice's lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ
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Superstar," while perhaps not scholarly, put it succinctly:
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My mind is clearer now.
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At last all too well I can see where we all soon will be.
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If you strip away the myth from the man,
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You will see where we all soon will be.
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Jesus!
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You've started to believe
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The things they say of you.
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You really do believe
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This talk of God is true.
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And all the good you've done
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Will soon get swept away.
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You've begun to matter more than the things you say.
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* When Marcus discovered Jack aboard the transport ship, he had his
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arm around Jack's neck. Why didn't he feel the Keeper? Does it
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have some way of hiding itself, or was it simply that Jack was
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wearing heavy clothing to cover his lower neck, and Marcus
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couldn't feel anything through the fabric?
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Notes
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* Marcus' comment about hating parasites is probably a reference to
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[28]"Exogenesis," in which his friend Duncan was taken over by an
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alien parasite.
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* Minbari have 52 rituals related to relationships. Sheridan and
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Delenn have now completed the first three. One is the female
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watching the male for three nights, and the third (according to
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Delenn, who called it the Third Movement of Love and Mutual
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Understanding) is the mutual exploration of pleasure centers.
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* Garibaldi's hair loss is due to something a smuggler brought
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aboard the station.
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* The Pope is a woman in 2261, according to Garibaldi. During his
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second confrontation with Sheridan, he said, "He's not the Pope.
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He doesn't look anything like her."
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* The subcommander and head of the resistance cell called themselves
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"Number Two" and "Number One," a nod to the cult classic "The
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Prisoner." Another reference to "Number One" can be found in
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[29]"Signs and Portents."
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* The name "Captain Jack" is a nod to the Billy Joel song of the
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same name.
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* A slight glitch: When Captain Jack ripped open the insta-heat
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pack, Franklin said, "That's beef and potatoes." But his lips
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don't match those words; apparently the original line was
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something different.
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* Marcus and Franklin were playing "I Spy" when they discovered a
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spy.
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jms speaks
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* _Is B5 about the Shadow War?_
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Not just that, but events back on Earth, Mars and elsewhere that
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are either not touched by the shadow war, or barely touched by it.
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(In one upcoming episode, where a couple of our characters have
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gone to Mars, they find that very few on Mars know anything even
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*happened*.)
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* Not everyone back home even knows there *was* a war. Which our
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characters will find rather annoying....
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* _About the Pope_
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Yeah, you heard the "her" line. Got a fair amount of flack for
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that one, btw.
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And it's Woo Hoo.
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If Yahoo wants a reference they should call me....
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* From some extremist Catholics...and also got some flack from Born
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Again Rightists over my comments in TV Guide about being an
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atheist.
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* I don't think Earthforce cares about sexual orientation; the
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reason we just set it out there without comment is that, having
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come through the realization of other non-human races...a little
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thing like sexual orientation, nobody even cares about anymore. It
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ain't an issue.
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* _Why didn't Ivanova ask Lyta to oversee her negotiations with the
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smugglers?_
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Because telepaths only function in very limited ways due to
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privacy laws. You couldn't just use them broad-based as lie
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detectors in the way you suggest, because it first requires
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getting the *permission* of those involved, and you can be
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reasonably sure that smugglers aren't going to want people poking
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around in their heads; second, there was a large group there, and
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a midrange teep can usually handle only one or at most two people
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with any degree of accuracy; it goes down dramatically after that.
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I specifically set up rules for telepaths to avoid letting them
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become the deus ex machina, the easy solution to any problem.
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[35][Next]
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[36]Last update: August 8, 1997
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References
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1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
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2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
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5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/076.html
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6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/episodes.php
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