Pestilence, Famine and Death

Story: Soul Mates
Written By: Peter David
Season: 2

Londo's wives come to the station because as a favor from the emperor he has been granted the ability to divorce two of his three arranged wives, and he wants to decide who to keep and who to drop.  One of these wives gives Londo an artifact that is meant to kill him...but Londo's least likable wife actually gives him blood to keep him alive.  It is a decent little Londo story, something that always livens this show up.
There is a B-story involving a man who comes to the station and turns out to be Talia's ex-husband who had left PsiCorp for some unknown reason (even though its often stated that no one leases the Corp).  He claims to have been apart of a PsiCorp experiment which removed his telepathic powers and therefore they let him leave the corp, but it is clear that he has some kind of new and more powerful telepathic powers, which allow him to influence others, and tries to get Talia to come with him.

The A-story with Londo was fun, the B-story with Talia was decent and made me more interested in the creepy going ons of the PsiCorp, though it seems odd that Talia would want out of the Corp so much now considering how in just the previous episode she seemed fairly loyal.  I guess they switched an episode order and judging by the events of the following episode, it seems clear why Talia would want out.  So if you get the full story in the intended order, things make sense.

NEXT TIME: An Underground Railroad


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