Fridge / Star Wars Rebels S2E15 "The Honorable Ones"

• Fridge Logic: So, the implication is that if the Empire shows up first, Zeb will be Kallus' prisoner, but if the Ghost crew shows up first, Kallus will be Zeb's. Zeb even tells Kallus that he'd be "treated fairly". They overlooked the obvious solution of Kallus joining the Rebellion as a defector. With his knowledge of Imperial tactics and codes, he might have been a valuable ally, and the Empire might have well believed him dead already. The Rebellion isn't a largely unified movement at this point, and probably doesn't have much in the way of a legal system for dealing with criminals or captives at this point, anyway. But the idea of Kallus joining them isn't even suggested.
  • Maybe because Zeb has no reason at this point to believe that Kallus would defect? Kallus has been a pretty callous Imperial, especially towards Zeb. Even if they'd bonded and learned neither was as white and black as they'd thought, that doesn't mean either believes the other will defect.
  • Now he has. As it turns out, it wasn't so much that Zeb didn't believe Kallus would ever defect. Rather, the thought of recruiting him never crossed Zeb's mind at all.

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