4.04 "Falling Toward Apotheosis" Quiz

Answer: Ivanova

In her reports, Ivanova gives details on the planets under attack as well as planets accepting refugees. The message is repeated every 20 minutes over the BabCom units.

Answer: SecureCam footage

Zack: "That's a securecam record. Thought the Doc told you to take it easy for a while."

Garibaldi: "Well, I gotta do something, or I'm gonna go stir-crazy."

Zack: "You, uh, keeping an eye on the Captain?"

Garibaldi: "No. On him [Lorien]. The guy worries me. Everywhere the Captain goes, he's there, right at his heels, watching. How do we know he's not pulling something?"

Zack: "Come on. The Captain vouched for him. Said he saved his life."

Garibaldi: "I thought he died at Z'ha'dum?"

Zack: "Yeah, well, after that part. Look, I don't pretend to understand it. I'm just glad he came back in one piece."

Answer: Morden tells Londo after he is summoned to the garden

Londo: "Majesty? You sent for me?"

Cartagia: "Ah, I was just looking at the sky. Tell me, what do you see, Mollari?"

Londo: "The stars, Majesty. Nothing more."

Morden: "Then you're not looking hard enough. Vorlons are out there, Londo. They've gone mad. Attacking any world, any base, any colony where my associates have influence."

Londo: "Is this true, Majesty? I've heard nothing!"

Cartagia: "Yes. Well, we kept the information to ourselves. No reason for anyone else to know."

Morden: "After the last war, my associates hid many of their ships on distant worlds. The Vorlons want to make sure that doesn't happen again."

Londo: "There are over a hundred of those ships here. I assume they will be leaving now."

Morden: "I'm afraid not."

Answer: Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar)

The head closest to Londo is molded from Andreas Katsulas. According to JMS (courtesy of the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5): "Yes, that's Andreas' head, which I personally moved over to where it would be beside Peter...who complained (in jest) that Andreas was again stealing the scene from him."

Answer: Shadow Cabinet

Cartagia: "Sit, Mollari, sit. I call them my Shadow Cabinet. I think you can appreciate the irony. They certainly can't. Sit. Mollari. Sit. We were discussing this situation earlier this evening, and this one had the most -- No, no... This one! Minister Dugari. You remember him, don't you? Always coughing. Most distressing. But we finally cured it. -- had the most wonderful idea. We won't be sending any of our ships out to fight the Vorlons, not one."

Londo: "Then you will tell Mr. Morden's associates to leave."

Cartagia: "Of course not. I promised them they could stay in exchange for elevating me to godhood! No, they will remain on the island of Celini."

Londo: "But when the Vorlons come, if they are destroying whole planets to get at these Shadows..."

Cartagia: "Yes. You understand exactly. You and I, Mollari, we will turn Centauri Prime into an inauguration pyre to commemorate my ascension into godhood. The fire of our world will light my way. Yes! You see it, don't you? If I become a god, how will our world survive without me? I cannot just abandon it. That would be cruel! And anyone who followed me would obviously be inferior. Best to put them out of their misery. I will take it all with me in spirit. Don't send the ships. Let it burn, Mollari! Let it all end in fire!"

Answer: Franklin

Garibaldi: "This place can handle a quarter million people. We're already past that! What're you gonna do when ten, twenty thousand people at a time start showing up at our front door and wanting in? What happens when it turns ugly, when they start fighting each other for the right to get in here? You think you got a security problem now? Wait another 24 hours. This'll seem like a picnic!"

Franklin: "What about Epsilon 3?"

Garibaldi: "What about it?"

Franklin: "We have a whole planet underneath us that's never been touched by the Shadows, so in theory the Vorlons should leave it alone. We can start shuttling people down there right now! I can set up a portable Medlab. There's gotta be supplies down there, since we've never seen anyone bringing in food or equipment."

Sheridan: "I agree. Do it."

Answer: crankier

Garibaldi: "What do you want me to do?"

Sheridan: "I want the Vorlon gone!"

Garibaldi: "Fine. I'll just go up to him and ask him to leave. That'll work!"

Ivanova: "Michael..."

Sheridan: "No, it's all right. That's exactly what I want you to do. Look, he has got to know by now that we are planning to move against him, so let's give him what he expects. Then we can do what we have to do."

Garibaldi: "Which is the part you can't tell me about. You want me to take a full tactical team?"

Sheridan: "No. Just a few people you can trust."

Garibaldi: "That's not enough. He'll wipe the floor with us!"

Sheridan: "I know."

Garibaldi: "Swell. Okay. Look, if you want me to fall on my sword for you, that's what I'm here for! I'll let you know what happens, assuming he doesn't frag me just for the kicks!"

Ivanova: "Is it my imagination, or is Mr. Garibaldi crankier than usual?"

Zack: "Well, he's been through a lot lately. He just needs a little time to settle in, that's all."

Answer: Lyta

Lyta: "I told you, I wasn't here when Ambassador Kosh died. I didn't have any of his essence with me. I thought he was gone. But for a while, I've suspected that someone else here had a piece of him. I think I know who it is. But I can't draw Kosh out of him. He won't let me."

Ulkesh: "A human?"

Lyta: "Yes!"

Ulkesh: "Imprisons one of us?"

Lyta: "Yes!"

Ulkesh: "Intolerable!"

Lyta: "If there is still a piece of him there, you can draw it out of him, use what it knows, and take it back to Vorlon when this is all over. I cared about Kosh. I'd like to know he finally made it home."

Ulkesh: "Show me."

Lyta: "But the guards..."

Ulkesh: "They will not threaten us again."

Answer: 20

Lorien: "He was gravely wounded at Z'ha'dum. He was dying. He was dead. I did all I could to help him, but I cannot create life. Only the universe can do that. I can extend, enhance. There is no magic, nothing spiritual about it, only the application of energies, healing and rebuilding cells."

John: "I had Franklin do a complete medscan. He found things in my neurosystem. Some kind of biochemical energy repairing and sustaining me. He's never seen anything like it."

Lorien: "I did the best I could. I gave him back a portion of his life, but only a portion."

Delenn: "How long?"

Lorien: "In human terms, barring injury and illness, perhaps twenty years. But no more than that."

Delenn: "Twenty years!"

John: "I'll be in my early sixties by then. It's a good run, Delenn."

Delenn: "You told me that humans live to be a hundred years old, even older. You can't..."

Lorien: "Twenty years. No more. And then, one day, he will simply stop."

Answer: Vir buys the toxin for the assassination

Vir does not buy the poison until they arrive on Narn in "The Long Night".

Sheridan proposes to Delenn and gives her an engagement ring:

John: "I wanted you to have this [Sheridan hands Delenn the box with the engagement ring]. I got it down in the Zocalo. It's not what I had exactly in mind, but, it's temporary, until I can get you a real engagement ring. Uh, it's an Earth custom. You see, you give someone you love an engagement ring as kind of a down payment for another ring. The kind that you exchange when you get married. I don't know when we'll be able to get to that part of it. We may not survive the next two weeks. But I wanted you to have this and for you to know that whatever time I have left, I want to spend it with you."
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Londo convinces Cartagia to go to Narn (since it would be easier to assassinate him offworld):

Londo: "He [G'Kar] deserves to die for his crimes against our people. And die he will. But what if we conducted his trial and execution on his Homeworld instead of here? The whole world would see your Majesty's wisdom, see, with their own eyes, the brilliant center of the Centauri Republic! Can you imagine how it would move them? Once they see you sit in judgment over G'Kar, your name will spread like wildfire among them. And from there to a hundred planets beyond. Then you can accept your imminent godhood, secure that your name will be spoken and remembered throughout the known galaxy!"

Cartagia: "I have occasionally considered a trip to Narn. My advisers counseled against it for security reasons."

Londo: "Majesty, can you harm a god? It would be a great crime for one who will shortly walk among the stars, who will hold entire worlds in the palm of his hand, to be mistakenly perceived as afraid of a few barbarians?"

Cartagia: "You have raised a good point, Mollari. Once again, I am in your debt. I'm told the Vorlons will arrive in seven days. This is just enough time. Three days there, three days back, one day for trial and execution!"
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Cartagia has G'Kar's eye plucked out as foreshadowed in Londo's dream in "The Coming of Shadows". He has also failed to "save the eye that does not see" from Lady Morella's prophesy in "Point of No Return":

Cartagia: "I was just thinking, I don't like the way he's looking at me! I'm trying to decide what to do about it. Would you care to make a suggestion?"

Londo: "Um, oh, no, I'm sure whatever Your Majesty decides will be appropriate. I should go and pack."

Cartagia: "No, I don't care at all for the way he looks at me. Pluck out his eye."

Pain technician: "Which one?"

Cartagia: "Huh! I don't know. It doesn't matter....That one!"