[Sinclair watches Garibaldi wolf down his food.]
They say food tastes better if you chew it first.
Don't talk, I've seen you eat. Does the term "Doppler effect" ring a bell?
“Grail” · Season 1
In this episode: Jeffrey Sinclair (3), Michael Garibaldi (2), Susan Ivanova (1), Delenn (1), Lennier (1), Kosh (1)
[A silver-suited grey alien stands before a Babylon 5 ombudsman, who listens to a plaintiff.]
PFPlaintiff Flinn
We went through their archives, and we found proof...that his great-grandfather abducted my great-grandfather, and just took him away in a spaceship! Frankly, Your Honor, we want damages!
OWOmbuds Wellington
[to alien] How do you plead?
[The alien holds up a card with curious image on it.]
OWOmbuds Wellington
Could I please have a translation team in here?! [to himself] Why is it Ombuds Zimmermann never gets these cases? Only me?
[Thomas "Jinxo" Jordan tells his story, and the story of the "Babylon Curse," to Aldous Gajic.]
JJinxo
I was too young to fight in the Minbari War, so when I got the chance to work space construction, I jumped for it. The day I went to work on the Babylon Station–we didn't number them at first, you know–I thought that was the best day of my life! I worked a few months, had some leave, so I took it. And the station's infrastructure collapsed. Sabotaged. They never found out who.
AGAldous Gajic
I remember.
JJinxo
So I went to work on the second one. The firm still owned my contract until the station was finished. I took leave a second time, and that station was sabotaged. And then when B3 blew up, well, that's when I got the name Jinxo. When I went to work on B4, I didn't take any leave! I was there every minute until we finished it. I thought the Curse was gone. But as I was leaving on the shuttle, I looked back...and the station just sort of...wrinkled, twisted like putty, and then just disappeared. The minute I left. So then when they decided to build B5, I had to work on it. And I have to stay. I have to!
AAldous
I'd say that you have the wrong nickname. They should have called you Lucky!
JJinxo
How do you figure?
AAldous
To have escaped the worst each time, that's a blessing. You're a very lucky man. Perhaps each time, you were exactly where you were meant to be.
JJinxo
[slowly smiling] I never thought of it like that.
AAldous
We never do.
[Delenn has offered to help Aldous in his search for the Holy Grail]
JJinxo
That's really nice! I mean, with the war and all, I figured you folks would...well, you know.
There are two castes of Minbari, the warrior caste and the religious caste. The warrior caste would not understand. It is not their way.
[slyly] So we will not tell them, and spare them the confusion.
AAldous
These two sides of your culture, do they ever agree on anything?
[soberly] Yes. And when they do, it is a terrible thing. A terrible power, as recent events have shown us. Let us hope it never again happens in our lifetime.
We've confiscated the fake encounter suit. It's a pretty close match to your own, at least from the outside.
KKosh
Why?
Deuce wanted to make people think he had the Vorlons working for him. He figured it would add to his image and intimidate people.
KKosh
Why?
Well, after all, no one knows exactly what you look like. That makes some people a little nervous.
KKosh
Good.
There he goes–Jinx-...Thomas.
Mm-hmm.
You never did tell me what you think about that curse.
What curse?
You know. That bit about if he leaves Babylon 5, the same thing that happened to Babylons 1, 2, 3 and 4 would happen to us.
Oh, that curse. You're not taking it seriously, are you?
Me? No, of course not. You?
No.
So, how long until he hits jump?
[working her console] Oh, right about...now!
[the ship goes through the jump gate without incident]
No boom?
No boom.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
[Sinclair and Garibaldi exchange an exasperated look and wander off.]
What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later. BOOM! [N]
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