The Psi Corps and President Clark, whose government has discovered Shadow vessels buried in Earth#39s solar system, begin to harness the vessels#39 advanced technology The Clark administration continues to become increasingly xenophobic and totalitarian, and uses a military incident as an excuse to declare martial law This triggers a war of independence on Mars, which had long had a strained political relationship with Earth Babylon 5 also declares independence from Earth, along with several other outlying Earth Alliance colonies In response, the Earth Alliance attempts to retake Babylon 5 by force, but with the aid of the Minbari, who have allied with the station against the growing Shadow threat, the attack is repelled Becoming concerned over the Shadows#39 growing influence amongst his people, Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari attempts to sever ties with them Mr Morden, the Shadows#39 human representative, tricks him into restoring the partnership by engineering the murder of Mollari#39s mistress while putting the blame on a rival Centauri House Open warfare breaks out between the Shadows and the alliance led by Babylon 5 and the Minbari It is learned that genetic manipulation by the Vorlons is the source of human telepathy, as it is later discovered that Shadow ships are vulnerable to telepathic attacks Displeased at the Vorlons#39 lack of direct action against the Shadows, Captain John Sheridan browbeats Vorlon ambassador Kosh Naranek into launching an attack against their mutual enemy Kosh#39s deeds lead to his subsequent assassination by the Shadows Former station commander Jeffrey Sinclair returns to Babylon 5 to enlist the aid of Captain Sheridan, Delenn, Ivanova and Marcus in stealing the Babylon 4 space station and sending it 1,000 years back in time to use it as a base of operations against the Shadows in the previous MinbariShadow war Undergoing the same transformation as Delenn at the end of Season 1, Sinclair transforms into a Minbari and is subsequently revealed to be the actual Valen of Minbari legend, rather than a reincarnation Spurred by the reappearance of his assumeddead wife who now works for the Shadows, Sheridan travels to Z#39ha#39dum, the Shadow homeworld, in an attempt by them to recruit him However he instead destroys their largest city in a kamikaze nuclear attack, and is last seen jumping into a milesdeep pit to escape the explosion Garibaldi, during a fight with Shadow vessels, goes missing
After spending the summer with his mother in Philadelphia, Dawson returns to Capeside and meets a beautiful, outgoing, young woman, named Eve Whitman, on the bus from Philadelphia Eve soon brings trouble to Dawson#39;s hohum life when he accidentally wrecks his father#39;s boat during an outing with her and tries to come up with 3,000 to repair it before Mitch finds out So, Eve helps out by throwing a rave party at the Leery house with strippers from the club she works at Meanwhile, Joey, who has frozen Dawson out all summer for forcing her to rat out her father, realizes that she still has feelings for him again when they meet during the first day back at Capeside High as juniors While working at the Capeside Marina, Joey deals with the comeons from her sexist boss Rob Logan Jen gets more than she bargained for when she tries out for Capeside High#39;s cheer leading squad and faces off in a warofwits against the meanspirited head cheerleader, and acquires her position Also, Mitch gets a new job as Capeside High#39;s varsity football coach, and a new charismatic, but very stern, principal, named Howard Green, arrives to administrate the school
