PART ONE: "In the Dark"
ACT ONE
FADE IN:
Wide panning CGI shot of the station like "Voices in the Dark". But this time we pan to the right (Front end of the station) to show the approach of a small Earth shuttle bearing Psi Corps marking. On this we SUPERIMPOSE:
2263
As the SUPERIMPOSE fades away the CAMERA continues to PAN to show the jump gate behind the shuttle powering down. Many various alien looking transports and cargo haulers litter the space around and about Babylon 5.
Whilst the CAMERA follows the shuttle toward Babylon 5 we have,
IVANOVA (V.O.)
If space is infinite, then why isn't there room in it for everyone? Why must there always be segregation, wars, bloodshed, and death? But not all wars, all death comes from conflict with those outside. Some death, bloodshed, can be caused by conflict inside. The Psi Corps, set up just over a hundred years ago, to regulate and segregate the telepathic elements in Earth society from those without telepathic abilities. Did they know back then what it would become? Maybe. But I bet someone, somewhere, when the Corps was first created knew how it would end.
(beat)
Psi Corps gave telepaths three choices when their gifts manifested. Join the Corps, go to prison: or, as my mother chose, take the sleepers. Every week a man from Psi Corps would come and administer the sleepers, and every week I watched her die a little inside. And I watched it eventually drive her to suicide.
(beat)
There are us mundanes, as they call us, that hate the Corps. But then there are the telepaths that hate the Psi Corps: and that's a whole new level of hatred even I couldn't understand.
WE stay with the closer hatch of B5 for a BEAT then FADE into the intro sequence, the same as "Voices in the Dark", only the Humans behind Sheridan are altered to be: Lyta, Ivanova and Zack.
FADE IN AGAIN:
EXT. BABYLON 5
We have your regular establisher, but stay with it as anonymous alien vessels pass under and over the shot, whilst we HEAR,
PSI CORPS PILOT
So this message you received that's brought you this far out from Earth just said: "What you've lost is on Babylon 5?"
WINTERS (Evil remember)
Yes.
(beat)
That and the name of the person who left it there.
INT. BABYLON 5 – DOWN BELOW – TELEPATH COLONY
It's a large room with little plan. Typical lurker looking humans are spread unevenly around the room, no more than 10 or 11 of them. All are wearing hooded tops, concealing their faces.
We PAN on this scene for a few BEATS, before the silence is broken by another lurker rushing in.
Lurker #1 is the loud intruder. Everyone else is already seated.
LURKER #1 (Panicked, worried)
She's here! My god! She is really here! The one. The powerful one. The one Byron warned us about before he died!
SMITH
(Removing his hood)
This is indeed worrying news friend. She is the only one that could challenge our most gifted.
LURKER #1
She's come by Psi Corps transport. She's wearing ALL BLACK! She's one of them! One of them!
DELANEY
(Removing her hood)
If she is truly here to ruin our work. To undo what we have created. Then we shall have to face her as a unit.
(beat)
We must strike at her before she has a chance to do the same to us. The time for action is upon us.
(Standing up)
No longer can we continue to sit ideally by and let them chase
us! Hound us! We come here to Babylon 5 to seek shelter – peace. And they won't even let us have that! Is leaving behind one's family, friends, job, not enough for these people? For a over hundred years the Psi Corps has oppressed their own kind.
(beat)
Was it for our own good? NO! Was it to protect the mundanes from the few of us who are truly "rogue" ? Maybe.
(beat)
It is to serve as a weapon to control all of humanity?
LYTA
(Keeps her hood on, we only HEAR)
MAYBE! But none of that matters. I know why she is here. And it is NOT to destroy our way. Thanks to her training and simple human curiosity she will undoubtedly follow the instructions left for her. She will return to her former quarters. And when she does, there'll be a present for her.
INT. BABYLON 5 – DOCKING
A CGI establisher. It's the same massive silver/platinum docking bay seen in "Voices in the Dark".
In the bottom left hand corner we can SEE two figures dressed in all black making their way down the runway. We can SEE clearly other people are intimidating and move out of their way. But we cannot make out who these people are. Possibly have a CAMERA shot from behind the two.
INT. BABYLON 5 – CUSTOMS
Zack Allen is checking people's Identicards as they come through customs. We have an establisher as he bids a Pak'Ma'Ra welcome to Babylon 5.
ALLEN
Thank you. And enjoy your stay on Babylon 5 Mister Ambassador.
The contingent of Pak'Ma'Ra move on. The CAMERA is set to watch the passengers back, all the time hiding their identities. We are facing Zack.
He looks up from a DATAPAD to see the two Psi Agents dressed in black stood there. The only telltale sign is that the Psi Agent on the right has long blonde hair half way down her back.
ALLEN (Looking up)
You! I didn't think we'd ever see you again.
At this point the CAMERA pans around to show that this mysterious Psi Agent is infact the long lost TALIA WINTERS.
WINTERS
Such a warm welcome Zack! How have you been?
We take a BEAT for intensity then,
FADE TO BLACK:
END OF ACT ONE