Objects at Rest
"Objects at Rest" is the penultimate episode from the fifth season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5.
Synopsis
Delenn and Sheridan relocate to Minbar; Lennier betrays Sheridan when an accident takes place on board the Minbari cruiser transporting him and Delenn to Minbar.
Michael Garibaldi arrives on Mars, and begins a series of shakeups at Edgars Industries. Since he had fired the previous board of directors, Garibaldi assembles a new board that is composed of company troublemakers. He empowers them to challenge any of Garibaldi's decisions any one of them may disagree with. If they prove to be correct, they will receive a bonus, but if Garibaldi proves to be right, "I will eat you for lunch."
Arc significance
Sheridan and Delenn leave Babylon 5 in order to relocate the new offices on Minbar. Emperor Mollari (under control of the Drakh) presents Sheridan with an urn which is meant to be given to Sheridan's son on his 16th birthday. The urn contains a Keeper. According to creator Joe Strazynski, it is this Keeper that causes the incident that is mentioned in "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" - the immediate aftermath of which is detailed in "War Without End". Plus, Morden's revelation in Day Of The Dead comes true with Lennier betraying the Rangers.
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Dim light covered the corners of every wall, a quiet
breeze cooled the sweat upon my neck.
My eyes watching ever so closley as she slept, each
breathe she took was another i despised.
Sweat filled the palms of my hands my every breath drew
heavier.
Clutching my fist tightly around the handle of the
hatchet, my silhoutte emerged from the shroud of
darkness.
Sweat painted the pores of my face.
A sense of suffocation from beneath that mask.
I would wake her from her dreams and baptize her in
death.
A flutter from her eyes a glimpse in to mine .
A swing of the blade that would end her life.
Each lash a work of art, a skill that would bring failure
to her weakened heart.
The walls bearing witness to the eliquent design of her
twisted frame.
My thirst for death had left me staring in the eyes of
regret.
I lay beside her running my sinful hands through her
angelic locks, but in that room where death had come lay