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Originally posted by rallem:
This is where Mal went to save her from the Operative? In one of the deleted scenes it was made quite clear that Inara was disappointed in the direction of the Companion Program...

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Originally posted by mal4prez:
My take, though I doubt it matches Joss's plans, (cause those were so deeply buried and the clues so indirect that who really knows?) is that there was indeed some kind of scandal. But I don't see it as coming from the House. It's surely an interesting idea! But I see Inara as so very proud of her status as a Companion that I don't see any source of badness in the Guild. Not that she knows of anyway. It's certainly possibly that she was betrayed somehow and doesn't know it...

Anyhow, instead of saying that another Companion set Inara up for a scandal, how about Inara involving herself in one? She seems to have a different character than most Companions - Joss said somewhere that Shindig's purpose was partly to show that she felt more at home on Serenity than in "her own world," which is the high society of the party. Adn I like the idea that she's not perfect, that she may have screwed up, instead of being a perfect Companion, so perfect that others were jealous...


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hmm-burble-blah, blah-blah-blah, take a left

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Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:
Inara may have screwed up royally and was exiled as punishment, more than likely involving a client or some one powerful and not another Companion?

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Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:
Also, the Guild is the keeper of lots of secrets, political, financial and personal. Who know what is spilled between the sheets. That would give the Guild as a whole a lot of power and if the Guild or a Companion were to misuse the information (not necessarily Inara)just imagine the damage that could be done to a person, business or even the political structure.

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Originally posted by Platonist:
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that Inara has a history of getting caught up in scandal. Nothing ever goes right for her.

She leaves Shinon, runs into Mal, helps harbor the Tams (fugitives), her best friend dies after she shows up to help, she leaves Serenity (her home) and runs into the Operative, Mal comes, a mess ensues, she is on the ship that exposes a mega size scandal. Not to mention all the enemies she racked-up on her year long stay on Serenity. Anyone else see a pattern?

And, how does she deal with adversity? She RUNS, just like Mal, until Miranda.

She may not cause the mayhem, but she always seems to have an unwilling part in it.

Companion or not, she is a misfit, in her own world, just like everyone else on Serenity.

Who needs illness or age theories when you have all this? So, I don't buy into any of those either.

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Originally posted by Platonist:
Oh, you and me both, I love frazzled Inara, all that meditation and tea, she relies on to calm herself and her clients.

Her serving tea and sex, what a load of go se. I've never known a man that wants tea, including my husband, who is extremely educated and refined... Jack Daniels, maybe, but not fracking tea.

What? I offered you tea! It's hilarious. The writers must have been cracking-up.

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Originally posted by nbz:
and another point - On Miranda she had no choice. If she did have a choice, would she have run? I think so.)

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Originally posted by nbz:

In not filmed scenes from The Message, she was supposed to have received a small box, which she was very worried over opening. (this was probably dropped because Firefly was over - no point leaving another loose end - so it is not in any filmed versions, just the shooting script.) Is that linked to her supposed exile?

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Originally posted by nbz:

There are loads of question here. For instance, why did she choose Serenity? a boat where the owner did not think much of her job and even insulted her while showing her the shuttle?

Was that desperation, or had he been recommended? in either case, why? also "by whom?" for the latter.

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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
In case it wasn't seen, I'll inject the possibility of records forgery in this thread.
In Tthe Train Job, she tells Book she's been aboard 8 months.
In Bushwhacked, the Commander says she shipped out with serenity a year ago. This creates a timeline conflict.
Perhaps she needed her records to show she was not at Madrassa House in the last few months when she was, and therefore needed to find a disreputable ship and crew who would not snub their noses at fudging the paperwork. Therefore the Offical Records show she was aboard Serenity a year, when she may have only been 8 or 9 months.
This may have also been around the time her Companion Exam was due - coincidence or cause?

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