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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Throughout their budding relationship, Sheridan has been enamored at Delenn, concerned for her safety, amused by her humor. When confronting her about just the possibility of Anna being alive the entire time, this is the first he's ''pissed and yelling'' at her.
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* WhatTheHellHero: This is the most we've seen Sheridan pissed at Delenn for keeping quiet even the possibility of his wife being alive, denying him the choice of whether to go to Z'Ha'Dum with Anna.
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* TakenDuringTheEnding - Garabaldi is in a fighter trying to defend the station in this season finale. His fighter gets swallowed by a Shadow ship [[spoiler:and is taken to be brainwashed]].
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* TakenDuringTheEnding - Garabaldi is in a fighter trying to defend the station in this season finale. His fighter gets swallowed by a Shadow ship [[spoiler:and he is taken to be brainwashed]].
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* TakenDuringTheEnding - Garabaldi is in a fighter trying to defend the station in this season finale. His fighter gets swallowed by a Shadow ship [[spoiler:and is taken to be brainwashed]].
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* HistoryRepeatsItself: Justin says that every time the Shadow War cycle repeat itself, there's ''always'' somebody like Sheridan -- somebody who inevitability steps up to try and rally the Younger Races. The Shadows have had enough experience at this point in the Cycle to know how to defuse this recurrence.
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* HistoryRepeatsItself: Justin says that every time the Shadow War cycle repeat itself, there's ''always'' somebody like Sheridan -- somebody who inevitability inevitably steps up to try and rally the Younger Races. The Shadows have had enough experience at this point in the Cycle to know how to defuse this recurrence.
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* HistoryRepeatsItself: Justin says that every time the Shadow War cycle repeat itself, there's always somebody who steps up to try and rally the Younger Races. The Shadows have had enough experience at this point in the Cycle to know how to defuse this recurrence.
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* HistoryRepeatsItself: Justin says that every time the Shadow War cycle repeat itself, there's always ''always'' somebody like Sheridan -- somebody who inevitability steps up to try and rally the Younger Races. The Shadows have had enough experience at this point in the Cycle to know how to defuse this recurrence.
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* HistoryRepeatsItself: Justin says that every time the Shadow War cycle repeat itself, there's always somebody who steps up to try and rally the Younger Races. The Shadows have had enough experience at this point in the Cycle to know how to defuse this recurrence.
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** When G'Kar briefs Ivanova on the Gaim thermonuclear weapons, he states that they're only detectable by sensors if you know what you're looking for. This sets up how the Shadows at Z'ha'dum didn't realize the ''White Star'' was secretly packing nuclear heat until it was too late.
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** When G'Kar briefs Ivanova on the Gaim thermonuclear weapons, he states that they're impervious to sensors; they're only detectable by sensors if you know what you're looking for. for. This sets up and explains how the Shadows at Z'ha'dum FailedASpotCheck and didn't realize the ''White Star'' was secretly packing nuclear heat until it was too late.
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* DramaPreservingHandicap: When the Shadow flotilla swarms Babylon 5, they deploy jamming technology which prevents Ivanova from contacting Draal and getting help from Epsilon III.
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* SocialDarwinist: The Shadows' philosophy is to promote war among the other races to promote evolution and regard the Vorlons as authoritarians. Of course, they come across as NotSoDifferent hypocrites when it is revealed that those who do not serve them willing are instead forced into servitude.
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* SocialDarwinist: The Shadows' philosophy is to promote war among the other races to promote evolution and regard the Vorlons as authoritarians. Of course, they come across as NotSoDifferent hypocrites when it is revealed that those who do not serve them willing are instead forced into servitude.
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* CastingGag: Anna Sheridan is played by Bruce Boxleitner's wife at the moment, Melissa Gilbert. In fact, the wedding photos seen in this episode are copies of their actual wedding photos (slightly retouched to update the fashions to the 23rd century).
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* CastingGag: Anna Sheridan is played by Bruce Boxleitner's wife at the moment, then-wife, Melissa Gilbert. In fact, the wedding photos seen in this episode are copies of their actual wedding photos (slightly retouched to update the fashions to the 23rd century).
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sheridan asks why the Shadows wouldn't just kill him; Justin replies that Sheridan would just become a martyr that way, and someone would just take his place. [[spoiler:This is {{Foreshadowing}} to the fourth season, where Sheridan is captured by the Earth Alliance, and Ivanova does indeed take his place. It's also all but stated that the Shadows would resort to brainwashing if Sheridan failed to comply willingly, which also foreshadows his predicament in the fourth season.]]
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sheridan asks why the Shadows wouldn't just kill him; Justin replies that Sheridan would just become a martyr that way, and someone would just take his place. [[spoiler:This is {{Foreshadowing}} to the fourth season, where Sheridan is captured by the Earth Alliance, and Ivanova does indeed take his place. It's also all but stated that the Shadows would resort to brainwashing if Sheridan failed to comply willingly, which also foreshadows his predicament in the fourth season.]]
* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: When Sheridan accuses the Shadows of wiping out entire races, Justin goes so far to admit that some have been "lost". He finds it "unfortunate", and feels that it can't be easy [[ItsAllAboutMe for the Shadows.]]
* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: When Sheridan accuses the Shadows of wiping out entire races, Justin goes so far to admit that some have been "lost". He finds it "unfortunate", and feels that it can't be easy [[ItsAllAboutMe for the Shadows.]]
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* WhamEpisodeWhamEpisode: Boy howdy. At the end of the episode, Sheridan has brought destruction to the Shadow homeworld at the cost of what seems to be his own life, Garibaldi is captured, and Anna Sheridan has turned out to be no more than a Shadow puppet. The episode ends with a very unsettled air.
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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: As Anna and Sheridan leave on the White Star, he cheerfully announces, ''"Next stop, Z'ha'dum!''" Anna looks forwards toward their destination with a smile, but as soon as she looks away from him, Sheridan is [[DeathGlare NOT smiling]] anymore.
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* RevealingHug: When Anna hugs Sheridan, his smile fades as he looks across to the medical reports on her.
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* RevealingHug: When Anna hugs Sheridan, his smile fades as he looks glances across to the Dr. Franklin's medical reports on her.her that he'd been looking at moments before.
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* SocialDarwinist: The Shadows' philosophy is to promote war among the other races to promote evolution and regard the Vorlon's as authoritarians. Of course, they come across as NotSoDifferent hypocrites when it is revealed that those who do not serve them willing are instead forced into servitude.
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* SocialDarwinist: The Shadows' philosophy is to promote war among the other races to promote evolution and regard the Vorlon's Vorlons as authoritarians. Of course, they come across as NotSoDifferent hypocrites when it is revealed that those who do not serve them willing are instead forced into servitude.
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* CastingGag: Anna Sheridan is played by Bruce Boxleitner's wife at the moment, Melissa Gilbert. In fact, the wedding photos seen in this episode are copies of their actual wedding photos (slightly retouched to update the fashions to the 23rd century).
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* RevealingHug: When Anna hugs Sheridan, his smile fades as he looks across to the medical reports on her.
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* ScreamingWoman: Anna Sheridan meets the incoming ''White Star'' with a particularly undignified slow-motion shriek, RetConned by the Technomage trilogy into a "[[ScreamingWarrior battle]] [[DefiantToTheEnd scream]]".
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* ScreamingWoman: Anna Sheridan meets the incoming ''White Star'' with a particularly undignified slow-motion shriek, RetConned by the Technomage trilogy into a "[[ScreamingWarrior battle]] [[DefiantToTheEnd scream]]". Given that the White Star was about to unleash a gigaton of nuclear explosion on her and the city she was in, it's not like she could have done more than that.
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* CastingGag: Anna Sheridan is played by Bruce Boxleitner's wife at the moment, Melissa Gilbert. In fact, the wedding photos seen in this episode are copies of their actual wedding photos (slightly retouched to update the fashions to the 23rd century).
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*AllThereInTheManual: The novel ''The Shadow Within'' reveals more details about Anna's fateful trip to Z'ha'dum and the fate of the ''Icarus'' crew.
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Once it is established that Anna Sheridan is [[StepfordSmiler no longer the woman John fell in love with and married years ago]], Sheridan sets off a nuclear bomb that vaporizes her along with most of the surrounding city. Unusually for this trope, this knocks out two of the three pegs of the LoveTriangle [[spoiler:temporarily]].
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Once it is established that Anna Sheridan is [[StepfordSmiler [[DeathOfPersonality no longer the woman John fell in love with and married years ago]], Sheridan sets off a nuclear bomb that vaporizes her along with most of the surrounding city. Unusually for this trope, this knocks out two of the three pegs of the LoveTriangle [[spoiler:temporarily]].
*SocialDarwinist: The Shadows' philosophy is to promote war among the other races to promote evolution and regard the Vorlon's as authoritarians. Of course, they come across as NotSoDifferent hypocrites when it is revealed that those who do not serve them willing are instead forced into servitude.
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* StepfordSmiler: Anna Sheridan.
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* StepfordSmiler: Anna Sheridan.Sheridan, thanks to the DeathOfPersonality she suffered after being plugged into a Shadow vessel.
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-->'''G’Kar''': It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. All around us, it was as if the Universe were holding its breath, waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition, or moments of revelation. This had the feeling of both. G’Quon wrote, “There is a greater darkness than the one we fight, it is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers or principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.”
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-->'''G’Kar''': It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. All around us, it was as if the Universe were holding its breath, waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition, or moments of revelation. This had the feeling of both. G’Quon wrote, “There is a greater darkness than the one we fight, it is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. " The war we fight is not against powers or principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.”
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* EmptyQuiver: G'Kar alerts Ivanova that two of their newly acquired arsenal of nuclear warheads have gone missing. Unbeknownst to them, Sheridan has taken them for his mission.
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Once it is established that Anna Sheridan is [[StepfordSmiler no longer the woman John fell in love with and married years ago]], Sheridan sets off a nuclear bomb that vaporizes her along with most of the surrounding city.
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Once it is established that Anna Sheridan is [[StepfordSmiler no longer the woman John fell in love with and married years ago]], Sheridan sets off a nuclear bomb that vaporizes her along with most of the surrounding city. Unusually for this trope, this knocks out two of the three pegs of the LoveTriangle [[spoiler:temporarily]].
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--> '''G'Kar:''' That's just it; two of them are missing!
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--> '''G'Kar:''' That's just it; [[EmptyQuiver two of them are missing!missing!]]
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Moments before the White Star hits, Sheridan hears Kosh’s voice, “Jump, jump, now!” He jumps down the chasm, moments before the White Star crashes through the dome and the devices detonate. Back on the station, the Shadows suddenly leave which can only mean…they’re no longer a threat.
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Moments before the White Star hits, Sheridan hears Kosh’s voice, “Jump, jump, now!” He jumps down the chasm, moments before just as the White Star crashes through the dome and the devices detonate. Back on the station, at Babylon 5, the Shadows suddenly leave without destroying the station which can only mean…they’re no longer a threat.
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Misuse. It\'s Genre Savvy, not just \"savvy\".
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* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Sheridan realizes that the visit to Z'ha'dum is probably a trap, but he still feels he has to make the attempt. He also [[GenreSavvy comes prepared for the trap]], at least twice over (see both BatmanGambit and NuclearOption).
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* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Sheridan realizes that the visit to Z'ha'dum is probably a trap, but he still feels he has to make the attempt. He also [[GenreSavvy comes prepared for the trap]], trap, at least twice over (see both BatmanGambit and NuclearOption).
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* {{Padding}}: [[WordOfGod JMS admits in his commentary]] that Sheridan and Justin's conversation goes on too long.
* PlayingAgainstType: [[LittleHouseOnThePrairie Laura Ingalls]] is luring Sheridan to the Shadows homeworld.
* PlayingAgainstType: [[LittleHouseOnThePrairie Laura Ingalls]] is luring Sheridan to the Shadows homeworld.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Anna Sheridan was originally played by Beth Toussaint (when she appeared in a flashback in ''[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E02Revelations Revelations]]'').
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Anna Sheridan shows up while Sheridan and Delenn are in his quarters. He’s absolutely stunned to see his supposedly dead wife standing there like nothing’s happened. Delenn makes a hasty exit. Anna keeps him from going after her, apologizing for not being able to tell him anything, and tries to convince him to come with her to Z’Ha’Dum, where they will explain everything.
G’Kar shows Ivanova some new toys, a batch of 500 megaton nuclear devices that will not show up on the usual scans. Perfect for ambushing the Shadows the next time they attack.
Anna is in Medlab being examined. Franklin can’t find anything out of the ordinary, everything says it really is her. Sheridan is still not quite ready to believe it, and Franklin decides to run some tests on an area of scarring on her neck and Sheridan tells him to do it.
-->'''Sheridan''': If this is a trick, I’m going to take it out of someone’s hide, but if it’s not, and that really is Anna…I have to know Stephen.
He then goes to talk to Delenn. She isn’t able to say if it is Anna or not; all she can say is that those who would not serve were killed and she assumed Anna would not serve. Otherwise she has no explanation. Sheridan nearly blows up, especially when she says that if he’d thought she was alive, he would have gone to Z’Ha’Dum after her. Delenn assures him she didn’t know Anna was alive, but even then she admits she might not have told him. Sheridan demands to know how he can trust her after that. As he gets up to leave, Delenn pleads with him to believe that she does love him. Sheridan leaves without another word.
Londo is getting drunk when Vir finds him. He’s been promoted. He’s been offered a position as advisor to the emperor on planetary security, but Londo doesn’t think it’s because he’s actually earned it. He’s gotten to be too dangerous, so they’re bringing him back home where he’ll be easier to watch. He’s about to get another drink when a strange man comes up and tells him to get off the station immediately, if he values his life.
Meanwhile, Franklin compares Anna’s scarring to the Shadow implants on the telepaths they found and they match.
In Sheridan’s quarters Anna tries again to convince Sheridan to come with her. She insists she can’t explain here, and he has to come to Z’Ha’Dum. Sheridan insists on knowing what happened to the Icarus before he goes anywhere, if she tells him he’ll go. Anna begins telling a little about the Icarus’ mission, how they had gotten the coordinates from a tracking device placed on the Shadow ship found on Mars. The mission lead, Dr. Chang was under orders to keep this information top secret. Soon after landing, they detected an energy source, which led them to the Shadows. Shortly after she says there was an accident which destroyed the Icarus and stranded them there. The Shadows were kind enough to take them in. She again insists Sheridan come with her so he can learn the truth, and he finally agrees, glancing at Franklin’s report as he does.
Later Garibaldi comes to meet him in his office, where he asks for a few favors, get the White Star’s crew onto the station so they can process them for identicards, and something else which he puts on a datapad and stops Garibaldi in his tracks when he reads it. Sheridan asks him to just do it without question, and if he has, they’ll talk about the weather.
As the White Star crew are ferried off, Sheridan prepares himself, checking the charge on his PPG, and then strapping a spare to his leg. As he pauses in front of the mirror, he suddenly sees and hears Kosh, “If you go to Z’Ha’Dum you will die.” He whips around but the room is empty. Before leaving, he records a message to Delenn. As he and Anna head out, Garibaldi meets him and tells him it’s snowing in New York. They bid each other farewell and then he and Anna continue on. “Next stop, Z’Ha’Dum.”
As they fly through hyperspace, Anna examines the White Star, not looking happy. It’s partially Vorlon technology, and they Shadows think they’ll die if anything Vorlon touches their world. Sheridan says he’ll leave it in orbit and they’ll take the shuttle down.
Once there, they land and make their way to an underground facility which Anna says was built for them. Before they continue, she asks for his gun, and he obliges. She leads him to a room where the “others” are waiting, Morden, who looks simply thrilled to see Sheridan again, and an older man who introduces himself as Justin.
Back on the station, Sheridan’s message starts playing in Delenn’s quarters, telling her that he’s gone to Z’Ha’Dum with Anna, much to her horror. He also tells her about his experience in the future where he saw a devastated Centauri Prime, and wondered if it was because he hadn’t gone. So he’s there, knowing full well it’s probably a trap.
Justin and the others begin telling Sheridan what’s going on from their side, how they come out every now and then and “kick over all the anthills”, starting wars and conflict to force the younger races to change and develop. They are at odds with the Vorlons, who believe in order and structure, on how to do this.
On Babylon 5 a series of disturbances herald the arrival of the Shadows who surround the station on all sides but don’t attack. Ivanova launches all fighters, while Justin, Morden and Anna continue working on Sheridan, telling him the Vorlons have been manipulating all the races, even modifying them, which is why telepaths suddenly appeared a hundred years ago. Justin urges Sheridan to side with them, or they’ll remove his support mechanism.
Said support is wondering why the Shadows haven’t attacked yet as Garibaldi launches in a Starfury and C&C tries to get through to Draal.
Justin finally gets to the ultimatum. Sheridan is a hindrance to their plans but they don’t want to kill him just yet, they still hope to bring him over. Sheridan, on the other hand, has had about enough. He’s known what really happened to Anna the whole time; she was put into one of the Shadow ships as its central core, which destroyed her real personality. Justin admits he’s right, and that she made the wrong choice. One of the Shadows comes in and creeps up behind Sheridan, who turns and fires.
G’Kar comes up to C&C and Ivanova asks if they can get the nukes outside, but he came to tell her that two of the devices are missing.
Sheridan, wounded and bloodied, makes his way to an overlook above a deep chasm. Overhead, is a large glass dome, and he sends a signal to the White Star. Anna appears behind him, and tries to appeal to him one more time.
Sheridan’s message to Delenn finishes with him telling her he loves her. As it closes she collapses in tears.
Moments before the White Star hits, Sheridan hears Kosh’s voice, “Jump, jump, now!” He jumps down the chasm, moments before the White Star crashes through the dome and the devices detonate. Back on the station, the Shadows suddenly leave which can only mean…they’re no longer a threat.
-->'''Ivanova''': He’s gone!
As Delenn stares forlornly at a candle, Corwin give Ivanova the news that there’s been no word from the White Star, which has probably been destroyed, and that Garibaldi’s fighter is missing, and on Z’Ha’Dum the Shadows survey the damage to their world.
-->'''G’Kar''': It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. All around us, it was as if the Universe were holding its breath, waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition, or moments of revelation. This had the feeling of both. G’Quon wrote, “There is a greater darkness than the one we fight, it is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers or principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.”
G’Kar shows Ivanova some new toys, a batch of 500 megaton nuclear devices that will not show up on the usual scans. Perfect for ambushing the Shadows the next time they attack.
Anna is in Medlab being examined. Franklin can’t find anything out of the ordinary, everything says it really is her. Sheridan is still not quite ready to believe it, and Franklin decides to run some tests on an area of scarring on her neck and Sheridan tells him to do it.
-->'''Sheridan''': If this is a trick, I’m going to take it out of someone’s hide, but if it’s not, and that really is Anna…I have to know Stephen.
He then goes to talk to Delenn. She isn’t able to say if it is Anna or not; all she can say is that those who would not serve were killed and she assumed Anna would not serve. Otherwise she has no explanation. Sheridan nearly blows up, especially when she says that if he’d thought she was alive, he would have gone to Z’Ha’Dum after her. Delenn assures him she didn’t know Anna was alive, but even then she admits she might not have told him. Sheridan demands to know how he can trust her after that. As he gets up to leave, Delenn pleads with him to believe that she does love him. Sheridan leaves without another word.
Londo is getting drunk when Vir finds him. He’s been promoted. He’s been offered a position as advisor to the emperor on planetary security, but Londo doesn’t think it’s because he’s actually earned it. He’s gotten to be too dangerous, so they’re bringing him back home where he’ll be easier to watch. He’s about to get another drink when a strange man comes up and tells him to get off the station immediately, if he values his life.
Meanwhile, Franklin compares Anna’s scarring to the Shadow implants on the telepaths they found and they match.
In Sheridan’s quarters Anna tries again to convince Sheridan to come with her. She insists she can’t explain here, and he has to come to Z’Ha’Dum. Sheridan insists on knowing what happened to the Icarus before he goes anywhere, if she tells him he’ll go. Anna begins telling a little about the Icarus’ mission, how they had gotten the coordinates from a tracking device placed on the Shadow ship found on Mars. The mission lead, Dr. Chang was under orders to keep this information top secret. Soon after landing, they detected an energy source, which led them to the Shadows. Shortly after she says there was an accident which destroyed the Icarus and stranded them there. The Shadows were kind enough to take them in. She again insists Sheridan come with her so he can learn the truth, and he finally agrees, glancing at Franklin’s report as he does.
Later Garibaldi comes to meet him in his office, where he asks for a few favors, get the White Star’s crew onto the station so they can process them for identicards, and something else which he puts on a datapad and stops Garibaldi in his tracks when he reads it. Sheridan asks him to just do it without question, and if he has, they’ll talk about the weather.
As the White Star crew are ferried off, Sheridan prepares himself, checking the charge on his PPG, and then strapping a spare to his leg. As he pauses in front of the mirror, he suddenly sees and hears Kosh, “If you go to Z’Ha’Dum you will die.” He whips around but the room is empty. Before leaving, he records a message to Delenn. As he and Anna head out, Garibaldi meets him and tells him it’s snowing in New York. They bid each other farewell and then he and Anna continue on. “Next stop, Z’Ha’Dum.”
As they fly through hyperspace, Anna examines the White Star, not looking happy. It’s partially Vorlon technology, and they Shadows think they’ll die if anything Vorlon touches their world. Sheridan says he’ll leave it in orbit and they’ll take the shuttle down.
Once there, they land and make their way to an underground facility which Anna says was built for them. Before they continue, she asks for his gun, and he obliges. She leads him to a room where the “others” are waiting, Morden, who looks simply thrilled to see Sheridan again, and an older man who introduces himself as Justin.
Back on the station, Sheridan’s message starts playing in Delenn’s quarters, telling her that he’s gone to Z’Ha’Dum with Anna, much to her horror. He also tells her about his experience in the future where he saw a devastated Centauri Prime, and wondered if it was because he hadn’t gone. So he’s there, knowing full well it’s probably a trap.
Justin and the others begin telling Sheridan what’s going on from their side, how they come out every now and then and “kick over all the anthills”, starting wars and conflict to force the younger races to change and develop. They are at odds with the Vorlons, who believe in order and structure, on how to do this.
On Babylon 5 a series of disturbances herald the arrival of the Shadows who surround the station on all sides but don’t attack. Ivanova launches all fighters, while Justin, Morden and Anna continue working on Sheridan, telling him the Vorlons have been manipulating all the races, even modifying them, which is why telepaths suddenly appeared a hundred years ago. Justin urges Sheridan to side with them, or they’ll remove his support mechanism.
Said support is wondering why the Shadows haven’t attacked yet as Garibaldi launches in a Starfury and C&C tries to get through to Draal.
Justin finally gets to the ultimatum. Sheridan is a hindrance to their plans but they don’t want to kill him just yet, they still hope to bring him over. Sheridan, on the other hand, has had about enough. He’s known what really happened to Anna the whole time; she was put into one of the Shadow ships as its central core, which destroyed her real personality. Justin admits he’s right, and that she made the wrong choice. One of the Shadows comes in and creeps up behind Sheridan, who turns and fires.
G’Kar comes up to C&C and Ivanova asks if they can get the nukes outside, but he came to tell her that two of the devices are missing.
Sheridan, wounded and bloodied, makes his way to an overlook above a deep chasm. Overhead, is a large glass dome, and he sends a signal to the White Star. Anna appears behind him, and tries to appeal to him one more time.
Sheridan’s message to Delenn finishes with him telling her he loves her. As it closes she collapses in tears.
Moments before the White Star hits, Sheridan hears Kosh’s voice, “Jump, jump, now!” He jumps down the chasm, moments before the White Star crashes through the dome and the devices detonate. Back on the station, the Shadows suddenly leave which can only mean…they’re no longer a threat.
-->'''Ivanova''': He’s gone!
As Delenn stares forlornly at a candle, Corwin give Ivanova the news that there’s been no word from the White Star, which has probably been destroyed, and that Garibaldi’s fighter is missing, and on Z’Ha’Dum the Shadows survey the damage to their world.
-->'''G’Kar''': It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. All around us, it was as if the Universe were holding its breath, waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition, or moments of revelation. This had the feeling of both. G’Quon wrote, “There is a greater darkness than the one we fight, it is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers or principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.”
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* BittersweetEnding: Captain Sheridan deals a devestating blow to the Shadows, [[SuicideMission in exchange for his own life.]] The Shadows withdraw and leave Babylon 5 unharmed, but Garibaldi goes missing.
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* BittersweetEnding: Captain Sheridan deals a devestating devastating blow to the Shadows, [[SuicideMission in exchange for his own life.]] The Shadows withdraw and leave Babylon 5 unharmed, but Garibaldi goes missing.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: John Sheridan refuses to join the Shadows voluntarily, and sees to it that they can't force him to join like they did to Anna.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: DefiantToTheEnd:
** John Sheridan refuses to join the Shadows voluntarily, and sees to it that they can't force him to join like they did to Anna.
** John Sheridan refuses to join the Shadows voluntarily, and sees to it that they can't force him to join like they did to Anna.
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** [[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E11AllAloneInTheNight Sheridan's dream]] mentioned "The man in between" searching for him. [[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E21ShadowDancing Delenn believed]] the man in between to be Sheridan's equal and opposite. Justin introduces himself as a "middle-man" for the Shadows, and he's clearly the one in charge here.
** Franklin realizes what's wrong with Anna when he compares the scarring on her neck to [[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E14ShipOfTears Shadow implants]].
** Franklin realizes what's wrong with Anna when he compares the scarring on her neck to [[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E14ShipOfTears Shadow implants]].
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* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E11AllAloneInTheNight Sheridan's dream]] mentioned "The man in between" searching for him. [[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E21ShadowDancing Delenn believed]] the man in between to be Sheridan's equal and opposite. Justin introduces himself as a "middle-man" for the Shadows, and he's clearly the one in charge here.
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The change in the scream\'s meaning was a far later addition which contrasts sharply with the actress\'s performance in the episode, making its status as a retcon worth noting
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* ScreamingWoman: Anna Sheridan meets the incoming ''White Star'' with her [[ScreamingWarrior battle]] [[DefiantToTheEnd scream]][[note]]As per the Technomage trilogy[[/note]].
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* ScreamingWoman: Anna Sheridan meets the incoming ''White Star'' with her [[ScreamingWarrior a particularly undignified slow-motion shriek, RetConned by the Technomage trilogy into a "[[ScreamingWarrior battle]] [[DefiantToTheEnd scream]][[note]]As per the Technomage trilogy[[/note]].scream]]".
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** [[spoiler: It gets better...the ACTUAL destruction occurs when TouchedByVorlons Lyta purposely activates a self-destruct a few episodes later]]
** Sheridan says he will skin someone's hide if this is a trick. It is a trick. He blows up Za'Ha'Dum's biggest city.
** Sheridan says he will skin someone's hide if this is a trick. It is a trick. He blows up Za'Ha'Dum's biggest city.
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** [[spoiler: It gets better...the ACTUAL an even more complete destruction occurs when TouchedByVorlons Lyta purposely activates a self-destruct a few episodes later]]
later.]]
** Sheridan says he willskin "skin someone's hide hide" if this is a trick. It is ''is'' a trick. He blows up Za'Ha'Dum's biggest city.
** Sheridan says he will
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Sheridan escaping from the Shadows with only a PPG. He's in a lot worse shape the next time we see him.
* {{Padding}}: JMS admits in his commentary that Sheridan and Justin's conversation goes on too long.
* {{Padding}}: JMS admits in his commentary that Sheridan and Justin's conversation goes on too long.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Sheridan escaping from the Shadows with only a PPG. He's in a lot worse shape the next time we see him.
him. [[WordOfGod Even JMS, in the DVD commentary, admits it was a cop-out]].
* {{Padding}}: [[WordOfGod JMS admits in hiscommentary commentary]] that Sheridan and Justin's conversation goes on too long.
* {{Padding}}: [[WordOfGod JMS admits in his
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** JMS explains it. Basically, they need the large domes for shipping.
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** [[WordOfGod JMS explains it.it]]. Basically, they need the large domes for shipping.
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* WhamLine: The moment we finally learn just how prepared Sheridan was for the trap... is a single line by G'Kar regarding the nuclear devices that he'd shown Ivanova in the beginning of the episode:
--> '''G'Kar:''' That's just it; two of them are missing!
--> '''G'Kar:''' That's just it; two of them are missing!
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They\'re kinda sorta in the middle of a war and are threatening to brainwash him too.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The Shadows brainwashed John's wife. He proceeds to blow up their biggest major city.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The Shadows brainwashed John's wife. He proceeds to blow up their biggest major city.
