Spider in the Web
| "Spider in the Web" | |
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| Babylon 5 episode | |
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Talia Winters |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 6 |
| Directed by | Kevin G. Cremin |
| Written by | Lawrence G. DiTillio |
| Production code | 206 |
| Original air date | 7 December 1994 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Michael Beck (Abel Horn) |
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Michael Beck (Abel Horn)
Adrienne Barbeau (Amanda Carter)
James Shigeta (Taro Isogi)
Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan)
Jessica Walter (Senator Elise Voudreau)
"Spider in the Web" is an episode from the second season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
An old friend of Talia Winters, Taro Isogi, is on Babylon 5 to conduct negotiations with various large corporations toward making reforms on the Mars colony. His negotiations have caught the eye of the Earth Alliance Senate, which fears he is negotiating financing to conduct a new Mars rebellion. At the same time, a mysterious group operating out of the San Diego Wastelands also sets a plan into motion, starting with a cargo container opening on Babylon 5, and a figure stepping out.
After an initial negotiation session, Talia and Taro are approached in a corridor by Abel Horn, who proclaims "Free Mars!" and electrocutes Taro. When he goes to attack Talia, she scans his mind, picking up memories of him in a fighter exploding while attacking an Earth Alliance cruiser. After the scan, Horn moves on, seemingly oblivious. Talia is interviewed by Captain Sheridan, who attempts to understand the images. Talia explains that she has scanned numerous members of the Free Mars movement, whom she describes as violent fanatics with a hatred for Earth. Talia believes that this person is different, as there was no emotion of any kind in his mind, and there is more going on here than people realize.
A short time later, Abel Horn uses a StellarCom station giving it a seemingly invalid code, only for the screen to change to one shown at the mysterious group's headquarters. He reveals that phase one is complete, and downloads his record of the encounter with Isogi. "Control" identifies Winters and, deeming her a potential threat to the mission, orders Horn to eliminate her before proceeding to phase two.
In the course of his investigation, Sheridan learns that Isogi's plan was to create a free and independent Mars, without bloodshed, and beneficial to all parties. Amanda Carter, a Mars government official whom Isogi was negotiating with, speculates that both the Earth Alliance Senate and the Mars Conglomerate would want him dead. Garibaldi also informs him that there would be no way for the killer to get his electrocution weapon onto the station undetected unless he had special help.
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