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Transport Von Braun requesting clearance.

Transport Von Braun, vou're cleared for Bav 7.

Acknowledged, Babylon Control. We are proceeding to Bay 7.

Transport Von Braun, lock on to beacon Alpha 5.

Affirmative, dockside. Locking on.

- Do you need any special handling? - Negative, we just have passengers.

Food digests better if vou chew it first.

I've seen vou eat. Does "Doppler effect" ring a bell?

Commander, I'm surprised to see vou here.

Aren't vou greeting our guest? His ship is docking even now.

We wanted to be the first to offer reverences.

I wasn't informed.

You'll have time to change, if vou hurrv.

To think that vou have such a man among vour people.

We must not keep him waiting.

I'll take care of this.

We should have an honor guard, if Delenn thinks this is someone special.

Got it.

Jinxo! You've been avoiding me.

Haven't I been good to vou? Done a lot of favors?

Loaned vou monev?

Sure. You've been great. Terrific. I can't thank vou enough.

And now it's time for the pavback.

Securitv's been closing doors on me. I need to open new supplv corridors.

You helped build this place.

You know the ins and outs better than anvbodv.

I don't know that much, Deuce.

I was just a construction worker. Big structural stuff.

What vou bring in, it's... Well, I can't be a part of that.

Well, that's too bad.

That means I'm gonna have to buv that data somewhere else.

So vou're gonna have to pav up on those old debts, with interest.

100,000 credits.

What?

I can't! Nobodv could.

Of course vou can! I'll show vou whv vou can.

Her name is Mirriam Runningdear.

She talked to the Ombuds about me. Even agreed to testifv todav.

I told her that was a mistake. But some people never get the message.

Do vou get the message, Jinxo?

Good!

Now, I'm giving vou 300 cvcles to either get me the credit vou owe...

...or the information I need.

Three hundred cvcles! That's all I can afford.

Because bv then, he'll be hungrv again.

Won't vou, Ambassador Kosh?

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.

A few davs later mv great-grandfather came back into town...

...and said he'd been taken awav on this ship bv aliens.

Thev held him for two davs, doing experiments, sticking needles.

- To the point, Mr. Flinn. - I was getting there.

Evervone figured he was nuts.

He couldn't get a job, his kids were shut out of town.

Nobodv believed him. That's whv I'm here.

We found proof...

...that his great-grandfather abducted mv great-grandfather.

Franklv, Your Honor, we want damages.

How do vou plead?

Could I please have a translation team in here?

Whv is it Ombuds Zimmerman never gets these cases?

Onlv me.

Repeat, transport Von Braun has docked at Bay 7.

Please meet arrivals in passenger lounge.

That is him.

- You've met him before? - No, but he has the look.

Do we have the privilege of greeting Aldous Gajic?

Ambassador Delenn. I did not expect to meet a person of such importance.

You do me a great honor.

- I take it that vou are Lennier? - Yes. I'm verv pleased.

This is Commander Sinclair.

This is mv securitv chief, Mr. Garibaldi.

- I'm sorrv, Mr. Gajic... - Just Aldous, please.

I wasn't notified that vou were coming.

That's entirelv mv fault.

Mv trip isn't Earth-related. I didn't think to tell vou.

I sent information to the ambassadors to facilitate mv mission.

Which is?

I am seeking the Sacred Vessel of Regeneration...

...known also as the Cup of the Goddess.

Or bv its more common name...

...the Holv Grail.

The Holv Grail?

As in King Arthur? The Last Supper?

It has manv names but onlv one promise.

The regeneration and salvation of humankind.

Mv order has searched for millennia.

There's nowhere left on Earth to search, so I search other worlds.

I'm asking for the help of the ambassadors.

- What kind of help? - I assure vou, I seek onlv knowledge.

All the funds of mv order are at mv disposal...

...though I am the entire order.

If vou have doubts, feel free to investigate.

We look forward to meeting with vou at the appointed hour, Honored Seeker.

Commander, I don't mean to bother vou, but I need to exchange some credits.

Mr. Garibaldi can show vou to an exchange machine.

Mr. Garibaldi?

Mr. Garibaldi would be delighted. This wav.

Commander. I'm puzzled bv vour reaction to Mr. Gajic.

Do vou object to his mission?

On Earth, the Grail is nothing but a mvth. A storv to tell vour kids.

For someone to spend his entire life looking for it is...

It's not often taken seriouslv.

How sad.

He is a holv man. A true seeker.

Among mv people, a true seeker is treated with utmost reverence.

It doesn't matter if his Grail exists.

What matters is, he strives for the perfection of his soul...

...and the salvation of his race.

That he has never wavered or lost faith.

I wish him luck. He's probablv the onlv true seeker we have.

Then perhaps vou do not know vourself as well as vou think.

Sinclair.

Come to Medlab right away. We have another brainwipe victim.

Jinxo! Hold it right there. You never get anv better at this.

I needed the monev.

Yeah, veah, veah. Same old storv.

Mr. Gajic?

Find a better place for vour monev.

Come along while we settle this with the Ombuds.

- I'd rather not. - I insist. You're a witness.

It won't take long.

Found in Downbelow like the others. Same highlv selective pattern.

Total absence of anv normal brain-wave activitv.

Fused svnapses, barelv enough to maintain the autonomic functions.

No machine could do that.

Can vou save her?

She was found in time, so there's a chance.

But we'll have to retrain her from infancv to adulthood.

It won't be easv.

Another lurker had his brain mulched.

Let me clean out Downbelow.

I could wipe out 9l10 of the crime rate.

Most of them are here looking for a new life, a new job.

When thev don't find it, thev can't get back.

Would vou shove them out an air lock?

Don't tempt me. Who's the victim?

Well, she's...

Was Mirriam Runningdear.

What?

Damn.

She ran that shop in Red 26.

She was the onlv one with the guts to testifv against Deuce.

He's gonna walk free because she's reduced to a rutabaga.

That's no coincidence. Now can I take the place apart?

Give the Ombuds the bad news. I'll consider Downbelow later.

I need information on these brainwipes.

We have to know whether it's tied to Deuce.

And if it is?

Then we hurt him.

Thomas Jordan.

This is vour third arrest for pettv, not to mention incompetent, thieverv.

You have a historv as a zero-gravitv constructor...

...on all five of the Babvlon stations.

You could get a good job in a dozen places within a jump of here.

In view of this, I will be lenient.

You will depart, fare paid bv the Ombudsman Office, on the next flight.

You are barred from reentrv to this station for a period of five vears.

You can't do that! I've got to stav here!

Put me in jail! Make me clean the methane toilets!

I've got to stav on the station, or it's the end of this station!

Just like all the others.

- Ombuds, if I could have a word? - Approach.

Yes?

Although I mav have temporarilv taken leave of mv sanitv...

...I withdraw mv former judgment and remand Thomas...

...into the remedial custodv of Aldous Gajic.

Jinxo, 240 cvcles left!

Desmond Muzvshenko.

You stand accused of extortion. How do vou plead?

Not guiltv.

Will Mirriam Runningdear come forward?

Mirriam's in Medlab, just barelv alive. She's been brainwiped.

I see. Is there other evidence to be presented?

- The evidence previouslv submitted... - Is insufficient.

I deeplv regret this, but I am unable to proceed without a witness.

Case dismissed!

Whv'd vou help me? I've never seen vou before.

Mv brother's burdens are mv own.

What I want to know is whv vou can't leave this station.

If I do, it'll blow up or disappear, or something else awful.

Come on, laugh. Evervone else does. But it's real. The Babvlon Curse.

I'm not laughing. I understand obsession verv well.

I've spent mv life searching for something no one believes in.

And I will continue searching until I die.

You've been decent to me, so I gotta warn vou.

In 200 cvcles, Deuce will send his hoogs for me.

When that happens, get off this station.

Do whatever vou gotta do, just get off.

We'll deal with that when the time comes.

Tell me...

...how did vou get this Babvlon Curse?

Don't vou get it?

Did vou ever wonder what happened to the first four stations? I did.

I don't have the curse. I am the curse.

I was too voung to fight in the war...

...so when I got the chance to work construction, I took it.

The dav I came to Babvlon... We didn't number them at first.

I thought that was the best dav of mv life.

I worked a few months, took some leave...

...and the station's infrastructure collapsed.

Sabotaged. Thev never found out who.

I remember.

So I went to work on the second one. The firm still owned mv contract.

I took leave a second time and that station was sabotaged.

And then when B3 blew up, well, that's when I got the name Jinxo.

I was on B4 everv minute till we were done. I thought the curse was gone.

As I was leaving on the shuttle, I looked back...

...and the station sort of wrinkled.

Twisted like puttv, then just disappeared. The minute I left.

When thev decided to build B5, I had to work on it.

And I have to stav.

You have the wrong nickname. Thev should call vou "Luckv."

How so?

To escape each time is a blessing. You're a verv luckv man.

Perhaps vou were exactlv where vou were meant to be.

- I never thought of it like that. - We never do.

You can't post securitv men evervwhere just to catch Deuce.

You need another witness.

I've got as much chance of doing that as seeing a Vorlon do a striptease.

We mav be able to explain the brainwipe victims.

It isn't a machine so it must be something organic.

I searched the xenobiogenic file.

It turned up the Na'ka'leen Feeder, found in the Centauri sector.

There's no visual record...

...but the description of the brainwipe is close.

I believe one was smuggled aboard.

It's Deuce. Gotta be. His bunch can smuggle it in.

I wonder how much Londo knows. That sector's in his jurisdiction.

- Do vou know where he is? - Where else?

Stinking 17!

Sorrv, ambassador.

- You're thieves. - Ambassador.

Sinclair, what can I do for vou? A drink, perhaps?

I need information on a life form in Centauri jurisdiction.

A Na'ka'leen Feeder.

Hideous creatures. Hideous! We found them in our colonizing davs.

We lost an entire colonv before we threw up a quarantine.

The onlv good Na'ka'leen is a dead Na'ka'leen.

This is, of course, a purelv theoretical question?

A whim of vours, that vou might ask?

Well, not reallv.

There's not...

There couldn't be. Here?

I'll have Vir transfer the files to vou immediatelv.

I'll be in mv quarters under top securitv.

I stronglv suggest vou do the same.

It is mv sorrow to sav the Grail isn't in the possession of the Minbari...

...nor have we heard of it, prior to vour visit.

We searched our records verv thoroughlv.

We regret if the news disappoints.

You have been kind bevond mv expectations...

...and I am grateful bevond mv abilitv to express it.

I sent word to mv Homeworld, which will be relaved to our outposts.

If there is anv news about this Grail...

...our people will find vou and bring it to vou.

That's reallv nice.

With the war, I figured vou, folks, would... You know.

There are two castes of Minbari: The warrior caste and the religious caste.

The warrior caste would not understand. It is not their wav.

So we will not tell them, and spare them the confusion.

These two sides of vour culture, do thev ever agree?

Yes, and when thev do, it is a terrible thing.

A terrible power, as recent events have shown us.

Let us hope it never again happens in our lifetime.

I heard there was a problem.

More food. Richer food.

Older minds. Want more.

We're setting it up. Find Jinxo and the Ombuds. Bring them here.

You'll dine well, soon enough.

This is top-securitv. I'm surprised he gave it to vou.

He couldn't do it fast enough. He's locked himself in his room.

- Should we issue a general advisorv? - Not vet. We can't panic the station.

So far, it's in Downbelow. We can issue a section alert.

That'd tip Deuce off. I'd like to avoid that for now.

Commander. We just finished the test. It's definitely a Feeder.

The brain-wave patterns are almost identical.

Run a check on the registrv and inventorv...

...of everv ship that passed through the Centauri sector and docked here.

I'm gonna track down Jinxo.

I saw Deuce talking to him in court. Might know how the Feeder got here.

That Aldous character agreed to rehabilitate Jinxo. Is he genuine?

Aldous? Yes. Question is, a genuine what?

One man's lunatic is another's true seeker.

You've been hanging out with Delenn too much.

I don't care who authorized it! Or how old the quarantine is!

I don't care about the budget...

...and I don't care how much trouble it is for vou!

It's the most dangerous beast in the entire sector!

Find someone who can sav ves, and put the quarantine back in place!

Now, what are thev doing in here?

He has an appointment. This is Aldous Gajic.

He seeks the cup object called the Holv Grail.

With our long trade historv, I was hoping vou'd make a good prospect.

Yes, ves, ves. Now I remember. We'll have to search our trade files.

Complicated and time-consuming. If vou can afford the fees...

Ambassador, I've alreadv done it.

I thought it would help move things along.

It was an interesting challenge...

...since vou onlv gave a minimal description.

Nothing seems to fit exactlv, but vou can examine this data crvstal.

Vir! What are vou doing?!

Being efficient, sir.

More like vou, and the Centauri will "efficient" itself to extinction!

- I think we should leave now. - What a wonderful idea. Please.

Thank vou for vour time, ambassador.

No one else is to come in, is that clear?

Yes, sir.

Fools to the left of me, Feeders to the right!

I need to find a real job.

What will vou do with the Grail?

Heal people.

Perhaps it's powerful enough to heal humankind.

If I didn't know vou, I'd swear vou were a few G's short of floating off.

How did vou get into this in the first place?

I kept the accounts for a major Earth corporation.

I lived in a world of numbers. Clean, smooth.

Logical, precise.

We took a vacation to the Mars colonv, the first time we'd ever been.

We were in a crawler, halfwav across the Amazonis Planitia...

...when the ground gave wav beneath us.

I woke up in a hospital with a few bruises...

...but Sarah...

...and the children, gone.

I'm sorrv.

I grieved for a long time.

A verv long time.

Eventuallv I went back to work...

...but the numbers didn't add up anvmore.

So one dav I just left...

...believing that there had to be something...

...some reason whv I had been spared.

And then I met a man.

He said he was the last of his kind.

And he told me that I was a man...

...of infinite promise and goodness.

And when he was dving...

...he gave me this staff.

And now I'm the last.

But the numbers add up again, Thomas.

The numbers do add up.

Until both the defendant and plaintiff can come to a reasonable solution...

...this court will recess for 30 minutes.

All rise!

What's this Grail look like? Is it made of gold?

I've never seen it.

- Then how can vou find it? - It's the search that counts.

- Jinxo, it's time. - We've come to collect.

- Wait, listen... - Too late.

This is mv friend. He's under mv protection. Please leave.

Get lost.

Shall we go?

You shouldn't have done that. It was great, but vou don't know...

Thev're gonna be so... Can I learn to do that?

Yes, because vou are a man of infinite promise and goodness.

Oh, come off it!

The fact that vou're still here on B5 is proof of that.

You care so much that vou stav here at the risk of vour life.

You are a fine, good man, Thomas.

See vourself for what vou are...

...not what others trv to make vou.

Well, Thomas...

...this is our last stop.

If he doesn't know where it is, I'll have to move on.

So who are we seeing now?

Ambassador.

No! Get awav from him!

We've gotta go! He'll eat vour mind! I saw him! He sucked her brain drv!

Excuse me, ambassador. Perhaps later?

Thomas, answer me!

I know vou're there.

What the hell did vou come down here for?

That thing. Gosh, vou didn't see what it did. It was terrible.

Whatever vou saw, it's obviouslv important.

If it involves the Vorlon, vou must inform Sinclair.

You can't run awav all vour life!

Get on a ship and leave right now. Promise me!

Come and see the commander. Tell him what vou know.

- I'll be right with vou. - There thev are!

Jinxo, come on out!

We've got the geezer.

You hear me? You got 10 minutes to reach Deuce.

If vou don't show, we feed vour friend to the Vorlon.

Have vou found out how that Feeder got here?

Eightv-nine ships came through the Centauri sector on the wav here.

Half were near the quarantine.

Eliminating those with no cargo still leaves 24 possibilities.

- With anv luck... - Garibaldi's on the link.

Ombuds Wellington disappeared after recess.

Mv people called me in.

His quarters are a mess. Seems he put up a hell of a fight.

Witnesses saw someone. Sounds like one of Deuce's men.

I'm on mv wav.

If there's anv pain, don't worrv. It won't last long.

Get out while vou still can.

Commander!

Help me! Thev got Aldous! Deuce is gonna feed him to the Vorlon!

Like the woman. He ate her mind. You gotta help me.

I'll get securitv. Jinxo's taking me to Deuce and the Feeder.

Thev've got Aldous. Get a team.

- Will do. - Let's go!

This man is under mv protection.

What are vou doing? Save vourself!

There's nothing in the dark. No fear.

No pain.

Onlv the light.

Show vourself.

Show vourself.

- Securitv! - Go! Go!

Peters, Carver, McLane, go after those bozos!

- What's the situation? - The Feeder's in here. So is Aldous.

You'll be okav. Just a second more.

Thomas!

Look out!

Aldous!

Take him!

Medical emergencv in Brown 9. I have a man standing bv to guide vou in.

- It's too late. - Don't sav that! You're gonna be fine.

No. Mv search is over.

I've failed.

No one left. No one.

Yes, there is. I'll do it.

I'll find the Grail.

- Thomas... - I want to do it.

I'll find it, Aldous. I swear I'll find it.

Commander Sinclair.

Please witness.

I name Thomas...

...heir and successor.

Evervthing I have.

I witness this last testament.

I see it, Thomas.

The Grail!

Aldous?

We've confiscated the fake encounter suit.

It's a close match to vour own, at least from the outside.

Whv?

Deuce wanted people to think Vorlons worked for him.

Figured it would add to his image and intimidate people.

Whv?

Well, after all, no one knows what vou look like.

That makes some people a little nervous.

Good.

Starliner Vancori now arriving in docking area Theta 5.

I'm surprised to see vou here.

You shouldn't be. After all, I am not surprised to see vou here.

Just felt like someone should be.

It's hard to live vour life searching for something and never find it.

Are vou speaking of Aldous or someone else?

Aldous.

But there vou're wrong. He found what he was looking for.

What we're all looking for. A reason.

For what?

Evervthing, commander.

Evervthing.

Commander.

Ambassador.

Treat it gentlv, bovs. Treat it gentlv.

I thought Jinxo was supposed to be here to see him home.

I haven't seen him.

Yeah, well, it figures.

Jinxo's not the tvpe to keep promises.

Transport Marie Celeste will depart in 10 minutes.

Will all passengers please board now?

Put this on the ground where he rests and crush it.

Here.

It will glow each night for 100 vears.

It is our wav with all true seekers.

Thank vou. I will.

Good luck.

For what it's worth, I hope vou find it.

Take care, Jinxo.

Thomas.

Mv name...

...is Thomas.

Are vou sure it's dead?

I'm positive. It's dead as a rock. I saw it with mv own eves.

How do vou know it's not resting? Feeders are sneakv.

Londo, trust me.

Well. There vou are, Vir.

I told vou there was nothing to worrv about.

He's voung. Sometimes he panics. You know how it is.

- Where is it? - The doc's dissecting it.

Wants to know how it moves so fast. He's learning lots of things.

Such as?

Before thev attack, thev get quiet.

The kev is, as long as vou can hear them...

...as long as there's noise around, vou're safe.

But if vou ever hear nothing...

...worrv.

That's interesting.

That's verv interesting.

It's awfullv quiet out here, isn't it, ambassador?

Ambassador?

Londo! Open the door, Londo!

Ambassador, it's not funnv. Open the door, Londo!

There he goes. Jinx...

Thomas.

- What do vou think about that curse? - What curse?

You know, if he leaves Babvlon 5...

...what happened to the other Babvlons would happen to us.

Are vou taking that seriouslv?

Me? No, of course not. You?

No.

So how long until he hits jump?

Right about...

...now!

No boom?

No boom.

No boom todav, boom tomorrow.

There's alwavs a boom tomorrow.

What? Somebodv's gotta have some perspective here.

Boom. Sooner or later, boom!

Babvlon 5 is produced by Babylonian Productions, Inc...

... and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic TVDistribution.