Episode 509: Joshua Drake, This Is NOT Your Life ... , Special Features
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GALLERY OF GUEST STARS
- Cmdr. Jonathan Cabot Wise - Cmdr. of Brigantine Upsilon class IAV Aceso
- Woman aka The Psychiatrist - The Woman with No Name, possibly a psychiatrist, who 'interviewed' the crew aboard IAV Aceso.
SHIP SPOTTING
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
- What happened to Lt. Cmder. Rex Wise? Is he still alive? Is he being held somewhere by Blue Sun? Or was he executed and disposed of to maintain Joshua's cover during the Borrowing? Or was Wise executed after the op went south and Joshua ran? That being the case, how culpable is Joshua for the man's death? How can he make things right?
- Cmdr. Wise ran a DNA test on Joshua. The test results match Rex Wise's DNA. Is this because Blue Sun hacked the biometric database on Rex Wise as part of Joshua's cover during the Borrowing? If so, why didn't they change the data back to the original once Joshua ran? Or did they restore the record only to have it destroyed with the Colchester op and the results Cmdr. Wise used for comparison was the back-up data that had somehow not been restored to its original state by Blue Sun?
- Is it possible Cmdr. Wise lied about the DNA test? Was it an interrogation technique to get Joshua and the others to confess? If so, confess to what?
- Cmdr. Wise seemed pretty set on an agenda: prove Joshua was his son Rex Wise, who had been kidnapped, drugged, altered via brain surgery, and brainwashed into believing he was someone else. Why? Was it just a parent's paranoia? Or was there another reason? Did he believe his son held secret information that others were willing to do all those things in order to gain it?
- Why would brain surgery of the type done on Joshua be effective in making someone divulge secret information? Wouldn't the subject run the risk of brain damage and be unable to recall the information sought? Why go through such an elaborate battery of surgery, drugs, and psychologica/emotional manipulation to retrieve that information when there are other quicker and less physically invasive means by which to obtain it? Truth serum is one example. Having a Reader deep scan the subject is another. Given those options, why would anyone use such a round about and risky method?
- Lt. Cmdr. Rex Wise was a military scientist attached to the Scientific Investigation branch of the Alliance military. If he was involved in a secret operation that required him to pick up a shipload of Reavers on IAV Trafalgar, what was the purpose of the Reavers and where was Rex Wise supposed to take them? The IAV Trafalgar was being decommissioned. It would have two towers of unused space--or possibly more--in which to contain them and conduct whatever studies or experiments the Reavers were destined for. That's assuming they would remain on IAV Trafalgar. If they were supposed to go somewhere else, why have them leave the ship they were on at all? Why not refuel the ship and continue on to their ultimate destination? And once they got there, what was going to be done with them? Military experiments? Super soldiers? Population pacifism? What?
- Because BLue Sun had Joshua Borrow Rex Wise, that must mean Blue Sun wanted to steal the shipment of Reavers out from under their owners. Why? Was it to cover up the fact that they had made the Reavers? Or did they have other plans for the Reavers? And since Joshua failed to deliver the Reavers to Blue Sun, did Blue Sun find more Reavers by other means? And what were those other plans?
- What convinced the fleet to leave suddenly? We came across IAV Aceso’s docking crews decoupling our ship…without telling us. Does this mean the Cmdr intended to cut our ship loose but keep us aboard?
- The Mystery Woman who came to Joshua and asked him for help—she said that something would come up that would make it easier for him to leave. Did she engineer the fleet deployment? Common sense would insist that she merely knew when the fleet would deploy and recognized it as a chance for Joshua to get free—no maneuvering on her part necessary. Even so, how did she expect Joshua to escape? He was locked in his room and had no key. If he could not escape, it would only be a matter of time before the note she slipped him would be found and she would be discovered.
- She warned Joshua to avoid thinking of their meeting. That implies the fleet has at least one Reader—aside from her own assertion that she is like Joshua. Of course, she said she is like Joshua—but that doesn’t mean she’s a Reader. Joshua is a lot of things: a person suffering from amnesia, a person held against his will, a person who is mistaken for someone else, a person running from something.
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