Babylon 5/Recap/S02/E18 Confessions and Lamentations

Confessions and Lamentations
"Don't look away, Captain. All life is transitory, a dream. We all come together in the same place, at the end of time. If I don't see you again here, I will see you, in a little while, in a place where no shadows fall."

- Delenn

This episode contains examples of:

 * Call Back: Delenn's inviting Sheridan to dinner is in response to him previously treating her to dinner.
 * Cry Into Chest: All Delenn can do is cling to Sheridan and cry.
 * Downer Ending
 * Dude, Not Funny: The bartender's joke at the end: "What do you call two billion dead Markabs? Planetary redecorating." Franklin is not amused.
 * Fancy Dinner: Sheridan is a little put off by the highly ritualistic meal Delenn and Lennier prepare for him.
 * First-Name Basis: Sheridan asks Delenn to call him "John" in this episode. Heartbreakingly, she does the next time she sees him - as she walks toward him, devastated, after the loss of the entire Markab species.
 * Ghost Ship: A Markab transport is overdue and cannot be contacted, and when Zeta Squadron finds it there are no lifesigns. Subverted when Keffer says there's no one on board and his computer tells him it is detecting lifeforms, just no lifesigns. They're all dead.
 * Holier Than Thou: This is pretty much what dooms the Markab. Their leaders repeat until the end that only those who are impure will be cut down by Drafa. The Markab Ambassador to Babylon Five even accuses the humans of poisoning the Markab population in order to make them look sinful.
 * The Plague