Fridge / Babylon Five S 02 E 19 Divided Loyalties

• Why doesn't Sheridan at least ask if there's a way to reveal who has the Control personality without activating it?
• After Talia became Control, why did they just immediately let her leave the station and return to Psi Corps with what she knew? She had just fired a gun in Sheridan's office; they had every justification to put her in jail for a while.
  • They didn't want to force the issue. By arresting her, they risk her testifying what she knew about their illegal activities aboard the station, such as the Telepath Underground Railroad. By cutting her loose, they can keep their own knowledge of the Control program and some of the Psi Cops' other shenanigans as a chip in the game to keep the Psi Corps from acting.
• Did they have a plan for what they would do if Sheridan, Ivanova, or Garibaldi was Control? Send Control home to report on all their secrets? Leave a Psi Corps agent in a command position on Babylon 5?
  • They were playing it by ear. If it were Sheridan they were screwed anyway, Ivanova or Garibaldi they would probably have killed and staged an accident because they simply knew too much to risk it. Talia was never part of the inner circle, and while she had information about some moderately damaging things, she didn't have any truly damaging information about their conspiracy. She knew enough to inflict some hurt on them, but she didn't know enough to risk imprisoning or killing her.
• Talia wakes to find Ivanova isn't in bed with her. She's not wearing her gloves, indicating the high level of trust Ivanova has for her now. This also presents the implication that Ivanova took the gloves for the attack on Lyta.
  • This does bring up some Fridge Logic that Ivanova is worried about someone finding out she's a telepath, but willingly sleeping next to a Psi Corps telepath. Love Makes You Stupid indeed.
  • If Talia and Ivanova really had been intimate by that point, Talia may have already known Ivanova is a latent telepath. Recall Talia talking about what it's like when Telepaths make love, and how unlikely it is she'd fail to recognize that moment "when all of the voices stop."
• If Talia was Control why did she order a hit on herself in earlier in the Season? It failed but only by good fortune, not anything she did.
  • Perhaps the inner personality was afraid it had been discovered, and so engineered the hit to prevent the truth from coming out (with any final reports on what it had learned ready to be sent back to Psi Corps as a sort of Dead Man's Switch). It may also have been the case that her superiors believed they'd gotten all the information they needed (or they, in turn, thought she was about to be outed as The Mole) and so chose to eliminate her as a loose end. Or as a third alternative, she was confident she could survive the hit, and so engineered it to throw any suspicion off of herself.