Babylon 5

It was the year of fire.

The year of destruction.

The year we took back what was ours.

It was the year of rebirth.

The year of great sadness.

The year of pain.

And a year of joy.

It was a new age.

It was the end of history.

It was the year everything changed.

The year is 2261, the place..

Babylon 5.

'Good morning, the time is 0530'

'Earth standard time.'

'You have the following messages.'

'Message from Ambassador Delenn.'

'Message from Vir Cotto.'

'Message from station security.'

'Message from Docker's Guild.'

'Message from Citizen G'Kar.'

'You have the following meetings.'

'0700'

'strategic planning committee.'

'0745'

'Babylon Treaty oversight meeting.'

'0830, league of non-aligned worlds.'

'0950..'

We have already discussed this!

Yes, but we haven't finished discussing it.

And when are we to be finished?

As soon as you agree to my proposal.

I told you this a half an hour ago.

Look, if you're having problem with comprehension

perhaps you should borrow the Gaim's translator.

Please. Please!

The issues before us are extremely important.

Each of your governments signed the Babylon Treaty

'promising to keep ships here'

as part of the ongoing defense of Babylon 5.

The treaty also stipulated that all of us

would work together as a unit against the Shadows.

Why then have your governments recalled

nearly all of your ships?

- The war is over. - 'It isn't over!

There's a pause, yes, but that's all.

They'll regroup soon and then...

All the more reason to take advantage

of a lull in combat to address our wounds

to tighten defenses around our home worlds.

By pulling our forces apart

you're destroying the only chance we have of winning!

You cannot win this war, commander

you can only survive it!

And we intend to survive it.

- If the rumors are true... - They may not be.

We don't know what happened at Z'ha'dum.

There've been reports of a thermonuclear detonation

but that's all.

Look, if they've been hurt

then we have to press the advantage

and hit them as hard as we can!

You cannot attack Z'ha'dum!

Yes, we can! The captain showed us how.

- He... - Captain Sheridan is dead.

You don't know that.

No one returns from Z'ha'dum.

If we go, we will not return.

That is real reason you wish us to go to Z'ha'dum.

You wish to find your captain.

'You wish him to be alive.'

If we go, we will be buried alongside him.

Our task is to serve our people.

This must come first.

Just a minute, this meeting is not over.

- I said... - Let them go, commander.

Sheridan was willing to risk his life for their benefit.

They're afraid to act as honorably as he did.

The shame is theirs.

I'm sorry, commander.

He did not come. Again.

Yes.

And I intend to find out why.

You should be most pleased.

Emperor Cartagia does not often grant

a private audience

but he has been most pleased by your work

and wanted to personally welcome you

to the royal court.

Oh, it is a most great honor!

- Yes. - Oh, most great!

Minister, I have met Cartagia

three times before.

Twice when he was an infant.

He drooled most of the time.

I wonder if he has continued the habit.

And again when he was 15, trying to peek up the dresses

of some young women.

I promise you, I will be just as impressed by him now

as I was then. Yes?

Ah, Mollari. It's wonderful to see you again.

And you, Majesty.

I could swear you have not changed

since the last few times I saw you.

'Ah, you are, of course, too generous.'

So what do you think, Mollari?

'It is, uh..'

uh..

Short, Majesty.

Shorter than is traditional for someone of your position.

Yes, yes. Decadent, isn't it?

I find the shorter crest

allows me to leave the palace, walk in places

where the nobility would never think

of being seen for the scandal.

The things I have seen.

As you can see, I've started quite the trend.

'It's become all the fashion among the court.'

Hmm, I suppose there are those that might object

but they remain silent

because the emperor's always right.

Is he not, Mollari?

That is our tradition.

Mm.

I've called you home for two reasons, Mollari.

First, you have a great deal of experience

with these off-worlders.

I have need of that.

Centauri Prime has become provincial, small-minded.

'They don't see the.. Oh..'

What was it that that-that, that charming human called it

a few weeks ago?

Oh-oh. T-the big picture.

The, the big picture!

They don't see the big picture

but you and I see the big picture.

Don't we, Mollari?

We will change our world forever.

You will handle the arrangements.

What arrangements?

Oh, well, that will be explained to you

later this evening.

You're doubtless tired from your long journey.

Go. Go and rest.

We'll speak again after.

Um, Majesty..

You said there were two reasons?

Ah, yes!

You were... requested.

- By whom? - You'll see.

I got your message, Vir, I don't have a lot of time...

I know what happened to Captain Sheridan.

How?

Londo has sources

close to the Shadows.

When he's not here, they leave

their information with me.

'Sheridan was taken to the largest underground city'

in Z'ha'dum.

Their capital, you might say.

While he was there, he sent a message to the White Star

which caused it to crash into their city..

Carrying two 500 megaton

thermonuclear devices which exploded on impact.

And the captain?

He was seen falling into a great chasm

moments before the blast.

It's a two-mile drop.

It appears the rumors are true.

Captain Sheridan is dead.

But he took their biggest city with him..

Putting them into complete chaos..

Causing them to regroup and retreat.

I-I suppose, with any luck, we won't see

Mr. Morden's face around here anymore.

That's good.

'Hello, Mollari.'

Mr. Morden?

In the flesh.

What's left of it.

Sit.

We have much to discuss.

Mr. Morden, you are...

Unwell.

My associates tell me I'll be better soon.

I wasn't as near the incident as others.

- And Sheridan? - 'Which one?'

You know what they say.

What goes up..

Must come down.

Seen one Sheridan, seen them all.

Ashes, ashes..

We all fall down.

Shouldn't you be someplace where they can take care of you?

Your injuries?

Flesh is transitory, flesh is a prison

flesh is..

An instrument.

'Flesh can be replaced.'

And flesh does as it's told.

Or they will become..