Original Airdate: March 2, 1994 Written by J. Michael Straczynski Directed by Bruce Seth Green Episode #: 6 Production #: 110
Guest stars: Walter Koenig as Bester. Felicity Waterman as Kelsey. William Allen Young as Jason Ironheart.
A mysterious telepath named Jason Ironheart boards Babylon 5. Soon after, two Psi-Cops, Mr. Bester and Ms. Kelsey, come to Babylon 5 in search of him.
Jason Ironheart (WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG), a fugitive from the Earth Alliance's military Psi Corps, arrives on Babylon 5, the gigantic intergalactic space station. He is a gifted telepath who was the subject of a psychological experiment to expand the limits of psychic powers with special drugs and therapy. Two Psi Cops, Mr. Bester (WALTER KOENIG) and Ms. Kelsey (FELICITY WATERMAN), searching for Ironheart, arrive soon after and demand that Station Commander Jeffrey Sinclair and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi help them find him. They believe Ironheart intends to reveal military secrets to Earth's alien enemies.
Eluding their search, Ironheart hides among the crowded Babylon 5 populace and confronts his trusted former lover and Psi Corps pupil, Talia Winters, the station's resident commercial telepath. He tells her that after months painful genetic surgery and injections, he mutated to the point where he can destroy molecular matter with his thought waves. Since the psi cops can't control him, they want to dissect him, learn the chemical composition of his superpowers and use it as a military weapon. Ironheart asks Talia to help him escape in a shuttle craft before he loses control of his volatile impulses and involuntarily destroys the entire space station.
Meanwhile, Sinclair's lover, Catherine Sakai (JULIA NICKSON), a geological surveyor, is hired by an industrial company from Earth to find a rare mineral on the planet Sigma 957, an uninhabitable world in a far corner of the galaxy controlled by the Narn empire. When Catherine asks Ambassador G'Kar , the Narn representative stationed on Babylon 5, for permission to survey the planet, he warns her not to go into that ominous sector of space. She defies him and departs in an exploratory vehicle while G'Kar orders two Narn warships to pursue her.
Approaching Sigma 957, Catherine's vehicle is suddenly dwarfed by an enormous alien spacecraft. When it disappears in a blinding light, Catherine's incapacitated vehicle falls into a collision orbit with the planet. Luckily, the Narn warship arrive to rescue her. G'Kar explains to Catherine that for millions of years, his people have avoided Sigma 957 because of the unexplainable events that frequently occur there, analogous to an ant trying to explain the intrusion of a human fingertip into its nest.
Back on Babylon 5, Ironheart's uncontrollable psychic waves begin to such the living space around him into a self-destructive fourth dimension, destroying a corridor of the space station. He uses his remaining strength to allow Talia and Sinclair near him to convince them of the danger of his constantly mutating mind power to negotiate his escape from Babylon 5.
Ironheart easily deflects the psi cops' attempt to capture him as he's led to a shuttle craft and ejected into space by himself. As the crew watches, Ironheart's craft transforms into a benevolent humanoid apparition, bigger than Babylon 5 itself. In a final gesture of grateful love, Ironheart gives Talia the telekinetic mind power that she's always dreamed of possessing, then dissolves into the molecular fabric of the universe to experience the next stage of his psychic mutation.
