Z'ha'dum

Season 3, Episode 66

[Sheridan gets ready to go to Z'ha'dum with Anna. When he looks into the mirror, he suddenly sees Kosh standing behind him.]

KOSH: If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die.

[Sheridan turns around, but Kosh is gone]

[Having escaped the Shadows on Z'ha'dum, Sherdian arrives at the top of a bottomless pit. He arms the bombs on the White Star and sets it on a collision course with the planet. As he sees the ship approaching, Sheridan suddenly hears Kosh's voice]

KOSH'S VOICE: Jump! Jump now!

[Sheridan jumps into the pit]

Sound clip: If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die (WAV, 114K)
Sound clip: Jump! Jump Now! (WAV, 320K)

Comments:

If you have read J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, you may, despite the differences in character, notice one major parallel between Sheridan and Gandalf: one falls into a pit at a place called Z'ha'dum and the other falls into a pit at a place called Khazad-dûm, and both return from the dead. Incidentally, Lórien also appears in the Lord of the Rings, although it's a place rather than a person.
A friend told me he wouldn't have jumped. Why not? Twenty seconds later, the fusion bombs detonated. Okay, so it's highly unlikely that you can survive a fall down a bottomless pit, but he would not have survived the blast either.

Sound clip: If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die (WAV, 114K)