Serenity Page #3

Simon!

- You son of a whore.

- I'm a hair's breadth...

...from riddling

you with holes, Doctor.

- One simple job! She'll be fine!

- She is fine!

Except for being still crazy,

she's a picture of health!

Wasn't for River, we'd probably be

left there. She felt them coming.

Never again.

You understand me?

Seems I remember a talk about

you giving orders on my boat.

Well, we're off your boat.

Just as soon as River

gets her share of the bounty.

- Let's not do anything hasty...

- No, shiny!

We'll be on Beaumonde

in 10 hours' time...

...you can pick up your earnings

and be on your merry.

Meantime, you do your job.

Patch up my crew.

He didn't lie down.

They never lie down.

No, I think things will glide

a deal smoother for us...

...without River

and Simon on board...

...but how long

do you think they'll last?

Doc made his call.

Yeah.

They's as babes in a basket

when we took them in.

We sheltered them plenty.

Man has to cut loose,

learn to stand on his own.

Like that man back in town?

I had to shoot him.

What Reavers would've done

before they killed him...

I know.

That was a piece of mercy.

But before that, him begging

us to bring him along.

We couldn't take the weight.

Would've slowed us down.

- You know that for certain?

- Mule won't run with five.

I should've dumped the girl?

Or you? Or Jayne?

Oh, Jayne...

You could've tossed the

payload. Tossed the...

Zoe, I got bits falling off my

ship, I got a crew ain't been paid...

...and, oh, yeah, a powerful need

to eat sometime this month.

We tell Fanty and Mingo

we skunked the job...

...what do think

they'll do to us?

We're close to gone out here.

We get a job,

we got to make good.

Sir, I don't disagree

on any particular point.

It's just...

...in the time of war, we would've

never left a man stranded.

Maybe that's why we lost.

That was close.

I do not get it.

How's a guy get so wrong?

Cutting on his own face,

raping and murdering.

I'll kill a man

in a fair fight...

...or if I think he's gonna

start a fair fight...

...or if he bothers me,

or if there's a woman...

...or if I'm getting paid. Mostly

only when I'm getting paid.

These Reavers,

the last 10 years...

...they show up like

the boogeyman from stories.

Eating people alive?

Where does that get fun?

Shepherd Book said

they was men who just...

...reached the edge of space,

saw a vasty nothingness...

...and went

bibbledy over it.

Oh, hell.

I've been to the edge.

Just looked like more space.

I don't know.

It can get awful lonely

in the black.

Like to get addlepated ourselves,

we stay on this boat much longer.

Captain will drive

us all off, one by one.

Just like Simon and River.

Just like Inara.

Kaylee, are you ever going

to put that capture down?

We got to have records

of everything, Inara.

A bona fide companion entertained

clients on this very ship.

In this very bed.

Well, I can't do my work here.

And I don't think

the Captain approves.

The Captain

wants you to stay...

That man doesn't know what he

wants. I don't have time to...

Don't talk to the barkers,

talk to the captains.

You look the captain in the eye.

Know who you're dealing with.

I wish there was...

You shouldn't

ought to be so clean.

It's a dead giveaway you don't

belong, you always got to be tidy.

Don't pay anybody in advance.

And don't ride in anything

with a Capissen 38 engine...

...they fall right

out of the sky.

Kaylee.

River, do you want

to stay with them?

It isn't safe.

No.

I fear it isn't safe anymore.

For them.

...only survivors

of the massacre apparently...

locked themselves in

the train station vault.

Kaylee, this is a place of business.

We can talk about Simon when...

When he's

four worlds away?

Or the Alliance gets a hold

of him and River?

That ain't my worry.

I got to finish this job

and get us another one.

Can't do that

carrying those two.

How can you be so cold?

Captain didn't

make them fugitives.

But he could

have made them family.

Instead of keeping Simon

from seeing I was there.

When I carried such a torch,

when we could've...

We're going on a year now, I ain't

had nothing twixt my nethers...

...weren't run on batteries.

Oh, God! I can't know that!

I could stand

to hear a little more.

If you had a care

for anybody's heart...

You knew

he was gonna leave.

We never been but a way

station to those two.

And how do you know

what he feels?

He's got River to worry on but

he still could've shown you...

If I truly wanted

someone bad enough...

...wouldn't be a thing in the'verse

could stop me from going to her.

Tell that to Inara.

Domestic troubles?

Domestic troubles?

'Cause we don't

wanna interrupt.

A man should keep

his house in order.

Fanty. Mingo.

- He's Mingo.

- He's Fanty. You're Mingo.

- How is it you always know?

- Fanty's prettier.

Feel to do some business?

Endeavors.

Quite a crew you've got.

Yeah, they're

a fine bunch of reubens.

How you keep them on that

crap boat, is the subject...

...of much musing

between me and Fanty.

- We go on and on.

- So I'm noticing.

Is there a problem

we don't know of?

You got a sweet take

kissing your foot.

How's about you take your 25%,

we can talk about the next job?

Well, our end is 40,

precious.

- My muscular buttocks it's 40.

- It is...

...as of now.

Find anyone around

going cheaper...

Find anyone

around going near...

...a sorry lot like you

in the first instance.

You're unpredictable, Mal.

You run when you ought to fight.

Fight when you ought to deal.

Makes a businessperson

a little twitchy.

Miranda.

Hey! A tussle!

Jayne.

Do you know that girl?

I really don't.

Gorrammit, girl, it's me!

May I see her?

I believe you've got

some storytelling to do.

What in the hell happened

back there?

Start with the part where Jayne

gets knocked out by a 90-pound girl.

'Cause I don't think

that's ever getting old.

- Do we know if anyone was killed?

- It's likely.

I know she meant to kill me

before the Doc put her out.

Which, how exactly

does that work anyhow?

It's a safe word.

The people who helped me

break River out...

...had intel that River and the

other subjects were being...

...embedded with

behavioral conditioning.

They taught me a safe word...

...in case something happened.

- Not sure I get it.

It's a phrase

that makes her fall asleep.

- If I speak the words...

- Don't say it!

It only works on her, Jayne.

Well, now I know that.

"In case something happened. "

You feel to elaborate on

what that something might be?

- They never said what...

- And you never did ask.

Get your hands off...

Eight months. Eight months,

you had her on my boat...

...knowing full well

she could go monkeyshit...

...at the wrong word.

You never said a thing.

I brought her out here

so they couldn't get to her.

- I don't even know what they...

- My ship!

My crew!

You had a gorramn

time bomb living with us!

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