[New Grey Council member Neroon confronts Delenn.]
Neroon: You are an affront to the purity of our race!

[Newly unfrozen traveller Mariah Cirrus meets G'Kar.]
G'Kar: Take my advice and go back to the time you came from. The future isn't what it used to be.

[On the Strieb ship, Sheridan has a strange dream about Babylon 5 and some of its denizens.]
Dream Ivanova #1: Do you know who I am?
Dream Garibaldi: The man in-between is searching for you.
Dream Ivanova #2: You are the hand.
[Sheridan turns to see Kosh.]
John Sheridan: Why are you here?
Dream Kosh: We were never away. For the first time, your mind is quiet enough to hear me.
Sheridan: Why am I here?
Dream Kosh: You have always been here.

[Opening credits voiceover.]
John Sheridan: The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. A self-contained world five miles long, located in neutral territory. A place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens. A shining beacon in space, all alone in the night. It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind... the year the Great War came upon us all. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2259. The name of the place is Babylon 5.

[Opening credits voiceover.]
Lennier: It was the year of fire...
Zack Allan: ...the year of destruction...
G'Kar: ...the year we took back what was ours.
Lyta Alexander: It was the year of rebirth...
Vir Cotto: ...the year of great sadness...
Marcus Cole: ...the year of pain...
Delenn: ...and a year of joy.
Londo Mollari: It was...a new age.
Stephen Franklin: It was the end of history.
Susan Ivanova: It was the year everything changed.
Michael Garibaldi: The year is 2261.
John Sheridan: The place, Babylon 5.

[Opening credits voiceover.]
Susan Ivanova: The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. It failed. But in the year of the Shadow War, it became something greater: our last, best hope...for victory. The year is 2260. The place, Babylon 5.

[Over dinner, new Babylon 5 "political officer" Julie Musante asks Sheridan about "lurkers".]
John Sheridan: It's our version of the homeless. In many ways, we have the same problem Earth does.
Julie Musante: Mmm. Earth doesn't have homeless.
Sheridan: Excuse me?
Musante: We don't have the problem. Yes, there are some "displaced" people, here and there, but, uh... they've chosen to be in that position. They're either lazy, or they're criminal, or they're mentally unstable.
Sheridan: They can't get a job!
Musante: EarthGov has promised a job to anyone that wants one. So, if someone doesn't have a job, they must not want one.
. . .
[Musante runs down a list of all the social problems EarthGov has suddenly solved.]
Sheridan: And, uh w-when exactly did all this happen?
Musante: When we rewrote the dictionary.
. . .
Sheridan: You can't deal with the problems by pretending they don't exist.

[Sebastian, the Vorlons' Inquisitor, surveys the Zocalo]
Sebastian: Nothing changes. Corruption, immorality, chaos.

[Sheridan addresses the entire station before the battle.]
Sheridan: May I have your attention, please? In the last few hours, we have learned that warships are coming this way from Earth. Their orders are to seize command of Babylon 5 by force. As commanding officer and military governor of Babylon 5, I cannot allow this to happen. President Clark has violated the Earth Alliance Constitution by dissolving the Senate, declaring martial law, and personally ordering the bombing of civilian targets on the Mars Colony! He is personally responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent people! Following these attacks, Orion 7 and Proxima 3 have broken away from the Earth Alliance and declared independence! Babylon 5 now joins with them! As of this moment, Babylon 5 is seceding from the Earth Alliance! We will remain an independent state until President Clark is removed from office! At the end of this current crisis, anyone who wishes to leave for Earth is free to do so. Meanwhile, for you own safety, I urge everyone to stay in your quarters until this is over. That is all.

[Sheridan and Ivanova are camping in his office due to being locked out of their quarters]
Sheridan: How many Minbari does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Susan Ivanova: I don't know, sir. How many Minbari does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Sheridan: None. They always surrender right before they finish the job and they never tell you why.
[Ivanova groans, Sheridan smiles.]
Sheridan: Knock, knock.
Ivanova: Who's there?
Sheridan: Kosh.
Ivanova: Kosh who?
Sheridan: Gesundheit. [snickers] I thought that was a good one.
Ivanova: Were you like this when you were married?
Sheridan: Huh? Yeah.
Ivanova: The woman was a saint.
. . .
[the next night]
Ivanova: Captain, I'd like to note two things for the record.
Sheridan: Yes, Commander?
Ivanova: Item One: I don't think this protest is gonna work. Earth Central never gives in when it comes to money. But if you're determined to keep at it, I'm prepared to do the same. Item Two: You snore.
Sheridan: No, I don't!
Ivanova: Yes, you do!
Sheridan: No, I don't!
Ivanova: Captain, either you snore, or last night we had a hell of a breach in the hull. I get dibs on the couch.

[Sheridan and Ivanova close in on an invisible, ravenous alien.]
Susan Ivanova: You got a plan?
Sheridan: Let's try not to get killed.
Ivanova: Brilliant.

[Sheridan approaches Kosh to thank him for saving his life.]
John Sheridan: You've been back and forth to your homeworld so many times since you got here, how do I know you're the same Vorlon? Inside that Encounter Suit you could be anyone.
Kosh: I have always been here.
Sheridan: Oh yeah? You said that about me too.
Kosh: Yes.
Sheridan: [slightly unnerved] I really hate it when you do that.
Kosh: Good.

[Sheridan asks Delenn for help in providing covert assistance to Narn civilians without the approval of EarthGov.]
John Sheridan: ...Ambassador, I've learned the hard way that governments deal in matters of convenience, not conscience. If they fall behind, it is up to the rest of us to make up the difference. If we don't, who will?

[Sheridan asks Hague why he trusts him with his secret effort to investigate the new Earth government.]
General Hague: ...you have an uncommon failing for someone in your position, Captain. You're a patriot. You believe as I do that when we put on this uniform, we took a solemn vow to protect Earth against threats from outside and from within. [...] Your cooperation is essential, if we're going to take back our government.

[Sheridan asks his staff if they want in on the conspiracy.]
Ivanova: Wherever this goes, however it ends, we're with you.