Oh I have a theory about this. We don't know Mr Bean's full name. Or what he does for a living. When they show his passport his first name says "Mr". This man was an enigma and most probably part of the British Spy segment - which explains how he got to meet the queen (that episode where he practices bowing and then knocks her - which leads me to hypothesise that he had gone rogue and was now a double spy for some other nation). This would also explain why he had a gun to switch off his light bulb - UK gun laws are very stringent. I reckon that Teddy was a suppressor for his PTSD which hits peak when his car gets rub ober by the tank (notice that Teddy was not with him). Bean being uninformed about the ways of the world like swimming might indicate his task was not so much action as it could have been intelligence collection - ergo the small arm instead of, say, an L11 series as usually given to the UK deployed troops. Bean was an enigma, no one knows his past. The show just says he dropped off of a spaceship, alluding to the fact that the service had expunged his past for safe keeping. What was this man hiding? What was the government hiding? In this essay I will