Marian said...
I always thought Tarrant's words meant that he could pick up Vila and
haul
him to the airlock before the others could intervene, rather than that
they
would stand by and let him kill Vila.
He says, "The others wouldn't stop me, and you couldn't could you?" It implies that he expects the others to let him get rid of Vila. I don't know if he really beleives they *would* let or if he's just trying to scare Vila into doing what he's told but either way Vila seems to believe him.
I don't think the others would have let Tarrant dump Vila but Tarrant does seem quite supried at their reaction to his bulling Vila into going down.
Leia