History Recap / BabylonFiveS03E19GreySeventeenIsMissing

Garibaldi is going over the area of the disappearance with the maintenance supervisor, but she claims there’s no trace after looking through all twenty-nine levels. Wait, twenty-nine? Garibaldi says there’s thirty, but she dismisses it as a mistake in the blueprint.

Garibaldi, who can never let these things go, gets in a tube and begins going down to each level, counting how long it takes to transition between each one, 3 seconds each.

Garibaldi is going over the area of the disappearance with the maintenance supervisor, but she claims there’s no trace after looking through all twenty-nine levels. Garibaldi says there’s thirty, but she dismisses it as a mistake in the blueprint.

Lennier goes to Marcus for help, since this way he can break his promise without breaking his promise. He tells the ranger what he thinks Neroon is up to, and the possible repercussions. If a Minbari of one caste kills another, even attempts to, it could lead to civil war. As such he cannot go after Neroon himself and so he comes to Marcus, he need only delay him until the ceremony is complete. Marcus asks when and where.

Garibaldi comes to surrounded by a group of strange people. Their leader, Jeremiah, begins rambling on about the nature of the universe.

Garibaldi is trying to find a way out, while Jeremiah follows him around, still going on about the universe until Garibaldi has had enough. He fakes side effects from the tranq then overpowers Jeremiah's followers. then forces him to tell him the way out.

The ceremony is just finishing up when Neroon comes in throws his staff, red with blood, down at Delenn’s feet.

Garibaldi managed somehow to find a way out and comes to Sheridan’s office. The captain demands to know where he’s been especially since someone turned out to have been trying to kill Delenn. Garibaldi sits down and tries to explain just what he’d gone through about the missing worker, the sealed off level, the cult, the zarg, and the purity of the universe as Sheridan sits there with a bewildered look on his face.

** At the end of the episode, Marcus asks Neroon to find a less uncomfortable method for any future revelations he has. Neroon [[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E14MomentsOfTransition rather spectacularly]] fails to.

* MissingFloor: Turns out there's an extra level between Grey 16 and Grey 17. Garibaldi finds it by counting the time it takes to go from one level to the next--usually it takes three seconds, but between those two floors it takes twice as long.

** At the end of the episode, Marcus asks Neroon to find a less uncomfortable method for any future revelations he has. Neroon [[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E14MomentsOfTransition rather spectacularly]] [[spoiler: fails to]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end of the episode, Marcus asks Neroon to find a less uncomfortable method for any future revelations he has. Neroon [[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E14MomentsOfTransition rather spectacularly]] [[spoiler: fails to]].

In a dark corner of the station, Ivanova finds Stephen, who’s curled up enduring withdrawal. She gets him to give her his files on the underground railroad, on condition that she not send anyone else after him. He need to work this out alone.

Garibaldi is going over the area of disappearance with the maintenance supervisor, but she claims there’s no trace after looking through all twenty-nine levels. Garibaldi says there’s thirty, but she dismisses it as a mistake in the blueprint.

Garibaldi gets in a tube and begins going down to each level, counting how long it takes to transition between each one, 3 seconds each.

Garibaldi has gone through sixteen levels, when the transit from 16 to 17 suddenly takes six seconds, twice as long as normal. He goes back up, halts the tube after three seconds then overrides the doors, which open onto a trashed hall. As he steps in the tube doors close, effectively trapping him. He hears something and begins looking around until he finds a ventriloquist’s dummy, which shoots him with a tranq dart.

Garibaldi comes to surrounded by a group of strange people. Their leader, Jeremiah, who begins rambling on about the nature of the universe.

Sheridan is with Delenn as they await those who will be attending the ceremony. She begins reminiscing and Sheridan takes the opportunity to ask about her family, and she reminisces a bit about her father and mother.

As preparations continue for the ceremony, Neroon makes his move only to find Marcus waiting for him. Marcus declares that the only way to Delenn is through him and invokes Denn’sha, a Minbari duel to the Death. Neroon is compelled by honor to accept. As they duel, the ceremony begins.

Garibaldi is trying to find a way out, while Jeremiah follows him around, still going on about the universe until Garibaldi has had enough. He fakes side effect from the tranq then overpowers Jeremiahs followers, then forces him to tell him the way out.

The ceremony continues, but Lennier is clearly becoming worried about Marcus, who is currently getting pummeled by Neroon. As he gets a decisive advantage over the ranger, Neroon demand to know why.

The ceremony is just finishing up when Neroon comes in, his staff red with blood, which he throws down at Delenn’s feet.

Garibaldi is having a tough time as the Zarg finds them. He manages to drive it off with a loose steam pipe, but needs something better before it comes back. He still has the bullets from the gun, and manages to rig the pipe to shoot them at the thing, killing it. After making sure it’s dead, he drags Jeremiah off to find a way out.
As Marcus lies in Medlab, Delenn and Lennier are talking when Neroon shows up. He assures them he has no intention of killing Marcus and wants a word with him, alone.

As he looks at the unconscious human, he muses how their duel did end in death, the death of his resolve in seeing Marcus act more like a Minbari than himself. Perhaps Delenn was right all along. As he turns to leave, he hears a voice.

Garibaldi managed to find a way out and comes to Sheridan’s office. The captain demand to know where he’s been especially since someone turned out to have been trying to kill Delenn. Garibaldi sits down and tries to explain just what he’d gone through about the missing worker, the sealed off level, the cult, the zarg, the purity of the universe, and Sheridan sits there with a baffled look on his face.

* ExactWords: The duel to the death did not end with the death of either of the fighters but in the death of Neroon's resolve following his HeelRealization.
* ExcessiveSteamSyndrome: Garibaldi used a broken steam pipe to build an improvised gun.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Sadly, the Zarg is perhaps the show's most prominent case of this.
** Making it worse is that the script specifically called for a {{Nothing Is Scarier}} approach where it would only be seen in shadows, but somehow the director got the idea to light the scene as brightly as possible.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Though Neroon's challenge to Delenn is...extreme, he had legitimate concerns about a member of the Religious Caste taking over the Rangers. While the Shadow threat is real, and her cause is noble, Delenn essentially dissolved the Minbari government, took 2/3rds of its military with her, and supplemented it with a race that they were at war with only twelve years ago. As he put it:
-->'''Neroon''': [[ChurchMilitant A religious zealot propelled by prophecy into a position of military and political power?]] Always a bad idea!

--->''I am a Ranger!'' We walk in the dark places that no one may enter. '''We stand on the bridge, and no one may pass.''' We live for the One; we ''die'' for the One!

* YouShallNotPass: Marcus invokes ''den'sha'' against Neroon, intending to delay him from crashing the ceremony until it is too late. [[spoiler:Neroon still makes it just before Delenn is declared Entil'zha, but by that point had undergone a HeelRealization--and in fact is the first one there to ''call'' Delenn Entil'zha.]]

-->'''Delenn''': We knew the Warrior caste was unhappy with our activities.
-->'''Lennier''': Unhappy? Delenn, he's planning to kill you.
-->'''Delenn''': That is...one interpretation.
-->'''Lennier''': He said he would use any and all means necessary. I respectfully suggest that he intends to go far beyond harsh language.

* HeelRealization: A minor but significant case; Neroon comes to understand that Delenn was right about humans and Minbari being more alike than different, and that she is the worthier leader because of the loyalty she earns from her subordinates. He says that Marcus, in what might have been his last moments, was "more Minbari than I".

-->'''Marcus''': I'm in awe, Lennier. The way can you take a straight-forward, logical proposition and turn it inside out so that in the end it says...what you want it to say instead of what it actually means. Did this come naturally or did you attend some martial arts class for the philosophically inclined?

-->'''Delenn''': That is .. one interpretation.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Discussed by Lennier and Marcus after Lennier explains how breaking his promise not to tell anyone about Neroon by telling Marcus is not really breaking his promise.

* YouAreInCommandNow: After Sinclair's...departure, Delenn is asked to take up leadership of the [[BadassArmy Rangers]]. This doesn't sit well with Neroon, who intends to challenge her.

-->'''Delenn''': We knew the Warrior caste was unhappy with our activities

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Sadly, the Zarg is perhaps the show's most prominant case of this.
* YouAreInCommandNow: After Sinclair's...departure, Delenn is asked to take up leadership of the [[BadassArmy Rangers]]. This doesn't sit well with Neroon, who intends to challenge her.

* ChekovsGun: not Garibaldi's Smith & Wesson, but rather, its bullets.

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Amidst Garibaldi's wandering through Grey Sector and Marcus and Neroon's fight, there's a scene of Delenn telling Sheridan about hear parents, ending with her leaning on his shoulder.

* YouAreInCommandNow: After Sinclair's...departure, Delenn is asked to take up leadership of the [[BadassArmy Rangers]].