Episode 503: Old Secrets, New Chances, Special Features

Unanswered Questions

1. How did Patience get wind of our cargo? Does she have land-sats trained on the moon or soemthing?
2. Was the posse who extorted us even there on Patience's orders? Or were they there on their own initiative to make money unbeknownst their boss--not quite skimming the take, since she didn't send them out the collect the take, but something like.
3. The fact that the cargo and the beef experts were even ON Whitefall suggests that there's business to be had outside of Patience's territory, if not her reach. What other ventures are operating on that moon that she doesn't own or can't directly touch?
4. And if she's so grabby, why hasn't anyone stomped on her for obstruction/interferance of trade already?
5. Nika's eyesight is restored and returning to normal, albeit slowly. Chu mentioned that there were special helmets that transplantees could wear to retrain their eyes/brains to work properly, but he did not mention where we could get or buy one. Is it too late to get one for Nika? Is there a narrow window of opportunity before that intervention will no longer work? How much of a risk are we taking by not getting ther that helmet?
6. Joshua wakes in the middle of the night thinking he's heard our cat meowing. Following the sound leads him to our female passenger's cabin where he hears her screaming behind her door. When he busts in to help her, she's alone and she insists she was not screaming at all but sound asleep. So if she was sound asleep and not screaming in a nightmare... where did the sound come from? Was it the cat in the air ducts and did some trick of acoustics make it sound like a human woman screaming?
7. Joshua didn't hear inarticulate screaming either--there were words to the effect: No! Don’t hurt me! Nooooo! If our passenger did not say these words, who or what did? And why does it seem that only Joshua heard them?
8. Questions 6 and 7 suggest that Joshua might have heard the screams with his mind and not with his ears. He is a Reader and sensitive to psychic residues. He has constantly said that the passenger deck makes him uncomfortable. Is this a symptom of his discomfort? Or is this the cause?
9. Or is Question 8 too much like science fiction?