Into the Fire

Season 4, Episode 73



[The Vorlons have made contact with Sheridan by moving him from his ship to them]

SHERIDAN: Where are you? Show yourselves!

VORLON: We are here. We do not understand you. We have wished only the best for you. We only want to help you.

SHERIDAN: You're destroying whole worlds!

VORLON: The others are a disease. You have given us the opportunity to eliminate it. We are grateful. Why do you oppose us?

SHERIDAN: Because I don't like being used. Or lied to.

VORLON: We have not lied. Our goal is the same as yours: to destroy the darkness.

SHERIDAN: Then why haven't you struck at them directly? You don't want to answer that one, do you? See, I finally understood the rules of this war when I saw your planetkillers in action. You've had the technology to destroy Z'ha'dum all along.! Why haven't you used it?

VORLON: You do not understand.

SHERIDAN: Oh, but I do understand! And that's what's got you worried, isn't it? A Vorlon said: understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth. And the truth is we don't need you anymore.

[Later]

SHERIDAN: You're trying to force us to decide which of you is right. You're like a couple of parents arguing in front of their kids. Manipulating them. Trying to get them to take sides. Not for their benefit, but for yours! But what if the right choice is not to choose at all?

[Later] VORLON: There is only order and obedience. You will do as you are told.

[Later] VORLON: You will die for us when we tell you to die for us because the others know no other way.

SHERIDAN: That's where you're wrong.

LORIEN: Hurry. Take my hand. Quickly!

[Lorien pulls him and Delenn from the energy field]



[Later. Delenn and Sheridan are telling the Vorlons and Shadows to go]

SHERIDAN: The Vorlons ask only one question, over and over: "Who are you?" And you, for you the question is: "What do you want?" But I have never heard you answer that question. Who are you? What do you want?

DELENN: You don't know, do you? You've been fighting each other so long you've forgotten. You've lost your way. So how can you guide us? How can we learn who we are and what we want if you don't even know it anymore?

SHERIDAN: It doesn't matter which side wins this today. A thousand years from now it'll start all over again. You're as trapped in this cycle as much as we are. But we can't afford it anymore. We don't need it, we don't need you! We've learned how to stand on our own. We'll make mistakes, but they'll be our mistakes, not yours.

DELENN: Your secret is out. All these other races know you for who you are. So what now?

VORLON: You do not speak for the rest.

SHADOW: They will not follow you if you withstand.



[Later. The Vorlons and Shadows have been told to go]

LORIEN: As I taught you then stepped aside, now you must do the same. Our age is past. This belongs to the younger races now. They have learned to stand on their own. They have learned to understand. Time to let them go.

SHADOW: Will you go with us?

LORIEN: I have been here since the beginning. I will not leave you now. I will go with you beyond the rim. And we will see again all those who went ahead of us, all those who we have missed for so long.

VORLON: Then we will not be alone?

LORIEN: No. Never alone.



Comments: