Down Below con man

The Down Below con man was an unnamed character featured in the 1994-1998 science fiction television series Babylon 5. Played by actor Jim Bentley, he appeared in the second episode of season one, "Soul Hunter".

Biography
This unidentified individual lived and worked in the Down Below section of the Babylon 5 space station. He ran a variation of the classic shell game, encouraging other denizens of the area to put up their cash and play the odds. After cheating several players out of their hard earned cash, the con man found that he had earned the ire of one particularly nasty individual who found him cheating. He went after the unkempt squirrely man and chased him all throughout the bowels of the station. He eventually caught up with him and stabbed him to death. He was brought to MedLab 01 where Doctor Stephen Franklin tried to resuscitate him, but it was no use. Franklin contacted his next of kin, but his family could not afford to have him shipped home.

Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova and Doctor Franklin had the con man placed in a coffin and jettisoned his casket into outer space. Invanova spoke the following prayer, "From the stars we came and to the stars we return, from now until the end of time. We therefore commit this body to the deep".

At the time that the con man was being hunted and subsequently killed, another being on the station, a Soul Hunter, psychically perceived the man's imminent demise and vocally expressed the emotions that the man was experiencing up until the point of his death.

Notes & Trivia

 * The character of the Down Below con man was created by screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski and director Jim Johnston.


 * In the episode, the Down Below con man was credited only as "Man".