####Overview

Talia is involved in carrying out the sentence of a convicted murderer. Dr. Franklin investigates a possible medical scam in Downbelow. Londo takes Lennier for a look at the less savory sections of the station.
####Guest Stars

June Lockhart as Dr. Laura Rosen. Kate McNeil as Janice Rosen. Mark Rolston as Karl Mueller. Damian London as the Centauri Senator. Jim Norton as Ombuds Wellington. (Originally titled “The Resurrectionist”)
####Lurk

http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/synops/021.html
####Backplot

“Spacing” someone (tossing them out an airlock to die) is a punishment applicable only in cases of mutiny and treason.

Evidence gained from a telepathic scan is inadmissible in court, as it violates the principles of due process.

Very few members of Psi-Corps are trained to handle criminal cases, not for lack of demand, but because it’s very a stressful field, with lots of burnouts.

The station’s indigent are denied medical treatment in Medlab if they can’t afford it (cf. [[Believers]].)

The station’s prison is overcrowded already; there’s no room for someone to serve a life sentence.

Earth possesses the technology to brain-wipe people (cf. [[Grail]]) and implant new memories; it’s used as a punishment or rehabilitation measure in certain criminal cases. A Psi-Corps member oversees the wipe, performing scans before and after to make sure it’s complete.
####Unanswered Questions

What will Dr. Franklin do with the machine? Will it ever be seen again?

Will Franklin and Janice Rosen continue to see each other in subsequent episodes?
####Analysis

This is the second instance in the series of a mechanism for stealing life from one being and giving it to another (cf. [[Deathwalker]].) Perhaps the two are related somehow.

Judging by her reactions during the scan, it seems Talia was not trained to deal with hardened criminals. Why, then, was she also stuck with the job of scanning a murderer on the Mars colony, a place that, as a major human settlement, presumably has a Psi-Corps presence? (cf. [[A Voice in the Wilderness part 1]], though admittedly the presence referred to there was not public knowledge.)

The Centauri’s claim that Earth was a lost colony (cf. [[Midnight on the Firing Line]]) must have been a short-lived ruse, given the revelations about Centauri physiology in this episode.
####Notes

June Lockhart and Bill Mumy were in another science-fiction show together: “Lost in Space.”