####Overview

Lyta Alexander returns to the station at Kosh’s behest. One of Theo’s brothers discovers that he may have a hidden past.
####Guest Stars

Brad Dourif as Brother Edward. Louis Turenne as Brother Theo. Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander.
####Lurk

http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/synops/048.html
####Backplot

Mindwipes were instituted after Earth decided that they were more humane than the death penalty. They are apparently not very complete; the old memories remain in some form or another, but are inaccessible without the intervention of a telepath. (See also [[The Quality of Mercy]].)

Minbari religion is based on the notion that souls are part of a larger whole, of the universe itself, which is in the process of trying to discover itself. Souls can only be perceived via the physical bodies they inhabit, but the real soul is something only dimly related to the body.

Valen, the great Minbari spiritual leader and founder of the Grey Council, appeared a thousand years ago. He is believed to be a Minbari not born of other Minbari, according to Lennier.
####Unanswered Questions

What happened to Lyta? Was Kosh inhabiting her body? Was the body not even Lyta’s to start with? She has gills on her neck that allow her to breathe in Kosh’s quarters, and several health problems have been completely repaired. What else did the Vorlons do to her, and why?

Given how easily she pulled the information from the Centauri, have her telepathic powers increased? Or could any P5 do the same?

What did she see on the Vorlon homeworld?

Why is Londo so anxious to find out what she saw that he’d resort to threatening her?

What was Lyta’s mission for Kosh? Why does he want an aide all of a sudden, when he hasn’t had one before?
####Analysis

If Garibaldi and Sheridan are any indication, mindwipes are widely considered to be insufficient punishment for serious crimes. How widespread that perception is isn’t known.

Could the techniques used to put a mindwipe in place be related to the method used by Bureau 13 to implant hidden personalities ([[Divided Loyalties]] and, more ominous, comic #8, “Silent Enemies”?) Both seem to involve submerging one personality and causing another to become dominant, though in the case of Control, it’s not clear which was the original.

Edward’s execution was not only a sort of crucifixion (notice how he’s suspended from the metal frame) but also resembles Sheridan’s suspension from what looks like the same kind of frame in [[Comes the Inquisitor]].

Might Valen have been a Vorlon, or a Minbari under Vorlon influence? If, as Lennier says, he was truly not born of Minbari parents, that strongly suggests he wasn’t Minbari at all, and Vorlons certainly have the power to appear as Minbari.

If Minbari consider the universe to be a manifestation of a single soul, how did they ever find it conscienable to fight the Earth-Minbari War? (see jms speaks)

The Vorlons didn’t hear, or didn’t respond, to Lyta’s signals, and took five days to respond to her telepathic broadcast. What’s interesting is that they apparently didn’t come until she was nearly unconscious. Could that be related to what happened to Sheridan in [[All Alone In the Night]]?

Maybe she was only able to make contact when, as Kosh said of Sheridan, her mind was quiet enough to hear the Vorlons. Or, of course, it could simply have taken them several days to locate and reach her, in which case they could even have been responding to the non-telepathic signals.

Why didn’t Franklin notice Lyta’s gills? Perhaps he did and didn’t feel they were worth mentioning (gill implants aren’t completely alien concepts; G’Kar has them, as noted by the assassin in [[The Gathering]].) It’s also possible she didn’t get them until her errand in the middle of the episode. Franklin did note that she had elevated oxygen levels in her bloodstream, though, which would tend to indicate both that she had the gills before he examined her and that he didn’t notice them. Given the powers of illusion Vorlons have demonstrated, covering up gills would probably have been a small matter with Kosh’s help.

Whatever left Lyta to enter Kosh’s suit looked a lot like the creature inhabiting Sheridan in [[Knives]]. Could Sheridan have inadvertently been inhabited by a Vorlon? Certainly it would be consistent with him being made to see things that weren’t there; Kosh clearly has that power.

Psi Corps may have strict rules against unauthorized scans, but Sheridan and Garibaldi don’t hold those rules in particularly high esteem. Now that they have a non-Corps telepath at their disposal, someone whose loyalty is presumably above reproach thanks to her association with Kosh, will they begin calling her in on a regular basis?

The Centauri telepath, likewise, seemed to show contempt for the Corps’ regulations. What regulations, if any, are Centauri telepaths obligated to follow? Clearly they’re not simply allowed to roam freely, since Londo had this particular telepath’s name on a list.

If Lyta can implant nightmares, other psis can presumably do the same. We’ve seen one nightmare: Londo’s prophetic dream. Is it possible that someone or something implanted it in him? (He says, in [[Midnight on the Firing Line]], that Centauri have such dreams as a matter of course, but that doesn’t rule out an external influence.)
####Notes

The title, as noted in the episode, is a Biblical reference. In the New Testament, Matthew 26:30-50, Jesus goes to Gethsemane with Peter and two others to pray and contemplate his imminent betrayal. They fail to keep watch over him, and Judas is able to lead the Romans to Jesus.

Gethsemane is also referred to, not always by name, in Mark 14:32-52, Luke 23:39-51, and John 18:1-13.

Delenn’s opinion of Garibaldi’s eye-for-an-eye attitude echoes that of Gandhi, who said, “An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.”

Malcolm, Edward, and Charles are all names of rulers of Scotland.

The names Edward and Charlie may also be a reference to two H.P. Lovecraft stories. In “The Thing On the Doorstep,” a character named Edward falls in love with a woman whose grandfather has shifted his soul into her body, replacing hers. In “The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward,” the title character becomes obsessed with the memory of an ancient ancestor.

Shooting began on September 11, 1995.