1x22 The Quality of Mercy - Babylon 5 Episode Guide

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Episode: 01x22
Title: The Quality of Mercy
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 117
First Aired: Aug. 17, 1994

Season 1 » Episode #22 - The Quality of Mercy

Summary: The station doctor, is found running a free clinic aboard Babylon 5 but notice how his patients are decreasing in numbers. Turns out that a "healer" is residing on the station, running an unauthorised clinic, that Dr Franklin suspect is fraudulent. A prisoner is found guilty of murder and awaits sentencing. The options are slim, and Tahlia reluctantly agrees to use her powers to wipe his brain and reprogram him. Meanwhile, Londo recieves word from the emperor's aid, requesting Londo to keep an "upper hand" and forge useful alliances. In lieu of this, Londo takes ambassador Delenn's aid, Lennier, under his wings to experience the station, the "Londo way".

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Who appeared in this episode?

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova	played by Claudia Christian
Na'Toth	played by Julie Caitlin Brown
Catherine Sakai	played by Julia Nickson-Soul
Garibaldi's Aide	played by Macaulay Bruton
Lurker #1	played by Liz Burnette
Devereaux	played by Edward Conery
ISN Anchor	played by Maggie Egan
Jane	played by Maggie Egan
Senator	played by Cheryl Francis Harrington

Season 1 / Episode 22: - The Quality of Mercy

Lennier: But what if you're wrong?
Delenn: Then speak well of me when I'm gone.

Season 1 / Episode 22: - The Quality of Mercy

Londo Mollari: These unprovoked attacks must stop!
G'Kar: The attacks will stop when the Cenaturi government stops sending hostile ships across the border into Narn space.
Londo Mollari: Quadrant 37 is neutral territory! The treaty makes that perfectly clear.
G'Kar: The Narn government no longer recognizes the treaty since it was imposed upon our people by force.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FAKE: As Garibaldi inspects the shipment with his second in command, when he opens the second box, the cover is open on the side facing the camera.

TRIVIA

Morden's supposedly strings-free offer was patterned after similar offers of help given by the Mafia.
Many viewers were shocked by the idea of there being homeless on a space station, but it embodied executive producer J. Michael Straczynski's idea that humanity would take all its problems into space.
The scene of Garibaldi wounded and crawling towards the elevator was inspired by executive producer J. Michael Straczynski's experience of being mugged.
President Clark's swearing-in ceremony is was deliberately staged to mirror that of Lyndon Johnson's ceremony after John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Episode Screenshots (From Season 1)

Season 1, Episode 02

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