Dust to Dust

Season 3, Episode 50



[G'Kar is under the influence of Dust. After having tormented Londo, he has a vision]

VOICE: It is enough.

G'KAR: Who's there?

VOICE: Just us.

G'KAR: Who are you?

[G'Kar sees his father hanging from the tree]

G'KAR'S FATHER: I am who I have always been.

G'KAR: Father!

G'KAR'S FATHER: It is too late for me, G'Kar. It is not too late for you. Honour my name. Honour my name.

G'KAR: No!

G'KAR'S FATHER: We are a dying people, G'Kar. So are the Centauri. Obssessed with each other's death, until death is all we can see, and death is all we deserve.

G'KAR: But the Centauri started it.

G'KAR'S FATHER: And will you continue, until there are no more Narns and no more Centauri? If both sides are dead, no one will care which side deserves the blame. It no longer matters who started it, G'Kar. It only matters who is suffering.

G'KAR: No. No. I have an obligation to honour my father's name.

G'KAR'S FATHER: And how have you chosen to honour that name? What is there left for Narn if all of creation falls around us? There is nothing. No hope, no dream, no future, no life, unless we turn from this cycle of death toward something greater. If we are a dying people, then let us die with honour by helping the others as no one else can.

G'KAR: I don't understand.

G'KAR'S FATHER: It is because you have let them destract you, blind you with hate. You cannot see the battle for what it is. We are fighting to save one another. We must realise we are not alone. We rise and fall together. And some of us must be sacrificed, if all are to be saved. Because if we fail in this, then none of us will be saved. And the Narn will be only a memory.

[Darkness. G'Kar hears a voice.]

VOICE: You have the opportunity, here and now, to choose, to become something greater and nobler and more difficult than you have been before. The universe does not offer such chances often, G'Kar.

G'KAR: Why now? Why not earlier? All this time, where have you been?

VOICE: I have always been here.

[G'Kar sees Kosh in the angelic shape of G'Lan fly away. He awakes from his vision. We see Kosh standing in the background]



Sound clip: I have always been here (WAV, 73K)



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