One question/problem about ariel
POSTED BY: Docebo
UPDATED: Monday, March 1, 2004 04:48
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Another thought about the "blue hands" making the connection between Serenity and the Tams:
From the comments of the pirates behind the "chop shop" in "Our Mrs.Reynolds":
"Taken as a bunch of pieces, it's junk. All together, it's a Firefly, and will run forever with a half-way decent mechanic."
I started thinking of the Firefly model as the 25th century equivalent of the Volkswagon Beetle, cheap, functional, and essentially indestructable. Given that, wouldn't there be a LOT of Fireflys around? There might be hundreds of them bopping in and out of orbit on Ariel at a given time, and tens of thousands of them in existance alltogether. That would make it hard to be particularly suspicious of any one, particularly if it had been cleared by the Alliance already (in Bushwhacked)
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ljosalf wrote:
Sunday, February 29, 2004 08:18
I've been considering whether Jayne's identity/existence was "made" on Arial in association with the Tams. From his actions, upto and after the incident it is pretty clear that *Jayne* doesn't consider himself in danger or doesn't care, a la his sarcastic "I've never been in trouble with the law before...". Jayne could be wrong, though.
He could be lying. It's pretty obvious that Jayne has been making a precarious living as a cutthroat for some time now. In Our Mrs. Reynolds he says, "Once they sent six men after me..." To me that makes it sound there were other times when people were sent after him, and in Jaynestown he had run with Stitch for 6 months before the "Hero" incident occurred and that was several years back, maybe during or just after the war.
Uh..., in his converstation with Dobson in Serenity, Jayne by saying sarcastically that he had never been in trouble with the law was in fact saying that tangling with the law was a common and undaunting occurence for him. Perhaps I didn't make it clear in my original post that I understood that.
The incident for which six men were sent after him is probably the one for which he is most wanted and for which his notoriety is most likely to have reached Federation ears. I was exploring who might want him badly enough to send 6 men--not a cheap undertaking--at least one of whom was carrying a very expensive weapon, and, thus, how likely it was that Jayne would be identified on Ariel.
I do see, though, that I leapt to a conclusion which I have not til now re-examined, to wit that Jayne killed the men sent after him.
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However, I think they might end up doing a search on Jayne now. And if Jayne can be tagged to Serenity, they might realize their mistake.
The bluehands people may not know how the Feds captured River and Simon. They might have just been contacted with a simple message, "We are holding your fugitives." Remember when the Officer doublecrossed Jayne he said, "You mean my reward."
But the prisoners were "processed". False papers would just result in (another) AKA for Jayne if he was ID'd later by his features. The Hands of Blue could make off with or destroy data stored locally (say in loop format) from possible monitoring cameras in the hospital or station, which gives the HoB Jayne's likeness and, if sound recording is included, a partial name to work with. Would the arrest records remain local to the station after processing or go to a central database on Ariel? Do the Feds have the same likeness to work with? Fingerprints? Could the HoB have stripped the records fast enough and quietly enough? Interesting possibilities....
Personally, I think the expression on Jayne's face would be priceless if he ended up listed as Simon's henchman. Ah, the cruel irony of it!
Ljosalf
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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ljosalf wrote:
I think the expression on Jayne's face would be priceless if he ended up listed as Simon's henchman. Ah, the cruel irony of it!
Without a doubt.
You're also right that Jayne was processed. I just rewatched the episode, and the Fed did say he was charging Jayne with aiding the fugitives, and made some reference to the capture of three fugitives.
I take it that the HoB people also have to deal with the underground that helped the Tams in the first place. They still may not know the identities Jayne or the rest of Serenity's crew.
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Ah, but it is a short step from Canton to Serenity if Jayne is identified with the Tams....
Ljosalf
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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