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<h3>Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)</h3>
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<img align=right width=128 height=96 src="/lurk/gif/046/crime1.gif" alt="">
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Commander Ivanova finds Garibaldi and Zack busy mocking two Drazi
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missionaries seeking assistance in the docking bay; they claim to have been
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drawn to
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B5 by reports that Droshalla, a Drazi holy being has
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blessed the station. (In typical unfathomable Drazi fashion, their
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attempts to share Zack's blessing are easily transferred to a nearby plant.)
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With relative unconcern Ivanova asks Garibaldi to investigate a set of
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anonymous messages to C&C declaring a countdown to chaos. The threats become
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reality moments later when a lurker is blown to bits by a booby trap in
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Downbelow.
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<p>
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Still in Docking, Zack's day improves further when the arrival of a chapter
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of monks interrupts his attempts to respond to the explosion. In Downbelow,
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the heavy damage and confusion mystify the crew. Although Garibaldi
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determines that it was a bomb, he can't find anything worth blowing up.
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<br clear=all>
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<img align=right width=128 height=96 src="/lurk/gif/046/theoivan.gif" alt="">
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Meanwhile Ivanova is unable to dissuade Brother Theo from his flock's
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determination to establish a mission on the station. When she points out
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that the aliens passing through B5 may not want to be preached at, that
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there is little space and that they will be in the way, he readily replies
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with both the words of the Bible and the fact that the monks themselves
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happen to be engineers and computer experts. <br clear=all>
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<img align=right width=128 height=96 src="/lurk/gif/046/doorway.gif" alt="">
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Lennier is afflicted with a garrulous human neighbor while waiting in
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reception for Delenn to disembark. He rises to greet her at the gate just
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as there is an explosion in the corridor behind. Lennier hauls her
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forward then steps past the gate to hustle Ambassador Mollari (who happens
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to be arriving as well) to safety just as the pressure doors close. Delenn
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watches in horror through the transparent frame as Lennier is licked by
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flames and struck by falling objects.
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A staff meeting clarifies that these blasts are aimed at people, not
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installations, and are being effective in their apparent purpose of
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spreading chaos and terror. Sheridan orders martial law and the bomber
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watches its imposition with satisfaction. While Lennier hovers in a coma,
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G'Kar rails at Garibaldi about the Centauri responsibility for the
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explosions and Londo insists to the captain and commander that the Narn are
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widening the range of their terror tactics. But the truth is that there is
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no sense to the attacks, and no one is claiming responsibility.
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<img align=right width=160 height=120 src="/lurk/gif/046/visit.gif" alt="">
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Londo manages to convince a doctor to let him stay with Lennier. Though his
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bedside manner probably needs improvement, Londo seems to have been genuinely
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moved by the young Minbari saving his life.
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Meanwhile security determines from a molecular trace of the bomb materials
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that they were stolen from an ice mine on Beta 7, and that the bomber seems
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to have struck before on Proxima 3. Garibaldi balks when Sheridan orders a
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full investigation of all traffic from there to B5 cross checked against
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possible gloaters filmed by security cameras after the blasts. Ivanova has
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the bright idea of putting the new engineering monks to use.
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Londo promises the unconscious Lennier to return, and departs on an errand.
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Upon finding the transport tube occupied by a smoldering G'Kar, at first he
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refuses to enter, but an instant later he leaps inside to escape a rush of flame
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from a bomb blast further down the corridor. Two hours later he rouses to
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find himself trapped in the damaged tube under the pitiless eyes of the
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former Narn ambassador. Londo proposes a plan of escape before the flames
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outside suffocate them, but with exquisite mirth G'Kar refuses. Though he'd
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like to live he would be delighted to watch Mollari die.
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<img align=right width=128 height=96 src="/lurk/gif/046/brothers.gif" alt="">
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The monks are successful, and Brother Theo points out to Garibaldi the most
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likely suspect. As a tac team in full armor assembles to go after the
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bomber, G'Kar croons and cackles to his nemesis, "Not many fishes left in the
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sea/Not many fishes, just Londo and me."<br clear=all>
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<img align=right width=128 height=96 src="/lurk/gif/046/hallway.gif" alt="">
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The team gathers near the bomber's quarters, but he's prepared for them and
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demands to speak to the captain alone. Sheridan stuffs his link down his
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pants and agrees to go in to negotiate. Garibaldi orders C&C not to let anyone
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beep the captain under any
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circumstances. The bomber wants free passage off the station, but lets slip
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that the deadman switch he carries will set off a bomb to make the station
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explode like the sun. This twigs Garibaldi to the fusion reactor. He
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sends a squad to check it out, and as they scramble into action the bomber
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attempts to terrorize the captain. All he manages is to get Sheridan thoroughly infuriated
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with his threats, and to send his own nerves haywire. Why is he bombing things? His only reason is that the times are chaotic.
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<img align=right width=128 height=96 src="/lurk/gif/046/carlson.gif" alt="">
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The squad finds the bomb in the reactor, just before Sheridan sits on his
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link. When he hears the beep the bomber panics. In the ensuing struggle
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the deadman switch drops, transmitting to the bomb just as it's propelled
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harmlessly away from the station.
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When the battered and damaged Lennier finally comes around, he explains that
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he saved Mollari's life at the risk of his own because "all life is sacred.
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But when the object of your actions does not share that belief... ahh, I
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fear that I have served the present by sacrificing the future."
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In the "last of the debris" from the last explosion on board, a rescue team
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comes upon the two nearly asphyxiated enemies in the transport tube. They
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curse each other with familiarity.
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<img align=right width=128 height=96 src="/lurk/gif/046/elevator.gif" alt="">
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"Bastard." Londo utters.
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"Monster."
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"Fanatic!"
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"Murderer!"
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"You are insane!"
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"That is why we'll win," G'Kar gasps.
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"Go be the ambassador to Babylon 5 they said. It will be an easy position.
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I hate my life."
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"So do I."
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"Shut up!"
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