CGCustoms Guard
Anything to declare?
RRebo
I have nothing to declare, my dear man, except my genius!
ZZooty
[through his machine] And I have nothing to declare but Rebo's genius either. Zooty-zoot, zoot, zoot!
S5Day of the Dead
[Londo talks to a portrait of the first Centauri emperor.]
So. When you were emperor, it meant something. Subduer of the Xon and the Shoggren. Now–pffft–anyone can be emperor. I can be emperor. Vir can be emperor. If Vir can be emperor...a small Earth cat can be emperor!
[The Brakiri Day of the Dead has begun, and part of the station is...off-limits.]
There seems to be a slight problem, sir. It's kind of hard to explain. We seem to be missing a piece of the station. We can't reach it. We can't communicate with it.
That piece is almost a square mile across. You can't just lose something that big.
I agree, but it's still missing.
[Lennier is visited by Morden.]
I came for wisdom.
You don't come to the dead for wisdom, Lennier. My head was cut from my body. Even now, it rots on a pole outside the Imperial Palace. Birds have taken the hair for their nests. Maggots ate my flesh. And you want wisdom?
Yes, I do.
. . .
Why did you help me? I know what kind of a man you were.
Give a dog a bad name, and you can hang him with it. You shouldn't listen to everything Sheridan tells you. Actually, I'm surprised he's not here tonight, since he died at Z'ha'dum. Is there any coffee here or not?
[Garibaldi is visited by Dodger.]
DDodger
It's some guy's fantasy. A love hungry red-head who will disappear in the morning never to be seen again!
I'm sorry Dodger, what were you saying?
DDodger
[frustrated] It's a good thing I'm only here another hour or so, cupcake. Two weeks of this, I'd kill you.
[Sheridan and Delenn greet Rebo and Zooty in their quarters, where they have all gathered for dinner. As Delenn and Zooty walk off, Sheridan leans in to talk to Rebo.]
You know, I was really hoping to talk to Zooty. You know, without the machine.
RRebo
Yeah. He never breaks character, not even around me. In ten years, I've only heard him say one word without the machine.
Oh. Oh. What's the word?
RRebo
Why.
Oh, just curious.
RRebo
No, no. That was the word. "Why". In ten years, I haven't figured it out myself.
...
[Later, in the Zocalo, Zooty gestures for Sheridan to lean close. He takes off his hat, puts it over the machine hanging from his pocket, and whispers conspiratorially to Sheridan. Sheridan's eyes go wide, and Zooty nods in confirmation. He dons his hat and walks off. G'Kar runs up to him.]
What did he say?!
[astonished] "Because it tells me to…"
S5In the Kingdom of the Blind
MVMinister Vatelli
(referring to G'Kar) And I see you brought your own entertainment with you! An excellent idea... and quite brave of you to let him so close without keeping him in chains. Perhaps we should change that. Just a few chains to make the others more comfortable before we put him in a cell.
Londo Mollari He is my bodyguard.
VVatelli
Well it's good to know that his excellency's sense of humor is intact after such a long voyage.
RRegent
You do understand, Jano, that if it were my decision, that I would never let anyone harm you, I would never let anyone hurt you. If it were my decision... But it's not my decision, you see (Jano is killed by the Drakh). Not my decision at all!
G'Kar Tell me, Minister. If I were to strike you, which would you be angry at? The hand that struck you, or the heart that commanded it?... The hand has no choice but to do as it is told. It is the heart that carries the burden. And that heart is dead in both of us, Minister. It died with Cartagia, and it died in me soon after. Besides, everyone knows that the true source of pain is neither the hand nor the heart... it is the mouth. Is it not, Minister?
[after Byron essentially blackmails the Alliance council]
Never, ever, ever trust a telepath. I swear to you, I'm gonna have that tattooed inside my eyelids.
John Sheridan But they did it in the wrong way, the inconvenient way.
Delenn I seem to recall the Earth president saying the same thing to you, after your civil war (leaves).
I hate that she has a memory, don't you?
Michael Garibaldi Damned inconvenient!
It's bad luck to die on an empty stomach.
S5A Tragedy of Telepaths
[Londo Mollari and G'Kar are discussing the inexplicable rise in Centauri military spending.]
Well, with everyone now on the same side, perhaps you're planning to invade yourselves for a change. I find the idea curiously appealing. Once you've finished killing each other, we can plow under all the buildings and plant rows of flowers that spell out the words "too annoying to live" in letters big enough to be seen from space.
[Londo muses about the task of breaking Na'Toth out of her cell.]
We have to do it without killing a guard, without raising any alarms, and without anyone noticing that she is gone. For my next trick, I shall fly around the room under my own power.
My people are in there. And several others just tried to kill me, but then, what family doesn't have its difficulties?
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