The Long Dark (Babylon 5 episode)
| "The Long Dark" | |
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| Babylon 5 episode | |
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Ivanova and Garibaldi |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 5 |
| Directed by | Mario Di Leo |
| Written by | Scott Frost |
| Production code | 205 |
| Original air date | 30 November 1994 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Anne-Marie Johnson (Mariah Cirrus) |
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Anne-Marie Johnson (Mariah Cirrus)
Dwight Schultz (Amis)
"The Long Dark" is the fifth episode in the second season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. It originally aired on November 30, 1994, in the United States. The DVD brochure included with season two teases the episode by saying "A drifting, century-old spacecraft carries a crewperson (Anne-Marie Johnson) in hybernetic sleep. And something else: a phantom-like spaceling that a self-styled prophet (Dwight Schultz) calls a Soldier of Darkness."
A cryonic exploration vessel from a hundred years ago approaches Babylon 5, bringing with it a deadly creature and a human from the past. The vessel's name is the Copernicus and it is broadcasting a signal in English. The vessel is brought aboard Babylon 5 and boarded. On the vessel, Sheridan, Ivanova, and Dr. Franklin find two cryonic chambers. One chamber contains only a corpse, while the other contains Mariah Cirrus (played by actress Anne-Marie Johnson), who begins waking up. An investigation reveals that the corpse is the body of Cirrus' husband Will and that he did not die of an accident.
Meanwhile, a man named Amis (Dwight Schultz) begins making grand assertions of doom, paraphrasing scripture, and shouting in the Zocalo. Garibaldi pulls him aside for creating a disturbance and unlicensed proselytizing and he is placed in the brig. When Garibaldi investigates his past, he discovers that Amis was a decorated combat veteran of the Earth–Minbari War. Garibaldi takes an interest in Amis, and asks him to explain his story. Amis explains that when his unit was attacking a remote enemy base, they came across a ghostlike alien that began feeding on his men.
The unexplained death of Will Cirrus and the pronouncements of Amis cause distress to the residents of the station. The two story lines merge when it is revealed that the creature that killed Amis' men and attacked him (leading to his current pronouncements) is the same creature who ate Will Cirrus. The creature is then destroyed by station personnel.
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