I think keeping his orders a secret until Chirrut’s comment about killing would work even better in an edit where we see that Cassian is willing to kill people in cold blood from his first scene.
I could see either approach working well. I’ll have to think about it I guess. Good conversation, you guys.
In my edit, I did keep in the initial Cassian scene because of the removal of his “kill Galen orders” early on, changed the hyperdrive scene so Jynn motivates them going to Eadu, and then learning about “kill orders” en route.
However with Burbin’s approach … it improves on this greatly since we still keep the mystery and learn things as she does.
Of course you may or may not keep the initial Cassian scene, but I just love the flow, the motivation of Jynn and the mystery of the orders that get confirmed as she sees it. Heck, he admits it all right after and Draven confirms it in the briefing room. Works so well.