Penn Jillette |
Reebo |
Guest Star |
Teller |
Zooty |
Guest Star |
Bridget Flanery |
Zoe |
Guest Star |
Jonathan Chapman |
Brakiri Ambassador |
Recurring Role |
Joshua Cox |
Lt. Corwin |
Recurring Role |
Ed Wasser |
Morden |
Recurring Role |
Marie Marshall (Dodger), Fabiana Udenio (Adira Tyree) and Ed Wasser (Morden) were all credited in the closing credits as "Special Appearance by".
Captain Lochley had supposedly read all the reports by then-Captain Sheridan during his command of Babylon 5. She should have recognized the name "Kosh" as being Ambassador Kosh of the Vorlon Empire - a pivotal character during the station's most turbulent times.
Crew Visible: In one scene, where Mr. Morden disappered when Lennier looked back, you can clearly see someone with a sport shirt walking into the set. On the DVD, this appears to have been minimally edited. The toe of a shoe appears for a tiny fraction of a second, but that is all.
[Opening lines of episode]
Customs Guard : Anything to declare?
Rebo : I have nothing to declare, my dear man, except my genius!
Zooty : And I have nothing to declare but, Rebo's genius either. Zooty-zoot, zoot, zoot!
Lochley : I think we need a little mystery once in a while. Oh, and, uh, speaking of mysteries, I have a message for you. It's from someone named Kosh.
Sheridan: What's the message?
Lochley : 'When the long night comes, return to the end of the beginning.'
Sheridan:Uh, thank you, Captain.
Rebo: But no one takes comedians seriously.
Delenn: Isn't that a contradiction?
Rebo: You know, making people laugh is ... is okay. I mean, I ... I enjoy getting a laugh, but, uh, I don't know. We wanna do something more important.
Sheridan: But you two have a real gift. I mean, when things were bad under president Clark, you two said things on your show that no one else would dare to say.
Morden: I'm prophetic, not infallible.
Lennier: I think you are neither, but at least you have shown me there is truly life beyond death.
Morden: Not necessarily, but you'll find that out soon enough.
Lennier: Why did you help me? I know what kind of a man you were.
Morden: Give a dog a bad name, and you can hang him with it. You shouldn't listen to everything Sheridan tells you. Actually, I'm surprised he's not here tonight, since he died at Z'ha'dum. Is there any coffee here or not?
Corwin: There seems to be a slight problem, sir. It's kind of hard to explain. We seem to be missing a piece of the station. We can't reach it. We can't communicate with it.
Sheridan: That piece is almost a square mile across. You can't just lose something that big.
Corwin: I agree, but it's still missing.
Zoe: You don't party? Jeez, Lizzie, what'd you grow up to be? We had such fun, didn't we? Didn't we have such fun?
Lochley: No. We were cold, sick, and we were hungry all the time. We did things to survive. I've done my best to forget.
Dodger: I thought you'd be pleased to see me.
Garibaldi: But I .. I thought you were dead.
Dodger: Ah. You know, the reports of my death, they weren't even exaggerated a little bit. Yeah, I'm .. I'm dead. But, you know, I missed you, and how often do dead people get second chances?
Londo: So .. When you were emperor, it meant something. Subduer of the Xon and the Shoggren. .. Now .. Ptttp! Anyone can be emperor. I can be emperor. Vir can be emperor. If Vir can be emperor, a small earth cat can be emperor. .. Come on. Talk to me. It's the day of the dead.
Sheridan: You know, I was really hoping to talk to Zooty, you know, without the machine.
Rebo: Yeah. He never breaks character, not even around me. In 10 years, I've only heard him say one word without the machine.
Sheridan: Oh. Oh. What's the word?
Rebo: Why.
Sheridan: Oh, just curious.
Rebo: No, no. that was the word: 'Why'. In 10 years I haven't figured it out myself."
Rebo: You see, Minbari humor is based not on physical danger or embarrassment or rejection, like human humor, but rather on the failure to obtain, uh... emotional or spiritual enlightenment.
Garibaldi: All I know is that they hate comets. Even mentioning a comet to a Brakiri is some kind of, like, awful taboo. Death. It's the symbol of death.
Dodger: It's some guys fantasy: A love hungry red-head who will disappear in the morning never to be seen again!
Garibaldi: I'm sorry Dodger, what were you saying?
Dodger: It's a good thing I'm only here another hour or so, cupcake. 2 weeks of this, I'd kill you.
Lennier: I came for wisdom.
Morden: You don't come to the dead for wisdom, Lennier. My head was cut from my body. Even now, it rots on a pole outside the Imperial Palace. Birds have taken the hairs for their nests. Maggots ate my flesh. And you want wisdom?
Lennier: Yes, I do.
Connections: Bridget Flanery (Zoe), Penn Jillette (Rebo) and Teller (Zooty) all appeared in the Pilot for Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. All three appeared more than once in that series, but the pilot was the only episode that included all three (although, as in this episode, in separate scenes).
Harlan Ellison, noted science fiction author and an adviser on the show, does the voice of Zooty, Teller's "non-speaking" character. He was last seen as the Psych-Telepath Tech during the "recall" sequence of Bester's programming of Garibaldi.
Neil Gaiman, the writer of this episode, is also known for his fantasies, "Anansi Boys," "American Gods," and "Good Omens," as well as the 90s revivals of the DC character "Sandman" and the creation of his "sister," "Death".
This is the first episode written by someone other than Straczynski since season two's "Knives," an unprecedented streak of fifty six straight episodes.
The plot resembles Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris", which also has to do with people on a space station being visited by dead acquaintances. The novel was adapted to film by Tarkovsky and Soderbergh.
Richard Biggs, Stephen Furst, Jeff Conaway and Patricia Tallman do not appear in this episode.
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