Went back and watched S2E08 "Stuff To Steal, People to Kill". Alt-Truffault captures our Raza, with Two & Three onboard the other ship having subdued Wexler, Tash, and Corso. Portia & Boone are under lockdown on our Raza. Truffault is defeated by Two sending Android 2.0 over to overide the Raza's systems. Truffault is allowed to return to her ship and leaves. Android 2.0 brings Two & Three back and Portia and Boone are released, informed that their comrades are tied up in their mess hall. A brief passage of time goes by, allowing for the captured blink drive to be installed. The gang returns to their universe where they are shocked by the Alt Marauder detaching and FTL'ing away.
Now at the time, I naturally assumed that Portia was informed (by her Android) that the trio had tried to kill her-granted, this doesn't occur onscreen, so naturally the last thing I'd expect is for her or Boone to have anything to do with them...the trio sneaking on the Marauder after P & B returned made the most sense. There wasn't enough time for them to talk their way out of Portia's vengence, and for all of them (sans Corso) to decide their life would be better if they left for another reality. Would she really let Corso have her ship too?
Okay, there are two premises there I can think of challenges to. One, we don't know that installing the blink drive would be brief. It was only the second time they'd done that procedure, and since the first one had gone wrong, it stands to reason that they would've taken extra care to get it right this time. So that could've taken a couple of hours, easily.
Two, we're talking about a fully evil version of the
Raza crew. This is probably far from the first time they've tried to kill each other. So Portia and Boone probably wouldn't make much of an issue out of it -- they'd just rely on their own alertness and intimidating-ness to hold the others' murderous impulses at bay, as they presumably were already doing beforehand.
Or maybe Portia came to them and said "Look, we all want to kill each other, but there's a bigger opportunity for all of us if we work together and hitch a ride back to that other universe." It still isn't clear what their actual motivation for doing so was, besides continuing to be a factor in the narrative, but whatever it is could've been enticing enough to get them to set aside their differences. (Maybe they think they can get away with more in a universe where anything they do will be blamed on the other
Raza. Or maybe, since the war is further along in their universe, there's less intact stuff to pirate, plus they can get a leg up on events that haven't happened yet.)
As for the nanite issue, the episode had Two watching a news feed reporting about an attack on Dwarf Star Technologies, with Rook having been killed, so we can guess she got hers upgraded before Two needed to.
Really? I missed that. You'd think that would've warranted some sort of reaction from her -- it's a pretty big deal, storywise.
The end with the Android, Mallozzi and company enjoy misdirecting us alot. Thinking that Sara might be trying to leave her virtual lair is causing the robot to malfunction probably won't be answer to what we saw. More angst for the crew, don't they have enough already?
One possibility: Sara is using the Android's body to move around in reality, and is thinking of maybe killing Three so that he'll have to have his mind uploaded into cyber-afterlife and be with her forever. Although that's something that would only work if he were in a cryopod and Five were on hand to transfer his data, so maybe that's not it. Or maybe that's why she didn't go through with it.
is an uprated model as well.Maybe Two stole her and the ship from the research station which gave her the nanites.
