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[3][Guide] [4][Background] ### SYNOPSIS ### [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
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Commander Ivanova finds Garibaldi and Zack busy mocking two Drazi
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missionaries seeking assistance in the docking bay; they claim to have
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been drawn to B5 by reports that Droshalla, a Drazi holy being has
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blessed the station. (In typical unfathomable Drazi fashion, their
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attempts to share Zack's blessing are easily transferred to a nearby
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plant.) With relative unconcern Ivanova asks Garibaldi to investigate
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a set of anonymous messages to C&C declaring a countdown to chaos. The
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threats become reality moments later when a lurker is blown to bits by
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a booby trap in Downbelow.
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Still in Docking, Zack's day improves further when the arrival of a
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chapter of monks interrupts his attempts to respond to the explosion.
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In Downbelow, the heavy damage and confusion mystify the crew.
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Although Garibaldi determines that it was a bomb, he can't find
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anything worth blowing up.
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Meanwhile Ivanova is unable to dissuade Brother Theo from his flock's
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determination to establish a mission on the station. When she points
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out that the aliens passing through B5 may not want to be preached at,
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that there is little space and that they will be in the way, he
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readily replies with both the words of the Bible and the fact that the
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monks themselves happen to be engineers and computer experts.
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Lennier is afflicted with a garrulous human neighbor while waiting in
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reception for Delenn to disembark. He rises to greet her at the gate
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just as there is an explosion in the corridor behind. Lennier hauls
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her forward then steps past the gate to hustle Ambassador Mollari (who
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happens to be arriving as well) to safety just as the pressure doors
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close. Delenn watches in horror through the transparent frame as
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Lennier is licked by flames and struck by falling objects.
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A staff meeting clarifies that these blasts are aimed at people, not
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installations, and are being effective in their apparent purpose of
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spreading chaos and terror. Sheridan orders martial law and the bomber
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watches its imposition with satisfaction. While Lennier hovers in a
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coma, G'Kar rails at Garibaldi about the Centauri responsibility for
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the explosions and Londo insists to the captain and commander that the
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Narn are widening the range of their terror tactics. But the truth is
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that there is no sense to the attacks, and no one is claiming
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responsibility.
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Londo manages to convince a doctor to let him stay with Lennier.
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Though his bedside manner probably needs improvement, Londo seems to
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have been genuinely moved by the young Minbari saving his life.
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Meanwhile security determines from a molecular trace of the bomb
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materials that they were stolen from an ice mine on Beta 7, and that
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the bomber seems to have struck before on Proxima 3. Garibaldi balks
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when Sheridan orders a full investigation of all traffic from there to
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B5 cross checked against possible gloaters filmed by security cameras
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after the blasts. Ivanova has the bright idea of putting the new
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engineering monks to use.
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Londo promises the unconscious Lennier to return, and departs on an
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errand. Upon finding the transport tube occupied by a smoldering
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G'Kar, at first he refuses to enter, but an instant later he leaps
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inside to escape a rush of flame from a bomb blast further down the
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corridor. Two hours later he rouses to find himself trapped in the
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damaged tube under the pitiless eyes of the former Narn ambassador.
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Londo proposes a plan of escape before the flames outside suffocate
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them, but with exquisite mirth G'Kar refuses. Though he'd like to live
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he would be delighted to watch Mollari die.
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The monks are successful, and Brother Theo points out to Garibaldi the
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most likely suspect. As a tac team in full armor assembles to go after
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the bomber, G'Kar croons and cackles to his nemesis, "Not many fishes
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left in the sea/Not many fishes, just Londo and me."
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The team gathers near the bomber's quarters, but he's prepared for
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them and demands to speak to the captain alone. Sheridan stuffs his
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link down his pants and agrees to go in to negotiate. Garibaldi orders
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C&C not to let anyone beep the captain under any circumstances. The
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bomber wants free passage off the station, but lets slip that the
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deadman switch he carries will set off a bomb to make the station
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explode like the sun. This twigs Garibaldi to the fusion reactor. He
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sends a squad to check it out, and as they scramble into action the
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bomber attempts to terrorize the captain. All he manages is to get
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Sheridan thoroughly infuriated with his threats, and to send his own
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nerves haywire. Why is he bombing things? His only reason is that the
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times are chaotic.
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The squad finds the bomb in the reactor, just before Sheridan sits on
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his link. When he hears the beep the bomber panics. In the ensuing
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struggle the deadman switch drops, transmitting to the bomb just as
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it's propelled harmlessly away from the station.
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When the battered and damaged Lennier finally comes around, he
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explains that he saved Mollari's life at the risk of his own because
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"all life is sacred. But when the object of your actions does not
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share that belief... ahh, I fear that I have served the present by
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sacrificing the future."
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In the "last of the debris" from the last explosion on board, a rescue
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team comes upon the two nearly asphyxiated enemies in the transport
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tube. They curse each other with familiarity.
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"Bastard." Londo utters.
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"Monster."
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"Fanatic!"
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"Murderer!"
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"You are insane!"
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"That is why we'll win," G'Kar gasps.
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"Go be the ambassador to Babylon 5 they said. It will be an easy
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position. I hate my life."
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"So do I."
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"Shut up!"
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[15]Last update: November 9, 1997
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