“Matters of Honor” · Season 3
In this episode: John Sheridan (4), Susan Ivanova (3), Michael Garibaldi (1), Marcus Cole (1), Lennier (1), Kosh (1), Morden (1)
[Sheridan approaches Kosh to thank him for saving his life.]
You've been back and forth to your homeworld so many times since you got here, how do I know you're the same Vorlon? Inside that Encounter Suit you could be anyone.
I have always been here.
Oh yeah? You said that about me too.
Yes.
[slightly unnerved] I really hate it when you do that.
Good.
[Ivanova chides Sheridan on his impatience over an arriving VIP on a mysterious mission.]
Leave it to you to try and take all the fun out of life. I mean, come on, where's your sense of mystery, of adventure?
Are you trying to cheer me up?
No, sir! Wouldn't dream of it.
Good! I hate being cheered up. It's...depressing.
So, in that case...we're all going to die horrible, painful, lingering deaths.
Thank you. I feel so much better now.
[Ivanova preempts Sheridan's belated revelation of the Rangers by detailing what he was going to say.]
Captain, the day something happens around here and I don't know about it, worry.
[Marcus shows off a brand-new ship to Sheridan and Ivanova.]
My God! It's beautiful!
Her name is the White Star. And she's yours, Captain.
This is quite irregular, Mr. Garibaldi! I was assured that Captain Sheridan or Commander Ivanova would be available!
They got called away on urgent business.
What kind of business?
I'm not authorized for that kind of information.
But...you're the head of Security.
And what kind of head of Security would I be if I let people like me know things that I'm not supposed to know? [I mean,] I know what I know because I have to know it, and if I don't have to know it, I don't tell me, and I don't let anyone else tell me, either. Now look, we've tried most of the other ambassadors. Why don't you speak to G'Kar? Maybe he knows something about this ship.
Under the terms of our recent treaty, I am not authorized to have any official conversation with the Narn without Centauri approval.
So you'll ask unofficially. And I can give you reasonable assurances that the head of Security will not report you for doing so.
[slowly] Because you won't tell yourself about it.
I try never to get involved in my own life. Too much trouble.
[confused] This is a very strange place you have here, Mr. Garibaldi.
Thank you.
[The White Star is fleeing a Shadow ship in hyperspace, and Sheridan has an idea for beating it.]
Tell me, Commander...have you ever wondered what would happen if you opened a jump point while inside a jump gate?
No! And neither should you! EarthForce experimented with the idea during the Minbari War. They called it the Bonehead Maneuver. [to Lennier] No offense.
[more curious than offended] None taken.
[A clandestine trio on Earth consider the premature leak of a Shadow ship sighting.]
Your government can dismiss this as an isolated incident.
I don't know. There's something about this idea of a threat to planetary security I find very appealing. As long as we keep the real truth to ourselves, there's no reason we can't use this situation to speed up the program here at home.
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