Theory: Was Jimmy even the first guy to go nuts on a Pony Express freighter and crash it? It seems disturbingly plausible that he wasnâtâŚ
I was thinking about this line as well as the fact that all PE captains are given a gun in case of a mutiny - not handcuffs, not a holding cell, not a taser or a tranquilliser. A real gun. It all seems to imply that PE ships are such miserable, stressful and sanity draining environments that, in the past, many other ships have also experienced cases of âcabin feverâ and have had one, or even multiple, crew members trying to kill each other in their madness.
As seems to be the case with this sort of thing, PE just disposed of these employees in the most literal, and permanent, way they could, then preformed the corporate equivalent of slapping a band-aid on a gaping, infected, wound by ordering the medical staff - who seem to be barely qualified as medics given that a PE medical degree is worthless outside of the company - to provide the crew with very basic psychological evaluations (not support - just evaluations) and banning all the âluxuryâ items to punish everyone else.
While we know that Jimmy feels the evaluations are pointless, and doesnât take them seriously, but heâs not the only one who thinks that way (heâs just the most vocal). Curly just seems to view them as a sort of formality that just needs to be âover and done withâ as quickly as possible, and I doubt Swansea ever took much stock in them.
Besides, even if Jimmy had been completely honest in his evaluation, and admitted he was having violent urges and dissociative episodesâŚthere was still nothing Anya could offer him that could seriously help him: Anya was training to be a nurse - but sheâs not a qualified psychiatrist, the psych-reports certainly werenât going to reach anyone who could help (sheâd clearly been on multiple hauls with the three of them and nothing came of her old reports) and she had no real tools or support available to deal with a situation like this.
Given how frequently entire cargo shipments apparently just âdisappearâ, as mentioned by the creators in a Q&A, it gives the impression that some mentally ill PE employee hijacking or crashing the ship theyâre on isnât that rare of an occurrenceâŚ
