*Spoilers for Ariel* How did Mal know?
POSTED BY: Belacgod
UPDATED: Sunday, November 13, 2005 18:30
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How did Mal know Jayne had sold out the Tams? It'd have been a hell of a thing to do just on a guess, and we viewers didn't see anything that told us he did, unless I missed something.
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My sister desktop hippie (who's visiting at the moment hence the me giving the her opinion) says it's all down to mal knowing jayne so well he bought him out in the first place and has worked with the guy for a while, he knows how jayne thinks so he was ready for this.
Plus he already had an idea after the whole "what happens when the money is good enough" bit from the pilot ep.
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That's a fair deal of circumstancial evidence, but it's a gorram central planet, any number of things could have gone wrong. They could have been spotted inside, a fed could have been in there for some unrelated reason, someone could have had a scheduled use for the neuroimager...since Simon was singing Jayne's praises, only the most paranoid would dismiss all other causes.
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DesktopHippie's reply is-
"Your point being...?"
This is Mal we're talking about, after all 
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And I'm a bloodsucking fiend! Look at my profile!
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There was Jayne's change of plan, making Simon and River leave early and going out through a different direction. Plus his reaction was very different when they got back, he was being really modest, not typical of him.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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Mal is always right in the end....
always.
"Everybody's makin' a fuss." Mal
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Originally posted by Giantevilhead:
There was Jayne's change of plan, making Simon and River leave early and going out through a different direction. Plus his reaction was very different when they got back, he was being really modest, not typical of him.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
Mal shouldn't have known about the change of plan, or he'd have said something to the others. The modest reaction might be damning, but not enough to take the risk of being wrong.
Remember, River's the psychic, not Mal.
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Really, I was always surprised that no one else (especially Zoe) seemed to figure it out. If the Feds knew that the Tams were in the hospital, why don't they go in and search for them instead of waiting patiently outside the door? And how do they know just which door to wait by? Someone had to have tipped them off. And then there's that *look* on Jayne's face when Simon is giving his speech, not mention his sudden burst of modesty and the "you're on my crew" comment. Too out of character for there to *not* be something going on.
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Originally posted by Belacgod:
Mal shouldn't have known about the change of plan, or he'd have said something to the others. The modest reaction might be damning, but not enough to take the risk of being wrong.
Remember, River's the psychic, not Mal.
Mal would have known about Jayne's change of plan because their locations were all being tracked by Wash and Kaylee.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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Originally posted by Eleanor:
Really, I was always surprised that no one else (especially Zoe) seemed to figure it out. If the Feds knew that the Tams were in the hospital, why don't they go in and search for them instead of waiting patiently outside the door? And how do they know just which door to wait by? Someone had to have tipped them off. And then there's that *look* on Jayne's face when Simon is giving his speech, not mention his sudden burst of modesty and the "you're on my crew" comment. Too out of character for there to *not* be something going on.
The crew didn't know what happened inside. All they knew is what Wash told them about the chatter. Remember how surprised they all were when Mal said he was going in for them?
For all the crew knew, the Feds had gone in the front door/were already inside.
The "you're on my crew" moment is probably the best answer I'm going to get, but I'm still not satisfied. It's a plot hole that, I suspect, can only be filled by Wash having heard about "two fugitives" over the com.
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