Delenn: The humans have a phrase--
what is past is prologue.
I am really excited
about signing on board the Icarus next week.
John and I were supposed to spend
some time together, but Dr. Chang thinks
he's found the ruins of an ancient civilization
that no one's ever even heard of before.
Kosh: Z'ha'dum.
Sheridan: Anna, the Icarus,
they found something, didn't they?
Delenn: Yes. Once awakened,
the Shadows could not allow them to leave.
Those who would not serve...
Were killed.
139 people died on board the Icarus, Mr. Morden,
including my wife.
And here you sit,
not a scratch.
Delenn: When Minbari become close,
it is tradition that they spend 3 nights together.
The man sleeps and the female watches.
As you relax, your true face is revealed.
Woman: Hello.
You must be Delenn.
I'm Anna Sheridan, John's wife.
Delenn: Minbari also have a phrase--
what is past...
Is also sometimes the future.
Anna?
My god!
What are you doing here?
"What are you doing here?"
After 5 years,
that's the best that you can do?
Though under the circumstances,
I can understand.
I--i should go.
I should go.
No, Delenn, wait.
It's all right, John. Let her go.
You can talk to her later.
This should be a moment for us.
I thought you were dead.
You mean she didn't...
She didn't tell you?
Well, that is interesting.
Oh, John...
I'm sorry that I couldn't tell you myself.
I'm sorry for leaving you alone for so long,
not being able to get word to you.
But that's all behind us now.
We're together again.
I know what you're thinking.
How can you be sure if it's really me?
For all you know, for all she told you,
I could be some thing made up to look like me.
Fine.
I'll take whatever test you want.
Ask me any question, I don't mind.
I know there's a lot that you don't know.
I know there's a lot that you don't understand.
I'm here to fix that.
Don't you want to know what it's all about?
What it's really all about?
I can do that.
All you have to do is come with me.
Where?
Where else?
To Z'ha'dum.
Ivanova: 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...
There they are, Commander, as promised.
The Ambassador from gaim was happy to deliver them.
Each of these devices
carries terrible destructive force.
In human terms,
they can deliver a thermonuclear blast
of 5 or 600 megatons.
Will they show up on a scanner?
Only if you know what you're looking for.
Otherwise, they're completely undetectable.
So, the next time
we find out where the Shadows plan to strike,
we can mine the area,
and as soon as they come out of hyperspace--
then as you so concisely say...Boom.
Good. Thank you for delivering these, G'Kar.
The Captain will be very happy about this.
Where is Sheridan? I thought he would be here.
Well, it's a little hard to explain.
Let's just say that something came up.
Well?
She's human.
I checked her dental and medical records
against what you gave me.
It's a 100% match,
right down to her DNA sequence.
Every piece of equipment I've got says
that's your wife.
Anna died at Z'ha'dum.
Well, she looks pretty lively to me.
I thought you'd be happy to have her back.
Oh, it's not that easy.
It was years before
I could finally accept her death.
I had to force myself to start over,
to create a new life.
And Delenn...
Have you talked to her yet?
She was in my quarters when Anna showed up.
Is there anything else?
There's some epidermal scarring
just above the nape of her neck.
Now, it may have been caused when the Icarus
was destroyed, but, uh--
anything beneath it?
No, no, no. Maybe it's nothing,
but it never hurts to run a few more tests.
All right, do so.
If this is a trick,
I'm gonna take it out of somebody's hide.
But if it's not and that really is Anna...
I have to know, Stephen.
Sheridan: Is it her?
Is it?
I don't know.
You don't know?
You and Kosh came to my quarters.
You showed me images from Z'ha'dum of Anna
and the crew of the Icarus
waking up the Shadows.
You gave me every reason to believe she was dead.
Now, how could you do that
when you didn't know for sure?
Those who would not serve the Shadows
were killed.
That we knew without question.
We assumed she would not serve.
Perhaps we were wrong.
Anna would never work for those things.
Then I have no explanation.
You have no explanation.
That's it?
Aw, damn it, Delenn, I have always felt
that you--you were holding out on me
on a couple of things.
I figured you had your reasons, but this?
I mean, if you weren't sure,
if there was even a chance of her being alive,
why the hell didn't you tell me?!
Because you would have gone to Z'ha'dum after her.
We couldn't allow that.
You and Kosh,
you couldn't allow it.
I trusted you, Delenn.
I cared for you.
I let myself start to love you.
Do you know what that means?
Do you know how hard that was for me?
All along, a little part of me
was still in love with Anna,
even though she was gone.
I had to fight that part off
every time i--i thought about you, about...
About holding you,
about building a life for the two of us.
John, you must believe me,
I didn't know she was alive.
We assumed that she had died
with the rest of the crew of the Icarus,
that only Morden had survived.
And had you known...
Would you have told me?
It would depend.
It would depend on what she had become.
Z'ha'dum is the homeworld of the Shadows.
No one leaves there the same as they arrived.
You would have denied me the right
to make that choice?
How can you say that
and expect me to ever trust you again?
John...
I do love you.
If you believe nothing else
I ever say...
Please...please believe that.
Another drink.
Londo, you've been like this
every since the diplomatic pouch arrived this morning.
At least you can do is tell me what's wrong.
Oh, gods, Vir.
I have been promoted.
I have been offered a position
in the royal court
as an advisor to Emperor Cartagia
on matters of planetary security.
A very important position.
This is great news. Why would you be upset?
Because! It should have come to me 20 years ago
when I could have appreciated it.
And because it wasn't given to me
because I earned it.
They are, I think, afraid of me.
Through our friend, Mr. Morden,
I have gained influence and money and power.
And they think I will move against Cartagia.
Then why would they reward you?
It's not a reward, it's a leash.
I will have to divide my time between here
and the homeworld.
They are reeling me in.
They will watch me very carefully.
And if I do anything suspicious,
they will find me in the morning
with my throat slit ear to ear.
Keep the change.
No charge, Ambassador.
And who are you, hmm?
A friend.
I was sent by our mutual associates.
I have a message.
You must leave the station at once.
And why must I leave?
I am very comfortable where I am.
I have told you all I can.
If you won't go, I can't be responsible.
But if you value your life,
you will leave... Quickly.
A friend of Mr. Morden's?
Very likely.
I do not think I like the sound of this, Vir.
No, I do not like the sound of this at all.
I don't think I have ever been examined
in such detail before.
Well, except by you, of course.
At least his report confirms
that I am who I say I am.
And you've been on Z'ha'dum
all these years?
Mm-hmm.
Doing what?
I mean, after all this time,
why come back now?
I can't tell you that, not here.
You have to come with me.
I can guarantee your safety. They're eager to meet you.
Mmm. And if I don't go?
Then I'll go back without you,
and you'll never know the truth.
No threats?
John, they aren't what you think they are.
No, no threats, no ultimatums.
Just an invitation to come
and hear their side of the story, nothing more.
Why would you go back there?
'Cause it's my home now.
I'm doing important work.
You'll understand when we get there.
No. I'm not going anywhere
until I get some answers.
I want to know what happened to you
and the crew of the Icarus
when you landed on Z'ha'dum.
John--
that's my condition.
Just tell me that much.
And you'll go with me to Z'ha'dum?
I'll go.
Anna: Interplanetary expeditions
said that one of their probes out on the rim
had found the ruins of an ancient civilization.
Dr. Chang was putting together
a follow-up expedition,
and he wanted me on his team.
It was the find of a lifetime.
What he didn't tell me or most of the crew
was where he really got the information.
A few years earlier,
ipx had found an alien ship
buried beneath the surface of Mars.
It was unlike anything they'd ever seen before.
As soon as it was exposed to daylight,
an automatic beacon on board sent out a coded message.
Well, they knew whoever the ship belonged to
would be coming in fast to pick it up,
so they moved quickly.
They analyzed the ship,
took pieces of it for study later,
and planted a homing device inside.
3 days later, another ship turned up
and finished digging it out of the ground.
When it left,
ipx was able to track it through hyperspace
to a world out on the rim.
Z'ha'dum.
We didn't have a name for it at the time.
And Chang was under strict orders
from Earthforce new technologies division
to keep this top secret.
As soon as we landed, we picked up an energy source.
We were told to check it out.
And that's where we found them.
The Shadows?
It's a very dramatic name,
but not a very descriptive one.
Their actual name is 10,000 letters long.
I couldn't pronounce it if I tried, and I have.
There were quite approachable.
Tell that to the rest of the crew.
There was an accident.
The crew was killed,
com system destroyed.
Those of us who survived
had no way to tell Earth what had happened.
And even if we could have,
the aliens had just come out of hibernation.
They were vulnerable.
They couldn't risk exposure to outsiders.
So, they made a deal.
In exchange for our silence,
they'd let us study their technology.
John,
we have learned things in the last 5 years
that will change Earth forever.
Imagine--no more poverty,
limitless cheap energy, organic ships.
We could leap ahead a thousand years.
10,000.
And all you had to do was let us think
you were dead.
It wasn't what I wanted.
Besides, you were the one
who always said our personal lives
had to take second place to serving Earth.
We didn't realize how much time had passed.
It doesn't work quite the same way there
as it does here.
But now I'm back, John.
And I've come to take you back with me...
So you can see for yourself.
So they can tell you what this is about.
What it's really all about.
Delenn, Kosh, and the others,
they have misled you again and again.
It's time to learn the truth.
You're right.
Maybe it is time.
Captain, I heard about...
Well, I heard about Anna.
Anything I can do?
No, thank you.
That situation is well in hand.
But there is something you can do
on another matter.
According to the logs,
the Minbari crew of the White Star
haven't been logged into the security net.
No, sir. I figured it wasn't necessary.
Delenn vouched for them.
I understand,
but we should have that information
in case we ever need it.
I want them shuttled over, processed,
given indenticards, the usual.
All of them.
Who's going to run the ship while they're here?
The White Star can orbit the station on autopilot
for a few hours, no problem.
[Sighs]
All right, I guess we can do that.
Anything else?
Yes. While you're at it,
I need a few things taken care of.
It's all here.
You will, of course, keep this confidential.
These days,
what around here isn't confidential?
I'll take care of--
son of a bitch.
It's against regulations to address a senior officer
in those terms, Mr. Garibaldi.
Michael...
When I first came here, I wasn't sure about you,
you weren't sure about me.
Since then, I've come to trust you,
to rely on you.
Now, I need you to take care of this for me.
No questions, no speculations,
no hunches, or educated guesses.
All right?
Yeah.
Good.
And when I see you next,
if everything is set...
We'll talk about the weather.
Yes, sir.
If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die.
Com-system, I want to record
a time-delayed message for Ambassador Delenn.
[Beep beep]
Com-system: Stand by.
Afternoon, Captain.
Mr. Garibaldi. Is there a problem?
No. Just taking a walk.
I, uh, heard a weather report
from Earth.
They've had a late winter,
but it finally started snowing
in New York.
Well, it must be very pretty there
this time of year.
Yes, sir. Must be.
Take care, Michael.
You, too.
Here.
You sure you can run this thing by yourself?
I think so.
I've watched them whenever we've gone out.
The ship's control system
is pretty intelligent, so as long as we don't
run into any trouble, we should be fine.
You're guaranteed safe passage.
Well, then let's get this show on the road, huh?
Next stop...
Z'ha'dum.
I wish we could've taken a different ship.
This one's based partly on Vorlon technology.
The aliens believe they'll die
if anything remotely Vorlon touches Z'ha'dum.
Then we won't risk it. When we get there,
we'll take the shuttle down to the surface.
Susan. I just checked the logs.
The Captain's gone.
I know. I just found out about it myself.
I'm running it down now. There must be a reason.
You don't understand. Why did he do it?
I gave him the report. I know he read it.
What report?
There's a problem with Anna.
The entrance is up ahead.
[Air hissing]
[Hissing stops]
For security reasons,
they moved their main structures underground
centuries ago.
John.
I'll need your gun.
They designed this part of the complex
specifically for us.
Us?
You'll see.
No. Not that door. This one.
Man: Yes. Come in.
Anna. You got him
to come back with you.
Excellent. Just...excellent.
Come in. Please. Have a seat.
I'm, uh, making some tea.
It's chamomile,
but I can make something else
if you like.
It helps me sleep better.
Captain, I think you already know...
Yes.
Hello, Captain.
Have a seat. Please.
Who are you?
Now...that's really not...Important.
Who are you?
Who decides that the workday
is from 9:00 to 5:00
instead of 11:00 to 4:00?
Who decides that the hemlines
will be below the knee this year
and short again next year?
Who draws up the borders,
controls the currency,
handles all of the decisions
that happen transparently
around us?
I don't know.
Ah...
I'm with them.
Same group,
different department.
Think of me
as a sort of middle man.
And the name...
Is Justin.
Come in, then. Sit. Sit.
The tea's getting cold.
[Com-system beeps]
Yes?
Com monitor: Authorization needed
to deliver time-delay message
recorded by Captain Sheridan.
Do you accept?
Yes.
Delenn...
By the time you get this message,
I will be at Z'ha'dum...
With Anna.
I can pretty much guess your reaction
when you hear this,
but I think it's the only way.
When you and I were in the time rift
with Babylon 4, for a moment...
I jumped forward in time.
We'd won the war,
but Centauri Prime had been devastated.
You said that this future couldn't be changed.
You also told me...
Do not go to Z'ha'dum.
Do you understand?
Do not go to Z'ha'dum! Aah!
I began to wonder...
What if that future happened
because I listened to your warning
and didn't go to Z'ha'dum?
What if...What if
I could prevent the fall of Centauri Prime
and end the Shadow War by going there?
What I want... Is to stay alive...
To be with you.
But you were right before.
This is about more than what I want.
So I'm going,
even though I know
it's almost certainly a trap.
You see, John,
back a million years ago,
there were...
Forces prowling around the galaxy
beyond anything
that we could understand.
And...
Like anything else,
most of them outgrew
this little corner of the universe
and headed off toward greener pastures.
Now...
Two of them stayed behind.
Shepherds, you might call them.
They wanted to look after the younger races,
bring them around,
help them evolve into something better.
One of these was the Vorlons.
The other
was what you call the Shadows.
The Vorlons are like your parents, I suppose.
They want you to play nice,
clean your room,
do it by the rules.
I guess you could call them
"Lords of order."
The others, the ones who live here,
believe that strength
only comes from conflict.
They want to release our potential,
not bottle it up.
It's really simple.
You bring two sides together.
They fight.
A lot of them die.
But those who survive are stronger,
smarter, and better.
It's like...
Knocking over an ant hill.
Every new generation gets stronger.
The ant hill gets redesigned...
Made better.
So, that's what the Shadows do...
Come out every few thousand years
and kick over all the ant hills...
Start wars...
Destroy entire races.
A few get lost along the way...Yes.
And that's unfortunate.
I don't think it was ever easy,
but you can't let that get in the way
of the dream.
Commander, I'm picking up a disturbance.
Location?
All around us.
Red alert! Red alert!
[Alarm sounds]
Status.
They're not moving. Holding position.
All fighter squadrons launch,
but do not approach until authorized to fire.
Think about it, Captain.
Look at the long history of human struggle.
6,000 years of recorded wars...
Bloodshed...
Atrocities beyond description.
But look at what came out of all of that.
We've gone to the stars...
Split the atom...
Written sonnets.
We never would've come this far
if we hadn't been at each other's throats,
evolving...our way up...
Inch by inch.
Anna: It was supposed to be an equal balance
between our side and the Vorlons.
But the Vorlons decided that their way
was the right way.
They enlisted the support
of other worlds...
Like the Minbari.
They even started interfering
with the development of younger races.
When you look at a Vorlon,
you see what they want you to see.
They've manipulated us
so we'd respond favorably to them.
They've even interfered...
At a genetic level,
taking humans and-- and "adjusting" them.
Why do you think certifiable telepaths
came out of nowhere a hundred years ago?
They created telepaths
on a hundred worlds
to use as Cannon fodder
for the next war,
but fortunately,
our friends got there first
and, with the help of the psi corps,
made sure that they came out
on our side.
John, they think that the human race
shows great potentials.
When all this is over,
we can be riding high,
the first to rebuild,
making things our own way.
But the only thing
that's standing in our way now is you.
So, we can either work together now...
Or we can remove
your support mechanism.
Moving into position. Everybody, hang tight.
Can you get through to draal?
Negative. They're jamming us.
I don't understand.
They're just sitting there.
This has got to have something
to do with the Captain, but what?
What are they waiting for?
Everything depends on getting the other races
to fight each other, to create conflict
in order to promote growth and evolution.
By getting them to cooperate,
you are working against that goal.
Whenever this starts,
there's always someone who tries to organize
the other races. You've done it.
That's a commendable achievement...
But as far as our goals are concerned,
unproductive.
So, why don't you just kill me?
Doesn't work. Somebody would just come around
and replace you.
That's always been the trouble
with creating martyrs.
We've brought you here
hoping you'd understand us.
Work with us...
Not against us.
You're important. You're what they call a nexus.
You turn one way, and the whole world
has a tendency to go the same way.
Let...go...
Of those other races.
You can't hold them together.
Evolution will be served one way or another.
So, you can work with us, or--
or you'll do to me what you did to Anna.
I don't know what you're--
all the memories are there.
The voice is there. The DNA is there.
But the personality...
I look in her eyes, and the woman I love,
the woman...I married...
Isn't there.
She would never go along with this.
You're right. Just so.
You see, when she came here 5 years ago,
she was given the choice,
the same choice that we're giving you.
She made the mistake of choosing badly.
You stuck her in one of those ships, didn't you?
How did you know?
A few months ago, we intercepted
a shipful of people
who were going to be merged with the Shadow vessels.
They had implants in the brain stem,
right back here.
The scars in the back of her head
are in exactly the same place.
Our associates needed fresh bodies
for the central processing units
in their ships.
But we pulled her out as soon as we found out
who she was and who you are.
But once you've been
inside of one of those ships for a while...
You're never...
Quite whole...Again.
But you do what you're told!
And so will you!
Commander!
G'Kar. Good. Can we get those nuclear weapons
outside where they can do some good?
I'm afraid not.
Even if we could get them out,
at this range, they'd vaporize us
right along with the enemy.
Maybe. How many of those bombs do we have?
That's what I came to tell you.
Two of the devices are missing.
What?
[Pushing controls on link]
Computer voice: Thermal fusion system
armed for detonation.
John.
There's nowhere to run.
Come back inside. We can work this out.
I know that this isn't the Anna that you knew.
What I am is what I was made in her--
a new personality.
She can never come back...
But I can love you as well as she did.
[John's message] Finally...I heard what
you said when I left.
And I want you to know...
That I love you, Delenn.
Good-bye.
[Sobs]
Kosh's voice: Jump.
Jump. Now!
Aaaahhhh!
[Softly] What the hell?
They're leaving. I don't get it.
What happened?
They wouldn't just leave...
Unless we were no longer a threat.
[Softly] Oh, he's gone.
G'Kar's voice: It was the end
of the Earth year 2260,
and the war had paused...
Suddenly and unexpectedly.
All around us...
It was as if the universe were holding its breath...
Waiting.
G'Kar's voice: All of life can be broken down
into moments of transition
or moments...
Of revelation.
This had the feeling of both.
Commander?
Any word on the Captain?
Anything at all?
We've tried everything.
The White Star isn't receiving.
As far as we can tell...
It's been destroyed.
There's... Something else.
We checked the fighter bays.
One of the fighters we sent out
didn't come back.
Who was the pilot?
Mr. Garibaldi.
G'Kar's voice: G'Quan wrote,
"there is a greater darkness than the one we fight.
"It is the darkness of the soul
"that has lost its way.
"The war we fight
"is not against powers and principalities.
"It is against chaos...
"And despair.
"Greater than the death of flesh
"is the death of hope...
"The death of dreams.
Against this peril we can never surrender."
"The future is all around us,
"waiting in moments of transition
"to be born
"in moments of revelation.
"No one knows the shape of that future
"or where it will take us.
"We know only
"that it is always born
in pain."