Delenn agrees to lead the Rangers, but Marcus must protect her from a deadly threat. Garibaldi investigates a secret level of the station.
####Overview

####Guest Stars

Robert Englund as Jeremiah. John Vickery as Neroon. Time Winters as Rathenn.
####Lurk

http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/synops/063.html
####Backplot

The forces of light are now actively recruiting telepaths, but it’s been a slow process.

Garibaldi’s grandmother was a police officer in Boston. (First mentioned in [[By Any Means Necessary]].)

Valen originally set up the Rangers 1000 years ago, under the control of the Warrior Caste, but they have been inactive until recently.

Grey Sector in B5 is mainly comprised of industrial units.

No Minbari has killed another Minbari in 1000 years.

Delenn’s father died (“passed beyond the veil”) 10 years ago because he was heartbroken about the Earth-Minbari war. Delenn’s mother entered

the Sisters of Valeria.

The security forces on B5 use PPGs rather than bullets because bullets run the risk of puncturing the station’s hull.
####Unanswered Questions

What will be the limits of Ivanova’s promise to Franklin?

How will being chosen as leader of the Rangers change Delenn?

Is Neroon right in suggesting Delenn is taking over control of Minbar?

Who or what was responsible for an entire level of Grey sector being lost from the view of the B5 residents?

What will happen to Grey 17 and the people there?

What will the future relationship be between the Warrior Caste and the Rangers?

Was Kosh present at the ceremony? If not, why not?
####Analysis

Tension among the Minbari castes is increasing. Some members of the warrior caste think Delenn is a religious zealot who is trying to grab hold of military and political power. The warrior caste is unhappy about the religious caste building warships without telling them; believes the Rangers should be commanded by one of them, now that Sinclair has left; and is unhappy about non-Minbari being trained with Minbari in the Rangers.

However, Neroon’s experience with Marcus may change some of these perceptions.

Delenn’s mother joined the Sisters of Valeria. Valeria is also the being that Minbari who were present at Kosh’s appearance in the garden ([[The Fall of Night]]) claimed to have seen. Is this just a coincidence, or is there a deeper relationship?

Jeremiah’s group must have contained some highly skilled computer hackers. Getting the lifts to pass by their level would be the least of their troubles; since the station spins to simulate gravity, lower levels have greater apparent gravity. Everyone below their level would be expecting slightly lower gravity than they’d actually experience. Perhaps the difference would be too slight to alert people in a residential sector, but presumably industrial operations would be affected if gravity was off by a few percent.

Jeremiah clearly knew about Minbari religion, given the similarity of his view of the universe and Delenn’s ([[Passing Through Gethsemane]].) Yet in that episode, Brother Edward clearly hadn’t learned about Minbari beliefs, implying that the Minbari aren’t generally open or forthcoming about them. How did Jeremiah learn about Minbari religion?

Garibaldi’s makeshift gun couldn’t have worked as shown. Even if the steam were enough to detonate the gunpowder in one of the bullets, the first one to go off would almost certainly have been the one closest to the back of the pipe, where the heat was greatest; all the bullets would have been propelled out the pipe at once, and probably at low speed.

Franklin’s backup file on the underground railroad is code-named “Harriet.” This is probably a reference to Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who was instrumental in running the original underground railroad in the United States.
####Notes

Sinclair’s belongings include a medal for fighting on the Battle of the Line, his identicard, an Earthforce insignia, and the Ranger brooch.

When Garibaldi falls unconscious, the surrounding rubble includes, among other things, a newspaper with the headline “Santiago Elected.” That may indicate the amount of time the cult spent sequestered in Grey 17; Santiago’s re-election took place three years earlier ([[Midnight on the Firing Line]].) It’s unlikely the paper dates from Santiago’s original election; unless his previous term was less than a few years, the previous election would have happened long before Babylon 5 was constructed, possibly even before Babylon 4 vanished in 2254.