Original Airdate: January 25, 1995 Written by J. Michael Straczynski Directed by Jim Johnston Episode #: 30 Production #: 207
Guest stars: Walter Koenig as Bester.
The Psi-Cop, Bester, recruits Talia Winters to help investigate the telepath "underground railroad." Delenn asks Captain Sheridan to dinner.
Aboard Babylon 5, Bester (WALTER KOENIG), a Psi Corps cop, asks telepath Talia Winters to help investigate the underground railroad of unregistered telepaths. According to law, all human telepaths must be registered with the Psi Corps and their activities monitored to prevent breaches of security and invasion of privacy. However, some unregistered telepaths are escaping from Earth and being smuggled to the outer colonies where the Corps cannot detect them.
Determined to apprehend the telepaths, Bester's methods are dubious. When Bester and Talia locate the telepaths, they attempt to kill Bester and, in the process, capture Talia instead. A Lurker (GIANIN LOFFLER) asks Talia to help them with their cause. The telepaths convince Talia of the widespread corruption within the Psi Corps, and she begins to question her own future with the Corps.
Sheridan and Talia eventually learn that Dr. Franklin is responsible for the smuggling of telepaths aboard Babylon 5. Sheridan, too, becomes sympathetic. Using their collective minds to foil Bester, the renegade telepaths escape with the help of Talia. However, Bester is convinced that he killed them and that Talia agrees with his actions. Franklin promises Sheridan that he will no longer use Babylon 5 as a hideaway for other telepaths since it has become too risky.
Meanwhile, Sheridan is outraged that he and Ivanova may soon be charged rent for their quarters on the station, which Earth Central has decided are too large. Also, in order to learn more about what it's like to be human, Delenn asks Sheridan to dinner. However, she harbors a secret agenda that she cannot reveal to him.
