Shepherd Book

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TALONPEST

Sunday, July 13, 2003 12:42 AM

I've come to the conclusion that Book was something along the lines of a special police opperative for the Alliance. He served as judge, jurry and executioner.

I've decided on this theory because while he knows an awful lot about crime, weapons, and military-esque vehicals, Book has been established to be connected to the Alliance and highly respected by them (in Safe). He couldn't have been a criminal himself. The quote "I don't give half a hump if you're innocent or not. Now where does that put you?" reinforces this theory because it puts him in a position where he's dealing with people who are professing their innocence. The only reason they'd do that is if they're being accused of breaking a law, which means Book was enforcing the law, however unjustly and brutally.

This also explains how Jubal Early knew who he was (he HAD to have known who Book was- there was no time for him to judge that Book wasn't a shepard by his behavior before Early knocked him out,) because they were in similar lines of work.

This is the only line of work I can think of that accomodates everything we know about Book.

SHEPHERDOFHERMAS

Sunday, July 13, 2003 2:02 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Archer:
A thunderbolt struck from the heavens, yea, the very heavens and this voice spaketh thusly "Have you ever considered Man-Whore?"

So I says "Well geez, yeah, I'm a bit short on cash right now, but still there are better ways to make money..."

And it says "No, BOOK you dolt!"

So I says "Well, I'm sure he's sexy and all, but he's really not my type..."

And it says "I give up. I just fricking give up."

Although your post caused me to spew my lager across the room, should we ever meet I'll buy you a pint or three for making me laugh so hard.

ARCHER

Sunday, July 13, 2003 5:49 AM

Quote:
Although your post caused me to spew my lager across the room, should we ever meet I'll buy you a pint or three for making me laugh so hard.

You're on, pal. I'll bring a bottle of Cuervo to cover my end of the deal.

There ain't nothin' I can't overcome or come to know. So lay your heavy load down on me, strip everything I have away. I am not your prisoner, I am not afraid.

WULFHAWK

Sunday, July 13, 2003 4:48 PM

Jubal Early knew Book because there was a bounty on Book, not because Jubal knows every piddly retired cop in the verse.

Retired cops don't get VIP treatment, and in fact, retired cops running with smugglers can end up getting even worse treatment than usual. Book got VIP treatment without fanfare because of someone else's influence, someone who didn't want that influence advertised, someone who didn't want ties with Book well known, someone who owed Book something that could be paid with illicit influence. Doesn't sound like a retired cop to me. Sounds more like a retired mobster.

Take my love
Take my land

MANIACNUMBERONE

Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:24 PM

I had never considered that there might be a bounty on Book. But your logic makes sense Wulf.

JK

Sunday, October 19, 2003 1:05 PM

If there were a bounty on Book, wouldn't Jubal have dragged him along with him to claim his bounty too?

I still like my general idea (since he could be pinning a huge mistake he made on an underling with his "half a hump"), but I know for a fact that I'm wrong. Come on, it's Joss!

JK

MANIACNUMBERONE

Sunday, October 19, 2003 4:11 PM

Perhaps that's why Jubal knocked him out - he might have been planning to come back and get him too, once he found River and Simon.

JK

Sunday, October 19, 2003 5:54 PM

Perhaps. But he might just have knocked him out to finish a noisy fight before it had begun. I'm not an expert but, if I were Jubal, I'd have trussed Book up and had him by the hatch so I could grab him on the way out with a minimum of hassle. Picking him up after I'd got Simon and River would have been unnecessarily complicated.

JK

VETERAN

Sunday, October 19, 2003 7:36 PM

The retired mobster idea for Book might fit. But, it doesn't make sense that Book has a bounty on him. Unless you mean an illicit one. Otherwise the Alliance would have just arrested him or let him die.

Maybe Book is related to someone high up in the Alliance. Any ideas on what the Chief Executive of the Alliance is called?

SOUTHERNMERC

Sunday, October 19, 2003 11:36 PM

Could Book have been a retired military officer? One who set policy for the Alliance, and therefore feels guilt about the terrible things done based upon said policy (even if not directly involved)? Perhaps a hardliner who realized the effect of his attitude and so wished to correct it, even if in a small fashion. It would account for the treatment given to him by the Alliance when he was injured, and Jubal may have recognized him because he himself was in the Alliance military and recognized him from somewhere (photo or CO or some such). Anyone got anything to help me out here or am I just blowin' smoke?

Jayne: "How big a room?"

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