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<p><em>Doctor Stephen Franklin's Description of the Ikarrans and their
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Organic Technology Weapons</em>
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<br>Transcribed by Jeffrey Newman
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<a href="mailto:jpn5@cornell.edu"><jpn5@cornell.edu></a>
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<p>Dr. Franklin enters Command and Control. There, he finds Commander
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Sinclair, who is finishing getting dressed in battle gear.
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<p><b>Franklin:</b> Commander, we managed to access the organic memory
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banks of one of the artifacts.
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<p><b>Sinclair:</b> Make it short doctor, I don't have a lot of time.
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(To Ivanova, who is off screen) Let me know when it's on the move
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again.
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<p><b>Franklin:</b> Over the course of their history, the Ikarrans
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were invaded half a dozen times, each assault more deadly than the
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first. They needed to create the perfect weapon, able to adapt to any
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situation. An organic weapon, capable of independent thought.
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<p><b>Ivanova:</b> Temperature up ninety degrees in Brown 2 Level C.
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<hr>
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<p>Shot of the monster/weapon, using its laser cannon to cut through
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the blast door. Cut back to Command and Control.
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<hr>
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<p><b>Franklin:</b> Since it would take years to create synthetic
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intelligence, they incorporated the brainwave patterns of one of their
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researchers into the weapons. (Franklin displays a picture of the
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researcher on a nearby screen.) That's him. His name was Teh
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Lahr(sp?). But people can be fooled, so to prevent them from being
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confused by misleading instructions from the enemy, they hard wired
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the machines not to respond to anyone who wasn't pure Ikarran.
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There's one problem, commander. How do you define a "pure" Ikarran,
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or a pure human? No one is pure, no one.
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<hr>
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<p>A shot of the monster/weapon, followed by a cut back to Ivanova.
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<hr>
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<p><b>Ivanova:</b> Temperature's up five hundred degrees. It'll be
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through any time now.
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<p><b>Sinclair:</b> Doctor? (He motions for Dr. Franklin to go with
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him.) I'm joining Mr. Garibaldi on the line.
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<p>Sinclair and Franklin walk out of Command and Control. There is a
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brief shot of the monster/weapon; he has cut through the blast door.
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The scene returns to Sinclair and Franklin, walking through various
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hallways.
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<p><b>Sinclair:</b> So who set the parameters of what it meant to be a
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pure Ikarran?
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<p><b>Franklin:</b> A coalition of religious fanatics and military
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extremists that ran the government. They programmed the weapons with
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a level of standards based on ideology, not science.
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<p><b>Sinclair:</b> Like the Nazi ideal of the perfect Aryan during
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World War Two.
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<p><b>Franklin:</b> Exactly. The next invasion, eleven of the
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machines were released. And they stopped the invaders by killing
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anything that didn't match their profile of the pure, perfect Ikarran.
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When they were finished, the machines turned on their creators. They
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began a process of extermination based on the slightest deviation from
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what they were programmed to consider normal. They killed; they kept
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killing until the last Ikarran was dead.
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<p><b>Sinclair:</b> What about the weapons?
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<p><b>Franklin:</b> With no one to tend to them, they were destroyed
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by centuries of neglect.
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<p><b>Sinclair:</b> Except for Number Twelve, which is here, now,
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acting on a program to protect a world that's been dead for a thousand
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years. You said they incorporated the brainwaves of one of their
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researchers into the weapons?
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<p><b>Franklin:</b> Teh Lahr, yes.
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<p><b>Sinclair:</b> Is there anything there we can talk to, reason
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with?
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<p><b>Franklin:</b> Well, there's a complete personality matrix, yes,
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but it's totally subsumed by its programming.
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<p><b>Sinclair:</b> Then we'll just have to find a way around the
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logic of the program. Get back to medlab, doctor, I suspect we're
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going to need your services.
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<blockquote>
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Transcript written by Jeffrey P. Newman. Permission is
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granted to distribute this transcript noncommercially as long as the
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transcript and this copyright notice remain intact. "Infection"
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was written by J. Michael Straczynski, and directed by Richard Compton.
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Babylon 5 is a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
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copyright is intended by writing this transcription.
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</blockquote>
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