Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode Guide by Rae Augenstein

#	Title	Synopsis
1	Midnight on the Firing Line	The Narn attack a Centauri outpost at Ragesh III. Londo’s nephew Carn Mollari is taken prisoner in the attack. Psi Corps telepath Talia Winters arrives and has no luck trying to make friends with Ivanova. Garibaldi tracks Raiders who are attacking cargo ships.
2	Soul Hunter	Delenn is pursued by a Soul Hunter, and Dr. Franklin arrives on Babylon 5 for his assignment as the head of the station’s medical facility.
3	Born to the Purple	Londo has an affair with a beautiful Centauri dancer who is after his Purple Files. Ivanova contacts her dying father. Garibaldi investigates unauthorized Gold Channel transmissions.
4	Infection	After exploring on the rim for Interplanetary Expeditions, a former teacher of Dr. Franklin’s arrives with some ancient biotechnology relics found on the planet Ikarra 7. One of the relics possesses the doctor’s assistant and attacks the station because he was programmed to destroy anything that wasn’t purely Ikarran. An ISN reporter relentlessly pursues Sinclair for an interview.
5	The Parliament of Dreams	Babylon 5 hosts a festival celebrating the religious diversity of the station’s inhabitants. Ambassador G’Kar receives a message that he is being stalked by an assassin on behalf of another Narn as retribution. This makes the ambassador very wary of his new aide, Na’Toth, until she helps him track down the real assassin. Sinclair’s former lover Catherine Sakai arrives in pursuit of business. Ambassador Delenn’s attaché Lennier arrives on Babylon 5, fresh from the temple. Londo hosts a demonstration of Centauri religion, a celebration thanking the gods for the Centauri victory over the Xon. Delenn hosts a Minbari ritual which doubles as a ceremony of rebirth and marriage. Sinclair and Sakai rekindle their romance.
6	Mind War	Psi Cops Bester and Kelsey pursue telepath Jason Ironheart, a former lover of Talia Winters. Ironheart eludes capture, and gives Talia a special gift. Catherine Sakai is determined to study the mineral deposits of Sigma 957, against the strong advice of G’Kar, and encounters something there which she cannot explain.
7	The War Prayer	Members of the Home Guard, an anti-alien, “Earth first” movement, begin attacking non-humans on Babylon 5. The victims include a Minbari poet who is a friend of Delenn, and a teenage Centauri couple who have fled to the station to avoid arranged marriages. Ivanova’s former lover Malcolm arrives on the station and wants to reconcile with her. However, she learns that he is behind the Home Guard attacks and works with Sinclair and Garibaldi to trap and arrest him and his group. Sinclair visits Ambassador Kosh in his quarters, where he sees the Vorlon viewing images from Earth’s past. Garibaldi intimates to Ivanova that unless she does a favor for him, he will have to destroy the coffee plants which are being illegally cultivated in the hydroponics garden.
8	And the Sky Full of Stars	Sinclair is kidnapped and interrogated by two mysterious agents who want to solve the mystery of his missing 24 hours during the Battle of the Line. Sinclair first realizes Delenn’s involvement.
9	Deathwalker	The war criminal Deathwalker visits B5 with an immortality serum. The League of Nonaligned Worlds is upset that she would be allowed to stay on the station since she was responsible for the destruction of many races. Kosh hires Talia Winters to mediate some seemingly meaningless talks between him and Abot the “VCR.”
10	Believers	An alien child with a life-threatening illness is brought to Dr. Franklin’s attention. The doctor must choose between saving the boy and honoring the family’s religious beliefs.
11	Survivors	While B5 prepares for a visit by Earth Alliance President Santiago, an explosion seriously damages one of the Cobra bays. Garibaldi is implicated in the accident by a dying man and has to fight against the head of Presidential security, who also blames him for her father’s death years ago.
12	By Any Means Necessary	A substandard microchip in a piece of docking equipment causes an explosion in the docking bay. The explosion destroys a Narn ship carrying a sacred plant necessary for G’Kar’s observance of the Days of G’Quon. Overworked dockworkers who are already upset due to the docking guild’s small budget stage a work stoppage, prompting Earth Gov to send a labor negotiator. Mollari happens to possess another G’Quon-eth plant, which the Centauri offers to G’Kar for an extortionate price. Senator Hidoshi assures Sinclair that the budget is more than adequate to cover the needs of the dockworkers. Mollari retracts his offer to G’Kar, which prompts him to seek a resolution through Sinclair. The dockworkers’ illegal strike leads the negotiator to evoke the Rush Act, officially declaring the situation an illegal strike and requiring station security forces to make arrests. Sinclair steps in and uses the language of the Rush Act to allow him to reallocate credits from the station’s military budget to the dock equipment budget. Sinclair confiscates Mollari’s plant as an illegal substance, then allows G’Kar to use it for his ceremony after compensating the Centauri.
13	Signs and Portents	The Centauri Lady Ladiera and her nephew, Lord Kiro, visit B5. The Lady has visions of the station’s destruction and warns that her companion that he will be killed by shadows. An enigmatic human named Mr. Morden visits each ambassador and asks the question, “What do you want?” Seekers working for Londo finally locate the Centauri relic The Eye, which has been missing for several years. After Londo gives it to Kiro for return to their homeworld, Raiders destroy Kiro’s ship, and Londo fears the Eye is lost forever. Ambassador Kosh’s encounter suit is mysteriously damaged during the confusion on the station. Morden later presents Londo with the artifact and promises that the ambassador will one day be able to return the favor.
14	TKO	Garibaldi’s friend, the former prize fighter Walker Smith, arrives on B5 ready to participate in the Mutai, an alien fight. Ivanova’s uncle, a rabbi, visits to try and persuade her to sit Shiva for her deceased father. After initial protestations and with much reluctance, she relents and makes peace with his memory.
15	Grail	Ombuds Wellington hears a case against an alien whose ancestors abducted the grandfather of an Earth man. Jinxo, a construction worker who worked on every Babylon station, is being extorted by a man named Deuce, whose methods of persuasion include threatening people with death at the tentacles of a Na’ka’leen Feeder (which happen to be masquerading in a replica of Ambassador Kosh’s encounter suit). Aldous Gajic, a religious man seeking the Holy Grail on Babylon 5, is paired with Jinxo after Jinxo picks Aldous’s pocket. Jinxo believes he is the “Babylon Curse,” because every time he has left a Babylon station, something tragic happened to it. When Aldous is fatally injured, Jinxo takes up his search for the Grail.
16	Eyes	Ari Ben Zayn, a colonel with Earth Force internal affairs, reveals that he and Corps telepath Harriman Gray, a military officer, are there to investigate the Babylon 5 command staff. Ben Zayn tells Sinclair that they will all submit to telepathic scans, which Ivanova protests even to the point of resigning her Earthforce commission. Garibaldi realizes a connection between Ben Zayn and the Psi Cop Bester, and Sinclair prompts the Colonel to admit that he was sore over the fact that Sinclair was chosen to command Babylon 5. Garibaldi’s attempt to build a Kawasaki motorcycle from the 1990s stalls, so an Interested Lennier takes over.
17	Legacies	A telepathic orphan is discovered lurking on B5. As Talia tries to enlist her in Psi Corps, Delenn and G’Kar offer her a home on their worlds. The body of a Minbari military hero, the Shai Alit, mysteriously disappears. Warrior Caste Minbari, led by Neroon, try to place the blame on the humans.
18	A Voice in the Wilderness (part 1)	The uninhabited planet around which B5 orbits begins to show evidence of seismic disturbances, tectonic shifting, and power surges. When a small ship is sent to investigate, it is nearly destroyed by an automated defense system. Delenn is visited by her former mentor Draal. Garibaldi’s former girlfriend is stuck on Mars during a rather nasty rebellion. With Talia’s help, Garibaldi attempts to contact her.
19	A Voice in the Wilderness (part 2)	With the help of Delenn and Londo, Draal offers a solution to the problem on Epsilon III. Garibaldi finally gets through to Lise.
20	Babylon Squared	Mysterious transmissions call the crew of B5 to Sector 14, where Babylon 4 disappeared shortly after it became operational. Sinclair and Garibaldi lead a fleet of transport ships to the station to try unload its personnel. The strange alien Zathras searches for the One.
21	The Quality of Mercy	Dr. Franklin and Dr. Laura Rosen (guest star June Lockheart) run competing clinics for the indigent in downbelow. Dr. Rosen uses an alien healing device. Londo gets Lennier drunk, and we learn that Centauri naughty bits can be used to cheat at poker.
22	Chrysalis	“Nothing is the same anymore.” Garibaldi uncovers a plot to kill EA President Louis Santiago and is seriously wounded trying to relay the information. Delenn begins an irreversible change. Londo asks a favor of Morden in dealing with Quadrant 37. G’Kar has concerns over the events in Quadrant 37, and leaves to investigate. Sinclair and Catherine decide to get married.

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