Well, this was wierd. Is this the only episode to feature only one main character?

What is it with the Drazi? I thought he was killed, then he shows up free at the end. Could someone help me understand this?

I really thought something was going to happen at the end, a rescue or something.

A friend of mine watched this ep(her first B5) with me, and said it reminded her of the X-Files. Dark and full of conspiracies, I guess(I'm not an X-Phile).

Well, Ivanova and Garibaldi appear in Flashback, and you do see Delenn in this episode.

Sarah- the Drazi was apparently in on the plan to break Sheridan down pscychologically. Hence, his death was faked.

So why was the Drazi in on the plan? [or is this a season five secret? or do we never know?]

The Drazi was likely a foreign agent working in the pay of Earth. It seems pretty likely earth would have alien agents for espionage and other missions involving alien governments.

Moving to this episode, it was pretty good but chain of command (TNG) was a little better as it gave us background on the torturers motivation i.e his outcast background and his need to take his anger out on others. This produces greater characterisation.

JMS said that the whole reason that he wrote the character like that is because he didn't want the man to be some psychologicaly troubled person who's taking out his anger on the world. JMS wanted him to just be some seemingly normal guy who was just doing his job, which happened to be torturing prisoners of war.

Oh well another MOnday. Let's see two prisoners before noon and one in the afternoon at least its a light day.

Observations;

All the scenes play out in real time with no evident cuts. Time jumps take place during the adverts.

After all this time we finally get to see Bruce Boxletter handed good dialogue then let loose. This is wonderful acting, more so since the entire episode rests on the ability of two actors with nothing to distract us from what they are saying or doing. Both manage to do a superb job of making this work, and making us believe the whole situation is real - which makes this just as chilling as anything seen or implied in the series.

According to JMS if he had known for certain that there was going to be a season 5 (there almost wasn't, before TNT came along and picked up the show at the last minute) this episode would have been the final for season 4.