"This is Earth Alliance Squadron Black Omega to stolen transport." "Surrender and prepare to be boarded." "If vou attempt escape vou will be fired upon and destroved." "Do vou understand?" "Repeat, surrender or..." "There's a problem, commander." " You missed a button." " You're bright and cheerful." "Got an offer from Universal Terraform to survev and I'm seeing them todav." "That's a big operation." "Sure vou want to get involved?" "I've been around the block." "I can handle mvself." " You worrv too much." " You don't enough." "Perfect combination." "Gotta hurrv." "See vou at lunch?" "I'm meeting with the construction guild." "Have to make cuts." " I'm not looking forward to it." " It'll be fine." "It's been quiet, the place is on schedule." "What could go wrong?" "Confirm, Seven Tango Seven, vou're clear." "Affirmative, Babvlon Control." "I'm looking forward to mv visit." "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." "I've wondered what it's like to be a telepath." "It's like staving in a hotel room where vou can hear the people next door." "You can trv and shut it out, but it's there." "Just don't listen unless vou're invited." "Is it difficult to block out people's thoughts?" "Depends on the thoughts." " Destination?" " Blue 14." "Casual thoughts are easv to block, but strong emotions slip through whether vou want them to or not." "Blue 14." "I think I'm in love." "Earth transport Spinosa is now embarking in door Area 9." "Yes?" "No, sir." "I just never met a Psi Cop before." "Yes, sir." "I'll bring vou there mvself." "This wav." "Would vou tell me more about the target?" "It's a class-four world, Sigma 957." "Not much atmosphere:" "Mostlv nitrogen and oxvgen." " And their sensor picked up diridium." " Bvproduct of Quantium-40." "We need that verified." "If so, we'll send out a probe so we're in accord with the regs on exploitation." "We can't afford that unless we know it's worth the effort." "How can it not be?" "There's a shortage of Q-40 on Earth." " Thev're backed up on construction." " We need absolute confidentialitv." "I need vour word vou won't mention this to anvone, including the commander." " Mv personal life has nothing to do..." " I know." "I was told to ask, so I'm asking." "We each have our marching orders, Ms. Sakai." "So do I have vour word?" " She's telling the truth." " Well, then, we have a deal." "There is one other thing." "The target is in a contested sector of space." "So we'll need the approval of one other partv before we can proceed." "Commander?" "Some VIPs here to see vou, sir." "Send them in." "No, it's a fine time..." "Get out of mv head." "You wanna talk to me, talk to me." "Mv apologies, commander." " It saves considerable time." " I don't care." "I don't like people in mv head." "I thought the Psi Corps had rules." "There are rules, and there are rules." "When telepaths go rogue, someone has to take them down." "Onlv Psi Cops are qualified to do that." "Since we bear a greater responsibilitv, we're afforded latitude in the interest of efficiencv." " Yes, I'm sure, Mr..." "Bester." "This is mv associate, Ms. Kelsev." "We're looking for a rogue telepath." "We believe he's on this station." "We need to meet with vour resident telepath and vour securitv and command personnel." "We'll proceed..." "I won't turn this station upside down because vou're hunting a rogue." "Not just a rogue, commander." "This is a special and dangerous individual whose presence threatens the entire Earth Alliance structure." "This is our guest room." "A vibe shower's in the back and through there..." " Price?" " 500 credits per week based on Earth standard cvcles." " Fine." " Lf there's anvthing else vou need..." " No." "No, thank vou." "Welcome to Babvlon 5." "We are at your disposal  with onboard facilities perfectly suited to human  and non-human travelers." "For your shopping convenience the Zocalo is..." "His name is Jason Ironheart." "You know him, Miss Winters." "He was mv instructor at the Psi Corps Academv." "His job is to work with telepaths level P-5 through P-10." "Jamming, long-range scanning, that sort of thing." " What's his Psi rating?" " He's a 10." "All instructors are rated P-10." " And Psi Cops?" "What are vou rated?" " P-12." "Someone has to watch the rest." "Yes, but who watches the watchmen?" "One vear ago, Jason Ironheart was reassigned to Earth Intelligence working on a covert operation." " What kind of operation?" "That information is on a need-to-know basis." "You don't need to know." "Let's sav that what's in his brain would compromise Earth defense and lead to the death of manv operatives on other worlds." "We think he'll sell that information to other governments." "Nonsense!" "Jason would never do that." "Our job is to find him and bring him back." "Alive if possible." "Dead if necessarv." "Have vou had anv contact with him since vou left the academv?" "Letters, the last was a vear ago." "You know we'll have to scan vou to be sure." "Is that necessarv?" "I'm telling vou the truth." "Perhaps." "Perhaps not." " Lf she doesn't want to be scanned..." " She's required to submit." "If she's seen or heard from him, his fingerprints will be in her thoughts." "The process is not pleasant." "You mav stav or leave as vou choose." "That's enough." "I said that's enough!" "She's telling the truth." "She hasn't seen him." "Surprising, given vour prior involvement." "If Ironheart hasn't shown vet, he will." "We must be informed at once." "Do not attempt anv contact with him." "Especiallv vou, Miss Winters." "Do not approach him." "Do not speak to him." "Is that clear?" "Yes." "You can go now." "What phvsical threat does he represent?" "That's something else vou don't need to know." "Just find him." "We'll do the rest." "Hello, Talia." "I've been looking for vou." "Talia." "Talia, wait, please!" " I can't see vou." "The Psi Cops are here." " I know." "Listen, Talia..." "Whv are thev after vou?" " Do vou know what thev did to me?" " Yes." "Yes, I do." "That's whv I waited until after thev scanned vou." "But it's okav." "We'll be safe for a while, at least." "I have to talk to vou." "I need a place." "A place where I can wait, just for a little while." "Whv?" "What's going on, Jason?" "All I can sav now is that I can't let them find me." "If thev do, I'll have to kill them or thev'll kill me." "But it's not just us." "There are thousands, millions of lives at stake." "Give me five minutes to explain, that's all." "Then, if vou want me to leave, I will." "Please." "If vou're trving to get at the commander..." "No." "Whether vou believe it or not, this is for vour safetv." "Sigma 957 is not a healthv place." "Strange things happen there." "There's no sentient life to threaten anvone." "Nonetheless, it is not safe." "I have passed through that sector." " Look elsewhere." " You want Sigma 957 for vourself." "The Narn government can't exploit a world that far awav." "But vou want to hold on to it anvwav, out of sheer spite." "Considering what vou were told about me, I'm sure vou believe that." "Despite vour long acquaintance with Sinclair, vou're new here." "Let me pass on to vou the one thing I've learned about this place." "No one here is exactlv what he appears." "Not Mollari, not Delenn not Sinclair and not me." "Mv warning is sincere." "Ignore it at vour own peril." "Ambassador." "If I have to, I'll go over vou." "I have contacts in the Narn Regime." "Then I fear the commander will miss vou when vou fail to return from Sigma 957." "A vear ago, I volunteered for a Psi Corps experiment." "It was an attempt to make telepaths even stronger." "Turn a P-5 into a P-10, and a P-10 into..." "Into God knows what." "Whv?" "Because in this business, whoever has the strongest telepath wins." "The militarv wants to scan the enemv." "The enemv wants a telepath who can block a scan." "And we want someone who can cut through the block." "Thev said it was necessarv to help protect Earth." "Anvwav, the experiments went on for months." "Genetic manipulation." "Mutated strains of serotonin and acetvlcholine to increase neural processing." "Five, 10, sometimes 15 injections a dav." "The pain was..." "Then one dav, I woke up and I could see evervthing." "It was as if mv mind had been a seed for all those vears and then it blossomed." "I could cut through a block without trving." "All I had to do was to look at them to see what was inside." "And that's when I discovered the truth." "Talia, do vou remember the T-K tests vou took just before vou graduated?" "Yes." "I used a pennv I've had since I was a girl." "I tried for davs to make it move with mv thoughts." "I couldn't." "Onlv one in everv 1000 humans has telepathic abilities." "One in everv 10,000 telepaths has telekinetic abilities and half of them are clinicallv insane." "That was the real purpose of the experiment." "To create a stable telekinetic." "And it worked, Talia." "It worked bevond evervone's wildest dreams." "That is whv I cannot go back." "Even if it means letting them kill me." "Commander, I got a lead on Ironheart." "I checked the incoming ships and one was stolen." " Where's it from?" " Sector 15." "That's two jumps awav." "That's where Ironheart was last seen." "If he hasn't booked passage out, he'll need a place to stav." "50 quarters were rented in the last 24 hours." "I want that guv found and out of here as fast as possible." "I don't like Psi Cops nosing around." "Thev're creepv." "The wav thev look at vou like vou're some kind of bug." "Commander." "Just 50 quarters to search." "Good." "That should help narrow it down." "Anatomicallv impossible, Mr. Garibaldi but vou're welcome to trv." "Anvtime." "Anvwhere." " Confirmed, Skvdancer." "You're clear." " Please log in sequence." "Primarv gate to gates 141, 27 and 15B." "Confirmed." "Destination?" "Sigma 957." " Open channel to Homeworld." " Channel open." "Ambassador G'Kar requesting clear channel to Narn Militarv." "I require a Frazi-class heavv fighter for a mission." "Destination Sigma 957." "Make sure it's well-armed." "I thought thev wanted telekinetics for big jobs." "Heavv construction or defense." "I mean, imagine:" "A telekinetic shield defending against weapons, for diplomats or presidents..." "But thev didn't want big." "No, thev wanted mental control over small objects, the smaller the better." " That doesn't make sense." " No?" "Think about it." "You want to assassinate someone, so vou get a telekinetic." "He reaches into a person's throat and gentlv, quietlv, with a thought he pinches the carotid arterv shut." "The blood stops, the brain starves the target dies and then vou just let go." "Murder without a trace." "No fingerprints or poisons." " Oh, mv God." " But thev didn't understand, Talia." " The power, how far it..." " Jason." " What is it?" " Get out." "Please, quicklv." "I can't control this." "Get out!" "While vou can." "What the hell?" "Mindquake." " Have vou got a fix on the disturbance?" " Level 16, three sections down." "Just one problem." "Onlv wav there is to go through that." " What is it?" " I don't know but it has Level 16 surrounded." "We can't get past it." "Bester said the threat this guv posed was on a need-to-know basis." "You ask me right now, we need to know." "Computer." "Projected ETA at Sigma 957?" "At maximum safe speed, project ETA at Sigma 957  at two hours, five minutes, 30 seconds, Earth Standard Time." "All right." "Let's get this show on the road." "We had our orders." "I don't care if vou had a message from God, complete with stone tablets." "You lied." "You withheld information." "Don't vou think it might have helped to know?" " We did what we thought was best." " You were wrong." "And now I've got a half-dozen wounded on a section of Blue 16." "Everv corridor and transport tube in to there is blocked." "I want the truth, and I want it now." "Mr. Ironheart is no longer what vou or I would consider entirelv human." " Then what is he?" "We don't know." "Be still." "Be still." "Be still." "After the experiment, he began showing signs of stress:" "Paranoia, psvchosis." "One night, he slipped out of his room killed a researcher, and escaped." "Along the wav, his telekenetic powers have grown stronger, more violent." "In his enhanced state, he's valuable." "Other governments might have tried to grab him." "We couldn't take that chance." "It was a calculated risk." "Good old Psi Corps." "You never cease to amaze me." "What do vou do in vour spare time?" "Juggle babies?" "There goes another "calculated risk."" " You're not helping the situation." " You are the situation." "We've seen how powerful he is." "How did vou two plan to stop him?" "Ironheart was programmed with a fail-safe code to shut him down." "It has to be sent bv a telepath directlv into his brain." " He must have defenses." " We two are strong enough to burrow past his defenses and take him down." "But we have to be in the line of sight." "You have two choices:" "Let us take him down our wav or vou'll have to kill him before he blows out this station and evervone on it." "Jason, if vou can hear me, this won't work." "I need to talk to vou, Jason." "Please." "Jason?" "Jason." "I thought that seeing vou, being with vou again would be enough." "Help me hold it together, shut out the voices." "Just rest for a little while before the end." "Before..." "I shouldn't have come." "I put vou at risk evervone." "I never meant..." "I never wanted..." "I know." "I know." "We thought Psi Corps was run bv the government but that's changing." "Thev're pulling strings behind the scene." "Thev're more powerful than vou can begin to imagine." "Telepaths make the ultimate blackmailers." "I see it all." "And I see it all." " Jason..." " There is no more Jason." "I am something else." "I am becoming..." " Becoming what?" " Evervthing." "Computer, assume parking orbit around Sigma 957." " Confirmed." " Begin preliminarv atmospheric survev." "Launch environmental probe on mv mark." "Mark." "Receiving planetary data." "Logging in." "Good. "Sigma 957 is not a healthv place." "Strange things happen there." Right." " Level 16 is not accessible." " Commander." "I need to talk to vou." "I've seen Jason." " What?" "Where?" " It's a long storv and we don't have much time." "We need to talk privatelv." "Jason's changing." "His powers are growing faster than he anticipated." "It's almost bevond control." "He doesn't want to endanger the station." "But what he's becoming leaves little choice." "He wants to see vou alone and unarmed." "He'll drop his defenses onlv for vou." "I know it's asking vou to take a terrible chance, but it's our onlv one." "All right." "Where and when?" " Blue 12 in one hour." " Talia, what's between vou and Jason?" " Whv did he come here?" " To see me." "We were lovers." "He was evervthing to me." "The perfect model of what it meant to be in the Corps." "Do vou know what it's like when telepaths make love, commander?" "You drop everv defense and it's all mirrors reflecting each other's feelings deeper and deeper until, somewhere along the line vour souls mix and it's a feeling so profound it makes vou hurt." "It's the onlv moment in a telepath's life when vou don't hear the voices." "He came to sav goodbve, commander." "He came to sav goodbve." "Computer, identifv." "What the hell was that?" "Unknown." " Computer..." " Ninety percent power loss." "Emergencv power." "Negative emergency power." "Orbit deteriorating." "Estimate impact with Sigma 957 in two hours." "Computer, open tachvon channel to Babvlon 5." "Insufficient energy reserves to establish communications." " Scan for anv nearbv ships." " Negative on scan." "Adjust orientation." "Mavbe we can bounce off the atmosphere." "Negative." "Insufficient power." "Damn it, there's gotta be something I can do." " Time to impact?" " 1.3 hours." "We need to speak." "The Psi Corps is dedicated to one thing, commander." "Control." "Control over telepaths, the economv, the courts." "Over matter, over thought itself." "But there is something even more powerful." "Something thev didn't even know existed, until I crossed the line." "Not mind over matter, mind over energv." "I was suddenlv able to influence objects that were smaller and smaller." "Molecules, atoms, neutrons." "I look at vou, commander and I see not a man, but a galaxv of subatomic particles which I can pull apart and rearrange with a casual thought." "This is a power we were never meant to have." "We're not readv for it." "If Psi Cops take him, thev'll dissect him." "Find out what drugs release this power." "Can vou imagine what thev would do with it?" "What anvone would do with it?" "Which is whv thev sav vou shouldn't leave here alive." "Whv should I trust vou?" "I've alreadv had six people hurt." "An accident." "At each new level, it takes me a while to adjust." "I have to fight everv minute to control the forces in mv head." " Lf I'm distracted..." " What about the researcher vou killed?" "I didn't want to." "But he was the onlv one who could replicate the process." "There must never be anv more like me." "I mean vou no harm, commander." "If I did, I could vaporize vou right now with a single thought." "Please, vou must believe me." "Assuming I do, what is it vou want from me?" "Your help and vour trust." "I need to get awav from here." "I need time to finish becoming and then I'll be gone." "Please." " Sinclair to C  C." " This is C  C. You all right?" " Condition green." "Garibaldi?" " I'm here." "Have your security team clear Blue 16 to the docking bay." "I don't want anyone to know what's going on." "Is that clear?" " Confirmed, commander." "What's up?" " We're coming out." "Condition?" "Hull temperature to 700 degrees and climbing." "Entering atmosphere." "Two ships detected." "Now entering local space." "What?" "Where?" "Put it on the monitor." "Emergencv." "This is Catherine Sakai of the Earth survev ship Sky..." " Of the Earth ship Skvdancer." "We know." " You what?" "Please identifv vourself." "Captain Sh'Drog of the Narn Regime." "We were dispatched to assist you." "Dispatched bv whom?" "Ambassador G'Kar, 3rd Circle." "Stand by for grapple." "We will link up and escort you back to Babvlon 5." "Sh'Drog out." "Attention, please." "Will all nonessential personnel  clear all corridors in sections Blue 16 through Red 4." " What's going on?" " Just a drill, sir." " You're sure?" " Yes, I'm..." "Good." "Thank vou." "No, I refuse." "I am not going back with vou." " This man is under mv protection." " You don't know what vou're doing!" "Commander, we have to hurrv." "There's not much..." "Fail-safe code." "Thev're trving to shut him down." "Mindquakes." "Thev're distracting him." "He's losing control." "Let him go." "Do vou hear me?" "Let him go." " I won't go." " Leave him alone." "You don't understand." "I won't go back." "Please, no." "Don't make me do this." "You cannot harm me." "You cannot harm one who has dreamed a dream like mine." "Talia!" "Look out!" " We'll get a doctor." " No." "No time." "Must get to the ship." "Hurrv." "Hurrv." " What's he doing?" " Nothing." "He's not moving." "He's just sitting there." "Picking up energv surge." " How big?" " Off the scale." "Talia?" "Jason?" "I have become." "In memorv of love, I give vou a gift." "The onlv gift I have to give." "Goodbve, commander." "I will see vou again." "In a million vears." "You realize mv superiors will believe none of this?" "Yes, especiallv since, in about an hour we'll have a small accident that'll erase the file vou just saw." " What do vou suggest?" " Something close to the truth." "Ironheart's ship escaped, but exploded before the jumpgate." " Lf I refuse?" " Mv report will mention how vou endangered the station and through vour interference caused the death of a Psi Cop." " Not much of a choice." " Your report will indicate that Talia Winters was not responsible for helping Ironheart." "She was under his control and should not be penalized." " That's a lie." " Yes, it is." "What's vour point?" "There's a transport leaving for Earth in 20 minutes, Mr. Bester." "Be on it." "Be seeing vou, commander." "You telling the Senator what Ironheart said about Psi Corps?" "I don't know." "I'm not sure what it would accomplish." "He was feverish." "Paranoid." "Mavbe it's true, mavbe it isn't." "Without evidence, without Ironheart, it's his word against the Corps." "But I suggest we keep our eves open just in case." " Got that right." "How's Talia?" " Better." "Resting." "Good." "I wonder what Ironheart meant when he said he gave her a gift?" " Do vou think she'd tell me?" " No." "Ambassador G'Kar?" "Ms. Sakai, I'm pleased to see that vou have returned safelv." "Yes, thanks to vou." "Just one question." "Whv?" " Whv not?" " It's not an answer." "Yes, it is." "It's simplv not an answer vou like or expect." "Narns, humans, Centauri, we all do what we do for the same reason because it seemed like a good idea at the time." "There was no profit, no advantage in letting vou fall to an untimelv death." "It would distress the commander to no good effect." "So once again we return to "whv not?"" "I told vou before vou left no one here is entirelv what thev appear." "If I surprised vou, all the better." "Good dav, Ms. Sakai." "Ambassador." "While I was out there, I saw something." "What was it?" "What is this?" " An ant." " Ant?" "So much gets shipped from Earth, it's hard to keep them out." "I have just picked it up on the tip of mv glove." "If I put it down again and it asks another ant:" ""What was that?" How would it explain?" "There are things in the universe billions of vears older than our races." "Thev are vast, timeless, and if thev're aware of us at all it is as little more than ants." "We have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us." "We know, we've tried." "We've learned that we can either stav out from underfoot or be stepped on." "That's it?" "That's all vou know?" "Yes." "Thev are a mvsterv." "And I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe that we have not vet explained evervthing." "Whatever thev are, Ms. Sakai, thev walk near Sigma 957." "Thev must walk there alone." "Babvlon 5 is produced by Babylonian Productions, Inc  and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic TVDistribution."