Born to the Purple
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"Born to the Purple" is an episode from the first season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5.
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Plot synopsis
Londo Mollari is being forced into negotiating with the Narn. He would rather be persuing a new love interest though. The love interest, Adira Tyree, is actually the slave of one of Londo's rivals, Trakis. He is using her to get his Purple Files, a stash of dirt and information on Centauri's elite. Londo promotes Vir Cotto to diplomatic status to negotiate with the Narn while he persues Adira.
Meanwhile Michael Garibaldi has discover unauthorised use of the Gold Channel communications network, which he attempts to track down. Eventually he locates this to Susan Ivanova using it to talk to her dying father back in Russia on Earth.
Adira, having drugged Londo and got hold of his purple files, is about to meet her master. She starts to have second thoughts about the deception and makes a run for it.
Arc significance
Adira Tyree's return to Babylon 5 plays a major part in the third-season episode "Interludes and Examinations."
Production details
"Born to the Purple" was originally titled "Amaranth."
Trivia
- The color purple was very popular in Roman times as a color of state. The dye used to make it was expensive and so use of it gave a certain status. Being Born to the Purple, is an indication that the person was of imperial status.
He was born in the purple. Edward Gibbon.