Have you been looking for some traditional boom? You’re certainly going to get some in this episode! An inbound vessel crashes into the docking bay when the captain disregards direction from C&C. Then, in an apparent assassination attempt, the ship intended to carry future Emperor Mollari back to Centauri Prime explodes as it starts its departure from B5. What a way to start an episode!

And we see several strange relationships play out as the episode unfolds. We find Lyta stealing from Dr. Franklin and Med Lab in an effort to provide supplies to Byron and his followers. This is particularly troubling when we know all she really needed to do is ask for the supplies. It seems Lyta’s relationship with Byron is growing stronger. Bester appears on the station with a squad of Bloodhounds and seems to have an oddly comfortable relationship with Captain Lockley. He’s there to arrest Byron and his followers, and we end up with the impression there’s some sort of past relationship between these two telepaths. Lyta confronts Bester and his goons directly and alone, and further strains the already awkward relationship when she appears to be able to contain them all without additional help. Then there’s the bad-turning-ugly relationship between Lochley and Garibaldi, the never-quite-worked-out relationship between Zack and Lyta, Delenn’s work to successfully bring Londo and G’Kar even closer by making him Londo’s personal body guard to serve with him inside the Royal Court on Centauri Prime…and the list can go on and on. You have to see it to really believe just how many strange (and strained) relations there can be in one episode!

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