Tag: poison

Refa:

Londo, you are a fool! You walk away from the greatest power I have even seen, and now you expect me to do the same? They are the key to my eventual rise to the throne! Why would I abandon them?

Londo:

Because I have asked you. And because your loyalty to our people should be greater than your ambition.

…And because I have poisoned your drink.

[Refa stares at Londo in shock.]

Yes, and it is very interesting poison. It comes in two parts. Both are harmless on their own; but when combined, quite lethal. The first settles into the bloodstream and the intestinal walls. It stays there for years: silent, dormant, waiting. When the other half of the poison enters the body, the two meet [and] have a little party in your cardiovascular system. And suddenly: You. Are. Quite. Dead.

Your drink contained the first half of the poison.

Refa:

Why? Why did you do this?

Londo:

To guarantee your co-operation. And because sooner or later you would do it to me. Yes, we are returning to the old ways, Refa. And poison was always the instrument of choice in the Old Republic.

Being something of a sentimentalist, I got here first.

Refa:

[cowed by fear]

What do you want me to do?

Londo:

You have encouraged that fool [Emperor] Cartagia to attack worlds that have no value to us. You will now encourage him otherwise. You will bolster our lines of defense around Centauri Prime. And you have nothing more to do with Mr. Morden. If you do not comply, one of my agents in the royal palace will introduce you to the second half of the poison.

[lifts his glass]

To your health, Lord Refa.

— "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" – Babylon 5, Season 3 (1996)