Babylon 5 (TV Series)

Ceremonies of Light and Dark (1996)

Jason Carter: Marcus Cole

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• Marcus Cole : [after beating someone for information]  It's like I always say, you get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than with just a kind word.

• Delenn : You should trust me enough to talk to me, Marcus. Why are you so reluctant to take part in the rebirth ceremony?

  Marcus Cole : You asked me to give something up, Delenn. I don't have anything left. It's all gone. My brother was the last of our family and he died because of my stupidity. He warned me of the Shadows; I didn't listen. And when they came, I lost, him, our home, the colony where we'd grown up, a woman I was quite fond of. I escaped with only the clothes on my back, and went off in search of these "Rangers" that he'd been going on about. Because he believed in them, and in you. Everything I was, everything I had, all of it, died that night. I don't have anything left to give.

  Delenn : Then that is exactly what you must give up. Yes, you have lost much, endured much, sacrificed greatly. But you cling to the memory of your sacrifices, of all the things you have lost or left behind. They drag behind you, like chains of your own making. They can have a terrible power over you, Marcus: the power of grief, and loss, and regret. Yes, you have let go of the people, places and things, but you have not let go of the pain. You have not forgiven yourself.

  Marcus Cole : For what?

  Delenn : Being alive.

• [Marcus has just cleared out a bar, single-handedly] 

  Lennier : I see they trained you well back home.

  Marcus Cole : Well, they said I was carrying around a lot of repressed anger.

  Lennier : And?

  Marcus Cole : I'm not repressed anymore!

• Delenn : The rebirth ceremony was part of your training on Minbar.

  Marcus Cole : I missed it. I overslept.

  Delenn : It lasts all day!

  Marcus Cole : Oh, yes. I was ill.

• Thug #1 : We don't talk to security. Why should we talk to you?

  Marcus Cole : Because if you don't, then in five minutes, I will be the only person at this table still standing.

  [Thug starts laughing] 

  Marcus Cole : . Five minutes after that, I'll be the only person in this room still standing.

• Marcus Cole : [to the last two conscious people in the room]  Where... is... she?

  Thug : I - I -I don't know! I'd tell you if I knew.

  Marcus Cole : Then you know someone who knows someone who knows something! ANSWER ME!

  [one thug tries to attack, Marcus knocks both of them out] 

  Marcus Cole : Bugger! Now I have to wait for someone to wake up.