An interesting and very strange episode. After some discussion and some hesitation, the decision is made to honor a request by the Brakiri to celebrate a very special and rare religious custom on B5. The ceremony requires them to conduct the ceremony on Brakiri soil and as a result they actually purchase (not rent) a significant segment of the station, to be returned after the ceremony is complete. The custom: The Day of the Dead. It’s not quite what you think it might be, and it ends up not quite being what the non-Brakiri on the station expected, except for perhaps G’Kar. As the ceremony occurs, the portion of the station the Brakiri own literally disappears. Those caught up in the missing segment of the Station have a personal experience related to the Day of the Dead as each meets a significant (and dead) person during the absence—friends, enemies, lovers. We follow Mike, Lockley, Lennier, and G’Kar through the experience.

In addition to that oddity, the famous (or perhaps infamous from Lockley’s perspective) Rebo and Zooty are onboard and while taking to Sheridan, they express an interest (desire?) to quit their comedy act and go into politics.

As the ceremony and the episode conclude, the missing part of the station returns, and Lockley has a particularly interesting message from Kosh for Sheridan—a message that seems to tie back to “The Long Night of Londo Mollari” as well as perhaps being instructional as the story moves forward.

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