- [Londo muses about how to free Na'Toth.]
- Londo Mollari: We have to do it without killing a guard, without raising any alarms, and without anyone noticing that she is gone. For my next trick, I shall fly around the room under my own power.
- [Lochley and Zack are examining the injured after an attack by telepaths]
- Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: This one's dead.
- Zack Allan: So is he.
- Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Bester?
- Alfred Bester: Fine. A little depressed about the inflation rate and hemlines are going down again, but otherwise...
- Zack Allan: Shut up!
- Michael Garibaldi: Why is that we always break up our history by the the wars, not the years of peace? The Hundred Years War, War of 1812, the first three world wars, the Dilgar War, the War of the Shining Star, the Minbari War, the Shadow War. Why the war and not the peace? Because it's exciting, and because on some level people like to see something big fall apart and explode from the inside out. And right now, John, we're that something.
- Byron: We were created to serve normals. Now that the Shadow War is over we deserve compensation. A home.
- Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Won't happen. They'll see you dead first.
- Byron: Then we will die.
- [first lines]
- Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Personal log, June 16, 2262. My first CO once told me: "When someone asks you why you took on a job, the worst answer you can give is 'Because a friend asked me to.'" I should have listened. This place is one long exercise in frustration. After I denied permission to the telepaths who came here asking to form a colony, President Sheridan overrode my decision. Now they've walled themselves up in Brown Sector...
- President John Sheridan: She went where?
- Michael Garibaldi: Right down the shaft, right smack in the middle of them. Zack just gave me the news. You've got to give it to her, she's got guts.
- President John Sheridan: She is crazy! She was crazy when I knew her almost 20 years ago, she's just as crazy now.
- Michael Garibaldi: [laughing] *You* hired her.
- President John Sheridan: Don't remind me.
- [Londo is studying some reports]
- Londo Mollari: I don't understand it. These reports, when we are at peace, we cut production on ships and weapons 25 percent and invest that money in domestic economy: Manufacturing, research and development.
- G'Kar: Sensible. Wise. Who thought it up for you?
- Londo Mollari: Right now, even though we are not at war with anyone our production of war material has increased 15 percent. Why?
- G'Kar: With everyone now on the same side perhaps you're planning to invade yourselves for a change. I find the idea curiously appealing. Once you finished killing each other, we can plow under all the buildings and plant rows of flowers that spell out the words "too annoying to live" in letters big enough to be seen from space.
- [last lines]
- Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Personal log, June 18, 2282. I don't think I've had a good night's sleep since I got here. Tonight's no exception. But I have to sleep. Tonight is the calm before the storm and I may not get another chance for some time. Tomorrow the storm comes. Tomorrow the killing begins. And God help me, I can't think of any way to stop it.
- Alfred Bester: My people are in there. And several others just tried to kill me, but then, what family doesn't have its difficulties?