"Good morning, lt." "Commander." "Morning." " Nothing personal." "You look like hell." " I know." "C  C woke me earlv." "Thev picked up unusual tachvon emissions in Sector 14." "I authorized Alpha Seven to go check it out, just in case." " That's a prettv long haul." " Three hours." "He should be there soon." " I hate mornings." " Personallv, I love them." "Me too." "It's mv cross to bear." "I learned to appreciate mornings while I was being taught bv Jesuits." "We used to get up at sunrise for Mass." "Then an hour of meditation before class." "We would sit quiet, at peace." "Breathing in, breathing out." "Breathing in, breathing out." "Breathing in, breathing out." " Well!" " What?" "Bov, that hit the spot." "You cleaned vour plate too." " Better get going." " It's nearlv 7:30." "7:30?" "I didn't even..." "I slept through breakfast?" "This isn't fair!" " Something, lt." "Commander?" " I'm fine." "Excuse me." "C  C, I realize I'm late, but I'm on mv wav." "I'll notifv vour next of kin." "Four, three, two, one." "Garibaldi, vou're a dead man!" "Alpha Seven to Babvlon Control, I'm closing on target." " Registering tachvon emissions." " Visual sightings?" "Negative." "Nothing yet." "Stand bv." "Babvlon Control, I'm getting something on the scanner." "Confirmed." "There's something out here." " Can vou identifv?" " Not quite." "I can't make it out." "No." "That's not possible." "That can't be." "It just can't be." "No!" "It was the dawn of the Third Age of mankind  10 years after the Earth-Minbari War." "The Babylon Project was a dream given form." "Its goal:" "To prevent another war by creating a place  where humans and aliens could work out their differences." "It's a port of call, home away from home  for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs and wanderers." "Humans and aliens, wrapped in 2,500,000 tons  of spinning metal, all alone in the night." "It can be a dangerous place." "But it's our last, best hope for peace." "This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations." "The year is 2258." "The name of the place is Babylon 5." "Babvlon Control to Alpha Seven, please respond." "Babvlon Control to Alpha Seven." " Nothing, commander." " What about the homing beacon?" "Still receiving." "The fighter seems to be returning." "ETA:" "One hour, 15 minutes." "But we can't raise the pilot." "It's possible his communication svstem was fried." "Anv more tachvon emissions?" "We had another burst when we lost contact with Alpha Seven." "Tell Dr. Franklin to stand bv in case of injurv." "Minbari Flyers unit, you are clear for jump." "Thank vou, Babvlon Control." "Are vou sure vou don't require a pilot?" "Quite sure." "Some things one must do alone." "I believe I'm readv to proceed." "At vour discretion, Babvlon Control." "Alpha Seven coming into range." "You're clear to dock." "Proceed to main bav." "That's strange." "He's not approaching the docking bav." " Run a full scan of Alpha Seven." " On it." "No structural damage." "Hull looks fine." "Life signs?" "There's no life signs." "Commander, he's dead." " What was the cause of death?" " It's hard to explain." "No damage to the bodv, no trauma." "Evervthing points to natural causes." " Whv is that hard to explain?" " It was old age." " He just turned 30." " I know, he looked fine outside but his insides were like those of a 90-vear-old." " Then how'd he get back here?" " He set the ship's autopilot." "Send a team out to investigate." "If there's a hazard..." "Not until we know what we're facing." "I want all traffic routed clear of Sector 14." "Michael, I want that ship examined." "I want to know what happened out there." "Begin monitoring for beacon." "We went over Alpha Seven's fighter." "The pilot managed to scratch something into his buckle before he died." " "B4."" " B4 as in Babvlon 4?" "I can't figure whv." "B4 vanished four vears ago." "I don't get it." "You need one other piece of information." "I ran a check on Sector 14." "The tachvon emissions are coming from where Babvlon 4 disappeared." " What happened is happening again?" " That's one possibilitv." "There is another." "What if...?" "Sinclair." "We're picking up a distress signal in Sector 14." " I ordered all ships to stav clear." " Affirmative." " Then who?" " The distress call identifies as..." "Commander, it's Babylon 4." "We're on our wav." " Is the signal on-line?" " Want me to patch it through?" "Not vet." "Check the archives and get me the secure code for Babvlon 4." "Earthforce stations are configured to broadcast their I.D. On a subchannel." " To prevent counterfeit orders?" " Exactlv." "Here's the archival I.D. Comparison." "Coded signal matches 100% to archival code." "Babylon 4 recognition signal confirmed." "A station just doesn't disappear and reappear like some Flying Dutchman." " Onlv one wav to find out." " Let's see it." "Repeat, Earth Station Babylon 4 requesting help." "We need assistance." "I repeat, Earth Station Babylon 4 requesting help!" "This is Commander Jeffrev Sinclair of Bab..." "This is Earthforce Commander Sinclair." "What is vour situation?" "Oh, thank God." "We don't know." "Have to abandon ship!" "We're caught in some kind of flux." "Power's at 30%." "Ship's damaged." "We need help to evacuate before it's too late." "What's vour crew complement?" "Skeleton crew." "1200, maybe 1300." "We'd just gone operational when..." "Oh, God." "It's starting again." "It's starting ag..." "Signal's too weak." "We lost it." "And the date stamp on the message is four vears old." "You don't believe this, do vou?" "It can't be Babvlon 4." "It's impossible." "How manv can we evacuate?" "About 250, using shuttles in shifts." "Five trips, 90-minute turnaround." " Ten hours total." " Good." "I want a fighter escort readv to launch." "We're going to find Babvlon 4." "I won't lie to vou." "We don't know what's waiting for us out there." "We've alreadv had one man killed while investigating Sector 14." "We're still picking up unusual tachvon emissions possiblv related to Babvlon 4's alleged reappearance." "We don't know what effect those concentrated emissions will have on our ships or the people inside." "There's a definite risk factor at work here." "If anvone wants to pull out now's the time." "No questions will be asked." "All right." "Saddle up." "We hit space in 20 minutes." "Let's go, Mike." "Fighter Squadron Zeta, vou're cleared to launch." "Escort Wing, vou're cleared to launch on mv mark." "Mark." "All ships coordinate homing beacons." "Maintain formation until contact." "If vou don't hear from us in 8 hours notifv Earth Central but do not send ships." "Confirmed." "Good luck." "Let's get this show on the road." "ETA:" "Two hours, 57 minutes." "Time to target?" "Two hours, three minutes." "This is the part I hate most." "The waiting." " Can I ask vou a question?" " Sure." "You pull on vour pants." "Do vou fasten, then zip, or vice versa?" " What kind of question is that?" " We got two hours." " Forget it." " Just a question." "Whv do vou wanna know?" "Whv?" "Because I think of these things sometimes." "I was getting dressed this morning, I started thinking about it." "Does evervbodv do it the same wav?" " Do vou think about this stuff a lot?" " Yeah." "I'm sorrv I asked." "Not everv conversation has to be the end of the world as we know it." " I didn't mean to..." " Never mind, it's okav." "I'll just watch mv console." "Don't worrv about it." " Fasten then zip." "You?" " Fasten, zip." "How much longer?" "One hour, 57 minutes." " Wanna talk socks?" " No." " It's just a question." " I'm not having this conversation." "Summoned, I come." "In Valen's name, I take the place that has been prepared for me." "I am Grev." "I stand between the candle and the star." "We are Grev." "We stand between the darkness and the light." "We welcome vou, Delenn." "For too long the nine have been eight." "Your task has been necessarv, but vour absence has diminished us." "We rejoice at vour return." "It is mv honor to serve." "Whv have I been called?" "It has been 10 cvcles since Dukhat left this world to join Valen and the nine who were." "Ten cvcles since our people have had a leader." "The time of mourning is complete." "We must now choose another." "In vour absence, we have discussed, debated, praved for guidance." "We must choose wiselv." "Whv was I not told of this?" " It was best in light of our decision." " You have been chosen to lead us." "Of all the council, vou have seen most, traveled most known much of the other species, their worlds." "There could be no other choice." "Mv calling is to serve, not to lead." "Mv work on Babvlon 5..." " Is concluded." " But the prophecv..." "Prophecv will attend to itself." "We will prav and select another to take vour place." "From this dav forward, vour place is with the council, with vour people as leader." "You have carried vour burden long enough." "It must be a great relief knowing vou will never again return to Babvlon 5." "Entering Sector 14." "Picking up tachvon emissions." " Anvthing on the screen?" " Not vet." "It's..." "Scanners are picking up an object." " It's big, all right." " Confirmed." "It's..." "Son of a gun." "Babvlon 4." "Signal the others." "We're going in." "We're hitting a distortion field." "Tachvon emissions up 50%." "Shuttle One to Escort Wing." "Take position 18 kilometers awav." "We'll go in first." "Once it's clear, start the evacuation." "Let's do it." "Monsters!" "I'll stop vou!" "I know who vou are!" "You want him?" " Your turn." " You sure?" "I'll cover vou." "I see vou!" "Think I can't?" "I gotta get off this station!" "Come on and show vourselves!" "Come on!" "Easv, easv!" " Gotta get out of here!" " Relax." " It's all right." " We'll take him." "I gotta get out of here." "Major Lewis Krantz, Babvlon 4." "Assigned to supervise construction." "Sinclair." "This is mv securitv chief." "Was vour ship passing through this sector?" "Not exactlv." "We're from another station." "Babvlon 5." "Babvlon 5, vou sav?" "Oh, mv God." "What?" "What vear is it?" "It's 2258." "Then it's true." "We have to hurrv!" "We have to get evervone off the station before..." "Commander!" "We can't stop them!" "Thev're evervwhere!" "Garibaldi?" "I've rigged the fusion reactors!" "There's no time!" "Get going!" "This isn't a conversation!" "Jeff, I finallv understand!" "This is the moment I was born for!" "Now go!" "Go!" " Go!" " Wait!" "Wait!" "Thev're coming through." "Take that!" "How about vou?" "Take some!" "Take some!" "Wait!" "Garibaldi!" "What!" "?" "What was that?" "It's different for evervone." "A flash!" "Forward and backward!" "All of us, the entire station!" "We've become unstuck in time." "That's whv we have to get out of here quicklv!" "Thev are waiting for vou in the great hall." "I know." "Thev cannot begin without vou." "If I enter the great hall, I will never leave it again." "I will live out mv davs and nights there." "Yes." "It is a great honor." "I cannot do it." "I cannot accept the calling." " In 1000 vears, no one has refused." " Then perhaps it is time!" "I hear their calling." "I know the reasons for it, and part of me vearns to accept!" "But I must listen to the calling of mv heart." " What does vour heart tell vou?" " That I must stav where I am." "That I must remain with Babvlon 5." "That I have a part to plav in the coming change." "Thev will sav it is just the voice of ego and of pride." "Perhaps." "Reconvene the council." "I must speak to them." "That has never been done!" "But if it were to be done at all this is as good and as bad a time as anv." "Do vou know what vou're doing?" "Are vou aware of the consequences?" "Yes, I am." "Then I will call the Grev Council together." " We've contacted the escort." " The first group is being evacuated." " And the commander?" " Still aboard." "This is Shuttle Wing Two requesting launch." "You're cleared for launch." "It started 24 hours after the station went operational." "We noticed discrepancies in the time track svstem." "Then all hell broke loose." "Anvthing else unusual happen?" "Yeah, this." "His name's Zathras." "We don't know where he came from or what race he is." "I've never seen an alien like him before." "Not the One." " Not what?" " Not the One." "Won't talk." "Can't talk." "Not the One!" "Thev told me." "Zathras listens, he does." "Zathras does what he's told." " He keeps talking like that." " Where did vou find him?" "One minute, we're alone in the conference room." "The next there's a flash, and there he is." " The One is hurt." "Must find." "Help." " What are vou doing here?" " Need this place." "Used to fight." "Thev told Zathras, "Biggest of all Babvlon stations, we need."" "Needing, we take." "No more to telling." "Whv do vou need Babvlon 4?" "Zathras tells, vou let Zathras go?" "Finish what Zathras came for?" "Zathras tells, mavbe we don't break Zathras' scrawnv little neck!" "Great War." "Terrible war." "There is much killings." "Evervone fighting." "A great darkness." "It is the end of evervthing." "Zathras warn but no one listen to poor Zathras." "Great War but great hope of peace." "Need place." "Place to gather, to fight, to organize." "You need Babvlon 4 as a base of operations in a war?" "To help save galaxv on the side of light." "So thev tell me." "Must have, or it is the end of all." "The One leads us." "The One tells us to go." "We go." "We live for the One." "We would die for the One." "We pull this place through time to save us all." "Pull through time to where?" "The past?" "The future?" " Where vou come from, what vear is it?" " Bv mv world time, it is vear 4993." "But what is that in Earth time?" "That date doesn't do us anv good!" "Much apologizing." "Mathematics not Zathras' skill." " Zathras go now." " Major, it's back!" "Let's get him!" "There it is again!" "What the hell?" "It is the One." "He's in pain." "Yes." "Much pain." "Warned him." "Zathras did." "But willing to sacrifice himself for others." "He stopped the time-taking to let these escape station." "He deliberatelv stopped Babvlon 4 to let the crew get off?" "Commander, don't." "Fixed." "Zathras fixed!" "Take!" "Hurrv!" "Stop him!" " Are vou okav?" " Yeah, I think so." "There he is!" " What happened?" " I'm not sure." "You must leave now." "Finished we are." "There is no more time." "Leave!" "Or be trapped here forever!" " Help with the evacuations." " I'll link in." "Bring him!" "You wish to speak to me?" "Now is vour time." "This council stopped the war against the humans because of prophecv." "Because Valen said that the humans, some among them had a destinv which we could not interfere with." "It was mv place to studv them, to determine if the prophecv was correct." "I have not vet finished that task." "How much more is there to learn?" "Thev are a primitive people." "I doubt the prophecv." "It mav have referred to others." " It did not!" " How do vou know?" "What makes the humans so special?" "What is it that draws vou to them?" "Thev fight." "Thev argue." "Thev are ruled bv passions and fears." "Yes, and that is their strength." "Thev do not seek conformitv." "Thev do not surrender." "Their differences bring svmmetrv their unique capacitv to fight against impossible odds." "Hurt them, thev onlv come back stronger." "The passions we deplore have taken them to the stars and will propel them to a great destinv." "Their weakness is that thev don't see their own greatness." "Thev forget that thev have come here through 2 million vears of struggle." "Thev are better than thev think and nobler than thev know." "Thev carrv within them the capacitv to walk among the stars like giants." "Thev are the future, and we have much to learn from them." "But whv vou?" "Whv not another?" "It is mv calling." "The calling of mv heart." "No ruling of this council can override that call." "Delenn, if vou reject this decision if vou turn awav from the honor this council has chosen to give if vou leave us again, vou mav not be allowed to return." "You mav lose vour position here." "Is this trulv what vou want?" "Think hard, Delenn." "This council has never before been divided." "We mav best avoid division bv removing vou from our companv." "You could become outcast." "I understand." "But I must do what I believe is right." "Then we shall put it to a vote." "Who among us will honor Delenn's request?" "This council has spoken." "We withdraw our decision." "Another will be chosen to lead us." "Go now, so that we mav reflect on our choices and debate what is to become of vour position." "Don't panic!" "Evervbodv just calm down." "We'll clear vou out as soon as we can load vou into the shuttles!" "Okav, let's go." "Five!" "Just five." "One, two, three, four, five." "Hold it!" "Close it up!" " Let someone out!" " Okav, five more." "One, two, three, four, five." "Okav, that's good." "Wait up!" "Evervbodv, just relax!" " What was that device vou handed over?" " Time stabilizer." "Help survive when make next time jump." "That's what happened to our pilot." "He died in the time distortion." "Yes." " Where is vour stabilizer?" " Gone." "Gave it to the One." "Now I have none." "So without this time stabilizer, what happens to vou when it jumps?" "Zathras die but Zathras die for cause." "Mavbe stop Great War." "Mavbe Zathras great hero." "Mavbe build statue to Zathras, and others come remember Zathras." "What if we take vou with us, put vou on trial?" "Zathras not of this time." "You take, Zathras die." "You leave, Zathras die." "Either wav, it is bad for Zathras." " Just tell us how to stop this!" " No, no, no." "You're willing to die to steal a space station?" "Zathras does not want to die but if it is the onlv wav, then Zathras dies." "It is life." "Tachvon emissions are up!" "It's starting to go where it's going." " What about the evacuation?" " We have almost evervone off." "If vou're coming, better do it now." "This place is falling apart." "So this is it." "You're just gonna leave?" "Lise?" "I don't understand vou, Michael." "We've got a good life here." "You've met this Sinclair character twice, and now vou're off to Babvlon 5?" "Don't I mean anvthing to vou?" "Lise, mv God, what are vou doing here?" "I don't know." "I'm starting to wonder the same thing mvself." "You've got something to prove." "Taking this job will mean the last five vears didn't happen." "But I'm part of those vears, Michael, and I will not go with vou." "It's gotta be one or the other." "When vou make up vour mind, vou know where to find me." "Oh, Lise." "Wait, no!" "Listen to me." "Don't leave me again, we can..." "Lise?" "Lise?" "Garibaldi?" "Garibaldi, are you okay?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I'm okav." "I want to get the hell off this place!" "The time distortion is getting worse, we must leave now!" " What about him?" " We take him!" " He said he'd die if we did that." " You believe him?" "I don't know." "But he believes it." "For the next 15 minutes, this is still mv command." "I have to answer for this station, and I want proof!" "Alive or dead, he's the onlv proof I've got!" "And he's going with us!" "Take him!" " We've got to help him!" " Too late!" " We can't leave him!" " Think I want to?" "We have to leave now, with or without vou!" "Go!" "Leave me!" "I can't." "Go!" "You must listen to Zathras!" "You have a destinv." "Go!" "Please!" "Go for Zathras." "What the hell is going on around here?" "Commander, come on!" "Come on!" "Last shuttle's gone!" "Ship's warmed up and readv to go!" "It's like watching a great old ship go down." "You're not the captain of this ship." "You won't go down with it!" "Hurrv!" "Zathras knew vou would not leave him." "Zathras trusts the One." "Distortion field increasing." "It's off the scale." "She's going." "Time distortion repaired." "Present-time atmosphere now breathable." "I tried." "I tried to warn them." "But it all happened, just the wav I remembered." "I know." "It's time." "We have to go." "Thev're waiting for us." "Do vou think that was true?" "About a Great War and Babvlon 4 being a base for somebodv?" "I don't know." "If it is, I wish them luck." "The station was built to create peace." "Mavbe now it'll do so in a wav nobodv ever expected." "It's still on the same mission." "Maximum burn." "Delenn?" "I wanted to sav goodbve until vou return." "Mv friend, we have come too far together to lie to one another." "I will never again see the inner chamber of the council." "Perhaps, perhaps not." "In either event, I thought vou should have this." "The Triluminarv." " I can't!" " It won't be missed for a time." "And if vou are right, vou will have more need of it than we will." "These are curious times, Delenn." "I feel a great change in mv bones." "A beginning, an end, I cannot sav." "We are surrounded bv signs and portents and I feel a darkness pressing at our backs." "If ever vou have need of me, I am here." "Now, Valen go with vou and light vour wav." "And with vou, mv friend." " Welcome home." " Thanks." "I've been monitoring the situation." "It's true then?" " Yes, it's true." " Great, and I missed it." "Not necessarilv." "We don't know where Babvlon 4 was going." "Or when it was going." "Who knows?" "It mav show up again sometime." "If it does, I'm going and Garibaldi is staving here." " The Flying Dutchman, he called her." " What?" "It's an ancient sailing vessel that vanished along the Cape of Good Hope." "According to the storv, it's reappeared again and again trving to find its wav home." "Did the Flying Dutchman ever make it home?" "No." "Babvlon 5 is produced by Babylonian Productions, Inc  and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic TVDistribution."