Intersections was a truly disturbing episode. I hate HATE seeing Sheridan like this! 
The interrogator guy was brilliant. Brilliantly evil, that is.
This reminded me of when the Jack The Ripper guy interrogated Delenn. Both times, the actor who played the interrogator was excellent.
Interrogator: The truth is sometimes what you believe it to be, and other times what you decide it to be. My task is to make you decide to believe differently.
The actor who played the interrogator was SO good, wasn’t he? He honestly seemed to be sincere when he said he didn’t want to hurt Sheridan. In fact, seemed to be sincere the whole time, even when he sent Sheridan to Room 17 as if Sheridan was going to be executed.
Interrogator: It does prove though how everything is a matter of perspective. You see what you think is daylight, and you assume it’s morning. Take it away, you think it’s night. Offer you a sandwich, if it’s convenient, you’ll think it’s mid-day. The truth is fluid, the truth is subjective.
A great ending to the episode, very freaky how Room 17 was just the beginning of the process again. And the executioner was actually the alien who was pretending to be one of the torture victims!
He’d better be rescued in the next episode or else.
Next episode: Endgame
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Awesome episode! And in light of recent revelations/allegations of torture techniques by certain military and intelligence organisations this episode is quite topical as well!
If JMS knew he was going to be sure he was to have all 5 seasons, he would made this the season ending story of season 4. Still 22 episodes, the war with earth would have just waited to the start of season 5 to end, while other elelements would have come in also, or other stories expanded. As it was, this was the last new episode broadcast before 15 weeks of reruns. They even shot the series ending episode thinking they were wrapping everything up.
I seem to recall watching this with other people, with us all saying ‘will someone go out and shoot or blow something up’. It was hard to go from so much action to psychological drama. I think I might again might have been lucky to be in a video tape chain from England (were they would runn the 22 episodes in something like 22 to 24 weeks) that got me the end of Season 4 before the American airings. Of course I still had to catch the American airings for my own tape collection. The 5th season moved from individual station syndication to basic cable TNT network–Sci-fi channel having passed it up.
A great episode, but not one that I like to view too many times. It makes me feel like I need to take a shower after I’ve seen it.
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