- [first lines]
- Dr. Stephen Franklin: Every day brings us something new at Babylon 5. Unfortunately, sometimes it also brings a new strain of bacteria or a new virus. My job now is to catalog all those possible infections for the new Alliance and compile a complete medical profile on all the member races...
- Lyta Alexander: Byron, the Vorlons changed me. More than you could possibly know. I don't know what it'll do once you get past my barriers and I get past yours. It could burn you.
- Byron: Then let it burn.
- [last lines]
- Byron: They owe us a place where we can be among our own kind. We'll ask to speak to the Alliance, put our case before them, see if they can be persuaded to do the right thing.
- Lyta Alexander: And if they can't?
- Byron: Then we'll make sure they have no other choice.