{"id":129457,"date":"2016-07-18T16:47:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T22:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=129457"},"modified":"2018-12-29T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T20:42:31","slug":"b5-rewatch-4x16-exercise-vital-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/b5-rewatch-4x16-exercise-vital-powers.html","title":{"rendered":"B5 Rewatch: 4\u00d716 “The Exercise of Vital Powers”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Garibaldi starts behaving nearer to normal! Huzzah!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, at long last, we get a Garibaldi episode where he’s not snarling and snapping and rolling his eyes. That, alone, recommends this to viewing.<\/p>\n

A-Plot<\/strong>: Garibaldi arrives on Mars, and is secretly escorted to see Edgars by the magnate’s button man, Wade. He encounters Lise, who tries to warn him off, but Garibaldi goes on to meet with Edgars (delightfully played by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.), telling the industrialist that he came there to finally lay eyes on his employer, and to see if there’s something that can be done to stop Sheridan. The two determine they have common cause in wanting Sheridan stopped — peacefully — but also wanting Clark out of the way — peacefully. Edgars has Wade take Garibaldi to his quarters (leading to a lovely character bit)<\/p>\n

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“We want … INformation!”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Garibaldi is rousted from his room in the middle of the night and interrogated by a telepath — at Edgars’ command. The questioning confirms Garibaldi’s anti-telepath prejudice, his desire to see Sheridan safely stopped, his suspicions about Edgars, and his continued lack of memory after his “disappearance.”\u00a0After being released, he’s also asked by Edgars if he still loves Lise, to which he answers no, and exits.<\/p>\n

The telepath affirms all the previous answers to Edgars, but indicates Garibaldi is lying about the last. Of course. A bit later, the teep is killed by Wade. Of course.<\/p>\n

The next day, Garibaldi braces Edgars for the truth.\u00a0Edgars is (like Garibaldi) afraid of a world run by telepaths, and Clark rose to power both through use of the Psi Corps and aliens providing him technology. With the aliens defeated, Clark is relying more and more on the Corps. The problem is, Edgars shares, is that if Sheridan continues with his military campaign, Clark will uneash the Corps, granting them powers as his personal police that will let them take over the world.<\/p>\n