William (Babylon 5)

"The truth is sometimes what we believe it to be, and sometimes it's what we decide it to be."

- William, on the truth.

William was a villain introduced in the Babylon 5 episode Intersections in Real Time.

He was portrayed by Raye Birk.

Specializing in interrogation and torture, William was an EarthForce official loyal to Morgan Clark. He built up a resistance to a poison that he would use to make his prisoners very sick.

After John Sheridan was betrayed by the Psi-Corps brainwashed Michael Garibaldi, William was brought to interrogate Sheridan at Fort Walters where he was being held.

William used a variety of methods to break Sheridan. William tried to get Sheridan to admit that he was wrong to oppose Clark and Earth, and that it had been aliens that had forced him to stand against Clark and his regime. Sheridan steadfastly refused to do what William wanted.

Ultimately William was unable to extract a confession from Sheridan and decided a mock execution would be in order to see if that would break Sheridan. Sheridan still refused to give in even when threatened with death. (After his previous experiences on the Shadow home world death threats no longer meant anything to him anyway).

Seeing that he was not going to get anywhere with Sheridan, William handed him over to one of his colleagues to further work Sheridan over. Their attempts to break Sheridan were unsuccessful, and a short time later Sheridan was rescued by a resistance team led by Garibaldi.

If William was made to face justice after the fall of Clark's regime, it has not been revealed.