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Garibaldi: Mars. Three times before this place almost killed me. And now I have finally finished the job. I can't feel anything anymore. I don't know what I care about anymore, except Lise. I screwed up both our lives pretty good. Now I get to make up for it. Assuming any of us can ever make up for anything we have done in the past. Maybe we can't, maybe we just have to live with it and get on with it, and do what we have to, never what we want to. It has to be done. I hope you can see that one day. (edit) Sheridan: I just start to worry when things are going too well. (edit) Garibaldi: What you just told me, is that the whole truth?
Edgars: It's as close to the truth as you or anyone else will ever get, Mr. Garibaldi. (edit) Garibaldi: Today, President Clark has the power and we gave it to him, because we were afraid of the aliens and afraid of ourselves.
Edgars: And now he's given it to the telepaths. (edit) Edgars: Nobody takes power. They're given power by the rest of us, because we are stupid or afraid or both. (edit) Garibaldi: Everybody lies.
Edgars: That's a very sad view of the universe, Mr. Garibaldi.
Garibaldi: Yeah, well, it's the only one I've got. It works for me. (edit) Garibaldi: I don't trust them. Never have, never will.
Edgars: Why?
Garibaldi: I don't like the idea of somebody having the power to get inside my head.
Edgars: There are safeguards.
Garibaldi: No damn help to anybody. They'll never trust us, we'll always be jealous of them, afraid of them. They can lie to us and we never know. But if we lie to them, .. they know. How to stop a conspiracy if you have no evidence, no record? It all takes place in thoughts, exchange from one telepath to another, to another. Sooner or later this is going to get ugly. I just don't want to be alive to see it happen. (edit) Garibaldi: Why the muscle?
Edgars: So you had no time to prepare mentally. I want your heartrate fast, your thoughts jumbled, to guard against any blocks or attempts to mislead us. (edit) Garibaldi: I don't trust Clark.
Edgars: Well, who does? Many of us believed he was behind president Santiago's assassination long before your people leaked anything. He's out of control, running scared and he has to be stopped. But not by a military action. (edit) Garibaldi: Mars. I can't believe I'm back on Mars. I gotta be out of my mind. (edit) Wade: Everything is illusion, Mr. Garibaldi. Concepts [constructs] of language, light, metaphor; nothing is real. (edit) Wade: You're the type of guy who doesn't like to give up control. (edit) Garibaldi: Mars. I can't believe I'm back on Mars. Three times before this place almost killed me. I swore I'd never give it another chance to finish the job. Humans got no business being here. No business at all. (edit)

Continuity: After Lise brings Garibaldi dinner, she starts to leave, but stays and closes the door most of the way. After she finishes talking, Garibaldi moves across the room toward her and shuts the wide-open door. (edit) Typographical Error: The title as shown in first part of the episode is missing the leading "The." The "The" was present in the episode listings sent out by Warner Brothers, so it's included here. (edit)

Edgars: Clark's Night of Long Knives.
This is a reference to the reign of Roman Emperor Tiberius who in 31 A.D. has his aide Sejanus and his followers purged. (edit) Episode Title: The Exercise of Vital Powers
The title of ths episode is a reference to Aristotle's definition of happiness: "The exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence in a life affording them scope." (edit)