User blog comment:Boyariffic/I just noticed something pretty weird/@comment-24152851-20140808015122/@comment-7891699-20140811020214

Do you think it's possible they were thinking of having an evil fifth personality for Mal while making this episode? Before ROTI started, Cory was talking about a fifth personality just like Mal. So they might have been considering making a fifth personality while they were producing the fourth season and they put this in there as a subliminal little in-joke sort of speak. That would also explain why he has his hair flipped up and looks different from Mal. This cameo was a rough draft of prototype design of Mal sort of speak.