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Exogenesis

Episode Number: 51    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Thursday February 15, 1996    Prod Code: 307
Marcus stars snooping around Downbelow when some of his contacts start behaving unusually and a lurker is found dead with a strange creature bonded to his spine. Ivanova investigates Corwin's loyalties when he receives a promotion.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Director: Kevin G. Cremin
Star: Jerry Doyle (Michael Garibaldi),  Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan),  Jason Carter (Marcus Cole),  Claudia Christian (Susan Ivanova),  Bruce Boxleitner (John Sheridan),  Stephen Furst (Vir Cotto),  Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari),  Richard Biggs (Dr. Stephen Franklin),  Bill Mumy (Lennier),  Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar),  Mira Furlan (Delenn)
Recurring Role: Michael McKenzie (Man),  Joshua Cox (Corwin)
Guest Star: James Warwick (Matthew Duffin),  Wylie Small (Jacque Lee),  Aubrey Morris (Duncan),  Ross Gottstein (Vendor),  Eric Steinberg (Samuel),  Donald Willis (Trader),  Carrie Dobro (Dr. Harrison),  Kat Cressida (Kat),  Roger Rook (Lurker),  Leslie Pratt (Woman)

Notes

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Franklin: [To Marcus] You are so far from being her type, that your practically in different galaxies. (edit)
Stephen Furst (Vir Cotto) does not appear in this episode. (edit)
Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan) does not appear in this episode. (edit)
Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar) does not appear in this episode. (edit)
Marcus calls his fighting staff the "Copeland J5000." This is probably a reference to the show's producer John Copeland. (edit)

Quotes

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Garibaldi: Don't you ever shut up?
Marcus: Not until I get what I want. Why, do you think silent meditation would work better?
Garibaldi: Ivanova's right. You are a pain in the ass. (edit)
Marcus: The gracious Duncan, asleep by the gate. Me thinks I hear a voice cry, 'Sleep no more! Marcus does murder sleep'.
Duncan: You're a madman, you know? (edit)
Franklin: [To Ivanova about Marcus] But under pressure, he's okay. And I think he would appreciate a second chance with you.
Ivanova: [about the flowers Corwin gave her] He must have sent them!
[scene cut. Ivanova throws flowers onto the bar at which Marcus is sitting at]
Ivanova: Keep them!
Marcus: I will, thank you. [she walks off] Well. I guess there's hope for us after all. (edit)
Vindrizi: It says we were created half a million years ago. Bred to be living records of all those we have seen and touched. For all that time we have travelled through the galaxy in our host bodies. We have seen double sunset on worlds so far away you have no name for them. We remember music that was played before your kind learned to speak. Within us is the living memory, deeds and stories, civilizations and passions, wars and struggle, great beauty. But in time even we die, unless we find shelter within other living beings. So, we seek out those who have nothing to look forward to, those whose lives are at an end, those who know they will be never more than they are now, those who will never know beauty, or peace, or purpose and we give them that. Through us they are born to a new life. (edit)
Marcus: You see that tube on the corner of the table there? That's a medical scanner, the Copeland J5000, very advanced. I was bringing it to him. You need to get it to him immediately. I know, I know, why should you believe me, it could be a weapon or something. Check it out yourself. Just look into the open end, yeah, then shake, shake it twice firmly to activate the scanner. (edit)

Trivia

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When Marcus talks to one of his contacts, his contact mentions a Package from Mars..

The Package is likely Dr. Kirkish who would be the messenger in "Messages from Earth"

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Continuity: When Marcus and Franklin are talking about Ivonava, Marcus takes his hands down from his knees when he says, "it would be fascinating to find out". Switch to the reverse angle and his hands are on his knees again. (edit)

Allusions

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Voice heard in beginning of Episode:

The voice ISN'T that of Sean Connery, just a very fair approximation done by Doug Cook (One of the Walla people). It was not intended to come out that way. (edit)
Marcus: ...Sleep no more!
Marcus does murder sleep...
Here Marcus quotes Shakespeare's Macbeth (Act II, scene 2). The full quotes is as follows: "Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! / Macbeth does murder sleep" -- the innocent sleep, / Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, / The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, / Chief nourisher in life's feast. (edit)
Ship Name: Dyson
The name of this ship is probably a reference to physicist Freeman Dyson. (edit)
Duncan: I don't like being poked by doctors.
This line was also spoken by the main character Alex in A Clockwork Orange (1971). (edit)
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what creature is lerking down below
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