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Nandy!
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Nandy!
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Get inside.
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Go.
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- We ain't open for business.
- Shut up, whore.
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You we don't trade with at all,
Rans Burgess.
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You're no longer welcome.
You've been told that.
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I've been told a great many things.
I'm here for what's mine.
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Ain't nothing here belongs to you.
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You don't get gone, we'll be well
within our rights to drop you.
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Only rights you got
are the ones I give you.
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- Find the girl!
- She ain't here.
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Girl left this moon more than a month
ago. It was you chased her off.
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Petaleen!
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It's a good thing you haven't left
with my baby.
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- This baby ain't yours.
- So you keep saying.
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If this DNA is a match with mine...
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...know I will be back for my baby.
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And if I have to,
I'll cut it out of you.
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All right, now, it'll all work out.
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- He'll do it too. He'll do what he says.
- No, he won't. We won't allow it.
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How we gonna stop him?
- We'll get help, that's how.
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Help? There's not a soul on this moon
go up against Rans Burgess.
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She's right.
Ain't nobody strong enough.
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And even if there was,
who'd help us?
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Hi.
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Sorry.
Didn't mean to startle you.
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You didn't.
I was just-
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That's more like a, it's a warrior-like,
strikes fear into the hearts of...
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You know, not altogether wise,
sneaking up on a fellow...
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- ... when he's handling his weapon.
- Sure. I've heard that said.
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But perhaps the dining area
isn't the place for this sort of thing.
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What? It's the only place
with a table big enough.
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Of course.
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In that case,
every well-bred petty crook knows...
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...small, concealable weapons always
go to the far left of the place setting.
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Got a distress call coming in.
Some folks asking for help.
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Really? Folks asking for help
from us petty crooks.
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- Well-
- I should take that right away.
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Well, it's for her.
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Huh?
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The call's for Inara.
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- I'll take it in my shuttle.
I'll send it there.
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This distress
wouldn't happen to be...
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...taking place in someone's pants,
would it?
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And I got word
you were in the area.
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I'm imposing,
but I got no one else to ask.
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It sounds like something
this crew can handle.
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I can't guarantee they'll handle it
particularly well, but...
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- If they've got guns and brains at all...
- They've got guns.
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Payment won't be a problem.
We just ain't equipped for this.
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- Nandy, it's gonna be all right.
- The house would tell you not to come.
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I know they ordered you to shun me
when I left.
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I would have waived you long ago.
It's just...
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It doesn't matter.
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Who'd have thought
we'd end up way out here?
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Who'd have thought?
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- Let me know what your people say?
- Of course.
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I'll wait to hear from you.
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And you.
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I suppose you heard most of that.
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Only because I was eavesdropping.
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- Your friend sounds like she's in trouble.
She is.
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And there's no authority on that moon
she can go to. They're totally alone.
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Some men
might take advantage of that.
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One man.
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She's looking for someone
to come and explain things to him?
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That's essentially it, yes.
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A whole houseful of companions.
How are they fixed for payment?
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They're not companions.
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They're whores.
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Thought you didn't care for that word.
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It applies.
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They're not registered with the guild.
They're-
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- Independent?
Yes.
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If you agree to do this
you'll be compensated. I'll see to it.
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- I've put a little aside-
- Keep your money.
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I won't be needing no payment.
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Mal.
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Thank you.
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I'll contact Nandy at once.
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But you will be paid.
I feel it's important that we keep ours...
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...strictly a business arrangement.
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- I'll speak with the crew.
Good.
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Those who have a mind
are welcome to join.
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Those who'd just as soon
stay on the ship can do that too.
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Don't see the benefit,
getting involved...
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...in a stranger's troubles
without an up-front price.
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These people need assistance. The
benefit wouldn't necessarily be for you.
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- That's what I'm saying.
- No one's gonna force you to go.
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As stated,
this job is strictly speculative.
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Good. Don't know these folks,
don't care to.
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- They're whores.
- I'm in.
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Wash, plot a course.
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That's the whorehouse?
- Yes.
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How come it looks
like a frozen dinner pack?
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Solar sheeting.
Cheap power.
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Hope the whores
are prettier than the house.
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- Nandy, darling.
It's so good to see you.
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You look wonderful.
You look exactly the same.
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- How do you do that out here?
Sheer force of will.
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- This is Malcolm Reynolds.
- I appreciate your coming.
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Well, any friend of Inara's is a strictly
business-like relationship of mine.
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This is my first mate, Zoe.
I'll introduce you to the rest later.
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- Can I start getting sexed already?
- Well, that one's kind of horrific.
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Can we talk business?
- In here. The rest of you...
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...there's food and some liquor at
the sideboard. Make yourselves at home.
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Look, they got boy whores.
Isn't that thoughtful?
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- I wonder if they service girl folk at all?
- Let's not ask.
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Isn't there a pregnant woman
to examine?
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You'd really lie
with someone being paid for it?
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Well, it's not like anyone else
is lining up to, you know, examine me.
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Whoo! My John Thomas is about
to pop off and fly around...
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...there's so much tasty in here!
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Would be you'd get your most poetical
about your pecker.
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- You'd be the doctor?
- Yes.
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- This is Petaleen.
- Yes, sir.
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She's feeling a might weak
right now.
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- Well, let's get you lying down.
- Now that's a plan.
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- Shepherd?
- No, thank you.
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We were hoping we might
have a prayer meeting.
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We ain't had one in months, except
what Emma here reads out on Sundays.
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The last shepherd to come by was
springtime, he only read one passage.
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And he took it out in trade
off both of us.
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Everyone's got somebody.
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Wash, tell me I'm pretty.
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Were I unwed,
I would take you in a manly fashion.
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- Because I'm pretty?
- Because you're pretty.
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I take it
reason doesn't enter into this.
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Not with Rans Burgess.
The man is a taker.
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- You think the kid is his?
- I think it's Petaleen's.
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But the blood test.
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Well, he did favor Petaleen
pretty exclusively, but she had others.
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Fifty-fifty, not that it matters.
The man ain't fit to raise a cactus plant.
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His barren prairie shrew
can't bear him an heir...
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...so he takes it into his head
to pull it out of us. Not gonna happen.
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- I see that's the case.
- And you see the way we live here.
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Go into town, it's the same.
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Some places come up rustic because
they ain't got more than basics.
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Rans Burgess has money enough
to build a city, a real community.
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Keeps people living like this
so he can play cowboy...
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...be the one with the best toys. Turn
this moon into a gorram theme park.
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Someone stands up to him...
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He means to burn me out.
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Yeah, he sounds like a fun guy.
I'd like to meet him.
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This won't be solved with talk.
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When I'm gonna fight a man,
it helps to size him up.
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- Well, he'll be at the theater tonight.
- And so will I.
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Inara. Think you can stoop
to being on my arm?
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Will you wash it first?
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So I told the boy, "You take a clean
woman's virtue, you take the woman.
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And that's for life! "
And the boy said his vows right then.
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Took very little persuading
on my part.
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It's nice to know there's some places
left where old-fashioned...
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...values still mean a thing.
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- Isn't that right, dear?
- Mm.
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- I don't think I know you.
- Name's Malcolm, Malcolm Reynolds.
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And might I just say,
she is quite a beauty.
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Well, thank you.
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Ever had occasion to handle
one of these, Mr. Reynolds?
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Silk trigger, active return bolt laser.
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- It's lighter than it looks.
- Don't let that fool you.
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Won't find technology like that
short of Alliance.
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And even their issues
don't have the auto-target adjust.
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I had that crafted special.
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Didn't think weapons such as this
were generally legal. For a private owner.
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My husband makes a distinction between
legality and morality, Mr. Reynolds.
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- I've said that myself.
- Bending one unjust law is small...
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...when it comes to protecting
one's family.
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- I think I understand you.
- And as you say, she is a beauty.
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She sure is.
Of course, I was referring to the lady.
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Ma'am.
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Yes?
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- Well?
- Well what?
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You said you wanted to look him
in the eye. You've done that.
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- So, what's the plan?
- We get back to Serenity...
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...and we get off this rock
just as fast as we can.
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And there can be no mistake?
Good.
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- Rans?
- The DNA matches.
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The child is mine.
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We run.
Math just don't add up.
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Our weapon stores
aren't exactly overpowering...
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...and I don't much like
what we'd be up against.
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Nothing worse than a monster
who thinks he's right with God.
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I turn Burgess away once
and he'll keep coming.
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Won't stop
till he gets what he thinks is his.
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- So we run.
- I understand, Capt. Reynolds.
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You have your people to think of,
same as me. And this ain't your fight.
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I don't believe you do understand,
Nandy. I said we run. "We. "
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My people, your people, and whatever
bits of precious you got in this house...
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...you can't bear to part with.
We load up Serenity...
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...and we leave Burgess in the dust.
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It took me years to cut this piece
of territory out of other men's hands...
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- ... to build this from nothing.
- Nandy-
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It's who I am, and it's my home.
I'm not going anywhere.
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He'll kill you. He'll kill every last
one of them, it comes to that.
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- And he'll sleep well that night.
- Rans Burgess is just a man.
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And I won't let any man
take what's mine.
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I doubt you'd do different
in my position.
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Well, lady, I must say...
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...you're my kind of stupid.
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Hell, he ain't expecting
much of a fight.
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Might be we catch him
with his drawers low.
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He'll probably ride in by daylight.
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00:14:26,768 --> 00:14:30,772
But I figure, three-point watch,
say four-hour shift...
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- ... just to be on the safe side.
- Three-point, Four-hour...
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- ... should do it.
- I'm fair handy with a hammer.
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That so, Shepherd?
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Been following the footsteps
of a carpenter some time now.
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I can do something
about our fortifications.
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Okay, then.
We start shooting...
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...he'll most like try to burn us out,
save sweat and bullets.
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00:14:53,128 --> 00:14:55,964
- Nandy, what's the water supply like?
- Underground well.
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Pump that draws it up's antiquated,
but don't break down.
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00:14:59,008 --> 00:15:01,052
Kaylee, think you can swing
an upgrade?
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I'll talk to Serenity,
see what she's got.
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- Good. We might-
- Starting!
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- And that it is, but time-
- Dr. Tam?
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Oh, it's starting!
Okay!
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Okay, it's starting!
All right.
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Everybody relax, be calm.
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Nobody panic!
Everything's gonna be okay!
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- I got this one, captain.
- Thanks. Okay.
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Okay, then.
Let's get to work, people!
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The girls and I
have been talking, Shepherd.
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We've been discussing what we'd like
said over us if we should fall.
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No.
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I only bury the dead, child.
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No one here's gonna die.
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There's people gonna die.
231
00:16:04,449 --> 00:16:07,452
And with people dying,
comes guts and screaming.
232
00:16:07,660 --> 00:16:10,914
That can bring on screwed-up behavior,
a person ain't used to it.
233
00:16:11,081 --> 00:16:14,876
When the time comes, most important
thing, keep your wits about you. Clear?
234
00:16:16,252 --> 00:16:17,921
All right.
235
00:16:18,088 --> 00:16:21,049
These are my favorites.
You're to keep them coming.
236
00:16:21,257 --> 00:16:25,762
I shoot, I run out, you hand me
the next biggest one, and so on.
237
00:16:26,638 --> 00:16:29,516
- Is there an understanding here?
- Yes.
238
00:16:30,100 --> 00:16:32,143
Alrighty then, let's get to work.
239
00:16:37,649 --> 00:16:40,610
All I'm saying is that we're living
in the rough and tumble...
240
00:16:40,777 --> 00:16:44,197
- ... and don't see that changing soon.
- Nor do I.
241
00:16:44,364 --> 00:16:48,493
Not sure now is the best time to bring
a tiny, helpless person into our lives.
242
00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,287
That excuse
is getting a little worn, honey.
243
00:16:51,913 --> 00:16:54,582
It's not an excuse, dear.
It's objective assessment.
244
00:16:54,749 --> 00:16:57,293
I can't help that it stays relevant.
245
00:16:57,794 --> 00:17:01,339
I don't give a good gorram
about relevant, Wash. Or objective.
246
00:17:01,548 --> 00:17:05,844
And I ain't so afraid of losing something
that I ain't gonna try to have it.
247
00:17:06,094 --> 00:17:09,389
You and I would make
one beautiful baby.
248
00:17:09,556 --> 00:17:12,600
And I wanna meet that child
one day.
249
00:17:13,309 --> 00:17:14,978
Period.
250
00:17:19,983 --> 00:17:22,861
Y'all are pulling,
not squeezing like I said.
251
00:17:23,027 --> 00:17:26,740
Next one don't hit that board
is giving up a special treat.
252
00:17:27,949 --> 00:17:30,702
That man's gonna use up
our credit before we've earned it.
253
00:17:30,869 --> 00:17:33,705
After you've saved our lives,
you can do some chores maybe.
254
00:17:33,872 --> 00:17:37,459
- I'm a fair hand with a mop.
- So your legend tells.
255
00:17:37,625 --> 00:17:40,920
Truth is, I expected more of you
to be taking payment in our trade.
256
00:17:41,087 --> 00:17:43,423
Well, we're not a conglomeration.
257
00:17:43,590 --> 00:17:46,760
Got a preacher, married fella,
and the doctor...
258
00:17:46,926 --> 00:17:50,722
...well, he'd have to relax
for 30 seconds to get his play.
259
00:17:50,889 --> 00:17:52,849
That'd be more or less a miracle.
260
00:17:53,016 --> 00:17:55,101
These are fetching pieces.
Any of them work?
261
00:17:55,268 --> 00:17:58,772
Don't got many rounds for the
chaplain there, but the rest'll be of use.
262
00:17:59,439 --> 00:18:03,234
- This is my favorite.
- What's its history?
263
00:18:03,443 --> 00:18:05,612
Violence and crime, sad to say.
264
00:18:05,779 --> 00:18:08,073
- What about you?
- Similar.
265
00:18:08,698 --> 00:18:12,952
No, I mean when are you planning
to avail yourself of some of our trade?
266
00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:18,291
- My girls is clean and kind-spirited.
- Well, I got the job on my mind.
267
00:18:18,958 --> 00:18:21,503
After, I'm sure I'll trade.
268
00:18:21,711 --> 00:18:24,130
They're a fine bunch.
269
00:18:24,297 --> 00:18:28,635
You ain't looked at one of them as long
or loving as you looked at those pistols.
270
00:18:28,802 --> 00:18:31,096
You're not sly, are you?
Because I got my boys.
271
00:18:31,304 --> 00:18:32,931
Sly? No.
272
00:18:33,098 --> 00:18:36,851
I lean toward women folk.
Just, one thing at a time.
273
00:18:37,060 --> 00:18:39,104
Never liked complications.
274
00:18:39,270 --> 00:18:41,022
Oh, I'm certain of that.
275
00:18:42,857 --> 00:18:47,278
- Something to be smiling at?
- I trained as a companion, remember?
276
00:18:47,445 --> 00:18:51,574
- I read people pretty well.
- Well, that's nice for you.
277
00:18:51,741 --> 00:18:54,160
She's a hell of a woman, ain't she?
278
00:18:54,327 --> 00:18:55,620
Inara.
279
00:18:55,787 --> 00:18:58,748
Yeah, she's a cherry blossom,
no denying.
280
00:18:58,915 --> 00:19:01,876
Expect you know her better,
coming up together and all.
281
00:19:02,043 --> 00:19:05,547
Imagine I do.
She ever tell you why she left Soonal?
282
00:19:06,756 --> 00:19:09,300
- Never asked.
Yes, you did.
283
00:19:09,509 --> 00:19:13,471
And I don't know my own self.
I was gone long before.
284
00:19:13,638 --> 00:19:18,017
And I'll tell you, it was a shock,
her leaving. She was special.
285
00:19:18,685 --> 00:19:22,272
There's 40 women in House Madrassa,
and you'd pick her out in a second.
286
00:19:22,439 --> 00:19:24,816
Could've been House Priestess,
few years' time.
287
00:19:24,983 --> 00:19:27,861
- Is that right?
- Had her eyes on it too.
288
00:19:28,027 --> 00:19:30,321
Very focused.
289
00:19:31,114 --> 00:19:33,700
She's like you, more than a little.
290
00:19:34,367 --> 00:19:36,995
And how exactly is that?
291
00:19:37,996 --> 00:19:40,457
She hates complications.
292
00:19:42,834 --> 00:19:45,170
They do crop up though,
don't they?
293
00:19:45,336 --> 00:19:47,422
Such is life.
294
00:19:51,718 --> 00:19:54,137
You're not completely dilated yet.
295
00:19:54,345 --> 00:19:57,474
Don't try to force it,
the contractions are still preliminary.
296
00:19:57,682 --> 00:20:00,769
- What's he saying?
- It's gonna be a little while, sweetie.
297
00:20:00,935 --> 00:20:02,270
But it hurts!
298
00:20:02,437 --> 00:20:04,522
This child wants to be born,
I know it!
299
00:20:04,731 --> 00:20:06,608
Can you get the green vial
from my bag?
300
00:20:06,816 --> 00:20:08,860
We can dull the pain some.
301
00:20:09,736 --> 00:20:11,863
How many babies
have you actually delivered?
302
00:20:12,030 --> 00:20:15,533
As a primary, this'll be the first.
You?
303
00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:18,328
- My first too.
- Mine too.
304
00:20:22,123 --> 00:20:25,627
- It's gonna be a long night.
- You'll do great, doctor.
305
00:20:27,629 --> 00:20:30,298
Who do you think is in there?
306
00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:35,053
It was the dulcimer.
307
00:20:36,096 --> 00:20:38,264
The dulcimer
drove you out of Soonal?
308
00:20:38,932 --> 00:20:41,309
Did you kill a dulcimer
in a terrible passion?
309
00:20:41,518 --> 00:20:42,811
Actually, yes.
310
00:20:42,977 --> 00:20:47,148
And now that dulcimer's family
is out to get even, I get it.
311
00:20:47,816 --> 00:20:49,025
I was at practice.
312
00:20:49,192 --> 00:20:52,237
You never stop practicing, you know,
not a true companion.
313
00:20:52,445 --> 00:20:57,409
Some baroque piece,
and the instructor keeps saying:
314
00:20:57,575 --> 00:21:00,203
"You're playing it, not feeling it. "
315
00:21:00,370 --> 00:21:03,873
And the fifth time he said it,
I took the damn thing and smashed it.
316
00:21:05,125 --> 00:21:08,211
And that's when it occurred to me
that a companion's life...
317
00:21:08,378 --> 00:21:11,297
...might be a little too constricting.
318
00:21:11,756 --> 00:21:16,678
So I trucked out to the border, learned
to say "ain't. " Came to find work.
319
00:21:16,845 --> 00:21:18,930
Found this place.
320
00:21:19,431 --> 00:21:21,391
It's a nice place.
321
00:21:21,558 --> 00:21:27,313
It was a dung-heap run by a pig who
had half the girls strung-out on drops.
322
00:21:28,314 --> 00:21:29,607
There's no guild out here.
323
00:21:29,774 --> 00:21:32,944
They let men run the houses,
and they don't ask for references.
324
00:21:33,111 --> 00:21:34,779
We didn't get along.
325
00:21:35,655 --> 00:21:37,949
And where's he at now?
326
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,580
Let's just say he ain't playing
the dulcimer anymore either.
327
00:21:50,128 --> 00:21:52,380
You are a remarkable woman.
328
00:21:53,006 --> 00:21:55,091
If you don't mind my saying.
329
00:21:57,177 --> 00:22:01,055
Well, as long as it's you saying it
and not my fine rice wine.
330
00:22:01,264 --> 00:22:04,934
It takes more than a few drinks
to render my judgment blurry.
331
00:22:05,602 --> 00:22:07,270
What about you?
332
00:22:07,437 --> 00:22:11,191
- Am I getting any prettier?
- By the minute.
333
00:22:20,075 --> 00:22:22,368
I should make sure
everyone's ready for-
334
00:22:22,577 --> 00:22:24,537
Everyone's asleep.
335
00:22:24,746 --> 00:22:27,248
Well, there's them that can't...
336
00:22:27,415 --> 00:22:29,417
...night before a fight.
337
00:22:31,044 --> 00:22:32,796
Can you?
338
00:22:33,004 --> 00:22:35,006
- What?
- Sleep.
339
00:22:39,552 --> 00:22:42,263
Listen, Nandy,
I have a confession to make.
340
00:22:42,430 --> 00:22:44,808
Maybe I should get the Shepherd.
341
00:22:44,974 --> 00:22:47,352
Well, I ain't sinned yet.
342
00:22:47,519 --> 00:22:50,730
And I'd feel a little more than awkward
if he were here when I did.
343
00:22:50,939 --> 00:22:54,484
You expect to accomplish something
sinful then, do you?
344
00:22:55,819 --> 00:22:57,862
If I'm overstepping my bounds,
let me know.
345
00:22:59,739 --> 00:23:03,827
Malcolm, I've been waiting for you
to kiss me since I showed you my guns.
346
00:23:08,706 --> 00:23:10,750
You okay with this?
347
00:23:11,501 --> 00:23:14,254
I'm just waiting to see if I pass out.
348
00:23:15,130 --> 00:23:17,006
Long story.
349
00:23:17,674 --> 00:23:21,010
- I want you to bed me.
- I guess I mean to.
350
00:23:21,177 --> 00:23:23,138
I ain't her.
351
00:23:26,307 --> 00:23:29,185
Only people in this room
are you and me.
352
00:23:31,646 --> 00:23:33,773
So my child...
353
00:23:34,023 --> 00:23:37,527
...how long has it been
since your last confession?
354
00:23:37,944 --> 00:23:40,989
- Longer than I care to say.
- You remember where everything goes?
355
00:23:41,156 --> 00:23:44,659
Let's just say
I plan to take it real slow.
356
00:24:23,239 --> 00:24:26,910
So the whore's got herself a champion,
has she?
357
00:24:27,202 --> 00:24:31,414
- This great man got a name?
- Reynolds. Malcolm Reynolds.
358
00:24:32,290 --> 00:24:34,709
Yes, I've met the man.
359
00:24:34,876 --> 00:24:37,587
- How many has he got with him?
- Just a few.
360
00:24:37,754 --> 00:24:40,423
And only two real fighters
besides himself.
361
00:24:40,632 --> 00:24:43,718
But they got the girls stirring
for a battle.
362
00:24:44,135 --> 00:24:46,888
I certainly wasn't expecting
a battle.
363
00:24:48,056 --> 00:24:51,601
Seems the Heart of Gold's
got itself a few mercenaries.
364
00:24:51,768 --> 00:24:54,312
Guess we best
call the whole thing off.
365
00:24:57,774 --> 00:25:01,361
Earned yourself quite a bag of silver,
little kitten.
366
00:25:01,528 --> 00:25:06,449
But I got a few more chores in mind
before you get it.
367
00:25:06,783 --> 00:25:08,618
I'm ready.
368
00:25:09,911 --> 00:25:12,038
Now, Shahri here...
369
00:25:12,205 --> 00:25:15,708
...she understands a whore's place,
don't she?
370
00:25:15,875 --> 00:25:19,629
But Nandy and those others,
they spit on our town.
371
00:25:20,296 --> 00:25:26,553
They've no respect for the sanctity
of fatherhood or decency or family!
372
00:25:26,761 --> 00:25:33,184
They have my child, held hostage to their
decadent ways, and that I will not abide!
373
00:25:33,935 --> 00:25:36,062
We will show them what power is!
374
00:25:36,271 --> 00:25:40,024
We will show them
what their position in this town is!
375
00:25:40,650 --> 00:25:46,531
Let us all remember, right here and now,
what a woman is to a man!
376
00:25:52,287 --> 00:25:54,664
Get on your knees.
377
00:26:34,913 --> 00:26:37,791
- Well.
- I just had to...
378
00:26:37,957 --> 00:26:41,002
...tell Nandy about...
379
00:26:41,211 --> 00:26:42,504
About time to...
380
00:26:43,671 --> 00:26:45,632
- Big fight today.
- Mal, please.
381
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:47,675
No, well, I, no...
382
00:26:47,842 --> 00:26:49,469
You know, I was up, I got-
383
00:26:49,677 --> 00:26:52,639
So you took to bed with Nandy.
I'm glad.
384
00:26:53,598 --> 00:26:55,433
- Glad?
- Yes.
385
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,395
She's a dear friend,
and probably in need of comfort now.
386
00:26:59,062 --> 00:27:00,480
Well...
387
00:27:00,647 --> 00:27:03,566
One of the virtues of not being
puritanical about sex...
388
00:27:03,733 --> 00:27:07,070
...is not feeling embarrassed afterwards.
You should look into it.
389
00:27:07,237 --> 00:27:09,739
Well, I just didn't want
you thinking...
390
00:27:10,323 --> 00:27:13,076
...that I was taking advantage
of your friend.
391
00:27:13,243 --> 00:27:16,996
She's well worth taking advantage of.
I sincerely hope you did.
392
00:27:17,163 --> 00:27:19,207
So you're okay.
393
00:27:19,374 --> 00:27:23,002
Well, yeah, why wouldn't you be?
394
00:27:23,211 --> 00:27:25,964
I wouldn't say I'm entirely okay.
395
00:27:26,589 --> 00:27:29,551
I'm a little appalled at her taste.
396
00:28:12,135 --> 00:28:14,304
Wash, you there yet?
397
00:28:14,471 --> 00:28:15,722
All but.
398
00:28:15,889 --> 00:28:18,183
- Nice day for a last stand, eh?
Nope.
399
00:28:18,391 --> 00:28:20,477
Plan to make a few stands after this.
400
00:28:20,643 --> 00:28:22,937
Just hoping for air support
from your quarter.
401
00:28:23,104 --> 00:28:25,899
Couple of low flyovers,
engines tipped earthward at full-blast.
402
00:28:26,107 --> 00:28:29,861
Should give our guests something other
than killing you to think about.
403
00:28:30,028 --> 00:28:31,863
What I like to hear. Out.
404
00:28:32,447 --> 00:28:35,784
Malcolm seem a little funny to you
at breakfast this morning?
405
00:28:35,950 --> 00:28:37,702
Come on, Kaylee.
406
00:28:37,869 --> 00:28:40,121
We all know I'm the funny one.
407
00:28:44,042 --> 00:28:46,169
You ladies and gentlemen
all locked and loaded?
408
00:28:46,336 --> 00:28:48,171
- Yes, sir.
- Good. Remember...
409
00:28:48,338 --> 00:28:52,550
...shoot the man, not the horse. Dead
horse is cover. Live horse, pile of panic.
410
00:28:52,717 --> 00:28:55,637
Now, girl, that is just plain dirty.
411
00:28:55,804 --> 00:28:57,764
You are aware your radio's transmitting.
412
00:28:57,931 --> 00:29:01,184
Because I don't feel particularly girlish
or dirty at the moment.
413
00:29:01,351 --> 00:29:06,606
Yeah, just up here waiting, captain.
Ready, 100 percent.
414
00:29:06,773 --> 00:29:09,109
Better be.
415
00:29:14,197 --> 00:29:15,865
You're stronger than this thing.
416
00:29:16,032 --> 00:29:17,826
I can feel it in your grip.
417
00:29:18,034 --> 00:29:19,452
Petaleen, look at me.
418
00:29:19,661 --> 00:29:21,663
This is just a moment in time.
419
00:29:21,871 --> 00:29:24,290
Step aside and let it happen.
420
00:29:25,250 --> 00:29:28,795
- How is she, doctor?
- She's at 10 centimeters. Not long now.
421
00:29:36,553 --> 00:29:39,180
Inara, I thought
it was just him that...
422
00:29:41,766 --> 00:29:44,310
Nandy, believe me, I'll be fine.
423
00:30:15,884 --> 00:30:17,343
Morning.
424
00:30:17,510 --> 00:30:20,346
- How are you doing?
- A might tense.
425
00:30:20,513 --> 00:30:23,475
I'd like you on the balcony with me.
See everyone from there-
426
00:30:23,641 --> 00:30:27,145
- You didn't give me the whole truth.
- About what?
427
00:30:27,312 --> 00:30:29,564
About her feelings for you.
428
00:30:29,731 --> 00:30:33,943
- I really don't know-
Looks like imminent violence!
429
00:30:51,711 --> 00:30:54,005
Zoe, Jayne, you seeing this?
430
00:30:54,672 --> 00:30:56,299
Gotta be 30 men out there.
431
00:30:56,466 --> 00:30:59,302
Confirm that.
Plus a mounted gun on that hovercraft.
432
00:30:59,511 --> 00:31:01,930
What's that you said
about running for it?
433
00:31:02,097 --> 00:31:03,556
Okay, folks!
434
00:31:03,765 --> 00:31:07,602
We got no shortage of ugly riding in
on us. But that don't change the plan.
435
00:31:07,769 --> 00:31:10,939
Anybody goes down, drag them
to the back and get back to shooting.
436
00:31:11,106 --> 00:31:14,150
Only way to help them's
to finish this.
437
00:31:27,831 --> 00:31:31,209
Wash, we'll be trading
injuries in under two minutes.
438
00:31:31,376 --> 00:31:33,086
I'd like my sky a bit less empty.
439
00:31:33,253 --> 00:31:34,796
Copy that, Mal. We-
440
00:31:55,275 --> 00:31:56,568
Open her up!
441
00:31:57,819 --> 00:31:59,154
Cover!
442
00:32:19,257 --> 00:32:21,676
Jayne, I do believe
that's our first hurdle.
443
00:32:21,885 --> 00:32:23,762
You might-
444
00:32:25,013 --> 00:32:26,765
I think I might, captain.
445
00:32:26,931 --> 00:32:28,141
Fire!
446
00:32:46,701 --> 00:32:48,620
What have I done?
447
00:32:58,004 --> 00:32:59,130
Go!
448
00:33:03,676 --> 00:33:06,721
Wash! Where the hell is my spaceship?
449
00:33:20,568 --> 00:33:25,031
Rotten lasers!
Book! Zoe! Second hurdle!
450
00:33:38,044 --> 00:33:40,046
That's it, Petaleen.
One more push.
451
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,675
That's the shoulders!
452
00:33:43,883 --> 00:33:45,552
Good!
453
00:34:04,779 --> 00:34:07,574
Jayne?
I lost visual on Burgess!
454
00:34:08,366 --> 00:34:10,160
Same here.
455
00:34:26,301 --> 00:34:28,178
Take to right!
456
00:34:36,895 --> 00:34:37,937
Whoo-hoo!
457
00:34:38,146 --> 00:34:40,231
Hey! There he is! Get him!
458
00:34:42,692 --> 00:34:44,360
Come on, let's get him!
459
00:34:53,119 --> 00:34:55,246
Try the other side!
460
00:34:58,374 --> 00:34:59,417
Got you!
461
00:35:01,002 --> 00:35:02,087
Open this door!
462
00:35:02,253 --> 00:35:04,756
Nobody's going...
463
00:35:08,009 --> 00:35:09,677
...anywhere.
464
00:35:12,013 --> 00:35:13,932
- It's-
- It's a boy. Healthy.
465
00:35:16,768 --> 00:35:18,061
Good morning, Petaleen.
466
00:35:18,228 --> 00:35:19,562
How's my boy?
467
00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:31,908
No!
468
00:35:38,873 --> 00:35:40,166
Rans.
469
00:35:40,333 --> 00:35:42,877
Most of your men are either dead,
dying or run off.
470
00:35:43,044 --> 00:35:45,839
That don't matter none.
I got what I came here for.
471
00:35:46,464 --> 00:35:49,551
- Ain't leaving here with it.
- This is my blood, woman!
472
00:35:49,717 --> 00:35:51,928
No! This is your blood!
473
00:35:52,846 --> 00:35:55,098
Now you hand that child over
nice and slow...
474
00:35:55,306 --> 00:35:57,517
...or I'll spill
more than you can spare.
475
00:37:23,103 --> 00:37:26,564
- You're gonna pay for what you've took.
- She was just a whore!
476
00:37:36,908 --> 00:37:39,911
Petaleen! You bring my baby out
right now!
477
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,915
You hear me?
I wanna see my son!
478
00:37:54,801 --> 00:37:57,345
Rans, this is Jonah.
479
00:37:58,304 --> 00:38:01,850
Jonah, say hi to your daddy.
480
00:38:06,146 --> 00:38:08,815
Say goodbye to your daddy, Jonah.
481
00:38:11,526 --> 00:38:13,987
Go on!
Go on home!
482
00:38:17,782 --> 00:38:19,492
You go with them.
483
00:39:21,638 --> 00:39:23,848
I think those girls'll do all right.
484
00:39:24,849 --> 00:39:26,976
She taught them well.
485
00:39:27,143 --> 00:39:28,812
Yeah.
486
00:39:34,567 --> 00:39:37,946
I'm glad you were with her,
her last night.
487
00:39:38,154 --> 00:39:40,365
- I am.
- Yeah, well, I ain't.
488
00:39:42,992 --> 00:39:45,245
Hell, I wish I never met her.
489
00:39:45,412 --> 00:39:47,163
Then I wouldn't have failed her.
490
00:39:47,831 --> 00:39:49,874
That wasn't the way of it.
491
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,378
That's a kindness.
492
00:39:53,670 --> 00:39:56,756
But nothing you say
will convince me different.
493
00:39:58,258 --> 00:40:00,343
Well, I'm still glad.
494
00:40:03,972 --> 00:40:05,890
So you weren't before?
495
00:40:11,855 --> 00:40:13,523
Inara.
496
00:40:16,484 --> 00:40:18,778
I ain't looking for anything
from you.
497
00:40:18,945 --> 00:40:20,905
I'm just...
498
00:40:22,073 --> 00:40:26,369
Just feeling
kind of truthsome right now.
499
00:40:27,454 --> 00:40:29,080
And, uh...
500
00:40:30,415 --> 00:40:34,252
And life's just too damn short
for ifs and maybes.
501
00:40:34,627 --> 00:40:37,172
I learned something from Nandy.
502
00:40:37,881 --> 00:40:40,592
Not just from what happened,
but from her.
503
00:40:41,593 --> 00:40:43,553
The family she made...
504
00:40:44,429 --> 00:40:47,682
...the strength of her love for them,
it's what kept them together.
505
00:40:51,436 --> 00:40:53,313
When you live...
506
00:40:54,272 --> 00:40:56,775
...with that kind of strength...
507
00:40:57,859 --> 00:40:59,486
...you get tied to it.
508
00:41:00,945 --> 00:41:02,906
You can't break away.
509
00:41:03,073 --> 00:41:05,533
And you never want to.
510
00:41:07,952 --> 00:41:09,704
There's something...
511
00:41:11,581 --> 00:41:15,376
There's something I should have done
a long while ago.
512
00:41:16,461 --> 00:41:18,338
And I'm sorry...
513
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,174
...for both of us,
that it took me this long.
514
00:41:26,638 --> 00:41:28,515
I'm leaving.