Name?
Harry. Harry Sanders.
And you're a telepath?
Sure. What's the job pay?
Well, it's not a job, it's more like an adventure.
A chance to help fight the bad guys.
Good. Look, are we talking hourly or weekly salary,
because I got expenses to cover?
Well, one thing at a time.
If you're a telepath, are you Psi-Corps?
No, they missed me.
The Psi-Corps doesn't miss anybody.
Well, some things just fall through the cracks.
Psi-Corps doesn't have any cracks.
I escaped, ok? Now where do I sign?
What am I thinking?
I don't work for free.
What am I thinking?
Right.
Got it.
And I think you're real cute, too.
Look, I really need this job.
But you're not a telepath.
I can learn. I'm a quick study.
Out. I'll be an intern.
I work cheap.
Out. Great. See?
It's not what you can do,
it's who you know. Typical.
Sheridan: So how's the recruiting going?
Slowly.
We're still sorting through the files
and conducting interviews.
I hate being this open about it.
I agree, but I don't see any other way to do it.
We need as many telepaths as we can get
if we're going to take on the Shadows.
Unfortunately, every time we tell them about that part,
most of them quit instantly.
Well, there is another possibility.
Franklin was running an underground railroad
for telepaths escaping Psi-Corps a while back.
He might be able to help us
track down some of those people.
Knowing Stephen, he's probably wiped his files
in order to keep anyone from misusing them.
But it's worth a try.
He's still on walkabout,
so finding him is gonna be tough but doable.
For all its size,
it's not like anybody can hide out here
for very long.
[Beep beep]
Yeah, listen, central.
I've gone over these cables a half dozen times,
I can't find the problem.
C&c: We're still reading a dead power relay
in grey 16.
Yeah, well, I don't care what you're reading.
I'm telling you that they're all working.
Then keep looking.
[Beep beep]
All right.
Well, now there's your problem.
Wonder how the hell the--
aah!
Aah!
Ivanova: 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...
Thank you for coming, Delenn.
The loss of Ranger one was a great blow to us.
He spoke of you often, you know.
Always with great reverence.
Did he say anything before he left?
He gave me his thanks.
It was all he had to give.
Delenn.
I finished going over his room.
I found only this.
Rathenn: He had very few possessions.
To be with him was to have the strangest feeling.
As though he were only visiting this life
and did not want to be overly burdened by it.
I'll see to it this is sent on to his family, rathenn.
Thank you.
Could you please take this back to my ship, Lennier?
Of course.
With the loss of Ranger one,
there is one last issue to be taken care of, Delenn,
that of a replacement.
The Rangers need a leader,
someone to guide and inspire them in the coming days.
It is a great responsibility.
I know.
But you have my absolute confidence.
If there is anything I can do--
I was thinking more of you.
The Rangers would support it.
Actually, I don't think
they would rally behind anyone else.
But this is where
the Rangers have been trained.
My place is on Babylon 5.
I cannot--
the Rangers were here because he was here.
Where you are, the Rangers will be.
We are coming into a critical time, Delenn.
They will need you.
Please, say yes.
[Chamber clicks]
Morning, chief.
Hey, Zack.
Sorry to be late. I got held up
down in grey sector. Got a weird report.
Is that what I think it is?
Smith and Wesson .38 caliber revolver.
Used to belong to my grandmother
back when she was working
for the Boston p.D.
A slug thrower.
Hey, um, can I, uh...
Yeah, sure.
Oh, she's a beaut.
Now, they still make ammo for these things?
Yeah, not as much as they used to
since Earthforce went to all p.P.G.S for side arms.
You want something that's gonna burn through flesh
without punching a hole in the hull. Back home,
it's still used for private security,
target practice.
Why'd you dig it out?
Oh, I don't know.
Guess since we cut off ties to Earth,
I've been missing it a little.
But this baby is a solid piece
of my family's history.
So, what is this weird report in grey sector?
Oh, yeah. I don't know
what to make of this one.
They had some dead power relays
in there last night,
and they sent maintenance down
to check it out.
Did they fix it?
Yeah.
You're right, that is unusual.
Well, not only that.
The guy who did the work disappeared.
What do you mean disappeared?
This is a closed station. Where can you go?
Yeah, that's what I said.
They found his gear, but no trace of the guy.
You want me to look into it?
No. I'll do it.
I like mysteries, but I hate grey sector.
I swear it's like
the Centauri triangle in there.
There's always some damn thing going wrong.
I'll see you later.
Yeah, I'll see you.
What are you doing here?
Stephen?
Are you all right?
Give me some definitions of all right,
and I'll see what I can do.
Are you sick?
I'm not sick.
Stim withdrawal.
Uh, I don't understand.
You were fine before.
With some drugs, the--
the effects of withdrawal
are immediate.
But with stims, it's--it's--
it's a little different.
It saturates your bloodstream,
and they stay in your system longer.
It takes a while to flush it all out,
but once it's gone, it--
what are you doing here?
We need your help.
I can't go back.
I got to--i got to work this out.
I know that, and I respect that.
But we need the information that you gathered on telepaths
when you were running the underground railroad.
We need to find them so that we can put together
a tactical core group.
I purged the information from my main computer,
but I have a backup.
I figured it might come in handy one day.
Where is it?
Stephen?
I need to be alone, Susan.
All right?
I can't do what I got to do
if you and Garibaldi
are always following me around.
So I'm going to give you what you want
under one condition.
Don't send anybody else after me.
I can't guarantee that.
Yes, you can!
That's the price.
Now you take it or you leave it.
Stephen, what if you get into trouble?
I'm already in trouble.
The only thing I can do now
is to keep walking until I meet myself
and somehow work this out.
Access my personal computer.
Data's in a hidden folder, code name harriett.
Now everything you need is right there.
Thank you.
Good-bye, Susan.
And don't come back
no matter what.
This was the last place you heard from him?
Yes, sir. He said that he couldn't see anything wrong,
and then the power grid came back on.
We waited for him to check back in, but he didn't,
and after a few hours we called security.
Anybody check this out?
Yeah, we tubed down
to the level below
in case he fell through a bad panel,
but nada. The cover was back in place,
so he'd finished doing
whatever it was he was doing.
And nobody saw anything?
This whole sector's mainly industrial stuff.
I'm telling you,
it's like he just vanished into thin air.
Thin air.
Why is it always thin air?
Never fat air, chubby air,
mostly fit, could stand to lose a few pounds air?
I'm sorry, sir,
but that's not my department.
Have you got any ideas?
Well, aside from a 2-week vacation
in the Mars pleasure dome, not a one.
Now you're sure you checked out the area?
Absolutely. We went through
all 29 grey levels.
You mean 30. There's 30 levels in grey sector.
Nope. 29.
Well, the schematics--
say 30, I know.
It's a mistake in the blueprints.
You know how they rushed to get this place finished.
Nobody ever caught it
because not many people get down here.
Take my word for it, I went down every floor
of this place myself and counted.
It's 29. For sure.
I think it's a great idea. You are the natural choice
to take over as head of the Rangers.
It's the logical choice.
I do not know
if it will be the popular choice.
Why not?
Who'd object?
If I'm lucky, perhaps no one.
If not...
I've decided to hold
the initiation ceremony here,
if that meets with your approval.
Oh, not a problem.
But this is a little public.
I mean, until now
the Rangers have only operated behind the scenes.
That role will change soon enough.
Before that happens, they should receive
some of the recognition they deserve.
All right.
I'll have Mr. Garibaldi
arrange a security team just--
[beep beep]
[Beep beep]
Sheridan, go.
Ivanova: Captain, I've got the information we needed
on the telepaths.
Good, I'll be right there.
Look, I'll catch up to you later, hmm?
And again, congratulations.
Thank you.
Congratulations, Delenn.
Power beckons,
and who among us is strong enough
to ignore its siren song?
Neroon.
A brilliant strategy, Delenn.
I had not thought you capable of such ambition.
Clearly, I was mistaken.
What are you talking about?
The Rangers are commissioned
after a thousand years of silence.
The religious caste
begins constructing new warships
without the knowledge or consent
of the warrior caste.
You chose not to act.
Someone had to.
Perhaps.
Which is why we let you have them
in the beginning.
Even allowed Sinclair to train them,
even though it meant diluting their purity
by allowing humans to join alongside our own people.
We were quite tolerant of your activities.
But now their training is complete.
They require new leadership.
By right of tradition,
the warrior caste
should be given command of the Rangers.
That was the law as set down by valen.
Three castes:
Worker, religious, warrior.
They build, you pray,
we fight.
You violated that law
when the warrior caste became dominant
in the Grey Council.
But the Grey Council no longer exists.
You disbanded it.
So what do we have now, Delenn?
You have undergone the transformation
promised by valen,
broken the council,
and created a vacuum of power.
And now, as an eminent leader in the religious caste,
you plan to take command of a military force
and fill that vacuum yourself.
I have no desire to rule our people.
I wish I could believe you, Delenn,
but I don't.
A religious zealot propelled by prophecy
into a position of military and political power?
Always a bad idea.
Out of respect, I give you this opportunity
to walk away from the path you have taken.
Refuse the position of Ranger one
and turn control of the Rangers
over to the warrior caste where it belongs.
Or? I am sworn
to stop you, Delenn,
by any and all means necessary.
Delenn?
Ah, there you are.
Is everything all right?
Grey 2.
1, 2, 3.
[Beep]
Grey 3.
1, 2, 3.
[Beep]
3 seconds.
I cannot believe
that Neroon would actually threaten you.
He's a member of the Grey Council.
Was.
The council is no more. He can do as he sees fit.
This should come as no surprise.
We knew the warrior caste
was unhappy with our activities.
Unhappy?
Delenn, he's planning to kill you.
That is one interpretation.
He said he would use
any and all means necessary.
I respectfully suggest that he intends to go
far beyond harsh language.
Lennier, no Minbari has killed another
in a thousand years.
Yes, but if the grey council is gone
and the rules have changed,
what else has changed?
You will tell the Captain
about this, I assume.
No.
This is an internal problem, Lennier.
If we cannot handle it on our own,
then we shouldn't be here.
So, I want your word
that you will not tell him about this.
Delenn, i--
your word.
Good.
Now come,
we have much work ahead of us
to prepare for the ceremony.
Grey 16.
1, 2, 3.
[Beep]
Grey 17.
1, 2, 3.
4, 5, 6.
[Beep]
Grey 16.
1, 2.
Emergency stop.
[Beep beep beep]
Open tube doors.
Computer: This is not a valid level designation.
Safety procedures require--
security override.
Unlock tube doors, allow manual open.
[Thud]
You shouldn't be here.
You're in trouble.
Oh!
Ohh.
[Beep beep]
Garibaldi to station house.
Gari--gar--
gar--
ohh.
Dummy: Told you. Ha ha!
Told you. Ha ha ha.
Ha ha ha ha...
Hello, Lennier.
Marcus.
I've never seen your quarters before.
Very restrained.
It was the best Ivanova could find,
given how tight we are for space.
It's, uh, enough for my needs.
Any more would be a distraction.
I'm trying to avoid breaking a promise
by breaking a promise.
I promised Delenn
that I would not speak of this
to the Captain or let him know.
She did not mention you by name,
but that was implicit.
If I tell the others in the chain of command,
then Sheridan will find out
and I will have broken the promise.
But if I break my promise
by telling you,
since you are not
in the chain of command,
he may not find out about this
and I will not have broken the promise.
I'm in awe, Lennier.
The way you can take a straightforward
logical proposition
and turn it inside out so that in the end
it says what you want it to say
instead of what it actually means.
Did this come naturally or--or did you, um,
attend some special martial arts class
for the philosophically inclined?
Marcus, I think Delenn's life
may be in jeopardy.
One of our own,
a former member of the Grey Council,
has challenged her right to lead the Rangers.
I think he may resort to violence to stop her.
Warrior caste?
Typical.
But I was taught that Minbari
do not kill Minbari.
Correct. And given their positions,
it's even that much more unthinkable.
If he harms her--
if a Minbari from one caste
even tries to kill another,
then the shock and anger
will lead to retribution back home.
It could even cause a civil war
between the castes.
And the same would apply if you went after him.
So you're looking for a non-Minbari to stop him.
Yes.
He's probably gone into hiding.
Can you find him before the ceremony?
It will be difficult.
He won't appear again
until he's ready to move,
but yes, it can be done.
Marcus, you need only delay him
until the ceremony is complete.
Once it's done, it cannot be undone.
Try to avoid
confronting him directly.
He is one of the best of the warrior caste.
He's trained at killing your people.
He's very good at what he does.
Just tell me when and where.
Leave the rest to me.
[Coughs]
I don't suppose this is the best time to point out
you're all under arrest.
Consider...
The hand.
Hmm.
Veins, capillaries,
muscles, cells,
moons, stars, planets,
galaxies.
All trapped
inside ephemeral, translucent flesh.
The palm.
We have lines,
we have signs,
we have shapes,
equations.
All creation...
In a hangnail.
My name is Jeremiah.
Welcome to the end of the world.
Sheridan: How many more
did you say we've got coming in?
Delenn: Quite a few, I'm afraid.
It's necessary for the ceremony.
Mmm.
But, uh,
we have a few minutes before the next shuttle.
Ooh.
So many faces I haven't seen in so long.
It brings back a lot of memories.
You know,
you've never talked much
about your life back home.
You never even talk about,
uh, your family.
It would be difficult to explain
to a non-Minbari.
After I was born,
my mother entered the sisters of Valeria.
I have seen her only twice since.
Oh, sorry.
No.
No, it's a great honor.
I miss her greatly, but it is her wish.
And your father?
He passed beyond the veil 10 years ago.
To see us making war against your people
broke his heart.
The thing I remember about him--
when I was a child,
he would take me with him to temple.
He carried me on his shoulders
so that I could see everything.
One day,
I came outside with him to go to temple and--
and he said, "I'm sorry, Delenn,
but you are too big now for me to carry you."
I realized then
that my father would never again
carry me in his arms.
I felt such loss.
And I knew for the first time
that someday I would lose him.
And I looked in his eyes,
and I saw that he was thinking
the same thing.
I don't think I ever loved him more
then at that moment.
You see, my friend,
the universe is sentient,
aware, alive.
Now the Minbari understand this.
Oh, yes.
They understand completely.
That is why they nearly defeated us
in the war, you know,
because they are closer to the truth than we are.
The truth strengthens us,
ennobles us, sets us free.
Speaking of getting free,
there has to be a way out of here.
Pressure doors are welded shut,
the tube is disabled.
We, uh, tap into the recycling system
and purify it.
We're all recycled, you know.
Just, uh, molecules and atoms
born in the stars and, uh,
recycled into carbon based life, hmm?
Why do you think
we have spent millions of years
trying to understand the stars,
the moons, and--and--and-- the universe itself, hmm?
Hmm?
Ha, well, because we are the universe.
The universe made manifest.
It broke itself into pieces
to examine every aspect of its being.
We try to understand it because in so doing,
well, we will understand ourselves.
So we--we have come here,
and we've isolated ourselves
in order to attain a purity of thought,
because purity of form and purity of intent,
purity of execution,
that--that is the only way.
The only way the door will open.
The door.
So you must be Neroon.
You shouldn't get involved in things
that don't concern you.
My quarrel is with Delenn.
Then your quarrel is with me.
Do you have any idea who I am?
I do.
But the only way
you will get to her is through me.
I invoke denn-shah.
To the death.
[Metal clinks]
During the war, I killed 50,000 of you.
What's one more?
Not bad,
for a beginner.
Last chance.
I was taught the pike by durhann himself.
Really? So was I.
You're a fool.
But if this is what you wish,
then denn-shah it shall be.
To the death!
Any problems?
None that I've heard about.
Where's Marcus?
I thought for sure he'd be here.
I don't know. Something must have come up.
One day,
the universe will truly understand itself,
and at that moment,
it will transcend itself.
It will become something else,
something even greater,
another-- another big bang!
Only this time,
this time consciously directed,
because this time
the universe will know exactly what it's doing.
Right now it--
it--it kills everything it makes.
Everything it designs dies.
It's--it's a serious design flaw
to say the least.
But next time,
oh, next time it'll be perfect.
We--we will be perfect.
Uh...
Michael, right?
Uh, may I call you Michael?
Uh, people like you, Michael,
people like you suffer from the fact
that you do not remember
having been part of the universe.
You're, uh, sort of
left out of the cosmic loop,
so to speak.
Uh, you know, driven mad by the silence,
the terrible isolation.
But you see, we--we remember.
We remember the universe.
We feel the connection.
Gahp.
Uh, are--are you all right?
No.
Ever since you shot me with that tranq,
I've been having these cramps.
They're getting worse.
Find Ezekial.
Bring him here.
Now, now, now, it's--
it's going to be all right.
It's going to be all right, Michael.
We'll take care of you. Don't worry.
Hyaa!
Now, you show me the door
out of here,
or your feet are the only things
you're gonna see
for the rest of your crummy life.
Got it?
Good.
This is foolish.
A waste of material.
Once denn-shah is invoked,
I cannot surrender,
but you...
You are not Minbari.
Step aside,
and I will pretend that you ran away,
changed your mind.
No one will know.
Unh!
I am a Ranger!
We walk in the dark places no others will enter.
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass.
We live for the one.
We die for the one!
I've just broken 2 of your ribs.
Sorry, make that 3.
Why?
Why all of this?
Pride?
Duty?
You've been trained well,
but you must've known you couldn't win.
So why do it?
F-for her.
We live for the one.
We die...
For the one.
Isil-zha, sendi.
In valen's name.
This belonged to the worker
who disappeared.
You do this?
Oh, no.
We do not believe in violence.
Somebody does.
He must have gotten in here somehow,
so there must be a way out.
Which way?
Oh, you still do not understand, do you?
Perhaps that is why I am here.
To--to help you understand.
Yes.
It's my time, I suppose.
Time to...
To move on.
I am as pure as I am ever going to be.
Oh, what are you--
[screech]
What the hell is that?
Listen. Listen.
If the only way out is--is to find a--
a purity of--of purpose, a purity of thought,
a purity of belief, you see,
that--that is the door.
The door of the mind.
The way. The way out.
But you see, the body,
the body must also have a way out,
uh, a way out that is equally pure.
[Screech]
Start making sense. Now!
I am.
Now...
If we are the universe,
then the universe must consume us
in an act of absolute-- absolute purity.
Now, within the universe, we have a perfect predator.
No instinct, no thought
except for the hunt.
Living perfection.
When it is our time,
we choose to return to the universe
through that perfection,
through--through the Zarg.
Zarg? Yes.
You have a Zarg in here? Are you nuts?
That's one of the most dangerous aliens
in the whole sector.
[Screech]
Come on.
As it was done long ago,
so now we name she who will lead us.
So among the Rangers,
let her be known as entil--
Is this part of the ceremony?
I don't know.
[Clang]
There is now blood between us,
and there is blood between
the warrior caste
and the humans.
I do not think they would die for me,
but they would die...
For you...
Entil-zha.
[Crowd whispering]
[Screech]
[Screams]
[Screeching]
I think I hurt it, but it just made it mad.
Damn! If I just had something, anything.
Wait a minute.
Marcus.
I don't see why you are fighting this, Michael.
To be consumed by the universe
in one of its most perfect forms,
well, that's the highest destiny
one can achieve.
Oh, yeah?
Well, then why the hell are you in here with me
instead of out there with that thing?
[Screech]
Well, um, you see, I've--
i-i-I've decided
that I'm not sufficiently transcendent yet.
[Screeching]
Well, then you better
get your transcendent butt behind me
and hope this works out
because we only got one chance,
assuming this doesn't kill us before it does.
[Gunshots]
[Screams]
Don't even think about it.
Now...
We are going to find
a way out of here, aren't we?
I hate grey sector.
This should never have been
allowed to happen,
not for my sake.
If not for yours, then who else?
He could have been killed.
Delenn, all we know is that we will die.
It is only a matter of how, when,
and whether or not it is with honor.
He did what any of us would have done.
Respectfully, Delenn,
I think this is the one thing
about your position
you do not yet understand.
You Cherish life.
Life is your goal.
But for the greater part to live,
some must die or be harmed in its defense and yours.
There is no other way.
Now, the doctors say that Marcus will recover,
and that is what matters.
He unders--
have you come to finish what you started?
If I had wished him dead,
he would be dead.
Then why did you stop short?
That is between the two of us.
I would speak to him alone,
one warrior to another.
Then I will go.
He will not hear you.
Then I will speak briefly.
Denn-shah, you said.
To the death.
And death there was.
The death was mine.
To see a human invoke the name of valen,
to be willing to die for one of my kind
when I was intent upon killing one of my own,
the rightness of my cause disappeared.
Strange...
That a human in his last moments
should be more of a Minbari than I.
Perhaps it is true what Delenn said.
That we are not of the same blood,
but we are of the same heart.
The next time...
You want a revelation...
Could you possibly find a way...
That isn't...
Quite so...
Uncomfortable?
[Neroon laughing]
Captain...
You wouldn't believe the day I've had.
The day you've had?
We had an assault on Marcus.
Someone got into the Ranger ceremony--
could've killed Delenn.
And where were you?
Ok.
Well, first there was
this missing maintenance man.
Only, he wasn't missing,
he was killed by a Zarg.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
That was after I found out
that the entire 17th floor of grey sector
had completely disappeared.
Well, not disappeared exactly.
This weird cult had taken over the place, see,
and there was a dummy that shot tranqs out of its eyes.
It was very strange.
But it was all supposed to be perfect.
That was the thing about it.
And there wasn't a way out,
but there was, except it was spiritual,
and you had to die a perfect death.
That's where the Zarg came in,
and either it was gonna kill me,
or I was gonna kill it and--
am I going too fast for you?