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These past months Congressmen have been interrogating college/university presidents, and they don't seem to know how to respond. Part is McCarthyism-style questioning and part is theatrics; you'd think they'd know that by being educated people. But perhaps they're just people good at getting donations? Somehow you have to be able to hold up to antagonistic questioning, without giving yourself away. Somehow Hillary did that when she was questioned for 8 hours; they should have hired her as a consultant before testifying.

Imagination and creativity and innovation and technology burns and consideration and refugees huddling not, both behavior proper manner, of purpose. Trained of record.

''I know they haven't fed you since you got here, that's at least two days...besides, it's lunch time!'' Never trust how long your captor says you've been in their captivity or what time of day they say it is. EVER.

Eventually he was taken in the night by men wearing strange robes and a large green badge. He spent a quality year at a base on Minbar and received training and instruction on truth and enlightenment. He returned to Earth a much changed man.

So essential it was going to be an FMV game at a movie theater. Sounds like a blast

spoiler alert the sandwich was excellent

I love corn beef too but this interrogator really sells it wirh the mustard bit he mentions and how we are all influenced by the world 😊

I've was finding this video during 18 years.

This B5 scene and the "Chain of command" interrogation scene from ST:TNG are some of my 1984 inspired favourites.

B5 is not subtle, and in the end the interrogator basically admits it: "of course it's a lie, but what are you going to do about it? "We're going to use you to bring down the resistance (plus this other unrelated senator, because it's convenient) and the public will buy it." Sheridan had only two choices; either stall out the interrogation, or concede. Either way, he had lost, the very moment he was brought into detention. If Sheridan wasn't rescued in a surprise operation, he probably would've ended up like Na'Toth on Centauri Prime. Forgotten and filed away somewhere never to be found. They'd keep him there like the Guantanamo Bay prisoners until he's old and gray, and nobody even knows why he's in there anymore, but the sheer force of bureaucratic inertia keeping him there. Clark may have declared himself dictator, but he is still mortal, and when he is dead, like Sulla, people will slowly begin picking up the pieces of the EA again unless another coup happens.

I would've eaten the guys throat.

One of the best episodes of any show. I think about this episode fairly often ha.

It's chilling in light of the Trump presidency, to watch this episode ("Intersections in Real Time"). On a bigger scale, this is what Trump tried with the US and the rest of the world. It's also what other people like him are still trying, both in the US and other places. Usually, but not always, right-wing populists. They try to make you think there is no such thing as truth, and they do what they can to confuse the issue with the concept of perception. They try to convince others that different perception is the same thing as different truth (too many people have taken Obi-Wan's nonsense statement as an absolute truth). In reality, there is no such thing as different or alternative truths. Anyone who claims that there is, is flat-out lying. The place they wedge their propaganda, is where the truth threatens to become too big, or too difficult, to handle. Exactly the way the interrogator tries to wedge Earthdome's propaganda into Sheridan's mind. You can even see the attempts here in the comment section of a freaking scene from Babylon 5; people trying to convince others that things that, irrefutably, happen/have happened, are not happening. Then they call anyone who is telling the actual truth, a liar; and then they demand proof from the person they just called a liar, even though they themselves are the ones who have the burden of proof. Yes, this is how messed up the world has gotten since Babylon 5. Nowadays, "The Interrogator" is no longer seen as the bad guy, by an incredibly disturbing number of people around the world.

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Room 17 = Room 101

Name, Rank, Serial Number. That's it. That's all you say. Every time

Scenes like this happen everyday in the US with people like the interrogator. The DOJ have specialists in physical and psychological torture who violate people's rights and are willing to go to any length to break their target. Right Chris Stephens of Chickasha Oklahoma? Monsters like this exist.

Simon says is aired June 7th,1991!

You know, the guy who played the interrogator did an _excellent_ job.

The horror of banality.

Ah, the "inquisitor". Twisting every aspect of the interrogation till the subject is so confused they're not even sure of their own name. Here is the drama, the true battle, waged between two persons from opposite sides locked in a life and death struggle... of ideology. And there's also a sandwich.

Hello Mr. Pepshmire!

I would think 500 or a thousand years into the future interrogation would not be necessary as you could simply create a fake video interpretation or whatever you want the subject to say. However if you're a mean bastard you would torture someone anyway

I like to imagine a short story scenario, where President Sheridan has the rangers do a top secret mission: "rendition" this interrogator off to some backwater barely-habitable planet. Sheridan personally confronts him. He's scared shitless, screaming that he has rights. Sheridan silences him, and remarks, "You once said we were all expandable. That's more true of you than ever, and worse. You are inconvenient. You are someone Earthdome would love to forget ever existed. They can't risk embarrassment by putting you on trial. But if you were to quietly disappear, no one would care, no one would question. And that brings you to me. I can't put you on trial either. The ISA can't afford the political blowback. But I can't let you escape consequences for your actions either. So, I do the only convenient thing I can do. Every government throughout history has had its gulags. Secret prisons. I was a guest in yours. Now you are a guest of mine. I always thought the ISA would be different, but appears I was wrong. This planet is uninhabited and remote. There is no water or anything remotely edible for miles. Your only escape is death. But please accept this gift. (Sheridan drops a box on the ground). The gift of choice. Goodbye Mr. Interrogator." With that, Sheridan boards his shuttle and leaves for good. The Interrogator cautiously opens the box. In it he finds a bottle of whiskey, a presumably-poisoned corned beef sandwich, and the "choice": a PPG pistol with a single charge.

Please upload dark justice season 2&3?

Amazed that Sheridan was played so easily. I guess a couple days without food would make one pretty dull around the edges.

Ah the infamous sandwich torture. Outlawed on civilised worlds across the galaxy yet still used by law enforcement.

I'm the kinda guy that eats seafood or soup for breakfast regularly so I'd have a real issue with the whole "you can't have a corned beef sandwich for breakfast" propaganda.

There a dark Justice season 2 and 3 please?

Too many shows degenerated along with the ethical lapses in recent US history, but here JMS made simply eating a sandwich a sadistic exercise. Brilliant stuff, very much like Picard's trip to Celtris 3.

Spoiler. It's poisoned.

I watch this scene every St. Patrick's Day, with a corned beef sandwich (with brown mustard with the seeds, but not too much), although mine doesn't make me vomit.

this is my favorite episode

Boxleitner was a real letdown from O'Hare but I understand why the latter quit the show. Better a new CO than to scrap the entire show. Still Sheridan never really had the gravitas of Sinclair, nor the depth and complexity.

"I may one day develop a serum that helps lab rats! That does not mean I want to employ them." As foreshadowing goes, that's a damn cold one, JMS. Knowing his style, I would actually believe that one line was hinting at this scene.

2:47 _"Well you can't have a corned beef sandwich for breakfast, it would upset your stomach. Corned beef sandwiches are for lunch. If it's morning you can't have it. If it's lunchtime, you can. Is it lunchtime?"_ The interrogator does this several times throughout the episode (i.e. asking if Sheridan's second-in-command is Ivonova, even though Earth almost certainly knows that she is). The point of this exercise is to see how willing Sheridan is to make small concessions. If he is, they can try something more outrageous (the ultimate goal being to have him sign the "confession.") I also like the interrogator's little speech just before he leaves: _"You know, about that sandwich, captain ... it's a funny thing about toxins. I've always felt that if you eat a little poison every day, you get used to it. It desensitizes you until you can swallow large amounts of it with no difficulty whatsoever. I've always thought that that was a metaphor. I could just never decide what for."_ And I thought, "That's a metaphor for YOU. You completely bought into your government's BS, probably through the same slow process, believing in the little lies they told you until you could swallow whoppers with no problem at all. And now you're a True Believer."

Paramount Soundtrack *James Brown* *Get On Up (I Feel Like A) Sex Machine* *Blue Iguana Motion Picture Soundtrack*

a great serie. can you upload all 66 episodes ? This serie was on TV a long time ago in Germany, but this episode "Simon says" and "Marshall Law" was never aired with us for whatever reason.

_"You know, about that sandwich, Captain . . . it's a funny thing about toxins. I've always felt that if you eat a little poison every day, you'll get used to it. It desensitizes you until you can swallow large amounts of it with no difficulty whatsoever. I've always thought that that was a metaphor. I could just never decide what for."_ It's a metaphor for propaganda in general but the interrogator might not realize that the metaphor applies to himself, as well. Over the years, he's swallowed small amounts of government propaganda and now he's desensitized to the point where he can justify torturing people.

He was sorry he ate that.

There's a blooper take from this episode where Bruce is doing a hilarious imitation of the "french fried po-taters" speech from "Sling Blade"

One of the greatest television episodes ever regardless of the series! No CGI, no great battles, no multiple characters playing off each other. Just two people in a room talking and interacting with each other in a highly psychological contest. Alfred Hitchcock would be proud!

I reckon he did no git the memo from G'KAR on how ta beat Interrogation? Boxleitner did an Awesome job fer B5.

How many lights do you see?

Boxleitner's work on B5 is underrated. He had a huge, emotionally demanding arc over the course of the show, and he handled it with style.

If Sheridan only had a jar full of roaches, this interrogator would have crumbled.

I remember this as the worst Babylon 5 episode I ever saw.

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What year and type of car is it that Alex (played by Craig Hurley) fixes up??