Babylon 5 · Season 3
[the command staff changes the access codes for the station's computer system]
This is Captain John J. Sheridan. Serial number XO7Y39-Alpha. Security code: obsidian.
This is Commander Susan Ivanova. Serial number Z48M27-Epsilon. Security code: griffin.
This is Chief Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi. Serial number V17L98. Security code: peekaboo.
. . .
Peekaboo?
Would you have guessed it?
We don't talk to security. Why should we talk to you?
Because if you don't, then in five minutes, I will be the only person at this table still standing.
[the thug starts laughing]
Five minutes after that, I'll be the only person in this room still standing.
. . .
[after Marcus clears out the bar]
Bugger! Now I have to wait for someone to wake up!
[he is approached from behind by Lennier, who almost gets hit]
I would advise against it. [looks at the wreckage] I see they trained you well back home.
Well, they said I was carrying around a lot of repressed anger.
And?
I'm not repressed anymore!
[Marcus squeezes information out of a reluctant lurker.]
You see? It's like I've always said: "You can get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than you can with just a kind word."
paraphrased from Al Capone, "You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
[Sheridan pounds on the Nightwatch member who knifed Delenn.]
No more! No more of you! No more Nightwatch, no more hostages, no more lies! Not on my station! Not on my watch! No more!
[one last big punch]
No more!
[Londo insists that Refa discontinue his association with Morden's "associates".]
You walked away from the greatest power I have ever seen! And now you expect me to do the same? They are the key to my eventual rise to the throne! Why would I abandon them?
Because I have asked you. Because your loyalty to our people should be greater than your ambition. And because I have poisoned your drink.
[Lord Refa looks in astonishment at Londo]:
Yes…and it is very interesting poison. It comes in two parts. Both are harmless on their own. But when combined…quite lethal. The first settles into the bloodstream, and the intestinal walls. It stays there for years. Silent…dormant…waiting. When the other half of the poison enters your system the two meet, have a little party in your cardiovascular system…and suddenly? You. Are. Quite. Dead. Your drink contained the first half of the poison.
Why? Why did you do this?
To guarantee your cooperation! And because sooner or later, you would do it to me! Yes, we are returning to the old ways, Refa, and poison was always the instrument of choice in the old Republic. Being something of a sentimentalist, I got here first.
What do you want me to do?
You have encouraged that fool Cartagia to attack worlds that have no value to us. You will now encourage him otherwise. You will bolster our lines of defense around Centauri Prime. And you will have nothing more to do with Mr. Morden. If you do not comply, one of my agents in the royal palace will introduce you to the second half of the poison.
[he raises his glass and grins]
To your health, Lord Refa.
[as part of a rebirth ceremony, the command staff leave their Earthforce uniforms by Delenn's hospital bed and tell her a secret they have never revealed before]
When you were hurt, when you were in my arms, I was ready to kill that guy with my bare hands. I realized I have never told you how much I cared about you, how much you mean to me. I think it's time you knew that. I can no longer imagine my world without you in it. I don't know exactly when or how it happened. But I'm glad it did.
No one knows, but…I'm afraid all the time…what I might do if I let go.
I think I…loved…Talia.
I…think I have a problem.
[Sheridan is inviting Delenn to dinner in his quarters]
You know, every time that I have seen you lately, we've been in the middle of a crisis! A revolution! I mean, this is the first time in months that it's been this quiet! It won't last. It never does. But as long as it's here...I'd like to see you tonight.
Are you not seeing me now? I would assume that you see me every time we meet. Unless I have become translucent, or insubstantial, and no one has thought to inform me until now.
Then let me say I'd like to see you in a different light. Candlelight, for instance. Over dinner?
Tonight?
Tomorrow we may be involved in another crisis, another battle! This may be the last chance we'll get for a while. You know, back home we have a saying. "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!"
Humans can be a very depressing people.
Only if we get turned down for dinner.
Well, we cannot have that, now can we?
[Entertaining Vir and his new wife, Londo is also struggling with a pest infestation.]
I swear, they are evolving right before my eyes.
[He turns to Vir and Lyndisty.]
If you see something this big with eight legs coming your way, let me know. I have to kill it before it develops language skills.
[after he and Lyndisty kiss for the first time]
If kisses could kill, that one would have flattened several small towns!
[Marcus and Franklin talk about the poor lives of Lurkers.]
A lot of folks around here seem to think that lurkers deserve what they get. They figure it's better to let them die and...
"...and thus deplete the surplus population." Dickens! You know, um...I used to think that it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
[After fighting the thieves with Arthur]
By G'Quan, I can't recall the last time I was in a fight like that! No moral ambiguity, no hopeless battle against ancient and overwhelming forces! They were the bad guys, as you say, and we were the good guys. And they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the floor.
[Garibaldi and a security officer are breaking in to a post office storage room.]
What are you so nervous about? We went up against the entire Earth Alliance and two carrier groups.
Yeah, but this is the post office. This could get us in real trouble.
[Marcus and Dr. Franklin have just seen "Arthur" off.]
Where my people come from, his story has great power. I'll miss him.
Even if he wasn't Arthur?
[as Kosh appears] Now, now! Next thing you'll be saying is he's not Merlin! [Franklin laughs.] Merlin was a great teacher, you know!
I'm not hearing this.
They say he aged backwards. That was how he was able to foretell the future–by remembering it! Which means he came from the future! Maybe he had Arthur form the Round Table by remembering us! We're forming one of our own, after all. Which makes you Percival. I'm Galahad, him being sinless and all. Sheridan is Arthur. Ivanova, perhaps Gawain. I think we both know who Mordred is. So the question is...who is Morgana le Fay?
Mr. Bester, we no longer have any ties to Earth or to the Psi Corps. So we don't have to put up with you or your games. Now, I am sitting on four brand-new unidirectional pulse cannons. Give me one good reason why I shouldn't blow you out of the sky!
Because you're curious? Kill me, and you'll never know what brought me all the way out here. I think if you weigh that against the brief satisfaction of "blowing me out of the sky", you'll do the right thing.
[There is a long pause.]
Captain?
I'm thinking it over!
[not exactly reassured] Ah!...Good!
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