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Originally posted by Giantevilhead:
Early's ship is very small, almost as small as the hospital shuttle in "Ariel", it's entirely possibly that there's a bigger ship waiting for him. Plus I don't think Early ever said that he was working alone. Maybe Early has an arrangement with the crew of a bigger ship similar to Inara's arrangement with Mal.

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I don't think we should assume that the bounty Early was planning to collect was offered by the Alliance.

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Following the BDM certainly there are some empty places in the crew needing to be filled.

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From the script:

While he works the controls beneath these readouts, the camera pans over to see a picture stuck to the hull near his head. A picture of River -- the one the Blue hands sported in the Train job. Around it is a warrant showing River with the legend, FUGITIVE, and at the bottom, REWARD 200,000 CREDITS, Alliance Bond Standard. WANTED ALIVE.

It's definitely an Alliance bounty.

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If Early survived his walk in space, I think he was too much of a villain and too untrustworthy to make a good fit among the crew of Serenity. In the BDM, the Operative changed his point of view and even helped put Serenity back to gether but Mal said he would shoot him if he saw him again. Early had no change in point of view and is still dangerous.

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