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Babylon 5, Seasons 4 & 5

+++ Season 4 ("No Surrender, No Retreat") +++
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[episodes marked *** contain important plot elements]

67: The Hour of the Wolf ***
A week after the loss of Sheridan and Garibaldi, Ambassador Molari is on Centauri Prime, Delenn is fasting and praying, G'Kar is taking notes and Commander Ivanova finds that the Alliance is falling apart. The League refuses to attack Za'ha'dum, it is fighting a war of survival, not aiming for victory. Vir passes an Intelligence report on to Ivanova describing what Sheridan did on Za'ha'dum.
   The Vorlons refused to help patch up the Alliance. A horribly scarred Mr. Morden tells Molari that the Shadows are basing some of their forces on Centauri Prime. He recognizes a scene from his nightmare as hundreds of their ships pass overhead, and realizes that Emperor Cartagia is insane. Lyta Alexander is not enjoying working with her new Vorlon. Ivanova proposes taking her to Za'ha'dum to block the Shadows and scan for the piece of Kosh still in Sheridan.
   The mission fails to detect Sheridan and The Eye almost captures them. Vir is recalled to Centauri Prime. Molari tells him the emperor is mad and Vir must help to assassinate him. Ivanova gives up on Sheridan and vows to continue his work. But on Za'ha'dum, Sheridan has questions but no answers.

68: Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi? ***
14 days after Sheridan's 'death', Dr. Franklin reports that the League is breaking up and the end is approaching. Lenier tells him there's a problem with Delenn. On Za'ha'dum, Sheridan talks to Lorien, who tells him he's dead but between moments. G'Kar finds a piece of Garibaldi's Starfury on sale in a tavern and gets into a fight. Marcus joins in. Delenn is fasting and she believes she let Sheridan down.
   Marcus goes back to the bar to question the man with the piece of Starfury. G'Kar sends Marcus back to Babylon 5 for more information then he is captured. Delenn plans to attack Za'ha'dum in 7 days with anyone who will help. Emperor Cartagia presents G'Kar to Londo Molari. Garibaldi is in an observation room being questioned by unseen interrogators. Molari tries to recruit G'Kar to his plan to kill the emperor. A free Narn homeworld is G'Kar's price.
   Lorien tells Sheridan that he is The First One and that he met Kosh, a piece of whom is inside Sheridan, a long time ago. After a discussion about alternatives, Lorien persuades Sheridan to let go in the hope that Lorian can give him a little more time.

69: The Summoning ***
Ivanova borrows White Star to search for more First Ones. G'Kar is being humiliated by Cartagia's courtiers. Cartagia decides he'll have to kill the Narn, which makes Vir ready to go along with Londo Molari's assassination plan. Lyta Alexander tells Delenn that the new Vorlan ambassador has his own plan and isn't interested in others, but she offers to help Delenn if she can.
   Zack Allen challenges a transport, which ejects Garibaldi in a life pod before exploding. Ivanova comes across a Vorlon fleet on the move. Garibaldi wakes up in MedLab surprised to learn he's been got for 2 weeks but not surprised that Sheridan is dead. Emperor Cartagia wants G'Kar to scream and has him electro-whipped. #Eventually, he screams at Molari's request.
   A huge ship comes through the jump gate and docks with Babylon 5 without permission. A crowd of anti-Minbari agitators gathers in the Zocalo and Sheridan appears. He tells the crowd that the time has come to settle things with the Shadows once and for all. Then the news arrives that the Vorlons are destroying every planet which has had anything at all to do with the Shadows.

70: Falling Toward Apotheosis ***
The Vorlons are still wiping out whole planets for associating with the Shadows. Mr. Garbaldi resents being sidelined while Sheridan was welcomed back, and he is suspicious of Lorien. Mr. Morden tells Londo Molari that the Shadows have no intention of leaving Centauri Prime as he doesn't think the Vorlons will destroy such an important planet. He wants Cartagia to send out the Centauri fleet to oppose the Vorlons.
   Cartagia agrees to do this but after Morden has gone, he tells Molari that he is now a god and he wants the Vorlons to wipe out his people as they will be sad without him. On Babylon 5, Garibaldi is cleared to go back to work. The Vorlon planet-killer continues its work. Sheridan tells Delenn that she gave him a reason to return from Za'ha'dum.
   Babylon 5 is overflowing with refugees. Sheridan decides to take out Kosh any way he can. Kosh refuses to leave Babylon 5. Sheridan warns Molari that he has a week before the Vorlons arrive. Kosh is flushed out of his encounter suit and ends up in a fight with the piece of old Kosh, which was inside Sheridan. Lorien has to replenish Sheridan's life force.
   Molari persuades Cartagia to hold G'Kar's trial on Narn. The biggest fleet ever gathered collects at Babylon 5 to settle the war one way or the other. Lorien explains that Sheridan has another 20 years. Sheridan gives Delenn an engagement ring. At the end, Cartagia has one of G'Kar's eyes plucked out.

71: The Long Night ***
The Shadows are using their own planet-killer against supporters of the Vorlons. Ivanova insists that Sheridan let her be part of the final battle. Londo Molari arranges for G'Kar to have weakened chains so that he can provide a diversion but he insists that Centauri kill the emperor. G'Kar's chains are exchanged but he still breaks them. Molari makes a bog of killing Cartagia but Vir manages it more or less by accident.
   Molari proclaims that the emperor's mysterious death is a sign that the Centauri must leave Narn. He is appointed prime minister pending selection of a new emperor. Sheridan sacrifices a ship to lure the Shadows into a direct confrontation with the Vorlons. G'Kar refuses to become the new Narn leader. The Shadows take Sheridan's bait and the mighty fleet heads for the final battle at Coriana 6.

72: Into the Fire ***
Lorien insists that Ivanova recruits all six First Ones to the fight with the Vorlons and the Shadows. The fleet destroys a Vorlon observation post then heads for Coriana 6. The Vorlons are expected to reach Centauri Prime by the time the fllet arrives at Coriana 6. Prime Minister Molari tells the Regent that he wants the Shadows off Centauri Prime right away.
   The Minister of Intelligence tells Molari that Adira was killed by Mr. Morden, not Lord Refa. Morden refuses to remove the Shadow ships from Centauri Prime and says: "What are you going to do, Mollari? Blow up the island?"
   "Actually," Molair says as he operates a small device, "now that you mention it..."
   The island of Selini is destroyed with nuclear weapons and Vir gets the gift of seeing Morden's head on a stake. At Coriana 6, Sheridan uses his nuclear weapons to kill Vorlon and Shadow ships and start a fight. Lyta tries to communicate with them telepathically. The First Ones arrive just in time to take out the Vorlon planet-killer.
   When another planet-killer arrives at Centauri Prime, Molari asks Vir to kill him to save the planet but the planet-killer suddenly heads for Coriana 6. Sheridan lets the Vorlons know that the younger races no longer need them as he and Delenn are bombarded with propaganda by images of their friends. A Shadow planet-killer starts freezing the fleet.
   The Vorlons and the Shadows give Sheridan another chance to choose between them. They are told that the younger races want to make their own way. Sheridan says, "Now get the hell out of our galaxy!" So the Vorlons & Shadows leave, and the First Ones go with them. The fleet returns to Babylon 5.

73: Epiphanies ***
There are fireworks and parties to celebrate the end of the Shadow War but President Clark is now sees Babylon 5 as a serious threat. He begins his offensive with propaganda, aided by Psi Corps. Londo Molari returns to Babylon 5 as an ambassador as he is not safe on Centauri Prime. Dr. Franklin provides G'Kar with a prosthetic eye. Garibaldi receives a coded message and resigns.
   Bester of Psi Corps arrives as Ambassador Molari reaches Babylon 5. Bester offers his help in return for a trip to Za'ha'dum to look for technology to revive his lover, who is in cryonic suspension with Shadow implants. Lyta Alexander blocks his attempts to scan Sheridan & Co. Bester reveals that President Clark is planning to frame Babylon 5 for an attack on EarthForce ships blockading the station.
   Ivanova disrupts the plan. Za'ha'dum explodes when the expedition from Babylon 5 arrives. Lyta admits that she warned the Shadows' former servants to leave and destroy the technology on Za'ha'dum. Sheridan is worried about where the Shadows' allies went. Ivanova tells him it's nothing to worry about. But the Regent on Centauri Prime finds, to his horror, that he has a Keeper on his neck.

74: The Illusion of Truth
Sheridan is worried about the safety of his father, back on Earth. New arrivals on Babylon 5 refuse to let Security examine their luggage. They turn out to be reporters. Dan Randall of ISN tells Sheridan he can slip through small pieces of the truth. Lenier gets the job of giving Randall an unbiased tour of the station. Randall, of course, does a hatchet job in his report.
   He portrays Sheridan as being under the thumb of alien races and Delenn as a warmonger, and says everyone on the station has a disease, which has turned them against Earth. Dr. Franklin is performing genetic experiments on humans, Randall says, and Babylon 5 is building a fleet of alien ships, which can be planning only to attack Earth!

75: Atonement
Zack Allen has taken over from Garibaldi. G'Kar gets his prosthetic eye. Delenn is busy with her Minbari rituals of marriage again. She returns to Minbar, where she has to submit to The Dreaming. There, she relives her service to Dukhat, the start of the Earth-Minbar war and her insane decision to wipe out the entire human race to avenge Dukhat's death.
   Delenn goes back into The Dreaming an unprecedented second time. She realizes that Dukhat's last words to her are that she is a child of Valen – a descendant of Captain Sinclair – and that marrying Sheridan won't compromise the purity of the Minbari race. But her clan leader decides he will tell the clan that she is fulfilling an ancient custom as a more acceptable explanation.

76: Racing Mars
Commander Ivanova relieves Sheridan of his command because he hasn't had a day off in 9 months. Dr. Franklin and Marcus are on their way to Mars, and they meet a contact called Captain Jack. Every communication channel to Babylon 5, but ISN, has been blocked. Sheridan challenges Garibaldi in DownBelow about his knocking interview. Garibaldi tells him he's entitled to his opinion. He says Sheridan is starting to believe his own propaganda and people are following him rather than the cause.
   Franklin & Marcus get new IDs – of 2 men having a honeymoon on Mars. Garibaldi is approached by Mr. Wade and 2 followers, who tell him they agree with his views on Sheridan. He walks away from them. Captain Jack says the story on Mars is that Babylon 5 has abandoned them. Marcus feels cheated when he learns that Captain Jack hasn't heard of the Shadow War.
   On Babylon 5, Ivanova does a deal with the smugglers; supplies in return for protection. Franklin & Marcus meet the Resistance leaders on Mars and have to be vetted. Delenn tells Sheridan they have to go through more prenuptial rituals. Captain Jack lets Franklin know his daughter's address. Captain Jack turns out to be an assassin controlled by a Keeper. He escapes then kills himself and the creature.
   Sheridan goes to apologize to Garibaldi but a Brakiri woman insists on getting a blessing from Sheridan, which narks Garibaldi, who slugs Sheridan on the jaw. Marcus & Franklin have to wait on Mars to contact other Resistance leaders. Garibaldi is approached by Mr. Wade again, who say they'll give Sheridan the help he needs. So Garibaldi joins their cause.

77: Lines of Communication
Sheridan is expecting Earth to attack Babylon 5 as a 'rescue mission'. EarthForce is a just few months away from subduing Mars and some of the Resistance have resorted to terror bombing. Peoples under Minbari protection are also being attacked, and the Warrior caste refuses to take action.
   ISN keeps saying Sheridan has Minbari War Syndrome. Sheridan decides to make Ivanova the Voice of the Resistance. Minbar is heading for civil war between the castes. Franklin offers the Mars Resistance leaders Babylon 5's help if they join the campaign against President Clark. He promises that Mars will be free when Clark is overthrown, but no more terrorist bombs.
   Delenn finds that the Religious caste wants to use the Drakh; refugees from Za'ha'dum; as allies against the Warrior caste. One of the Drakh recognizes Delenn and White Star 16 is lost as the fleet makes its escape. Lenier sets a course for Babylon 5 but Delenn insists on returning to destroy the Drakh and their mothership.
   Back on Babylon 5, Delenn tells Sheridan that she has to return to Minbar to revive the Grey Council, which will leave him free to be dangerous to fight the coming battles and rebuild that which has been destroyed.

78: Conflicts of Interest ***
Mr. Wade decides to test Garibaldi. Captain Sheridan is planning to tackle some unpleasant jobs now that Delenn has gone. Zack gets the job of recovering Garibalidi's link, ID card and weapon. Ivanova is setting up a broadcast studio in the War Room. Zack also relieves Garibaldi of his back-up weapon and Garibaldi tells him he should have refused the job.
   Wade hires Garibaldi as a bodyguard to help with a secret mission. Ivanova goes down to Epsilon 3 looking for a power source for her broadcasts. Wade is meeting the wife of a contact; she turns out to be Garibaldi's old friend Lise, now married to plutocrat William Edgars of Edgars Industries on Mars. Sheridan tries to recruit Molari and G'Kar to what amounts to a police force for the smaller worlds. Neither is willing to sign up. Zack reports to Sheridan that Garibaldi has smuggled someone past security. Lise Edgars has brought a sample of a virus which will kill telepaths; her husband is expecting trouble from them. Garibaldi & Co. are ambushed. Their assailants kill themselves when Zach catches up with them.
   Garibaldi won't co-operate with Sheridan when he tries to find out what is going on, and threatens to shut down Garibaldi's business. Later, William Edgars offers Garibaldi a job which will take him to Mars eventually. Finally, the Voice of the Resistance starts broadcasting its version of the truth.

79: Rumors, Bargains and Lies
Sheridan is still trying to form the non-aligned worlds into a union. His tactic is to get everyone guessing about a mysterious threat. A civil war has begun on Minbar. Delenn asks Neroon of the Warrior Caste for help with her plan to end the war.
   Thinking that Delenn plans to surrender, the leaders of the Religious Caste plan to kill everyone aboard their warship. Lenier is injured saving the day. Sheridan bamboozles the leaders of the League world into giving him what he wants. Having told Delenn what she wants to hear, Neroon tells his caste leader that their victory is at hand.

80: Moments of Transition ***
William Edgars gives Garibaldi the job of escorting a delivery for his pharmaceutical company. Sheridan is worried about the lack of news from Minbar, where the Warrior Caste is threatening to destroy the capital city. Lyta Alexander, no longer a member of Psi Corps, is having trouble finding work. Mr. Bester arrives on Babylon 5, deflecting Zack from Garibaldi's activities. Bester says he is there for personal reasons.
   Delenn tells Lenier to let the Warrior Caste know that the Religious Caste are ready to surrender. Bester offers Lyta a deal, which she rejects. On Minbar, everyone meets at the Temple of Varenni for the surrender. Neroon is dismayed to learn that Delenn will be killed in an 'accident' as she returns to Babylon 5.
   Lyta has to move to smaller quarters. Garibaldi offers her a job to annoy Bester, who annoys Garibaldi by scanning him. At the temple, Delenn stands under the Starfire Wheel and challenges the Warriors to join her in a test of endurance. Neroon switches caste, saves Delenn and dies. Bester is using Garibaldi to get to Lyta.
   Delenn forms a new Grey Council with 2 Warriors, 2 Religious but 5 Workers. And at the end, Earth's tactics against Proxima 3 persuade Sheridan to start fighting back, and fighting hard.

81: No Surrender, No Retreat ***
A refugee crisis persuades Sheridan to strike at President Clark. He tells Dr. Franklin to ready the telepaths rescued from the Shadows as he makes plans to neutralize the EarthGov force at Proxima 3. Garibaldi is outraged to hear Sheridan's intentions from Vir Coto. Londo Molari tries to make peace with G'Kar and have a drink with him. G'Kar refuses to get involved. The White Star fleet is told to fight fiercely but accept surrender or defection to minimize casualties.
   Sheridan offers the survivors of the battle the option to join him or return to Earth. Only one ship of four returns to Earth. G'Kar has a drink in the same bar as Molari and gets him to sign a statement of support for Sheridan, if on a different page. Members of Earth Force begin to defect to the rebels and Garibaldi quits Babylon 5 forever, heading to Mars.

82: The Exercise of Vital Powers ***
Ivanova, as the "Voice of the Resistance" announces the progress of the liberation fleet as Garibaldi fulminates against Sheridan in his personal log. He is escorted, blindfolded, to a meeting with William Edgars. In MedLab on Babylon 5, Dr. Franklin observes Lyta Alexander make contact, briefly, with one of the telepaths who contain Shadow implants, which he has been unable to remove.
   Lise Edgars doesn't think Garibaldi should have come to Mars. Her husband doesn't agree with removing President Clark by military force; he thinks the job should be done from inside the system. Garibaldi wants Edgars to stop Sheridan, although he draws the line at handing Sheridan over to Clark. He sees Edgars as a possible replacement for Clark.
   Lyta tells Franklin, reluctantly, how she made the implanted telepath wake up. On Mars, Garibaldi is questioned by a telepath on Edgars' orders. The telepath is murdered by Edgars' man Wade after she has been paid. Dr. Franklin, with Lyta's help, works out that the Shadow implants speed up brain functions and help them to run Shadow ships.
   Edgars tells Garibaldi that Clark had begun to transfer power to PsiCorps as he needs telepaths to find out who is totally loyal to him. President Santiago objected and that was why he was killed. Edgars is sure that if Clark is deposed, PsiCorps will not give up its new powers. He fears that if Sheridan goes too far, Clark will remove the last restrictions on PsiCorps.
   Edgars says the big corporations, not the president, run Earth and they are worried about the threat to them from PsiCorps. Dr. Franklin insists on knowing what Sheridan wants the telepaths for before he tells him how long it will take to neutralize the implants. Then he and Lyta leave for Mars.
   Edgars has a man infected with some disease; he's being used to refine a drug. Garibaldi tells Edgars he's with him all the way. He tells Edgars that the easiest way to get Sheridan out of the way is through his father, who is dependent on a Cetauri drug, which is rare, expensive and easy to track. And he volunteers to set Sheridan up.

83: The Face of the Enemy ***
The liberation fleet approaches Earth and the fighting is fierce. Agamemnon, Sheridan's former command, joins his fleet. On Mars, Number One of the Resistance is not pleased to see that Dr. Franklin has a telepath with him. Lyta explains that PsiCorps just scans people suspected of being in the Resistance without due process. Garibaldi lures Sheridan into a trap. Then Edgars tells him that he has a virus which attacks only telepaths, and they will be dependent on a drug developed by his company for survival.
   Lise Edgars asks Garibaldi to stop her husband then Bester of PsiCorps rips the details of the plan from his mind. He tells Garibaldi that he got hold of him after the Shadows captured him. He turned Garibaldi into the perfect tool for revenge and digging out conspiracies against telepaths. His real personality is now completely buried under one manufactured by Bester.
   On Babylon 5, Marcus tells Ivanova that Garibaldi has tried to contact the station. Ivanova says Garibaldi is to be shot on sight if he turns up. On Mars, Garibaldi finds Edgars dead and the virus gone. ISN blames his death on the Free Mars rebels and congratulates Garibaldi for his part in the capture of the renegade John Sheridan.

84: Intersections in Real Time
Sheridan wakes up on the floor in a dark room. He is questioned by a man with a Narn paingiver. The interrogator insists that Sheridan accept everything he says as truth; such as the time of day. Everything is a matter of perspective, he explains, and the truth is fluid and subjective. His job is to make Sheridan accept his version of the truth. Sheridan is ordered to sign a confession and name his accomplices.
   A Drazi is produced, who says Sheridan was manipulated by aliens. Sheridan tells the Drazi not to co-operate and he is removed; fate unknown. Sheridan continues to refuse to co-operate and he is sent to Room 17; where the Drazi was sent. And the intimidation process begins again from the start.

85: Between the Darkness and the Light ***
Sheridan is still in custody but he is resisting the brainwashing and he doesn't believe he is under the control of aliens. On Mars, Garibaldi lets the Resistance capture him. They believe he betrayed Sheridan. Lyta Alexander scans him and dumps his experiences into Number One's head to prove that Bester was controlling Garibaldi. The White Star fleet continues to gather defectors as it heads for Earth.
   On Babylon 5, Delenn is astounded to hear that the Council has voted to support Sheridan's fleet. Marcus learns that some of the 'defectors' are planning an ambush. Ivanova and Marcus realize that only the White Star ships can stand up to the advanced-technology destroyers of Earth Force. Garibaldi leads the group that rescues Sheridan and gets stabbed in the process.
   The White Star fleet wins the battle but Ivanova is fatally injured. Sheridan tells her she has about a week left to live when she insists on the truth. Sheridan boards Agamemnon to lead the coalition forces to the final battle at Earth.

86: Endgame ***
Delenn decides to send Ivanova back to Babylon 5. On Mars, the Resistance is planning to smuggle Shadow-modified telepaths aboard the Earth Force destroyers in orbit. Garibaldi leads an assault on a supply base. On Agamemnon, Sheridan delivers orders for the assault on Earth, which include taking out Mars first. General Lefcourt, who taught Sheridan at the Academy, is leading the Earth Force destroyer group aboard Apollo.
   The White Star fleet arrives at Mars. Lyta Alexander activates the telepaths aboard the Earth Force destroyers and Sheridan orders his fleet to disable the few Earth Force ships which are not put out of action. Meanwhile, Marcus learns from Lenier about the alien healing device, which Dr. Franklin confiscated in Episode 21 The Quality of Mercy. Marcus heads back to Babylon 5 as the fleet continues on to Earth.
   The White Star fleet attacks Earth's defence grid. Then a senator tells Sheridan that President Clark is dead, but he turned the defence grid on Earth. Agamemnon ends up on a ramming course for one of the defence grid platforms but Apollo arrives from Mars to shoot the platform to bits before it can open fire on Earth.
   ISN comes back on the air with the team last seen in Episode 54 Severed Dreams to report on what has happened in the last few hours. Meanwhile, on Babylon 5, Marcus has connected himself and Ivanova to the healing device.

87: Rising Star ***
The episode opens with an ISN report on President Clark's suicide and Sheridan's surrender to Earth Force. Dr. Franklin returns to Babylon 5 to find Marcus dead and Ivanova alive and unhappy. Vir tells Ambassador Molari that the Regent is dying on Centauri Prime and that he is about to become Emperor Londo. Bester visits Sheridan to be his obnoxious self, but he is pathetically grateful to hear that his lover wasn't used in the battle at Mars. Sheridan lets him know that Garibaldi is after him.
   Delenn has a proposal to make to the Council on Babylon 5. The Russian president tells Sheridan that he has been kept hanging about while they decided whether to shoot him or give him a medal. On Mars, Garibaldi rescues Lise Edgars. ISN broadcasts a conference, at which Sheridan resigns from Earth Force and G'Kar announces that the League of Non-Aligned Worlds has been dissolved in favour of a new Alliance, which Earth is invited to join.
   Sheridan has been elected president of the Alliance and he is reunited with his father. Earth joins the Alliance, because the Minbari have promised to provide artificial gravity for their spaceships, and Mars is to be granted independence. Garibaldi and Lise are planning to get married. Delenn and Sheridan do get married on the way back to Babylon 5 and G'kar uses his prosthetic eye to spy on the honeymoon.

88: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
Delenn and Sheridan are given a party when they return to Babylon 5. Delenn is worried about all the attention which they are getting. Sheridan tells her that no one will remember them in 100 years. Then the episode is revealed as a presentation on events in the far past.
   It starts with a discussion on ISN, in which some of the people think Sheridan is unqualified to run the Alliance and others think he should be given a chance. Cut to 100 years after the formation of the Alliance. When questioned, 2 'experts' decide that Babylon 5 didn't play a role in the 100-year peace and the accomplishments of Delenn and Sheridan have been exaggerated. Then they discuss where Delenn and Sheridan went wrong. They are shocked when Delenn arrives to tell them Sheridan was a good man.
   Cut to 500 years on. EarthGov is busy deconstructing historical figures revered by the proles to give false legitimacy to current government policies. The hologram characters realize that Earth is trying to rewrite history to justify breaking away from the Alliance and starting a civil war. So the Garibaldi character outsmarts Daniel, the man doing the historical editing.
   Cut to 1,00 years on. Earth is still in a mediaeval phase 500 years after The Great Burn and a monk called Michael tells Brother Alwyn he's having a crisis of faith. Michael wants to know if Alwyn believes the legend that the Rangers will return in Earth's hour of need; or if they are already there. Alywn tells him to have faith, then reveals himself as a member of the An'la'shok after Michael leaves.
   Cut to the moment when Earth's Sun goes nova. The Rangers are still around and archiving Earth's data. Cut back to the present and Delenn & Sheridan in bed together with meetings in prospect the next day. Sheridan feels they will be forgotten in 100 or 1,000 years' time. Delenn says: "But it doesn't matter. We did what we did because it was right, not to be remembered. And history will attend to itself. It always does."

+++ Season 5 (1998) ("Wheel of Fire") +++
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[episodes marked *** contain important plot elements]

89: No Compromises
Captain Elizabeth Lochley arrives to take over command as Babylon 5 prepares for John Sheridan's inauguration as President of the Interstellar Alliance. The dead body of a Ranger is delivered to the station shortly before the killer arrives and Sheridan receives a death threat. Byron asks Lochley for sanctuary for his group of rogue telepaths.
   The Gain Ambassador is killed by the assassin but Sheridan is determined to go ahead with the inauguration despite the protests of his security team. One of the telepaths, a mute called Simon, manages to shout a warning before the killer strikes.
   Garibaldi finishes him off and G'Kar presides over the shortest swearing-in ceremony in history. At the end, Lochley tells Garibaldi that she served with the killer; but not which side she was on during the war.

90: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
Lenier decides to join the Rangers in a quest to regain Delenn's respect. Ambassador Molari collapses after a heart attack caused by a bad diet and stress. Dr. Franklin, waiting for medical equipment to be delivered from Centauri Prime, concludes that Londo's survival depends on how much he wants to live.
   Londo then has a long dream sequence, in which people whom he has wronged visit him. They tell him just one word is required of him if he is to survive but Londo is unable to fathom what it is; until the person he has wronged most arrives – G'Kar.

91: The Paragon of Animals
The League's ambassadors argue endlessly over signing G'Kar's Declaration of Principles. Garibaldi proposes using Babylon 5's new colony of telepaths for intelligence-gathering operations but they refuse to co-operate. Sheridan decides that a show of force is needed and he sends the White Star fleet to the aid of the Enphili, who are being attacked by raiders. Garibaldi asks Lyta Alexander, distraught after witnessing the death of a Ranger, to help him with Byron.
   Byron tells her that the Drazi are allies of the raiders and Sheridan uses this information to demand a signature to the Declaration from each ambassador. Meanwhile, feeling more and more an outsider, Lyta is ready to join Byron's unhappy band.

92: A View from the Gallery
This episode is a who's who of the main characters seen through the eyes of Mack and Bo, a couple of repairmen. They come across anyone who's anyone while fixing things and taking their lunch. Meanwhile, the station is under attack for no apparent reason by an alien force.
   Our heroes get caught up in the middle of a minor battle when a breaching pod delivers enemy troops to the station. Mack takes it upon himself to welcome Captain Lochley to Babylon 5 and both he and Bo are chuffed to high heaven when Delenn remembers their names.

93: Learning Curve
Master Turval takes two trainee Rangers to Babylon 5, where a gangster, Trace, is trying to establish his authority in DownBelow by having people killed. Captain Lochley finally tells Garibaldi she was on the other side during the war. Zach Allen of Security becomes a target when Trace thinks he is doing too good a job. Tannier, one of the Ranger trainees, helps a woman who is attacked by Trace's gang and is badly injured.
   As soon as he can stand, Tannier is sent DownBelow to confront Trance and his own terror, and humble the bully. And at the end, Sheridan tells Delenn about his history with Lochley.

94: Strange Relations ***
Captain Lochley asks Delenn to keep quiet about her history with Sheridan but Garibaldi is listening. A Centauri ship arrives to take Londo Molari back to Centauri Prime to become emperor when the Regent dies. A ship crashes in Babylon 5's docking bay, putting it out of action. Dr. Franklin finds Lyta ransacking MedLab for supplies for the rogue telepaths. Then Bester arrives with Psi Corps Bloodhound units to track down the rogues.
   Garibaldi goes for Bester, Lochley has him thrown in the brig then Sheridan tells her how Bester reprogrammed Garibaldi's mind. Unable to dock, the Centauri ship heads for home; and explodes. Lyta tells Byron and his rogues to scatter and hide. Lochley tells Garibaldi that she and Sheridan were married for 3 months. The rogues are rounded up.
   Delenn thinks Londo should have a bodyguard and G'Kar thinks he would find the job amusing. Lochley tells Bester he can't remove his prisoners from Babylon 5 as they have to go into quarantine for 60 days. Lyta joins the rogue telepaths and at the end, Garibaldi is released from the brig.

95: Secrets of the Soul
Dr. Franklin is developing complete medical profiles of all the Alliance member races and the Hyach have a secret. Zach has a problem with Lyta associating with the rogue telepaths. Byron lets himself be beaten up and tells Lyta that violence is not his way. Dr. Franklin wants to know why Hyach records date back only 800 years when they have been around for 7,000 years.
   Peter, a newly arrived telepath, is attacked DownBelow so the other rogues set about the killer. Dr. Franklin discovers that there used to be a parallel, cross-fertile species, the Hyach-doh, on the Hyach world, and they exterminated it before discovering that its DNA was necessary for their race to survive.
   During sex, Lyta has visions of her time with the Vorlons, which show that the Vorlons created telepaths to use in their war with the Shadows. And Byron thinks this revelation can be used to blackmail a telepath homeland out of the Alliance.

96: Day of the Dead
Rebo & Zooty (alias Penn & Teller) arrive on Babylon 5 and the Brakiri want to buy part of the station for the night for their Day of the Dead festival 'when the dead return'. Sheridan thinks Rebo & Zooty are a hoot, and so does Delenn, but Lochley can't stand them.
   G'Kar refuses to sleep in the Brakiri zone. Garibaldi meets the marine Dodger, Captain Lochley meets her friend Zoe, who died of a drug overdose, Lenier is visited by Mr. Morden, who worked for the Shadows, and Londo Molari meets his beloved Adira.

97: In the Kingdom of the Blind ***
Raiders are attacking and destroying Alliance cargo transports. The Centauri are not comfortable with Londo's bodyguard: G'Kar. Lord Jano visits the Regent; and is killed by ... something. G'Kar refuses to take revenge on the guard who electrowhipped him for Emperor Cartagia's pleasure. Byron tells the Council that telepaths have been following the ambassadors and they will spill all their secrets if they don't get a homeworld.
   Londo is saved from assassination by an alien with glowing, red eyes. The Regent apologizes to him for what will happen when Londo becomes emperor. And on Babylon 5, the telepaths weld up access to their space and prepare for a siege.

98: A Tragedy of Telepaths
As Sheridan is busy with the threat from the raiders, Captain Lochley turns to Bester for help with the telepaths in Brown Section. On Centauri Prime, as Londo wonders why production of war materials is up 15%, G'Kar finds a dish of fresh spoo and wonders why it is there as only Narns eat fresh spoo. He forces Londo to take him to a cell-block, where they find Na'Toth.
   Lochley worms through narrow passages to speak to the telepaths, who are staying put. The Alliance goes into deadlock with everyone accusing everyone else of being an ally of the raiders. Londo comes up with a cunning plan to rescue Na'Toth.
   Sheridan announces that if any Alliance race attacks any other, the White Star fleet will join the race attacked in accordance with its treaty obligations, which stalemates all attack plans. And Bester returns to Babylon 5 for a final confrontation with the telepaths.

99: Phoenix Rising ***
Byron tries, unsuccessfully, to negotiate with President Sheridan and Bester's remarks suggest they have history. Then Bester tells Garibaldi that he has an Asimov in his mind which prevents him from killing Bester. Byron admits to Lyta that he used to be a Psi Cop but he quit in protest at Bester's brutal attitude to 'mundanes'. Telepaths invade MedLab and take everyone prisoner.
   Byron shoots their leader. Then he offers to surrender to Sheridan if the innocent rogues are allowed to go free. Bester starts a fire-fight, a fuel conduit is ruptured and Byron ignites it. Sheridan saves Lyta, the surviving telepaths are released while Bester fumes and Mr. Garibaldi starts drinking again.

100: The Ragged Edge***
The ambassadors decide to boycott meetings of the Interstellar Alliance until the problem of the raiders is solved. One member of the crew survives an attack on a human transport and Garibaldi ventures into Drazi space to extract him. Thanks to the Book of G'Kar, its author has become a cult figure with the Narn and he begins to worry about teaching them the wrong thing.
   Garibaldi gets drunk on the Drazi homeworld, his contact is killed by another Drazi and the man he came to rescue is killed by hooded figures. Londo mentions that a button Garibaldi found belongs to a Centauri palace guard's uniform. The others agree that the Centauri are behind the attacks by the raiders but they can't figure out why.
   And at the end, Dr. Franklin tells Sheridan that he will be leaving at the end of the year to take up a job at EarthDome.

101: The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
Bester acquires a pair of eager-beaver trainees, Lauren and Chen. They follow a suspected Psi Corps murderer, Harris, to Babylon 5. Harris is a P10 and only Psi Cops can take him prisoner. Bester soon discovers that Harris is much stronger than a P10. Chen gets a line on Harris but he is stabbed to death by a man who has been watching Harris win a fortune by gambling.
   Bester realizes that Harris has multiple personalities, one of whom is P12. Bester ends up in MedLab when Harris and his mundane ally are captured. And on the way back to the Psi Corps mother ship, Bester lets Lauren space the mundane.

102: Meditations on the Abyss
Delenn meets Lenier to give him a secret mission: proving that the Centauri are behind the raider attacks. Londo finds a Drazi bug then he tells Vir that he will become the Centauri ambassador when Londo becomes emperor. Lennier joins the crew of White Star 27 for training.
   The Drazi Ambassador lets Sheridan know that he knows the Centauri are behind the raiders and he thinks a cover-up is going on because the Alliance needs the Centauri. Lenier and another trainee, Findell, find themselves stranded in space and short of air. Lenier gets Findell to go into a trance state to save himself, then he saves Findell from suicide on another training exercise. Vir goes to Zocalo and wrecks the stall of the Drazi merchant who bugged him. And Garibaldi finishes the episode singing drunk on his floor.

103: Darkness Ascending ***
Garibaldi has lots of dreams and he wakes up to find Lise Hampton visiting. Lenier tells Delenn that coded Centauri signals were intercepted before the latest raider attacks; and Sheridan overhears them talking. Lyta is trying to get the rogue telepaths a job as deep-range explorers. Londo finds he has nothing much to do any more. Other ambassadors keep cancelling his appointments with them. Lise pours Garibaldi's booze down the sink. Sheridan recalls White Star 27 so Lenier jumps ship in a fighter to pursue a lead.
   Lyta does a deal with G'Kar: telepath DNA in exchange for five deep-range starships. Lenier attaches his fighter to a Centauri warship and he is rescued with proof that the Centauri are behind the attacks. And at the end, Garibaldi sends Lise back to Mars because they will be at war with the Centauri any moment.

104: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ***
Everyone provides Londo with evidence that the Centauri are behind of the raider attacks before a Council meeting. Londo takes a defiant attitude at the meeting but he is shocked by Lenier's recordings of Centauri ships destroying cargo transports.
   Londo takes the Centauri out of the Alliance and says his people will fight any attempt to blockade them. G'Kar returns to Centauri Prime with Londo as his bodyguard. Zach finds Garibaldi drunk, and he promises to sort himself out. Sheridan tries to put White Star ships between Centauri and other ship but the plan fails.
   And when the other ambassadors protest, he is obliged to go to war with them.

105: Movements of Fire and Shadow ***
The war is on, Centauri are being killed on Babylon 5 and they are destroying the jumpgates of other races, destroying the hyperspace beacon system. Sheridan tells Delenn they need some new, bigger ships; a joint project between Earth and Minbar, which involves Delenn taking the risk of a trip home. The Drazi are refusing to return the bodies of the Centauri dead, claiming there are no bodies.
   Lyta and Dr. Franklin are sent to the Drazi homeworld to investigate. G'Kar is arrested on Centauri Prime, Londo joins him in his cell as a matter of honour and he is abducted by robed figures. The Alliance forces can't work together, but the Drazi and the Narn decide on a joint attack on Centauri Prime. The Centauri try to take out Babylon 5's jumpgate.
   Delenn's ship is attacked by the Centauri. Lyta and the doctor find that the Centauri ships do not have crews; just black pods – left-over Shadow technology. And at the end, the Regent tells Londo he has sent away all the ships guarding Centauri Prime and turned off the planetary defences.

106: The Fall of Centauri Prime ***
The Drazi and the Narn bombard Centauri Prime and Londo finds that the Regent has been controlled by Drakh, servants of the Shadows who need a new home now that Z'ha'dum has been destroyed. And if Londo doesn't co-operate, they will set off fusion bombs all over the planet.
   G'Kar forgives Londo for what he has done before the new emperor is implanted with a Drakh Keeper. When Sheridan arrives, Londo questions the Drakh to help find Delenn, and she is rescued. Londo offers the Alliance nothing but defiance, with the approval of the Drakh.

107: The Wheel of Fire ***
G'Kar returns to Babylon 5 to find his cult status as strong as ever. Sheridan suspends Garibaldi until he can sort out his drink problem. G'Kar is still refusing to become the Narn leader and the station is in danger of being over-run with pilgrims. The Psi Corps is under attack everywhere with Remember Byron being spray-painted each time.
   Lyta is arrested, with Sheridan's help, accused of supplying the terrorist telepaths with funds. Garibaldi tells his troubles to Lise (Lochley has brought her to Babylon 5 as she had an alcoholic father) and she tells him to join her on Mars. Dr. Franklin tells Sheridan that Delenn is pregnant. Garibaldi offers Lyta a deal so she offers one that suits her better.
   G'Kar offers to take Lyta on a voyage around the galaxy as he can't stay on Babylon 5 and he can't go to Narn, and the Vorlons have made Lyta so powerful that she can't stay on Babylon 5. Lyta promises to remove Bester's Asimov in two years' time if Garibaldi gives her to cash to destroy the Psi Corps. And at the end, Sheridan can't get over looking at a pregnant half-human, half-Minbari.

108: Objects in Motion ***
EarthGov is dragging its feel over letting the Mars Provisional Government issue ID documents and Tessa Halloran, Number One of the Mars Resistance has trouble entering Babylon 5. She tells Garibaldi that he and Lise are assassination targets as Edgars Industries ran black projects for President Clarke. G'Kar is arranging to take Lyta on his long voyage. A security guard is stabbed in a lift and the assassin uses his link to gain access to security channels.
   Sheridan offers his help to Number One and he plans to give her a job gathering intelligence information for the Alliance. The assassin is trapped at G'Kar's going-away party but Lise is shot when one of G'Kar's pilgrims objects to being deserted.
   Lyta discovers that the killer was hired by the board of directors at Edgars Industries so Garibaldi sacks the lot of them. And at the end, Delenn and Sheridan take a walk along the full 5 miles of Babylon 5.

109: Objects at Rest ***
President Sheridan is about to leave Babylon 5; no ceremony by order; G'Kar has already gone, leaving a message for Ta'Lon appointing him as G'Kar's successor as Narn ambassador; and Dr. Franklin is also on the verge of going. Sheridan is leaving Number One on Babylon 5 as it is a hotbed of information. Garibaldi is on Mars, appointing a new board of directors of Edgars Industries.
   Delenn and Sheridan have to leave through a mob. On their White Star, Sheridan is trapped in a section where there is a coolant leak and Lenier runs away instead of helping him. Londo joins Delenn and Sheridan for dinner at the new Alliance HQ on Minbar and Delenn catches a glimpse of his Drakh Keeper. Lenier heads off on a search for personal redemption.
   And to finish, Sheridan records a message for his unborn child's 21 birthday, knowing that he has only 19 years left to live if Lorien is right.

110: Sleeping in Light ***
In 2281, Sheridan dreams of being revived on Za'ha'dum by Lorien. On Earth, General Ivanova receives a message from Sheridan; a summons to a last meeting on Minbar. Messages go also to Vir Cotto, now Centauri Emperor, Mr. Garibaldi on Mars, and Dr. Franklin, who is visiting Garibaldi. Those who can attend the final dinner offer a toast to absent friends, including G'Kar, Londo, Lenier and Marcus.
   Afterwards, Delenn offers Ivanova the job of Ranger One, the head of the Rangers. The next day, Sheridan dresses in his old uniform and heads out into space. He visits Babylon 5, now almost empty, and meets Zack Allen. Several days later, his ship is found, empty, at the Coriana system, where they won the Shadow War.
   And at the end, Babylon 5 is switched off and decomissioned, its job done, and everyone goes to a new job or home.

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