Babylon 5 · Season 3
I was expecting the Captain.
He sent me.
Did he? He has a better sense of humor than I thought. Please, sit.
I'd rather stand.
I suspect you'd rather walk out that door and wall me up inside! Do a little re-creation of "The Cask of Amontillado". "For the love of God, Montresor!"
If you get near a point, make it!
So, how did you find out about all this?
I'm a telepath. Work it out.
[Bester is admiring the White Star's bridge]
Try not to drool on the controls.
You said something, Captain?
Mm. Not a word. Just burped.
. . .
Mr. Bester.
Captain Sheridan.
Get the hell out of my chair.
[Morden accosts Vir as he runs errands for Londo.]
Anything I can do to help?
Um...Short of dying? No, can't think of a thing.
For three years now you've been pulling everyone's strings, getting us to do all the work, and you haven't done a damn thing but stand there and look cryptic! Well, it's about time you start pulling your own weight around here. [...] I hear you've got a saying: "Understanding is a three-edged sword"? Well, we've got a saying, too: "Put your money where your mouth is"!
Impudent.
Yeah? Well, maybe that's the only way to get through to you. You said you wanted to teach me to fight legends. Well, you're a legend too, and I am not going away until you agree!
Incorrect. Leave. Now.
No.
Disobedient!
Up yours!
[he gets thrown against the wall by an energy blast from Kosh]
So, the real Kosh shows his colors at last, huh? You angry now? Angry enough to kill me? Because that's the only way I'm leaving. Unless your people get off their encounter-suited butts and do something, I've got nothing to lose! God, my own government wants to kill me, and if we lose this war, I'm just as dead! Our only chance is to get the other races on board for this fight and right now you're the key to doing that.
It is not yet time.
And who decides that time? You? You put me in this position. You asked me to fight this damn war! Well, it's about time you let me fight it my way! How many people have already died fighting this war of yours, huh? How many more will die before you come down off that mountain and get involved? Ships, colonies, whole worlds are being destroyed out there, and you do nothing! How many more? How many more, Kosh? How many more dead before you're satisfied? Huh?
I will do as you ask. But there is a price to pay. I will not be there to help you when you go to Z'ha'dum.
You already said if I go to Z'ha'dum, I'll die.
Yes, now.
All right. If that's the trade-off. If you want to withhold your help when the time comes, that's fine. I'll go it alone.
You do not understand. But you will.
[blind with grief over the murder of his lover Adira, Londo comes to Morden with one final request]
Everyone dies around me, Mr. Morden. Except the ones that most deserve it. That is about to change. You said that you would go away for as long as I wanted. I no longer want that. All I want now…is revenge. They took from me the one thing that I have…have ever truly loved. And you will help me, Mr. Morden, to strike them down. Give me this, and the safety of my people…and let the rest of the galaxy burn. I don't care any more.
Of course, Ambassador. As ever, I'm always in your service.
I have the strangest feeling I will never see him again.
He is the closed circle. He is returning to the beginning.
The beginning of what?
[The Vorlon turns and moves away.]
You know, back at the station, I was pretty surprised to see you walk into the War Room. When an ambassador comes to visit, we usually have some advance warning.
There wasn't time. And believe me, my being here is as much of a surprise to me as it is to you.
Is it? [pause] Delenn either knew you were here or knew you were coming. Your timing seems like more than just a coincidence.
There are no coincidences, Captain.
That's not much of an answer.
Captain, if I were you, I'd quit while I was ahead. Back on Minbar, there was a saying among the other Rangers: "The only way to get a straight answer out of Ranger One was to look at every reply in a mirror while hanging upside down from the ceiling."
[laughs] Did it work?
Oddly enough, yes. Or after a while you passed out and had a vision. Either way, the result was pretty much the same.
[Delenn explains how they need to steal Babylon 4 in order to save Babylon 5.]
So you believe this?
I believe it.
If Entil'Zha believes it, I believe it.
I'll be in the car.
Zathras, this is very important. When you meet me again, it will be me, but it won't be me now. So you're not to say anything to me that might change the past. Do you understand?
Zathras understand. [pauses] No. Zathras not understand. But Zathras do! Zathras good at doings, not understandings.
. . .
[Zathras is confused about what he's not supposed to say.]
W-what else is on this list of things you're not supposed to mention?
Zathras... does not remember. But if Zathras remember later, Zathras tells you.
I need Lennier to stay on the ship. Can you get the equipment up here by yourself?
Yes, yes! Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life! Probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry!
Ready?
Why do your people always ask if someone is ready right before you're going to do something massively unwise?
[smiling] Tradition.
[his last words, in a glimpse of the future] We have unfinished business between us, G'Kar. Let us make an end of it quickly, before it stops me. I am as tired of my life as you are.
All Minbari belief is around three. Three castes–Worker, Warrior, Religious. Three languages–Light, Dark and Grey. The nine of the Grey Council, three times three. All is three. As you are three. As you are one. As you are the One. You [points to Sinclair] are the One who was. You [points at Delenn] are the One who is. And you–[points at Sheridan]–you are the One who will be. You are the beginning [Sinclair] of the story, and the middle [Delenn] of the story, and the end [Sheridan] of the story...that creates the next great story.
C'mon c'mon, grab what you need. We're running out of time.
Cannot run out of time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. [picking up tool] THIS is wrong tool.
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