The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. It failed. But in the year of the Shadow War, it became something greater: our last, best hope for victory. The year is 2260. The place: Babylon 5. "You have a question?" "Nobody knows it was you. Everyone saw something different, something from the legends from their own world, but it was still a terrible risk. After taking such care to hide what you really are, why take that chance?" "It was necessary." "Well, as answers go, short, to the point, utterly useless, and totally consistent with what I've come to expect from a Vorlon." "Good." "You know, just a thought. You've been back and forth to your homeworld so many times since you got here, how do I know you're the same Vorlon? Inside that encounter suit, you could be anyone." "I have always been here." "Oh, yeah? You said that about me, too." "Yes." "I really hate it when you do that." "Good." --Kosh and Sheridan, "Matters of Honor" "Are you trying to cheer me up?" "No, sir, wouldn't dream of it." "Good. I hate being cheered up. It's depressing." "Well, in that case, we're all going to die horrible, lingering, painful deaths." "Thank you. I feel so much better now." --Sheridan and Ivanova, MoH "Good morning, Ambassador. I hear you've been looking for me." "Yes. Please. I have been doing a great deal of thinking lately. With the Narn War over, I think it is time we reconsider our relationship." "Oh?" "My people have a manifest destiny. They can achieve it just as well without the help of your associates, perhaps better." "So we're no longer necessary." "That's right." "And now that we've done everything that you've asked, you'd like us to just disappear." "I do believe you have got it surrounded, Mr. Morden." "Aren't you being premature? After all, your people are still moving on several other worlds. You might still need us." "No, I don't think so. We have danced our last little dance, Mr. Morden. Now it is time for you to go away." "Okay. There is one small detail, Ambassador. A little bookkeeping to close out. I have to meet with my associates, but what do you say we reconvene in your quarters later this afternoon to discuss it?" "And then you will go away?" "For as long as you want." --Morden and Londo, MoH "A few months ago, you told me about an ancient race, the Shadows. This is one of theirs, isn't it?" "I'm sorry I could not tell him the truth, but our only chance is in allowing the Shadows to think we are unaware of their return, while we prepare our own forces." "But you said you'd never seen one before." "That part is true. Descriptions of the ships have come down to us from the last great war, but I have never actually seen one until this moment. These ships, once they target you, they never stop, never slow down, never give up until they have destroyed you. They are nearly invincible." "I don't believe that. Every ship has a weakness." "Believe what you will, till experience changes your mind. Take a good look John, and remember it well. That is the face of our enemy." --Delenn and Sheridan, MoH "Can you tell me if you've seen this before?" "Yes, in a dream." "A dream?" "I'm standing somewhere, on Centauri Prime I think, and I'm looking up, and there are ships just like this, passing overhead. First a few, and then more, a thousand, two thousand, so many that they blot out the sun. A terrible sight, terrible." "That's all?" "It is enough." --Endawi and Londo, MoH "Are you sure this is the place?" "Reasonably." "A most unreasonable place for reasonable assumptions." --Delenn and Lennier, MoH "You know, I've heard that when these are made, they're forged in white-hot flame, then cooled in three bowls. The first is some kind of ancient holy water, the second Minbari blood, the third human blood. They say that when a Ranger dies, the figures on either side shed three tears, one of water and two of blood." "And you, do you believe this?" "I stopped believing in miracles a long time ago, Ambassador. Part of the heart goes dead. It's best to leave it that way." --Marcus and Delenn, MoH "A Minbari fighting pike, an old one." --Delenn "A gift from a friend." --Marcus, MoH "Captain, the day something happens around here and I don't know about it, worry." --Ivanova, MoH "Since you feel strongly about going our separate ways, I wanted to be sure you understood the terms of our separation. Ah, here we are. This area over here is for the Centauri. Conquer all the worlds you like, we won't bother you, as long as it's understood that this area is ours. You can take all you want over here, and we'll take everything we want over there." "And what guarantee do we have that your forces will not decide to turn around and attack us?" "None. Ambassador, we both know what promises and treaties mean. All I can say is, we have what we want. The rest is of no concern to us." "Done. We go our separate ways, and we owe each other nothing." "Of course. Oh, one small exception, hardly worth mentioning. This world, it's on the border of your space, but we have a vested interest in it. I've taken the liberty of asking Lord Refa to secure it for us." "Refa?" "Well, you said you wanted nothing more to do with us, and he was quite open to my request. He secured the planet for us, and now my associates will take custody of it. The rest is yours. Good day, Ambassador." "Mr. Morden, I was thinking. I have never really seen the ships that you and your associates have used in helping us. Perhaps one of these days..." "Perhaps. Meanwhile, as I said, tell your forces to leave the blockade mines but to move their ships out of that area. You don't want them or anyone else hanging around when my associates come for Zagros 7." --Morden and Londo, MoH "I'm not authorized for that kind of information." "But you're the head of security." "And what kind of head of security would I be if I let people like me know things that I'm not supposed to know? I know what I know because I have to know it, and if I don't have to know it, I don't tell me, and I don't let anyone else tell me either. Now, look, we've tried most of the other ambassadors, why don't you talk to G'Kar, maybe he knows something about this ship." "Under the terms of our recent treaty, I am not authorized to have any official conversation with the Narn without Centauri approval." "So you'll ask unnofficially, and I can give you reasonable assurances that the head of security will not report you for doing so." "Because you won't tell yourself about it." "I try never to get involved in my own life. Too much trouble." --Garibaldi and Endawi, MoH "Most importantly, unlike other vessels its size, this one can make its own jump point into hyperspace." --Delenn "Very nice. And it looks just different enough that it won't be recognized as a Minbari ship." --Ivanova "Yes, exactly." --Lennier "I'll take two." --Ivanova, MoH "I know it is a long shot, Mr. G'Kar, but if there is anything you can tell us about this ship..." "Finally. They came to our world over a thousand of your years ago, long before we went to the stars ourselves. They set up a base on one of our southern continents. They took little interest in us. G'Quon believed they were engaged in a war far outside our own world." "G'Quon?" "One of our greatest spiritual leaders. The book of G'Quon is copied by hand from the original with every note and line precisely drawn. This ship and your ship are the same. I tried to warn the others that the ancient enemy was returning, but no one listened. Perhaps now they will." "But if this is correct, why would they just disappear for a thousand years?" "To all things there is a time, Mr. Endawi. Perhaps this is theirs." --Endawi and G'Kar, MoH "They missed! They never miss." --Delenn about the Shadow ship, MoH "Listen to me, Captain, you don't know what you're dealing with. The weapons on this ship aren't strong enough to hurt a Shadow vessel of that size. We must find help. We cannot hope to destroy a ship like that alone." "With all due respect, Ambassador, I've heard that before." --Delenn and Sheridan, MoH "Tell me, Commander, have you ever wondered what would happen if you opened a jump point while inside a jump gate?" "No! And neither should you." --Sheridan and Ivanova, MoH "You ready?" "No, but you may proceed anyway." --Sheridan and Delenn, MoH "I told you to wait outside, you could have been seen." --Senator "No harm. No one knows who I am." --Morden "It's all here. They don't have much to go on, a little from the Narns." "Yes, well, that's to be expected. But I think we've neutralized that problem. Nothing else, then?" "Not that I can see. The ship's a complete mystery to all of them." "Good. My associates will be very happy to hear that. There's no need to rush things. Your government can dismiss this as an isolated incident." "I don't know, there's something about this idea of a thread to planetary security I find very appealing. As long as we keep the real truth to ourselves, there's no reason we can't use this situation to speed up the program here at home." --PsiCop "Interesting. What exactly did you have in mind?" --Morden, MoH "Could someone please tell me what the hell these Shadows are?" --Franklin "There are being in the universe billions of years older than any of our races. They walked among the stars like giants, vast, timeless. They created great empires, taught the new races, explored beyond the Rim. The oldest of the ancients are the Shadows. We have no other name for them." --Delenn, MoH "Now let me get this straight. You two are missionaries?" "Yes. Great sign. We hear you have recent visitation by Drazi higher being." "Oh, yeah, yeah. Drobunka." "Droshalla." "Whatevah." --Garibaldi and Drazi missionary, "Convictions" "So you're ruling out a bombing?" --Sheridan "After what we've been through lately, not a chance. Now, thing is, nine times out of ten, you got a bomb, you got a political statement. There's nothing down here worth blowing up." --Garibaldi, "Convictions" "That's fine, but why here?" --Ivanova "To visit all the other worlds would take centuries, but with all the aliens who come through Babylon 5, we can accomplish our task in four or five decades. We are used to being patient. Whether it is illuminating manuscripts or programming a system analysis, our work is has always been very detailed." --Brother Theo, "Convictions" "There goes my vacation. One week off in three years. Whoever's behind this has really honked me off now." --Marishi to Garibaldi, "Convictions" "I have been diagnosed with Netter's Syndrome. Since I have only 7 days to live, I thought I would return home to put my affairs in order before the end." --Lennier to obnoxious man, "Conviction" "News of the attacks has spread all over the station. People are scared out of their wits. The sheer randomness of it. How do you get on with your life, not knowing where or when the next blast is going to come?" "Which fits in with what I told Garibaldi earlier. We received several anonymous messages at C&C just before the first explosion. All they said was 'Chaos is coming.'" --Franklin and Ivanova, "Conviction" "It's obvious the Centauri are the ones planting these bombs!" "G'Kar, we are considering all leads, but saying it doesn't make it so! You don't have any evidence." "The explosion that almost killed your Captain was caused by a Centauri!" "That was an isolated incident, and there's no reason to believe it had anything to do with this." "Oh, no, no, of course not. I suppose we've had a convention of mad bombers arrive here at the station! Yes, that must be it. From now on I must remember to check the Babylon 5 social calendar more often!" --G'Kar and Garibaldi, "Convictions" "It is perfectly obvious to anyone that the Narns are responsible for these atrocities." --Londo to Sheridan and Ivanova, "Convictions" "At this stage I think it's a little early to start pointing fingers. And, I would hate to think that anyone would try to use this tragic situation to their own political advantage." "There's nothing political about the truth, as you will discover soon enough." --Sheridan and Londo, "Convictions" "It is a strange thing, Lennier. As I think of it, I realize no one has ever saved my life before. Thank you for that. So here I am. It is the least I can do. If I were in your position, I am *sure* you would do the same for me. Of course, if I were in your position, and you were still in your position, neither one of us could do very much for the other. So, I suppose properly I should say that 'If I were in your position and you were in *my* position, you would do the same.' Of course, if both of us were in my position and neither of us were in your position, there would not be the need for anyone to do anything. I'm not sure that actually made sense, but I'm afraid that if I try to go back and figure it out, I will start bleeding from my ears. I heard a joke today. I probably shouldn't repeat it, but who are you going to tell? How many Centauri does it take to, uh, screw in a lightbulb? Just one, but in the great old days of the Republic, hundreds of servants would change a thousand light bulbs at our slightest whim! Well, I guess you had to be there. I'm going to take a break now, and wait for you to talk, and if you don't, I will just start talking again, and we wouldn't want that, now would we? Take your time. No pressure. I'll wait." --Londo to the unconsious Lennier, "Convictions" "Yeah, he's got everyone terrified." "Maybe that's what he wants. Maybe *that's* the message." --Garibaldi and Sheridan, "Convictions" "If whoever's behind these bombings wants to create fear and chaos, he might just be sticking around afterwards to see the results firsthand." --Ivanova, "Convictions" "May I be the first to say that this is the nuttiest idea you've ever had?" "Thank you." --Garibaldi and Ivanova, "Convictions" "Perhaps I have not made myself sufficiently clear. There is no telling when help will come. Unless we get ourselves out of here, on our own, we will probably die here. So we must work together!" "No." "What do you mean, no?" "No." "You want to live as much as I, hmm?" "Oh, yes, but I would much rather see you dead." "Here I am. Kill me. Just kill me." "You forget the terms of our surrender. The penalty for the killing of any Centauri by any Narn will be the death of 500 Narns, including the perpetrator's own family! But I don't have to kill you. I don't have to do anything, and I still get to watch you die. I find this most appealing!" "This is insane. We must work together." "No. As the humans say, up yours! Die!" --Londo and G'Kar, trapped in transport tube, "Convictions" "Not many fishes left in the sea. Not many fishes, just Londo and me." --G'Kar , trapped in transport tube, "Convictions" "Save me from loners and quiet guys!" --Sheridan, "Convictions" "That's no good, if you stick [the link] inside your shirt, he's gonna find it." "Well, where do you suggest I put it?" "All right, you'll hear me." "If we jack up the volume, we'll be able to tell what you had for lunch." --Garibaldi and Sheridan, "Convictions" "Security is not going to open fire if I am hostage, so why bring other people into this?" "Why not! I suffered. Why shouldn't they?" "'Cause they didn't do anything to you." "They're an audience, and what good is an audience without an audience?" "What are you saying?" "Now look around! These are chaotic times, Captain. I am simply an instrument of my time. People need to understand fear." --Sheridan and Carlson, "Convictions" "Now, back home I was no one, nothing. My wife walked out on me. I lost my job, my apartment, couldn't pay the bills. People walked all over me, because they could, because they like it when you are afraid. So now it's my turn. When I was fired, when they took away my apartment, they all said, 'It's nothing personal, it's just the times.' Well, it's nothing personal, Captain, it's just the times." --Carlson, "Convictions" "See you in hell, Captain!" --Carlson, "Convictions" "Welcome back. How do you feel?" "As though a great many heavy objects have fallen on me, but I suspect I will live." "I just spoke with Ambassador Mollari a little while ago. He's most grateful for what you did. The Centaurum will probably want to give you a medal for this." "I should have stayed in the coma." "Come on, Lennier, you saved his life. You deserve a little recognition." "I did what I did because all life is sacred. But when the object of your actions does not share that belief... I fear I have served the present by sacrificing the future." --Delenn, Lennier, Franklin, "Convictions" "There, you see! I'm going to live." "So it would seem. Well, it is an imperfect universe." "Bastard!" "Monster!" "Fanatic!" "Murderer!" "You are insane!" "And that is why we'll win!" "I'll be the ambassador to Babylon 5, they say. It will be an easy assignment. Ahh, I hate my life." "So do I." "Shut up!" --Londo and G'Kar, "Convictions" "Hell, anything happens to me, everyone gets an instant promotion." --Sheridan, "A Day in the Strife" "With all due respect, that was Grade-A stupid." --Ivanova to Sheridan, ADitS "*You* are going to give *me* an ulcer." --Ivanova to Sheridan, ADitS "You know, I was thinking of visiting your world sometime soon. I couldn't really get a good look at it the last time I was in the area. Do you think it would be safe for someone such as myself to visit your world now?" "Yes. Quite safe." "The streets are kept clear of trouble-makers, rock-throwers, protesters?" "The surviving streets are quite empty, Ambassador." "The work farms, the relocation camps, the construction gangs are all operating at capacity?" "Mmm-hmm." "And the executions, Na'Far, the executions continue?" "The executions continue." "Progress. It is a beautiful thing to behold, no Vir?" --Londo and Na'Far, ADitS "So is that what it's about? Pride? It's not enough that we've beaten them, we have to break them?" --Vir to Londo about the Narns, ADitS "And I know that things have been somewhat difficult between us for some time, Delenn. That is most unfortunate. I feel sometimes as though I have lost a friend." "I think you have lost much more than a friend, Ambassador, but that is between you and whatever gods you worship." --Londo and Delenn, ADitS "Bodyguard. Sometime I do not know who I'm protecting him against, outsiders, or my own people." --Ta'Lon about Na'Far, ADitS "I owe you a debt, a debt I must repay as a matter of honor." "I'm not entirely sure what my superiors back home would think if I suddenly started showing up places with a Narn bodyguard. "They would say, 'Here is a man who will live to be a hundred and fifty.'" --Ta'Lon and Sheridan, ADitS "I don't understand. I mean, why would they want to destroy us if we can't answer all their questions?" "Whoever sent this considers intelligence the most important factor in deciding who should live and expand out into the universe. The probe finds worthy candidates and eliminates those it considers less evolved, less intelligent." "Sort of like an interstellar gardner, plucking out the weeds so just the flowers can grow?" "Basically, yes." "Well, lets just hope the high-IQ boys back home give us all the right answers to this test, otherwise we're going to get hit with a five hundred thousand megaton weed-wacker." --Ivanova and Sheridan, ADitS "I don't want to go to Minbar." "Oh, of course you want to go to Minbar. Everyone wants to go to Minbar. It is the vacation spot of the season, assuming you're part of the long robes and headbones set." --Vir and Londo, ADitS "Londo, if I leave, you will be alone." "Ahh, I have always been alone." --Vir and Londo, ADitS "Corwin, check these figures again, make sure they came through the translator okay. I don't want to get killed because of a typo. It'd be embarrassing." --Ivanova, ADitS "Always finding the good in every situation, eh Captain?" --Ivanova "Absolutely. If I didn't, I might end up like you." --Sheridan [exits] "Hey, what's that supposed to mean? Did anybody else hear that? Did you hear that?" --Ivanova "No, Commander." --Corwin "Good. I swear, if we live through this, somebody's going to find their automatic shower preferences reprogrammed for ice water." --Ivanova, ADitS "If I live through this job without completely losing my mind, it will be a miracle of biblical proportions." --Ivanova "Well, there goes my faith in The Almighty." --Corwin, ADitS "It is better to die in the cause of freedom than to live in comfort as a slave." --Narn, ADitS "I carry my sword in my hand. You carry yours in your heart and in your mind. As I see it, that gives you a two-to-one advantage in arms. Be fair, citizen G'Kar." --Ta'Lon, ADitS "I know it's a pain in the neck, but would you really want your life safe, predictible, easy?" --Garibaldi to Franklin, ADitS "Gambling is one of the lesser sins. I've always thought that if you're gonna sin, you may as well go for one of the really big ones." --Brother Edward, "Passing Through Gethsemane" "Nobody's ever been to the Vorlon homeworld and back again, yet she goes and comes back like she just took a trip to the corner store. And now she's working for Kosh. Is anyone else as creeped out about this as I am?" --Garibaldi, PTG "I think I would have remembered a black rose." --Brother Edward, PTG "You know, guys like this make me long for the days of the electric chair. Hell, sometimes I think we need electric bleachers." --Garibaldi, PTG "Oh, I'm an eye-for-and-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth kind of guy, Ambassador." "So you support a system that would leave everyone blind and toothless." "No, not everyone, just the bad guys." --Garibaldi and Delenn, PTG "Death walks among you." --PTG "Lyta! Lyta Alexander, as I live and breathe..." --Londo "I suggest you remove your hand, Ambassador, or you won't be doing either for much longer." --Lyta, PTG "The Vorlons do not pick up hitchhikers." --Londo to Lyta, PTG "Lyta! I understand the PsiCorps is looking for you. I would hate very much for them to find you." --Londo "So would I. Because I'm not with the Corps anymore. That means I'm not bound by their rules. So if someone were to turn me in, I'd find him. And before they took me, I'd plant a nightmare deep in his mind where no one else could find or remove it, and that person would spend every night, for the rest of his life, screaming." --Lyta, PTG "Nightmares. The way my life has been going lately, who'd notice?" --Londo, PTG "We do not believe in any individual god or gods, but rather, we believe that the soul is, ah, what is a good term, a non-localized phenomenon." --D "I'm not sure I understand what that means." --Brother Edward "Well, if I project a beam of light at the wall, you see the light on the wall, but the wall is not the source of the light. It comes in from somewhere else. The soul is also a projection. It does not exist inside us, any more than the light exists inside the wall, but this shell is the only way we can percieve it." --Lennier "We believe that the universe itself is conscious in a way we can never truly understand. It is engaged in a search for meaning, so it breaks itself apart, investing its own consciousness in every form of life. We are the universe, trying to understand itself." --Delenn, PTG "Valen was the greatest of us. A thousand years ago, he came from nowhere, formed the Grey Council, and brought peace to our people. They say he was a Minbari not born of Minbari." --Lennier, PTG "Are you all right?" --Brother Theo "No. No, I'm not." --Brother Edward, PTG "Why would an uneasy conscience show up in a lab report?" --Edward, PTG "Do you know what it's like to wake up one day and discover you're a monster, a murderer?" --Brother Edward, PTG "Theo, I'm afraid. Is there enough forgiveness for what I've done?" --Brother Edward, PTG "I look like I'm wearing a circus tent. Any minute now, a little teeny car with 16 clowns in it is going to come flying out of my butt." --Zack, "Voices of Authority" "Garibaldi's Fashion Express. Go." --Garibaldi to link, VoA "Maybe it's time we got their attention." --Sheridan "Is it? When I was being trained on Minbar, we were taught that the First Ones are beyond anything we've experienced before. They don't think like we do. They are old, powerful, and dangerous, and they don't like to be bothered. A combination like that, you may not want to get their attention." --Marcus, VoA "It will be fun, assuming you're not vaporized, dissected, or otherwise killed in an assortment of supremely horrible and painful ways. Exciting, isn't it!" --Draal, VoA "To quote a human phrase, it gives me the screamin' willies!" --Draal, VoA "You see, I've noticed that you've been spending quite a bit of time in closed meetings with Captain Sheridan. One might almost get the impression that, uh, something was, uh, up?" "Just the usual diplomatic exchanges between our two governments." "Ah, yes, of course, of course. Why, as I'm no longer on the Council, I suppose I've forgotten how to tell the difference between a political session and a private meeting." --G'Kar and Delenn, VoA "Your decisions might have been correct on some level, but there are ways of doing things so that they reflect more favorably on the Earth government, and so it was decided that you needed a political officer, someone who can whisper in your ear, who could warn you about governmental policies you might bump into, someone who could keep you from making costly political mistakes that might jeopardize your career back home." --Musante to Sheridan, VoA "The President proposes, and the military disposes. Unless there's been a coup and no one told me." --Musante to Sheridan, VoA "Anything else you need?" --Ivanova "A glass of whiskey, a gun and two bullets." --Sheridan, VoA "I like you. You're trouble." --Draal "Well, thank you. That's the nicest thing anybody's said about me in days." --Ivanova, VoA "So right now we're in the lull between storms. Now, unless they're stopped, the Centauri will just keep moving in on the League of Non-aligned Worlds." "Well, I'm sure that's the rumor, but you know how rumors are. Earth would never ally itself with a government that's bent on war." "Yes, but we have signed a treaty with the Centauri." "Exactly, which proves my point." --Sheridan and Musante, VoA "Well, here we are. If you'll just plug yourself into the matrix, we'll take it from there." "It's, um, occupied." "Hmm? Oh, yes, of course, my mistake. I spend so much time out of my body, I sometimes forget where it is. If you'll excuse me... It will only take a moment to disentangle myself. Hmm, I must remember to dust myself once in a while." --Draal and Ivanova, VoA "Open your mind. But whatever you do, do not stray from the path." --Draal to Ivanova, VoA "All life forms are connected. Look for the path." --Draal, VoA "It is the power that binds us, one to another, across the darkness of space." --Draal, VoA "Draal, Draal, something's wrong. Draal, I'm not alone. Excuse me. It knows I'm here. It's pulling me in. I can't stop it." "It is the enemy. Pull away. Go back to the path." "I can't. It knows I'm here. It knows my name." --Ivanova and Draal, VoA "I've wanted Santiago dead for so long. I wasn't sure we could really pull it off. You're sure it's done?" "Earth Force One will never return from Io. The power is now yours, Clark, Mr. President." --"Voices of Authority" "I do not understand. A normal human mind should not have been able to do that." --Draal to Ivanova, VoA "I appreciate your help, Captain. I can't imagine what happened to scramble my lock code." --Musante, VoA "I don't think..." --Sheridan "Good. Don't." --Musante, VoA "My usual timing, sorry." "It's not what it seems." --Ivanova and Sheridan, VoA "I can't leave without an explanation. She'll be all over me." "It looks like she's already all over you." --Sheridan and Ivanova, VoA "Good luck, Captain. I think you're about to go where everyone has gone before." --Ivanova, VoA "Well, it must be colder in here than I thought." --Sheridan to Musante, VoA "I once believed the Centauri had the market on secret meetings on Babylon 5. It appears they have some competition." --G'Kar to Garibaldi, VoA "Something is going on, Mr. Garibaldi. I sense a gathering of forces that could perhaps help my people. I know we have never exactly been friends, but until now we have never been strangers." --G'Kar, VoA "Then perhaps I could help you." "I appreciate that, but I don't see how." "Well, then maybe that's something you should work on." --G'Kar and Garibaldi, VoA "I've never seen anyone come up with so many creative ways of saying 'No' to a simple proposition." --Musante about Sheridan, VoA "I need someone who speaks Minbari." "You found him. I did spend almost a year living there, but if you'd rather I left, that's fine. I'm sure they must have an Earth-Minbari dictionary lying around somewhere." --Ivanova and Marcus, VoA "From this point on, it will be inappropriate for Earth Force personnel to publicly criticize the government or its decisions. Violations will result in immediate fines and penalties." --Musante, VoA "You are now an arm of the political office, and this widens the scope of your authority. You are empowered to examine station publications to ensure they are ideologically correct. We've revised the rules of evidence to make them more flexible." --Musante, VoA "There may be some minor, and temporary, abridgements in the traditionally protected areas of speech and association, but only until this crisis is over. We have been betrayed on nearly every level, and it is going to take the efforts of every loyal citizen to keep Earth safe and ideologically pure." --Musante, VoA "How long has it been since you've had nothing to do?" "I have responsibilities." "What of responsibilities to yourself? You don't have to keep busy every moment of every day." "I don't remember authorizing a change in discussion to include my personal life." "I have to be authorized to talk to you like a person? Just what is it you're running from?" "Don't you have anything to do?" "Nope, I'm all yours." --Marcus and Ivanova, VoA "I think you just hit a nerve. The Vorlons must owe them money or something." "At least it tells us they understand our language, they're just not willing to speak to us in it." "Who knew they were French? Sorry." --Marcus and Ivanova, VoA "Do you always pace like that?" "Is there some way you'd prefer me to pace? Dammit! I really don't want to screw this up." "Then don't. The Minbari taught me, claim victory in your heart and the universe will follow." "Fine, great. Claim victory in your heart and up your..." --Marcus and Ivanova, VoA "Zog? What do you mean, zog? Zog yes? Zog no?" --Ivanova "It's leaving. My guess is zog means no." --Marcus "Like hell. I am not letting them leave here without saying yes." "Really? And how do you propose stopping them? Perhaps a big red and white sign with the word Stop on it? I'll put a bucket on my head and pretend to be the ancient Vorlon god Bouchi." "That's it!" "Fine, I'll get a bucket." "No, I meant the Vorlons. Open a comm channel, now. This is the Whitestar to departing ship. I just want to say I appreciate your response, and I fully understand. The Vorlons said that you wouldn't be up for a fight like this. In fact, they said in the last war, they carried you, did most the work, while you took most the credit for it. They said if you got involved with this one, you'd just get hurt. Come to think of it, we've got the Vorlons, we don't need much more help, do we? I mean, the Vorlons are really pretty close to perfect, aren't they? And strong. Yeah, whatever. Listen, I'll be sure and give them your message as soon as I get back. In the meantime, you have a nice flight. We'll be sure and send you a message as soon as the fighting is over, so you can come back out again." "I think you're making him mad." "Um hmm." "It's bigger than we are." "I know." "When it is time, come to this place. Call our name. We will be here." --alien response, VoA "If anyone asks, just say that we're waiting for the truth to come out, because sooner or later it always does." --Garibaldi, VoA "Nightwatch says the only people who have to worry are the ones with something to hide. You got something to hide, Chief?" "Look, you got a charge to make, make it. Otherwise, I don't have time for this." "No, I don't have a charge to make, dammit. I'm just trying to get through this thing, and it ain't easy. I'm walking a tightrope here, and I thought you'd understand. But boy was I a jerk. Look, I know you're my superior officer, and we have to work together, but for the rest of the day, just don't talk to me. We'll both be happier." --Zack and Garibaldi, VoA "Damage control is a great waste of time, effort, and resources, Mr. Allen, but sooner or later we'll find whoever is responsible for this outrage, and they'll be punished, severely, publicly, and permanently." --Musante, VoA "I told you I could help. The Book of G'Quan. Read it. We'll talk after." "I don't read Narn!" "Learn!" "He hates me. They all hate me. That's why they're doing this. To make me crazy." --G'Kar and Garibaldi, VoA "Aren't you late for a Bund meeting or something?" --shopkeeper to Nightwatch, "Dust to Dust" "I'm in pursuit of an individual who's a danger to your station, Earth, and the PsiCorps." --Bester "Well, that's two legitimate things to worry about." --Ivanova, DtD "Can we wound him? Just a little?" --Ivanova, DtD "The mountain is falling on me!" --lurker, DtD "The mountain fell on her? Aw, hell." --Franklin, DtD "They don't know you, your kind, the way I do. They don't understand. They think it's some kind of joke. But nothing works with you people, nothing but force. Computer, activate forward defense grid. We can't risk throwing it all away, not because of you. I've been saying for weeks now, the defense grid's been acting funny. Defense grid, prepare to fire. Fire!" --Ivanova, DtD "There's always too many of them, and not enough of us. What am I supposed to do?" --Ivanova "Fight them without becoming them." --Sheridan, DtD "What the hell just happened out there? I was stranded, out of communication, and suddenly I was hit by a great sense of personal danger." --Bester to guard, DtD "Mr. Bester, so good to see you again. I'd like to introduce you to my associates. These are Minbari telepaths. Nothing like a level playing field to ruin a PsiCop's day. Am I right, Mr. Bester?" --Sheridan, DtD "Would you like to explain what these individuals are doing here?" "Oh, I'd be happy to. How do you want it, polite or straight up?" "Straight up." "Alright. I don't like you. I don't like you, the PsiCorps, that badge, or that uniform. Your attitude stinks. Frankly, I don't trust you as far as I can throw this station, and I hold you personally responsible for what happened to Talia Winters." --Bester and Sheridan, DtD "On the other hand, we learned some interesting things about Miss Winters in the course of her debriefing and dissect... that is, examination." --Bester, DtD "That's why they're here. We don't trust you to abide by the rules prohibiting unauthorized scans. A normal human telepath can't stop you, but a group of Minbari telepaths together are strong enough to block even a PsiCop." --Ivanova to Bester, DtD "Hell, we'll have a press conference. Let's get all of this out in the open." --Sheridan "You won't do that. You have just as much to lose as we do." --Bester "Are you sure of that, Mr. Bester? Think about it, really hard." --Sheridan "Because it comes down to this: do you know more about us, or do we know more about what you've been up to lately?" --Ivanova "Far be it for me to try to talk you out of your paranoia, Captain." --Bester, DtD "I'm here to save your butts. Next time, show a little gratitude." --Bester "On the other hand, maybe wounding him isn't such a bad idea after all." --Franklin, DtD "Ambassador Mollari, what would consider a reasonable buffer zone?" --Len. "The seven colony worlds on that particular card." --Londo "Seven? You asked for only two when this began!" --Vizak "Yes, and if you had been willing to give us two at that time, we would have agreed to it, but since then, we have spent a great deal of time and money to secure that area. We now require more!" --Londo "Unacceptable!" --Vizak "If that is your decision, then we have nothing else to discuss." --Londo "Ambassador!" --Delenn "Remember what happened to the Narn homeworld, Vizak. You would not want the same to happen to your own. Ask G'Kar." --Londo, DtD "One is foolish, the other frightened." --Delenn, about Londo and Drazi "Telling which one is which, that's the hard part." --Vir, DtD "A darkness carried in the heart cannot be cured by moving the body from one place to another. I don't think there is anything that can be done for him now." --Lennier about Londo, DtD "Think about it, Mr. Garibaldi. Do you know anyone here who might have an interest in buying weapons that can't be seen or traced until it's too late?" --Bester, DtD "It accelerates neural processing, speeds it up to ten times normal. Then it stimulates the gene that controls telepathic development. After that, you just go for a joyride in somebody's mind." --Lindstrom to G'Kar, DtD "One warning. This stuff is made primarily for humans. It has a chemical master key that can address the DNA sequence of most non-human species, but as far as I know, there are no Narn telepaths. You may not even carry the gene." "There are no Narn telepaths now, but once long ago, there were." "Yeah? What happened to them?" "They and their family were exterminated. The telepath gene has never been strong enough in the survivors to breed a natural telepath." "Then maybe that little packet contains more than you hoped for." --Lindstrom and G'Kar, DtD "It's hard getting used to the silence." "Uh, what silence?" "Well, even when a telepath isn't scanning, you pick up a constant background hum, like voices just beyond what you can hear. It's always there. The sleepers turn it right off. It's a strange feeling, like walking with one of your eyes closed. It's so quiet." "Well, great, maybe it'll help your insomnia." "Unnecessary. I sleep peacefully and contentedly, the sleep of the just." "Yeah, well maybe the just might have a few things to say about that." "Okay, that's enough. You don't like me any more than the Captain or Ivanova, that's fine. But get this straight. My blood is the same color as yours, and what I do, I do to protect Earth, same as you. You don't like how I do it, that's your perogative. But there are things going on out there that you know nothing about, threats to the human race that no one ever hears about because we stop them. There's dangers all around us, and whether you like us or not, we may be all that stands between you and the abyss." --Bester and Garibaldi, DtD "I'm sorry, did I say something? That happens sometimes. When I feel strong emotion from two feet in front of me, it just jumps out of my mouth before I can stop it. Lies are particularly bad that way. Oh, please, strike that from the record, Mr. Garibaldi, as he says, officially, he has rights. Unofficially, he's lying. Try not to think about your complicity in this any further, Ashi. Your thoughts are leaking all over the place." --Bester, DtD "I thought the sleepers kept you from scanning anyone." "That's right." "So how'd you know he was lying?" "Well, the odds were good he was lying about something. Liars are always afraid that somebody is going to see through them. So I just provided him with a vehicle for his paranoia. Your Captain's opinions notwithstanding, the badge and the uniform do have certain advantages." "Yeah, like intimidation?" "Absolutely. Just like your badge, and your uniform." --Garibaldi and Bester, DtD "Ah, Vir, I have only seen political naivite this complete once before, in a speech before the Centaurum by Lord Jano. When he was finished, we recommended that he be sterilized in the best interests of evolution. Then we remembered that he was married to Lady Arno, so really, there was no need." --Londo, DtD "They are a deeply spiritual people!" --Vir "Yes, that you can leave in. It always scares people." --Londo, DtD "Are you deliberately trying to drive me insane?" --Vir "The universe is already mad. Anything else would be redundant." --Londo, DtD "If I had my talent working, I could have warned you when he is coming." "And if I had a baseball bat, we could hang you from the ceiling and play pinata..." "A pinata, huh? So, you think of me as something bright and cheerful, full of toys and candy for young children? Thank you, that makes me feel much better about our relationship." --Garibaldi and Bester, DtD "We are a dying people. So are the Centauri, obsessed with each other's death until death is all we can see and death is all we deserve." "The Centauri started it." "And will you continue until there are no more Narns and no more Centauri? If both sides are dead, no one will care which side deserves the blame. It no longer matters who started it, G'Kar. It only matters who is suffering." "No, no, I have an obligation to honor my father's name." "And how have you chosen to honor that name? What is there left for Narn if all of Creation falls around us? There is nothing, no hope, no dream, no future, no life, unless we turn from the cycle of death towards something greater. If we are a dying people, then let us die with honor by helping the others as no one else can." "I don't understand." "It is because you have let them distract you, blind you with hate. You cannot see the battle for what it is. We are fighting to save one another. We must realize we are not alone. We rise and fall together. And some of us must be sacrificed if all are to be saved. Because if we fail in this, then none of us will be saved, and the Narn will be only a memory. You have the opportunity here and now to choose, to become something greater and nobler and more difficult than you have been before. The universe does not offer such chances often G'Kar." "Why now, why not earlier? All this time, where have you been?" "I have always been here." --Narn image and G'Kar, DtD "I thought you might like to have this while you're, uh, away." "No, you can keep it for now. Besides, I am now somewhat closer to the source." --Garibaldi and G'Kar, DtD "You couldn't have gotten here two minutes earlier?" "I tried to send to you, but I couldn't get through." "Doesn't matter. We'll finish our business here later. You know, I said all along this whole dust idea wasn't going to work. We spend five years developing the stuff, tying it into latent genes, and it hasn't produced one telepath of acceptable strength among the normal population. Oh, well, at least we got it out of the hands of aliens and back among the humans where it belongs." --Bester and PsiCop, DtD