[Neroon comes to Marcus' bed in Medlab to honor him.]
Denn-Shar, 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 would be more 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.
[Neroon turns to leave.]
MarcusThe next time...the next time you want a revelation...could you possibly find a way...that isn't quite so...uncomfortable?
[Neroon laughs out loud.]
[Marcus and Ivanova see the Shadow fleet.]
Marcus Cole
That's a bloody awful lot of ships.
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...
Well...who wants to live forever?
Marcus
I do, actually! But what the hell...
[Marcus teaches Ivanova a little of the Minbari language.]
Marcus
Nu'zen fel'ani in-a lis'e medran. [translation: You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.]
Marcus
It's...just a greeting. It means..."My words are inadequate to the burden of my heart."
Well, that's an unusual greeting.
Marcus
Well...they're an unusual people.
[Opening credits voiceover.]
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...
Marcus Cole
...the year of pain...
It was the end of history.
It was the year everything changed.
[admiring Marcus's (closed) Minbari fighting pike] May I?
[Marcus hands him the pike.]
Marcus Cole
To open it, you press...
[G'Kar presses the button and opens the pike; it telescopes out, barely missing Marcus and knocking over a crate]
[Ivanova insists she does not need a translator to command a Minbari-crewed White Star.]
[in Minbari] Engines at full...high power hatrack ratcatcher to port weapons...brickbat lingerie!
Marcus Cole
It's...
Marcus
Bit of an accent. But yes, very good.
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.
Exactly. So Marcus will accompany you.
[protesting] That's not...
Marcus
Not at all. Love to.
[Ivanova sees she's beaten.]
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!
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.
[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.
Marcus
Anyone special waiting for you back home?
Marcus
[bashful] Someone. She doesn't know it yet.
That's a strange way to pursue a relationship.
Marcus
I suppose so. Ah...I want this thing to go right. I want it to be special.
Oh. A romantic! I don't think I've felt that way since the first time!
Marcus
That's what I'm talking about.
[Susan's eyes narrow, get wide, then get wider.]
You mean you don't...you haven't...
Marcus
Yes.
Marcus
Exactly.
Marcus
Never met the right person before.
Wow. I thought the First Ones were rare! Well, I hope she appreciates it.
Marcus
So do I. It's... [An alarm goes off.] I'm picking something up!
A unicorn? [he gives her a confused look] Sorry.
[Delenn and Sheridan "negotiate" an end to the Vorlon-Shadow War]
The others have rejected you! How do you have a war when no one will fight for either of you?
We refuse to take sides in this anymore! And we refuse to let you turn us against one another! We know who we are now. We can find our own way between order and chaos!
You can kill us one by one, and those who follow us, and those who follow them, on and on, every race, every planet. Until there's no one left to kill. You will have failed as guardians. And you will be alone.
It's over because we've decided it's over. Now get the hell out of our galaxy! Both of you!
[The Vorlons and Shadows hesitate, but Lorien steps in]
As I taught you and stepped aside, now you must do the same. Our age is past. This...belongs to the younger races now. They have learned to stand on their own. They have learned...to understand. Time to let them go.
SShadow
Will you...come...with us?
I have been here since the beginning. I will not leave you now. I will go with you beyond the Rim, and we will see again all those who went ahead of us, all those who we have missed for so long.
VVorlon
Then...we will not be alone?
[The Vorlons and Shadows disappear, and their respective fleets leave the system]
Marcus
Did we just win?
[Lorien turns to address Sheridan and Delenn]
I waited a long time for someone to find me. Now, like the others, I find I hate to leave. But none of us can stay behind this time. That was why it was necessary to find all the remaining First Ones. This...is yours now. And you have an obligation...to do as we have done. To teach the races that will follow you and, when your time comes, as ours has, to step aside and allow them to grow into their own destiny. If your races survive, if you do not kill yourselves, I look forward to the day when your people join us...beyond the Rim.
[he starts dissolving into a ball of light]
[Franklin gets testy with Marcus on their cargo shuttle trip to Mars.]
Is this really the best ship you could find?
Marcus Cole
Yes. [he flicks his pike open, then closes it just as quickly]
Smells like the inside of a Martian pleasure dome on Sunday morning.
Marcus
Wouldn't know about that.
Don't make me come over there and [flick] take that thing from you.
Marcus
Helps me relax.
Marcus, this is the kind of conversation that can only end with a gunshot!
Marcus
Would you like me to sing instead?
Marcus
You haven't heard me!
[the episode ends with Marcus singing the Major-General's Song by Gilbert and Sullivan]
[Marcus and Franklin are killing time in a cargo hold filled with crates.]
Marcus Cole
I spy with my little eye...something beginning with "B."
Marcus
Fine! I spy with my little eye something beginning with "M."
Marcus
Two in a row.
[deadpan] "And that's when I shot him, Your Honor."
Marcus
I spy with my little eye something beginning with "E."
Marcus
Oh come on.
This better not be what I–
MFMarcus and Franklin
[in unison] Even MORE boxes!
[At Proxima 3, Marcus notes the approach of half the blockading destroyers.]
The hostiles might be splitting up so they can be with both groups, to keep them in line.
Marcus Cole
Unless they're all hostile, and some are just more hostile than others.
Thank you for the ray of sunshine, Marcus. Next time I feel the need to be depressed, I'll remember to give you a call.
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