You know, I've been stuck in this tin can for 3 years.
I haven't taken a vacation.
Ok, ok, it's my fault.
I had the leave coming, I just didn't take it.
I mean, the pay sucks--
I knew that when I signed on,
and nobody said I'd survive the job.
Now, I give you all that,
but where in my contract does it say
that I have to eat the same food for breakfast
every day for 3 years?
Paragraph 47, subsection 19,
clause 9a.
You can find it in the index
under S.U.A.E.I.
S.U.A.E.I.?
All: Shut up and eat it.
Ah...
Excuse me, Commander.
What? What, what, what?
It's nothing.
I smell bacon and eggs.
Get out of here. Do you know how much it costs
to bring eggs all the way out here before they spoil?
I have tried for years.
It can't-- [Sniffing]
Bacon and eggs, definitely.
Ooh... Oh...
It's from Marcus.
It's nothing like that. I did him a favor.
I helped get him an identicard
so he could use some of the station's facilities.
He asked what he could do for me in return,
and I said surprise me.
I can get anchovies, I can get olive oil,
anything that's prepackaged.
I haven't seen a fresh chicken egg
in 3 years, cooked or otherwise.
And bacon? Forget it.
Look, if you want it, it's yours.
Oh, no. Wouldn't dream of it.
No. Go on. Eat.
Don't mind us.
We'll just sit right here.
Yeah. And watch.
I'm going to kill him...
After breakfast,
if I can find him.
Aah!
Get out of here! Go!
Aah!
Those bastards.
Aah!
The Babylon project was our last best hope for peace.
It failed.
In the year of the Shadow War, it became something greater--
our last best hope...
For victory.
The year is 2260.
The place...
As senate hearings
into the death of President Luis Santiago
enter their sixth week,
evidence purporting to be
from President Clark's personal physician
has surfaced.
These records seem to indicate
that the illness which prevented President Clark
from being aboard Earthforce one
when it exploded
may have only been a convenient alibi.
Representatives for President Clark
speaking before
the senate investigative committee today
dismissed these latest allegations,
describing them as attempts
to destabilize Earth gov
from within and without.
In related news,
Earthdome chief of staff bill Harris announced
that a new alien race only recently detected
may pose a significant threat
to planetary security.
When asked what was being done
to counter this threat,
Harris said only
that extreme measures may be required.
Will she be all right?
Well, there's no internal damage
or a concussion.
There's something to be thankful for.
Who were the men attacking her?
Businessmen, of a sort.
They know the right doors to knock on,
the right words to say
to get a list of names of people
that other people want found,
captured, or killed for the right price.
Well, why her? What did she do?
Nothing...yet.
Keep a close eye on her, doctor.
I'll be back.
Take 5. I'll be ok.
Yes, sir.
Thought I'd stop in and see how you're doing.
Fine, fine.
2 weeks down, 6 to go
before I've repaid my debt
to society
for attacking Mollari.
I've taken the opportunity
provided by my incarceration
to meditate...
To think.
Sometimes I even sing.
I know. We got a petition.
For or against?
Based on the sound,
they think we're torturing you in here.
[Laughing]
Sit down, Mr. Garibaldi.
You know, a true artist is never appreciated
in his own time.
Or his own cellblock?
And you?
Are you enjoying the book of G'Quan?
What I can follow, yeah.
I just wish there were
a translated version I could read.
[Gasps] Sacrilege.
It must be read in the mother tongue
or not at all.
You know what's odd?
You seem, I don't know,
happier in here
than you were out there.
In here, Mr. Garibaldi,
you cannot hide from yourself.
Everything out there has only one purpose--
to distract us from ourselves,
from what is truly important.
There are no distractions in here.
You can learn much from silence.
And what have you learned?
I'm writing it all down right here--
the war, the fall of Narn,
our mistakes,
and what must be done to correct them.
I expect to have it finished
by the time I'm released.
Can I see it?
When it is done.
[Beep beep]
Yeah.
Chief, we need you a.S.A.P., code 7r.
Our new friend says to tell you
the package you've been waiting for
has arrived.
I'm on my way.
I'll check in with you later.
Remember that petition.
[Garibaldi] 7 years ago, I saw something.
I was never able to prove it.
And after enough people said I was nuts,
I figured I'd shut up
until I could find somebody to back up my story.
Well, I found her.
Her name is Dr. Mary kirkish.
I heard she was on the run,
so I asked Marcus to find her.
She risked her life coming here.
A lot of people want her dead.
Once she gets here, once you talk to her,
you'll understand why.
For the past 12 years,
I've been working for interplanetary expeditions.
We conduct archaeological digs on other worlds
in search of new technology.
Well, new to us, anyway.
Exploring the past to create a better future.
We've seen the ads.
7 years ago, I was stationed on Mars.
We were always getting false leads on artifacts
supposedly buried beneath the martian soil
for thousands of years.
Nothing ever came of it.
And then one day our Sonic probes
picked up something 300 feet beneath the surface
of Syria planum.
We didn't know what it was,
except it wasn't a natural formation.
And given its depth,
it had to have been there at least a thousand years.
It was the middle of the martian winter,
so it took weeks
just to dig half of it out of the ground,
but that much was enough
to give me nightmares for the rest of my life.
It's the same ship
we've been seeing on the news lately,
the one that looks like it came straight from hell.
Back home they're saying
they've never seen ships like this before.
They're lying.
I was there.
Then why this campaign
to find out more about them?
They may be using this threat as an excuse
to tighten security, restrict information.
If this is true,
they haven't been trying to find out
what these ships are.
They're trying to find out who else knows about them.
That's an awfully big conclusion
based on finding just one ship.
There was just one ship, wasn't there?
That was just the start.
It gets worse.
Only a handful of people know
what happened after that, including me.
All the others are either dead
or missing.
Once I leave here,
sooner or later they'll find me,
and I'll disappear.
Before that happens, someone has to know.
Someone has to stop them before it's too late.
We told Earth Central what we'd found.
It was the strike of a lifetime.
We were all very excited,
but there was something about it
that made us nervous.
And then one of our workers
who was clearing away the dirt
accidentally touched it with his bare hand.
He died instantly
as if the life had been sucked right out of him.
Did you ever get a reply
from Earth Central?
No, not at first,
but a week later we were suddenly ordered
to stop digging,
pull back to our secondary base 2 miles away.
Well, we didn't want to go,
but we were told anyone who didn't move
would be fired.
So, we moved.
For 6 days, we just sat there waiting
while unmarked shuttles moved in and out of the area
surrounding the dig.
And then suddenly everything stopped.
No shuttles, no communication, nothing.
That's when I saw it.
I just wanted to run away and hide,
jump in a hole, and pull the ground in over me,
but there was nowhere to go,
nothing to do but watch.
At first, I thought it was destroying the other ship.
Then I realized it was digging it out.
For 20, 25 minutes, nothing happened.
Then we heard it.
[Screeching]
A sound that just reaches right into your brain
and rips it apart...
The sound of something terrible being born.
They warned us that if we told anyone what we'd seen,
there would be unfortunate consequences.
Then they broke us up,
assigned us to other worlds
so we'd never have a chance to talk to each other.
What's your involvement in all this?
I was piloting a shuttle on Mars
around the same time.
We went down,
2 of us had to get back to civilization
on our own.
I saw part of what she just described.
When I went back to check it out,
it was all gone.
Well, except for...
Except for this.
Psi corps.
A few weeks ago, I was called into a new dig.
They found another one of these things,
this time on Ganymede,
but there's a difference.
Whoever's behind this back home
doesn't want to give it back.
In 3 days,
they're going to take it back to Earth,
study its secrets,
and learn how to use it against the other races
and if necessary against our own people.
That's why I had to warn someone.
You can't let them get ahold of one of these ships.
They don't want it so we can fight these things.
They want us to become more like them.
That's it.
That's all I have to say.
They can kill me now. I don't care.
That will not happen. We've made arrangements
to get you to Minbari space.
Lennier, please take care of Dr. Kirkish.
Of course.
If Earth and psi corps
really are working with the Shadows,
this is too big.
How can we fight something like that?
I need to think about this for a while...
Alone.
I'll call you when I have something to say.
Delenn, stay.
I'm going to need you for this.
Zack.
Where's the chief?
He's been in some meeting with the Captain all afternoon.
Something you want me to tell him?
No, no, no. I was just checking.
There's a Nightwatch meeting
tomorrow morning, Zack.
I just wanted to make sure you knew about it.
Another one? Come on. That's 3 this week.
Eternal vigilance
is the price of freedom, Zack.
Big things are coming.
We've got to be ready for them.
See you tomorrow.
You know, sometimes,
watching them like this,
without them even knowing we're here,
makes you feel a little like god,
doesn't it?
Security breach on level 3.
Roger.
It's done.
I've sent Lennier ahead.
He'll make all the arrangements.
Are you sure you wish to go through with this?
Then it's time to tell the others.
Everyone in this room knows what Earth is turning into.
We can't allow President Clark
to get ahold of a Shadow ship.
That kind of power in his hands
could be the end of everything
that we have worked for.
We have got to stop that ship
before it leaves Ganymede.
Swell. I love it.
How?
Delenn and I will take the White Star
into Earth-controlled space.
With luck, we'll find the ship,
destroy it on the ground
before they can activate it.
If not--
Captain, you can't do this-- as soon as you open up
a jump point near Jupiter, you'll be picked up
by the early warning system.
I know.
Our own ships will be sent in to destroy you.
You'll be completely outgunned.
We understand, Commander.
Neither of us has any illusions
about what we're planning to do.
You can't take on Earth. I mean, not now, later.
Later is too late.
We've already notified
the White Star. It's in standby,
awaiting our arrival.
What will you do when they open fire?
Are you going to fire back on one of our own ships?
What if you're captured?
We won't be captured,
one way or another.
The decision's mine and mine alone.
And...
It's made.
[Sheridan] The rest of you will be needed here
to cover my absence.
It's a 2-day jump to Earth space.
That's a long time to be gone.
I'm leaving behind my identicard, my uniform,
command rank, anything that could lead back here
if something should go wrong.
Susan, in our absence,
I'm leaving you and Garibaldi
in charge of the Rangers.
I'd tell you to take good care of the station,
but I know that's not necessary.
I've left instructions in my desk
for a cover story if we don't come back.
You'll send out my Starfury
and use the auto-destruct sequence.
Doctor, you'll provide the organic mass
to simulate a casualty.
I wish none of this were necessary,
but we all knew that sooner or later
we'd have to deal with Earth.
So, I guess it's time we got down to business.
If there's any way we can come back,
we will.
As liaison to the night watch office back home,
I received several disturbing communiques
Over the last few days.
The good news is
our efforts to find corruption
and disloyalty here and back home
have succeeded beyond our expectations.
So, what's the bad news?
Their findings confirm our worst fears.
Earth has been sold out by our own people--
senators, high-ranking military officers,
news media correspondents,
even some of the joint chiefs of staff.
Everything we've been seeing lately--
the libelous attacks on the President,
alien forces encroaching on our territory,
the lies and subversion going on back home--
they're all part of an organized effort
to weaken our government from within
as a prelude to invasion.
I don't believe it.
They'll start making arrests within the next 2 months.
The lists have already been drawn up.
What can we do to help?
Earth needs all the information
we can give her.
Any source is acceptable.
To make it easier for sources to come forward,
we're going to allow them
to give us information anonymously.
We're authorized to look into past history,
social contacts, party affiliations,
to conduct e-mail and vid surveillance
of babcom and stellar com transmissions.
Whoa. Wait. Just how far does this go, anyway?
Do we start suspecting everybody?
No, of course not.
Anyone in the Nightwatch
is automatically recognized as working
in the best interests of Earth.
As for the other officers,
well, we won't look at them
unless we detect
any unusual activity on their part.
In that case, may I ask a question?
Does anyone in this room know
where the Captain is?
Captain?
Mr. Lennier.
What's our position?
32 standard hours from our destination.
You've been up almost 20 hours.
I recommend sleep.
No. I'm fine. I'm fine.
If we should encounter resistance
at the end of our journey,
would it not be wise to confront it rested
and clear of mind?
Oh...
I wondered when you would get some sleep.
You have a most persistent attache!.
How can you sleep in these things?
It's quite simple with proper meditation.
We consider sleeping in the horizontal
to be tempting death.
Yeah, well, if I sleep on this,
I'll be tempting fate all night.
Don't worry.
I will watch and catch you if you should fall.
Ok.
I doubt if I'll be getting
any sleep anyway.
It's funny.
This'll be the closest I've been to Earth
in 4 years.
Who would've thought
I'd come back in a Minbari ship?
You know what I miss most about home?
The sound of rain
hitting the roof at night.
It always helped me fall asleep.
Back when I was a kid preparing
for the academy,
I'd be up till 4:00 or 5:00
in the morning studying.
I'd have maybe 2 hours to sleep after that.
But I was so wound up...
I'd just lie there.
Same thing happened the night before
my final test.
I just knew
if I didn't get some sleep,
I'd never pass it.
And?
Did it begin to rain?
No.
But dad...
My dad...
Heard me walking around.
He knew I couldn't sleep.
So, he went outside,
he got the garden hose
and sprayed it,
so it came down on the roof...
Just like rain.
He stood there, making it rain
until I fell asleep.
I sometimes think he would've stood there
for days if he had to.
I miss him.
And right now...
More than anything else in the world,
I wish it would rain...
Just for a little while.
Nachass...
Duvay-nay.
[Sound of rain falling]
Sleep now.
And according to one of our units
on the border of Centauri space,
they've continued massing their fleet.
We don't know why.
Maybe they expect a counterattack.
It's hard to say.
And they have much to be concerned about.
There's always the threat of an attack by, say,
a giant space dragon,
the kind that eats the sun once a month.
It's a nuisance,
but what can you expect from reptiles?
Did I mention my nose is on fire,
and that I have 15 wild badgers
living in my trousers?
I'm sorry, would you prefer ferrets?
What I'd prefer is for you to--
to what?
I don't know.
I don't know how to relate to you,
how you fit into anything here.
I mean, where are you in the ranks?
Above? Below?
Left, right, in a box by the door.
Doesn't matter.
And that's not really the problem, is it?
If anything happens to the Captain,
I'm holding you personally responsible.
Because I sent him off on a suicide mission.
Ever since you've come here,
we've had nothing but trouble. You're a loose Cannon.
He went of his own freewill. He didn't have to go.
Yes, he did. You knew he would
the second he found out what was going on.
I'd rather assumed he would send me.
Funny, that.
But, if you are right, and it was inevitable,
why blame me?
Because we shouldn't have to be doing this.
Because he didn't have any business taking out the ship
without me there to help him.
Because we're going up against our own government.
And I don't know where I fit in anymore, much less you.
And, damn it,
because I don't have anybody else to blame.
It's time.
They should almost be there by now.
All right, everyone, we've just set off
every long-range scanner in the area,
so we don't have a lot of time. We have--
Captain, I'm picking up a signal
on the frequency provided by Dr. Kirkish.
It's very faint.
I can only get audio. It's from Ganymede.
Put it through.
Ixp one to base. Ixp one to base.
Ready to begin transference.
Subject is approaching target.
Repeat. Subject is approaching target.
What's he talking about?
The Shadow vessels
use living creatures as their central core.
Whoever steps inside merges with it,
becomes one with the ship.
After that, it's fully functional.
They must be sending someone inside
right now.
Faster, Lennier. We need to get there.
John, if whoever's going inside
hasn't been properly prepared,
the results could be disastrous.
He's moving into the breach.
He's disappeared inside the ship.
Some--something's, something's happening.
We-we've lost bioscan.
Something's--oh, my god!
It's moving. It's moving!
[High-pitched screech]
We've got visual.
Put it through.
In valen's name.
It's awake.
This is what I was afraid of.
The merging was not handled properly.
The ship's out of control, insane.
It'll destroy anything in its path.
Then we've gotta stop it before anyone else gets here.
Engines at maximum.
Stand by weapons system. Prepare to fire.
John, if it's confused, disoriented,
we may have a chance. It's small one--
it's still a lot more
than an Earth cruiser will have against it.
Fire!
Damage to the ship?
Negligible.
Full power to forward batteries,
one focused burst.
Fire!
Minimal effect.
Captain, its weapons are at full strength.
If it hits us dead on,
we cannot survive the blast.
That's all right. That's all right.
I did what I needed to do. I got him mad enough
to follow us.
Redirect power to engines, come about.
[Lennier] Course?
Jupiter.
We're going inside.
If we can't outfight it,
let's hope we can out-think it.
How much pressure can this thing take?
Unknown. There was no time to test it.
What's on your mind?
That ship isn't fully functional yet.
Once inside Jupiter's atmosphere,
maybe it can't climb out of the gravity well.
It's possilbe we may not be to escape either.
I don't think we have much choice.
External pressure's increasing.
Approaching 2 standard gravities.
What was that?
A new weapon?
No. When they fired,
the energy must've ignited the local hydrogen.
Gravity's increasing.
Temperature at 10,000 standard units.
12,000!
Continue descent.
Temperature's beyond safe limits.
Pressure at this depth
is causing damage to the outer hull.
Just a little longer.
Captain, if we go any further,
we may not have enough power to escape
before we're destroyed.
If that thing follows us out,
we'll be dead either way.
Now stand by!
Hull's buckling...
Losing control.
Now! Get us out of here!
Full power!
Give me everything you've got.
If I were holding anything back,
I would tell you.
Any sign of the enemy?
Scanners indicate it's been destroyed.
Whew!
Good.
Then get us out of here so we don't--
I thought you said we killed that thing.
We did.
This is Earth Alliance destroyer Agamemnon
to unidentified vessel.
Oh, hell.
We've recorded an attack in this sector.
Surrender your vessel and prepare to be boarded.
Of all the ships,
why does it have to be the Agamemnon?
They must think we attacked Ganymede.
Of course, it's the way our luck runs.
Captain, shall I return fire?
Captain?
Shall I return fire?
Negative. I won't fire on her.
Are they equipped for atmospheric maneuvering?
No. But they can track us down like a bloodhound.
They can wait us out, knock us down,
or board us if we try to escape.
They're getting closer.
John, I know this is not what you wanted.
But if we remain here, we will be destroyed.
Our only choices are to fight or surrender.
No. We can't surrender.
And I won't open fire on my old ship.
Then what do you recommend?
Lennier. Activate jump engines.
Inside the atmosphere?
Yes!
What? With all due respect
for your "innovative" choice of strategy,
may I suggest that the energy involved
in opening a jump point
in a hydrogen-rich atmosphere
would be explosive at best.
No. She's right.
We'll get as close as we can
to the edge of the atmosphere.
That should minimize the eruption. I hope.
Send a message in interlac.
Tell them we're prepared to surrender,
but we need them to back off a little.
Then bring her up slowly.
Let me see it.
Wait...
Unidentified ship,
this is your final warning.
Surrender your vessel or be destroyed.
Now!
Ha ha ha ha.
Son of a gun. Ah...
Ladies and gentle...
Minbari,
congratulations!
We have just made the first atmospheric jump
that I have ever heard of.
Mr. Lennier, put us on a course for home, best speed.
I want to be long gone from here
by the time they jump after us.
We'll be back this way again.
One way or another,
we will finish this.
ISN has confirmed earlier reports
that an unidentified alien ship
attacked a research lab on Ganymede.
According to Earthforce, the ship was pursued to Jupiter
and destroyed by the EAS Agamemnon.
Nonetheless, this latest incident
has heightened concerns about planetary security.
President Clark is said to be considering a new plan
that will provide Earth with greater security.
Off.
Unbelievable.
You look pretty good for a dead man.
We did something to help earth,
but the way it's being reported,
you'd think we were the menace.
You know what they say,
no good deed goes unpunished.
The important thing is we got away with it.
So far.
I thought there was a meeting.
There is,
but it doesn't start for another half an hour.
I wanted a chance to talk to you alone.
About what?
Like I said the other day,
we've been getting reports
that Earthforce may have been infiltrated by traitors
right up to the command level.
Any unusual behavior
is to be reported and investigated.
Yeah, so?
So, the Captain was gone for 4 days.
Oh, the records don't show any absence,
but I checked the access panel in his quarters.
It hasn't been used since Monday.
Now, I'd say that that qualifies
as unusual behavior.
The ministry agrees.
You shouldn't have gone to them
without telling me.
I don't need your permission, Zack.
This is my job.
He's apparently enlisted some of the others in security
to cover whatever he's doing,
and that means he's got the chief in his pocket.
You're close to the chief.
No! No way in hell! I won't do it.
Look. All I'm asking you to do
is to go to him, be real earnest,
tell him you know something's going on and want to help.
Yeah, well, since I joined up with you,
he doesn't trust me like before.
If he could trust me,
he would've brought me in on this thing weeks ago.
So, you admit something's going on.
You've been seeing the same things I have.
I didn't say that.
Look, things are a little tough
between us right now, but he's still a friend.
You better decide which is more important to you.
Friendship or your job,
which is to protect Earth.
When you figure that out, you let me know.
[Doorbell beeps]
Come.
I thought you might want to see this.
As I recall, you were concerned
about where I fit in the great
organizational scheme of things.
So I prepared this chart.
Now then, here's you, right here.
At the heart of everything, and why not?
And here's me.
This is the Captain, here's Franklin,
here's my mum and dad.
They don't actually have anything to do with it,
but it's a very good picture of them,
don't you think?
Marcus.
I actually think I've found a way
to explain the organizational
structure of Babylon 5
using the Ottoman empire as a model.
It gets a little confusing
around this bit here,
but one has to start somewhere.
Why are you doing this?
Did it make you laugh?
Yes.
Then my job here is done.
Have a good--
[beep beep]
Yes.
Susan, quick, turn on ISN.
Monitor, on. Find ISN.
And to confirm earlier reports,
President Clark has signed a decree today
declaring martial law throughout Earth Central
citing threats to planetary security.
He's expected to provide information
to support this action
at a closed meeting of the full Earth senate tomorrow.
We repeat, Earth is now under martial law.