Babylon 5 s02e19 Episode Script

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I often learn things about my own world before I'm told | what I need to know and no more.
Derek.
Is that you? Yeah.
Lee? I made it.
I told you I would.
I did it, Derek.
I got the info.
- We've gotta get you to the hospital.
| - No.
There's no time.
It's all here.
| Get it to them, Derek.
Get it to Babylon 5.
Tell them.
Tell them it's not safe.
| There's danger within.
Tell them.
You men go up ahead.
| You two over that way.
The Babylon Project was our last, | best hope for peace.
A self- contained world, fiive miles long, | located in neutral territory.
A place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million | humans and aliens.
A shining beacon in space, | all alone in the night.
It was the dawn | of the Third Age of mankind.
The year the Great War | came upon us all.
This is the story of the last | of the Babylon stations.
The year is 2259.
| The name of the place is Babylon 5.
- Morning, Mr.
Garibaldi.
| - Captain.
You sleep well? Yes, thanks.
Actually, I got up early this morning, | took a walk in the garden.
You know what I miss? | What I haven't seen in almost four years? - What's that? | - Trees.
Well, we've got a whole bunch of | fruit trees in the orchard-- No, no, it's not the same.
I'm | talking big, honking, solid massive trees that have had their | roots deep in the earth for centuries.
You know.
| Redwoods, firs, pines.
Trees, you know what | I'm talking about? I miss them.
- All clear? All right.
So, what's up? | - I was wondering if you gave any more | thought to what I mentioned.
- About Talia? | - She could be a great resource for us.
Exposing the coup back home means | going up against some pretty big guns and we're gonna need | all the help we can get.
Maybe you're right.
She was as upset | about the death of the president as anyone else.
I can't see why | she wouldn't want to help us.
- I'll set up a meeting in a few days? | - Yeah.
Okay.
It's hard to believe it's taken us so long | to get to this point.
Two years.
- Well, you didn't exactly make it easy.
| - Me? How about you? I'll have you know I've been nothing | but compassionate and understanding.
All you had to do was admit | you were wrong and I was right - and everything would've been fine.
| - You are the most stubborn.
lvanova here.
You're needed up in C&C, commander.
A ship came in through the | jumpgate a few minutes ago but now it's just sitting there.
On my way.
I'm sorry.
That's all right, I was finished anyway.
I have to find someplace to stay | tonight, so I'd better get to it.
- What's wrong with your quarters? | - There's some problem with the air recycling system.
I called | around but everything's booked up.
- I can try Brown Sector, but I-- | - Not a good idea.
Look, if you want, why don't you | just come over to my quarters tonight? - Oh, I couldn't.
| - No, it's not a problem.
- I'd like the company.
| - Are you sure? - What did I just say? | - All right, all right.
Thanks.
- I'll see you tonight.
| - Okay.
Definite carbon scoring on the hull.
| She's been hit by something.
Unidentified ship, this is | Babylon Control.
Please respond.
- Anything? | - Negative.
Still registering one life form.
Let's bring her in, see what's inside.
| Better have a med team there.
Hey, doc.
Any luck tracing the ship's lD? No, which leads me to think it's | probably a bogus serial number.
- Have you reported it yet? | - No.
Not until I know more | about what's inside.
Dr.
Franklin.
| Confirm one passenger.
She's unconscious, injured, but alive.
All right, bring her in.
Dr.
Franklin to Medlab One, | prepare to receive one patient human, extent and cause | of injuries unknown.
Confiirmed.
Standing by.
- Want me to call you when she's awake? | - Yeah.
I'll let the captain know the | situation.
As soon as I-- Wait a second.
Hold up.
I know her.
- It's.
It's Lyta.
| - Who? Lyta Alexander.
She was the first telepath | assigned to Babylon 5 a little over two years ago.
| She arrived January 3, 2257.
She left about six weeks later.
Didn't last long.
Was there a problem? Yeah, I suppose | you could say that.
She arrived here the day before | Ambassador Kosh came aboard from the Vorlon Empire.
Only somebody tried to kill him | as soon as he stepped off his ship.
Lyta agreed to scan him to | try and save his life.
She couldn't see what was | inside his encounter suit but she did manage | to get into Kosh's mind.
The only human who's | ever done it and survived.
- What'd she see? | - She thought she saw Sinclair trying to kill Kosh.
Turns out it was somebody using | a changeling net to impersonate him.
Still, the accusation | almost ruined his career.
You haven't heard anything | from her since? She and the doctor who operated | on Kosh were recalled to Earth a few weeks later.
After the scan, | she was never quite the same.
It's hard to explain, | but from that day on she was never quite right anymore.
It's all right, you're safe.
| You're on Babylon 5.
Now, take it easy, | you've been through a lot.
Are you in any pain? | Is there anything you need? I can do it! - I wanna see the captain.
| - Yes, well, all in good time.
- This can't wait! | - Yes, it can.
I wanna see Captain Sheridan now! | And the rest.
Everyone all together.
| I don't want to be alone with any of you.
- Why? | - Just give him a message.
Tell him someone here, one of you, | is a traitor.
And I can prove it.
What I'm about to tell you cost | two good men their lives.
And nearly cost mine.
But this place | is important to a lot of people.
More important than you | could possibly know.
So I had to come back | to warn you.
Warn us about what? I imagine Mr.
Garibaldi has | already filled you in about me.
Yeah, that you were stationed here | for a while a couple of years ago that you scanned Ambassador Kosh | and no one's heard from you since.
They wanted to know | what I saw in Kosh's mind.
There wasn't anything more than what | I reported but they didn't believe me.
There was just the memory | of his attack and a feeling.
What kind of feeling? It's not something | I can put into words.
I've tried for two years | and I still can't do it.
But they wouldn't accept that.
Finally, six months ago, I escaped the | Psi Corps on a shuttle bound for Mars.
Since that time I've been trying | to get into Vorlon space.
Vorlons don't allow anyone | inside their borders.
Those who try don't come back.
I know.
But ever since I touched Ambassador | Kosh, I've been drawn there.
Sooner or later, I'm gonna make it.
And they'll let me in.
I know it.
While on Mars, I got involved with | the revolutionary movement.
I had to pay my way, and someone's | always willing to hire a good telepath.
Seven days ago, one of our | best people was murdered on his way back from an intelligence | gathering operation in Syria Planum.
That's interesting.
Psi Corps | has a research center there.
Our agent found out about a secret | Psi Corps program.
A sleeper program.
They bring someone in and work | them over with drugs and deep scans to create a new personality.
| A personality suited to their needs.
This personality is then submerged | so far into the subconscious that it won't show up, even on | a deep scan.
But it's always there.
Watching.
Listening.
Spying.
Until the day the password | is sent telepathically.
It can't be just spoken, it has to be | sent directly into the brain.
At that moment the real personality is destroyed | and the implanted one takes control.
Permanently.
So until then, someone could be | a spy and not even know it.
Correct.
They've apparently used | this technique to plant moles in several government agencies, | including Babylon 5.
We don't know who's been infected, | but someone here is not what he or she appears.
Our guess is it's someone on the | command staff, or close to it since the mole would be | looking for vital information.
All we have is a code name: | Control.
This is nuts.
Do you | expect us to believe you? I mean, how do we know you're not | just making all of this up? Because I have the password.
Captain, I realize you don't know me | and you've got no reason to trust me.
But I can prove what I've said.
With your permission, I can send | a telepathic probe into the minds of your staff one at a time.
| I won't scan, won't read won't do anything to invade your | privacy.
I will just send the password.
- And see what happens.
| - My people will object, properly - to having their loyalty questioned.
| - It's not a question of loyalty.
Whoever it is doesn't know | they've been programmed.
They won't know I'm sending to them, | so you won't have to tell them.
Just get me on a line of sight.
| I'll take care of the rest.
All right, we'll discuss it | and get back to you later.
Don't take too long, captain.
The implanted personality is | conditioned for self- preservation.
It will react to anything it perceives as | a threat.
And as of right now, that is me.
So until this is over, with all due | respect, I don't want to be alone with any of you.
| You may want to keep an eye - on each other while you're at it.
| - Thanks for the thought.
If you don't mind, I'll have a security | guard-- No, two security guards take you to a holding cell until | we decide what to do about this.
Guards.
- Yes, sir.
| - Take her to Holding.
Yes, sir.
This way, please.
Comments, anyone? Does the phrase | "No way in hell" ring a bell? Captain.
I was wondering if you had time | tomorrow to discuss where we are on food | shipments to Narn outposts.
Yes, of course.
Of course.
| Just let me know when.
Are you all right? Yeah, I'm fine.
Fine.
No, actually, I'm not fine.
This has been | one hell of a day, ambassador.
- Do you wish to talk about it? | - No.
Why is it every time | you finally get things calmed down and everything's going great life decides to kick you in the butt? But what? - What? | - You said that life decides to kick you, but? No, no, it's.
It's a part of the body.
It's.
Oh, you have the damnedest | gaps in your vocabulary.
In preparing to come here, I was | not taught the more colorful aspects of your language.
It was considered inappropriate | for one of the religious caste.
- Yeah, well, you're missing out on a lot.
| - So I gather.
Butt.
Butt.
- I butt, you butt, he or she butts-- | - No, no, it's-- Butt- butt.
Butt- butt.
You sound like a motorboat.
Motorbutt? I do not think I like | the sound of that.
I don't blame you.
| I'm against the whole idea.
- Then we are in agreement.
| - Abso- fraggin- lutely.
- There, you see? | - What? - Something has gone your way today.
| - Yeah.
It's the way the universe works.
| Wait just a little while and the wheel turns.
Thank you.
Captain? Captain Sheridan? Yes, Mr.
Garibaldi? I fiinished that | background check you wanted.
Yeah, I'll be right there.
Well, I have to go.
Well.
Good day, captain.
- Good day, ambassador.
| - Okay.
I checked out her story as far as I could | without raising any red flags back home.
Contacts inside the underground railroad | confirm they helped her get off Earth - so that much tracks.
| - Unless she's a plant.
She could have been sent to cause | exactly this kind of problem.
It's possible, but not likely.
| That's not her style.
Michael, you don't know her | well enough to be sure about that.
She was only here a few months | before they yanked her back home.
Remember, because of her | Sinclair was almost convicted - of a crime he didn't commit.
| - Yeah, I know, but it's just a gut feeling.
Everything in me says | she's telling the truth.
Okay, say you're right.
What about your second who shot | you in the back last New Year's Eve? Maybe that's what she heard about, | maybe he was this Control.
That's possible.
She'd have no way | of knowing he was gone.
Exactly.
If she was telling the truth.
And that's one hell of a big if.
Look, it's late, we've been | going at this all day.
I wanna sleep on this before | we make a decision.
It's waited this long, | it can wait a few more hours.
Have you talked to Ivanova | any more about this? No, she's still on a rampage.
You know how she is about letting | any telepath near her.
- She'll get over it.
| - Yeah.
That's one cabinet that will never | threaten us again.
I'm sorry, I just-- | It's been one of those days.
- Did you like your shower? | - It was glorious.
I haven't had a real | hot water shower in ages.
- Want some tea? | - Love some.
Talia did you ever know a | telepath named Lyta Alexander? Yes.
She was a year behind me | at the Academy.
We spent six months together | in an intern program working for different | parts of the Corps.
Why? Well, do you think-- ? Is she someone you could trust? - I guess so.
| - But you're not sure.
Susan, it was a long time ago.
| She was very nice, verysweet.
We were close at one time.
And I suppose people | can change, but Lyta? No, I just don't see it happening.
You said you both interned | with the Corps.
Which department did | she intern with? Psi Cops.
When she found out she | didn't like it, she changed departments became a | commercial teep like me.
Oh, teeps.
It's sort of an | in- joke around the Corps.
Teeps for telepaths, | "teeks" for telekinetics.
What's wrong, Susan? Damn it, Talia, I don't know | who I can trust anymore.
It's funny, | I've felt the same way lately.
So I've come to the decision | that there's only one person on this station | that I can trust implicitly.
You.
Got a job for you.
There's a | special prisoner in Holding Cell 8.
Lyta Alexander.
When things quiet | down, I want her transferred to 1 5.
There's a decent bed and | she may be with us for a while.
- Will do, chief.
| - Hey, you still flacking for Night Watch? It's easy money.
And as long | as Ministry of Peace is gonna keep paying for us to wear these | things, I'll keep wearing them.
We're supposed to | transfer you to a better facility - so you can get some sleep.
| - Thanks, I could use it.
This way, please.
Get behind me! In here.
Come on.
You've had no sign of her | since last night? - No, sir.
| - How are the guards? One dead, one hit pretty hard.
| Second- degree PPG burns to the arm and chest.
| Didn't see who did the shooting but it was | pretty clear Lyta was the target.
Oh, great.
This is just great.
You know, | I almost had myself convinced that she was wrong.
| And now this happens.
With all due respect, | this still does not prove anything.
No? Who knew she was here? | You, me, Garibaldi, Franklin and a few other people.
| So who pulled the trigger? - I don't know.
| - Neither do I and that's what's bothering me.
Lyta said this artificial personality | was programmed to defend itself.
If that's true, then whoever tried to | kill her probably doesn't even remember.
- It could be anyone.
| - This is serious.
I want her found and | placed under protective custody till we get to the bottom of this.
| One other thing.
With this incident, I am leaning toward | letting her perform a telepathic probe.
Captain, I wouldn't submit to a | scan to prove my loyalty last year - and I won't submit to one now-- | - This won't be the same.
She's not gonna be scanning anyone | or invading their privacy.
- She's just going to send the password.
| - I don't want to be-- Look, Susan, I know | how you feel, all right? If someone on staff has been | compromised, we need to know that.
Our careers, our lives, | are on the line here.
Now, we have to know that we can | trust each other, or we are dead.
We can't do that when | this is hanging over our heads.
It's the only way we can be sure.
Assuming she lives long enough | to try it.
And I have reconsidered your | offer to open up trade relations with the Lumati.
I regret, however, that under | present diplomatic circumstances-- Receive.
- Ambassador Delenn? | - Yes.
I don't know if you remember me, | but I mediated some business deals - for you about two years ago.
| - Of course.
Lyta, yes? Lyta Alexander.
| Are you back on Babylon 5? Yes.
I am sorry for imposing on you | at this hour, but I need your help.
Can you meet me in | Brown 3 in, say, an hour? I think so.
| Are you in some kind of trouble? I think I'm in just about | every kind of trouble there is.
I'll meet you in an hour.
Oh, Susan, good.
| I was hoping to see you.
They fixed the air recycling system | and I can go back to my regular quarters.
- If I can get my things.
| - Of course.
We didn't have much of a chance to talk | this morning.
Is everything all right? Yeah, fine.
I've just got a lot | of things on my mind right now.
- You wanna talk about it? | - Not now.
Maybe later.
I woke up last night | and you were gone.
I needed some air.
Like I said, I've got a lot | of things on my mind right now.
- Things are changing so quickly.
| - Are you sure there's nothing I can do? I don't think there's anything | anyone can do for me right now.
I've.
I've hidden things, Talia.
We all have secrets.
Yes, but mine might | come back and haunt me.
After you tell someone that | you've been lying to them for years maybe even putting them | in jeopardy how are you supposed | to look them in the eyes again? All I know is, you're surrounded | by people who care about you.
Nothing you could say would be | so terrible that they would turn away.
I don't know about that.
| This one is a real doozy.
Maybe.
For what it's worth, | I'm here for you.
If you need me.
Captain? - I need to talk to you.
| - I'm in kind of a hurry, ambassador.
Good.
So am I.
I received a message from Lyta | Alexander.
You're looking for her.
That's putting it mildly.
Where is she? She asked me not to | give you that information.
And I'm honor- bound | to keep that promise.
But she gave me a message for you.
She's willing to come back, | but only if all of you are present.
She doesn't want to be alone | with any of you.
- And she didn't explain.
| - No.
And I did not ask, out of respect.
All right.
If she makes contact | with you again tell her that we will be ready to | meet with her whenever she wants.
Thank you, captain.
I let myself in.
You should change your | lock code more often.
You okay? I'm sorry.
I thought I was ready for this.
Ready for what? I can't have Lyta | or any other telepath in my mind.
Ever.
- I understand your feelings-- | - No you don't understand.
You can't because I haven't told you.
Told me what? I told you that my mother | was a telepath and that since I was born, | she could slip into my thoughts in a way that I could | never even describe to you.
Well, what I didn't tell you is that I learned how to | keep her out when I wanted to.
And then every once in a while I was the one who touched her mind.
I'm a latent telepath.
Susan, why didn't you | tell me this before? - I thought we could trust each other.
| - It's got nothing to do with trust.
I've spent my entire life | hiding this, captain.
It's not something you can just | change overnight.
It's hard enough telling you this now.
You're right.
I'm sorry.
I remember my mother drilled | three words into my head: "Tell no one.
" She taught me how to fool | the tests given at school always staying one step ahead | of the Psi Corps.
I'm probably not even a P1.
I've never been able to read anyone | except my mother.
I can pick up on feelings sometimes.
I can block a casual scan and I know | instantly if someone's doing it.
But nothing more.
But that's enough for the Psi Corps | to come pull you in.
Lyta isn't with the Corps.
| She's on the run.
- How can you be sure of that? | - Well, I can't, but Garibaldi believes her.
Garibaldi doesn't believe anyone.
Exactly.
I know how hard this must've been | for you to tell me this.
So let me think about it.
Maybe we can | work something out.
Okay.
It's all this nonsense lately.
Some days I don't even know | who I am anymore.
Do you know who I am? Captain? I just remembered a dream | I had a couple of months ago.
I.
Sheridan.
Message for you | from Ambassador Delenn, captain.
- What's the message? | - One word: Now.
Do you wish me to stay with you? No, I think I'll be okay.
Thank you for your help, Delenn.
- So are we gonna do this? | - Yes.
- And you'll start with me.
| - You're sure? I can't ask anyone else to do this | until I've done it myself.
Send the password.
- Well, when do you start? | - I've already done it.
You're clean.
All right, doctor? Nothing.
You're clean.
Mr.
Garibaldi? Boo.
Gotcha.
Michael, you ever do that to me again.
Sorry.
Just couldn't help myself.
- Ivanova.
| - We're gonna hold off on her for now.
We've got plenty of other people | to check and I suggest we get to it.
- You said you needed to see me? | - Yes, I did.
I just want to say that I think | you're doing a very good job.
That'll be all.
Well, thank you.
Next.
- Zack.
| - Sir.
- Thank you for coming.
| - Yes, sir.
- That'll be all.
| - That's it, sir? Yes, yes.
You can go.
Thank you, sir.
Next.
Thank you for coming.
I've been evaluating your recent work.
| Congratulations.
- Well done.
| - Thank you, sir.
That'll be all.
At ease.
Hey.
You all right? That'll be all, thank you.
Okay.
All right, thank you.
That'll be all.
- All right, anything? | - No.
He's clean.
They've all been clean.
If the password worked, | you'd see a reaction.
So, what are we supposed to do now? | Just keep on going? We've got over 5000 technical staff, | not including the Dockers Guild medical support, | environmental personnel.
The further you go from the | center of power the less likely it is we're gonna | find the person that we're looking for.
I suggest you move those eyes | somewhere else - while you still have them.
| - Ivanova.
- I know what she's implying.
| - No one's implying anything.
To avoid discovery, the implanted | personality would do or say anything.
- Manipulate anyone.
| - Is that what you think I'm doing? You sure as hell are worried | about something.
- Mind telling us what you're hiding? | - Damn it, I've had enough! Now, look at us.
This is exactly what Psi Corps wants.
They want us paranoid, | afraid of each other.
Divide and conquer, | it's the oldest rule in the book.
I guess it wouldn't be a good time | for me to suggest we sing"Kumbaya"? - Mister Garibaldi-- | - I'll do it.
- This is neither the time nor the place.
| - I said, I'll do it.
Now, before I change my mind.
She's blocking me.
Okay, okay.
That's enough.
| That's enough.
Come on.
She's clean.
I'm sorry.
Go to hell.
Captain, there you are.
| I was looking for you.
- Talia, are you all right? | - My God, it's her.
- You bitch! | - No! Whoa.
Give me my gun.
You blew my cover! You're dead.
Do you hear me? You're dead! Get her out of here.
| Put her under house arrest, now! The Corps is mother! | The Corps is father! You're dead, Lyta Alexander.
| We'll find you! The Corps will find you! I still can't believe it.
How could she do this to us? It's not her fault.
She's been carrying this artificial | personality without even knowing it.
It's too late to worry about that.
The | question is: How much does she know? She knows about | the underground railroad.
Now that the Talia we knew isn't | there, she'll probably tell the Corps.
Yeah, but what are they gonna do | about it? Admit they were foxed? What happens when they find out | that Stephen here was involved? Publicly, probably nothing.
The Corps came in here to hunt and kill | telepaths involved in the railroad.
If they press the issue, | that'll come out.
But they're gonna be paying a lot | more attention to us now.
That's my job.
I'll keep them away | as much as I can.
- Any more ideas? | - We have one advantage.
We know about their sleeper program.
| They don't want that revealed.
That sounds like an old- fashioned | Mexican stand- off to me.
Me too, but let's not kid ourselves.
She knows a lot.
Man.
It could've been worse.
Another day, we | would've invited her into our cell group.
Man, if Lyta had come aboard | one week later.
We'd be standing in front of a | court martial board right now.
Is there anything else that we can use | to protect ourselves, if necessary? I think I'm having a problem | with Ambassador Kosh.
And I kept getting | these images in my head.
It was deliberately provoked.
What was on that | data crystal he gave you? Reflection.
Surprise.
Terror.
For the future.
There may be something else.
| Let me investigate.
- All right, fine.
| - By the way, where's Ivanova? She said she had some | unfinished business to take care of.
Yes? I wanted to see you before you left.
I know this isn't your fault.
And I hope somewhere there's | a part of you that can still hear me.
Always the romantic.
The program is complete.
| The Talia you knew no longer exits.
There's just me.
You don't know what it's like | living only in the shadows of her mind watching, laughing at all of you | out here.
Foolish, petty, stupid.
There I was, trapped inside able to come out only at night | when she was asleep.
Her invisible sister.
And you believed everything | she said to you.
All the things you wanted to hear.
All the words I whispered in her thoughts | while she lay sleeping.
The words that would get her | closer to you and to what you knew.
You should see the look on your face my good and dear friend, Susan.
You're right.
The Talia I knew is dead.
Goodbye.
I'm back.
I can't stay.
The captain's made sure I can get away | before the Psi Cops get here, but I had to see you again, | before my ship leaves.
I never told them.
I never told anyone.
I hid it all away in the smallest, | tiniest corner of my mind.
They could've killed me and they | still wouldn't have found it.
Only at night, alone would I open that small door | in my mind where I kept the memory of you and listened to your voice.
Listened to you sing me to sleep.
I hope I can come back again.
But I don't know.
Until then Kosh I want to see you again.
Just one more time before I go.