Compassion is a rare commodity these days
“Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?” · Season 4
In this episode: G'Kar (3), John Sheridan (1), Londo Mollari (1), Delenn (1), Marcus Cole (1)
[admiring Marcus's (closed) Minbari fighting pike] May I?
[Marcus hands him the pike.]
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]
I like it!
LLorien
It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?
paraphrased from Wilhelm Stekel, "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
[ Delenn watches an excerpt from John Sheridan's personal log.]
Personal log, May 14, 2260. We actually had a quiet day today. It's hard to believe with so much going on lately, and now that we've broken away from Earth, everything has hit the fan. It's not what I wanted. Frankly, it scared the hell out of me. But it had to be done. The job now is to turn this around and make it into something positive. My dad always told me that's the only way you deal with pain. You don't surrender, you don't fight it, you turn it into something positive. He used to say, "If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose." In a way, I feel the same way about Delenn. I mean, during the war I fought Minbari, I killed Minbari. I saw many of my friends die at Minbari hands. And here I am, in love with one of them. For a long time, I thought about not saying anything, but the moment my heart crossed that line, there wasn't much I could do but see it through. Yeah, I've fallen off one hell of a cliff. When I look in her eyes, I let myself think, maybe I really can fly.
[Later in the episode, Delenn delivers a speech to a group of Rangers.]
The chances of success are small, but if we stay here and do nothing, they are even smaller. So we go. As a dear friend said to me, "If you're falling off a mountain, you may as well try to fly." Here, at the end, I offer you one final chance to fly.
[G'Kar has been taken prisoner by the Centauri, tortured, and now languishes in an underground cell. Londo Mollari steps in to visit him, asking for his help in removing the emperor. Just before he leaves, G'Kar rebuts.]
You didn't ask the price…for my cooperation.
[incredulous] You are not exactly in a position to bargain, G'Kar.
Neither are you. You want my help…for the sake of your people. I will give it…for the sake of my own. If I remove the monster from your throne, you will remove the monster…from my world. Leave Narn! Set my world free! Promise me this, and I will do as you ask.
[Mollari thinks about this for a moment, then realizes he has no choice and agrees.]
You have my word.
[He is let out of the cell by the guard, allowing the bright light to stream in from outside. G'Kar lies back against the wall of his cell, basking in the glow, joyful tears in his eyes.]
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