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An old friend of Talia Winters is murdered by what appears to be an agent of a Martian resistance movement. Andrea Thompson as Talia Winters in Babylon 5 Talia Winters is a character appearing on the science fiction television show Babylon 5 during its first and second seasons. ...
Arc significance
First Appearance of Security officer Zack Allan, who will become a regular in Season 3 onward. Zack Allan, played by Jeff Conaway, is a character in the universe of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. ...
Production details
"A Spider in the Web" was originally titled "A Trick of the Mind."
Trivia
J. Michael Straczynski tentatively approved this episode, which appears to introduce a recurring antagonist organization in Bereau 13. However, he decided soon afterward that continuing this plotline would make the show too crowded, and so Bereau 13 is never referrenced again.
Funnel-web spiders are found in eastern Australia, including Tasmania, in coastal and highland forest regions - as far west as the Gulf Ranges area of South Australia.
The Sydney Funnel-web Spider (Atrax robustus) occurs in New South Wales, from Newcastle to Nowra and west to Lithgow.
Female funnel-web spiders spend most of their life in their burrows, but do occasionally hunt on the surface at night.