A Race Through Dark Places

"A Race Through Dark Places"
Babylon 5 episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 8
Directed by	Jim Johnston
Written by	J. Michael Straczynski
Production code	207
Original air date	25 January 1995
Guest appearance(s)
Apesanahkwat (Telepath #1) Brian Cousins (Rick) Diane Dilascio (Telepath #2) Gianin Loffler (Lurker) Walter Koenig (Bester)

"A Race Through Dark Places" is an episode from the second season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5. In the episode, the Psi Cop Bester comes to Babylon 5 chasing after a group of rogue telepaths. The station's personnel have to deal with Bester's arrival and the legal and moral issues surrounding the presence of the rogue telepaths on the station.

Entertainment and news website Geek.com included A Race Through Dark Places as "essential watching" for season two.^[1] Geek.com found the episode important because "the wonderful Mr. Bester gets a chance to shine here, introducing many elements that will continue for years to come."^[1]

Synopsis

The episode opens with Psi Cop Bester telepathically torturing an unknown person for information. The man dies, but not before he gives Bester a clue as to the location of some rogue telepaths that Bester is chasing. Bester then returns to Babylon 5 to investigate an underground railroad of rogue telepaths. His return sparks tension and suspicion among the crew, as an underground railroad would need an insider to help them. Chief of Security Michael Garibaldi (Jerry Doyle) initially suspects Susan Ivanova (Claudia Christian) of being the insider as a result of her known hatred for the Psi Corps, but she denies it.

During an assassination attempt on Bester, the rogue telepaths kidnap Talia Winters (Andrea Thompson) and take her back to their base. Once she wakes up, the telepaths take turns telling her their own personal stories about why they rebel against the Psi Corps - being raped as part of a force breeding attempt, having an outspoken anti-Corps relative murdered, and so on. Talia is convinced to help them. Dr. Stephen Franklin (Richard Biggs) meets with Captain Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) on the telepaths' behalf to set up a meeting, at which he reveals that he is their inside help. A group of doctors help funnel telepaths out of Earth Alliance space for humanitarian reasons. With the permission of Captain Sheridan, Talia and the telepaths create an ellaborate mental illusion to convince Bester that all of the rogue telepaths were killed in a fire-fight. Sheridan allows them all to peacefully leave Babylon 5, and Franklin shuts down the underground railroad there as being too dangerous.

There are two additional subplots in the episode. One include Captain Sheridan and Ivanova's protests against EarthGov charging them rent for their slightly-too large quarters. The other subplot includes Ambassador Delenn (Mira Furlan) wanting to know what it is like to be human. Delenn asks Sheridan to dinner to talk about life outside of diplomatic matters in order to further this goal. The two of them have a formal, date-like dinner together.

Arc significance

Talia Winters begins to question her allegiance to the Psi Corps.
Talia's relationship with Susan Ivanova begins to warm.
Talia's comment, "The Corps is mother, the Corps is father," will later be the name of an episode. It is also a mantra for the Psi Corps.
Sheridan and Delenn's dinner is the start of their romantic relationship.

References

1 2 Templeton, Graham (16 January 2015). "Babylon 5 Condensed: How to watch sci-fi's most intimidating masterpiece". Geek.com. Retrieved 2 August 2015.

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Season 1	Midnight on the Firing Line Soul Hunter Born to the Purple Infection The Parliament of Dreams Mind War The War Prayer And the Sky Full of Stars Deathwalker Believers Survivors By Any Means Necessary Signs and Portents TKO Grail Eyes Legacies A Voice in the Wilderness (Parts 1 & 2) Babylon Squared The Quality of Mercy Chrysalis

Season 2	Points of Departure Revelations The Geometry of Shadows A Distant Star The Long Dark Spider in the Web Soul Mates A Race Through Dark Places The Coming of Shadows Gropos All Alone in the Night Acts of Sacrifice Hunter, Prey There All the Honor Lies And Now for a Word In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum Knives Confessions and Lamentations Divided Loyalties The Long, Twilight Struggle Comes the Inquisitor The Fall of Night

Season 3	Matters of Honor Convictions A Day in the Strife Passing Through Gethsemane Voices of Authority Dust to Dust Exogenesis Messages from Earth Point of No Return Severed Dreams Ceremonies of Light and Dark Sic Transit Vir A Late Delivery from Avalon Ship of Tears Interludes and Examinations War Without End (Parts 1 & 2) Walkabout Grey 17 Is Missing And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place Shadow Dancing Z'ha'dum

Season 4	The Hour of the Wolf Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi? The Summoning Falling Toward Apotheosis The Long Night Into the Fire Epiphanies The Illusion of Truth Atonement Racing Mars Lines of Communication Conflicts of Interest Rumors, Bargains and Lies Moments of Transition No Surrender, No Retreat The Exercise of Vital Powers The Face of the Enemy Intersections in Real Time Between the Darkness and the Light Endgame Rising Star The Deconstruction of Falling Stars

Season 5	No Compromises The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari The Paragon of Animals A View from the Gallery Learning Curve Strange Relations Secrets of the Soul Day of the Dead In the Kingdom of the Blind A Tragedy of Telepaths Phoenix Rising The Ragged Edge The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father Meditations on the Abyss Darkness Ascending And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder Movements of Fire and Shadow The Fall of Centauri Prime The Wheel of Fire Objects in Motion Objects at Rest Sleeping in Light

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