Big Damn Inara Theory
POSTED BY: raptored
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 23:35
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Ok, I am going to try and bring it all together for a theory of my own. Assuming tim was telling the truth, and assuming the drug WAS in fact a chemical weapon that would kill any who had sex with her, where does that leave us? Well, enter into my flight of fancy for a moment.
The companion house is not what it seems. Someone said that it was a place to spy? I don't think that is the whole truth. The truth is, the companion house is controlled completely by the alliance, and is a front for assassins. Not all companions are assassins, only the most gifted ones, who are the most desirable.
Why do I think this? Well, think about it:
1) Companions are used by affluent people, meaning powerful. These people are going to be the ones that will start problems with the alliance if any is going to be started. This are people that will have large security forces to protect them. However, a companion can just walk right in.
2) Companions choose their own clients. There seems to be a greater need for companions then companions themselves. They are in the position to choose who they "service".
Now, imagine for a second there was a drug that would kill the person a companion was having sex with, but look like a heart attack. Would this be out of the ordinary? Probably not, as there are probably many older, out of shape men that are serviced. Having a heart attack during sex with a companion would not only be rather innocent looking, but the persons family might actually try and HIDE that fact, making it even harder for people to unravel what is actually happening.
If all of this was true, it would explain many things. The vial in the pilot would be her assassination kit. Why did inara choose to go to the outer rim? The answer is, quite simply, she didn't! She only found out that she was to be a choosen assassin (or even that there were assassins) late in her training. Before that, her plan was always to stay, but because she had to basically be a "sleeper" (pardon the pun) cell, she needed to have access to people that were most likely to be a thorn in the alliances side, namely the outer rim.
Why did inara have such a problem with Mal? Because mal was on the other side, and she knew nothing could ever work between them with her working for the alliance. She wanted to leave before he became a big enough thorn to warrent alliance attention, and wanted to avoid getting the order to kill him.
I don;t think she was a cold blooded killer, in fact I am not even sure if she ever HAS killed anyone, but I do think that may be her secret.
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gilthanass that is brilliant!!!
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Personally, life-extension and time-travel seem to me to be too wacky sci-fi.
I realize that Joss never mentioned it explicitly, but I see some similarities between the outer planets and R.A. Heinlein's "Future History" series, especially "Time Enough for Love." In that alternate universe, there really are "frontier planets" where settlers go when "civilized" planets get too crowded and civilized. I don't know if Joss meant for some of those similarities to happen, but a central theme of that series was also life extension. Not only through "selective breeding" by the Howards, but through medical procedures and drugs.
Mark
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Possible theory from my husband...what if she was a plant for the Alliance? I mean, we are never really clear why she's on Serentiy in the first place. Perhaps the Alliance sent her there to spy on these two Browncoats and their crew. I know,so why has she not ratted them out? Well, she's clearly in love with Mal, and wants him to keep flying. Thats why she gets so mad about the whole Saffron thing and why she gets really upset when he sleeps with Julie Cooper Nichol(I forget the name of the character in HoG, that's her characters name on the OC.)Kind of a "do you know what I'm doing, for you" kind of thing. She's sticking her neck out, lying to the government and he just keeps goofing off on her. I donno, its an idea.
Or, or it's a drug that turns her into Alan Tudyk.
Some people juggle geese!- Hoban Washburn
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Originally posted by Girlaskew:
Possible theory from my husband...what if she was a plant for the Alliance? I mean, we are never really clear why she's on Serentiy in the first place. Perhaps the Alliance sent her there to spy on these two Browncoats and their crew. I know,so why has she not ratted them out? Well, she's clearly in love with Mal, and wants him to keep flying. Thats why she gets so mad about the whole Saffron thing and why she gets really upset when he sleeps with Julie Cooper Nichol(I forget the name of the character in HoG, that's her characters name on the OC.)Kind of a "do you know what I'm doing, for you" kind of thing. She's sticking her neck out, lying to the government and he just keeps goofing off on her. I donno, its an idea.
Or, or it's a drug that turns her into Alan Tudyk.
Some people juggle geese!- Hoban Washburn
I've thought that if there's an Alliance spy, it's Shepherd Book.
Mark
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It stretches credulity to think Mal and Zoe pose enough of a threat to the Alliance that it'd be worth committing a spy to them.
River is another matter, as we've seen, but the timing of events indicates that neither Inara nor Book was after her. Inara was aboard Serenity long before Simon rescued River, and Book came aboard ahead of Simon (though on the same day). Besides, we already know of another of that day's passengers who actually was hunting River.
So Inara-as-Alliance-agent doesn't work for me, unless she's after something other than Mal or River.
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You know what's weird?? While i was watching the pilot, I didn't think anything of the vile of liquid. Now i have to go watch it again.
ANd i don't know if this means anything, but at times i thought Inara looked, pale, or worn out sometimes. Especially in the movie Serenity. What do you think? It could be nothing.
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Originally posted by Giantevilhead:
Inara may have left the Companion Guild because some dark secret of the guild drove her away. Prostitutes have been used as spies for as long as espionage has existed. Perhaps the guild train companions to “acquire” secrets from their clients.
Maybe Inara was sent to keep tabs on Mal and Zoe for some unknown reason....
Hey, it could happen!
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The whole theory, that the drug will put her into a deep coma, doesn't work for me.
Zoe: If they board us, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh and sew our skin to their clothes. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order.
The sick twisted mentality of the Reavers that I get from that quote suggests that if they were to find a death body, they wouldn't leave it alone. They'd probably do something nasty to it. Remember how they found those bodies on that passenger ship? All hung up on the ceiling like that? Inara would probably know how twisted the Reavers are, just from talking with the crew.
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I, for one, am sticking with Tim's theory. It's perfectly logical, what with the advanced technology and medicine of the 'Verse, and as I'm sure it's been said before, it would jerk the Mal/Inara into place. Granted, it would have to be a really fast-acting drug, but I consider it completely possible.
Also, I agree with the theory that the Alliance brings up Companions to glean secrets or become assassins, but that they aren't aware of it during their training. Inara could have left because of that.
However, I do have another theory about why she left: Inara was servicing an Alliance officer (possibly very high-standing), and somehow, he died. Accidents like that can happen, but Inara is terrified. Hides the body, then leaves the House; Inara still has the approval of the Companion Guild because nobody ever found out about her secret.
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