Babylon 5 · Season 4
[At Proxima 3, Marcus notes the approach of half the blockading destroyers.]
The hostiles might be splitting up so they can be with both groups, to keep them in line.
Unless they're all hostile, and some are just more hostile than others.
Thank you for the ray of sunshine, Marcus. Next time I feel the need to be depressed, I'll remember to give you a call.
Captain's personal log, September 2nd, 2261. Enough is enough.
[Monitored by a telepath, Garibaldi tells Edgars of his suspicions about his employment.]
Everybody lies.
That's a very sad view of the universe, Mr. Garibaldi.
Yeah, well, it's the only one I got. And it works for me.
Do you know how the ancient Greeks defined happiness?
Not off-hand, but I'd be willing to bet it involved three goats and a jug of wine.
"Happiness", they said, was "the exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope".
The truth will be revealed in a couple of days. How many people can say that?
I don't know. But I think the last guy got thirty pieces of silver for the same job.
Somewhere on Beta Colony there is an institution. In one room of the institution there is a man who spends his days and nights screaming at things that only he can see. Things we planted in his mind. They have to keep him in a straitjacket 24 hours a day or he'll claw his own eyes out just to make it stop. When it was over I transferred over to commercial work. I wanted out. The Corps took me in when I was just a few years old. They taught me what a telepath was, what we could do. Until that time I'd never been afraid of who we were. Until that day. When we did what we had to do...because no one else would.
What's going on? You all look like a Pak'ma'ra just ate your cat.
[Sheridan tries to encourage an imprisoned Drazi.]
You just have to say "no, I won't" one more time than they can say "yes, you will".
[The interrogator leaves Sheridan in the room, with a recorded voice repeating over and over.]
You will cooperate with the state, for the good of the state and your own survival. You will confess to the crimes of which you have been accused. You will be released and returned to society a productive citizen if you cooperate. Resistance will be punished. Cooperation will be rewarded.
You know, it's funny, I was thinking about what you said, that the preeminent truth of our age is that you cannot fight the system. But if, as you say, the truth is fluid, that the truth is subjective, then maybe you can fight the system. As long as just one person refuses to be broken, refuses to bow down.
But can you win?
Every time I say "no."
[Threatened by the Mars Resistance, Garibaldi begs Lyta to force her way past his memory blocks.]
Michael, if I do a deep scan, it could damage you.
And if you don't, they're gonna kill me. Now, a headache I can get over. I'm not sure I'm gonna get over being dead anytime soon.
. . .
[after she breaks the blocks and sees Garibaldi's memories]
It's true. What he told us, it's all true.
Like that means a damn! How do we know that anything you say is the truth? You could be saying whatever the hell you want–
What do YOU know about Hell? Hmm? [she turns to face Number One, her eyes completely black] Would you like me to show it to you? Mine and his?
[she telepathically projects Garibaldi's memories into Number One]
[recoils] It's true. Damned, it's true!
Okay, who gulped? Somebody gulped. We have got a long way to go. We're supposed to sip, not gulp.
I didn't gulp.
I sipped.
[to Lyta] You I believe.
[chagrined] What? Why do you believe her and not me?
Because when you lie, it's all over your face. She's a better liar than you are.
Thank you. [pause] Wait a minute! [...] What do you mean I'm a good liar?
[Garibaldi tries to use his ISN fame to get past Sheridan's guard.]
[in a monotone] I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite.
Pain... [whispered into a guard's ear; he then howls in agony and drops to the floor in a heap]
This is the White Star fleet. Negative on the surrender. We will not stand down.
Who is this? Identify yourself!
Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova. Commander. Daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am Death Incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me.
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