Grail (Babylon 5)

Infobox Television episode
Title = Grail
Series = Babylon 5


Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 15
Airdate = 6 July 1994
Production = 109
Writer = Christy Marx
Director = Richard Compton
Guests = David Warner (Aldous Gajic)
William Sanderson
(Deuce)
Tom Booker (Jinxo)
Jim Norton (Ombuds Wellington)
Episode list = List of "Babylon 5" episodes
Prev = TKO
Next = Eyes

"Grail" is an episode from the first season of the science-fiction television series "Babylon 5".

ynopsis

A traveller named "Aldous Gajic" (David Warner) comes to the station in search of the Holy Grail. Having sent information requests to the ambassadors prior to his arrival, he is greeted as a very important guest, "Honored Seeker", by Delenn and Lennier. In the process of his search, Gajic gets caught up in the underworld of Babylon 5, as an underworld thug, Deuce, starts "brain wiping" people who pose a threat to him.

Jinxo, a man who was present on all of the previous Babylon stations, believes that he is a bearer of the Babylon Curse because every time Jinxo has left a Babylon station, the station is either destroyed or, in the case of Babylon 4, it disappears. Jinxo initially is tried for picking Gajic's pocket, but during the trial Gajic requests that Jinxo be released into his supervision. These two characters form an unlikely friendship.

This episode explores the myriad of reasons why people search for the truth.

Arc significance

The naming of Babylon 5 gets some more detail in this episode.
* The original Babylon and Babylon 2 stations were sabotaged.
* Babylon 3 blew up before it was finished.
* Babylon 4 vanished without a trace.
* The Vorlons don't want anyone to know their true appearance.

Production details

External links

* [http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/015.html Grail] at "The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5"