“Wheel of Fire” · Season 5
In this episode: John Sheridan (3), Stephen Franklin (3), Lyta Alexander (2), Michael Garibaldi (1), G'Kar (1), Delenn (1), Elizabeth Lochley (1)
Can God make a rock so big, that even he can't lift it?
Yes, I've heard it, but ...
What if that is the wrong question? I wonder if the right question is, can God create a puzzle so difficult, a riddle so complex, that even he can't solve it? What if that's us? Maybe a problem like this is God's way of doing to us a little of what we do to him?
I tell ya, the next person who acts irrationally, I swear I'm gonna shoot myself in the head.
[Delenn bursts into the room in a rage]
BASTARDS!
Did she just...?
She did.
I'll get the gun.
What could make her [Lyta] turn like this?
Well, let's see. She was..."adjusted" by the Vorlons, dumped by the Vorlons, used as a weapon. Quit the Corps. Lost the only man she ever loved and dedicated herself to finishing his work. Pick one or all of the above. Let's face it, she's pissed.
Massively.
[Lochley and Zack go to the Zocalo to arrest Lyta on suspicion of terrorism. She displays how she has the entire Zocalo under her mental control.]
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?
Lyta, don't force us to-
To what?
[gestures to Zack] Zack…
[He doesn't move. He, the deputies, and the rest of the crowd appear to be catatonic.]
Zack!
You cannot harm me. You cannot stop someone who's been touched by Vorlons.
[A PPG appears and lines up with the side of Lyta's head. Sheridan steps out of the crowd.]
You're not the only one that's been touched by the Vorlons. [gestures to the crowd] Let them go.
[Lyta stands resolute. Sheridan presses the gun into the side of her head.]
Let 'em go or I'll blow the back of your skull off!
[Lyta relaxes her mental control, and the crowd begins moving again.]
[Garibaldi confronts Lyta in her cell.]
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?
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.
Someone like that would be the telepathic equivalent of a thermonuclear device. A doomsday weapon.
[Lyta turns to face him, smiling, and her eyes start glowing white.]
Pleased to meet you, Mr. Garibaldi.
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