Between the Darkness and the Light
| "Between the Darkness and the Light" | |
|---|---|
| Babylon 5 episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 19 |
| Directed by | David J. Eagle |
| Written by | J. Michael Straczynski |
| Production code | 419 |
| Original air date | 6 October 1997 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Marc Gomes (Eisensen) |
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Marc Gomes (Eisensen)
Bruce Gray (Interrogator)
Marjorie Monaghan (Number One)
David Purdham (Captain James)
Musetta Vander (Felicia)
"Between the Darkness and the Light" is an episode from the fourth season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
The episode begins with Sheridan believing that he is sitting in his quarters on Babylon5, having a meal with Stephen Franklin. Franklin is asking how he managed to escape, and asks details about the resistance which he should already know as he was there. It turns out that in reality, Sheridan is still in a prison cell on Mars - he is being subjected to psychological manipulation in order to get information about the resistance out of him.
Meanwhile, Michael Garibaldi is taken prisoner by the Mars Resistance. Feeling that the Garibaldi's betrayal of Sheridan may have doomed the cause for Martian independence, the Number One of the resistance wanted to kill Garibaldi, and offers to let Stephen Franklin do the job. But Franklin found that he was unable to do the job, and wanted to hear why Garibaldi betrayed Sheridan. Garibaldi tries to convince Franklin and the others that Alfred Bester had manipulated him, but no one believes him. Seeing Lyta Alexander, Garibaldi sees an opportunity to convince everyone that he had been manipulated by Bester. Franklin forced Number One to allow Alexander to scan Garibaldi, Alexander is able to convince everyone that Garibaldi was telling the truth.
The space fleet under the command of Susan Ivanova is still making progress towards Earth, disabling or destroying loyalist EarthForce vessels that engaged them in combat. After defeating a group of loyalist vessels, Ivanova learns that President Morgan Clark had assembled an elite group of advanced starships to ambush Ivanova's fleet. She decides to take the White Star vessels under her command off to deal with these advanced starships.
Having been made into the hero of the hour by ISN, Garibaldi learns where Sheridan is being held. He, Franklin, and Alexander manage to infiltrate the prison where Sheridan is being held by telling the guards that they are there to walk Sheridan around the block a few times. Finding Sheridan drugged up, Franklin helps get him ready to travel, and take him up to the guard station. The guards try to stop the group from leaving, but Garibaldi and his party kill the guards. Sheridan empties a PPG into one of the guard before leaving with the others.
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