Sheridan orders a science team to launch an investigation.  Earthdome has also heard of the event and seem frightened by it, unwilling to send any military assistance.  A Psi Corps agent, Martina Coles, staying on Babylon 5 feels compelled toward Ambassador Kosh but meeting him provides her with nothing useful.  Garibaldi gets himself accepted into an interspatial motorcycle gang, Fermi's Angels.

A shady evangelist, Reverend Bobby James Galaxy of the Universal Church of Solar Illumination stirs things further by claiming that the Worm's mission is to destroy all heretics - namely, everyone but the humans.  Ivanova tries to prevent a mob from fleeing the station on a freighter, the hull of which is ruptured and a number of lives are lost.  Kosh calls to Coles again and shares with her his knowledge of the worm: nothing, but a sense of fear and dread which deeply affects her.

Galaxy, together with the Angels, formulate a plan to destroy the station when the Worm arrives.  Fighting continues to escalate - including a tussle between Lennier and Garibaldi, and Delenn and Sheridan.  The Worm arrives... and nothing happens but a power blackout.   Life returns to normal.

Notes: Garibaldi's motorcycle craze is recalled (Eyes).