Marcus Cole quotes from Babylon 5

Marcus Cole

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!

Marcus Cole

Touch passion when it comes your way, Stephen. It's rare enough as it is. Don't walk away when it calls you by name.

Marcus Cole

We've all been through six kinds of hell in the last few years.

Marcus

[as he's giving up his life energy to save Ivanova] I love you...

Sheridan

My God! It's beautiful!

Marcus Cole

Her name is the White Star. And she's yours, Captain.

Vorlons Tavutna Chog!

Marcus Cole

I think you just hit a nerve. The Vorlons must owe them money or something.

Ivanova

At least it tells us that they understand our language. They're just not willing to speak to us in it.

Marcus

Who knew they were French? ...Sorry.

Ivanova

Damn it! I really don't want to screw this up!

Marcus

Then don't. The Minbari taught me, "Claim victory in your heart and the universe will follow."

Ivanova

Fine. Great. Claim victory in your heart and up your...

ZOG!

Ivanova

"Zog"? What do you mean, zog? Zog what? Zog yes, zog no?

Marcus

It's leaving. My guess is "zog" means "no".

Ivanova

Like hell. I am not letting them leave here without saying yes.

Marcus

Really? And how do you propose stopping them? Perhaps a big red and white sign with the word "stop" on it? ...I'll put a bucket on my head and pretend to be the ancient Vorlon god Boogee.

Ivanova

[gets an idea] That's it!

Marcus

Fine. I'll get a bucket.

Ivanova

No, I meant the Vorlons. Open a comm channel now!

Message from Ranger One on Minbar. He recommends our people go on a heightened state of alert and pull back from Earth space. Word is something screwy's going on back home.

Marcus Cole

This is not exactly a revelation.

Marcus

Well thank you, Mr. Garibaldi, one of the leading minds of the 14th century. "Have we no workhouses? Have we no prisons?" Mr. Marley here'd like to have a word with you! He's the fellow in the chains! Ignore the moans, it's just gas!

Michael Garibaldi

Don't you ever shut up?

Marcus

Not until I get what I want. Why? Do you think silent meditation would work better?

Garibaldi

Ivanova was right. You are a pain in the ass.

Marcus Cole

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 every 30 days? It's a nuisance, but what can you expect from reptiles? Did I mention that my nose is on fire, and that I have 15 wild badgers living in my trousers?

Marcus

I'm sorry. Would you prefer ferrets?

We don't talk to security. Why should we talk to you?

Marcus Cole

Because if you don't, then in five minutes, I will be the only person at this table still standing.

Marcus

Five minutes after that, I'll be the only person in this room still standing.

Marcus

Bugger! Now I have to wait for someone to wake up!

Lennier

I would advise against it. [looks at the wreckage] I see they trained you well back home.

Marcus

Well, they said I was carrying around a lot of repressed anger.

Lennier

And?

Marcus

I'm not repressed anymore!

Stephen Franklin

A lot of folks around here seem to think that lurkers deserve what they get. They figure it's better to let them die and...

Marcus Cole

"...and thus deplete the surplus population." Dickens! You know, um...I used to think that it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

Marcus

Where my people come from, his story has great power. I'll miss him.

Franklin

Even if he wasn't Arthur?

Marcus

[as Kosh appears] Now, now! Next thing you'll be saying is he's not Merlin! [Franklin laughs.] Merlin was a great teacher, you know!

Franklin

I'm not hearing this.

Marcus

They say he aged backwards. That was how he was able to foretell the future–by remembering it! Which means he came from the future! Maybe he had Arthur form the Round Table by remembering us! We're forming one of our own, after all. Which makes you Percival. I'm Galahad, him being sinless and all. Sheridan is Arthur. Ivanova, perhaps Gawain. I think we both know who Mordred is. So the question is...who is Morgana le Fay?

John Sheridan

You know, back at the station, I was pretty surprised to see you walk into the War Room. When an ambassador comes to visit, we usually have some advance warning.

Jeffrey Sinclair

There wasn't time. And believe me, my being here is as much of a surprise to me as it is to you.

Sheridan

Is it? [pause] Delenn either knew you were here or knew you were coming. Your timing seems like more than just a coincidence.

Sinclair

There are no coincidences, Captain.

Sheridan

That's not much of an answer.

Marcus Cole

Captain, if I were you, I'd quit while I was ahead. Back on Minbar, there was a saying among the other Rangers: "The only way to get a straight answer out of Ranger One was to look at every reply in a mirror while hanging upside down from the ceiling."

Sheridan

[laughs] Did it work?

Marcus

Oddly enough, yes. Or after a while you passed out and had a vision. Either way, the result was pretty much the same.

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.

Lennier

I'm trying to keep a promise. By breaking a promise. I was told not to mention this to anyone in the chain of command. You were not mentioned by name but that is implicit. However, by telling you, the captain need not find out about it and I will not have broken the promise.

Marcus

I'm in awe, Lennier. The way you can take a simple proposition and turn it inside out so that it says what you want it to say rather than what it actually says. Does this come naturally or did you attend some sort of...martial arts class for the philosophically inclined?