Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Conflicts of Interest”

Garibaldi has a PI adventure that hits every noir cliche in the book. Plus we meet another Zathras and Sheridan tries to get G’Kar and Mollari to agree on something. The Babylon 5 Rewatch has some “Conflicts of Interest.”

An excerpt:

Back when I started this rewatch with “The Gathering,” I described Garibaldi as, “a walking, talking cliché of the maverick cop,” and man, he embodies that in this episode, except now he’s the embittered ex-cop working as a PI. He’s pretty much a Dashiell Hammett character transported to the twenty-third century, and J. Michael Straczynski leaves no cliché unwritten as we follow Garibaldi’s little odyssey here. We’ve got it all! The opening bit to show he has a heart of gold. The pretty woman from the PI’s past who’s with another man now, who happens to be the client. The PI’s antagonistic relationship with his ex-colleagues in the police EarthForce. The big shootout. The unexpected complication. We’ve even got crawling around in unconvincingly clean and spacious ductwork!