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								  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)


								   An ISN Special Report.

								     * President Clark commited suicide last night. Cameras show the

								       Executive Office, a sheet thrown over a body in a chair with the

								       sign, "Traitor to Earth!" taped to the chest.

								     * Meanwhile, Sheridan has surrendered to Earth officials and awaits

								       their decision on whether to charge him with a crime. Despite his

								       current popularity, he still must justify his actions. There is a

								       shot of Sheridan seated in a conference room filled with milling

								       Earth Force personnel.

								     * Acting President Susanna Luchenko, of the Russian Consortium,

								       announced that the legal system will prosecute those who committed

								       crimes during Clark's term, and urged people not to take justice

								       into their own hands.

								     * ISN sends its prayers to Susan Ivanova, critically wounded on

								       Babylon 5.


								   Franklin is oblivious to the thrill of captaining a White Star,

								   wishing only that the journey to B5 were already over, and afraid what

								   he'll find when he catches up with Marcus.


								   But it's already too late. Two medics enter the infirmary and discover

								   Marcus' still form slumped over Ivanova's braced and bandaged body,

								   both of them plugged into the alien healing/execution device. When

								   Franklin arrives, he is immediately escorted to Ivanova, the medic

								   explaining on the way that Ivanova seems to be "cured" but Marcus was

								   dead when they found him.


								   Ivanova is anything but happy to be alive though. She is curled up in

								   a medical gown on the floor next to a window where a sheet-covered

								   body can be seen inside. She hears someone approach and shouts at him

								   to go away.


								   "Susan, it's me," Franklin says quietly, and sits down next to her.


								   Rocking herself and weeping, Susan rails at Marcus for doing this, for

								   hacking through codes to find out about the device, for breaking all

								   the rules, and for never asking for anything. For sacrificing himself

								   for her, for taking himself from her, and for taking away the chance

								   that she could love him back. When she was resigning herself to her

								   death she heard someone say, "I love you," and wondered, "Is that

								   God?" Instead of drifting away however, she was dragged back into her

								   body, and then realized that Marcus was dying beside her, even as her

								   life began to beat more strongly. Incapacitated, she couldn't do a

								   thing to prevent it.


								   After so many bad relationships, she was afraid of loving and being

								   hurt again, but she should have done it anyway, or at least "boffed

								   him once." When Stephen remarks that "that's one way to deal with

								   unrequited love," she replies, "All love is unrequited, Stephen. All

								   of it," and buries her head in his shoulder.


								   Striding impatiently in a docking bay, G'Kar chides Londo for being

								   late.


								   "You're early," Londo returns.


								   When G'Kar objects that he is "never premature," Londo retaliates,

								   "That's not what I hear," allowing however that two minutes may well

								   be prodigious for a Narn. At this moment, Vir hustles up nervously

								   with something urgent and secret to tell the Ambassador. Londo

								   magnanimously offers to give G'Kar pointers on his problem, and as

								   G'Kar strides off in a huff, Londo comments that they are "developing

								   a strange relationship. At times I find I rather enjoy it."


								   It appears that the Regent is ill and not expected to live much

								   longer. The Centauri government has requested Londo to return home to

								   lead them. When Mollari's expression remains annoyed, Vir explains,

								   "You're going to be Emperor, Londo! Isn't that wonderful?" Vir has no

								   way of knowing that Londo has dreaded this day more than anticipated

								   it.


								   Awaiting his fate in Earth Dome, Sheridan has an unwelcome visitor.

								   Bester begins by denying everything about using Garibaldi, William

								   Edgars and a telepath virus, but admits that the wise course of action

								   would be to destroy such a virus while keeping the antidote--just in

								   case. Of course, he gloats, for a mental scan confirming Garibaldi's

								   story to be valid in court, the telepath would have to be a member of

								   Psi Corps.


								   Sheridan smiles and replies, "You really think you've got it all

								   covered, don't you."


								   Bester can't contain his real reason for coming any longer. He wants

								   to know whether his lover, Carolyn, was one of the telepaths used to

								   disable the destroyers in the final battle at Mars. If she was, Bester

								   threatens, Sheridan won't leave the room alive.


								   The captain scoffs, "Death. Been there, done that." Using the

								   telepaths as weapons was the hardest decision he ever made, he claims.

								   Only thirty, single telepaths without families were chosen out of a

								   hundred. Making the Psi Cop agonize just a little bit longer, because

								   Carolyn was single and had no family, Sheridan shouts, "I know what

								   it's like to lose someone, just to find her and lose her again," and

								   he wouldn't even wish it on Bester. Carolyn is still on the station

								   and can be transferred to Earth as soon as it's safe.


								   Bester's bluster drops and he sits weakly. "Thank you," he says.


								   Sheridan's disgust doesn't waver. He continues that he knows that with

								   Clark out of power, Bester will have to regroup, but he won't stop

								   trying to take over the government. But Sheridan will be watching. And

								   when Bester starts a war between the telepaths and the normals

								   someday, he'll lose.


								   Stung, Bester replies, "We'll see."


								   Before he leaves, Sheridan reminds him not to rest too easy because

								   Garibaldi will be coming after him. Bester dismisses this, but

								   Sheridan assures him that whatever Garibaldi does, "it will be

								   creative, colorful, and extremely unpleasant."


								   Garibaldi smashes a fat little man's face into a wall. "Where is she?"

								   he asks, meaning Lise. The man denies all knowledge. Garibaldi flings

								   him into another wall and explains the situation more clearly.


								   Londo and G'Kar find Delenn musing silently. She congratulates Londo

								   on his promotion and he barks, "You've heard that already?"


								   "There is little that does not reach me these days."


								   Before the representatives from the non-aligned worlds arrive, she

								   wants them to read a proposal, because their support will be critical.

								   After a glance, G'Kar asks if she is sure she wants to do this. Londo

								   reads it and begins laughing. Nonplussed, Delenn says it isn't funny.

								   Londo chortles that being in the "presence of living history...makes

								   you giddy." When the others arrive, he tells them that he hopes they

								   "have all brought a change of underwear. You will need it after you

								   read this."


								   Sheridan's patience with being cooped up is exhausted about the same

								   time it is decided what to do with him. President Luchenko explains

								   that the debate was between whether to give him the Medal of Honor or

								   shoot him, or both. She criticizes his "inconvenient" military action

								   and political naivete, but offers that in exchange for amnesty for his

								   crew and allies, he must resign from Earth Force. If he refuses, he

								   will be court martialed. Sheridan asks for the amnesty in writing and

								   agrees to resign.


								   A man enters a warehouse on Mars. A big guy asks him, "How much do

								   they want for her alive?" They jump at a knock at the door. There's a

								   colorful package outside. They open it; it explodes and Rangers drop

								   down from the rafters as Garibaldi and more Rangers break in the door.

								   Running through building, Garibaldi calls, "Lise!" until there is a

								   muffled reply from behind a door. He breaks her out and they fall into

								   each other's arms.


								   Approaching Earth, Delenn is in a reverie because the Council has

								   approved her proposal. "They will talk about this day for a hundred

								   years." Lennier says he wishes Marcus were here, and then asks with

								   emotion in his voice if Delenn heard Ivanova's comment about love

								   being unrequited. Delenn looks deeply at Lennier, touches his face and

								   tells him, "She's wrong, of course."


								   ISN carries the news conference live. The President graciously

								   introduces Sheridan and declares that all sides in the recent war

								   fought for Earth. Explaining it as a conflict between love of Earth

								   and love of duty, Sheridan announces his resignation in the hopes that

								   the wounds can heal quickly.


								   Then G'Kar rises to announce that the League of Nonaligned Worlds is

								   now dissolved, and there is a new Alliance instead. Delenn in turn

								   explains that Earth is being offered a chance to join in an economic

								   and political pact. She describes the common authority that all

								   members have agreed to recognize. The mission of the Rangers, she

								   explains, is to protect borders but not participate in wars, to create

								   the peace, but not enforce it. As she speaks, the room shakes as

								   dozens of White Stars jump into the sky above. From now on, all member

								   races may contribute to the Ranger ranks, she adds.


								   In a private meeting, President Luchenko asks for something more

								   concrete than "peace" to convince realists to enter the pact. Delenn

								   casually offers artificial gravity. Luchenko takes the bait and asks

								   who will be in authority over the new alliance. Delenn explains that

								   they have a board, indicating herself, Londo and G'Kar, but they also

								   have an elected President as well.


								   The President has his feet on the table when an Earth Force General

								   bursts in demanding to know where the letter of amnesty is. Copies

								   have already been given to the reporters, Sheridan replies smugly. As

								   they leave the room, Delenn appears at the end of the corridor with

								   someone to see him. It's his father, free and healthy. They embrace

								   and then Sheridan Sr. reaches out to Delenn, delighted to welcome her

								   into the family.


								   ISN reports that Earth has agreed to enter the Interstellar Alliance.

								   At the press gathering, President Sheridan states that as part of the

								   agreement all member states must recognize the sovereign rights of

								   colony worlds, and thus, Mars will be granted independence.


								   Watching this in bed, Garibaldi and Lise try to put off figuring out

								   what they are going to do next, but marriage seems to be in the plans.


								   Ivanova has been promoted to Captain and has accepted command of a new

								   Warlock class warship for a yearlong shake-down cruise, ISN continues.


								   Sheridan and Delenn were married in a private ceremony on board White

								   Star 2 while heading back to Babylon 5, the report concludes.


								   Londo shuts the news off. As G'Kar picks rice off his jacket and pops

								   it in his mouth, Londo tells him to cut it out. If it were any good

								   would they be throwing it at people? He muses that he'd sure like to

								   see the newlyweds now. G'Kar looks distracted, and peering at him

								   Londo demands to know where his artificial eye is. It's sitting

								   innocuously on a table, aimed at the honeymoon bed.


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