vacantlook
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Maybe. And not saying that wasn't a possible intention, but to me that would be totally unnecessary. From where I sit, the Fed guy from the first episode could have been "Joe average Alliance undercover agent." There was nothing really significant about him. Bringing him back in a later episode wouldn't really be of any benefit over just having some other Fed agent.
Oh, I agree that he was rather miscellaneous in the episodes he was in, and I'm not sure if I would bother trying to bring him back were I writing the show, but I can see how his character could become obsessed with hunting down and capturing Malcom for his having shot him and dumped him on the moon with his presence in the pilot being a bit of a birth of a vendetta, if you will. I wish I could remember if it was in the commentary track for "Serenity" that they said the wrote his character's conclusion in part two to give themselves the ability to bring him back, or if it was something I read somewhere; I can't remember which.
If I could only have one of the two characters reoccur, I most definitely would want it to be the bounty hunter in "Objects In Space".
The fed was named Laurence. The bounty hunter was named Jubal Early.