Passing Through Gethsemane
| "Passing Through Gethsemane" | |
|---|---|
| Babylon 5 episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Adam Nimoy |
| Written by | J. Michael Straczynski |
| Production code | 305 |
| Original air date | 27 November 1995 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Brad Dourif (Brother Edward) |
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Brad Dourif (Brother Edward)
Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander)
Louis Turenne (Brother Theo)
"Passing Through Gethsemane" is an episode from the third season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
A Vorlon transport docks at Babylon 5 with Ambassador Kosh and the human telepath Lyta Alexander aboard. The senior staff of Babylon 5 is, to say the least, curious about what Lyta's seen on the Vorlon homeworld, where no human has ever been. But she is silent on that point. When she's examined by Dr. Franklin in MedLab, however, she is given an even cleaner bill of health that she had before; even remnants of childhood injuries and congenital defects are gone.
One of the brothers of the Cistercian Order on the station, Brother Edward, receives a small package with a black rose while he's conducting a business transaction for his Order. It remains a mystery to him, along with some writing apparently in blood. Brother Edward starts to hear voices and have flashbacks of a woman's murder. He raises his concern that he may be going insane to Babylon 5's security chief Michael Garibaldi and the head of his order Brother Theo.
Brother Theo petitions Captain Sheridan to use Babylon 5's resources to find out what Brother Edward is tormented by before he does. But Brother Edward finds out first that he was the Black Rose Killer, a Jack the Ripper-like serial killer on an Earth colony. Several women died before he was caught nine years ago and sentenced to "death of personality", the 23rd century response to the death penalty that obliterates a criminal's mind and restructures it (previously referred to in The Quality of Mercy) so, minus his criminal tendencies and his memory of his previous life, he performs constructive rather than destructive acts for the rest of his days.
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