Quote Originally Posted by jedipilot24 View Post
I think that you underestimate Miko's self-righteousness and recklessness, especially since she was prepared to kill Roy over a false-positive.
Not quite.

Miko neglected to kill Belkar on the way back from Azure City, despite using smites on him during the fight and implying that she was authorised to use lethal force on evil suspects at her own discretion. It seems unlikely that she would have killed Belkar had he been clapped in irons from the start, before all his peers had violated terms of parole.

Also in that scenario, Belkar would not have been running around at random during the Inn scene, thereby triggering those explosives during Roy's showdown with the assassins, thereby leading to the Inn's destruction, Haley's aphasia, Miko's high-handed lecture, Roy's petty tantrum, Miko clapping the Order in irons, and possibly the emotional fallout required for the first, second and third showdown in the throne room. (Or not- Miko and the Order could still have gotten on eachother's nerves and Belkar could still have escaped his cell. It's a bit of a crapshoot.)