The person I feel for most in this episode is Zack, caught in the crossfire between Sheridan and Garibaldi. Incidentally, why does Sheridan want the official PPG and link return? It's not like he knows about Garibadi's encounter with the Edgars minions, so "the company he keeps" must refer to the ISN interview, in which case it's a power demonstration/punishment.
Worthy of note: Zack points out that Garibaldi's behaviour is somewhat ooc, that there is something off and they should investigate that... and Sheridan dismisses it. It occurs to me this is one for the "this storyline works better with Sheridan than it would have with Sinclair" column because Sheridan doesn't actually know Garibaldi that well and so his reaction is entirely legitimate.
Ironically, Garibaldi in this particular episode doesn't act so differently than he would without Psi Corps interference, both in the positive sense (finding the missing girl and waiving his fee) and the negative (being so ticked off by Zack's following Sheridan's orders that he agrees to use his access). What is due to conditioning, imo, is his agreement to work for Edgars at the end right after deleting Lise's message unread, because investigating Edgars as we later find out was the primary reason for Bester reprogramming Garibaldi to begin with.
Speaking of: I don't think I bought the "William Edgars wants to save telepaths for philanthropic reasons from a virus" the first time around, either, but I had no idea what he would want.
Lise: got a lot of flak back in the day and still does. I'm Lise-neutral; the relationship with Garibaldi isn't that interesting to me, but neither is it objectionable. The problem is that Lise isn't that memorable a character on her own compared to others, at least not so far; otoh, I think she does come into her own in the s5 episode where she confronts Garibaldi about his drinking.
Zahtras (the other): gets a bit tiring as a running gag at this point.
Londo and G'Kar: back for the first time since Epiphanies and just for one scene, which is cruel. Sheridan's "do you want their blood on your hand" to Londo isn't half-bad as far as manipulation goes, and evidently works, though it's interesting that he assumes it will to begin with, instead of regarding Londo as a hopeless case.
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Worthy of note: Zack points out that Garibaldi's behaviour is somewhat ooc, that there is something off and they should investigate that... and Sheridan dismisses it. It occurs to me this is one for the "this storyline works better with Sheridan than it would have with Sinclair" column because Sheridan doesn't actually know Garibaldi that well and so his reaction is entirely legitimate.
Ironically, Garibaldi in this particular episode doesn't act so differently than he would without Psi Corps interference, both in the positive sense (finding the missing girl and waiving his fee) and the negative (being so ticked off by Zack's following Sheridan's orders that he agrees to use his access). What is due to conditioning, imo, is his agreement to work for Edgars at the end right after deleting Lise's message unread, because investigating Edgars as we later find out was the primary reason for Bester reprogramming Garibaldi to begin with.
Speaking of: I don't think I bought the "William Edgars wants to save telepaths for philanthropic reasons from a virus" the first time around, either, but I had no idea what he would want.
Lise: got a lot of flak back in the day and still does. I'm Lise-neutral; the relationship with Garibaldi isn't that interesting to me, but neither is it objectionable. The problem is that Lise isn't that memorable a character on her own compared to others, at least not so far; otoh, I think she does come into her own in the s5 episode where she confronts Garibaldi about his drinking.
Zahtras (the other): gets a bit tiring as a running gag at this point.
Londo and G'Kar: back for the first time since Epiphanies and just for one scene, which is cruel. Sheridan's "do you want their blood on your hand" to Londo isn't half-bad as far as manipulation goes, and evidently works, though it's interesting that he assumes it will to begin with, instead of regarding Londo as a hopeless case.