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<!-- TITLE The Rules of the Game -->
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<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
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<blockquote><cite>
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Gideon attempts to negotiate for the right to land on an alien planet, but
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the aliens have other ideas.
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</cite>
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<a href="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Rose,+Jamie">Jamie Rose</a> as Cynthia.
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<a href="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Choate,+Tim">Tim Choate</a> as Polix.
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</blockquote>
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<pre>
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Production number: 112
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Original air date: July 21, 1999
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00061QJSK/thelurkersguidet">DVD release date</a>: December 7, 2004
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Written by J. Michael Straczynski
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Directed by Jesus Treviño
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</pre>
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<p>
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<hr size=3>
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<h2><a name="BP">Plot Points</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>@@@932976564 The original inhabitants of the planet Lorka 7 were
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wiped out a long time ago, but the details are unknown. The new
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inhabitants, who were led to the planet five hundred years ago by
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a being they call "The Most Holy," have agreed to let the Excalibur
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land and investigate to see what happened to their predecessors.
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<li>@@@932976564 Lochley and Gideon have consummated their budding
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relationship.
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<li>@@@932976564 Max was a child prodigy, always getting beaten up in
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school for being smarter than his peers. He had a lonely life until
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he met a woman named Cynthia Allen; the two of them were married for
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some time, but she eventually left when it became clear that his
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devotion was more to IPX than to her. Her business, trading alien art
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and antiquities, was devastated by the quarantine of Earth.
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="UQ">Unanswered Questions</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>@@@932976564 Who or what was the Lorkans' "Most Holy?" A Vorlon?
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Why were they led to Lorka 7? Where were they before then?
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<li>@@@932976564 What wiped out the previous population of Lorka 7?
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<li>@@@932976564 What other alien artifacts does Max have in his
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quarters?
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="AN">Analysis</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>@@@932976564 Dr. Chambers was clearly no stranger to fighting. Was
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she formally trained? Perhaps she has served in Earthforce; on the
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Excalibur it's not entirely clear whether she's a civilian.
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<li>@@@932976564 Five years after the founding of the Alliance, Babylon 5
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is still teeming with activity. Yet a decade and a half later, at
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the time of Sheridan's death
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(<a href="110.html">"Sleeping in Light"</a>)
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it's considered useless. What happens in the intervening years to
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cause people to stop coming to the station?
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="NO">Notes</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>@@@932976564 Lochley likes to retreat to Downbelow when the stresses
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of running the station become too great.
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<li>@@@932976564 Just after the shower scene, a ship is shown entering
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B5's docking bay. This is a tongue-in-cheek variant on an old
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cinematic metaphor, more typically rendered as a train going into a
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tunnel.
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<li>@@@936120474 Tim Choate, who plays Polix, was Zathras in the original
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series.
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<li>@@@932976564 Dedication:
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<blockquote>
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In Memory of Mister Kitty<br>
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198? to May 17, 1999<br>
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Now chasing star-mice
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</blockquote>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="JS">jms speaks</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>@@@932976564 "I presume that Mr. Kitty was yours?"
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<p>
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Yup.
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<p>
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<li>@@@932976564 <em>Was the Lorcan at the end played by Wayne
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Alexander?</em><br>
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No, it wasn't Wayne, and the name slips away at the moment.
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</ul>
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