Serenity Page #2

Just loading her up.

Those grenades?

Yeah, Captain

doesn't want them.

Jayne, we're robbing the

place. We're not occupying it.

Kaylee!

Kaylee, what in the sphincter

of hell are you playing at?

We got the primary

buffer panel coming right...

Everything's shiny, Captain.

Not to fret.

You told me those entry couplings

would hold for another week!

That was six months ago,

Captain. My ship don't crash.

If she crashes,

you crashed her.

Doctor.

Guess who needs to get innocked

before we hit planet-side.

Bit of a rockety ride.

- Nothing to be worried about.

- I'm not worried.

Fear is nothing to

be ashamed of, Doctor.

This isn't fear.

This is anger.

Well, kind of hard to tell one

from the other, face like yours.

Well, I imagine if it were

fear, my eyes would be wider.

I'll keep a lookout

for that next time.

You're not taking her.

No, no, this is not a thing I'm

interested in talking over with...

She's not going with you,

and that's final.

I hear the words "that's final"

come out your mouth ever again...

...they truly will be.

This boat is my home.

You all are guests on it.

Guests?

- Now, I earned my passage, Captain...

- And it's time...

...your little sister learned

from your example.

I have earned my passage...

...treating bullet holes,

knife wounds, laser burns.

Some jobs are more

interesting than others.

And you want to put my sister

in the middle of that.

Didn't say "want".

Said "will".

It's one job, Doc.

She'll be fine.

She's a 17-year-old girl.

- A mentally traumatized 17...

- She's a reader.

Sees into the truth

of things.

Might see trouble before it's

coming. Which is of use to me.

And that's your guiding star,

isn't it? What's of use.

Honestly, Doctor, I think we may

really crash this time anyway.

Do you understand

what I have gone through...

...to keep River away

from the Alliance?

I do, and it's a fact

we here have been courteous...

...enough to keep

to our own selves.

- Are you threatening to...

- I look out for me and mine.

That don't include you

less I conjure it does.

You stuck a thorn in the Alliance's

paw. That tickles me a bit.

But it also means I got to step

twice as fast to avoid them...

...and that means

turning down plenty of jobs.

Even honest ones.

Put this crew together with

the promise of work...

...which the Alliance makes

harder every year.

Come a day there won't be

room for naughty men like us...

...to slip about at all.

This job goes south,

there well may not be another.

So here is us,

on the raggedy edge.

Don't push me,

and I won't push you.

Zoe, Wash gonna straighten this

boat out before we get flattened?

Like a downy feather, sir.

No one flies like my mister.

River.

I know.

We're going for a ride.

Hey, little one.

Understand your part

in all this?

Do you?

This is what I do, darling.

This is what I do.

Let's move, people.

Quit fiddling. Want the boat

running smooth when we get back.

- Have faith, Captain.

- Not today.

Pair of clips

in the rear hatch.

We should hit town

right during Sunday worship.

Won't be any crowds.

If Fanty and Mingo

are right about the payroll...

...this could look to be

a sunny day for us.

River, stay behind the others.

If there's fighting,

drop to the floor or run away.

It's okay

to leave them to die.

Doctor, I'm taking your sister

under my protection here.

If anything happens to her,

anything at all...

...I swear to you

I will get very choked up.

Honestly.

There could be tears.

Don't mind the Captain none, Simon.

I know he'll look out for her.

They'll be back

before you can spit.

Well, not that you spit.

What are we hoping

to find here...

...that equals

the won'th of a turd?

Security payroll. Alliance

don't have the manpower...

...to "enforce the peace"

on every outer-rim planet.

They hire out to the private

firms, who will not work for credit.

They get paid in cashy money,

which once a month rests here.

Don't that lead back to

the Alliance, anyhow?

No private firm would ever report

the theft of their own payroll.

They'd appear weak,

might lose their contract.

Yeah, we're as ghosts in this.

Won't but rattle the floor.

Shiny. Let's be bad guys.

Hands and knees and heads

bowed down! Everybody, down!

Looks like this is the place.

You all wanna be looking very

intently at your own belly buttons.

I see a head start to rise,

violence is going to ensue.

Probably guessed we mean

to be thieving here...

...but what we're after

is not yours.

So let's have

no undue fussing.

She's locked up.

Do you know what

the definition of a hero is?

Someone who gets

other people killed.

You can look it up later.

Big happy family.

At last. We can retire and

give up this life of crime.

You all are Browncoats, eh?

Fought for independence?

Petty thieving

ain't exactly soldiers' work.

War's long done. We're all

just folk now. Listen up!

We are coming down

to empty that vault!

You have to give me

your authorization password!

Okay.

I'm telling you I heard it.

Repeater.

Did sound somewhat like gun blast.

Maybe you ought run tell Lawman.

What the hell is up?

You all right?

What's going on?

Reavers.

The leg is good. It'll bleed plenty

and we avoid any necessary organs.

I was thinking

more of a graze.

No, you don't want it

to look like you gave up.

No, I get that.

Mal!

Every heist, he's got

to start yelling my name.

Mal! Reavers!

The girl's pitching a fit. They're

here or they're coming soon.

Get on the Mule.

- Does that lock from the inside?

- Yes.

Get everyone upstairs. You get

them down here and you seal it.

As long as you got air you

don't open up, you understand?

Get them inside the vault!

- You see them?

- Zoe, take the wheel!

Anybody see them?

Take me with you!

Get back in the vault with

the others.

- I can't stay here! Please!

- It's too many. Move ahead.

Please!

Faster! Faster!

Faster would be better!

How come they ain't

blowing us out the air?

They wanna run us down.

The up-close kill.

They want us alive

when they eat us.

Boy, sure would be nice if we had

some grenades, don't you think?

- Wash, baby, can you hear me?

- We're moments from air.

- You got somebody behind you?

- Reavers.

Kaylee!

Heat her up. We got Reavers.

- We're not gonna get to you in time.

- Keep moving, honey.

We're coming to you.

- Where's my clips?

- Rear hatch.

I won't get ate!

You shoot me if they take me!

Well, don't shoot me first!

Get some distance on them.

You come to the flats,

I want you to swing round.

We're gonna try

a Barn Swallow.

Simon! Open her up!

They're closing on us!

Those rocks,

give them a taste.

Okay, baby,

we talked this through.

Talking ain't doing.

- River?

- I swallowed a bug.

- Are you okay?

- Is he okay?

We all here?

What's going on?

Hello?

No casualties.

- Anybody following?

- Nice flying, baby.

That's a negative.

Clean getaway.

Set course for Beaumonde.

First thing, I want this body...

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