Episode 504: Ghosts of Jing Jing Bei, Special Features

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Rina: If he picks Arden, I think another one of us should go.
Kiera: What? To basically the entire time to hold onto his lips? (mimes pinching them shut)
Arden: Whose lips?
Kiera: Yours.

Joshua: I’m looking for somebody, or looking for, I guess, information on somebody. No harm intended. I’m not a bounty hunter. Nothing like that. I’m just … You know anything about a detective agency called Jing Jing Bei? They would have been in business—
Sheriff: Yeah. They were off—they did some of the private security.
Joshua: Yeah.
Sheriff: Rat bastards?
Joshua: Yeah, that fits the description.

Nika: Thank you for your time, Sheriff.
Sheriff: Watch yourselves.

Nika: (low) I hope that’s not what I think it is. Shii… (pissed) Let’s get the hell out of here.

Joshua: I’m not saying that we go in.
Nika: No, all right. This’ll be about when I really want Christian back. Cuz he could just waltz in there an’ make it look real. (drawling) Just so you know? I’m not sure I can walk in there and then walk back out.

Matron: Well … Don’t have many couples come in. Oh, are you separate?
Nika: Yeah.
Matron: Oh. Well … we’ve got a few open-minded gals who might be able to help you out.

Matron: Lookin’ for something special?
Joshua: I don’t know, I, uh … I’ll know when I see it. Um … but, I mean… I might be back but you know I … I don’t know. She’s insistent—(nods to Nika)—but I don’t know if I’m quite ready.
Matron: Well, how ’bout a dance?
Joshua: I ….. I don’t know ….
Nika: If I’m makin’ ya nervous, I c’n leave.

Joshua: Well, I … don’t …. I don’t know about that.
Nika: (into her drink) Performance anxiety …
Joshua: (what?!) … Gosh.

Joshua: Sure. I … I just … Yeah, I’m just lookin’ for somebody who reminds me of my first girlfriend. Like, she was real young and kinda … kinda comely. (cups his hands at his chest)

Joshua: To tell you the truth … I’m looking for a girl that’s gone missing. (off her look) And I don’t got no interest in dispensin’ punishment or justice or whatever you people call it. I’m just curious if she came through here.
Matron: (settling) Lots of girls come through here.
Joshua: Yeah, yeah, yeah. (firmer) Kelly. You know she came through here. What happened to her. Like I said, I’m not interested in doing anything. I just want to know.
Matron: (quietly) She’s not here anymore. (a beat) She’s dead.

HOW TO SPEAK CHINESE

Gāisǐ = 該死 = Guy - suh = Damn Sound clip

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

Part 1

1. What was the real mission of the Eir? Why did they need all the medical supplies? Were they part of the 'trouble' that caused the Alliance to move in and bomb the shipyards on Aesir last year? (see the news articles posted in the Season Four Timeline) Are these supplies being laid in for a retaliatory move against the Alliance by the New Kalmar?

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1. What happened to June Barrett? Why wasn't her name paried up further down the list with another place? Does this mean she's dead? Or is she still with Jing Jing Bei, wherever they are?
2. Who is Director Ah? Why was she in charge of Jing Jing Bei?
3. The townfolk in Alkali Flats seem suspicious of Arden's offer of certain medicines. Why? What happened to the people in the past to erode their trust in those medicines? Is this evidence that the people have been tricked before into accepting bad or fake medicines? How often does this happen on the Border and the Rim?
4. Paul's daughter Mary is taking care of June Barrett's father, reputedly driven insane by grief over his wife and child. Yet when Joshua offers to leave something to help support the man's upkeep, his offer is received with suspicion and trepidation. Why?
5. Joshua seems driven to help the people harmed by Jing Jing Bei's depredations. Why? Is he trying to atone for Jing Jing Bei's actions? Or actions of his own while still an agent for Blue Sun? Or does he feel a need to lay the ghosts of the girls on Equinox to rest, so that he can be at peace when he's on the ship? Is this a valid reason to try to make amends to the people harmed by Jing Jing Bei even after all these years?
6. The Sheriff in copperhead told Joshua that Jing Jing Bei were called Peacekeepers after the war and Amnesty had been given, and hinted that they had powers like Marshals. He also mentioned that the folk of Alkali Flats were 'independent-minded'. Was this the Capital-I independent, or the self-reliant kind of independent and what was Jing Jing Bei supposed to do with the former?
7. Was Jing Jing Bei's agenda to root out Independent malcontents after the Amnesty? Why? Who or what were they looking for?
8. What kind of people would steal children and sell them into slavery as a law-enforcement tactic? Was this done with the Alliance's tacit permission? Or was this a side business of Jing Jing Bei's? Do we even have evidence that money changed hands?
9. Does the Alliance have the equivalent to today's Mann Act and if so, how is it enforced? (Maybe Di Lan Jeun can answer that one for us).
10. Why can't the campaign archivist find a translation for Shiny in Chinese that sounds/looks like Jahn? TPO Arden, please help.

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