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								<p>  President Santiago has decided to visit Babylon 5, ostensibly

								in order to present a new fighter wing to the station (though some

								people believe his real purpose is to drum up popular support for

								his new alien trade and immigration policies, which have met with

								opposition in the Senate).

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								The Presidential cruiser.

								<p>  Ivanova and Garibaldi are en route to the president's arrival

								site on B5, and they are discussing the president's arrival.

								Ivanova tells Garibaldi that the president and his staff have not

								informed B5 command of their travel plans because the president

								feels it's safe if nobody is aware of these plans till the last

								minute (though Garibaldi jokes that, if B5 is unaware of the

								president's plans, the president's staff can blame B5 if anything

								goes wrong).  Garibaldi feels that the president's visit is simply

								a waste of time and money; Ivanova responds that at least they're

								getting a new fighter wing out of the visit.  Garibaldi is not

								grateful--he explains that B5 should have had those fighters a long

								time ago.  Ivanova shares in the cynicism--now, B5 will have to

								renovate bays that haven't been maintained for years, using

								untrained crews rushed for time--and all of this at B5's expense.

								When Garibaldi claims he's no longer surprised by anything the

								government does (he's come to expect it), Ivanova compliments him

								on his very "Russian" outlook.

								<p>  Suddenly, there is an explosion in the bay.  Garibaldi and

								Ivanova are almost injured, and Sinclair, from the observation

								dome, sees a body in a spacesuit fly away from the station.

								<p>  Down in the Med Lab, Franklin has diagnosed the person who

								flew out of the station--he flew out of the bay before the

								pressurization doors were activated.  When Sinclair asks if the

								patient can say anything, Franklin replies that any procedure that

								could be used to rouse the patient would kill him.  Garibaldi,

								meanwhile, has finished his evaluation of the damage ("You can put

								what's left of [the bay] in a shot glass," he tells Sinclair).

								Garibaldi still doesn't know what the cause of the explosion was,

								but he feels it was probably caused by negligence or fatigue on the

								part of the overworked crew.  Sinclair asks about the possibility

								of sabotage, and though Garibaldi claims he never rules that

								possibility out, he feels that the inexperience and possible

								exhaustion of the crew was "inviting an accident."

								<p>  Ivanova reports that Major Lianna Kemmer, an official on the

								president's security staff, has arrived.  Kemmer requests an

								immediate briefing on the explosion.  Garibaldi, when he hears

								Lianna's name, becomes lost in thought--he explains to Sinclair

								that he knew Lianna seventeen years ago (her father was his

								friend).  "She's a real sweet kid," comments Garibaldi.

								<p>

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								Lianna Kemmer.

								<p>  The meeting between Garibaldi and Lianna is somewhat cold,

								however.  Lianna largely ignores Garibaldi and introduces herself

								to Sinclair.  Sinclair comments that Garibaldi will brief her on

								the situation, but she requests that her own team handle the

								investigation.  Sinclair is reluctant, but because Lianna, as chief

								of presidential security, has the legal authority to take over the

								investigation ("with or without your permission," she comments.  "I

								would much rather my report reflected full cooperation on your

								part).  Sinclair hesitantly agrees (after Garibaldi bitterly tells

								him to let Lianna take over the investigation), and Garibaldi moves

								away bruskly, commenting that he has "better things to do."

								<p>  Sinclair follows Garibaldi out and asks what the problem is

								between Garibaldi and Lianna.  Garibaldi is hesitant to answer, but

								Sinclair feels that if their relationship affects B5, Sinclair has

								a right to know.  Abruptly, Ambassador G'Kar interrupts them--he

								has a problem with the seating arrangements for the president's

								banquet ("The entire Narn delegation has been seated next to the

								Vree," says G'Kar.  "An intolerable situation!  Have you ever seen

								them eat?  That's horror for you....  This is a deliberate slap in

								the face to the entire Narn Regime.")

								<p>  Meanwhile, Garibaldi, who had walked away slightly after G'Kar

								interrupted his conversation with Sinclair, has caught a thief

								trying to steal something.  He begins angrily yelling at the thief

								(whom he has caught several times before in the past month), and

								when he treats the thief somewhat violently, a fight erupts between

								the two.  Sinclair interrupts G'Kar in order to break up the fight.

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								Garibaldi accosts the thief.

								<p>  Later, Sinclair and Garibaldi are eating together, and

								Sinclair asks Garibaldi what is wrong.  Garibaldi finally comments

								that seventeen years ago, he was working as a security officer on

								Europa ("a real cesspool," he claims).  "Ever try and uphold the

								law when nobody cares?  After a few weeks, I started drinking hard

								just to get through the night."  Eventually, Garibaldi met Frank

								Kemmer, Lianna's father.  Kemmer was a shuttle pilot--"a real

								decent guy."  Garibaldi explains that when his job got tough, he

								spent some time with Kemmer and his family--this is when he first

								met Lianna, who used to call him "Uncle Mike."  "With all the

								madness, [staying with Kemmer] kept me sane and sober for a while,"

								Garibaldi explains.  However, as Garibaldi was beginning to have a

								certain amount of success upholding the law, he ended up making a

								few enemies.  Garibaldi knew that some people were trying to kill

								him, but he also felt that he could handle it.  Unfortunately, his

								enemies worked indirectly:  they exploded one of Kemmer's shuttles,

								thereby killing Kemmer.  They blamed the explosion on Garibaldi's

								negligence.  Since the government didn't want a scandal, they kept

								the situation quiet and "blackballed" Garibaldi throughout the

								system.  "But none of that was as bad as telling Frank's family

								what had happened.  Lianna didn't even cry; she just died inside...

								I crawled back into the bottle, and didn't come out again

								for a long, long time."  Suddenly, Dr. Franklin calls Sinclair into

								the Med Lab.

								<p>  At the Med Lab, Lianna and her staff have violated Franklin's

								wishes and are trying to rouse the explosion victim in order to try

								to get information from him.  When Sinclair arrives, the victim has

								already been roused, and he claims that the explosion was no

								accident--it was caused by a bomb.  Sinclair orders Kemmer to leave

								the patient alone--for Franklin feels that any procedure to rouse

								the patient will kill him--but Lianna refuses.  Just as the victim

								dies, he names the person who planted the bomb:  "It was Garibaldi."

								<p>  Major Kemmer has called a hearing in response to the allegation

								against Garibaldi.  Garibaldi, however, cannot believe that

								Kemmer and the rest of the president's staff are placing so much

								importance in the accusations of a dying man.  Garibaldi claims

								that the victim "had it in for me" -- that is, he resented

								Garibaldi because Garibaldi had arrested him a few months ago for

								"trashing an alien shop."  Further, Garibaldi argues that the

								initial damage reports showed no trace of a bomb, but Kemmer

								contends that the explosion may have destroyed any traces of it.

								Lieutenant Cutter, a member of Kemmer's staff, adds that perhaps no

								bomb was found because Garibaldi didn't *want* to find one.  This

								accusation angers Garibaldi, but Kemmer doesn't seem to care--she

								asks Sinclair to suspend Garibaldi from duty because of Garibaldi's

								possible criminal involvement.  Though Sinclair doesn't want to

								suspend Garibaldi, Kemmer -- as head of presidential security --

								effectively *orders* Sinclair to carry out the suspension.

								Sinclair, who has little choice but to submit to Kemmer's legal

								authority, is forced to remove Garibaldi from active duty.  Major

								Kemmer, now that Garibaldi has been removed from duty, temporarily

								assumes the position of B5 security chief.

								<p>  Garibaldi, upon returning to his quarters, is confronted by a

								security officer who refuses to allow Garibaldi entry.  Major

								Kemmer and Lieutenant Cutter arrive, and Garibaldi pleads with

								Kemmer to allow him to speak with her.  When he moves to grab

								Kemmer in order to speak with her, however, the security guard

								roughly forces him to withdraw his grasp.  Kemmer orders Cutter to

								leave and see what the scanning team has discovered concerning the

								explosion in the bay; she then dismisses the other security guard

								so that she and Garibaldi can be alone.

								<p>  Once they are alone, Garibaldi explains to Lianna that he

								"loved Frank like he was my own brother."  Lianna angrily tells him

								that Frank died because Garibaldi was concerned only with protecting

								himself, but Garibaldi denies this.  He admits that he "made a

								mistake," but he claims that he would never have let Frank die to

								save himself.  When he pleads with her and asks her to believe him,

								she replies that it's too late for Garibaldi to ask to be trusted:

								"I might [believe you], if you had told me then, but you just got

								drunk and ran, like you always do," she says.  Cutter has meanwhile

								returned, and he informs Kemmer that the explosion was indeed

								caused by a bomb, for the burns of the victim (the one who

								originally implicated Garibaldi) showed traces of certain explosives.

								Cutter also informs Kemmer that schematics of the bay, as

								well as substantial amounts of Centauri currency, has been found in

								Garibaldi's quarters.  Garibaldi again tries to reason with Kemmer:

								"Come on, Lianna, this is a frame.  If I were guilty, why would I

								leave the evidence in my own quarters?" he asks.

								<p>  "Maybe you just made another mistake, just like you did

								seventeen years ago," replies Kemmer, who orders Cutter to take

								Garibaldi into custody.  Garibaldi, however, who is angered by the

								whole situation, runs away and attempts to escape Cutter.  Kemmer

								orders her security officers after Garibaldi and posts a stationwide

								security alert for Garibaldi.

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								Garibaldi makes his escape.

								<p>  On the observation dome, Ivanova and Sinclair are surprised to

								see an alert against Garibaldi.  Sinclair orders Ivanova to cancel

								the alert, but Kemmer--who has just arrived at the observation

								dome--tells Sinclair that he can't cancel the alert because there

								is now hard evidence that Garibaldi is a saboteur.  Sinclair

								responds angrily to Kemmer and tells her that "Garibaldi is many

								things but he's no saboteur"; further, Sinclair tells Kemmer that

								he is quite annoyed with her personal vendetta against Garibaldi.

								Sinclair again orders Ivanova to cancel the alert, and Ivanova

								gladly complies with the order.  Kemmer responds that if Sinclair

								keeps "obstructing" her, she will have no choice but to invoke

								presidential authority; however, Sinclair tells Kemmer that he's

								tired of "presidential authority" excuse.  "This is my station, and

								it's time you realized that," says Sinclair.  Sinclair proceeds to

								order Ivanova to escort Kemmer off the observation dome.  Ivanova

								gladly complies with this order as well ("You are going to resist,

								I hope," she tells Kemmer).  After Kemmer leaves, Ivanova warns

								Sinclair that Kemmer will probably contact Earth Central; Sinclair

								says he's aware of that, but at least the delay will buy him enough

								time to find Garibaldi before Kemmer's staff does.  Ivanova

								suddenly has an idea: she smugly orders the B5 staff to begin a

								"Level 6 maintenance check" on all off-station communication

								channels--a move which will tie up the communication channels for

								hours.

								<p>  Garibaldi has discreetly moved down to the Zocalo, where he

								seeks out Londo.  He tells Londo that he is looking for information

								about the explosion in the bay.  He explains that someone tried to

								frame him by planting substantial amounts of currency in his

								quarters; he then explains that the currency was Centauri.  Londo

								picks up the implication, and stares with feigned disbelief at

								Garibaldi; "Oh, Mr. Garibaldi, do you really think that I would do

								such a thing to you, my good and dear friend?"

								<p>  "In a minute," responds Garibaldi.

								<p>  "You're right," answers Londo, "but I didn't, though I may

								have an idea who did...."

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								"Don't turn around."

								<p>  Meanwhile, Kemmer angrily contacts Ivanova and asks why all

								communications channels are offline.  Ivanova replies that a

								communications check is being conducted, for they don't want the

								president to be "out of touch" when he arrives at B5.  Kemmer

								demands that Ivanova open a channel, but Ivanova brushes her off

								("I'm a lieutenant commander in Earth Force, major.  I do not take

								'demands.'  If you have a request, I'll consider it," Ivanova says.

								When Kemmer 'requests' that Ivanova open a channel to Earthdome,

								Ivanova simply denies her request.).

								<p>  Kemmer comments to Cutter that Ivanova and Sinclair are "doing

								everything they can to protect Garibaldi," but Cutter isn't

								surprised--their files show that Ivanova and Sinclair are Garibaldi's

								only real friends, aside from Londo Mollari.  Kemmer sends Cutter

								to question Londo; she sends another officer to return to their

								ship and open a communication channel with Earth Force One

								(President Santiago's ship)--specifically, with General Netter on

								Earth Force One.  Kemmer explains that Earth Force One should be

								close enough to pick up the signal from Kemmer's ship, which is

								docked at B5.

								<p>  Londo, meanwhile, has explained to Garibaldi why he feels that

								G'Kar is the one who's trying to frame Garibaldi.  Londo says that

								during the Narn occupation of Ragesh 3, some important scientific

								material was "lost," but the Narns claimed they could find it

								again--for the right price.  Thus, G'Kar could possibly have had

								access to large amounts of Centauri currency, which he could have

								planted in Garibaldi's quarters.  Garibaldi says that he wants to

								visit G'Kar.  Without his usual security clearance, however,

								Garibaldi knows that he might have a hard time gaining access to

								the ambassadorial wing, where G'Kar's quarters are located.

								Garibaldi therefore asks Londo for a loan; Garibaldi claims that,

								with enough money, he can gain access to the ambassadorial wing.

								Londo appreciates the irony in the situation--he has switched roles

								with Garibaldi for the time being--but he eventually extends a

								fairly generous loan to his "good, dear friend."  Londo explains

								that he sees certain parallels between himself and Garibaldi (Londo

								feels that, like Londo himself, Garibaldi is sometimes "the odd man

								out"); it therefore gives him a certain comfort to be able to help

								Garibaldi in a time of need (however, the more practical side of

								Londo claims that the Centauri goddess of luck, with whom Londo has

								had a "long and rather dubious relationship," has been smiling on

								him lately--he can therefore afford the loan).  "If they catch

								you," warns Londo, "I will deny ever seeing you.  Good luck!"

								<p>  Garibaldi successfully gains access to the ambassadorial wing;

								when he arrives at G'Kar's quarters, he's surprised to find that

								G'Kar has been expecting him ("... you've been talking to Mollari.

								It was inevitable he would send you to me.... My people watch him;

								his people watch me; we all watch one another here, Mr. Garibaldi.")

								G'Kar also explains that the security monitors are "malfunctioning"

								at the moment, so Garibaldi need not worry about the

								security officers finding him here (especially since G'Kar took the

								liberty of telling a security guard that he had seen Garibaldi on

								the next level).  G'Kar says that he's sure Londo blamed Garibaldi's

								present situation on the Narns; however, he denies any part

								in the incident (though he admits he doesn't think it's a bad

								idea).  G'Kar offers Garibaldi a chance to escape B5; G'Kar says

								that Garibaldi's talents and services could be useful on Narn.

								Once on Narn, if Garibaldi were to ever become "homesick," G'Kar

								says he's sure the Narns could arrange for Garibaldi to return--as

								a genetically altered spy.  Garibaldi immediately declines G'Kar's

								offer, however; he refuses to even think about betraying Earth.

								G'Kar advises Garibaldi to stop seeing things in "such absolute

								terms" ("The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three

								elements:  energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest.  Unless

								you comprehend that fact--and soon--you will be cornered and

								caged," warns G'Kar), but Garibaldi still refuses G'Kar's offer.

								G'Kar makes one last plea:  "Without your position, this station is

								not safe for you.  You have made many enemies."

								<p>  "Call it a lifestyle," replies Garibaldi, as he leaves.

								<p>  From the observation dome, meanwhile, Ivanova is giving

								instructions to the new fighter wing, which has just arrived.

								<p>  Down in the alien sector, Garibaldi is trying to purchase a

								high-level security card from N'grath, but N'grath refuses because

								Garibaldi is "still police," even though he's a fugitive.  N'grath

								abruptly forces Garibaldi to leave, and when Garibaldi is thrown

								outside N'grath's doors, he is almost caught by some of Kemmer's

								guards.

								<p>

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								Garibaldi and n'grath.

								<p>  He narrowly escapes and eventually returns to the human

								sector of B5, only to be attacked by a group of angry aliens.  Just

								when it appears that Garibaldi has no hope left, Sinclair (who has

								been monitoring security reports concerning Garibaldi's whereabouts)

								suddenly finds him and helps to fight off the aliens.

								Sinclair suggests that Garibaldi go to Med Lab, but Garibaldi

								refuses to go anywhere before he figures out who framed him.

								Ivanova contacts Sinclair and tells him that he has a Gold Channel

								message from General Netter; meanwhile, when Sinclair turned his

								head to speak with Ivanova through his comm link, Garibaldi ran

								off.  By the time Sinclair turns around again, Garibaldi is gone.

								<p>  General Netter's message has come through, and Netter orders

								Sinclair and his staff to fully cooperate with Kemmar.  After

								Netter ends communication, Sinclair explains to Kemmer that he

								wants to find Garibaldi as much as she does--"the only difference

								is," says Sinclair, "I haven't already judged him....  But the fact

								is, Garibaldi is as loyal as you are, and if you weren't so twisted

								up inside about what happened to your father you'd realize that.

								It's not justice you're after, major, it's blood."  Just then,

								Cutter contacts Kemmer and says that the guards have sighted

								Garibaldi and have discovered that Garibaldi has been paying for

								things with Centauri currency.  Kemmer believes that the currency

								found in Garibaldi's quarters was only part of the payoff; she

								orders the guards to move in on Garibaldi.  After Kemmer leaves,

								Sinclair contacts the security guard who had been stationed outside

								Garibaldi's quarters when Garibaldi first found that his quarters

								were being guarded.

								<p>  Garibaldi, meanwhile, has entered a club.  He sits down and

								suddenly notices that a security guard has moved into the same

								club.  He borrows an alien's hat and tries to avoid notice--and he

								succeeds, at least for the moment.  The guard leaves, and when

								Garibaldi gives the alien back his hat, the alien replies, "Don't

								want hat?  Take bottle.... I go casino."  As the alien gets up, he

								pushes a bottle of some alcoholic drink toward Garibaldi.

								Garibaldi fights with himself for a long moment--will he give up

								the sobriety that he has worked toward for so long?  The past few

								hours have been excruciatingly difficult for Garibaldi--how

								appealing the drink must seem--how easy it is to simply forget

								about all of his problems.

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								Temptation.

								<p> At last, Garibaldi decides to drink --

								and he drinks heavily.  Quite soon, he's experiencing quite a

								hangover--despite his trouble standing up, he is sharing jokes with

								the aliens, and, in general, parading around the room making a fool

								of himself.  ("You got a real nice place here!  Great ambiance,

								terrific decor, friendly people.  Yeah, this place should be on all

								the chartered tours--'see and experience the real Babylon 5.'

								Hell, in a couple month, I could see a few of you people topside,"

								he mumbles, as he stumbles out the door).

								<p>  Meanwhile, one of the people in the restaurant has notified

								the security guards of Garibaldi's whereabouts, and when Garibaldi

								wanders out of the restaurant, Kemmer, Cutter, and their guards are

								waiting for him.  "Drunk again, Uncle Mike?" asks Lianna.  The

								confused Garibaldi remembers how the young Lianna, seventeen years

								ago, often said the same thing.  Kemmer's guards take Garibaldi

								into custody; Cutter, meanwhile, comments that the new fighter wing

								are getting ready to be launched, and he feels he should check the

								bays one more time.

								<p>  Lianna is questioning Garibaldi; she's trying to get him to

								confess.  At one point, she confronts him and asks, "You never

								change, do you, Michael?"  He replies that he thought he had--until

								she showed up.

								<p>  Garibaldi tries to reason with her again.  He asks her if she

								really wants to destroy his life, just as she feels he destroyed

								hers years ago.  "If I could have gone in Frank's place, I would

								have," says Garibaldi.  "I didn't know, Lianna.  I didn't know."

								<p>  Just then, the security officer whom Sinclair contacted

								earlier arrives at the room where Garibaldi is being interrogated.

								He explains that Sinclair ordered him to search the explosion

								victim's quarters--and when he carried out that search, he found a

								detonator and a few Homeguard pamphlets (the security officer also

								explains how there had been some trouble with the Homeguard a while

								ago, and he mentions that Garibaldi cleared it up).  Garibaldi says

								that security had suspected the victim of being a Homeguard member

								for a long time--but they never could prove it.  Garibaldi says

								that he feels that the victim was killed by a bomb that the victim

								planted in the bay--but the victim was unaware of the use of a

								plasma driver in the bay.  Such a plasma unit would have created

								enough vibration to trigger the bomb prematurely.  When Lianna asks

								about a possible motive, Garibaldi explains that the president was

								planning to announce new alien trade and immigration policies --

								policies that the Homeguard would strongly oppose.

								<p>  Cutter calls in and informs Kemmer that the president is about

								to arrive for the fighter wing presentation ceremony.  Kemmer

								orders Cutter to make sure the bays are secure.

								<p>  Kemmer admits that she'd like to believe Garibaldi, but she

								still sees no explanation for how the Centauri currency and the bay

								schematics got into Garibaldi's quarters.  She explains that nobody

								knew that the victim had named Garibaldi except her, Garibaldi,

								Franklin, and Sinclair.

								<p>  "And Cutter," remembers Garibaldi.  "He was there just when

								the evidence against me was found."  Lianna is skeptical, however;

								she claims that Cutter is one of their best agents.  Garibaldi just

								comments that perhaps the Homeguard was counting on that--though

								the first bomb didn't work, Cutter can finish the job, so to speak.

								He advises Kemmer to check the bays herself--just to be sure.

								<p>  As Earth Force One approaches the B5 docking bay, Kemmer and

								Garibaldi walk down to the bay themselves.  Kemmer tells Cutter

								that she wants to scan the bay herself; however, as she moves to do

								so, Cutter knocks her out with the weapon he is carrying.  He

								points a gun at Garibaldi, but when he bends down to recover the

								weapon that he used against Kemmer, Garibaldi kicks the gun out of

								his hand.  A struggle ensues, but Garibaldi gains the upper hand

								long enough to grab hold of a comm link and warn Ivanova to abort

								the docking procedure.

								<p>  Later, in the Med Lab, Franklin tells Garibaldi that he'll be

								all right (though Garibaldi feels like he "just made love to a

								meteor shower")--and so will Lianna.  Sinclair tells Garibaldi that

								explosives were found on the bay doors--if the doors had opened,

								the new fighter wing, as well as half of the station, would have

								been lost.  Sinclair also ran a check on Cutter and found that

								someone on Earth deposited a large sum of money in Cutter's account

								an hour after the explosion victim named Garibaldi.  Cutter then

								withdrew it on B5 in Centauri currency, which he planted in

								Garibaldi's quarters.  Sinclair congratulates Garibaldi on his

								actions, and places Garibaldi back on active duty, but Garibaldi

								feels that he lost a personal battle:  "I blew it, Jeff ... just

								like I always do.  When things get too rough, I crawl right back

								into the damn bottle.  What really scares me is how much I enjoyed

								it."  Sinclair still feels that Garibaldi shouldn't be upset with

								himself--he crawled back out of the bottle and saved the station.

								Garibaldi, however, feels that he just got lucky--this time; what

								will happen next time, he asks?  Sinclair says he hopes there won't

								be a "next time," but if there is, he wants Garibaldi to promise

								not to try to fight the battle alone.  "You're more trouble than a

								toilet full of snakes," says Sinclair, "but I couldn't run this

								station without you."

								<p>  President Santiago successfully completed his address and

								reception.  In his address, he called for alien governments to work

								more closely with earth--"a position certain to cause much

								controversy in the weeks to come," according to a news broadcast.

								<p>  Garibaldi finds Lianna just as she's about to leave.  Lianna

								thanks Garibaldi for his favorable report of the situation;

								Garibaldi replies, "I figured if you could nab me on my own turf,

								you might just have a career in this game."  Lianna admits that she

								messed up--she apologizes for what she put Garibaldi through (and

								she says that Sinclair was right--she was out for blood, not

								justice), but he tells her there's no need to apologize.  He

								explains that people are not machines, and when they're angry, they

								lash out.  "Seventeen years ago," he says, "we both died inside.

								But somehow, we survived.  For better or worse, that's all we can

								do--survive.  And, maybe one day, forget how much it can hurt to be

								human."

								<p>  As she leaves, Lianna tells Garibaldi that President Santiago

								is "fond of Babylon 5."  Garibaldi half-humorously tells her to

								make sure to keep the president safe, for B5 needs all the allies

								it can get.  They hug, and Lianna leaves quietly.  Garibaldi stares

								after her, afraid that he really hasn't changed at all in seventeen

								years.  If it's so easy to crawl back into the bottle, how can he

								ever be sure that he won't do it again?

								<p>

								Shawn Bayern

								<em>bayern@cshl.org</em>

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