All language subtitles for Babylon 5 crusade S06E09 - Patterns of the Soul

General Thompson, you don't understand.

We are minutes away from
a new destination with some good leads.

I don't care
what you're minutes away from.

I have express permission
from President Sheridan...

to use the Excalibur for this mission.

You will contact Robert Black
and his colonists...

and take whatever steps are necessary
to ensure they do not leave that planet...

until you have determined whether or not
they are carrying the Drakh plague.

If the diagnosis is positive,
you will transfer them...

to an Earth force ship
waiting near Orion 7.

But why?

Theta 49 is uninhabited,
or at least it was until they got there.

If these colonists are infected,
why can't they just stay on the planet?

Transporting them out
creates all kinds of logistical problems...

including the risk
of further contamination.

Captain, I told you,
I want them in custody.

I don't need to explain myself
to a subordinate.

Yes, sir.

I don't like being called and harassed.

Nonetheless, I have been
asked to remind you...

that we have not received
any recent topographical readouts...

samples of alien technology, or reports
on anything you have found out there.

All of this information would be of use
to our archaeological expeditions.

-We need profit margins here, Max.
-I know.

IPX depends on the information
from our scouts.

I know. I've been incredibly busy.

Not to mention the half-dozen
life-threatening situations...

that I've been in in the last two weeks.

This isn't a debate.

You are behind schedule
in your corporate updates.

The next mission you go on--

Trust me. The next place
promises to be a gold mine.

You'll get a full report.

We'd better.

I understand we're changing course.
What's going on?

We're going to Theta 49, Orion Sector.

Why? The previous coordinates...

promised to be a veritable gold mine
of alien technology.

Orion system? Theta 49?

Looks incredibly dull.

This order came directly from Earth force.

That would explain the dull part.

If this isn't a planet
that IPX can exploit for profit...

then maybe this is your cue
to take a vacation.

IPX doesn't give paid holidays.

For a cause like this,
I'd think we'd all happily chip in.

I just got the word. What's on Theta 49?

Approximately 30 people who escaped
from Earth during the Drakh attack.

If they weren't able to get off world before
the plague was released, they're infected.

They could be carrying this plague
all over the galaxy.

I hear you wanted to speak with me.

-Have you made a decision?
-Yes.

We rolled the stones,
and they came up blank.

Never in our history...

has there been such a terrible sign.

We mean your people no harm.

Roll your stones again.
You'll see I'm telling the truth.

No. Our stones have spoken.

On the eve of this, my death...

I hear whispers of a terrible curse.

A tragedy was brought to my people
from outside.

By coming here,
you brought doom to my people.

There is nothing left to be said
between us...

that the stones have not said for us.

Go now...

for I must die.

Please take away your people...

so that mine can live.

Matthew Gideon, Captain.

Attached to
the Earth Alliance stars hip, Excalibur.

To find a cure to the Drakh plague
before it wipes out all life on Earth.

Anywhere [ have to.

Who do you serve and who do you trust?

You sure this process is reliable?

I mean, this is the first time
we've used it in a situation...

where we know
we're going into a contaminated area.

The nanovirus shield has performed
flawlessly in 15 out of 15 tests.

It lines the lungs...

and it sloughs off anything
that comes in contact with it for 48 hours.

Just don't eat or drink anything
down there.

We can't guard against
secondary contamination.

The tests were conducted on rats.
How do I know it's going to work on me?

To answer that,
we'd have to figure out the difference...

between a rat and a stars hip captain,
and we don't have that much time.

You all set?

Beginning sonic decontamination...

to neutralize all bacteria,
microbes, and pathogens.

Proceed to Station Two.

Beginning nanovirus mist.

Please breathe deeply,
and fill lungs to capacity.

nanovirus shield completed.

You now have 48 hours of exposure time.

All right.

Bring on the rest of the rats.

I told you, Black isn't here.

And until he gets here,
you'll get nothing from us.

I don't buy this story of us being infected
by the plague before leaving the Earth.

You left in the middle of a war.

Your ship was in the area
where the Drakh released the plague--

After we took off.

Look, it took us six months
to find this place.

We're not leaving now.

You're trying to get us
to go back to Earth...

because we embarrassed
the politicians back home.

There are only 30 of you.

That's not enough
to warrant a propaganda campaign.

No? What about you
and your propaganda campaign?

Look at you.

Running around,
pretending to have all the answers.

Running off to another mission,
another war.

The human race doesn't measure
the quality of what it's accomplished...

only the quantity, the numbers.

How much can we do
before someone else can?

And we left because we were tired...

of having our futures dictated
at a breakneck pace.

The Earth has been spinning out of control
for a long time, Captain...

but our world will remain constant...

and our quality of life
something we're proud of.

We'll be here
long after Earth is just a memory.

Maybe that's the lesson
of the Drakh plague.

Slow down and enjoy life,
or it will be taken from you.

Maybe that's why
we were spared, to come here.

I'm not here to argue philosophy with you.

-I have my orders.
-And what orders are those?

I'm Robert Black.

I suppose you can say
I'm a designated town spokesman.

Mr. Black, we have reason to believe...

that you and your colonists may have been
infected by a highly advanced plague.

It was introduced
into the Earth's atmosphere...

at approximately the same time you left.

It's a trick. They're trying to...

You were saying?

I need to take blood samples
from all of you.

No. You can sample me and only me.

If one of us has it,
then we'd all have it by now.

If I test positive, you can have others.

But I'm sure you'll find we're not infected.

I'm sorry about the plague,
but it really has nothing to do with us.

We came here to start over...

and your troubles,
your presence is interfering with that.

But if cooperation will get rid of you
sooner than opposition...

you can have our cooperation for now.

Please follow me.

Are you all right?

Do you need help?

No, young one.

The twilight will soon become night.

It's the way of things.

This was the way of my people as well.

I always wondered if it would be hard
to die alone when my time came.

When I was young,
I was afraid of the journey into night.

I didn't want to die alone.

Though I have no choice.

There is no one left to watch over me.
I'm the last of my kind.

I can stay, though,
and watch for you, if you want.

Who are you, young one?

You're not from our village.

You must be...

the guide who comes to take the dying.

No, I'm...

Where did you come from?

Seek the cave on the moor.

I'm glad you finally came.

My life is turning into night now.

I can finally see the stars.

Finished your examination?

We'll have the results back in a few hours.

Just to be on the safe side...

if I were you, I'd be ready
to pack my bags and return to Earth.

We have no desire to return.

It's not your choice.

You can destroy our ship.
I guarantee you, we can't leave.

Earth won't take the risk.

Other races might still come here,
and we don't have the resources...

to post troops
to guard a handful of people.

You're just lucky
you came to an isolated location.

There's no one else here to contaminate.

We'll be back in a few hours.
Tell your people to get ready.

You're not going to let them
take us back, are you?

He's right, Tim.

If we're infected,
we're a threat to everyone.

Don't do this, not after all we fought for.

We barely escaped Earth.

Are you saying that our freedom
doesn't mean a damn thing now?

Tim, you don't have all the pieces.

I met with a tribal elder.

He told me that we bring destruction.

I couldn't understand what he meant
till they showed up.

And you believe him?

Synchronicity like this?

It's the first sign of being
in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Then let's leave.
Why are we waiting for an escort?

Earth force will just use us
as lab rats again...

and that captain probably knows
who and what we are.

Now, I won't be locked up anymore.

If we're infected,
we shouldn't go anywhere.

We still have a little time.

Enough to think of other strategies.

Like what? Surrender?

Must be difficult for you,
being a career military officer...

having to play the roles of jailer,
ferryman, executioner.

That's where we're different.
I just do what I'm told.

The corporation knows all, sees all,
and tells very little.

If we make a bad call,
we can honestly say...

that we've acted in good conscience
based on the information available.

Absolution in absentia.

The blessed state
of being able to say, "It's not my fault.”

Gaining the knowledge of good and evil
was the first original sin, remember?

How much better of a world it would be
if they hadn't formed an opinion...

if they had just eaten
of the forbidden fruit of knowledge.

Opinion doesn't enter into it.

Recently, I even get
a perverse pleasure out of that.

-Dureena.
-Yeah.

What are you doing down there?

Nothing.

Captain, what's the status
of the colonists?

They're infected.

Then [ think
you better send the doctor here.

What's wrong? What have you found?

Some indigenous life
you might want to check out.

I'll explain everything later.
Uploading my location now.

Priority signal
coming in from Earth force, Captain.

I'll take it in my quarters.
Doctor, find out what this is about.

Interesting.

Computer, transfer readings to com pad.

Transferring.

Captain Gideon, I was expecting
a status report two hours ago.

What's the situation?

The colonists
are infected with the plague, sir.

We've given them three hours
to get their equipment together.

That's extremely generous.

They aren't in immediate danger, sir.

In fact, they'd prefer to be quarantined
on the planet until we can find a cure.

Granted, there are difficulties.

Absolutely not.

The time and cost
to maintain a quarantine isn't viable.

Before they move out, I want the record
of their ship's history up linked to me.

We should know if anyone else might need
to be quarantined along the way.

Yes, sir.

After you upload the information to me,
you will erase the ship's log.

We don't want anyone else
stumbling onto those records.

God knows what nonsense
they've put in there.

-But, sir--
-That's all, Captain.

Enter.

I'm about to head down to the planet...

but before that,
I thought you should know...

while I was doing my work
on the colonists...

I came across a cyber organic compound
in their bloodstream.

I've never seen anything like it.

I shouldn't see something like this
in human biology.

-Any idea what might have caused it?
-One or two.

I'm running some tests now, but won't
have anything for a couple of hours.

I see. All right. Thank you.

-Captain to Team One.
-Yes, sir.

Download all the records
in the colonists' ship...

and relay that information
to the Excalibur.

Aye, sir.

All right, General, let's see
what's so important in these records...

that you want to delete them.

Computer, cross-check
the name Robert Black...

against all Earth force records.

Accessing.

Name: Robert Black. Requires
Earth force restricted ultraviolet clearance.

Do you wish to proceed?

Sure.

Log in the ultraviolet
code name "Benedict.”

Password, "sharks."”

Commencing. Security violation.

Code name registered to another user.

Password to proceed
via secondary access.

Confirmed.

Password, "ante up.”

You came in answer to our prayers.

We waited for a sign at the sacred cliff.
You are that sign.

You walk among us, but are not one of us.

No, I'm not who you think I am.
I just came on a stars hip.

I don't see how you could be my people.
It doesn't make sense.

Our tale is a long and difficult one.

I will tell you what has been
passed down to us for generations.

We were taken as labor to help to form
a colony by the stars hip Qualtham.

It was when our people
were first taken to the stars by others.

There was a terrible accident
before we could arrive at our destination.

Something appeared near our ship...

and with weapons of great destruction
nearly destroyed our vessel.

When the ship was damaged,
our escape pods landed on this planet.

Those of us who managed to escape
eventually gathered here.

But we had no communications...

no record of what happened...

and so we were soon forgotten.

A lost tribe.

Yes?

Doctor, could you swing by
the colonists' ship on your way in...

and take a look
at their waste disposal system?

Charming. What exactly am I looking for?

I'm not sure yet,
but just let me know what you find.

I could have been the chief medic
on the science vessel, the Olympus...

but no, I chose this mission...

because it was honorable...

commendable...

important.

And this is how I'm helping humanity.

Captain?

I have a reading from some of the food
the colonists picked up en route.

The package in my hand isn't open,
but there are traces of the plague.

That confirms what I found here.

According to the ship's log...

the colonists did get off Earth
before the plague was released.

I don't understand.

If the plague had broken out
at whatever supply base this came from...

we'd have heard about it.

But this food is definitely contaminated.

-Is that possible?
-No.

Not unless...

it was deliberately contaminated.

If they were deliberately contaminated,
who did it, and where did it come from?

The package says it was manufactured
by Pro Zeta corporation.

Never heard of it.

Probably some low-grade food
or black market drop...

that could be sold quick and cheap
without any quarantine.

Maybe. Maybe not.

I'm going to try and find out
more about this Pro Zeta corporation.

I think I know just the person
to help look into it.

You better get on up here.

I will as soon as I've found Dureena.

If something funny's going on here,
somebody's got to warn her.

All right. Just be careful.

Captain. What an honor.

I don't think
I've had the pleasure of a visit from you...

in all the time
that we've known each other.

Come in.

I was just reading
a bit of Canterbury Tales to amuse myself.

Chaucer, you know.
Another astute individual.

-Why, thank you.
-Who said I was comparing him to you?

How can I help?

We think they're
dealing in contaminated goods...

specifically the Drakh virus.

And I figured if anyone knew about them,
it would be...

Mr. Corporation.

It's a protein manufacturing company.
Synthetic meats.

They distribute throughout
the Earth Alliance territory and beyond.

How far beyond?

As far as they want.

That's a lot of permits.
Some serious government connections.

Very serious.
Their headquarters are on Ceti Gamma I will.

Understand that if they have
done something naughty...

you won't be able to trace it back.

You're lucky to have gotten this far.
But you won't get any further.

Try, and you'll end up six feet under.

That any of us survived the crash
is a blessing.

Out of nearly 1,000 workers
aboard our vessel...

there were only 100 survivors.

You've done well for yourselves.

And you've kept
the traditions of our world alive.

We have always
kept our reverence for the stones.

If you have come to take us back
to Zander Prime...

you must understand,
this place is now our home.

I wish I could offer you that much.

-But our home is--
-Dureena!

I can't believe what I'm seeing.
I thought they were all--

I have to know if they are infected.

I need you to test them.

We've had contact with the humans.
I'm afraid your doctor's too late.

We rolled the stones. We know.

Our people have been marked with doom.

Let the doctor help.
I know it isn't customary.

But your colony is the last of our people.

-Yes.

Zander Prime is destroyed.
That's why I travel with the humans.

Our world, as you remember it, is dead.

Until today,
I thought I was the last of our race.

If you don't seek help for the plague,
it will be the true end of our civilization.

When will you have the results?

A few hours.

But my guess is your people
are infected with the plague as well.

I'm sorry.

I know this must be very difficult for you.

When we get back to the ship,
we can arrange to transfer them.

They're not leaving here.

This is their home.

They've already lost one home world.
I won't have them lose another.

-Be reasonable.
-Reasonable?

Let me tell you what reasonable is.

Reasonable is that you keep quiet
about my people being here...

and that you head back to the shuttle
and you finish their tests.

Pretend you were examining the wildlife
to see if they were infected.

Reasonable is doubling our efforts
to find the cure...

because now there are
two very good reasons to find it:

your race and mine.

If you do report this...

and Earth force
endangers the lives of my people...

I will hold you personally responsible.

You should never have come here.

We don't want to go back to Earth...

and I'm going to make sure
we don't go back...

and so are you.

Help!

I don't want to hurt you.
Please don't struggle.

Let go of me!

-What?
-Cybernetic arms.

I'm afraid they aren't
very pressure sensitive. Slight defect.

If you struggle, I might crush you.

Dureena?

Captain, this is Dr. Chambers.

Dr. Chambers?

-Are we locked in?
-It's okay.

I meant to call the shuttle.

My mistake.

Chambers out.

Download of Earth force
personnel records successful.

Robert Black, active GROPOS
during the Minbari war.

Black participated in the Battle of the Line.

Medal of honor, 2248.

2249, personnel file change.

Transfer to Earth force
bio weapons division.

Code name: Tarsier.

Undercover member
of Earth force bio weapons division.

Cumulative testing resulted in failure.
Project abandoned.

Bio-weapons division?

Interesting.

Cross-reference any classified files
on Ceti Gamma I will...

and bio weapons division...

with other Earth force personnel,
specifically General Thompson.

Commencing.

Where's Black?

Still trying to negotiate a way out of this.

He can't negotiate with these people.
Earth force will do anything to get us back.

Keep this cyber-enhancement
out of the wrong hands.

He's buying into their lies again.

Look, it's too late for you to fight back.
You're already infected.

If I do only have five years to live...

I want to spend them free,
not locked in a cage.

The ship has been powered
since they got here.

All we have to do is make a run for it.

And with the good doctor here,
no one's going to try and stop us.

Black, you have got a big problem.

Who are you?

Dureena Na feel. I came with the Excalibur.

One of your men just attacked me
and took Dr. Chambers captive.

Considering his unnatural
speed and strength...

I would say
you have some serious explaining to do...

about who you are
and what you are doing here.

Where are they going?

Looks like you're too late.

What's going on?

It's the colonists' ship.
They're making a run for it.

We have a lock on the departing shuttle
heading 22 by 75 by 83.

Navigation, plot an intercept course.

-Dureena to Gideon.
-Gideon here.

Several of the colonists
have just taken off.

They've taken Dr. Chambers.
She may be on board as a hostage.

Got it. Dureena, I suggest
you get up here immediately.

Negative. I'm staying here, Captain.

Suit yourself. Gideon out.

-Patch me through to that ship.
-Yes, sir.

Online.

This is Captain Matthew Gideon
of the stars hip Excalibur.

You're too late for negotiation.
We've got your doctor.

I suggest you let us leave in peace.

Let them go. Earth force can track them
from here. They're fugitives now.

-That's grounds for calling Earth force.
-Not with Chambers on board.

In a few more hours,
the virus screen will wear off...

and she'll be infected with the plague.
Tim, listen to me.

-There's another way.
-Why should I believe you?

-If you don't, you're dead.
-We're already as good as dead.

-What can you say that will change that?
-Plenty.

Weapons off. Safeties off.
Repeat, safeties off.

Target acquired. Fire when ready.

You're staying because of your people,
aren't you?

I understand how you feel.

You don't want them sent away
any more than I want mine taken away.

-They've suffered enough.
-So have we.

Do you have any idea what
cybernetic implants do to a person?

The sickness? The convulsions?

The body shock and trauma?

It's hard to watch people you care about
go through that...

but we did it because we were young
and career military, and we believed.

The operations were illegal, of course.

Really deep, covert stuff.

When it started to leak out,
they shut down the program.

Tried to shut us down with it.

Even when we'd been lied to,
given hush money...

and forgotten by our own government,
we still had each other.

And I had Emma.

We went in together,
and we promised to go out together.

She was the kind of person...

who knew your soul
from the first time she looked in your eye.

It was her eyes that ended it.

She lost them to enhanced night vision
and ultraviolet spectrum receptors.

Brass figured
it'd give us an edge on alien worlds.

Something went wrong
with the operation...

and I lost her.

When she went away,
it took away everything.

Everything I believed in, all my hope.

The others up there,
they helped me find it again.

I wish I knew what was happening.

The com system's been turned off.

We'll just have to wait and see.

-Captain.
-General Thompson.

We should have the destroyer Anubis
meet you at Orion 7.

Anubis won't be necessary.
Computer, play back the last record.

We're already as good as dead.
What can you say that will change that?

Plenty.

Target acquired. Fire when ready.

I see.

How very unfortunate.

The irony, if I may, sir...

is that the colonists
weren't infected by the plague...

when they left Earth.

They did get out in time.

We found evidence
indicating that one of their shipments...

had been deliberately contaminated.

Unfortunately, we don't have
anything substantial enough...

to prove who did it, or why.

I thought perhaps
you might want me to look into it.

Of course, it's a moot point now,
I suppose.

I suppose.

In any event, job well done.

We'll look into this theory of yours.

Good work, Captain.
You acted in good conscience.

Yes, sir. I did that.

Somebody's coming.

You're alive.

Hey, John.

Hello, Stan. Hey, Billy.

Mr. Black?

You were right.
You made it off of Earth uninfected.

It was Earth force that infected you.

General Thompson used to be
commanding officer...

of an advanced bio weapons testing center
on Ceti Gamma I will...

which happens to also be
the center of operation...

for Pro Zeta corporation,
the source of your food supplies.

My guess is he was afraid of the truth
getting out when you did...

so he decided to cover his ass,
so he arranged...

to get infected shipments of food
onto your ship...

while you stopped for supplies
on the last leg of your trip here.

So what Earth force couldn't have,
they wanted to destroy.

Despite the fact that Earth was dying,
all they really cared about...

was keeping their dirty little secrets.

I don't want to give them that satisfaction.

So I'm giving you a chance.

I've put a reconnaissance satellite in orbit.

The doctor can get authorizations
to quarantine the planet...

now that the plague has jumped species
and has infected some native fauna.

Anyone approaching will be warned away.

What about our ship?

I saw it explode.

Yes, that.

The captain used a sub-channel
to send us information...

he discovered
about our cybernetic enhancements.

He also showed us
that we were infected by Earth force.

We then left the ship
before it was destroyed.

My orders were to make sure
that you don't spread the infection.

Without your ship, that problem is solved.

And as far as Earth force is concerned,
you're all officially dead.

Consider it the gift of reincarnation.

But if you try to leave, I'll know.

The satellite is set up to monitor
any attempt to leave here.

So don't screw up.

Thank you.

You're not going to tell me
how you found out...

about the cybernetic enhancements,
are you?

Why? You weren't planning on telling us
about finding your people on Theta 49.

Point taken. How did you--

Chambers told me.

She's a doctor, so she has to do
what she thinks is in their best interest...

even in the face of certain threats
made in the heat of emotion...

which I'm sure someone might want
to take back in calmer moments.

I can understand why you would want
to keep this from me...

but we've got to trust each other.

At least a little.

I trust Chambers as a doctor.
I don't trust who she reports to.

-She reports to me.
-That's not the point.

I don't trust your generals
any more than you do.

What I meant is
you should trust me enough...

to decide who needs to know what.

Granted, I'm a bit eccentric,
as captains go.

-Yeah, you gamble.
-Yeah.

-You cheat.
-That's subjective.

-You never tell anyone the whole truth.
-And who does?

All right. But I want a secret for a secret.

It's only fair.

What do you want to know?

How did you find out
about their cybernetic implants?

I have an advantage.

I've always been one to associate myself
with troublemakers, like yourself.

There's a benefit in knowing people
in high places.

Some of them I consider friends.

Then one day I was playing
a game of sharks against one of these...

individuals.

We were four sheets to the wind,
could barely hold the dice...

and we decided to raise the stakes.

We played for access to his security codes.

He lost.

I've never compromised his position...

but they do come in handy
from time to time.

There.

Now you have something for collateral.

But even without that, I wouldn't
compromise your people, Dureena.

I may palm a card off the table
from time to time...

but killing off your trust...

isn't a fair game.

Max, if you have something to say,
just say it.

I happened to be in the map room...

and I noticed a number of life forms
very similar to Dureena's on the scanner...

when she called you down
to check out the fauna.

Don't you think you have an obligation
to the Captain to tell him what you found?

Who you found?

What makes you think I haven't?

Then you won't mind if I tell my people?

That's my call, not yours.

The folks back home should
know about this.

This is a decision that means...

the continuation or the extinction
of an entire race.

-Dureena's race.
-Don't you think I realize that?

I don't need you
to help me make a decision like this.

You're the one butting in
where you don't belong.

Now I appreciate your concern,
but I know full well what's motivating it.

You just want to take credit
for finding them.

You have no real compassion...

just a wallet where your heart should be.

Now, if you don't mind, I have work to do.

It's late.

I wasn't expecting anyone to come by.

-Especially you.
-Yeah, I know.

I came by because...

I may have been more upset
than I should've been back on the planet.

So, you know, I figured I'd stop by.

You're forgiven.

About my people and the plague...

how much time do they have left?

One year.

I'm sorry. I finished the final analysis.

The plague uses a template as a basis.

While it works slow on human biology,
it works faster on your species than ours.

You were right...

about doubling our efforts.

I'll do everything I can for your people.

I swear it on my life.

No.

Swear it on theirs.

To close my report,
I'd like to make one note for the record.

That not all of the colonists on Theta 49
were killed in the explosion today.

A detailed surface scan
of the planet indicates...

that there is another race
living there as well.

Suggest that the Corporation check it out
one of these days.

Report complete. Ready to send.

Last entry deleted.

To close my report,
we found nothing of interest on Theta 49.