Ivanova: Commander's personal log.
The war to liberate Earth and her colonies continues.
We have more Earth ships on our side
than ever before,
but the battles are becoming more desperate
the closer we get to home.
Near-proximity hit.
10% damage to the hull. Autorepair systems
are moving as fast as they can to keep up.
Status?
The hydra and the delphi...
Are out of commission and withdrawing.
The rest are moving in for a counterstrike against us.
Damn it,
they're outnumbered,
their jump engines are down,
they can't beat us, they can't escape.
Why don't they surrender?
[Explosion]
Ivanova: This is the hardest part of all--
fighting our own.
Franklin and Lyta should be on Mars by now
along with their cargo.
Our resources are stretched to the limit.
Everything's riding on what happens
in the next few weeks.
This is endgame.
We'll be ok as long as nothing goes wrong.
[Footsteps]
You took care of it?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's done.
Captain Sheridan's father is in custody.
He's being shipped
to a temporary staging area on Mars
so we can keep an eye on him.
I'll contact Sheridan
as soon as everything is in place.
Are you sure he'll come?
Yeah, he'll come.
Good. Good.
Let me know when he's in custody.
Mr. Garibaldi...
I know this is hard for you,
but it really is for his own good,
for everyone's good.
Once he's out of the picture,
President Clark will lower his guard.
Then we can deal with him and the psi corps.
In the final analysis,
once he's better, Sheridan may even thank you.
Somehow I doubt it.
Well, we'll have to see.
Still, once this is done, I can tell you the rest.
The truth,
the whole, absolute truth is only a few days away.
How many people can say that?
I don't know,
but I think the last guy got
30 pieces of silver for the same job.
It was the year of fire.
The year of destruction.
The year we took back what was ours.
It was the year of rebirth.
The year of great sadness.
The year of pain...
And the year of joy.
It was a new age.
It was the end of history.
It was the year everything changed.
The year is 2261.
The place...
White Star 20 is hit.
How bad?
Minimal.
They're withdrawing until the autorepair systems
can cut in.
I just don't understand.
They have to know they can't win.
Why don't they surrender?
They can't want to die.
Not for Clark.
This is John Sheridan to Earth fleet.
I say again, you are ordered to stand down
and surrender your vessels.
We have no desire to destroy your ships,
but if you continue to fight,
we'll have no choice.
Enemy Captain: What difference does it make?
We're dead anyway!
It's the cadmus. Captain Leo Frank.
What are you talking about?
What do you think I'm talking about?
We've been briefed on your campaign, Sheridan.
As soon as our forces surrender,
our crews are taken out, executed,
and then replaced by Minbari crews.
Is that what you've been told?
It is,
and I believe it.
New voice: Then you're even dumber than you were
at the academy.
Who's that? Mackie?
Mackie, is that you?
Alive and well.
But we heard you--
yeah. I know what you heard, and it's a load of crap.
I'm alive.
Every member of my crew is still here.
I don't care what you've heard about Sheridan.
You know me. Leo.
Everything I tell you is on the up and up.
Stand down.
You won't be harmed.
Marcus: Nothing yet.
[Whispering] Come on. Don't be stupid.
Picking up a signal.
They're standing down.
Sheridan to attack fleet.
They've given the surrender order.
Cease fire. I repeat, cease fire.
Tell the others--
just a minute!
There's a jump point opening.
Captain: Agamemnon to Sheridan.
Agamemnon to Sheridan.
My old ship.
Sheridan to agamemnon.
Tell me you're not here for a fight.
Negative, Captain.
We've been chasing you for days, but you're too fast.
We couldn't catch you.
We're looking to join up, if you don't mind.
Mind?
Hell, you've just made my whole day.
Stand by. I'm coming aboard.
Is that a good idea?
They're my crew.
I trained them myself,
including her Captain.
I trust them implicitly.
You have the helm, Marcus.
Ah, Stephen, good to see you.
Good to see you, too.
You got here fast.
Yeah, well, with so many ships called away
to fight our forces,
we were able to slip through.
This is Lyta Alexander.
She's a telepath.
Lyta, this is number one.
Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
You came through here a couple of years ago.
You didn't say anything about being a telepath.
I couldn't. I was on the run from the psi corps.
You should've told us.
And, you, are you out of your mind?
What the hell are you doing,
bringing a teep down here when we are ready to move?
Are you trying to compromise my security?
Look, it's ok.
No, it's not ok.
I didn't know about her, but you did.
You should've warned me.
You can trust her.
I-I'd put my life in her hands.
Fine. That's your choice. But when it's my life,
I'd like to have a thing or 2 to say about it,
if it's all the same to both of you.
All right, all right. I'm sorry.
If it's a problem, I can go topside.
I'll find a place to stay until you need me.
No. It's ok. Now, she needs to stay here
with the rest of us.
We may need her at a moment's notice.
What for?
Our cargo.
What cargo?
That cargo.
[Coasters clanking]
Hold it.
More telepaths?
Yeah.
How many?
A lot.
[Clanking]
Mister, you've got one hell of a lot
of explaining to do.
Mate: Captain's on deck.
As you were.
The place hasn't changed.
Not perceptibly, sir.
We have updated the dx-419 tracking system.
It's about time.
Of course, the main reason for the update
was to make it easier to find you, sir.
Well, at least some good has come out of this.
That thing never worked right
from the first day we got it.
How's the crew?
Good. Good.
Lieutenant chase is out on pregnancy leave,
Miller is back earthside
recuperating from injuries he sustained in a firefight
against raiders off of io a couple of months ago,
and the rest of the crew
has been busy following your adventures, sir,
ever since you made it known
that Clark was responsible
for Santiago's assassination.
To tell you the truth, Captain,
some of us thought maybe you were out of control.
We just kept hearing these stories.
I understand.
But then came Nightwatch
and the illegal orders to take out civilian targets,
so we knew who was telling the truth.
The crew trusts you, Captain.
They believe that you're a pain in the ass, sir,
but they trust you.
So we voted to join up with you as soon as we could.
Well, I can't tell you
what it means to have you aboard.
Makes me think we might actually win this one.
Well, you haven't lost one yet, sir.
Oh, I've lost a few.
Just made damn sure nobody heard about it.
We've got a signal coming in for you, sir.
Ok, put it through to my...
Main console.
Marcus, what's up?
We're receiving a transmission from Mr. Garibaldi.
He needs to speak with you.
Says it's important.
All right. Put him through.
Mr. Garibaldi.
What is it?
Captain, I just thought you should know.
Ok, look,
we're not exactly on the best terms right now,
but they've got your dad, John.
They traced him through his medication
and picked him up at a safe house 2 days ago
just outside of Chicago.
Is he all right?
It's hard to get good information,
but I think so.
Now, they're going to use him to get to you.
If you don't surrender, they're going to kill him.
Now, look, we've got a couple of days
before they can move on this,
and we should be able to break him out.
I've got some people who can help,
but they want a meeting.
They know your rep,
but thanks to Clark's police state,
they're afraid of being set up.
So it's got to be just you and me.
Nobody else.
Come on, John, if we're going to do this,
we got to move fast.
I need an answer. I need it now.
Captain, I don't think you should.
If it were your father,
what would you do?
All right. I'll need to
verify this through my people.
But if it's true,
you tell 'em I'll be there...
Alone.
Captain, I strongly object.
Your objection is noted.
I mean it, John.
I don't like the way this thing sounds,
I don't like the way it looks. I don't like anything about it.
It stinks of a setup.
Look, Susan,
Michael and I have had our problems lately,
but he has never given me reason
to think he meant me harm.
Maybe so, but what if his information is wrong?
It's not. I just got word
from my contacts on Earth.
They got my dad 2 days ago,
just like Michael said.
A-at least let me send Marcus with you.
Marcus needs to be here as your liaison
with the rest of the fleet while I am gone.
Now, I will listen to what Garibaldi has to say,
and if there's any way we can make this work,
we'll find it.
Wh-what do you mean, my liaison?
I want you to take my place
during my absence. Take White Star 40
and get here as fast as you can.
Shouldn't Delenn?
She's not back yet.
We need to keep this a clean fight.
That means
human commanding officers only.
Last time an assault fleet came to Earth,
it was under Minbari command.
We don't want the folks back home
thinking the Minbari war
is happening all over again.
It has to be one of us.
All right.
I guess you have to try and get him back.
I have to.
If I don't,
I'll regret it the rest of my life.
Take care, Susan.
I'll see you soon.
Are you sure you want to go along with this?
We've got the current access codes.
We can get in and out
of the area surrounding the colony
without setting off the early warning system.
All right.
As soon as we make the jump from hyperspace,
I'll take down one of your thunderbolts,
land just outside the colony.
If everything goes right,
I'll be in and out in a few hours.
You'll have the best fighter we've got.
Stand by to change course.
Helmsman: Standing by.
Transfer navigation to beacon 1-1-9-1-7-6.
Aye, sir.
[Slam]
Maybe I should just go.
No, no. It's all right.
Says you.
What?
You really don't know?
But I'll bet she does.
Well, in that case,
you only have to let me know
what the hell is going on.
She can do it. Someone just dumped
several dozen cryonic freezers on me,
and I have to find room for them.
I have no time for this.
She's talking about the new bloodhound units.
Telepaths assigned to the military divisions
occupying Mars.
Anyone suspected of being in the resistance is scanned.
They're very deep scans.
The trouble with deep scans is
they can cause heart attacks, seizures, strokes...
There's been several deaths.
She's right to be upset.
Well, how did you find out about this?
Once I got taken off the rogue list,
I began to hear things,
but we always keep it inside the corps.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
"Always"?
This has happened before?
Lyta...
When I interned with the psi cops,
there were a number of murders.
Someone was killing commercial telepaths,
and the mundanes didn't care.
For them, it was just one less teep
to worry about.
So the psi cops took care of it.
What did you do?
What we had to.
We scanned anyone
who might've had a lead.
No warrant, no permission,
and no trace.
Just...gaps in their memory,
missing hours, headaches...
Did you find him?
Did you, uh...
No.
That would have been too quick.
And we couldn't go to the police,
because we didn't want to explain
how we found him.
Somewhere on beta colony,
there is... An institution.
In one room of that institution,
there is a man...
Who spends his days and nights screaming
at...things only he can see,
things we planted in his mind.
They have to keep him in a straitjacket
24 hours a day, or he'd...
Claw his own eyes out just to make it stop.
My god...
When it was over,
I transferred to commercial work.
I wanted out.
The corps took me in
when I was just a few years old.
They taught me what a telepath was,
what we could do,
and all that time,
I'd never been afraid of who we were...
Until that day
when we did what we had to do
because no one else would.
Someday there's going to be a war
between telepaths and mundanes, Stephen.
I just hope I don't live to see it.
Maybe, uh... Maybe after
the Captain takes care of President Clark,
we're going to work on this, ok?
We're going to--we're going to build some Bridges
and--and find a more positive way
of dealing with the corps.
You're going to have a long wait.
We just received a coded message
from Babylon 5.
It's about Sheridan.
I hope he told you what to do
with those frozen telepaths,
'cause it looks like
you're on your own for a while.
Delenn. Lennier.
I'm glad to see you. I was just about to leave.
It's good to be back, Commander.
Is there a problem?
I'm afraid so.
President Clark's people have found John's father.
They're holding him captive.
Mr. Garibaldi thinks he can help.
The Captain's en route right now.
He wants me to take over the fleet in his absence.
I was hoping you can keep an eye on things around here
until I get back.
Of course.
We'll do everything we can. Good-bye.
Thank you.
Do you think the Captain's all right?
He knows what he's doing.
He'll be fine...
Assuming Mr. Garibaldi can still be trusted.
[Rock ballad plays]
♪ I only want ♪
♪ only want ♪
♪ but can I have? ♪
♪ Will I have? ♪
Hello, Michael.
Captain. I was starting to think
you weren't going to make it here.
Have you heard anything else about my father?
No, just that he's being held
at a facility here on Mars.
He's not being heavily guarded right now
'cause Clark hasn't announced that he's been captured yet.
So we need to move before that happens?
Yeah.
All right.
What do you want me to do?
You've already done it.
It's a trank. Don't fight it.
Give it up, or they're going to hurt you!
♪ We'll only want ♪
♪ but can I have? ♪
♪ Will not have ♪
♪ inside ♪
♪ in my mind ♪
♪ I get away ♪
♪ just to die ♪
♪ I await the wind ♪
♪ fly away ♪
[Singing continues under music]
[New rock song starts]
I got here as soon as I could.
Marcus: Susan...
What's going on?
You all look like a Pak'ma'ra just ate your cat.
We picked this up off the ISN feed
just as you were coming out of hyperspace.
We interrupt our regular programming
for this important announcement.
The leader of the renegade fleet
that has been attempting
to destabilize Earth for months
has finally been located and detained.
Captain John Sheridan, formerly of Earthforce,
was captured earlier today
by forces loyal to President Clark
and is now being held in a secure facility.
Unlike many of his victims,
he is being given proper care and treatment
until a hearing can be convened.
[Whispering] John!
Something's happened.
Wade just brought me a message
from President Clark.
He's ecstatic over Sheridan's capture.
Sends his thanks and his compliments.
He seems to think
the whole resistance movement will fall apart now.
He's wrong.
Possibly.
But it'll take them a while to regroup,
and that'll give us the time we need
to get everything in place.
And what's that?
You said you'd tell me the rest of it
when I proved my loyalty, when Sheridan was in custody.
Well, I held up my end of the bargain. Now I want the truth!
Fair enough.
Wade.
We're engaged in a very dangerous game,
Mr. Garibaldi.
In this game,
you have to pick your target very carefully,
because you only have one shot,
and this is much, much bigger than you suspect.
President Clark isn't the real problem.
He's trivial.
In one way or another,
he'll be gone in a few years.
But the telepaths he put in power,
the psi corps,
those will be with us forever.
That's the real danger.
If information is power,
then telepaths represent
the greatest threat to freedom we've ever seen.
We have to deal with that
or face the very real possibility
of our own extinction.
[Beep]
The danger before us is nothing less
than the death of human Liberty
and human thought.
Do you recognize this?
Yeah.
Yeah. That's the package I helped Wade
smuggle past customs on Babylon 5.
Lise said it was a cure for telepaths
against some kind of genetic mutation.
Lise.
A very good woman.
She believes me when I tell her these things,
but lately...
I couldn't tell her the truth
because I knew that the psi cops were after this.
They don't know what's going on,
but they do know enough to be worried.
And that's the reason
why you didn't come yourself...
And why you had me fire Lyta.
Any telepath is a potential risk to my work.
If they knew for certain what was going on,
I'd be dead in 5 minutes.
This vial does contain a cure, Mr. Garibaldi.
It took my people 3 years to develop it.
Almost as long as it took us
to develop the virus itself.
This virus is encoded to embed itself in the gene
that activates a telepath's abilities.
It's airborne,
100% contagious,
and utterly harmless to normals.
Only telepaths are susceptible.
Once infected, they have to receive
injections of the antidote every 2 weeks.
If they miss even one injection...
They die.
And your people in the government
control the antidote.
It's insurance against the day
when they try to do to us what we've done to them--
turn us into second-class citizens.
If they try it,
we simply withhold the antidote.
And the net result is you create a slave race
to serve...
Or die.
It's the tyranny of evolution.
Sooner or later, you have a species
that will have a genetic or technological advantage,
and that species will always conquer a species
without that advantage.
Carthage.
The triumph of the homo sapiens
over the neanderthal showed us that.
Now what do we have?
We have homo superior versus homo sapien.
On a level playing field,
homo superior wins every time.
Unless we cheat.
I turned this company into one of the biggest
medical research facilities in existence
because I wanted to help people, not harm them.
But I won't stand by
and let telepaths turn into a ruling class.
So, first we remove that danger,
then we'll deal with President Clark.
Telepaths are his power base.
Neutralize them,
and you take away the instrument of terror
he's used...To suppress and intimidate others.
Does any of this pose a problem for you,
Mr. Garibaldi?
No.
No, it doesn't.
I think what you're doing is right.
Telepaths have an unfair advantage.
I think it's right that we make it
an advantage of our own in return.
Exactly.
I am very tired.
It's been a long day.
But we made a good beginning.
With Sheridan out of the way,
Clark will relax.
I expect we can start moving the virus out
in a few days. 3 weeks after that,
according to our projections of the infection rate,
the telepath prob--
the telepath problem...
Will finally be over.
Now that you know,
you'll have to stay on the compound
until the virus starts moving out.
I'm sure you can understand the danger.
Michael...
I heard what bill told you.
I--i can't go back there, not now.
You got to help me stop him. What he's doing.
I understand why he's doing it, but it's wrong.
I've felt that something was going on for a while,
but I had no idea.
Michael?
Michael, are you listening to me?
You got to do something.
You have to leave here.
But i--
now.
But what am I going to do?
Go home.
[Tone chimes]
[Door closes]
Hello, Mr. Garibaldi.
I received your signal.
Now, tell me what you know...
All of it.
This virus is encoded to embed itself
in the gene that activates a telepath's abilities.
It's airborne, 100% contagious,
and utterly harmless to normals.
Once infected, they have to receive injections
of the antidote every 2 weeks.
Edgars: If they miss even one injection...
They die.
Well...
Thank you.
Not that you had much choice.
I knew there were forces out there
with plans for my telepaths, but this...
I had no idea.
The sheer scope of it...
Well, we'll stop it now, of course...
In our own way.
I can feel you, you know,
the real you,
beating at the inside of your skull,
screaming to get out,
to know what's going on.
For a long time, I've been debating
what to do when this day came.
Do I let you know what happened to you,
or do I leave you like this,
trapped in a prison of meat and flesh and bone...
Forever?
I've decided to be magnanimous, Mr. Garibaldi.
Not that you'll appreciate it.
Because you have prevented a new holocaust:
The enslavement and murder of several million telepaths.
Though I doubt very much you'll appreciate that, either.
Go back, Mr. Garibaldi.
Go back...
And remember.
Moving into position. Everybody hang tight.
Bester: The Shadows had come to Babylon 5,
and Sheridan had gone to Z'ha'dum.
So why don't you just kill me?
It doesn't work.
Somebody'd just come around and replace you.
Bester: They knew there were 3 people
who could replace him:
Delenn, Ivanova, and you.
Given your checkered background,
they thought you would be
the easiest to turn to their side.
What the hell?
Bester: Once Sheridan was dead,
Ivanova and Delenn would be eliminated.
They left the station intact,
on the theory that it could be used
for their purposes.
And you, they took back with them
to...adjust you.
By this time I knew they had infiltrated the corps,
so when they pulled in some of my people
to help in your...
Adjustment, I was able to intervene.
Not so much on your behalf as my own.
This virus that kills only telepaths,
I'd bet good money it's Shadow technology.
They probably got it to him through third parties,
helped his people work out the details.
We both know
that telepaths were a threat to the Shadows,
one they wouldn't mind eliminating.
It's ingenious, really.
They played Clark's drive for power on one side
and Edgars fear of telepaths on the other,
leaving us in the middle,
controlled or dead.
But let's get back to you.
Bester: I arranged to have you rerouted
to our research facility here on Mars.
Then we got to work.
All right, I want a complete neural workup.
I want to know all the soft points where we can go in
without disturbing the neural landscape.
We can't leave any fingerprints.
He may have to pass a telepathic scan.
You don't want us to do a full reprogram on him?
Unnecessary.
By nature, Mr. Garibaldi is rebellious,
stubborn, and suspicious.
He has an innate distrust of authority figures.
And he's very good at figuring out
when a conspiracy is taking place
and tracking it back to its source.
We need that part of him.
So I don't want to risk tampering with it.
We don't have to reprogram him,
just accentuate his natural instincts.
Mmm.
More rebellious, more stubborn,
more suspicious of his fellow officers.
Then all we have to do
is nudge him in the right direction from time to time,
and let nature run its course.
Bester: After we finished, we had to make sure
that you didn't remember anything we had done to you.
That was the hard part.
We were, shall we say, less than gentle.
I said I don't remember anything!
Nothing!
Bester: Once we felt it was safe,
we put enough information out there
to let your people find you.
After that, all we could do was wait
and hope for the best.
It worked even better than I could have imagined.
You resigned your position, something I hadn't expected.
But it put you in the perfect position
to be recruited by William Edgars,
and it isolated you from the people
who cared about you and might try to help you.
I've decided to resign as head of security,
effective immediately.
Bester: From time to time,
we updated your conditioning,
continued to point you where we needed you to go.
Until, in the end, the old Garibaldi was gone
and the new one worked only for us.
You would do anything to find
what we wanted you to find,
even sell out Sheridan.
Your final orders were to report back
when you had all the information we needed.
So, now the question becomes
what do I do with you
now that I have no further use for you?
I could kill you, I suppose.
In some ways, it might be a mercy.
By now your friends know that you betrayed Sheridan.
So, as the saying goes,
you can't go home again.
And your current employer
is not going to be around much longer.
Or...
I could leave you just like this...
Forever.
Whatever you think of me, Mr. Garibaldi,
I'm not capricious or cruel.
I used you because I had no other choice.
I have what I want.
My interest in you is over.
[Tone chimes]
We'll be docking in a moment.
I've just sent the all-clear signal telepathically.
After I'm gone, you'll be able to move again.
You'll remember it all.
You'll be yourself again.
You can try to tell the others what happened,
but under the circumstances,
I doubt very much anyone will believe you.
Be seeing you, Mr. Garibaldi.
[Door opens]
No!
Did you get through?
Is it true?
They've got the Captain, all right.
It was a setup,
and Garibaldi was behind the whole thing.
I just heard he's tried to contact Babylon 5.
You tell Corwin to refuse his signals.
There's nothing that he has to say to me right now
that I have the slightest interest in hearing.
And you tell them
that if he turns up on the station,
I want that son of a bitch shot on sight.
Susan.
I mean it.
What's our status?
The other ships want to know
what we're going to do now.
We finish what we started.
If Clark thinks this is going to slow us down,
he's in for a very big surprise.
The Captain once told me:
"The person is expendable, the job is not."
We keep going.
Garibaldi: Lise?! Lise!
Lise?
[Moaning]
Wade.
Wade, what happened?
5 of them...
Hit us out of nowhere.
They knew.
Where's Lise?
Where?
I don't know. She wasn't here.
She was gone when they got here.
She--
Wade?
Oh, damn it.
This is Alison Higgins with an update
on our earlier stories.
President Clark declared today a day of celebration and rest,
noting that the capture
of renegade Earthforce Captain John Sheridan
signals that the war of aggression against Earth
is unraveling.
Sheridan continues to be well-fed and well-treated.
Now that he has been freed of alien influences,
he has reportedly indicated feelings of remorse and regret
for his actions against his own homeworld.
We hope to have more on this soon.
In other news, William Edgars,
founder of Edgars' industries, one of Earth's
10 largest medical research corporations,
was found dead this morning
along with at least one of his staff.
2 personal bodyguards outside the estate were also killed.
Preliminary reports from investigators on the scene
indicate that the resistance
may have been responsible for the attack,
as they continue their assault
against business and political targets.
Nothing is known yet
concerning the whereabouts of his wife, Lise Edgars.
Finally, ISN sources within Earthdome
have indicated that Captain Sheridan
may have been turned in
by his own former head of security,
chief warrant officer Michael Garibaldi.
If this is true,
we at ISN want to convey our personal thanks and gratitude
to a true hero of the people.