Lyta Alexander quotes from Babylon 5

Alfred Bester

Not bad. Tell me, is that really telekinesis, or are you just pushing the nerve endings, making them feel as if they've been slapped? Either way, it's taken a lot out of you, Lyta. You're sweating, flushed. How many times can you do that, Lyta? Can you do just one at a time? Maybe two? How about three? How about a half dozen of us?

Lyta Alexander

I don't know. Like you said, I'm new at this. I could even make a mistake. Maybe even pop a blood vessel in someone's head by accident by pushing too hard. Feel like playing the odds, Mr. Bester?

Lyta Alexander

Byron, the Vorlons changed me. More than you could possibly know. I don't know what it'll do once you get past my barriers and I get past yours. It could burn you.

Byron

Then let it burn.

Lyta Alexander

Byron, the Vorlons changed me. More than you could possibly know. I don't know what it'll do once you get past my barriers and I get past yours. It could burn you.

Byron

Then let it burn.

Byron

It was the Vorlons.

Lyta

Yes.

Byron

They created telepaths on a hundred worlds. Interfered with their genetic development. Took people from their homeworlds and adjusted them over the course of the centuries.

Lyta

Yes.

Byron

Because they needed telepaths in their war against the Shadows. Needed us as cannon fodder.

Lyta

Yes.

Byron

We would be normal. We would have lives. We would be able to walk and live and work among normals without fear of persecution if the Vorlons had not interfered with our normal development. We were made for their benefit, to save them. We were told that our abilities were our gift and our curse, and that we were somehow responsible for it. But we're not. We're not.

Lyta Alexander

You can't change human nature, Byron.

Byron

Then there's not much point in living, is there? If you can't hope for something better, something nobler, at least something kinder?

Byron

I'm a strong P-12.

Lyta Alexander

But all P-12s are automatically designated Psi Cops. You were a Psi Cop?

Byron

Not just a Psi Cop. Bester's protege.

Lyta Alexander

I'm tired of being pushed around, Captain. I do not choose to be arrested. I've done a lot for this place…and just once I think a little gratitude would be in order, don't you?

Elizabeth Lochley

Lyta, don't force us to-

Lyta

To what?

Lochley

[gestures to Zack] Zack…

Lochley

Zack!

Lyta

You cannot harm me. You cannot stop someone who's been touched by Vorlons.

John Sheridan

You're not the only one that's been touched by the Vorlons. [gestures to the crowd] Let them go.

Sheridan

Let 'em go or I'll blow the back of your skull off!

Michael Garibaldi

I need to know, Lyta. Something's happened to your abilities. You're not a P-5 anymore, hell, you're not even a P-12. You're the strongest telepath I've ever seen. What did the Vorlons do to you, Lyta? Who…what are you?

Lyta

I've only recently begun to understand it myself. You know the Vorlons used telepaths as weapons during the Shadow War, but what no one stopped to consider was that in a war, you have a certain number of small weapons, a certain number of medium-size weapons, and one or two big ones. The kind of weapons you drop when you're out of small weapons and the medium weapons and you've got nothing left to use.

Garibaldi

Someone like that would be the telepathic equivalent of a thermonuclear device. A doomsday weapon.

Lyta

Pleased to meet you, Mr. Garibaldi.