Babylon 5 · Season 1
It's all so brief, isn't it? Typical human lifespan is almost a hundred years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. It wouldn't be so bad if life didn't take so long to figure out. Seems you just start to get it right and then...it's over.
Doesn't matter. If we lived 200 years we'd still be human, we'd still make the same mistakes.
You're a pessimist.
I'm Russian, doctor. We understand these things.
They will join with the souls of all our people. Melt one into another until they are born into the next generation of Minbari. Remove those souls and the whole suffers. We are diminished, each generation becomes less than the one before.
A quaint lie, pretty fantasy. The soul ends with death, unless we act to preserve it.
I really hate it when you get heroic. Cuts into my business. A man's got to earn a living, you know.
I have come for you, Satai Delenn, to save your soul at any cost.
I will be careful. You will hardly feel it when your body dies.
You will feel as if you are falling. Do not be afraid. I will be here to catch you.
You would plan such a thing? You would do such a thing? Incredible!
Why do you fight for her? Don't you understand? She is Satai. She is Satai! I've seen her soul. They're using you. They're using you!
So, I hear you saw something.
Yes...something.
[Sinclair walks away, smiling.]
Well, uh, you think you can be a little more specific?
[Franklin chases after Sinclair.]
I'm not sure. I don't know if I'll ever be sure.
Well, I still don't believe it. And I'd be careful if I were you, Commander. That sort of talk will get you sent off on a very long vacation.
If I may ask, what happened to my brother's collection?
[with a sly smile] Life's full of mysteries. Consider this one of them.
Gentlemen, of all things in life, are females not the finest?
On that, Mollari, we can at least agree. [takes a drink from Londo's bottle]
What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?
[to Adira] We Centauri live our lives for appearances, position, status, title. These are the things by which we define ourselves. But when I look beneath the mask I am forced to wear, I see only emptiness. And then I think of you, and then I say...to Hell with appearances.
[Ivanova talks to her father for the last time]
Is that you, Susan?
Yes.
Oh dear God! I never thought I'd see your face again. It makes this easier. Susan, I know I haven't been the best of fathers to you. But when your mother passed on and your brother was killed in the war I was too wrapped up in my own grief to pay attention to your needs. And when you joined EarthForce against my wishes...
You don't have to say this, Father.
Yes, Yes I must. There's no more time. I want you to know how proud I am of you, Susan. I always have been. But a father should give his daughter love as well as respect, and in that I failed you. I'm sorry, I'm ashamed. Forgive me.
[she nods her head]
Thank you, dushenka moya.
"Little soul." You haven't called me that for...Papa!
The last time I gave an interview, they told me to just relax and say what I really felt. Ten minutes after the broadcast I got transferred to an outpost so far off the star maps you couldn't find it with a hunting dog and a Ouija board.
[smiling] Don't sweat it. Just be that charming, effervescent Commander we've all come to know and love. What's the worst that could happen? They fire you, ship you off to the Rim, and I get promoted to Commander. I don't see a problem here.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth.
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