Writer:	J. Michael Straczynski
Director:	Richard Compton
Star:	Jerry Doyle (Michael Garibaldi),  Michael O'Hare (Jeffrey Sinclair),  Richard Biggs (Dr. Stephen Franklin)
Recurring Role:	Marianne Robertson (Tech #3)
Guest Star:	Marshal Teague (Nelson Drake),  Tony Rizzoli (Guard),  Sylva Kelegian (Tech #2),  Daniel Hutchison (Security Guard),  Sav Farrow (Tech #1),  Patricia Healy (Mary Ann Cramer),  David McCallum (Dr. Vance Hendricks),  Paul Yeuell (Customs Guard)

Although this was the fourth episode broadcast, it was the first written. Straczynski later admitted that he was not satisfied with the script, partially because of the difficulty of finding "the fingerprints" of the characters over a year after the pilot had been made. (edit) Marshall Teague would later return as semi-regular Ta'Lon starting with the second season episode "All Alone in the Night" and through to season five and "Objects at Rest." (edit)

Ivanova: If you'll excuse me. If you need me, I'll be over there, getting drunk with the rest of the aliens. (edit) Sinclair: You forgot the first rule of a fanatic. When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy. (edit) Sinclair: (About the transformed scientist) I'm gonna try and make it mad.
Garibaldi: Make it mad? Are you nuts? Commander! (edit) Franklin: (To Sinclair) But people can be fooled. So to prevent them from being confused by any misleading instructions from the enemy, they hardwired the machine half of the weapons not to respond to anyone who wasn't pure Ikarran. There's one problem, Commander. How do you define a pure Ikarran, or a pure human? No one is pure. No one. (edit) Dr. Hendricks: In the last five years, I've seen things off-world you can't even imagine. I've stood in the Abendi desert and watched all seven moons go into eclipse. I've walked in vaults that have been sealed longer than there's been a human race, breathing air that's five million years old. You call that a shortcut, if you will, but I've lived. By God, Stephen, I have lived. (edit)

Plot Hole: When Drake is defeated, the controller is ripped from his chest, and the huge armor just ... disappears. If the controller is converted to energy or something similar, there should be a huge explosion, flash, boom, or another form of energy release. (edit)

Ivanova: Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. This alludes to George Santayana's statement in his book, The Life of Reason. (edit) Sinclair: How sharper than a serpent's tooth.
Sinclair quotes Shakespeare's King Lear. (edit) Dr. Hendricks: There's a Martian war machine outside, and it wants to speak to you about the common cold.

This is a reference to H.G. Wells' classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds. In that book and the several movie versions, Martians invade Earth but are eventually stopped by Earth-borne diseases. (edit)