Episode no. Season 2
Episode 21 Written by J. Michael Straczynski Featured music Christopher Franke | Directed by Mike Vejar Produced by John Copeland | |
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Cinematography by John C. Flinn, III A.S.C. | ||
"Comes the Inquisitor" is an episode from the second season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
Contents
Synopsis
This section describes the plot summary in A-Plot/B-Plot format.
A-Plot
The Vorlons bring an "inquisitor" to the station, a human male named Sebastian, to test Delenn's readiness to lead the "army of light". Surprised that a human is working directly for the Vorlons, Sheridan questions the man about his past, eliciting little more than that he was from Earth, and lived in London in the year 1888.
When Delenn meets with Sebastian, he gives her a pair of bracelets. She may take them off at any time, but will fail the test if she does. He asks her a simple question: "Who are you?" When the answers she gives are unacceptable to him, he uses the bracelets to administer painful shocks. The pain increases with each wrong answer, until eventually the shocks envelop her entire body. When Sheridan attempts to rescue Delenn, he finds himself captured by Sebastian and subjected to similar torture. Only after Delenn declares her willingness to die in order to save Sheridan does Sebastian conclude both Delenn and Sheridan are, indeed, the "right people, in the right place, at the right time".
Sheridan does some investigating and discovers that there was a man named Sebastian in London who disappeared in 1888 – the day after the last of a well-known series of murders. Sebastian acknowledges that it was no coincidence: he believed, like Delenn, that he was "chosen" for a "holy cause" – until he was abducted by the Vorlons and taken into their service. The Vorlons have been keeping him alive for 400 years, pulling him from stasis when needed for this inquisitorial service for which he was "ideally suited". Although it is not specifically stated, Sebastian's identity seems clear when Sheridan mentions the dates and Sebastian leaves with his parting words: "...remembered not as a reformer, not as a prophet, not as a hero...not even as Sebastian. Remembered only...as Jack".
B-Plot
G'Kar begins buying weapons in order to be smuggled back to the Narn homeworld for an underground resistance against the Centauri occupiers. Garibaldi learns of this, and orders G'Kar to not use Babylon 5 as a port through which these weapons are smuggled. G'Kar agrees, and Garibaldi provides G'Kar with an alternative, safer route.
The Narn population of Babylon 5 begins to question G'Kar's credibility as leader of the Narns on the station. In order to gain their loyalty, G'Kar agrees to get a personal message through to the Narn homeworld, to which all communications have been cut off by the Centauri. G'Kar turns to Sheridan for help in doing this, and Sheridan enlists the Rangers, who successfully get the message through, ending the current challenges to G'Kar's leadership of the Babylon 5 Narns.