"Good morning." " Let's take a look at the manifests, see who's coming in today." " Couple of Drazi ships, Minbari personal transport, even a few Vree." " It's still not quite where we used to be, but it's a start." " All right, put me online with the first ship, and let's get this show on the road." " What?" " Is there a problem?" " God, I hate dreams like that." " Good morning." " The time is 0530 EST, July 3, 2260." " Have a nice day." "  There you are!" "  Oh!" " I was just looking, really." " I didn't touch a thing." " Maybe the drapes a bit, but there was this large flying thing that I tried to swat." " The emperor has just finished reviewing your reports from Minbar." " He asked me to convey his compliments on your hard work... even if some parts of it do read as if they were written by Ambassador Mollari." "  He advised me on a few things." "  I thought as much." " Londo belongs to the old school." " He thinks we must be protected from the truth." " But these are perilous times." " We must have accurate information about what other worlds are doing." " You would do well to follow your own judgment in future." "  Thank you, minister." "  Oh." " We have arranged for a ship to take you back to Babylon 5... as soon as you are ready to travel." " From there, you will continue to Minbar." " Well, I'll let you go back to your room now so that you can pack." " Thank you, sir." " Oh, I have heard a new joke!" " What is more dangerous... than a locked room... full of angry Narns?" " I don't know, what is more dangerous than a locked room full of angry Narns?" " One angry Narn... with a key!" " You..." "With a key!" " The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace." " It failed." " But in the year of the Shadow War, it became something greater... our last, best hope for victory." " The year is 2260." " The place, Babylon 5." " Subtitles subXpacio" "BABYLON 53x12 "SIC TRANSIT VIRD"" "Same thing, night after night." " One bad dream after another." " I get the one where your teeth are breaking off or falling out and you wake up going:" "Oh, yeah, I know that one." " Or you're lost in a maze somewhere... or I'm someplace where I've never been before." " This morning I dreamt that I walked into C  C totally... unprepared for my work." " You interested in a little dime- store psychoanalysis?" " No, I'm just baring my soul as a preface to asking you to give me some silverware." " Every one of these dreams puts you in unfamiliar territory." " A maze or some strange place." " Well, that is kind of like where we are right now." " When did you join Earthforce?" " 2247." " All right, so we're talking 13 years." " We're both career military." " That means we define who we are by what we do." " We left all of that behind when we broke away from Earth." "  But I've already dealt with all that." "  Consciously." " But from what you were saying... subconsciously you're still trying to work it all through." " You don't know where you fit anymore, how to define yourself... you're feeling vulnerable, lost and exposed." " It's all perfectly obvious and completely understandable." " I suppose." " I just" "I just hate waking up in the middle of the night not knowing who I am... or where I am..." " ... or even what I am." "  It'll pass." " Your subconscious just needs to work it all through." " Hey, it could be worse." " You could be having dreams where you're showing up to work naked." " Then you'd be in real trouble." " I'm gonna get some more of this..." "Whatever it is." "  You want anything?" "  No." " I'm fine." " Thanks." " Where are you now?" "  Maintenance, can I help you?" "  Yes, you can help me." " Two hours ago, two hours ago, I called you." " I told you there is a bug." "  An insect." " In my quarters!" "  We've been a little busy" "You listen to me." " I do not like insects." " I do not like little brown things with eight legs." " I do not like anything with eight legs." " Well, except for the Vinzini... but only because they are terrible at cards." " Something to do with compound eyes." " I want this thing dead!" " Sorry, ambassador, but due to the recent changes in our status... we've had to cut back on inspectors, and insects are gonna get in." " We'll get somebody there as soon as we can." " Now don't hang up on me." " Don't hang up on me!" " He hung up on me." " Die!" " Die!" " Die!" " Die!" " There, you see?" " This will teach you to trifle with a Centauri, you triple- damned..." "Do you know that you are smaller than I thought you were?" " You are smaller." " There are more of you." " There are more of you!" " Yes!" " You are Ambassador Mollari?" " My dear lady... for you, I would be anyone you want me to be." " Please, come in." " Come in." " May I have your attention, please?" " Please consult your transport agency for schedule information." " Excuse me, have you seen Ambassador Mollari?" " He always meets me here." "  Good morning, Delenn." "  Captain." "  How are things with your government?" "  Well, for the moment, blissfully quiet." " At least so far as we're concerned." " President Clark's having a hard time keeping everything bottled up back home... so we're not on the top of his list of priorities right now." " And the Resistance?" " Gathering their forces, putting their people into place." " With everybody busy planning their next move, we get a break." " It'll be short, but I'll take it." " Which brings me to you." "  Me?" "  Yes." " You know, every time that I have seen you lately, we've been in the middle of a crisis." " A revolution." " 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 think that you see me every time we meet... unless I have become translucent or insubstantial... and nobody 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 an old 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?" " Come." " Londo." " Greetings, Vir." " How was your flight?" " Very good." " I managed to get some sleep this time." " And how are things at the Royal Court?" " You know, collusion, politicking, scheming, innuendo, gossip." "  Same old thing." "  Good, good." " And your reports?" " I assume they went over well?" " Yes, very well." " Did you tell them I helped you with your reports?" " There was no need to, they noticed it right off." " Well, good." " Good." " Anything interesting happen while you were there?" " No." " Not at" " No, nothing." " No..." " Vir." "  Yes." " I have a surprise for you." " A surprise?" " You can come out now." " Hello, Vir." " Is it not glorious, Vir?" " Your wife has come all this way, just to see you." "  Londo, I'm not married." "  Not yet." " But in a few days you will be." " And if you ask me, she is far too good for you." " All right, come on, Vir." " Say hello." " Her name is Lyndisty, and you'll be spending the rest of your life with her." " How can we be married?" " I've never even met you before." " It was all arranged through your uncle and my mother, the Lady Drusella." " They feel it would be a perfect union of our two houses." " You know nothing about me." " I know that you are now the liaison to Minbar." " I know that your reports are in favor at the Royal Court... and that your star seems to be in ascendance." " I know that in your face I see a gentleness and a kindness of spirit." " While I was waiting for you, Ambassador Mollari told me everything about you." " Oh, don't worry, Vir." " I only told her the good parts." " It was a very short conversation." " They're getting faster." " I swear, they are evolving right before my eyes." " 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." "  When I marry, I want it to be for love." "  A radical." " I'm sorry, that's just the way that I feel." " If you give me a chance..." "I promise you, when we cross beneath the swords and boughs... it will be for love." "  Good afternoon, Sgt.  Allan." "  Commander." " Here you go." "  We don't usually see you up here." "  No, I hardly ever get the chance." "  It's quite a view, isn't it?" "  I know." " I can never get enough of it." " Standing here in front of the stars like this." " Looking out, down, up, all at once." " Kind of makes you feel naked in front of the universe." " Was there something that I could do for you, sargent?" " Oh, yeah." " Sorry." " I was gonna run this by the chief, but this is more your area." " We've had a lot more Narns than usual come through here lately, most of them escaping the Homeworld." " Well, I don't see a problem." " The more they can get away from the centauri, the better." " Oh, hey, I agree." " It's just that I was going over their papers of transit and..." "I noticed the name of the Centauri who approved them." " Abrahamo Lincolni?" " You've got to be kidding me." "  Since when is that a Centauri name?" "  Well, that was my reaction too." " Let me see that." " Whose office did these come through?" " So what did my uncle tell you about me?" " That you were smarter than you appeared and that you had several virtues... but that I should not hold this against you." " He said that you were capable of a quite enchanting and well-deserved humility." " I'm not entirely sure what he meant by that, but I'm sure it was good." " Do you think it will take you very long to love me?" " You know, it's really hard to say." " I've always considered time to be very important." " I've often thought that when we are born... we are given time in a multitude of tiny boxes... so small that when we need them most, they're nowhere to be found." " I don't think we should rush things, you know." " You may find I'm not suited to you." " Perhaps." " But we will grow together." " You shall be the logical conclusion to all my happy thoughts... and the borders of my world circumscribed by your two arms." " Do you think I'm pretty?" " Oh, yes." " Deliriously." " But I always associated delirium with fever, so there you are." " Then let me be a fever from which you never recover... and our nights an anarchy of pleasure." " Lyndist" "Well?" " If kisses could kill... that one would have flattened several small towns." " Vir, our marriage has already been arranged." " The ceremony is just for show." " Everything that must be done has been done... except between us." " If you send me away, I will still be your wife in name, if not in fact." " And I think you will find me a most pleasant fact." " Mr. Cotto, you're late." " I'm sorry, I was otherwise engaged." " Engaged and married as it is." " Not that I knew about it" " You're not making sense." "  I imagine I'm not... but that's the kind of day I'm having." "  So let me tell you the reason I'm here" " Abrahamo Lincolni?" " I was hoping to tell you before you found out about it yourself." " Too late." " We noticed that the papers of transit came from your office on Minbar." " Considering you're the only person there who knows much about Earth history..." "I figured you must be responsible." " Now, would you like to tell me what this is all about?" " I needed a name to put on the papers." " I don't have the authority to approve transfers from the Narn Homeworld... so I invented somebody who did." " It's part of our work program back home." " We bring Narns from their Homeworld... to work in construction and help in the factories." "  Work camps." "  In a sense." " It's much better than being back on Narn." " The conditions there are very bad, I'm told." "  You're saying these Narns go voluntarily?" "  Absolutely, yes." " Then why the forgery, the fake names, the falsified transit papers?" " There are many Centauri who would rather see the Narns suffer back home... than be given comfortable quarters too close to Centauri Prime." " We're trying to help in our own way." " I hope that's the right kind of table." " I don't do a lot of entertaining here." " I usually just grab a bite on my way in." " It's fine." " I didn't come for the decor." " Well, I hope you didn't come for the cuisine either... because, unlike Mr. Garibaldi, I am not exactly a gourmet cook." " But what I lack in finesse..." "I make up in portions." " Barely edible, but lots of it." "  Flarn." "  Yeah." " You learned to cook flarn?" " Well, after I tried it at your place, I found I kind of liked it." " It might need a little salt." " Stop apologizing." " Let's sit and eat." " I'm sorry, I just wanna make sure it's okay." " Oh, it looks fine." " I like that picture over there." " Oh, yeah, it's a favorite of mine too." " So how is the flarn?" " Enough salt?" " Just right." " Vir, there you are." " I have been looking for you." " Did your meeting with the commander go well?" " As well as could be expected." " Is there a problem?" " I'd like to know more about what you do so that I can be a good wife to you." " I knew if I followed you long enough I would find the murderer." "  Vir?" "  Get behind me." " Look, I don't know what you want" "You really did like it." " Security to all personnel near Green 2." " We've got an assault in process." " Repeat, assault in process." " Green 2." " That's just one level down, near Londo's quarters." " I'll be right back." " No!" " Vir!" " Vir..." " Lyndisty, run!" "  No, not without you!" " Put it down." " Now!" " And Vir had no explanation for the attack?" " None." " He said it was a complete mystery." " Maybe it was a random terrorist attack on a Centauri." "  It's not like they need a reason these days." " " I'm not so sure."" " Just before he came at them the last time, he yelled "Shon-Kar"." " Shon-Kar?" "  That's a Narn blood oath." "  Exactly, meaning it's a personal grudge." " I can't imagine why anyone would want to kill someone like Vir... but you better run a check on the Narn anyway." " See what you can dig up." " Will do." " Take care of that arm." " I just don't understand it." " Every time I show my face around here lately, somebody hits me." " First G'Kar, then the riots, now this." " So brave of you." " Putting yourself in front of me like that." " Even terrified, I was so proud of you." " I just don't understand why he did it." " With the Narns, who can say?" " You know how they are." " Yeah, but he" "You rest now." " You've earned it." " You've been the hero long enough today." " I've never been a hero before." " I won't let them hurt you, Lyndisty." " I promise." " Bad news, Vir." " We think there may be another Narn out to finish what the first one started." " What?" " How can you be sure?" " We checked the ID on the Narn who attacked you." " He arrived here with his pouch brother." " A Shon-Kar is a blood oath." " If one member of the family fails to carry it out, it devolves into the next in line." " Vir, if a Narn declares a blood oath, there's usually a damn good reason." "  Is there anything you haven't told me?" "  No, no, nothing!" " I heard there was a woman with you." " Is she all right?" " Yes." " Lyndisty, my wife." " Well, soon to be." " You know, it's done, but it's not really done... but, you know, it's a long, long story... but at first, you know, I didn't think, but now" "She's, well" " Could I ask you a question as long as you're here?" "  I suppose." "  Okay." " What do women want when things get, you know... intimate, you know?" " I really don't think that we should be having this conversation, Vir." " Isn't there someone else?" " There's only Londo, but I don't think that's a good idea... and since you're a woman, I thought you might have some ideas." " Well, it depends." " I mean, there's no single answer to that, Vir." " I mean, every woman is different." " But if she's your wife, well, you must know a few things about her." " Blank slate." " Well, there must've been other women before this." " There were other women, but I never got past one." "  You mean first base." "  No, no, I mean one." " You see, we have six..." "We have six, you see, and each one is a different level of intimacy and pleasure." " So, you know, first you have one and that's..." "And then there's two, and then by the time you get to five, it's" "Vir, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it!" " I really don't know what to tell you, Vir." " I've never really gotten this relationship thing down myself, okay?" " So I'm the last person in the world that should be giving out advice... on this sort of thing." " All I can say is that enthusiasm, sincerity... genuine compassion and humor... can carry you through any lack... of prior experience... with high numerical value." " I'm gonna remember that." " Thank you." " Thank you." " Six." " Come." " I wanted to see how you are doing." " Ah, I've had worse." " I'm just sorry it interrupted our dinner." " There will be other dinners but... if you keep doing this, you will get killed one day... and then there will be no more dinners." " It was happening right under my feet." " I had to do something." " Besides, I'm fine." " Let me." " Delenn, Delenn, listen." " I have been dressing myself for a long time now." " Yes, but your arm is hurt, and why put more strain on it?" " I hear that when it happened, Vir was with a woman." " Apparently they are to be married soon." " So I understand." " Must be the shortest courtship on record." " She just got here yesterday." " Perhaps you should check the air recycling system." " There may be, as you say... something in the air." " Maybe there is at that." " Captain, I" "Oh, I'm sorry, I..." " No, no." "  I didn't mean to" "It's all right, it's all right." " What is it?" " I think you'd better meet me in Londo's quarters ASAP." " Turns out we've got a serious problem with Vir." " On my way." "  I have to..." " I know." " Of course." " I should go." " I hope there is a good reason for this interruption, commander." " There is." " In the course of our investigation into the attack yesterday, we've learned something very disturbing." " Over the past couple of months, Vir has been forging papers for as many as 2000 Narns... authorizing them to leave their Homeworld for so-called work camps." "  Commander" " What?" " Londo, please, don't pretend you don't know anything about this." " I don't." " This is a complete surprise to me." " What makes you think I would know about this?" " For starters, it's the kind of thing that only you could think of." " Second, there's only one logical reason why another Narn... would declare a Shon-Kar and try and kill him:" "Revenge." " We ran a check on all the Narns who left Narn using Vir's travel papers." " According to the transit and relocation files, every one of them... all 2000 Narns, all of them... are dead." " That's 2000 murders, Vir." " No wonder the Narns are after you and anyone close to you." " Two thousand dead Narns?" " Well, it's a start." " Good to see you showing some initiative, Vir." "  Initiative?" " It's murder." "  You say that as if it were a bad thing." " Remember, it's Narns we're talking about here." " A few dead, more or less" "They're not dead!" "  They're not?" "  They're not?" " Well, then you do have some explaining to do." "  Can't count on anything anymore." "  But the records, Vir." " I altered the records so nobody would go looking for them." "  Why?" "  Because I had to do something!" " They were females and children... some of the local leaders, the ones who kept their language and their beliefs." " Most of them were injured from us bombing their world... and sending them to forced labor camps." " They weren't getting proper treatment." " If I hadn't gotten them out, they would've died." " Instead, I had them sent to other worlds, got them medical care... and when they were healthier, I had them filtered back here to Babylon 5... or sent elsewhere." " Then why do the records say they died?" " Because back home, nobody cares about dead Narns, only living ones." " While I was here, there was nothing that I could do." " But while I was running the diplomatic mission on Minbar..." "I had the chance to do something and I took it." " My only regret is that I couldn't have saved more of them." " Do you realize what you have done to me, Vir?" " I was the one who pushed to get you this position." " A position you have abused." " If this comes out, the scandal would hurt both of us." " Now I will have to deal with this, Vir, and with you." " Just one thing." " If Vir is telling the truth and none of these Narns have been killed... why did one of them attack him?" " They are Narns, captain." " They don't need a reason for murder." " Vir, there you are." " I've been looking everywhere for you." " You're troubled." " I can tell from your expression." " Can you tell me what is troubling you?" " I thought I was doing something good." " And I was." " Only now it's something quite bad... for me, at least." " Well, that covers effect but..." "I'm reasonably sure that I'm no nearer cause than I was when I sat down." " It's a long story." " It has to do with the Narns." " I should have expected that." " Well, whatever it is, Vir, I'm sure that it's not your fault." " How can you say that?" " You don't even know what the situation is." " Unnecessary." " Everyone knows that wherever there's trouble... there's always a Narn at the center of it." " That's all they are, you know, trouble." " It's not their fault." " They're simply inferior." " It's genetics." " They're lazy... they foul their own nests... everything they touch falls apart." " Hence, my original conclusion." " The sooner they're dealt with, the better for everyone." " Especially if they've caused you any kind of trouble." "  You don't really mean that, do you?" "  Yes, of course I do." " My dearest Vir, don't be silly." " You're having fun with me, aren't you?" " Playing with me." " Well, I can play too." " That's why I came to find you." " I have something for you." "  Please, come." "  I can't, really." " I'm not in the mood." " This will cheer you up." " Please, we don't have a lot of time." " Please, come." " All right." " Two steps in." " And stop." " You can open your eyes now." " It's dark." " Lights." " Gently, please." "  Lyndisty!" "  I knew you'd be surprised." " He's still alive." " Yes, of course." " I saved him for you." " I almost didn't." " After all, he did intend to kill me." " But I set a little trap for him." " I have been trained quite well." "  I almost finished him all myself, but" " Why did he want to kill you?" " At first I wasn't sure... but then when he was unconscious..." "I studied him for a very long time... until I remembered:" "I saw him on Narn." " My father and I went there after the war." " He was in charge of culling the herds." "  Culling the herds?" "  Oh, yes." " Quite necessary for pacification." " He would test their villages and find out which populations... had the greatest tendency toward aggression." " You cure future aggression by cutting out that part of the gene pool." " Our soldiers would bring them in, 10, 20 at a time." " And we'd put them to sleep." " It was more humane then they deserved really... but Father's always been overly charitable." " Sometimes we'd find whole villages... where the aggression was just too deeply rooted... and we had to take it all out." " You could see the flames rising up into the night like... brilliant flowers embracing the spring." " Bright buds opening and spreading wider." " This one..." "I remember, he escaped with his brother from one of the villages we purified." " That must be why they tried to kill me." " He was going to use this." " But I saved it, and him, for you." " As head of our new household... it is your right." " Vir..." "Oh, Vir, it's not like he's really aware." " And after the first few, it's really quite easy." " I've done it hundreds of times myself." " Please." " Accept this one as a token of my love for you... and a testimony of our marriage." " I have spent the last hour... on the line with certain friends in the Centaurum who owe me favors." " I have not told them everything." " Just what is required for their cooperation." " It is not as if this is the first time this happened." " Oh, no." " Our last envoy to Minbar also went native." " Too much exposure to those damn Minbari can have strange effects." " So we are going to pretend... that this entire unfortunate incident never took place." " All records will be destroyed... and you are forbidden to speak about it to anyone!" " Do you understand?" " Good." " I must say that I am personally very disappointed in you, Vir." " I had expected better of you." " But I suppose it is my own fault as much as yours." " I was foolish in sending you to Minbar before I had finished your training." " You fell in with bad company." " Freethinkers, anarchists, Minbari." " They took advantage of your naiveté." " Well, it happens." " Sometimes the bird leaves the nest and flies away." " And sometimes it falls onto its beak... and needs to be helped back into the nest for a while." " That is you." " Your tenure as our liaison to Minbar is over." " You'll stay here now, away from temptation and the authority that you misused." " And I will continue your instruction in what it means to be Centauri." " You may start by telling your wife goodbye." " Lyndisty?" " What happened?" "  Do her parents know?" "  No, no." " They only know that there's been some kind of unfortunate misunderstanding... and that your place is not as high as it was a few days ago." " They have not cancelled the marriage, but they are reconsidering it for a while." " I suggest you go and make up to her as best as you can." " She's a good woman." " A true Centauri." " That she is." "  Good morning, commander." "  Captain." " Something I can do for you?" " This is my office, after all." " I know." " I was just using your security clearances to finish up a few things." " Such as?" " Getting rid of some bad dreams." " All right." " What do you think?" " That's me." " As a Centauri." " Nope." " That's Abrahamo Lincolni of the Centauri Relocation Bureau." " Vir did a very good job creating a fake bureaucrat." " Londo doesn't know about him and he's still authorized to issue travel papers." " So I figured, why not take advantage of it, keep him around for a while?" " So I added a few details, a photo from your file." " Yeah, I've noticed." " I'm not sure I like the coat." " How many Narns do you think Lincolni can get out of danger before they figure it out?" " Beats me." " But it seems like even one would be a victory." " What does this have to do with your dreams?" " I just realized that I was looking for a direction of some kind." " Something to do for the station or for us." " Ever since we broke away, I've been mostly parking ships and running inventories." " You know, but operating behind the scenes... running numbers, using our resources to help other races..." "I feel like I've got some new options now." " And to tell you the truth, I hate to say this... but I think I'd really enjoy being a sneak." " Then I hereby appoint you..." " ...the official Babylon 5 sneak- in-residence." "  Well, thank you." "  Now get the hell out of my chair." "  Yes, sir." " And may I say, sir, from the bottom of my heart... that you make an absolutely charming Centauri." " I know we had some problems towards the end there." " And I definitely think we need to talk about it." " But I think you can change." " It's just some of your ideas, they need rehabilitation." " They say the same about you." " They say that you are confused, but that you will get better in time." " I hope not." " Well, either way, I will wait for you." "  You don't have to do that." "  No, but I will." " So I take your gentle face with me... transmuted into memory by the alchemy of my affection... as deposit on our wedding night." " I will see you again, Vir." " Soon." " Well, what relationships don't have their ups and downs?" " Subtitles subXpacio and TusSeries"