Original Airdate: March 16, 1994 Written by J. Michael Straczynski Directed by Janet Greek Episode #: 8 Production #: 106
Guest stars: Judson Scott as Knight One. Christopher Neame as Knight Two. Jim Youngs as Frank Benson. Justin Williams as Mitchell.
Commander Sinclair is abducted by two mysterious humans, known only as Knight One and Knight Two. They use a virtual-reality mind probe to try to make Sinclair remember what happened to him at the Battle of the Line, and why the Minbari surrendered on the eve of victory.
For ten years since the Great War between Earth and the alien Minbari race, Jeffrey Sinclair, presently the commander of the Babylon 5 space station, is tortured by nightmares about the Battle of the Line. In this final heroic assault in the Great War, young Sinclair inadvertently led his fighter squadron into a Minbari trap. All Earth ships were destroyed except his own. Twenty-four hours later, the superior Minbari forces unexplainably surrendered to Earth. Unfortunately, Sinclair has no memories of what happened to him during those 24 hours.
Two mysterious beings, known only as Knight One (JUDSON SCOTT) and Knight Two (CHRISTOPHER NEAME), smuggle strange, experimental equipment aboard Babylon 5. They kidnap Sinclair and seclude him in a room deep inside the station. Using advanced drugs and technology, the Knights connect Sinclair to cybernetic inputs that allow their images to interact with the images hidden within Sinclair's memory. The Knights hope to replay and analyze Sinclair's final moments during the battle until they learn what happened to him during that mysterious 24-hour period.
Sinclair's absence is soon discovered by lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi. They order an immediate search of every room on Babylon 5. Delenn, the resident Minbari ambassador, is especially concerned by Sinclair's disappearance.
Meanwhile, the Knights probe Sinclair's subconscious immediately after he purposely crashed his space fighter into a Minbari warship at the climax of the battle. They see Sinclair brought inside the warship with a tractor beam, surrounded by the hooded figures of the Minbari Grey Council, including Delenn. She shoots him with a strange energy discharge, but Sinclair's memory of this pain is so strong that it shocks his mind and body free of the Knights' cybernetic restraints.
Sinclair escapes from the Knights. Security monitors quickly locate him stumbling along a corridor. Under Dr. Stephen Franklin's care, Sinclair soon recovers from his ordeal. Garibaldi arrests the Knights, revealing that they were part of an Earth-based supremacy group who suspected Sinclair of conspiring with the Minbari. Suspicious of Delenn's friendship now that he remembers what she and the Grey Council did to him, Sinclair tells her that his memory is still unclear about what happened after the battle. However, the Grey Council secretly advises Delenn that if Sinclair ever learns the truth, he must die.
