Comes the Inquisitor
| "Comes the Inquisitor" | |
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| Babylon 5 episode | |
Sheridan refuses to answer a question
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 21 |
| Directed by | Mike Vejar |
| Written by | J. Michael Straczynski |
| Produced by | John Copeland |
| Featured music | Christopher Franke |
| Cinematography by | John C. Flinn, III A.S.C. |
| Editing by | Skip Robinson |
| Production code | 221 |
| Original air date | 8 August 1995 (UK) 25 October 1995 (US) |
| Running time | optional |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Wayne Alexander (Sebastian) |
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Wayne Alexander (Sebastian)
Jack Kehler (Mr. Chase)
"Comes the Inquisitor" is an episode from the second season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
This section describes the plot summary in A-Plot/B-Plot format.
The Vorlons bring an "inquisitor" to the station, a human male named Sebastian, to test Delenn's readiness to lead the "army of light". Surprised that a human is working directly for the Vorlons, Sheridan questions the man about his past, eliciting little more than that he was from Earth, and lived in London in the year 1888.
When Delenn meets with Sebastian, he gives her a pair of bracelets. She may take them off at any time, but will fail the test if she does. He asks her a simple question: "Who are you?" When the answers she gives are unacceptable to him, he uses the bracelets to administer painful shocks. The pain increases with each wrong answer, until eventually the shocks envelop her entire body. When Sheridan attempts to rescue Delenn, he finds himself captured by Sebastian and subjected to similar torture. Only after Delenn declares her willingness to die in order to save Sheridan does Sebastian conclude both Delenn and Sheridan are, indeed, the "right people, in the right place, at the right time".
Sheridan does some investigating and discovers that there was a man named Sebastian in London who disappeared in 1888 – the day after the last of a well-known series of murders. Sebastian acknowledges that it was no coincidence: he believed, like Delenn, that he was "chosen" for a "holy cause" – until he was abducted by the Vorlons and taken into their service. The Vorlons have been keeping him alive for 400 years, pulling him from stasis when needed for this inquisitorial service for which he was "ideally suited". Although it is not specifically stated, Sebastian's identity seems clear when Sheridan mentions the dates and Sebastian leaves with his parting words: "...remembered not as a reformer, not as a prophet, not as a hero...not even as Sebastian. Remembered only...as Jack".
G'Kar begins buying weapons in order to be smuggled back to the Narn homeworld for an underground resistance against the Centauri occupiers. Garibaldi learns of this, and orders G'Kar to not use Babylon 5 as a port through which these weapons are smuggled. G'Kar agrees, and Garibaldi provides G'Kar with an alternative, safer route.
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