Good Bye

- Dr. Franklin on B5 was played by Richard Biggs, who passed away in 2004

I've had a song in my head since last night. I'm still working on discs from the science fiction series Babylon 5 and just watched a memerable episode - Walkabout. Dr. Stephen Franklin, who has more or less lost himself to a drug addiction, decides to go on a walkabout to find himself again. He describes it this way to his friend Garibaldi ....

You just leave everything and you start walking. The Foundation [his religion of choice] adopted the idea from the aborigines back on Earth. The theory is, if you are separated from yourself, you start walking and you keep walking, until you meet yourself. Then you sit down and you have a long talk. You talk about everything that you've learned and everything that you've felt. Now you talk until you have run out of words. Now that is vital, because the real important things can't be said. Then, if you are lucky, you look up and there is just you. Then you can go home.

On his walkabout, he drops into a bar in the deteriorated Downbelow sector and listens to a lounge singer (played by Erica Gimpel) sing Good Bye. Here's a YouTube of that part of the B5 episode - Stephen walking into the bar and Erica singing :)