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								  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)


								   Z Minus 14 Days


								   The station is a flurry of activity as war preparations continue.

								   Since they can jam the Shadows, telepaths of many races are being

								   recruited and assigned to Army of Light patrol ships. G'Kar insists

								   that each telepath should be given a Narn bodyguard.


								   Londo thinks G'Kar has been permitted to escape Centauri wrath for too

								   long, however. Vir is appalled that Londo could care about petty

								   revenge when the entire galaxy is suffused with war.


								   [INLINE] Appreciating Brother Theo for the stability his monks have

								   offered in the chaos, Ivanova joins him in Docking to greet some

								   religious "colleagues." Personal and professional rivalry aside,

								   Brother Theo seems genuinely pleased to meet the Baptist minister,

								   rabbi, Buddhist monk and Islamic cleric who have arrived.


								   Looking weary and haggard, Captain Sheridan is lost so deep in

								   contemplation that he is oblivious to Delenn's teasing. Nothing about

								   the Shadows' strategy makes any sense. The timing and location of the

								   attacks seem random and illogical, but the individual engagements are

								   tactically very logical. The Captain isn't eating properly, hasn't

								   slept well since Kosh's death, and is suffering from nightmares. So

								   Delenn bullies him into meeting the new arrivals for dinner that

								   night.


								   Another arrival has the Centauri flustered - or at least Vir. Nothing

								   seems to faze Londo any more, not even Lord Refa and Minister Virini.

								   Londo outlines his plan to ensnare G'Kar by having Vir pass on the

								   tale that G'Kar's former assistant Na'Toth is imprisoned on the Narn

								   homeworld. G'Kar will then rush back to Narn to rescue her and be

								   taken captive by Londo's agents. Vir refuses until Londo threatens to

								   humiliate and destroy Vir's family in retribution.


								   As smarmy as ever, Lord Refa presents his case to the Minister of why

								   his house should achieve ascendancy over that of Mollari. The

								   ambassador has spent too much time among aliens, he claims, and is no

								   longer loyal. The Minister wants the rivalry between the two houses

								   ended and is apparently on the station to determine which of the two

								   deserve his support.


								   Cringing pathetically, Vir takes his mission to G'Kar, while Londo

								   informs the Minister that the division between the two houses will be

								   ended soon through his relieving the Empire of an ongoing

								   embarrassment. Vir can't contain his anger when he realizes that Londo

								   intends to kill G'Kar in order to curry royal favor. His outrage does

								   not go unnoticed by Refa's spies. Vir is captured and interrogated by

								   Lord Refa himself. When he tries to hold out, a telepath easily rips

								   Londo's plan from his mind.


								   At dinner it is revealed that the religious leaders are part of an

								   organized resistance and intelligence gathering movement on Earth, and

								   come bearing information for B5. Before leaving, Reverend Dexter says

								   that he wants to hold a religious gathering on the station. The

								   Captain agrees over Brother Theo's humorous objections.


								   Reverend Dexter finds Sheridan still working late in his office, and

								   asks him who he shares his heavy responsibility with. Sheridan grows

								   irritated with the minister's presumption, especially with the

								   implication that Sheridan is not being a good officer and the

								   suggestion that he should share his burden with the woman who loves

								   him.


								   Z Minus 13 Days


								   Peering into the cold, wind-wracked desolation of the former Narn

								   capital, G'Kar gathers his forces for a mission into the secret

								   caverns below the city. The ruins above are being rebuilt and

								   redecorated to look like the Centauri Imperial Palace. Refa has just

								   arrived and requests a security detail from Lord Drego to assist him

								   in capturing G'Kar.


								   [INLINE] Musing in the war room, Delenn and Sheridan realize that the

								   Shadows are corralling refugees into zones where they can be

								   annihilated with ease. This war is "as much about terror as

								   territory," he argues. A strike against defenseless refugees would

								   have a great demoralizing effect on the Alliance. "It's what I'd do,"

								   he crows.


								   "What?" Delenn gasps.


								   When he tries to explain that they need to think like the enemy, she

								   grabs him by the arm and drags him out of the war room telling him he

								   seriously needs a break.


								   G'Kar and his Narns proceed underground. Refa and his guards pick up

								   the trail and follow him into an ambush. Refa gloats, "You have taken

								   your last steps as a free Narn!"


								   Back on the station, Reverend Dexter begins his sermon. The enemy is

								   not just something different. "We are all alien to one another," he

								   argues. "The enemy is fear. The enemy is ignorance. The enemy is the

								   one who tells you that we must hate that which is different."


								   [INLINE] As the service continues, a far eerier ritual begins deep

								   under the surface of Narn. Refa orders his guards to attack G'Kar. His

								   face shows the first signs of fear when they fail to move. Then G'Kar

								   brings out a holo projector with a recording of Londo telling his

								   nemesis his fate. In return for Mollari freeing 2000 incarcerated

								   Narns, G'Kar has captured Refa, the Centauri who is personally

								   responsible for the planetary bombardment of Narn and the deaths of 5

								   or 6 million Narns.


								   Holding aloft a data crystal, G'Kar admonishes his Narns only to leave

								   this on the body and keep the face and head intact for identification

								   later.


								   "No hiding place!" the gospel singer begins in the B5 chapel. As the

								   congregation joins in joyously, Refa scrambles down a corridor into

								   the arms of waiting Narns. "There's no hiding place down here!." He

								   runs terrified back the way he came. "You know the sinner's gonna be

								   runnin' at the knowledge of their fate!" Refa barrels into a crowd of

								   eager Narns. "They'll be runnin' trying to find a hiding place when it

								   comes their time to die!" Even the Minbari begin to catch the spirit

								   and try to sing along. "No hiding place!" Refa's crest drowns under a

								   sea of spotted heads, and he is brutally attacked by the Narn as G'Kar

								   watches, then leaves.


								   Mollari gives the data crystal found on Lord Refa's body to Minister

								   Virini, and explains how Refa had betrayed the Centauri to the Narn

								   and G'Kar to the Centauri. The minister seems surprised that Londo

								   asks for nothing in return for exposing this plot. Vir is furious

								   again however, this time for being set up and lied to. Londo says he

								   knew that Refa had a telepath with him, so of course he had to tell

								   Vir what he wanted Refa to believe. But Vir is not placated.


								   [INLINE] Delenn has a final surprise for the Captain. In the long

								   period of preparation before the war, the Minbari have completed an

								   entire fleet of White Star class ships.


								   Z Minus 10 Days.


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