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Recap and Discussion for Crusade Episode 9 - The Path of Sorrows
Recap and discussion of Crusade episode 9 – The Path of Sorrows
The episode in which we learn some background.
At Galen’s urging, they go to a place called the Path of Sorrow. Neither Max nor Dureena could figure out how to get in. Max said it had the same message in 40 languages: “Enter freely through the path of sorrows.”
He makes Dureena cry and uses her tear to open the door. Even though she gets angry, Galen tells her needed an authentic tear.
They find a glass ball with whirling ‘smoke’ inside. When Gideon steps close, he sees the alien that looks a little like a turtle and a vision of his former ship, the Cerberus with some damage and him outside in an EVA suit.
They take the orb back to the ship for further study.
And we find out the backstory for 3 of our characters – there are more questions than answers, it would seem.
Gideon goes to visit the orb and he talks to it and it speaks to him telepathically. We see him on the Cerberus and they are taking fire. There is damage and ensign Gideon is sent outside to survey the damage and repair it. We see a shadow type ship come back and begin firing on the ship. The captain prepares to jump and leave Gideon but the shadow ships destroys it. Gideon sends out a distress signal and a fleet of tiny ships comes by and ignores him until on finally comes back and gets him. It is Galen.
Galen drops him off at an Earth base and we see him being interrogated. They pretend they do believe him and tell him the ship had a malfunction and blew up.
Next, Gideon is playing poker and he wins the Apocalypse Box, a box that’s owner says tells you things but it also lies when it suits it. The man who lost the box then goes outside and steps in front of a speeder. As he dies, he tells Gideon that the only way to get away from the box is to die.
Gideon is very emotional and asks the being if it intends to blackmail him. The little alien tells him he is forgiven.
John goes to see the orb and we see young Psi Corp officer Matheson given charge of giving sleepers to a resistance woman while his superiors are at a big meeting with the top members of Psi Corps. We learn that the war is nearly over and the resistance nearly beaten. When he goes into her, she tells him that he’s been lied to and that all the resistance fighters who have been sent to prison are really dead.
Later that night, John starts checking them out and finds they were all terminated. When he goes in to give her sleepers, he shoots the liquid on her and no in her. She turns on a beacon for her people to bomb the secret Psi Corp facility with many important Psi Corps members there. John escapes.
He tells the alien that he feels guilty for what he did and the alien forgives him.
Galen comes in and he sees him and a wounded Isabelle. We learn that they were betrayed by three other technomages. She tells him he must go on and that she does believe in a plan. She tells him that she will contact him somehow someday and say his name.
Galen becomes furious and tries to kill the creature when it offers forgiveness. Gideon stops him and decides to send the being back to the planet. He says another traveler might need it as they had. He and John talk and both of them say they have had the first good night’s sleep since the alien offered them forgiveness.
As soon as they leave the alien, another ship comes in and an alien goes in to see the being.
John stops Galen and tells him a message came in for him from somewhere unknown. It had two words… Galen and Love. Galen discounts it and throws it away.
*
Quotes:
Matheson: You like going nowhere at 120 miles an hour?
Galen: Of course. That is man's natural condition.
Gideon: It's easier not to want forgiveness or to expect it. You just keep trying to fix the mistake so you don't have to ask. But you end up trying so hard to atone for one set of mistakes, you overcompensate and make new ones and then you can never break out of the cycle. You just keep going round and round. No way out. Nowhere to go.
Isabelle: Listen to me, Galen, my dearest love... You must learn one day to forgive God for his decisions. I'm sure it would greatly relieve him. If there is a purpose, if there is a design, if there is a way - after I'm gone I will call to you and say your name and send you a message. And you will know I was right, as usual. Kiss me good night.
*
Questions:
1. Was the alien really offering forgiveness or did it live off of guilt and pain? To the person forgiven, does it matter?
2. Did Isabelle send the message?
3. Was the Shadow ship an Earth ship?
Sources:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0551025/quotes/?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu
Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/guide/504.html
The Babylon Project: http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/The_Path_of_Sorrows
Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Crusade_(TV_series)#The_Path_of_Sorrows
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_(TV_series)
Sadgeezers Cult Scifi Portal: http://sadgeezer.com/Crusade-Season-1-09-The-Path-Sorrows.htm
Cap That: http://www.cap-that.com/
The episode in which we learn some background.
At Galen’s urging, they go to a place called the Path of Sorrow. Neither Max nor Dureena could figure out how to get in. Max said it had the same message in 40 languages: “Enter freely through the path of sorrows.”
He makes Dureena cry and uses her tear to open the door. Even though she gets angry, Galen tells her needed an authentic tear.
They find a glass ball with whirling ‘smoke’ inside. When Gideon steps close, he sees the alien that looks a little like a turtle and a vision of his former ship, the Cerberus with some damage and him outside in an EVA suit.
They take the orb back to the ship for further study.
And we find out the backstory for 3 of our characters – there are more questions than answers, it would seem.
Gideon goes to visit the orb and he talks to it and it speaks to him telepathically. We see him on the Cerberus and they are taking fire. There is damage and ensign Gideon is sent outside to survey the damage and repair it. We see a shadow type ship come back and begin firing on the ship. The captain prepares to jump and leave Gideon but the shadow ships destroys it. Gideon sends out a distress signal and a fleet of tiny ships comes by and ignores him until on finally comes back and gets him. It is Galen.
Galen drops him off at an Earth base and we see him being interrogated. They pretend they do believe him and tell him the ship had a malfunction and blew up.
Next, Gideon is playing poker and he wins the Apocalypse Box, a box that’s owner says tells you things but it also lies when it suits it. The man who lost the box then goes outside and steps in front of a speeder. As he dies, he tells Gideon that the only way to get away from the box is to die.
Gideon is very emotional and asks the being if it intends to blackmail him. The little alien tells him he is forgiven.
John goes to see the orb and we see young Psi Corp officer Matheson given charge of giving sleepers to a resistance woman while his superiors are at a big meeting with the top members of Psi Corps. We learn that the war is nearly over and the resistance nearly beaten. When he goes into her, she tells him that he’s been lied to and that all the resistance fighters who have been sent to prison are really dead.
Later that night, John starts checking them out and finds they were all terminated. When he goes in to give her sleepers, he shoots the liquid on her and no in her. She turns on a beacon for her people to bomb the secret Psi Corp facility with many important Psi Corps members there. John escapes.
He tells the alien that he feels guilty for what he did and the alien forgives him.
Galen comes in and he sees him and a wounded Isabelle. We learn that they were betrayed by three other technomages. She tells him he must go on and that she does believe in a plan. She tells him that she will contact him somehow someday and say his name.
Galen becomes furious and tries to kill the creature when it offers forgiveness. Gideon stops him and decides to send the being back to the planet. He says another traveler might need it as they had. He and John talk and both of them say they have had the first good night’s sleep since the alien offered them forgiveness.
As soon as they leave the alien, another ship comes in and an alien goes in to see the being.
John stops Galen and tells him a message came in for him from somewhere unknown. It had two words… Galen and Love. Galen discounts it and throws it away.
*
Quotes:
Matheson: You like going nowhere at 120 miles an hour?
Galen: Of course. That is man's natural condition.
Gideon: It's easier not to want forgiveness or to expect it. You just keep trying to fix the mistake so you don't have to ask. But you end up trying so hard to atone for one set of mistakes, you overcompensate and make new ones and then you can never break out of the cycle. You just keep going round and round. No way out. Nowhere to go.
Isabelle: Listen to me, Galen, my dearest love... You must learn one day to forgive God for his decisions. I'm sure it would greatly relieve him. If there is a purpose, if there is a design, if there is a way - after I'm gone I will call to you and say your name and send you a message. And you will know I was right, as usual. Kiss me good night.
*
Questions:
1. Was the alien really offering forgiveness or did it live off of guilt and pain? To the person forgiven, does it matter?
2. Did Isabelle send the message?
3. Was the Shadow ship an Earth ship?
Sources:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0551025/quotes/?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu
Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/guide/504.html
The Babylon Project: http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/The_Path_of_Sorrows
Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Crusade_(TV_series)#The_Path_of_Sorrows
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_(TV_series)
Sadgeezers Cult Scifi Portal: http://sadgeezer.com/Crusade-Season-1-09-The-Path-Sorrows.htm
Cap That: http://www.cap-that.com/