[An unknown ship on collision course with the station.]
Susan Ivanova: This is not a clear and present danger? I must read the rule book again.

[As the immediate danger is cleared.]
Sheridan: Damage report.
David Corwin: Damage to all sectors. They're still fighting in Brown Sector.
Sheridan: Get some more troops down there. Hull integrity?
Corwin: Not good. EVA teams en route. It's a good thing this stopped when it did. We couldn't take much more. [Jumpgate alarm goes off.] Oh, no!
[Outside, the jumpgate opens and three more Clark-loyal destroyers come through]
Captain Drake, EarthForce: This is Captain Drake to Babylon 5. You are ordered to surrender and prepare to be boarded, by order of President Clark.
[Another alarm goes off in C&C]
Corwin: Captain...jump points forming right on top of us!
Sheridan: [deflated] How many?
Corwin: Four!
[The jump points produce three Minbari cruisers and the White Star, with Delenn in the captain's chair]
Delenn: This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw...or be destroyed!
Drake: Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship.
Delenn: Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else.

[At a bar on the Zocalo]
Lennier: Sometimes I get so close, and yet it seems I'm shut out of the important things.
Vir Cotto: It's a useless feeling! The ambassador is definitely going through some changes. He even looks different!
Lennier: Indeed! And now with the military starting to stampede over everyone and everything...
Vir: People coming and going and secret meetings!
Lennier: You never know what it's all about. Until later, when it's too late.
Vir: And they never listen to us.
Vir, Lennier: [in unison] Makes me nervous!
[They turn and look at each other, then back to the bar again]
Vir: Same time tomorrow?
Lennier: Sure.

[At a Universe Today vendor station, Delenn haughtily dismisses humans' fascination with the press.]
Delenn: Back home, when there is something you need to know, you are told just what you require and no more.
. . .
Delenn: ... Minbari respect the privacy of others by not prying into their affairs. To express undue curiosity--
Newsvendor Computer: Unable to insert "Eye on Minbari" section. Do you wish to accept edition anyway?
Delenn: Uh... yes, yes I do.
John Sheridan: "Eye on Minbari"?
Delenn: It is good to know what your people are thinking and saying about my people. And, uh...[grins] I often learn things about my own world before I'm told "what I need to know and no more".

[At Proxima 3, Marcus notes the approach of half the blockading destroyers.]
John Sheridan: The hostiles might be splitting up so they can be with both groups, to keep them in line.
Marcus Cole: Unless they're all hostile, and some are just more hostile than others.
Sheridan: Thank you for the ray of sunshine, Marcus. Next time I feel the need to be depressed, I'll remember to give you a call.

[Back on Babylon 5, Sheridan encounters Kosh.]
Kosh: You have always been here.

[Beating the tar out of Marcus, Neroon suggests the human need not be bound by Minbari honor.]
Marcus Cole: I am a Ranger! We walk in the dark places no others will enter! We stand on the bridge and no one may pass! We live for the One, we die for the One!

[Bester addresses the command staff after an attempt on his life by rogue telepaths.]
Alfred Bester: They must be getting desperate to try something like this. They know we're onto them. Why else would they try to kill me?
Ivanova: Is this a multiple-choice question?

[Bester calls ahead to warn of his imminent arrival.]
Alfred Bester: I'm in pursuit of an individual who's a danger to your station, Earth, and the Psi Corps.
Susan Ivanova: Well, that's two legitimate things to worry about.

[Bester confronts Garibaldi about his insulting comments.]
Bester: My blood is the same color as yours, and what I do, I do to protect Earth, same as you. You don't like how I do it, that's your prerogative. But there are things going on out there that you know nothing about. Threats to the human race that no one ever hears about -- because we stop them. There's dangers all around us! And whether you like us or not, we may be all that stands between you and the abyss.

[Bester confronts Lyta about her enhanced telepathic abilities.]
Bester: You've been keeping me out since I got here. A good question is, why? A better question is, how? I was thinking...I may have spoken rashly before. There may be some value in not turning you over. You're stronger than the last time I saw you.
Lyta: We all change.
Bester: Yes, but this is different. I can feel it. Whatever's happened to you, you have a moral obligation to share it with the Corps, Lyta. The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father.
Lyta: In that case, Mr. Bester...I'm an orphan.

[Bester has explained the details of the Psi Corps program that made Jason Ironheart what he is]
Bester: It was a calculated risk!
Susan Ivanova: Good old Psi Corps. You guys never cease to amaze me. All the moral fiber of Jack the Ripper! What do you do in your spare time, juggle babies over a fire pit? Oops, there goes another calculated risk!
Psi Cop Kelsey: You're not helping the situation.
Ivanova: Lady, you are the situation!

[Bester is admiring the White Star's bridge]
Sheridan: Try not to drool on the controls.
Bester: You said something, Captain?
Sheridan: Mm. Not a word. Just burped.
. . .
Sheridan: Mr. Bester.
Bester: Captain Sheridan.
Sheridan: Get the hell out of my chair.

[Bester loudly disclaims any prior knowledge of the Talia Winters debacle.]
Bester: On the other hand, we learned some interesting things about Miss Winters, in the course of her debriefing and dissec-- that is, examination.
. . .
[Bester, agreeing to take a psi-surpressing drug, sneers at the command staff's distrust.]
Bester: I'm here to save your butts! Next time, show a little gratitude.
[He leaves.]
Franklin: On the other hand, maybe wounding him isn't such a bad idea after all.

[Bester surprises Garibaldi with some psychological, not psychic, interrogation skills.]
Bester: Liars are always afraid that somebody's going to see through them. So I just provided him with a vehicle for his paranoia. Your captain's opinions notwithstanding, the badge and the uniform do have certain...advantages.
Garibaldi: Like intimidation?
Bester: Absolutely! Just like...your badge, and...your uniform.