"Exogenesis"

"Shadow vessels. They were sighted in sector 800 two days ago. Seems they're gathering, creating a border on the edge of the Centauri space."

	-- A ranger to Marcus in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis"

"Listen, now that you have been promoted, I was thinking. We spend a lot of time up here together, but we never really get a chance to talk. So I was thinking maybe we could get together and talk about what you see yourself doing down the road, just .. you know, get to know each other a bit better."
"Well. Ah. Sure. We could, .. I don't know, meet in the mess hall for breakfast?"
"No, you can't have a private conversation up there. The dishes cluttering, people talking.. So, why don't you come by my quarters later in the day and we can have a cup of coffee. Real coffee. Just don't ask me where I got it."

	-- Ivanova and Lt. Corwin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis"

"Hi! Something I can help you with?"
"I don't know, I was thinking .. flowers."
"Thinking flowers is good, giving flowers is better. What's the occasion?"
"I'm not sure, but I think I have a date."
"She asked you out?"
"She asked me in, her place."
"Works fast. Is she agressive?"
"You could say that."
"Hah. Lucky guy."
"It's not like that. Well, it's not like that yet. .. I think."

	-- Flower salesman and David Corwin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis"

"There are three of them with guns against two of us with nothing. They'll gun us down before we get half across the room."
"All we need is one of them to leave the room. Then there will be only one man with the gun."
"Excuse me, where I come from, one man from three leaves two."
"Where I come from is a far more interesting place."

	-- Franklin and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis"

"I sense in her a key, as yet unturned."
"And what exactly does that mean?"
"I don't know. But I should think it would be fascinating to find out."

	-- Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis"

"One from three leaves one."

	-- Marcus in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis"

"You see that tube on the corner of the table there? That's a medical scanner, the Copeland J5000, very advanced. I was bringing it to him. You need to get it to him immediately. I know, I know, why should you believe me, it could be a weapon or something. Check it out yourself. Just look into the open end, yeah, then shake, shake it twice firmly to activate the scanner."

	-- Marcus in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis"

"It says we were created half a million years ago. Bred to be living records of all those we have seen and touched. For all that time we have travelled through the galaxy in our host bodies. We have seen double sunset on worlds so far away you have no name for them. We remember music that was played before your kind learned to speak. Within us is the living memory, deeds and stories, civilizations and passions, wars and struggle, great beauty. But in time even we die, unless we find shelter within other living beings. So, we seek out those who have nothing to look forward to, those whose lives are at an end, those who know they will be never more than they are now, those who will never know beauty, or peace, or purpose and we give them that. Through us they are born to a new life."

	-- Vindrizi to Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis"

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