Susan Ivanova quotes from Babylon 5

Sheridan

This is Captain John J. Sheridan. Serial number XO7Y39-Alpha. Security code: obsidian.

Ivanova

This is Commander Susan Ivanova. Serial number Z48M27-Epsilon. Security code: griffin.

Michael Garibaldi

This is Chief Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi. Serial number V17L98. Security code: peekaboo.

Ivanova

Peekaboo?

Garibaldi

Would you have guessed it?

Sheridan

When you were hurt, when you were in my arms, I was ready to kill that guy with my bare hands. I realized I have never told you how much I cared about you, how much you mean to me. I think it's time you knew that. I can no longer imagine my world without you in it. I don't know exactly when or how it happened. But I'm glad it did.

Garibaldi

No one knows, but…I'm afraid all the time…what I might do if I let go.

Ivanova

I think I…loved…Talia.

Dr. Stephen Franklin

I…think I have a problem.

Bester

I was expecting the Captain.

Susan Ivanova

He sent me.

Bester

Did he? He has a better sense of humor than I thought. Please, sit.

Ivanova

I'd rather stand.

Bester

I suspect you'd rather walk out that door and wall me up inside! Do a little re-creation of "The Cask of Amontillado". "For the love of God, Montresor!"

Ivanova

If you get near a point, make it!

Sheridan

So you believe this?

Sinclair

I believe it.

Marcus

If Entil'Zha believes it, I believe it.

Susan Ivanova

I'll be in the car.

Ivanova

C'mon c'mon, grab what you need. We're running out of time.

Zathras

Cannot run out of time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. [picking up tool] THIS is wrong tool.

John Sheridan

Your government neglected to tell me your name. How should I refer to you when we're alone?

Kosh.

Sheridan

Ah, yes, I understand that's how we're to refer to you publicly, but privately?

Kosh.

Susan Ivanova

Ambassador Kosh is…dead.

We are all Kosh. [he leaves]

Sheridan

Well, he's a Vorlon, all right.

Ivanova

Yep.

Are you starting in already, Theo? I tell you, in fifty years of living and forty years of serving the Lord, I have never met a sorrier soul than Brother Theo here!

Susan Ivanova

Well, I wouldn't say...

Brother Theo

Thank you! But I'd prefer to leave judgments as to the state of my soul to someone better qualified, and perhaps a bit less loud!

But it says in the Bible to make a joyful noise unto the Lord!

Brother Theo

[grinning] I've heard you sing, Will. And take my word for it, that is not what the Good Lord had in mind when He said, "a joyful noise"!

Susan Ivanova

That's a lot of ships.

Marcus Cole

That's a bloody awful lot of ships.

Ivanova

Jump engines back on line yet?

Marcus

No. If I signal the fleet, this lot might pick it up. If they do and we can't get away...

Ivanova

Well...who wants to live forever?

Marcus

I do, actually! But what the hell...

Marcus

Nu'zen fel'ani in-a lis'e medran. [translation: You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.]

Ivanova

And what does that mean?

Marcus

It's...just a greeting. It means..."My words are inadequate to the burden of my heart."

Ivanova

Well, that's an unusual greeting.

Marcus

Well...they're an unusual people.

Susan Ivanova

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--

G'Kar

Then, as you so concisely say, "Boom!"

Lennier

It was the year of fire...

Zack Allan

...the year of destruction...

G'Kar

...the year we took back what was ours.

Lyta Alexander

It was the year of rebirth...

Vir Cotto

...the year of great sadness...

Marcus Cole

...the year of pain...

Delenn

...and a year of joy.

Londo Mollari

It was...a new age.

Stephen Franklin

It was the end of history.

Susan Ivanova

It was the year everything changed.

Michael Garibaldi

The year is 2261.

John Sheridan

The place, Babylon 5.

Have you ever heard of the hour of the wolf?

Lyta Alexander

No.

Ivanova

My father told me about it. It's the time between three and four in the morning. You can't sleep, and all you can see is the troubles and the problems and the ways that your life should've gone but didn't. All you can hear is the sound of your own heart. I've been living in the hour of the wolf for seven days, Lyta. Seven days. The wolf and I are now on a first-name basis. [She sits down and sees that Lyta is still standing.] Ah, please. [She points at a chair, and Lyta gets her drift and sits.] In times like this, my father used to take one large glass of vodka before bed. To keep the wolf away, he said. And then he would take three very small drinks of vodka, just in case she had cubs while she was waiting outside. [takes a drink] It doesn't work.

Ivanova

Lennier, get us the hell out of here!

Lennier

Initiating "getting the hell out of here" maneuver.

Susan Ivanova

[in Minbari] Engines at full...high power hatrack ratcatcher to port weapons...brickbat lingerie!

Marcus Cole

It's...

Delenn

Um, very good!

Marcus

Bit of an accent. But yes, very good.

Delenn

But it is not enough to speak Minbari; you must also think in our language.

Marcus

It can take a few seconds to translate an order. And we all know a lot can happen in a few seconds: Crash, boom, burn.

Delenn

Exactly. So Marcus will accompany you.

Ivanova

[protesting] That's not...

Delenn

[to Marcus] Do you mind?

Marcus

Not at all. Love to.

Ivanova

All right. Meet me early in the morning, or I'm leaving without you. [She stalks off.]

Marcus

[calling after her] I'll be there!

Delenn

Tell the crew that if anyone laughs, they will answer to me personally.

Marcus

At least a dozen ships have reported seeing something rather godlike in the area, and since neither you nor I were there, it must be one of the First Ones.

Ivanova

[smiling] You're having delusions of grandeur again.

Marcus

Well, if you're gonna have delusions, may as well go for the really satisfying ones.