History Recap / BabylonFiveS01E03BornToThePurple

* DyingReconcilliation: In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS01E03BornToThePurple Born to the Purple]]", Garibaldi discovers that the unauthorized activity on the gold communication channel is Commander Ivanova communicating with her dying father back on Earth. He unintentionally eavesdrops on Andrei Ivanov apologizing to her for an apparent estrangement and failures as a father, shortly before passing on.

'''Season 1, Episode 3''':

'''Season 1, Episode 3''':
!Born to the Purple

* DistractedByTheSexy: When G'Kar and Sinclair first confront Londo in the Dark Star, G'Kar keeps looking over his shoulder at the girl onstage.

* {{Blackmail}}: The Purple Files are a compilation of all the dirt on competing families that house Mollari has collected over the years...or centuries.

Londo arrives at Adira's quarters to find Trakis there. Trakis tells him that Adira has betrayed him, that she is actually a Narn agent who has stolen the Purple Files. When Londo asks what Trakis's stake is, he revelas that Adira is his slave. Londo hurries off, unaware that Trakis has planted a bug on his coat.

* ThoughtAversionFailure: Trakis is "warned" not to think about irrelevant facts such as Adira Tyree's current whereabouts while attending a telepath-monitored negotiation. Of course, that information then appears in Trakis's surface thoughts, where Talia can perceive it without deliberately probing (that being the limit of how far she was willing to bend [=PsiCorps=] rules).

* BackgroundMusic: For the first scene, with the rather meaningful lyrics: "Set me free".

Londo arrives at Adira's quarters to find Trakis there. Trakis tells him that Adira has betrayed him, that she is actually a Narn agent who has stolen the Purple Files. When Londo asks what Trakis' stake is, he revelas that Adira is his slave. Londo hurries off, unaware that Trakis has planted a bug on his coat.

* ThoughtAversionFailure: Trakis is "warned" not to think about irrelevant facts such as Adira Tyree's current whereabouts while attending a telepath-monitored negotiation. Of course, that information then appears in Trakis' surface thoughts, where Talia can perceive it without deliberately probing (that being the limit of how far she was willing to bend [=PsiCorps=] rules).

* NotSoDifferent: Both Londo and G'Kar instruct their aides not to give away the homeworld, quite independently of each other. They also briefly drink together in the agreement that "of all the things in life, are females not the finest?"

* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The reason Londo needs the Purple Files in the first place.

Londo sits in the [[BikiniBar Dark Star club]] watching a dance performance, when Commander Sinclair and G'Kar come up to him to discuss a treaty they will shortly begin talks on. Londo, who has better things to attend to at the moment, sets a meeting the next day. His attention, and G'Kar's, is then riveted to the stage as a lithe Centauri woman, Adira, begins performing. Londo watches in rapt attention, but G'Kar is distracted by the arrival of a Narn woman, Ko D'Ath, who introduces herself as his new attaché. That night Londo returns to his quarters to find Adira waiting for him. He chuckles and joins her in bed.

* NotSoDifferent: Both Londo and G'Kar instruct their aides not to give away the homeworld, quite independently of each other.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: We missed a major case of {{Getting Crap Past The Radar}}, as the original script specified a close-up shot of Adira's back with six slits visible, to be identified later in the season as [[spoiler:Centauri vaginas.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Isn't it hilarious how G'Kar was tricked into saving Londo's career? Not so much, actually, as [[spoiler:this will ultimately cause horrible suffering to his people.]]

* SpecialEffectFailure: The star laces are quite cheap-looking props.

* EnforcedMethodActing: None of the other actors knew Peter Jurasik was going to climb on the table during his drunken rant. Claudia Christian's reaction in particular is hilarious.

* EnforcedMethodActing: None of the other actors knew Peter Jurasik was going to climb on the table during his drunken rant.