brennen
/
lurkers-guide



								                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]


								    [3][Guide] [4][Background] ### SYNOPSIS ### [5][Credits] [6][Episode

								                       List] [7][Previous] [8][Next]


								  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)


								   [INLINE] Although the staff of Command and Control have survived

								   attacks by raiders, saboteurs, Centauri and their own fleet, they are

								   staggered by the sight of their very own Commander Ivanova-in the

								   flesh, and nothing else. She, however, is the soul of decorum, at

								   least until she looks down. Her horrified scream wakes her bolt

								   upright. "God I hate dreams like that!"


								   Vir is enjoying a little dream of his own, stroking the imperial

								   trappings as he waits in the throne room for a meeting with a royal

								   councilor. The minister congratulates him on his excellent reports

								   from Minbar, while chiding him for relying on Ambassador Molari's

								   misleading advice in creating them. He then shares a delightful little

								   joke. "What's more dangerous than a locked room full of angry Narns?

								   One angry Narn with a key!" Vir hurries back to his quarters where he

								   steps into a room full of angry Narns.


								   Susan shares some of her nightmares with the Captain at breakfast,

								   stopping short of describing this morning's. He suggests that her

								   subconscious is lagging behind her intellect in coming to terms with

								   the whopping changes in her status and prospects. But not to worry, it

								   will all pass. Besides, it could be worse, she could be dreaming she

								   was showing up to work naked, he teases her innocently.


								   [INLINE] Alone in his rooms, Londo is planning a vicious sneak attack.

								   He lashes out again and again, but alas, too short, too slow. Finally,

								   the kitchenette in disarray, he vanquishes his insect tormentor, and

								   lofts its wrecked little body high in the air on the end of a noble

								   ceremonial sword. Before his instant of triumph dissolves into dismay

								   at the realization that one bug indicates more, he is interrupted by

								   the arrival of a ravishing young Centauri lady.


								   Sheridan flirts with Delenn in the corridor, inviting her to dinner

								   that night in the lull before another crisis flattens them all.


								   [INLINE] Londo barely manages to keep his puckishness in check as he

								   greets Vir with casual inquiries about the court. Then he launches the

								   surprise. The lovely damsel is Vir's arranged bride, Lyndisty. Vir

								   isn't sure what to make of it. The whole arranged-marriage business is

								   as daunting as her stunning figure. She however seems certain that her

								   destiny lies with him.


								   Zack apprises Ivanova of an increase in the number of Narns passing

								   through the station with false documentation supplied by Vir. When

								   questioned by her later, Vir stammers that it's for the Narns' own

								   protection, that he's helping them by moving as many as he can to

								   camps on Centauri Prime, where conditions are much better than on the

								   wrecked Narn homeworld.


								   [INLINE] John's excuses are flying just as fast when he presents his

								   attempt at flarn to Delenn. She forges though the meal stoically with

								   subterfuge and salt. Just as she gamely fills her plate, John dashes

								   off to respond to an emergency report of an assault in progress near

								   Londo's quarters, where an angry Narn is on a shankar rampage after

								   Vir and his wife.


								   [INLINE] Ivanova calls Vir in again to find out why a Narn has

								   declared this blood oath against him, and to warn him of a second Narn

								   out for vengeance on the station. Vir claims to be completely in the

								   dark about that, among other things. Ivanova assures him that she is

								   no one to be giving advice on matters of sexual intimacy but he

								   insists that he knows no other women to ask. She uncomfortably

								   counsels enthusiasm, to Vir's enlightenment.


								   [INLINE] It is advice that two others scarcely need as their passion

								   for one another is quite overpowering. Susan only makes her day even

								   more awkward by interrupting them in a clinch in John's room. But she

								   must summon the Captain to Londo's quarters immediately. According to

								   records from the Centauri government, Vir's refugees are all dead.

								   Londo swells with pride for his protege until Vir bursts out with the

								   truth that the Narn have all been saved, smuggled off Centauri Prime

								   through Babylon 5 and other places, and the records falsified so no

								   Centauri will come after them.


								   In a day full of surprises, it is his bride who gives Vir the greatest

								   of them all when she presents him with the second Narn bound and

								   gagged on his chamber floor and ready for him to dispatch. She giggles

								   at his discomfort, explaining that when she lived on Narn after the

								   war she grew used to killing them. He grows more aghast at her callous

								   attitude.


								   [INLINE] Mollari declares that Vir's embassy on Minbar has been

								   terminated, and all records of his actions have been expunged. But

								   what truly cuts Vir to the quick is Mollari's disappointment in him

								   personally, and the fact that Lyndisty is being sent back to Centauri

								   Prime, where her family will reevaluate the planned union.


								   Sheridan becomes somewhat testy to find Ivanova using his office in C

								   & C. But she claims to have found a purpose now, namely, using Vir's

								   false authorization to continue the work of whisking a few Narn to

								   safety.


								   Vir sees Lyndisty to her ship. Each thinks the other is sick, but

								   believes such odd notions about the Narn will pass with time. Vir

								   kisses Lyndisty goodbye, and they both vow to stay true to each other.


								   [14][Next]


								      [15]Last update: November 9, 1997


								References


								   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar

								   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar

								   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/056.html

								   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/056.shtml

								   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/056.html

								   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/episodes.php

								   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/055.html

								   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/057.html

								   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html

								  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/056.html#TOP

								  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail

								  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/episodes.php

								  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/055.html

								  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/057.html

								  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html