Babylon 5: Passing Through Gethsemane

Episode score 8.6 Great

Passing Through Gethsemane

  • 48.
  • Season: 3
  • Episode: 4
  • First Aired: 11/30/1995
  • Prod Code: 305
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TRIVIA

  • Revealing Mistakes: When Charles asks about the Minbari culture, Delenn tells him about the castes of Minbari..

    However, she forgot the worker caste. While in later episodes she always mentions three castes. edit »
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QUOTES

  • Garibaldi [About Lyta]: Nobody has every been to the Vorlon home world and back again. But she goes and comes back, just like a trip to the corner store and now she is working for Kosh. Is anybody as creeped out about this as I am? edit »
  • Brother Edward: I always wanted to know, if I would have the courage to stay at the garden at Gethesemane. Now I know. edit »
  • Londo: Lyta Alexander, as I live and breathe!
    Lyta: I suggest you remove your hand, Ambassador, or you won't be doing either for much longer!
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  • Sheridan: Where does revenge end, and justice begin? edit »
  • Brother Edward: Why would an uneasy conscience show up in a lab report? edit »
  • Lennier: Valen was the greatest of us. A thousand years ago he came from nowhere, formed the Grey Council, and brought peace to our people. They say he was a Minbari, not born of Minbari. edit »
  • Delenn: We are the universe, trying to understand itself. edit »
  • Delenn: We believe that the universe itself is conscious in a way we can never truly understand. It is engaged in a search for meaning. So it .. breaks itself apart, investing its own consciousness in every form of life. edit »
  • Lennier: Well, if I project a beam of light at the wall, you see the light on the wall, but the wall is not the source of the light. It comes in from somewhere else. The soul is also a projection. It does not exist inside us any more than the light exists inside the wall. But this ... shell is the only way we can perceive it. edit »
  • Delenn: It is a.. it is very hard to explain. We do not believe in any individual god or gods. But rather, we believe that the soul is a -- what is a good term -- a non-localized phenomenon. edit »
  • Delenn: Among my people it is considered an honor to aid any true seeker in his quest. edit »
  • Londo: Fine! And keep your threats to yourself! Nightmares. The way my life has been going lately, who'd notice? edit »
  • Londo: I was just surprised to see you, that's all. Do you know, that I was thinking about you just the other day. My extremely overpaid sources told me that you have been seen arriving here in a Vorlon transport. Now, they are profoundly unreliable pool of information on the best of days, so I said: 'No, it can not be her. The Vorlons do not pick up hitch-hikers. Not even one as attractive as you. Besides, if it were you, surely you would come by and say hello to your old friend, Londo.' edit »
  • Brother Edward: It said: 'Death walks among you.' I know what I saw. edit »
  • Lyta: The next thing I remember I was on the Vorlon Homeworld.
    Franklin: Well, come on. Tell us about it.
    Lyta: I can't. I wish I could, but I'm not allowed to talk about most of what I saw. The rest, ... you wouldn't believe anyway. edit »
  • Ivanova: Ambassador, you wanted to see me?
    Kosh: Yes. Formality. Ritual. You should be informed.
    Ivanova: Informed of what?
    Kosh: Returning. edit »
  • Brother Theo: Your Ambassador Delenn has a wonderful phrase: 'Faith manages.' edit »
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NOTES

  • This episode won the 1997 E Pluribus Unum Award for "Television Series - Drama". edit »
  • This episode was originally to appear in the second season, but had to be abandoned when the writer accidentally read a similar premise on a newsgroup. Fortunately he was able to come to an agreement with the person who posted the message, and the episode could be made. edit »
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ALLUSIONS

  • The name of the serial killer -- Charles Dexter -- may be a reference to the H.P. Lovecraft story "The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward" which concerns a man who is obsessed with his ancestors' memories. edit »
  • Delenn notes that in an "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" world everyone would be toothless and blind. This mirrors a comment by Gandhi: "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." edit »
  • Episode Title: Passing Through Gethsemane
    The title of this episode is a reference to Matthew 26:30-50. Jesus goes to the garden of Gethsemane to pray and contemplate his betrayal. At Gethsemane Judas leads the Romans to Jesus. The Gethsemane is often invoked a a symbol of one's confrontation with a great personal life-or-death trial. edit »
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