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QUOTES
Londo: "How much longer will this council be held hostage to its missing members? Your behaviour is inexcusable!"
Lennier: "Ambassador Delenn remains indisposed."
Londo: "Indisposed! She is in a coccoon!"
Lennier: "Yes?"

Londo: "You see? One deserts his post without explanation and the other picks the most breathtakingly inconvenient opportunity possible to explore new career opportunities, like becoming a butterfly!"

Londo: "Yes, but what if I am asked for another of these little demonstrations?"
Morden: "Then we'll provide it. Simply choose your target. A colony, an outpost..."
Londo: "Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while you're at it?"
Morden: "One thing at a time, Ambassador."

Sheridan (about his wife): "Then why do I have to remind myself she's gone? Why when I see something interesting on the news I'll say to myself I must remember to mention that to Anna later? Sometimes I will turn to say something to her; she's not there, but just for a second I don't know why! And then I remember."

Sheridan: "I don't think losing my head of security two weeks into the job is going to look good on my resume!"

G'Kar: "Weep for the future, Na'Toth. Weep for us all."

G'Kar: "I searched for days, going from system to sytem. And then, on a dark deserted world where there should be no life, where no living thing has walked in over a thousand years, something is moving, gathring its forces, quietly, quietly, hoping to go unnoticed. We must warn the others, Na'Toth. After a thousand years the darkness has come again!"

Sheridan: "She said she'd be back before I even noticed she was gone. But she didn't come back, and I've been noticing she's gone every minute of every day ."

Delenn: "What ... am ... I?"

Garibaldi to Jack: "Shooting a senior officer is an act of treason and mutiny. The penalty is Spacing. They put you in an airlock, seal it and open the space door. You spend the next five minutes chewing vacuum till your lungs turn inside out, your eyeballs freeze and your heart explodes. It's the worst kind of death you can imagine. And when that day comes, I'll be there to push the button."

G'Kar: "A human book. I have been studying their literature for a while and I came across this. It would seem they may be wiser than we had thought. Listen: Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" ("The Second Coming, by WB Yeats)

Sheridan: "Gets cold up here sometimes, doesn't it, Lieutenant Commander?"

IMPORTANT PLOT ARC POINTS
DELENN
Arc Level: Orange
The chrysalis is open! Delenn is revealed, and it seems that she has become a sort of hybrid of human and Minbari. She says this is so that she can better understand humans and act as a bridge between them, much as Sinclair is creating another one by living on Minbar. Sheridan, who has no doubt seen Minbari before, is open-mouthed in shock, as is everyone else, save perhaps Kosh, who must know what was going to happen, as Delenn consulted him before she entered the coccoon. Following on from what Lennier said in the last episode, it seems she may have taken the prophecy rather too literally!

THE SPIDER SHIPS
Arc Level: Red
Again we see these, once as smaller ones, perhaps fighters, attacking the retreating Narns as G'Kar tries to lead them to safety at the beginning of the episode, and again when the ship requested by him and sent by his government is destroyed when it goes to investigate the dark planet. Whatever is at Zha'Dum, whoever is responsible for those ships wants to keep it a secret!

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT
Arc Level: Orange
We see further evidence that Clark may have been involved in, or indeed orchestrated the death of his former boss, when he demands that Jack and all the relevant material is shipped home to Earth, whereupon everything seems to vanish as if it never existed.

ANCIENT RACES
Arc Level: Red
G'Kar is convinced that something old and incredibly powerful and evil is stirring back in its old haunts. He's right, and this power will not be the only ancient race to rear its head in the series.

MORDEN
Arc Level: Red
Again we meet the enigmatic Mister Morden, who starts to call in his favours from Londo, asking -- ordering, really --- the ambassador to keep him advised of anything he hears about strange events taking place out on The Rim. It's only due to his squealing to Morden about the Narn ships that they are destroyed, and though G'Kar suspects --- knows, really --- that Mollari has betrayed his confidence, he cannot prove it. Also, he surely finds it hard to believe that, even given their enmity towards one another and the history of their races, that the Centauri would put his own interests before that of the other worlds, of civilisation itself, and side with the darkness? Little does he know how far Londo Mollari will go to realise his ambitions.

PSI CORPS
Arc Level: Red
Again the idea that Psi Corps has its hands on the levers of power in government, even to the point of picking and then ensuring their candidate is put in charge, raises its head. Although the Corps is forbidden to sponsor political candidates it is widely believed that this is exactly what they did, greasing one would assume the right palms or perhaps violating the right minds to make sure they were not caught. The possibility of their being involved in the killing of the previous president is looking more and more likely. Despite Garibaldi's feelings for Talia, he realises she is still Corps and asks her to leave before he outlines his suspicions about the assassination to the others.

Note: On waking from his coma, Garibaldi asks to see the commander. When he hears that Sinclair has been reassigned he is slightly panick-stricken, and the sight of his new commanding officer does nothing to quell that panic, which becomes cold suspicion. He says grimly to Sheridan "I don't know you." For Garibaldi, this is equal to saying "I don't trust you." He will of course learn to trust the captain, but for now he's someone new, and someone new is someone you don't let your guard down with. Not just yet. It's also funny how, since we know his affinity for Daffy Duck cartoons, his first words on waking are "What's up doc?"

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