| # | Title | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| 89 | No Compromises | Earthforce Captain Elizabeth Lochley arrives on Babylon 5 to begin her watch as the station’s new commander. Sheridan prepares for his inauguration as president of the new Interstellar Alliance, and asks G’Kar to write the Oath of Office and the alliance’s Declaration of Principles. A former Earthforce officer attempts to assassinate Sheridan during the ceremonies, but he is thwarted first by a adolescent telepath — injured by the assassin earlier — and then by Garibaldi. Sheridan assigns Garibaldi to the role “Head of Covert Operations” for the IA. A telepath named Byron seeks to establish a colony for telepaths who have avoided Psi Corps. His request is turned down by Lochley, but later approved by Sheridan. |
| 90 | The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari | Delenn learns that Lennier has made plans to leave her employ and join with the Rangers. Londo Mollari suffers a very serious heart attack. While unconscious, he has visions of various people leading him toward atonement for his guilt before he can recover. |
| 91 | The Paragon of Animals | Member worlds of the new Alliance refuse to sign the Declaration of Principles, which prompts G’Kar to rewrite it. A badly injured Ranger arrives on B5, and, due to his injuries, enters a coma. Lyta’s help is enlisted in determining the source of his injuries. She learns, as he is dying, that a colony world near Drazi space, on the verge of another attack by Raiders, would like to join the Alliance. Sheridan amasses the White Star fleet to come to their rescue. Garibaldi approaches Byron about the possibility of using the telepaths to help in covert intelligence gathering. At first the group refuses, but Lyta is sent to persuade them. Byron tells Lyta that the thoughts of the Drazi ambassador indicate the Drazi have been assisting the Raiders in attacking the colony world. In an Alliance meeting, Sheridan lets the Drazi know that he has figured them out. Frightened that the entire White Star fleet will destroy the Drazi fleet, the ambassador recalls his ships. Lyta returns to Byron and tells him she is interested in hearing his ideas about telepaths refusing to be “lap dogs” to the mundanes. |
| 92 | A View from the Gallery | The station deals with attacks by an unknown alien race. The story is told through the eyes of two maintenance crew members, Mack and Bo. |
| 93 | Learning Curve | Two Minbari Rangers and their Minbari trainees travel to Babylon 5 to meet with Delenn. Zack tells Garibaldi that two of Byron’s telepaths will take the covert intelligence positions. Garibaldi continues attempting to determine which side Lochley was on during the War, which finally causes her to explode and confirm that she fought against Sheridan. A man named Trace tries to fill the B5 underworld gap left by N’Grath’s assassination. He observes Zack as a threat to his rise to power and orders his men to kill the security chief. The Minbari Turval expresses concern to Delenn about how hard Lennier is pushing himself in Ranger training. The acolyte Rangers interfere with Trace’s attack on a women, and one is critically injured. He recovers somewhat and invokes Mora’Dum — the application of terror”— which forces the Ranger to face the terror that confronts him. Sheridan reveals to Delenn that there is something about the relationship between he and Captain Lochley. |
| 94 | Strange Relations | Bester attempts to take Byron and his rogue telepaths into custody. Lochley throws Garibaldi in the brig when he tries to confront Bester about what the Psi Corps did to him. An attempt is made on Londo’s life, so Delenn appoints G’Kar to be his bodyguard. Lochley admits to Garibaldi that she and Sheridan were married for a very brief time several years ago. Lyta joins Byron’s group. |
| 95 | Secrets of the Soul | In taking samples of Hyach DNA, Dr. Franklin learns that their race destroyed a different race which used to share their planet. As a result, the Hyach are now dying because they needed to be interbred with the Hyach-Do for their species to survive. Lyta and Byron become intimate, and during their love-making Byron sees visions of how the Vorlons modified and used her. This angers him, and renews his interest in finding a homeworld for his people. |
| 96 | Day of the Dead | The popular comedy duo Rebo & Zooty visits the station. Lochley sells part of the station to the Brakiri for their celebration of the “Day of the Dead.” Those inside the Brakiri sector experience visits from the dead: Londo is visited by Adira Tyree (cf. “Born to the Purple” and “Interludes and Examinations”); Lennier is visited by Morden, who tells him that he will betray the Rangers; Garibaldi is visited by Dodger (cf. “GROPOS”); and Lochley is visited by Zoë, a very close friend who committed suicide twenty years ago. Zoë also delivers a cryptic message to Sheridan from Kosh. First episode since season 2’s “Knives” NOT written by J. Michael Straczynski. |
| 97 | In the Kingdom of the Blind | The attacks on Alliance ships continue. Some of the telepaths have procured weapons and are attacking some station personnel. As the situation worsens, Lochley asks Bester to come to Babylon 5 with Psi Cop troops to capture the rogue telepaths. |
| 98 | A Tragedy of Telepaths | Londo and G’Kar discover that a Narn is still being held in the Centauri palace, despite the end of their war several months ago. Upon investigation they realize the prisoner is Na’Toth, G’Kar’s former aide. Londo and G’Kar smuggle her through the Centauri court and to safety. |
| 99 | Phoenix Rising | Byron reveals to Lyta that part of the hostility between him and Bester comes from the fact that Byron was once the Psi Cop’s protégé. Byron and Lyta emerge from their hiding place in an attempt to end the telepath situation peacefully. Unfortunately, Bester has other plans for them. Byron and several other teeps commit a rather horrific suicide by fire to avoid capture. Lyta seems to take the mantle of leadership for the telepaths that are left on Babylon 5. Garibaldi confronts Bester about his capture and reprogramming by the Psi Corps and tries to kill him. When Garibaldi finds himself unable to pull the trigger of his PPG, the Psi Cop then tells him that part of his conditioning included the implantation of a mind block which prevents Garibaldi from harming him or allowing harm to come to him. As a result, Garibaldi does something that he hasn't done in a very long time: he begins drinking. |
| 100 | The Ragged Edge | Garibaldi, who continues to drink, travels to the Drazi homeworld in search of a witness to the attacks on Alliance ships. G’Kar returns to Babylon 5 to find that someone has taken the book he has been writing and published it on the Narn homeworld and Babylon 5. Several hundred thousand copies are in circulation, and many Narns come to G’Kar to seek his wisdom. Dr. Franklin has been asked to return to Earthdome to become Head of Xenobiological research (don’t you just love that word xenobiological?), succeeding Dr. Benjamin Kile. |
| 101 | The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father | Bester brings two Psi Cop interns to Babylon 5 during his investigation of a murder. |
| 102 | Meditations on the Abyss | Delenn recruits Lennier to gather information about possible Centauri involvement in the raids. Vir unknowingly brings a bug, planted by a Drazi merchant, into his and Londo’s quarters, but Londo quickly discovers it. Londo then tells Vir that he is being prepared to take the position of Centauri Ambassador to Babylon 5 after Londo becomes Emperor. As a cover, Lennier is assigned to a White Star ship for “training.” G’Kar finally receives his matching prosthetic eye from Dr. Franklin. As the doctor is installing it, he tells G’Kar how much he has enjoyed reading the Book of G’Kar. Dr. Franklin asks G’Kar if he could sit in on a regular Q&A session he has with Narn who are eager to listen to his thoughts. Lennier and other trainees are put to a number of tests in new one-man White Star fighters. Vir confronts the Drazi merchant about the bug, but the vendor refuses to answer his questions because he thinks Vir is weak and won’t do anything to him. This angers Vir, and he returns to the Zocalo with a Centauri sword and destroys the vendor’s cart. Garibaldi misses a dinner with Delenn, Sheridan, Franklin, and Zack because he is drunk. |
| 103 | Darkness Ascending | Garibaldi dreams that the station is being attacked and he can do nothing to stop it. He awakens to find Lyta at the foot of his bed. She tells him she’s decided to stop hiding what the Vorlons did to her and that she’s testing the limits of what she can do. She tells Garibaldi that he’s been having a dream, and he wakes up again to find Lise entering his quarters. She later discovers alcohol in his cabinet and confronts him about his return to the bottle. Later, during a date at Fresh Aire, she tells Garibaldi she is worried about some of the things she has found in the Edgars corporations on Mars. Lyta asks a businessman to hire her telepaths in exchange for letting them keep a livable, uninhabited planet they find. She is turned down, however, because they are not affiliated with the Psi Corps. Lyta turns to G’Kar and reminds him of the offer he made her in 2257: cash in exchange for her telepath DNA. Vir and Londo are suspicious when people from other worlds cancel all meetings with the Centauri. Lennier takes a Minbari fighter and tracks a signal to the source of the random attacks, and records evidence that the Centauri are behind them. The Centauri homeworld instructs Londo to threaten war if they are accused in the attacks. After learning that Lennier is still alive after his mission, Delenn encounters Londo in the hall and hugs him because she fears she will never have another chance to do so. After a covert meeting with the leaders of the Alliance, Garibaldi tells Lise to leave Babylon 5 as quickly as possible because he fears war will break out within hours. |
| 104 | And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder | The Alliance convenes a Council session closed to the Centauri to present evidence in the attacks. Londo is invited into the Council chamber and presented with the final piece of evidence, Lennier’s video recording. The Alliance announces a blockade of Centauri vessels, which the Centauri answer with threats of warships accompanying all trade ships. Fearing the worst, Sheridan pledges that White Star ships will stand ready in hyperspace to help protect Alliance ships. He asks Garibaldi to personally see to the coordination of the information from the White Star fleet. When Garibaldi does not answer a call from Sheridan, Zack finds him waking up from a drunken sleep. Garibaldi assures him that it isn’t a problem, but later misses a very important call from a White Star ship that directly leads to a shooting war with the Centauri. Londo decides to leave for his homeworld because he feels he can do more good there. He leaves Vir to attend to things of Babylon 5. G’Kar accompanies Londo to Centauri Prime as bodyguard, where the Centauri ministers try to make him feel unwelcome. The pair is later imprisoned after the war breaks out and Londo refuses to let G’Kar be taken away without him. Directed by Mira Furlan’s husband, Goran Gaijc. |
| 105 | Movements of Fire and Shadow | Centauri warships begin targeting Alliance jumpgates. As a result, Sheridan orders the White Star fleet into the action. He then sends Delenn to Minbar to ask for her government’s cooperation with Earth in building new destroyer-class White Star ships. En route, Delenn’s vessel is attacked by Centauri before it can jump back to normal space and sustains heavy damage. Much of the crew is killed, and the ship is dead in hyperspace. Vir enlists Dr. Franklin and Lyta Alexander to help obtain the bodies of Centauri killed in combat with the Drazi. On the Drazi homeworld, the duo discovers that the aggressive Centauri ships are manned entirely by Shadow technology which was left behind for the benefit of their minions. Franklin and Lyta manage to capture one of the pods as evidence. Starfuries in hyperspace locate a lone Centauri cruiser headed toward Babylon 5. As the ship’s jump engines begin emitting strange readings, Capt. Lochley realizes that it is destined to blow up the jumpgate at the space station. While imprisoned on Centauri Prime, Londo is taken for a mysterious medical procedure administered by strange aliens. Afterward, neither he nor G’Kar are aware of his absence. G’Kar then assists Londo in being released so he can speak with the Regent and try to stop the attacks. When Londo confronts the Minister of Defense, he is assured that their ships are strictly on the defensive, despite Londo’s evidence to the contrary. Regardless of a stern warning from Sheridan, Narn and Drazi forces secretly move to attack Centauri Prime. When Sheridan discovers what they have done, he commands a fleet of White Stars to intervene. Sheridan, Lyta, and Franklin deduce that an alien force has a hand in the Centauri aggression, designed to eventually draw an attack on Centauri Prime. Sheridan points his White Star fleet toward the planet with hopes of intervening. Londo slowly realizes that the Regent is obviously under control of someone or something when the leader admits to sending away all the ships guarding their planet and turning off the planetary defense system. As Londo makes it outside, hundreds of jumpgates open in the Centauri sky and the Narn/Drazi fleet emerges. |
| 106 | The Fall of Centauri Prime | |
| 107 | Objects in Motion | |
| 108 | Objects at Rest | |
| 109 | Wheel of Fire | |
| 110 | Sleeping in Light | Series Finale |
