Babylon 5 (TV Series)

A Late Delivery from Avalon (1996)

Richard Biggs: Dr. Stephen Franklin

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• [last lines] 

  [Marcus and Dr. Franklin have just seen 'Arthur' off] 

  Marcus Cole : Where my people come from, his story has great power. I'll miss him.

  Dr. Stephen Franklin : Even if he wasn't Arthur?

  Marcus Cole : [as Kosh appears]  Now, now! Next thing you'll be saying is he's not Merlin! - Merlin was a great teacher, you know!

  Dr. Stephen Franklin : I'm not hearing this.

  Marcus Cole : They say he aged backwards. That was how he was able to foretell the future - by remembering it! Which means he came from the future! Maybe he had Arthur form the Round Table by remembering us! We're forming one of our own, after all. Which makes you Percival. I'm Galahad, him being sinless and all. Sheridan is Arthur. Ivanova, perhaps Gawain. I think we both know who Mordred is. So the question is - who is Morgana le Fay?

• Marcus Cole : The two figures on either side: one Human the other Mimbari. They blend together in the middle to signify the two halves of our souls uniting against a common enemy.

  Dr. Stephen Franklin : This jewel?

  Marcus Cole : Mimbari call it Isil'zha. Means the future, birth, beginnings, dawn of a new age.

• Dr. Stephen Franklin : We can't just let him wonder around the rest of his life thinking he's King Arthur.

  Marcus Cole : Why not?

  Dr. Stephen Franklin : Because this is the truth.

  Marcus Cole : "Better the illusions that exalt us than 10,000 truths."

  Dr. Stephen Franklin : Aleksandr Pushkin, yes.

  Marcus Cole : Let this one truth die, Stephen! Let him be Arthur, let him be anyone he wants.

• Marcus Cole : The Minbari say the only way to understand the battle is to understand the language. War is as much concept as execution.

  Dr. Stephen Franklin : What else did they teach you?

  Marcus Cole : Delight, respect, compassion. That for your actions to be pure they must proceed from direction, determination, patience and strength. I'm afraid I'm still working on patience. They taught me how to live, how to breathe, how to fight and how to die. And they taught me terror. How to use it. And how to face it.

  Dr. Stephen Franklin : I think I'd like to hear more about that.

  Marcus Cole : No. You wouldn't.