Serenity Page #6

This is us, at Haven,

and here's Miranda.

All along here, that empty space

in between, that's Reaver territory.

They just float out there,

sending out raiding parties.

Nobody ventures there.

Not even the Alliance.

You go through that, you're

signing up to be a banquet.

I'm on board with our standard

run-and-hide scenario.

And we are just about...

Wait.

- Doesn't look like Reavers.

- Wasn't.

Shepherd?

Shepherd?

Shepherd Book?

Get the Doc.

Shepherd.

- Don't move.

- Won't go far.

Shouldn't have been you.

Alliance should've hit us.

Should've hit me.

That crossed my mind.

- I shot him down.

- Yeah. I see.

I killed the ship

that killed us.

Not very Christian of me.

You did what's right.

Coming from you,

that means almost nothing.

- I'm long gone.

- No, Doc will bring you around.

I look to be bored by many

more sermons before you slip.

Just don't move.

Can't order me around, boy.

I'm not one of your crew.

Yes, you are.

- River...

- Come on.

Hey.

I don't care what you

believe. Just believe it.

Whatever you...

How come

they ain't waiting?

They knowed we was coming,

how come they only sent one?

They didn't know

we were coming here.

Get on the Cortex.

Wave, Li Shen,

the Sanchez brothers...

...anyone who has ever sheltered us

after a heist. Tell them to get out.

Get out now.

I'm sorry.

If your quarry goes to ground,

leave no ground to go to.

You should have taken my offer.

Or did you think none of this

was your fault?

I don't murder children.

I do.

- If I have to.

- Why?

Do you even know

why they sent you?

It's not my place to ask.

I believe in something

greater than myself.

A better world.

A world without sin.

So me and mine

gotta lay down and die...

...so you can live

in your better world?

I'm not going to live there.

There's no place

for me there...

...any more than

there is for you. Malcolm...

I'm a monster.

What I do is evil.

I have no illusions about it,

but it must be done.

Keep talking.

You're not getting a

location trace off this wave.

And every minute you keep River

Tam from me, more people will die.

You think I care?

Of course you care.

You're not a Reaver, Mal.

You're a human man and you

will never understand how...

Get these bodies together.

We got time

for grave digging?

Zoe, you and Simon

rope them together.

Five or six. I want them laid

out on the nose of our ship.

Are you insane?

I won't desecrate

these bodies.

I don't understand. What

do you mean, the bodies...

I want you to muck up

the reactor core.

Just enough to leave a trail

and make it read like...

...we're flying without

containment, not enough to fry us.

- These people are our friends.

- Kaylee...

...you got a day's work to do

and two hours to do it.

Jayne, you and Wash hoist up the

cannon mount. Goes right on top.

Piece or two of the

other ship, stick it on.

Any place you can tear hull

without inner breach, do that, too.

We're gonna need paint.

We're gonna need red paint.

Sir...

...do you really mean to turn

our home into an abomination...

...so that we can make

a suicidal attempt...

...at passing through

Reaver space?

I mean to live.

I mean for us to live.

The Alliance won't have that,

so we go where they don't follow.

God's balls, there ain't no

way we're going out there.

Mal, think about

what you're asking.

...those Reavers'll

eat us alive...

This is how it is.

Anybody doesn't wanna

fly with me anymore...

...this is your port of harbor.

There's a lot

of fine ways to die.

I ain't waiting for the

Alliance to choose mine.

I mean to confound

these bungers.

Take my shot

at getting to Miranda.

Maybe find something I can use

to get clear of this.

So I hear a word out of any of

you that ain't helping me out...

...or taking your leave,

I will shoot you down.

Get to work.

Sir...

Just tell me

when we're close.

Wash.

Define "disappeared. "

Every reading

I'm getting says normal.

Oceans, land masses. No tectonic

instability or radiation.

- Yeah, but no power, either.

- Nothing at all?

Wait.

Something.

It might be a beacon,

but it's awful weak.

Find it.

Gravity's Earthnorm.

O2 levels check,

pressure...

If anything's wrong the

scanner's not reading it.

Well, something sure

the hell ain't right.

This ain't

no little settlement.

We flew over at least a

dozen cities just as big.

Why didn't we ever

hear about this?

Beacon's up ahead.

Ho.

No entry wounds,

fractures.

Poison?

Got another one.

They's just sitting here.

They didn't crash.

Kaylee. Don't...

How come these ones

are preserved?

Place must've gone hermetic

when the power blew.

- Sealed them.

- What are they doing?

What's everybody doing?

There's no unusual

discoloration.

Nobody's doubled over

or showing signs of pain.

There's gasses

that kill painless, right?

They didn't fall.

None of them.

They just lay down.

Make them stop.

They're everywhere.

Every city, every...

Every house, every room,

they're all inside me.

I can hear them all,

and they're saying nothing!

Get up.

Please get up.

Please, God,

make me a stone.

She is starting

to damage my calm.

- Jayne.

- She's right!

Everybody's dead.

This whole world is dead

for no reason!

Let's get to the beacon.

This is the source?

This ship's banged up

all to hell.

These are just a few of

the few images we've recorded.

And you can see...

...it isn't what we thought.

There's been no war here...

...and no terraforming event.

The environment is stable.

It's the Pax.

The G-23 Paxilon Hydroclorate that

we added to the air processors.

It was supposed to calm the

population, weed out aggression.

Well, it works.

The people here

stopped fighting.

And then they stopped

everything else.

They stopped going to work...

...they stopped breeding,

talking, eating.

There's 30 million people here, and

they all just let themselves die.

I have to be quick.

About a tenth

of a percent of...

...the population had the

opposite reaction to the Pax.

Their aggressor response

increased beyond madness.

They have become...

Well, they've killed

most of us.

And not just killed...

...they've done things.

Reavers. They made them.

I won't live to report this,

but people have to know.

We meant it for the best...

...to make people safer.

God!

Turn it off.

- River.

- I'm all right.

I'm all right.

This report is maybe

Parliament buried it, and it

stayed buried till River dug it up.

This is what

they feared she knew.

And they were

right to fear...

...because there's a whole universe

of folk who are gonna know it, too.

They're gonna see it.

Somebody has to speak

for these people.

You all got on this boat

for different reasons...

...but you all come

to the same place.

So now I'm asking more of you

than I have before.

Maybe all.

Sure as I know anything I

know this, they will try again.

Maybe on another world, maybe

on this very ground swept clean.

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