####Overview

A series of bombings threatens the station, and Ivanova calls on some unusual investigators to help solve the mystery.
####Guest Stars

Patrick Kilpatrick as Robert Carlson. Louis Turenne as Brother Theo.
####Lurk

http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/synops/046.html
####Backplot

All explosives manufactured in the Earth Alliance are laced with special chemical codes to allow them to be traced to a particular buyer.
####Unanswered Questions

What was Londo doing on a transport arriving from the Minbari homeworld? (Assuming he was; he may have been on the Centauri transport mentioned to G’Kar by Garibaldi.)

How will the influx of missionaries affect the station?
####Analysis

Lennier has saved Londo twice now, once here and once (in a less extreme way) in [[The Quality of Mercy]]. And now he’s likely to be decorated by the Centaurum. How will that affect his position in the battle between light and dark, and his apparent new friendship with Vir ([[The Fall of Night]]?)

Londo apparently doesn’t place absolute faith in the dream of his death twenty years in the future ([[Midnight on the Firing Line]], [[The Coming of Shadows]].) Otherwise he wouldn’t have been afraid he was going to die in the elevator. (Which isn’t to say he wouldn’t have still tried to call for help, of course.)

Lennier’s own convictions, namely his prohibition against lying except to save face for another, seem to have weakened since his arrival, despite his pledge to do penance later. On the other hand, perhaps he justified it in his mind by figuring he was saving face for the obnoxious man by getting him to stop making a fool of himself.
####Notes

G’Kar’s song in the elevator is based on the ditty he sang at the beginning of [[The Parliament of Dreams]].

We may have seen Carlson before, if briefly. In [[The Fall Of Night]], as the Earth officials arrive, there’s a man in the arrival area. He’s slapped by a woman and walks after her when she leaves. The man bears some resemblance to Carlson without the beard. Perhaps the woman was his wife.

Lennier’s fake disease, Netter’s Syndrome, is no doubt named for executive producer Doug Netter.

The name Theo (short for Theodore) comes from the Greek word theodoros which means “gift of God.”