Lines by Lyta Alexander 3
[Lyta pays Kosh a visit.]
LytaI'm back. I can't stay. The Captain's made sure I can get away before the Psi Cops get here, but--I had to see you again, before my ship leaves. I never told them. I never told anyone. I hid it all away in the smallest, tiniest corner of my mind. They could've killed me and they still wouldn't have found it! Only at night, alone, would I open that small door in my mind where I kept the memory of you and listen to your voice--listen to you sing me to sleep. I hope I can come back again, but I don't know. Until then--Kosh--I want to see you again, just one more time before I go.
[Kosh's suit opens, and Lyta is bathed in bright white light.]
Lyta Alexander
Somewhere on Beta Colony there is an institution. In one room of the institution there is a man who spends his days and nights screaming at things that only he can see. Things we planted in his mind. They have to keep him in a straitjacket 24 hours a day or he'll claw his own eyes out just to make it stop. When it was over I transferred over 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. Until 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.
Lyta
Pain... [whispered into a guard's ear; he then howls in agony and drops to the floor in a heap]
Scenes with Lyta Alexander 19
[Lyta has tested all high- and medium-ranking station personnel -- but one -- for the traitor's psychic trigger.]
Lyta Alexander
The further you go from the center of power, the less likely it is we're going to find the person that we're looking for.
[She pointedly turns and looks at Ivanova.]
I suggest you move those eyes somewhere else...while you still have them.
[Ambassador Kosh meets with Ivanova in Docking Bay 13.]
Ambassador. You wanted to see me?
Yes. Formality. Ritual. You should be informed.
[a surprise passenger emerges from Kosh's transport]
Lyta Alexander
Hello, Commander. I said I'd be back.
Lyta Alexander! As I live and breathe...
Lyta
I suggest you remove your hand, Ambassador, or you won't be doing either for very long.
. . .
Lyta, I understand the Psi Corps is looking for you. I would hate very much for them to find you.
Lyta
So would I. Because I'm not with the Corps anymore. That means I'm not bound by their rules! [She gets right in his face.] So if someone were to turn me in, I'd find him. And before they took me, I'd plant a nightmare deep in his mind where no one else could find or remove it. And that person would spend every night for the rest of his life...screaming!
[she turns around and walks away]
Fine! And keep your threats to yourself! [to himself] Nightmares. Hmph! The way my life has been going lately, who'd notice?
[Opening credits voiceover.]
It was the year of fire...
...the year of destruction...
...the year we took back what was ours.
Lyta Alexander
It was the year of rebirth...
...the year of great sadness...
It was the end of history.
It was the year everything changed.
[Lyta pays Ivanova a late-night visit.]
SISuasn Ivanova
Have you ever heard of the hour of the wolf?
Lyta Alexander
No.
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.
[In his quarters, Ambassador Ulkesh removes the last vestiges of his consciousness from Lyta Alexander's mind. The energy streams disconnect from her with a pop and her head snaps back like she has been struck.]
Lyta Alexander
You didn't have to pull out so suddenly. You hurt me.
[The Vorlon's encounter suit closes without response.]
Lyta Alexander
While I was carrying you, you felt cold, hard. What are you hiding from me?
UUlkesh
[ignoring her once more] Your work for now is done here. Go. Sleep.
Lyta Alexander
I have a right to know. I've done everything you asked. I let your people modify me, enhance my telepathic abilities so I'd be more suited to carry a Vorlon around in my head, because I believed. Kosh—the real Kosh—wasn't like this. I think on some level he cared about us…about me. With you it's as if I'm being used and then thrown away when I'm not needed anymore. [explodes with anger] Dammit! I have earned some respect! [straightens] And I have earned some answers.
[The eye-sensor on the encounter suit head narrows]
UUlkesh
Respect? From whom?
[Lyta's mouth drops open in shock. In her anger, she tries to scan him, but a wave of energy shoots out and knocks her back into the wall. The Vorlon advances on her, the eye-sensor widening and glowing red.]
UUlkesh
[angrily] Would you know my thoughts? Would you?
[A sound indicating an intense mind-probe. Lyta screams, and the scene goes black.]
Morning, gentlemen. This is your wakeup call.
[Sheridan detonates three nuclear devices among the Shadow and Vorlon ships.]
Lyta Alexander
Captain?
Lyta
They're pissed.
Lyta Alexander
Psi Cops are trained to make everyone nervous, but Bester can make even other Psi Cops nervous.
Hell, the man can make poison ivy nervous.
[Bester confronts Lyta about her enhanced telepathic abilities.]
You've been keeping me out since I got here. A good question is, why? A better question is, how? I was thinking...I may have spoken rashly before. There may be some value in not turning you over. You're stronger than the last time I saw you.
Lyta
We all change.
Yes, but this is different. I can feel it. Whatever's happened to you, you have a moral obligation to share it with the Corps, Lyta. The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father.
Lyta
In that case, Mr. Bester...I'm an orphan.
[Threatened by the Mars Resistance, Garibaldi begs Lyta to force her way past his memory blocks.]
Lyta Alexander
Michael, if I do a deep scan, it could damage you.
And if you don't, they're gonna kill me. Now, a headache I can get over. I'm not sure I'm gonna get over being dead anytime soon.
. . .
[after she breaks the blocks and sees Garibaldi's memories]
Lyta
It's true. What he told us, it's all true.
NONumber One
Like that means a damn! How do we know that anything you say is the truth? You could be saying whatever the hell you want–
Lyta
What do YOU know about Hell? Hmm? [she turns to face Number One, her eyes completely black] Would you like me to show it to you? Mine and his?
[she telepathically projects Garibaldi's memories into Number One]
NONumber One
[recoils] It's true. Damned, it's true!
Okay, who gulped? Somebody gulped. We have got a long way to go. We're supposed to sip, not gulp.
Lyta
I sipped.
[chagrined] What? Why do you believe her and not me?
Because when you lie, it's all over your face. She's a better liar than you are.
Lyta
Thank you. [pause] Wait a minute! [...] What do you mean I'm a good liar?
That's why we're here. Because we're tired of being ordered around by those who cannot hear the song. Tired of being used as canon fodder, as inquisitors, as executioners, and as bloodhounds.
Lyta Alexander
They forget we're human beings, too.
No, not human beings. Better. That's why they're afraid of us. It's all ego, you know. "What a piece of work is man. How noble in reason. How infinite in faculties. In form and moving how express and admirable. In action how like an angel. In apprehension how like a god. The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals...." The paragon of animals. 6,000 years of brutality, murder and slavery. An animal does not do this to its own kind, but they do it to each other. And they would do it to us! Unless we stop them. Unless we find a way to help each other. Unless we care for one another.
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