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								  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)


								   Seated at a small, bare table in the Captain's quarters, Franklin asks

								   Sheridan how he managed to escape. Who were his contacts in the

								   Resistance? Sheridan peers at him suspiciously. It isn't Franklin.

								   It's an interrogator and they are still in Sheridan's cell. Drugged

								   and weary, Sheridan's mind keeps shifting the location and persons

								   from the station to prison. The brainwashing hasn't succeeded though.

								   The Captain hasn't been convinced that he is under the control of

								   aliens.


								   In a busy shipping station on Mars, Garibaldi meets up with his

								   contact. Apparently the Resistance doesn't believe that Sheridan's

								   kidnapping wasn't Garibaldi's fault. Several men leap out of the

								   shadows and beat him senseless. At their headquarters, Number One

								   offers Franklin a gun and the chance for revenge. "Steven?" Garibaldi

								   shouts when Franklin refuses. Instead Franklin rips the hood off

								   Garibaldi's head and angrily demands an explanation.


								   Garibaldi stammers out how he was used by Bester, but only Lyta seems

								   willing to believe it. Garibaldi tells them that he knows where

								   Sheridan is being held, and they can get him out. But it's the same

								   story he used to lure Sheridan in the first place. Garibaldi pleads,

								   "You can't let Bester screw up my entire life and not give me the

								   chance to fix it. I can't go out this way!" Franklin is disgusted.

								   Seeing Lyta, Garibaldi begs her to scan him. She replies that no one

								   trusts telepaths here. Franklin wants to try it, but Number One

								   angrily decides just to shoot Garibaldi. Franklin grabs her gun as it

								   goes off, and Lyta snatches a rifle, spraying the ceiling with fire.

								   In the uneasy pause, Franklin covers Number One with the rifle while

								   Lyta goes to work on Garibaldi's head.


								   She immediately finds Psi Cop blocks. Her eyes go full black as she

								   pushes harder until she finds the memories Bester concealed. When she

								   announces this, Number One scoffs. Furious, Lyta whips around, fixes

								   Number One with her eerie eyes, and convinces her with a rapid

								   braindump of Garibaldi's hellish experience.


								   The White Star fleet engages and disables another two destroyers.

								   Ivanova orders the backup units to proceed with the evacuation while

								   the main fleet heads for the next target. When Marcus questions

								   whether they are advancing too slowly, she insists that this is the

								   one chance these crews will receive justice for their actions, and

								   besides, defectors will be needed when they hit Earth.


								   Garibaldi shows Number One where Sheridan is being held. She says that

								   her people can get them inside, but they're on their own after that.


								   On B5, a rather worried Lennier finds Delenn and informs her that

								   Mollari has called a full Council meeting without informing the

								   Minbari. The Centauri is just calling for a vote on an intolerable

								   situation, when Delenn arrives. It's unanimous, and with a

								   representative from Minbar present, it's even legitimate.


								   "The humans have become the glue which holds us together," G'Kar

								   explains when Delenn objects. The Council feels it is their

								   responsibility to do everything in their power to prevent Earth from

								   turning in upon itself, as well as to repay the debt they owe Sheridan

								   for his defense of their planets during the Shadow War.


								   In Delenn's stunned silence, G'Kar, Londo and Vir explain that they

								   have resolved to unite their forces to aid Ivanova's fleet, but they

								   didn't want to tell her until it was fait acompli, lest people say it

								   was based on personal interests.


								   The Resistance fighter leads Garibaldi, Franklin and Lyta through old

								   access tunnels to the location where Sheridan is being held, but

								   refuses to accompany them further.


								   Marcus brings the duty officer from one of the disabled ships on the

								   bridge with the claim that he has critical intelligence. Apparently

								   some of the "allies" they've picked up along the way are not real

								   defectors. Ivanova's intention to rendezvous near Mars for the final

								   assault on Earth, has been passed back to Clark, who has arranged to

								   ambush them with a fleet of new advanced-technology destroyers.

								   Ivanova and Marcus realize that their standard Earth Force allies

								   would be annihilated by an advanced destroyer fleet. There's no time

								   to change the rendezvous, so Ivanova decides that the White Stars must

								   try to take out the force alone.


								   Garibaldi and Franklin jump a patrol in the tunnels. They win, but

								   Garbaldi takes a knife in the back. Franklin stitches the wound

								   crudely, but can't convince Garibaldi to stay behind.


								   Captain James of the Agamemnon tries in vain to argue Ivanova out of

								   her decision. As soon as they set off, Marcus tries to convince

								   Ivanova to get some rest. He only succeeds by threatening to harry her

								   until she gives in. She agrees as long as he wakes her later and

								   sleeps as well.


								   Wearing their old Earth Force uniforms, Garibaldi and crew stroll up

								   to the prison guard booth. The guard recognizes Garibaldi and commends

								   him for turning Sheridan in. He accepts Garibaldi's story about being

								   there to interrogate the prisoner and lets them pass.


								   The two cell guards stop them. Garibaldi casually mentions the lock

								   "code" and Lyta grabs it from a guard's mind before attacking the

								   second guard with the thought of pain. Garibaldi takes out the other

								   one, but blood is now showing through his uniform. They hurry into the

								   cell and Franklin sets to work trying to revive Sheridan. Through his

								   drugged fog, Sheridan mumbles, "Michael! I was going to kick your butt

								   for ... something. But I don't remember."


								   Before waking Ivanova, Marcus looks at her soulfully and utters,

								   "You'll never know." She curses when he tells her they're almost at

								   the target and he didn't sleep. Before rushing to the bridge, Susan

								   reminds him of the Minbari phrase he told her was a "greeting" the

								   last time they were here. "You are the most beautiful woman I have

								   ever known." She knows what it means now and thanks him.


								   Trying to get past the guard post with Sheridan, the guards notice the

								   blood on Garibaldi's back, and demand that the rescuers step away from

								   the prisoner. They quickly shoot all the guards. Clumsily, Sheridan

								   picks a gun off the floor and unloads it into one of the guards,

								   shooting until the man is pulp. He looks at Garibaldi with very

								   cognizant fury and insists he's fine.


								   The White Star fleet emerges at the rendezvous point. A dozen jump

								   points open on all sides and discharge a stream of destroyers. Ivanova

								   is horrified when she sees them. Black skins and barbs on semi-organic

								   hulls prove them to be based on Shadow technology. The force commands

								   her to surrender, and when she refuses, demands to know who she is.


								   "Who am I?" she asks. "I am Susan Ivanova. Commander. Daughter of

								   Andre and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot

								   that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth,

								   sweetheart. I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you

								   are ever going to see. God sent me."


								   With these words she opens fire and leads the fleet into the toughest

								   battle they've faced yet. One by one White Stars drop, but they manage

								   to outmaneuver and outgun the enemy until every one is destroyed. With

								   her navigational controls damaged, White Star 2 is unable to avoid a

								   huge mass of debris hurtling towards the ship. In the aftermath of the

								   crash, Marcus picks himself up from the wreckage filling the bridge.

								   He finds Ivanova's limp body and carries it away.


								   Stumbling through the wide corridors of a Minbari cruiser, Sheridan

								   suddenly stops and stares at the sight of Delenn. They embrace and he

								   promises to talk about what happened to him later, but now he has to

								   see Ivanova, who is being tended by Minbari doctors and Marcus. Her

								   head is bolted into a vice-like stabilizer, her face is a mass of

								   cotusions, and she is rarely conscious. She rouses when John comes and

								   begs him to tell her the truth. Is she going to live? Painfully, he

								   tells her, no. She only has about a week. And so she makes one final

								   request.


								   Sheridan steps onto the bridge of the Agamemnon. With the permission

								   of her Captain, he announces that a friend has asked him to lead the

								   final battle from here. At this, the multi-planet force sets out.


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