Throughout the episode was a subplot involving the unauthorized use of the Gold communications channels, which are only known about by senior command staff and the ambassadors. So now they know where to find Adira. However, when she is scheduled to trade them to Trakis, she runs and flees instead. So we finally get an answer about what he does with all that hair when he's in bed answer: he puts up with it. Hey, that's what Londo said to Vir! Way to use up the best line in the first 8 minutes! He lies and says she was a Narn agent who used him to get his Purple Files, to give him just a little more motivation to find her and get his files back. I've got positive feelings about this one at least. I won't be ruining anything that comes after it for you though.
The Centauri are all about status we're learning here. This establishes the striated nature of the Centauri class system and how it will play into future episodes. The writers knew and because of this, I can forgive the episode while still being annoyed. Londo may not have his ideal job, but he's in a position of power because of the family he was born into and the dirt he's got on others. The purple files contain all kinds of dirt on the various important Centauri families, and Trakis intends to sell the information to the Narns. G'Kar is so insulted by this that he leaves his own assistant to negotiate for him.
Plywood I'd guess, by the way a wall was wobbling in an earlier scene. But then Londo turns up and they begin their discussions. But the core of the episode is Londo's relationship with Adira, and the two actors did a great job on selling me on it. Or kill them if it comes to that. Meanwhile, Adira has arranged to meet Trakis on the Zocalo to give him the crystal.
He also manages to place a bug on Londo's coat before revealing that Adira is his slave. These are the things by which we define ourselves. So the ambassador has to admit that he's screwed up and needs his help. The males of his race have their hair sticking up like peacock feathers and the females apparently all shave their heads. It seems strange that he'd trust a representative of another government with this, but I guess he doesn't have many options, and as station commander Sinclair has the security access, manpower and resources to find Adira and keep it quiet. He has even employed Talia for the negotiations to make sure all sides are being honest.
Oddly, throughout this episode, the enmity between Londo and G'Kar is not nearly as pronounced as one might expect, given the events in. Londo unknowingly falls for a beautiful slave, whose owner wants her to steal sensitive information. Suddenly G'Kar's new aide shows up at the club and makes him do a spit take in shock. So now we've got some more backstory to help define who Susan Ivanova is as a person, outside of her job, and it's not hard to see why she's a grumpy pessimist with a short fuse. While Narn ambassador G'Kar cooperates freely, they have trouble drawing Centauri ambassador Mollari from his love interest, an exotic dancer named Adira Tyree. It took me a few passes to watch the episode in its entirety because my focus kept drifting and I stopped paying attention.
Sinclair is frustrated that the negotiations have stalled like this and goes to find Londo. Also her brother died in the Earth-Minbari War and her mother killed herself due to the side effects of Psi Corps telepathy suppressant drugs, meaning she's pretty much alone now. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. In fact I'm pretty sure it's just Sinclair's office with the desk swapped and some computer consoles pushed up against the walls. Trakis is unsure about a telepath, but Talia reassures him and mentions that he should keep his mind on the meeting and not on where Adira is. Sinclair finally finds Londo, and Londo realizes Sinclair might be someone who can help him.
I don't remember this at all. Unless I feel like it. We already knew her mother committed suicide. Near the end, when Londo and Sinclair are being hunted, one of the hunters looks like a discount Chuck Norris. Sinclair, knowing that successfully completing these negotiations means as much for Earth as it does for the Narn and Centauri, convinces Mollari to accept his help to search for Adira in exchange for agreeing to his terms.
And at the bottom there's Adira, who has no noble family and had no hope of bettering herself until Londo freed her from slavery. Londo's disguise is pretty amazing though, as his hair seems to have disappeared into a pocket dimension inside the hood. Babylon 5 will return with Infection like I just said. That about does it for now. And then I think of you, and then I say to Hell with appearances. Meanwhile, Garibaldi discovers that someone is using the high-priority secure gold channel to make external communications from the station, something that should only be authorized by Sinclair.
Headhunter's Holosuite Wiki has a collection of images related to. Sinclair has an idea: he arranges a meeting between G'Kar and Trakis, telling G'Kar that there is information available that could give him great advantage over Londo. This is pointed out in the instances where Adira takes pleasure in using Londo's title, even in bed, and later being embarrassed at the thought of being seen in public, due to the harm it could cause Londo's reputation. I think both characters came out of this well, and a little more three dimensional. Sinclair gets an idea, and with G'Kar and Talia's help tricks Trakis into revealing where he has kept Adira on the station.