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Over here.
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Bull's-eye.
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- Yes!
- Too tall, too tall.
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- Jayne!
- Little man!
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Yes!
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Come on, old man.
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- Right behind you.
- Yeah!
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Hello.
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- Who's winning?
- I can't really tell.
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They don't seem to be playing
by any civilized rules that I know.
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Well, we're pretty far
from civilization.
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- How's your sister?
- She's good. Better.
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She has her days.
And she still won't talk about...
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...what they did
to her at the academy.
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Perhaps she's not sure herself.
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Open.
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Good eye. Good eye!
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She dreams about it.
I know that much.
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Nightmares.
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And now on the run,
on this ship...
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...I don't know if I'll be able to help her
here, and I need to help her.
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Simon, you are.
Leaving your whole world behind?
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It's incredibly selfless.
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Yeah.
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I selflessly turned us both
into wanted fugitives.
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We're all running from something,
I suppose.
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Proximity alert.
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- We must be coming up on something.
- Oh, my God.
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What can it be? We're all doomed.
Who's flying this thing?
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Oh, right, that would be me.
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Back to work.
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So I guess it makes us one man short.
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Yeah, little Kaylee's always
one man short.
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Say, doc, why don't you
come on down...
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...and play for our side.
Inara won't mind.
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- Wash, you have a stroke or something?
- Near enough.
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What happened?
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- Anybody home?
- Been hailing her.
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But if whoever's there is as healthy
as the guy we just ran over...
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...can't imagine anybody's
gonna be picking up.
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Bring us in closer.
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Get you close enough
to ring the doorbell.
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What is it?
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It's a ghost.
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So, what do we figure,
transport ship?
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Converted cargo hauler.
Maybe a short-range scow.
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You can see she don't wanna
be parked like that.
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The port thrust's gone and that's what's
making her spin the way she is.
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A short-range vessel this far
out into space?
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Retrofitted to carry passengers.
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Travelers pick them up at government
auction. A few modifications...
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...and they serve well enough
for a one-way push to the outer planets.
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Settlers.
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Cram 15 or 20 families on a boat
that size, you pack them in tight enough.
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Families?
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Tell you what I think.
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I figure that fella we run into
did everyone onboard. Killed them all.
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Then he took a swim, see how
fast his blood would boiI out his ears.
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You're a very up person.
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- Shouldn't we report this?
- To who? Alliance?
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Right. They're gonna run here
lickety-split...
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- ... make sure these tax-payers are okay.
- Then we'll have to.
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If they're in need of help,
why aren't they beaming a distress call?
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It's true. There's no beacon.
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Which means no one's looking
to find her.
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All the more reason for us
to do the right thing.
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How's about you just say a prayer
when we slide on by?
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Shall I remind you of the story
of the Good Samaritan?
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I'd rather you didn't.
But we'll check it out.
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Could be survivors.
And if not, well, then...
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...no one's gonna mind
if we take a look...
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...see if they left something behind.
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Yeah- No, someone could be hurt.
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Where do you think you're headed?
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I thought I'd offer my services...
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...in case anyone onboard
required medical attention.
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Well, cap and Zoe
are going in first.
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We'll holler if we need you.
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- Something wrong?
- Hm?
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Oh, no. No, I...
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Well, I suppose it's just the thought
of a little Mylar and glass...
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...being the only thing
separating a person from nothing.
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It's impressive what nothing
can do to a man.
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Like that fella we bumped into.
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He likely stuck up under
our belly about now.
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That's what space trash does,
you know...
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...kind of latches on to the first
big something stops long enough.
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Hey, now, that'd be a bit like
you and your sister, wouldn't it?
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Entering adjoining air lock now.
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Okay, Wash,
ask Serenity to knock for us.
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Emergency power's up.
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Dashboard light.
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Whatever happened here
happened quick.
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Everything was left on.
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Ship powered down on its own.
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No sign of a struggle.
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- They're just-
- Gone.
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Sir.
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Personal log.
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Someone was in the middle
of an entry.
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It's okay.
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It's okay, I'm here.
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Bad dreams again?
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No, I can't sleep.
There's too much screaming.
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River, there is no screaming.
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There was.
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Hey, grab your med kit,
let's hoof it.
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Mal wants us both over there
on the double.
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- They found survivors?
- Didn't say.
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Right.
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I'll ask Inara to look in on River.
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Whatever. I ain't waiting.
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I'll meet you there.
But don't take forever.
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Still gotta get suited up.
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Hi.
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What are you doing here,
and what's with the suit?
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You're hilarious.
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Sadist.
- All right, enough.
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Ain't got time for games.
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As long as you're here, you might as
well lend a hand. You roll with Kaylee.
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Let's be quick about this, all right?
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A few loads each. Don't be greedy.
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- Where are the people?
- Ship says lifeboat launched a week ago.
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We're gonna assume
everyone got off okay.
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We're here to pick the bones.
Start in the engine room.
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Jayne, you take the galley.
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You had this on wrong.
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Sir...
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...I count 16 families signed on.
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- Lifeboat wouldn't hold a third of that.
- I know.
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Wash, any luck?
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Think I found something that matches
that class. Layout looks about right.
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Seems to me any valuables,
if there are any...
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...likely be stored
somewhere C-deck aft.
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Good work. Keep the engine running.
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River? It's Inara.
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Are you hungry, sweetie?
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River?
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Aren't you the least bit curious?
- About what?
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Well, what happened here.
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Why would anybody abandon their ship
in the middle of nowhere like this?
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For all sorts of reasons.
Just not mechanical.
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What?
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There ain't nothing wrong with this.
Not that I can see, anyhow.
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Whew!
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Well, here's a good one.
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Hold the bag open.
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This looks to be it.
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- Locked.
- Well, now...
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...I'd say that's like
to be a very good sign.
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Here.
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Gen-seed, protein, crop supplements.
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Everything a growing family needs
to make a fresh start on a new world.
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Hard subsidies for 14-plus families.
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- That's-
- About a fortune.
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Forget the rest.
We just take this stuff.
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We're gonna need a hand
hauling it out of here.
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Sir...
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...even on a lifeboat...
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...you'd think those who escaped
would find room for some of this.
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- Nobody escaped.
- Sir?
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Nobody.
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My God.
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I know what did this.
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Get her out of here.
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Jayne? Jayne, drop what you're doing
and get to the engine room.
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I want you to take Kaylee and the doctor
off this boat. Don't ask questions.
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Jayne.
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Captain?
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Captain.
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Zoe!
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Came from above, sir.
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The galley.
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We heard shooting.
- River, what are you-?
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- I followed the voices.
- Don't ever leave the ship. Not ever.
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Okay, handle her, will you, son?
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What in- Is going on in there?
- Not now, dear.
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What'd you see?
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Didn't. It came at me from behind.
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Big, though. Strong.
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- I think I might've hit him.
- You did.
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No. No, no-
Easy, now.
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No one's gonna hurt you.
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No. No mercy. No.
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- Any more than we already did.
- No mercy.
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Well, we got lots of mercy.
We got lots and lots of-
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Oh, yes...
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...he's a real beast.
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It's a wonder you're still alive.
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Looked bigger
when I couldn't see him.
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- I wonder how long he lived like that.
- I know.
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00:17:53,009 --> 00:17:56,471
He must be real brave to survive
like that when nobody else did.
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Yeah, real hero,
killing all them people.
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What? No, we don't believe that.
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00:18:06,564 --> 00:18:08,358
We don't, do we?
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00:18:08,691 --> 00:18:11,944
Captain wouldn't have brought him
onboard were that the case.
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Pulse is rapid.
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00:18:14,072 --> 00:18:16,574
Blood pressure's high side of normal,
to be expected.
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Weak. They were all weak.
200
00:18:20,745 --> 00:18:23,831
Other than the bullet wound,
there isn't any exterior trauma.
201
00:18:23,998 --> 00:18:26,834
Though that crack to the head
probably didn't do him any good.
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Cattle.
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Cattle for the slaughter.
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Dope him.
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00:18:36,552 --> 00:18:38,680
- I don't think that-
- Just do it.
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00:18:38,888 --> 00:18:42,892
No mercy. No resistance.
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00:18:51,943 --> 00:18:56,072
Open up. See what's inside.
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00:19:04,247 --> 00:19:05,957
No mercy.
209
00:19:11,462 --> 00:19:14,173
So how's our patient?
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00:19:14,590 --> 00:19:18,678
Aside from borderline malnutrition,
he's in remarkably good health.
211
00:19:18,886 --> 00:19:20,471
So he'll live then.
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00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,099
Which, to my mind, is unfortunate.
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00:19:23,308 --> 00:19:25,268
Not a very charitable attitude, captain.
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00:19:25,476 --> 00:19:28,229
- Charity'd be putting a bullet in his brain.
- Mal.
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We'd save him the suffering.
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00:19:33,985 --> 00:19:35,820
All right, no one goes in here.
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00:19:36,404 --> 00:19:38,615
Nothing more we can do,
not after what he's seen.
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00:19:38,865 --> 00:19:40,658
What do you mean?
219
00:19:40,825 --> 00:19:43,369
The ship was hit by Reavers.
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Reavers?
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00:19:53,087 --> 00:19:55,381
Mal, how can you know?
He don't.
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00:19:55,548 --> 00:19:58,426
That's how. No way.
223
00:19:58,801 --> 00:20:00,929
It was that other fella,
the one we run into.
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Like I said before,
he went stir-crazy...
225
00:20:03,681 --> 00:20:06,059
...killed the rest,
then took a walk in space.
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00:20:06,267 --> 00:20:10,313
- Just a second ago you said that-
- Don't matter. Wasn't Reavers.
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00:20:10,521 --> 00:20:12,440
Reavers don't leave no survivors.
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00:20:12,607 --> 00:20:15,860
- Strictly speaking, wouldn't say they did.
- What are you suggesting?
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Don't matter we took him off that boat.
It's the place he's gonna live now.
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00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:22,951
I don't accept that.
231
00:20:24,118 --> 00:20:25,620
Whatever horror he witnessed...
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00:20:25,787 --> 00:20:29,832
...whatever acts of barbarism,
it was done by men. Nothing more.
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00:20:30,166 --> 00:20:31,918
Reavers ain't men.
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00:20:32,085 --> 00:20:33,544
Of course they are.
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00:20:33,711 --> 00:20:37,799
Too long removed from civilization,
perhaps, but men.
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00:20:38,174 --> 00:20:41,010
And I believe there's a power
greater than man.
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A power that heals.
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00:20:43,972 --> 00:20:46,224
Reavers might take issue
with that philosophy.
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If they had a philosophy.
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And if they weren't too busy
gnawing on your insides.
241
00:20:52,605 --> 00:20:56,109
Jayne's right. Reavers ain't men.
242
00:20:56,276 --> 00:20:59,821
Or they forgot how to be.
Now they're just nothing.
243
00:20:59,988 --> 00:21:02,824
They got to the edge of the galaxy,
that place of nothing...
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00:21:02,991 --> 00:21:05,743
- ... and that's what they became.
- Why are we sitting here?
245
00:21:05,910 --> 00:21:09,205
- If it was Reavers, we should be gone.
- Work ain't done.
246
00:21:09,372 --> 00:21:12,417
Still substantial money value
sitting over there.
247
00:21:12,584 --> 00:21:15,878
I ain't going over there
with them bodies, no rutting way.
248
00:21:16,045 --> 00:21:19,424
- Not if Reavers messed with them.
- Jayne, you'll scare the women.
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00:21:20,633 --> 00:21:22,260
I'll go.
250
00:21:23,636 --> 00:21:26,639
- I've dealt with bodies.
- I'd like to go with him.
251
00:21:27,432 --> 00:21:30,560
Maybe see what I can do
about putting those folks to rest.
252
00:21:30,768 --> 00:21:33,688
Those folks are already resting.
Reavers saw to that.
253
00:21:33,897 --> 00:21:37,233
How we treat our dead
is part of what makes us different...
254
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,236
...than those did the slaughtering.
255
00:21:44,157 --> 00:21:45,700
All right.
256
00:21:45,867 --> 00:21:47,243
You go say your words.
257
00:21:47,410 --> 00:21:50,163
Jayne, help the doctor and
Shepherd Book cut down those people...
258
00:21:50,371 --> 00:21:53,166
- ... then you'll load up the cargo.
- I don't believe this.
259
00:21:53,333 --> 00:21:55,919
- We're sitting put for a funeral?
- Yes, Jayne.
260
00:21:56,127 --> 00:21:58,379
That is exactly what we're gonna do.
261
00:21:58,546 --> 00:22:00,965
I won't have these people looking
over my shoulder.
262
00:22:01,257 --> 00:22:06,054
I ain't saying there's any peace to be
had, but on the off-chance there is...
263
00:22:06,221 --> 00:22:08,681
...those folks deserve a little of it.
264
00:22:14,437 --> 00:22:16,648
Just when I think
I've got you figured out.
265
00:22:23,530 --> 00:22:26,741
That was real pretty, captain,
what you just said.
266
00:22:26,908 --> 00:22:29,953
Didn't think you were one
for rituals and such.
267
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,872
I'm not. I figure it'll keep
the others busy for a while.
268
00:22:33,039 --> 00:22:35,041
No need to concern them
with what's to be done.
269
00:22:35,208 --> 00:22:36,251
Sir?
270
00:22:39,337 --> 00:22:41,548
It's a real burden
being right so often.
271
00:22:41,756 --> 00:22:43,842
- What is that?
- Booby trap.
272
00:22:44,008 --> 00:22:47,387
Reavers leave them for rescue ships.
Triggered it when we latched on.
273
00:22:47,554 --> 00:22:49,973
- And when we detach?
- It blows.
274
00:22:50,139 --> 00:22:52,267
Okay, so we don't detach. We just-
275
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,729
- I don't know, sit tight untiI-
- What, Reavers come back?
276
00:22:57,021 --> 00:23:00,024
Looks like they jerry-rigged it
with a pressure catch.
277
00:23:00,233 --> 00:23:02,861
It's the only thing that'd work
with these spare parts.
278
00:23:03,027 --> 00:23:06,239
We could probably bypass that easy,
we get to the DC line.
279
00:23:06,447 --> 00:23:09,033
Tell me right now, Kaylee.
You think you can do this?
280
00:23:09,367 --> 00:23:10,827
Sure. Yeah.
281
00:23:13,288 --> 00:23:14,330
I think so.
282
00:23:14,789 --> 00:23:19,002
Besides, if I mess up, it's not like
you'll be able to yell at me.
283
00:24:06,382 --> 00:24:09,010
No. No.
284
00:25:19,038 --> 00:25:20,248
What's going on?
285
00:25:20,415 --> 00:25:25,211
Well, right at this particular moment,
I'd have to say, not a thing. Right?
286
00:25:25,378 --> 00:25:28,590
- Not a gorram thing.
- Looked like a thing to me.
287
00:25:28,757 --> 00:25:32,010
Thought we had a situation,
but it looks to be taken care of.
288
00:25:32,177 --> 00:25:34,929
Let's get that merchandise put away.
289
00:25:46,649 --> 00:25:48,610
Everyone's home, Wash. Let's go.
290
00:25:51,738 --> 00:25:54,783
No, no, no. Don't you say that.
It's the Reavers.
291
00:25:54,949 --> 00:25:58,119
- The gorram Reavers come back.
- Get that stuff stored.
292
00:25:58,328 --> 00:26:01,456
- Like it's gonna matter!
Just do it!
293
00:26:04,459 --> 00:26:06,294
Reavers?
294
00:26:07,545 --> 00:26:11,424
Firefly-class transport, you are
ordered to release control of your helm.
295
00:26:11,591 --> 00:26:14,469
Prepare to dock and be boarded.
296
00:26:21,476 --> 00:26:24,437
Looks like civilization finally
caught up with us.
297
00:26:37,450 --> 00:26:39,619
No mandatory registration markings
on the bow.
298
00:26:39,786 --> 00:26:41,329
Make sure we cite them for that.
299
00:26:41,705 --> 00:26:44,874
Sir, we've identified the transport ship
they were attached to.
300
00:26:45,333 --> 00:26:48,044
It was licensed to a group
of families out of Bernadette.
301
00:26:48,211 --> 00:26:51,673
They were due to touch down in Newhall
three weeks ago. Never made it.
302
00:26:52,090 --> 00:26:54,634
Once we secure these vultures,
we'll send a team over.
303
00:26:54,843 --> 00:26:57,262
Didn't we have a flag
on a Firefly a while back?
304
00:26:57,429 --> 00:26:59,305
Check.
305
00:27:02,225 --> 00:27:06,146
Here it is. An alert issued
on an unidentified Firefly-class...
306
00:27:06,312 --> 00:27:09,649
...believed to be carrying two fugitives.
A brother and sister.
307
00:27:09,858 --> 00:27:12,110
What are they wanted for?
308
00:27:12,277 --> 00:27:14,863
It's not available. It's classified.
309
00:27:15,030 --> 00:27:17,824
40,000 of these in the air,
and that's all they give us.
310
00:27:18,116 --> 00:27:21,077
Well, I'm not about to have any
surprises on a routine check.
311
00:27:21,286 --> 00:27:23,830
We run into these two,
we shoot first.
312
00:27:23,997 --> 00:27:26,833
The brass can sort it out later.
313
00:27:29,085 --> 00:27:31,504
- What was it?
- Open the stash, pull out the goods.
314
00:27:31,713 --> 00:27:35,175
- Just got done putting it in.
- I'm telling you to take it all out again.
315
00:27:35,383 --> 00:27:37,344
- Why for?
- I got no notion to argue this.
316
00:27:37,552 --> 00:27:41,181
In about two minutes' time, this boat's
gonna be crawling with Alliance.
317
00:27:42,140 --> 00:27:43,516
No.
318
00:27:45,643 --> 00:27:48,021
- We've gotta run.
- Can't. They're pulling us in.
319
00:27:48,229 --> 00:27:50,857
If they find us, they'll send River back
to that place.
320
00:27:51,441 --> 00:27:53,651
To be tortured.
I'd never see her again.
321
00:27:53,860 --> 00:27:55,695
Stack everything here in plain sight.
322
00:27:55,904 --> 00:27:58,198
Don't want to seem
like we got anything to hide.
323
00:27:58,406 --> 00:28:00,533
Might give them boys
the wrong impression.
324
00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:03,912
- Or the right one.
- That too. Go run and fetch your sister.
325
00:28:05,538 --> 00:28:07,707
What?
326
00:28:10,251 --> 00:28:12,212
Are you gonna put her
in plain sight too?
327
00:28:12,837 --> 00:28:16,132
- Don't get touchy. Just do as I say.
- Is that why you let us stay?
328
00:28:16,341 --> 00:28:19,052
- To use us as bargaining chips?
- Knew there was a reason.
329
00:28:19,219 --> 00:28:21,554
They're not taking her.
You're not giving her to them.
330
00:28:21,805 --> 00:28:24,557
Don't be a fooI, son.
331
00:28:25,141 --> 00:28:27,018
Do as the man says.
332
00:28:47,539 --> 00:28:50,000
Well, quite a lot of fuss.
333
00:28:50,166 --> 00:28:53,837
If I didn't know better,
I'd think we were dangerous.
334
00:28:56,006 --> 00:28:58,133
- Is this your vessel?
- Bought and paid for.
335
00:28:58,300 --> 00:28:59,884
I'm Capt. Malcolm Reynolds.
336
00:29:00,343 --> 00:29:02,971
- And is this everyone, captain?
- By way of crew, it is.
337
00:29:03,179 --> 00:29:06,558
Though, in our infirmary,
you're gonna find a fella we rescued.
338
00:29:06,766 --> 00:29:09,352
Saved him, guess you could say.
339
00:29:11,062 --> 00:29:13,565
Straight through the back,
next to the common area.
340
00:29:14,733 --> 00:29:17,694
And these items,
I take it you rescued them as well.
341
00:29:32,542 --> 00:29:34,586
Looks like
an illegal salvage operation.
342
00:29:34,794 --> 00:29:37,213
It does? That's discouraging.
343
00:29:37,422 --> 00:29:39,924
Alliance property too.
You could lose your ship.
344
00:29:40,091 --> 00:29:43,345
That's a wrist-slap compared
to the penalty for harboring fugitives.
345
00:29:43,929 --> 00:29:47,140
A brother and sister. When I search
this vessel, I won't find them?
346
00:29:47,682 --> 00:29:50,060
No children on this boat.
347
00:29:50,310 --> 00:29:52,062
I didn't say children.
348
00:29:52,228 --> 00:29:55,357
Siblings. Adult siblings.
349
00:29:55,899 --> 00:29:58,026
I misunderstood.
350
00:30:00,820 --> 00:30:03,657
No chance they could've stowed away?
351
00:30:03,823 --> 00:30:05,116
No one would blame you.
352
00:30:05,325 --> 00:30:07,410
I know how these older-model Fireflys...
353
00:30:07,577 --> 00:30:09,788
...tend to have those troublesome
little nooks.
354
00:30:09,955 --> 00:30:10,997
Do they?
355
00:30:11,665 --> 00:30:15,502
Smugglers and the like tend to prefer
them just for that reason.
356
00:30:26,304 --> 00:30:30,225
We will continue this conversation
in a more official capacity.
357
00:30:30,433 --> 00:30:33,645
- I want every inch of this junker tossed.
- Junker?
358
00:30:33,853 --> 00:30:35,313
Settle down, Kaylee.
359
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,400
But did you hear what
that purple-belly called Serenity?
360
00:30:38,567 --> 00:30:40,443
Shut up.
361
00:30:58,753 --> 00:31:01,715
You are a companion.
Yes.
362
00:31:01,923 --> 00:31:04,009
And you were based
for years on Sihnon.
363
00:31:04,175 --> 00:31:07,470
It's only in the last year that
you've been with The Serenity?
364
00:31:07,679 --> 00:31:11,516
It's just "Serenity. " And that's correct.
In a few weeks, it will be a year.
365
00:31:13,184 --> 00:31:14,269
Why is this important?
366
00:31:14,477 --> 00:31:17,397
I'm just trying
to put the pieces together.
367
00:31:17,981 --> 00:31:20,817
It's a curiosity,
a woman of stature such as yourself...
368
00:31:20,984 --> 00:31:23,653
...falling in with these types.
369
00:31:24,112 --> 00:31:25,238
Not in the least.
370
00:31:25,864 --> 00:31:28,241
It's a mutually beneficial
business arrangement.
371
00:31:28,450 --> 00:31:32,162
I rent the shuttle from Capt. Reynolds,
allowing me to expand my client base.
372
00:31:32,579 --> 00:31:35,916
And the captain finds that having
a companion onboard...
373
00:31:36,082 --> 00:31:39,127
...opens certain doors that might
otherwise be closed to him.
374
00:31:39,628 --> 00:31:41,213
And you love him?
375
00:31:41,421 --> 00:31:44,174
- I don't see how that's relevant.
- He is your husband.
376
00:31:44,382 --> 00:31:45,425
Yes.
377
00:31:46,801 --> 00:31:48,762
You met through Capt. Reynolds.
378
00:31:48,929 --> 00:31:52,098
Captain was looking for a pilot.
I found a husband.
379
00:31:52,265 --> 00:31:53,475
Seemed to work out.
380
00:31:53,642 --> 00:31:56,561
- You fought with Reynolds in the war.
- Fought with a lot of people.
381
00:31:56,728 --> 00:32:00,065
- And your husband.
- Fight with him sometimes too.
382
00:32:00,732 --> 00:32:04,110
Is there any particular reason
you don't wish to discuss your marriage?
383
00:32:04,694 --> 00:32:08,073
Don't see that it's any
of your business, is all.
384
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:09,866
We're very private people.
385
00:32:10,075 --> 00:32:14,538
The legs. Oh, yeah. I'd definitely
have to say it was her legs.
386
00:32:14,788 --> 00:32:17,123
You can put that down.
387
00:32:17,332 --> 00:32:20,168
Her legs and right where her legs
meet her back.
388
00:32:20,335 --> 00:32:24,256
Actually, that whole area.
That and above it.
389
00:32:25,465 --> 00:32:28,677
Six gerstlers crammed right
under every cooling drive...
390
00:32:28,885 --> 00:32:31,263
...so you strain your
primary artery function...
391
00:32:31,429 --> 00:32:34,808
...and you have to recycle secondary
exhaust through a bypass system...
392
00:32:34,975 --> 00:32:37,727
...just so you don't pump
it through the main atmo feed...
393
00:32:37,894 --> 00:32:40,105
...and asphyxiate the entire crew.
394
00:32:40,313 --> 00:32:41,898
Now, that's junk.
395
00:32:42,190 --> 00:32:44,568
Have you seen what she wears?
Forget about it.
396
00:32:44,776 --> 00:32:47,988
Have you ever been
with a warrior woman?
397
00:33:02,169 --> 00:33:05,380
Pirates.
Pirates with their own chaplain.
398
00:33:07,007 --> 00:33:08,091
There's an oddity.
399
00:33:08,300 --> 00:33:10,927
Not the only oddity this end
of space, commander.
400
00:33:11,761 --> 00:33:14,723
We have things not always so plain
as on the central planets.
401
00:33:14,890 --> 00:33:17,392
Rules can be a mite fuzzier.
402
00:33:17,976 --> 00:33:21,313
These fugitives that we're looking for,
the brother and the sister...
403
00:33:21,688 --> 00:33:23,648
...they were last seen on Persephone.
404
00:33:23,857 --> 00:33:25,150
That a fact?
405
00:33:25,358 --> 00:33:28,487
They also left port
aboard a Firefly-class transport.
406
00:33:28,653 --> 00:33:31,364
About the same time
that you shipped out with Serenity.
407
00:33:31,781 --> 00:33:34,868
Well, Persephone's a big place.
408
00:33:35,076 --> 00:33:36,453
Yes.
409
00:33:36,620 --> 00:33:38,622
Yes, it is, and that Firefly isn't.
410
00:33:39,122 --> 00:33:43,752
And if anyone's hiding anywhere on it,
we will find them.
411
00:35:05,959 --> 00:35:09,755
So I figure by now you've been over
to the derelict, seen for yourself.
412
00:35:09,963 --> 00:35:12,090
Yes. Terrible thing.
413
00:35:14,009 --> 00:35:16,887
If you want my advice,
you won't tow it back.
414
00:35:17,137 --> 00:35:20,348
Just fire the whole gorram thing
from space, be done with it.
415
00:35:20,515 --> 00:35:24,060
That ship is evidence. I'm not
in the habit of destroying evidence.
416
00:35:24,394 --> 00:35:27,898
Of course not.
It'd be against the rules.
417
00:35:28,148 --> 00:35:30,192
I'm gonna make a leap here...
418
00:35:30,358 --> 00:35:34,112
...and figure this is your first tour
out here on the border.
419
00:35:36,281 --> 00:35:38,950
It's a very loyal crew
you have there.
420
00:35:39,117 --> 00:35:42,162
But then, I can tell
by your record you have...
421
00:35:42,329 --> 00:35:46,416
...a tendency to inspire that quality
in people, sergeant.
422
00:35:48,001 --> 00:35:51,338
It's not sergeant.
Not anymore. War's over.
423
00:35:51,546 --> 00:35:54,049
For some, the war will never be over.
424
00:35:54,341 --> 00:35:56,718
I notice your ship's called Serenity.
425
00:35:56,885 --> 00:36:02,182
You were stationed on Hara. Battle
of Serenity Valley took place there.
426
00:36:02,599 --> 00:36:04,518
You know,
I believe you might be right.
427
00:36:04,684 --> 00:36:06,853
Independents suffered
a crushing defeat there.
428
00:36:07,062 --> 00:36:09,648
Some say after Serenity,
the browncoats were through.
429
00:36:09,856 --> 00:36:12,692
The war ended in that valley.
430
00:36:13,819 --> 00:36:17,364
Seems odd you'd name your ship after
a battle you're on the wrong side of.
431
00:36:17,572 --> 00:36:19,866
May have been the losing side.
432
00:36:20,033 --> 00:36:22,744
Still not convinced
it was the wrong one.
433
00:36:25,455 --> 00:36:28,375
- Is that why you attacked that transport?
- What?
434
00:36:28,542 --> 00:36:30,502
You're still fighting
the same battle.
435
00:36:30,711 --> 00:36:33,880
Only those weren't soldiers you
murdered, they were civilians.
436
00:36:34,047 --> 00:36:37,718
Citizens trying to make a new life,
and you just can't stand that, can you?
437
00:36:37,884 --> 00:36:42,389
So we attacked that ship, then brought
the only living survivor to our infirmary.
438
00:36:42,556 --> 00:36:45,434
- Is that what we did?
- I'd ask him.
439
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,729
Only I'm not sure he can speak
with his tongue split down the middle.
440
00:36:51,148 --> 00:36:54,443
I haven't seen that kind
of torture since...
441
00:36:55,027 --> 00:36:57,195
Well, since the war.
442
00:36:57,404 --> 00:36:58,447
I should've known.
443
00:36:58,613 --> 00:36:59,990
You are bound by law.
444
00:37:00,198 --> 00:37:02,159
Formal charges will be transmitted.
445
00:37:02,367 --> 00:37:05,912
Commander, I'm not what you need
to be concerned about right now.
446
00:37:06,288 --> 00:37:09,541
If things go the way they are,
there's gonna be blood.
447
00:37:10,417 --> 00:37:12,461
- Let's start compression.
- All right.
448
00:37:12,878 --> 00:37:13,920
Get a line in.
449
00:37:26,725 --> 00:37:28,727
Reavers?
450
00:37:29,061 --> 00:37:30,687
That is what I said.
451
00:37:30,854 --> 00:37:35,025
You can't imagine how many times men
in my position hear that excuse.
452
00:37:35,192 --> 00:37:37,194
- "Reavers did it. "
- It's the truth.
453
00:37:38,278 --> 00:37:39,404
You saw them, did you?
454
00:37:39,613 --> 00:37:42,699
- Wouldn't be sitting here if I had.
- No, of course not.
455
00:37:42,991 --> 00:37:46,995
I'll tell you who did. That poor
bastard you took off my ship.
456
00:37:47,204 --> 00:37:49,623
He looked into the face of it,
was made to stare.
457
00:37:49,873 --> 00:37:52,876
- It?
- The darkness.
458
00:37:53,210 --> 00:37:56,296
Kind of darkness
you can't even imagine.
459
00:37:56,838 --> 00:37:58,882
Blacker than the space
it moves through.
460
00:37:59,091 --> 00:38:00,342
Very poetic.
461
00:38:02,302 --> 00:38:03,720
They made him watch.
462
00:38:04,137 --> 00:38:06,682
He probably tried to turn away.
They wouldn't let him.
463
00:38:07,182 --> 00:38:10,268
You call him a survivor. He's not.
464
00:38:12,896 --> 00:38:16,400
A man comes up against that kind
of will, the only way to deal with it...
465
00:38:16,566 --> 00:38:18,777
...I suspect, is to become it.
466
00:38:19,778 --> 00:38:23,657
He's following the only course left
to him.
467
00:38:24,658 --> 00:38:27,703
First, he'll try to make himself
look like one.
468
00:38:28,078 --> 00:38:31,289
Cut on himself, desecrate his flesh.
And then...
469
00:38:31,456 --> 00:38:34,126
...he'll start acting like one.
470
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,968
Let's have two MPs up here
to escort Sgt. Reynolds to the brig.
471
00:38:54,855 --> 00:38:57,024
Let's go again.
472
00:38:57,816 --> 00:38:59,568
Later.
473
00:38:59,735 --> 00:39:03,071
Maybe. Captain said
once the coast is clear...
474
00:39:03,739 --> 00:39:06,074
...we should lay low in the shuttle.
Come on.
475
00:39:06,241 --> 00:39:08,493
Coming back?
476
00:39:09,369 --> 00:39:13,373
Yes. Yes, of course he is.
They all are.
477
00:39:14,499 --> 00:39:16,251
Your ship will be auctioned.
478
00:39:16,460 --> 00:39:19,046
The proceeds will be applied
to the cost of your defense.
479
00:39:23,008 --> 00:39:24,676
Get him out of here!
480
00:39:24,885 --> 00:39:27,304
Go to full lockdown.
I want guards on the nursery.
481
00:39:27,512 --> 00:39:29,431
It won't matter. You won't find him.
482
00:39:30,265 --> 00:39:32,017
But I know where he'll go.
483
00:39:37,439 --> 00:39:39,274
Wait! No. Don't. Don't.
484
00:39:39,483 --> 00:39:41,026
River, it's okay.
485
00:39:41,234 --> 00:39:45,781
- Wait. Wait.
- They've gone. Come on.
486
00:39:46,615 --> 00:39:49,534
- Don't.
- River, it's okay.
487
00:39:50,285 --> 00:39:52,996
- Come on.
- No. Don't-
488
00:39:54,706 --> 00:39:57,417
River, you don't have to be afraid.
489
00:40:00,963 --> 00:40:02,881
Why would he come back here?
490
00:40:03,048 --> 00:40:04,967
Looking for familiar ground.
491
00:40:05,133 --> 00:40:07,386
He's on the hunt.
492
00:40:07,552 --> 00:40:10,097
All right. Let's get him to the brig.
493
00:40:10,305 --> 00:40:13,392
- No, no, no. I should go with you.
- It's out of the question.
494
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,519
How many men
you feel like losing today?
495
00:40:16,061 --> 00:40:18,939
Nobody knows Serenity like I do.
I can help you.
496
00:40:22,317 --> 00:40:24,736
We let him go first.
497
00:40:24,945 --> 00:40:26,780
Right.
498
00:40:27,072 --> 00:40:29,199
You want to...
499
00:40:44,131 --> 00:40:48,010
Thanks.
Now I'll really have the advantage.
500
00:41:03,025 --> 00:41:04,902
We don't know
how long it's going to be.
501
00:41:05,235 --> 00:41:07,404
Once we're settled,
we shouldn't move much.
502
00:41:07,613 --> 00:41:09,364
I'm just gonna grab some food.
503
00:41:12,910 --> 00:41:14,494
Someone's coming.
504
00:42:47,588 --> 00:42:50,299
You save his gorram life,
he still takes the cargo.
505
00:42:52,926 --> 00:42:54,595
He had to.
506
00:42:54,761 --> 00:42:56,889
Couldn't let us profit.
507
00:42:57,055 --> 00:42:58,682
Wouldn't be civilized.