There All the Honor Lies
| "There All the Honor Lies" | |
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| Babylon 5 episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 14 |
| Directed by | Mike Vejar |
| Written by | Peter David |
| Production code | 215 |
| Original air date | 26 April 1995 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Julie Caitlin Brown (Guinevere) |
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Julie Caitlin Brown (Guinevere)
Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan)
Sean Gregory Sullivan (Ashan)
"There All the Honor Lies" is an episode from the second season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
A Babylon 5 merchandise shop opens up on the station, to help increase the station's operating budget. Sheridan believes in the necessity of the store, and places Ivanova in charge. Ivanova is less than thrilled, remarking, "We're not some Deep Space Franchise" (possibly a dig at competing SciFi show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). On his way to meet Kosh for a lesson (see Hunter, Prey), he bumps into a hooded figure who steals his link. Sheridan pursues the person but runs into a Warrior caste Minbari who attacks him. He finds a PPG on the ground beside him, picks it up, and uses it in self-defense, killing the Minbari. As Sheridan recovers from the fight, he sees another Minbari, apparently witness to the entire event, run off. Meeting with Garibaldi and Delenn, he defends himself, but Delenn remains skeptical. The Minbari warrior came from a widely respected family, and Delenn has been asked by her government to independently investigate Sheridan. Garibaldi becomes deeply frustrated with Lennier, who seems to be ahead him every step of the way when questioning potential witnesses. Garibaldi moves his investigation to look for signs of a set-up (rather than a mistaken encounter), to try and clear Sheridan's name.
During the course of her investigation, Delenn encounters problems with the Minbari residents of the station, who still do not accept her new form. Lennier performs the interviews in her absence, and finds the missing witness. The witness, Ashan, states that Sheridan attacked without provocation, and that the Minbari he killed actually attempted to surrender before being shot. He also states that Sheridan mistook the surrender ("I yield to you" in Minbari) as "Death First". After Sheridan accuses Ashan of lying, Delenn says that Minbari do not lie, and that accusing the witness directly would provoke a fatal response. While he is questioning Ashan directly, Sheridan's lawyer Guinevere Corey arrives to take over his defense. Sheridan is irate with Earth assigning him a lawyer, until he learns that Earth has decided to charge him with murder, so that the truth may come out in a trial. She also reveals that if Sheridan does go to trial, he will have to step down from Babylon 5. While arranging the dead Minbari's burial, Delenn discovers that he and Ashan are from the same clan and sends Lennier to look for Ashan. Lennier finds Ashan in Down Below with the hooded thief from the beginning of the episode, and challenges Ashan to a fight but he flees.
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