Book was an operative!

POSTED BY: GrayFury
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 18:01
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GRAYFURY

Saturday, December 17, 2005 3:46 PM

Ok, Now I keep touching on a point....Books' past. After just reading the Novelazation of the BDM It became clear as day. When you add up the printed scene where The operative "meets" Book, and all the other clues I hit upon in a previous post...

I want to use this post to site clues to either back, or discredit my Big Damn Theory... I'll start

In the BDM Book told Mal how the operative would work..."He'll come at you sideways!" Which he did. In the novelazation The Operative says hes "posing" as a sheperd, and he knows his first name.... He KNEW him before he came to Haven and I dont think it was just intel.

In Train Job he knew who Adali Niska was as well as his methods and reputation.

In Bushwhacked His ID got him the best medical attention possible as soon as possible on an alliance cruiser... The look on Matt's (from Melrose place) face was as much fear as respect.

In Our Mrs. Reynolds Book knew how the scavengers were going to operate the taking of Serenity.

In War Stories Book knew the weapons used to kill the men Mal and Wash were making the drop with. and he also confided to Jayne that he used to hunt "Rabbits" (I've said before that I belive he meant someone who runs.... Like River and Simon did!)

Also in War stories He could shoot like a man well trained to do so.

In Objects in space Jubal early Recognized Book and said " THAT aint no shepard!" not he aint no shepard... He was aware of his past.

My last hairbrained theory is that Book's "final" mission had something to do with Miranda... His guilt drove him to the arms of faith.

"Dear God In Heaven!" - Plastic Dinosaur

HARSHCRITIC

Saturday, December 17, 2005 4:05 PM

That is a very good theory. But was there anything in the movie that lead you to believe that Book knew about Miranda?

THEREALME

Saturday, December 17, 2005 4:07 PM

Yes, these things have been considered before, but perhaps not summarized so well.

I never thought of the Miranda mission angle. That could be.

TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree

CAUSAL

Saturday, December 17, 2005 4:39 PM

Kudos for the thread--you've pulled a lot together that wasn't terribly organized before. I completely agree that Book was an Operative in the past. The whole "believes hard; kills and don't ask why" line convinced me more so than knowing the modus operadandi. But I'm not convinced about the whole Miranda thing. Doesn't seem like Joss' style to have all the story arcs tied up in one neat bundle labeled "Miranda". If we pushed it hard enough, I'm sure we could tie Inara to it, as well as Mal and Zoe's wartime history and other sundries. Seems like Joss would prefer to have each character driven (or haunted) by his/her own individual past. Myself, I've always thought that it was some war-time mission that drove Book over the edge. Possibly he was involved in a massacre of some kind and something got to him? Or maybe something convinced him that he was on the wrong side, that he should've sided with the Independents. It would certainly be a special kind of torture to already feel guilt over something--but then to have your justification taken away...why, I imagine a man would go pretty far to absolve himself of that.

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GRAYFURY

Saturday, December 17, 2005 5:12 PM

He also worked out alot...

Plus in Objects in space, Jubal Early Just Took him out.... Everyone else on the boat, (Sides Mal who came out swinging his own self), he tried to impress with his $20 words and intimidate. When he saw Book he just had to take him out fast... why would a 55 year old shepard make him so nervous?

"Dear God In Heaven!" - Plastic Dinosaur

CHRISISALL

Saturday, December 17, 2005 5:21 PM

"Been out of the world, like to walk it a while."

The world of an Operative must be so mentally confining- sort of like being in a emotional prison. That's what Book might have been referring to in the pilot...

Shepard Chrisisall

CAUSAL

Saturday, December 17, 2005 6:08 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
The world of an Operative must be so mentally confining- sort of like being in a emotional prison. That's what Book might have been referring to in the pilot...

Interesting idea (and no doubt, fanatical devotion must be confining), but I'm pretty sure that Book was just talking about life in the abbey. Perhaps this is the very first time Book allowed himself to emerge from his self-seclusion. That would account for his teary "I think I'm on the wrong ship". He entered the abbey to escape the life of danger and violence and a seared conscience, and what does he find when he leaves the abbey? Mal's little band of rogues, and a lifestyle not wholly dissimilar from what he left behind (though, of course, no longer on the side of the Alliance, which is maybe why he stays--see my post above).

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CHRISISALL

Saturday, December 17, 2005 6:36 PM

Yeah, that would make sense...and wouldn't preclude the idea that both an Operative and a Shepard at the Abbey take you 'out of the world'.

Just speculatin' Chrisisall

STYROFOAMGUY

Saturday, December 17, 2005 6:58 PM

I think saying Book was an Operative is too simple an answer. Hopefully with a sequel we will be given more of Books background.

Knowing Joss he will give us something else instead of the obvious. I have no idea how he will do it but I trust Joss will give us something we would never expect but is believable.

JONUS

Saturday, December 17, 2005 7:08 PM

I can see Book being an Operative and having a dark past. That'd be cool. I just wish he wasn't killed off, Wash also. But I've always wondered about Book's past. I just don't think his past will be revealed now that he's gone...unless he's tougher than we thought and he ain't dead? Maybe...

Mal would kick Han Solo's ass.

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