1 00:00:04,562 --> 00:00:06,996 Over here! 2 00:00:11,736 --> 00:00:14,004 Yeah! Too tall! Too tall! 3 00:00:14,204 --> 00:00:16,473 - Jayne! - Little man! 4 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,005 - Ah! - Yes! 5 00:00:25,205 --> 00:00:28,480 Come on, little man. Ha ha. 6 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:30,544 Shoot it. 7 00:00:36,461 --> 00:00:38,554 Right behind you... Yeah! 8 00:00:40,358 --> 00:00:41,078 Hello. 9 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,668 Who's winning? 10 00:00:44,868 --> 00:00:46,670 I can't really tell. 11 00:00:46,870 --> 00:00:49,998 They don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know. 12 00:00:50,198 --> 00:00:52,599 Well, we're pretty far from civilization. 13 00:00:54,412 --> 00:00:56,258 How's your sister? 14 00:00:56,458 --> 00:00:58,218 She's good. Better. 15 00:00:58,418 --> 00:00:59,979 She has her days... 16 00:01:00,179 --> 00:01:05,245 and she still won't talk about what it was that they did to her at the academy. 17 00:01:05,445 --> 00:01:07,416 Perhaps she's not sure herself. 18 00:01:07,616 --> 00:01:09,226 Open! 19 00:01:09,426 --> 00:01:11,319 Aah! Good eye! Good eye! 20 00:01:11,519 --> 00:01:15,225 She dreams about it. I know that much. 21 00:01:15,425 --> 00:01:17,827 - Nightmares. - Right behind you. 22 00:01:18,027 --> 00:01:20,229 And now, on the run, on this ship... 23 00:01:20,429 --> 00:01:24,441 I don't know if I'll be able to help her here, and I need to help her. 24 00:01:24,641 --> 00:01:26,004 Simon, you are. 25 00:01:26,204 --> 00:01:28,541 Leaving your whole world behind? 26 00:01:28,741 --> 00:01:31,275 That's incredibly selfless. 27 00:01:31,475 --> 00:01:33,083 - Nice. - Yeah. 28 00:01:33,283 --> 00:01:36,101 I selflessly turned us both into wanted fugitives. 29 00:01:36,301 --> 00:01:39,120 Well, we're all running from something, I suppose. 30 00:01:43,628 --> 00:01:45,328 Proximity alert. 31 00:01:45,528 --> 00:01:47,461 We must be coming up on something. 32 00:01:47,661 --> 00:01:49,527 Oh, my God. What can it be? 33 00:01:49,727 --> 00:01:52,860 We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing? 34 00:01:53,060 --> 00:01:54,871 Oh, right. That would be me. 35 00:01:55,071 --> 00:01:57,264 Uh, back to work. 36 00:01:57,464 --> 00:02:01,638 - That makes us one man short. - Little Kaylee's always one man short. 37 00:02:01,838 --> 00:02:02,598 Ow! Hey! 38 00:02:04,549 --> 00:02:07,712 Say, Doc, why don't you come on down, play for our side. 39 00:02:07,912 --> 00:02:09,776 Inara won't mind. 40 00:02:23,568 --> 00:02:24,568 Aah! 41 00:02:29,207 --> 00:02:31,801 Wash, you have a stroke or something? 42 00:02:32,001 --> 00:02:34,640 - Near enough. - What happened? 43 00:02:39,150 --> 00:02:41,316 Anybody home? 44 00:02:41,516 --> 00:02:44,987 I've been hailing her, but if whoever's there is as healthy as the guy we just ran over... 45 00:02:45,187 --> 00:02:47,854 I can't imagine anybody's gonna be picking up. 46 00:02:48,054 --> 00:02:49,989 Bring us in a little closer. 47 00:02:50,189 --> 00:02:53,196 Get you close enough to ring the doorbell. 48 00:02:53,396 --> 00:02:55,255 What is it? 49 00:02:59,837 --> 00:03:01,828 It's a ghost. 50 00:03:06,210 --> 00:03:09,324 ~ Take my love, take my land ~ 51 00:03:09,524 --> 00:03:12,402 ~ Take me where I cannot stand ~ 52 00:03:12,602 --> 00:03:16,076 ~ I don't care, I'm still free ~ 53 00:03:16,276 --> 00:03:19,751 ~ You can't take the sky from me ~ 54 00:03:19,951 --> 00:03:22,151 ~ Take me out to the black ~ 55 00:03:22,351 --> 00:03:24,552 ~ Tell them I ain't comingback ~ 56 00:03:25,896 --> 00:03:29,146 ~ Burn the land and boil the sea ~ 57 00:03:29,346 --> 00:03:32,596 ~ You can't take the sky from me ~ 58 00:03:41,479 --> 00:03:44,447 ~ There's no place I can be ~ 59 00:03:44,647 --> 00:03:47,415 ~ Since I've found serenity ~ 60 00:03:47,615 --> 00:03:51,177 ~ But you can't take the sky from me ~ 61 00:03:57,795 --> 00:04:00,530 So, what do we figure? Transport ship? 62 00:04:00,730 --> 00:04:04,182 Converted cargo hauler. Maybe a short-range scow. 63 00:04:04,382 --> 00:04:07,635 You can see she don't wanna be parked like that. 64 00:04:07,835 --> 00:04:12,205 The port thrust's gone, and that's what's making her spin the way she is. 65 00:04:12,405 --> 00:04:14,767 A short-range vessel this far out into space? 66 00:04:14,967 --> 00:04:16,579 Retrofitted to carry passengers. 67 00:04:16,779 --> 00:04:18,838 Travelers pick them up cheap at government auction. 68 00:04:19,038 --> 00:04:20,547 A few modifications... 69 00:04:20,747 --> 00:04:23,048 and they serve well enough for a one-way push to the outer planets. 70 00:04:23,248 --> 00:04:24,478 Settlers. 71 00:04:24,678 --> 00:04:29,249 Cram 15, 20 families on a boat that size, you pack them in tight enough. 72 00:04:29,449 --> 00:04:31,721 - Families? - Tell you what I think. 73 00:04:31,921 --> 00:04:35,261 I figure that fella we run into did everyone on board. 74 00:04:35,461 --> 00:04:37,192 Killed them all. 75 00:04:37,392 --> 00:04:40,869 Then he decided to take a swim, see how fast his blood would boil out his ears. 76 00:04:41,069 --> 00:04:43,366 You're a very "up" person. 77 00:04:43,566 --> 00:04:47,104 - Shouldn't we report this? - To who? The Alliance? 78 00:04:47,304 --> 00:04:51,906 Right. They're gonna run right out here lickety-split and make sure these taxpayers are okay. 79 00:04:52,106 --> 00:04:53,443 Then we'll have to. 80 00:04:53,643 --> 00:04:56,851 If there's folks in need of help, why aren't they beaming no distress call? 81 00:04:57,051 --> 00:05:00,613 - It's true. There's no beacon. - Which means it's likely no one's looking to find her. 82 00:05:00,813 --> 00:05:03,426 All the more reason for us to do the right thing. 83 00:05:03,626 --> 00:05:06,629 How's about you just say a prayer when we slide on by? 84 00:05:06,829 --> 00:05:09,832 Shall I remind you of the story of the Good Samaritan? 85 00:05:10,032 --> 00:05:13,163 I'd rather you didn't. But we'll check it out. 86 00:05:13,363 --> 00:05:16,295 Could be survivors, and if not, well, then... 87 00:05:16,495 --> 00:05:20,340 no one's gonna mind if we see if there's not something of value they might've left behind. 88 00:05:20,540 --> 00:05:23,676 Yeah... No, uh, someone could be hurt. 89 00:05:44,335 --> 00:05:46,326 Where do you think you're headed? 90 00:05:48,272 --> 00:05:50,263 Thought I'd offer my services... 91 00:05:51,242 --> 00:05:54,006 in case anyone on board required medical attention. 92 00:05:55,446 --> 00:05:59,177 Well, the captain and Zoe are going in first. 93 00:05:59,377 --> 00:06:02,127 We'll holler if we need ya. 94 00:06:02,327 --> 00:06:05,078 - Something wrong? - Hmm? 95 00:06:06,457 --> 00:06:09,454 Oh. No. No, I... 96 00:06:09,654 --> 00:06:13,686 Well, I suppose it's just the thought of a little Mylar and glass... 97 00:06:13,886 --> 00:06:16,460 being the only thing separating a person from... 98 00:06:16,660 --> 00:06:18,268 nothing. 99 00:06:18,468 --> 00:06:20,697 It's impressive what "nothing" can do to a man. 100 00:06:20,897 --> 00:06:22,630 Like that feller we bumped into. 101 00:06:22,830 --> 00:06:25,535 He's likely stuck up under our belly about now. 102 00:06:25,735 --> 00:06:27,707 That's what space trash does... 103 00:06:27,907 --> 00:06:30,970 kinda latches on the first big something stops long enough. 104 00:06:32,483 --> 00:06:34,148 Hey, now. 105 00:06:34,348 --> 00:06:37,410 That'd be a bit like you and your sister, wouldn't it? 106 00:07:05,182 --> 00:07:07,514 Entering adjoining air lock now. 107 00:07:12,690 --> 00:07:16,251 Okay, Wash, ask Serenity to knock for us. 108 00:07:28,973 --> 00:07:31,305 Emergency power's up. 109 00:07:31,505 --> 00:07:33,366 Dashboard light. 110 00:07:58,969 --> 00:08:01,233 Whatever happened here happened quick. 111 00:08:18,155 --> 00:08:20,146 Everything was left on. 112 00:08:22,459 --> 00:08:24,450 Ship powered down on its own. 113 00:08:26,030 --> 00:08:28,260 No sign of a struggle. 114 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,364 - They're just... - Gone. 115 00:08:40,210 --> 00:08:41,210 Sir. 116 00:08:44,415 --> 00:08:47,714 Personal log. Someone was in the middle of an entry. 117 00:09:01,532 --> 00:09:03,659 Shh, shh, shh. 118 00:09:04,969 --> 00:09:07,904 It's okay. It's okay. I'm here. 119 00:09:10,907 --> 00:09:12,709 Bad dreams again? 120 00:09:12,909 --> 00:09:16,469 I... I can't sleep. There's too much screaming. 121 00:09:21,585 --> 00:09:23,819 River, there is... 122 00:09:24,019 --> 00:09:26,079 there is no screaming. 123 00:09:27,257 --> 00:09:29,248 There was. 124 00:09:30,394 --> 00:09:32,560 Hey. Grab your med kit. Let's hoof it. 125 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,027 Mal wants us both over there on the double. 126 00:09:37,534 --> 00:09:39,468 They found survivors? 127 00:09:39,668 --> 00:09:41,470 Didn't say. 128 00:09:41,670 --> 00:09:42,190 Right. 129 00:09:43,540 --> 00:09:46,475 Uh, I...I'll ask Inara to look in on River. 130 00:09:46,675 --> 00:09:48,368 Whatever. I ain't waiting. 131 00:09:48,568 --> 00:09:52,138 I'll meet you over there. But don't take forever. Still gotta get suited up. 132 00:10:36,694 --> 00:10:37,444 Hi. 133 00:10:51,208 --> 00:10:54,302 Um, what are you doing here? And what's with the suit? 134 00:10:56,714 --> 00:10:59,080 You're hilarious. 135 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:00,883 Sadist. 136 00:11:01,083 --> 00:11:03,749 All right, enough. ain't got time for games. 137 00:11:03,949 --> 00:11:08,651 As long as you're here, you may as well lend a hand. You can roll with Kaylee. 138 00:11:08,851 --> 00:11:11,991 Let's be quick about this. A few loads each. No need to be greedy. 139 00:11:12,191 --> 00:11:13,830 Where are all the people? 140 00:11:14,030 --> 00:11:16,032 Ship says lifeboat launched more than a week ago. 141 00:11:16,232 --> 00:11:17,834 We're gonna assume everyone got off okay. 142 00:11:18,034 --> 00:11:20,502 Anyway, we're just here to pick the bones. You two start in the engine room. 143 00:11:20,702 --> 00:11:23,435 Jayne, you take the galley. 144 00:11:23,635 --> 00:11:26,369 You, um, have this on wrong. 145 00:11:32,339 --> 00:11:35,411 Sir, I count 16 families signed on. 146 00:11:35,611 --> 00:11:38,684 Lifeboat wouldn't hold a third of that. 147 00:11:38,884 --> 00:11:41,024 I know. Wash, any luck? 148 00:11:41,224 --> 00:11:45,057 Think I found something that pretty well matches that class. The layout looks about right. 149 00:11:45,257 --> 00:11:48,360 Seems to me any valuables, if there are any... 150 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:50,400 would likely be stored somewhere... 151 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:52,201 C-Deck, aft. 152 00:11:52,401 --> 00:11:55,404 Good work. Keep the engine running. We shouldn't be long. 153 00:11:59,243 --> 00:12:02,041 River? It's Inara. 154 00:12:04,047 --> 00:12:06,208 Are you hungry, sweetie? 155 00:12:09,653 --> 00:12:10,373 River? 156 00:12:25,469 --> 00:12:27,403 Aren't you the least bit curious? 157 00:12:27,603 --> 00:12:29,000 About what? 158 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,804 Well, what happened here. 159 00:12:33,004 --> 00:12:37,012 I mean, why would anybody abandon their ship in the middle of nowhere like this? 160 00:12:37,212 --> 00:12:40,932 For all sorts of reasons. Just not mechanical. 161 00:12:41,132 --> 00:12:44,852 - What? - There ain't nothing wrong with this. 162 00:12:45,052 --> 00:12:47,550 Not that I can see, anyhow. 163 00:12:47,750 --> 00:12:50,518 Whoo. 164 00:12:50,718 --> 00:12:52,728 Well, there's a good one. 165 00:12:52,928 --> 00:12:55,594 Hold the bag open. 166 00:13:18,121 --> 00:13:20,112 This looks to be it. 167 00:13:25,890 --> 00:13:27,697 Locked. 168 00:13:27,897 --> 00:13:31,662 Well, now, I'd say that's like to be a very good sign. 169 00:14:39,638 --> 00:14:41,833 Here. 170 00:14:43,676 --> 00:14:45,861 Gen-seed, protein, crop supplements. 171 00:14:46,061 --> 00:14:48,555 Everything a growing family needs... 172 00:14:48,755 --> 00:14:51,466 to make a fresh start on a new world. 173 00:14:51,666 --> 00:14:54,377 Hard subsidies for 14-plus families. 174 00:14:54,577 --> 00:14:56,687 - That's... - About a fortune. 175 00:14:56,887 --> 00:14:59,568 Forget the rest. We just take this stuff. 176 00:14:59,768 --> 00:15:02,450 Gonna need a hand hauling it out of here. 177 00:15:06,532 --> 00:15:09,768 Sir, even on a lifeboat... 178 00:15:09,968 --> 00:15:13,562 you'd think those who escaped would find room for some of this. 179 00:15:16,142 --> 00:15:18,076 Nobody escaped. 180 00:15:18,276 --> 00:15:19,975 Sir? 181 00:15:21,814 --> 00:15:22,654 Nobody. 182 00:15:30,689 --> 00:15:32,281 My God. 183 00:15:35,861 --> 00:15:37,595 I know what did this. 184 00:15:37,795 --> 00:15:39,927 Get her out of here. Jayne? 185 00:15:40,127 --> 00:15:43,230 Jayne, drop what you're doing and get to the engine room. 186 00:15:43,430 --> 00:15:46,596 Take Kaylee and the doctor off this boat. Don't ask questions. 187 00:15:49,574 --> 00:15:51,439 Jayne? 188 00:15:56,815 --> 00:15:58,762 Captain? 189 00:15:58,962 --> 00:16:00,336 Captain. 190 00:16:00,536 --> 00:16:01,910 Zoe! 191 00:16:02,988 --> 00:16:05,582 Came from above, sir. 192 00:16:05,782 --> 00:16:07,722 The galley. 193 00:16:07,922 --> 00:16:10,291 - What? - We heard shooting. 194 00:16:10,491 --> 00:16:12,306 River, what are you... 195 00:16:12,506 --> 00:16:14,122 I followed the voices. 196 00:16:14,322 --> 00:16:17,335 - Don't ever leave the ship. Not ever. - Handle her, will you, son? 197 00:16:17,535 --> 00:16:20,372 - What in the is going on in there? - Not now, dear. 198 00:16:36,021 --> 00:16:38,387 What'd you see? 199 00:16:38,587 --> 00:16:40,191 Didn't. 200 00:16:40,391 --> 00:16:42,950 Came at me from behind. Big, though. 201 00:16:43,150 --> 00:16:43,790 Strong. 202 00:16:45,297 --> 00:16:47,697 - I think I might have hit him. - You did. 203 00:17:06,752 --> 00:17:08,702 No. No, no. 204 00:17:08,902 --> 00:17:10,852 Shh. Easy, now. 205 00:17:13,158 --> 00:17:14,892 No one's gonna hurt you. 206 00:17:15,092 --> 00:17:18,823 - No. No mercy. No. - Any more than we already did. 207 00:17:19,023 --> 00:17:21,195 - No mercy. - We got lots of mercy. 208 00:17:21,395 --> 00:17:23,258 We got lots and lots of... 209 00:17:35,014 --> 00:17:36,714 Oh, yes. 210 00:17:36,914 --> 00:17:40,218 He's a real beast. 211 00:17:40,418 --> 00:17:42,550 It's a wonder you're still alive. 212 00:17:42,750 --> 00:17:45,915 Looked bigger when I couldn't see him. 213 00:17:48,927 --> 00:17:51,361 I wonder how long he'd been living like that. 214 00:17:51,561 --> 00:17:53,164 Don't know. 215 00:17:53,364 --> 00:17:57,027 He must be real brave to survive like that when nobody else did. 216 00:17:57,227 --> 00:18:00,538 Yeah. Real hero, killing all them people. 217 00:18:00,738 --> 00:18:03,541 What? No, we don't believe that. 218 00:18:06,945 --> 00:18:08,713 We don't, do we? 219 00:18:08,913 --> 00:18:11,643 Captain wouldn't have brought him on board, were that the case. 220 00:18:11,843 --> 00:18:13,508 Pulse is rapid. 221 00:18:13,708 --> 00:18:16,914 Blood pressure's high side of normal... to be expected. 222 00:18:17,114 --> 00:18:20,350 Weak. They were all weak. 223 00:18:20,550 --> 00:18:23,869 Other than the bullet wound, there doesn't appear to be any exterior trauma. 224 00:18:24,069 --> 00:18:27,388 Though that crack to the head you gave him probably didn't do him any good. 225 00:18:27,588 --> 00:18:30,201 Cattle. 226 00:18:30,401 --> 00:18:32,994 Cattle for the slaughter. 227 00:18:34,306 --> 00:18:36,700 Dope him. 228 00:18:36,900 --> 00:18:39,239 - I don't think that... - Just do it. 229 00:18:39,439 --> 00:18:42,542 No mercy. No resistance. 230 00:18:51,917 --> 00:18:56,620 Open up. See what's inside. 231 00:19:04,503 --> 00:19:06,494 No mercy. 232 00:19:11,610 --> 00:19:14,504 So? How's our patient? 233 00:19:14,704 --> 00:19:17,214 Uh, aside from borderline malnutrition... 234 00:19:17,414 --> 00:19:19,216 he's in remarkably good health. 235 00:19:19,416 --> 00:19:20,813 So he'll live, then? 236 00:19:21,013 --> 00:19:23,446 Which, to my mind, is unfortunate. 237 00:19:23,646 --> 00:19:25,615 Not a very charitable attitude, Captain. 238 00:19:25,815 --> 00:19:28,792 - Charity'd be putting a bullet in his brainpan. - Mal! 239 00:19:28,992 --> 00:19:31,125 It'd save him the suffering. 240 00:19:34,333 --> 00:19:36,158 All right. No one goes in here. 241 00:19:36,358 --> 00:19:39,165 Nothing more we can do for him, not after what he's seen. 242 00:19:39,365 --> 00:19:42,935 - What do you mean? - That ship was hit by reavers. 243 00:19:45,411 --> 00:19:48,346 Reavers? 244 00:19:52,885 --> 00:19:54,744 Mal, how can you know? 245 00:19:54,944 --> 00:19:57,648 He don't, that's how. No way. 246 00:19:58,824 --> 00:20:01,388 It was that other fella, the one we run into. 247 00:20:01,588 --> 00:20:06,597 Like I said before, he went stir crazy, killed the rest, then took a walk in space. 248 00:20:06,797 --> 00:20:10,101 - Just a second ago, you said... - Don't matter what I said. 249 00:20:10,301 --> 00:20:12,228 Wasn't reavers. Reavers don't leave no survivors. 250 00:20:12,428 --> 00:20:14,431 Strictly speaking, I wouldn't say they did. 251 00:20:14,631 --> 00:20:16,206 What are you suggesting? 252 00:20:16,406 --> 00:20:19,205 Don't matter we took him off that boat, Shepherd. 253 00:20:19,405 --> 00:20:22,213 It's the place he's gonna live from now on. 254 00:20:22,413 --> 00:20:24,447 I don't accept that. 255 00:20:24,647 --> 00:20:27,651 Whatever horror he witnessed, whatever acts of barbarism... 256 00:20:27,851 --> 00:20:30,181 it was done by men, nothing more. 257 00:20:30,381 --> 00:20:33,817 - Reavers ain't men. - Of course they are. 258 00:20:34,017 --> 00:20:38,358 Too long removed from civilization, perhaps, but men. 259 00:20:38,558 --> 00:20:41,558 And I believe there's a power greater than men. 260 00:20:41,758 --> 00:20:44,027 A power that heals. 261 00:20:44,227 --> 00:20:46,771 Reavers might take issue with that philosophy... 262 00:20:46,971 --> 00:20:48,573 if they had a philosophy... 263 00:20:48,773 --> 00:20:52,777 and if they weren't too busy gnawing on your insides. 264 00:20:52,977 --> 00:20:55,876 Jayne's right. Reavers ain't men. 265 00:20:56,076 --> 00:20:59,247 Or they forgot how to be. Come to just nothing. 266 00:20:59,447 --> 00:21:02,453 They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing... 267 00:21:02,653 --> 00:21:04,255 and that's what they became. 268 00:21:04,455 --> 00:21:07,924 Why are we still sitting here? If it was reavers, shouldn't we be gone? 269 00:21:08,124 --> 00:21:11,827 Work ain't done. Still substantial money value sitting over there. 270 00:21:12,027 --> 00:21:14,780 Oh, I ain't going over there with them bodies. 271 00:21:14,980 --> 00:21:17,733 No rutting way. Not if reavers messed with them. 272 00:21:17,933 --> 00:21:19,964 Jayne, you'll scare the women. 273 00:21:21,039 --> 00:21:23,774 I'll go. 274 00:21:23,974 --> 00:21:27,170 - I've dealt with bodies. They don't worry me. - I'd like to go with him. 275 00:21:27,370 --> 00:21:30,914 Maybe see what I can do about putting those folks to rest. 276 00:21:31,114 --> 00:21:34,243 Those folks are already resting pretty good, Shepherd. Reavers saw to that. 277 00:21:34,443 --> 00:21:37,914 How we treat our dead is part of what makes us different... 278 00:21:38,114 --> 00:21:40,151 than those did the slaughtering. 279 00:21:44,429 --> 00:21:47,221 All right. You go say your words. 280 00:21:47,421 --> 00:21:50,696 Jayne, you'll help the doctor and Shepherd Book cut down those people. 281 00:21:50,896 --> 00:21:53,738 - Then you'll load up the cargo. - I don't believe this. 282 00:21:53,938 --> 00:21:56,267 We're sitting put for a funeral? 283 00:21:56,467 --> 00:21:58,037 Yes, Jayne, that is exactly what we're gonna do. 284 00:21:58,237 --> 00:22:01,473 Not gonna have these people looking over my shoulder once we're gone. 285 00:22:01,673 --> 00:22:03,611 I ain't saying there's any peace to be had... 286 00:22:03,811 --> 00:22:09,218 but on the off chance there is, those folks deserve a little of it. 287 00:22:14,226 --> 00:22:17,195 Just when I think I've got you figured out. 288 00:22:23,702 --> 00:22:26,537 That was real pretty, Captain, what you just said. 289 00:22:26,737 --> 00:22:29,373 Didn't think you were one for rituals and such. 290 00:22:29,573 --> 00:22:33,077 I'm not. But I figure it'll keep the others busy for a while. 291 00:22:33,277 --> 00:22:35,739 No reason to concern them with what's to be done. 292 00:22:35,939 --> 00:22:38,444 Sir? 293 00:22:38,644 --> 00:22:42,084 It's a real burden being right so often. 294 00:22:42,284 --> 00:22:43,888 - What is that? - Booby trap. 295 00:22:44,088 --> 00:22:46,220 Reavers sometimes leave them for the rescue ships. 296 00:22:46,420 --> 00:22:49,392 - Triggered it when we latched on. - And when we detach? 297 00:22:49,592 --> 00:22:51,024 It blows. 298 00:22:51,224 --> 00:22:54,527 Okay, so we don't detach. We just, I don't know, sit tight until... 299 00:22:54,727 --> 00:22:56,994 What, reavers come back? 300 00:22:57,194 --> 00:23:00,301 Looks like they've jerry-rigged it with a pressure catch. 301 00:23:00,501 --> 00:23:03,535 It's the only thing that'd work with all these spare parts. 302 00:23:03,735 --> 00:23:06,569 We could probably bypass that easy, we get to the D.C. line. 303 00:23:06,769 --> 00:23:09,575 You tell me right now, little Kaylee. You really think you can do this? 304 00:23:09,775 --> 00:23:11,377 Sure. Yeah. 305 00:23:12,684 --> 00:23:14,679 I think so. 306 00:23:14,879 --> 00:23:19,549 Besides, if I mess up, it's not like you'll be able to yell at me. 307 00:24:06,271 --> 00:24:07,111 No. No! 308 00:24:09,508 --> 00:24:12,739 No mercy. 309 00:24:34,232 --> 00:24:35,966 Aah! Aah! 310 00:24:36,166 --> 00:24:39,761 - Ohh! - Shh. 311 00:25:19,778 --> 00:25:21,512 What's going on? 312 00:25:21,712 --> 00:25:24,647 Well, right at this particular moment, I have to say, not a thing. 313 00:25:24,847 --> 00:25:27,310 - Right? - Not a gorram thing. 314 00:25:27,510 --> 00:25:29,119 Looked like a thing to me. 315 00:25:29,319 --> 00:25:32,823 Thought we might have had a situation, but it looks to be taken care of. 316 00:25:33,023 --> 00:25:35,485 Let's get that merchandise put away. 317 00:25:47,072 --> 00:25:49,165 Everyone's home, Wash. Let's go. 318 00:25:52,074 --> 00:25:54,879 No, no, don't you say that. It's the reavers. 319 00:25:55,079 --> 00:25:58,674 - The gorram reavers come back. - Get that stuff stored. 320 00:25:58,874 --> 00:26:02,015 - Like it's gonna matter! - Just do it! 321 00:26:04,351 --> 00:26:06,413 Reavers? 322 00:26:07,793 --> 00:26:09,527 Firefly-class transport... 323 00:26:09,727 --> 00:26:11,729 you are ordered to release control of your helm. 324 00:26:11,929 --> 00:26:13,856 Prepare to dock and be boarded. 325 00:26:21,873 --> 00:26:24,933 Looks like civilization finally caught up with us. 326 00:26:32,617 --> 00:26:34,608 Initiate molecular run. 327 00:26:37,455 --> 00:26:39,821 No mandatory registration markings on the bow. 328 00:26:40,021 --> 00:26:41,625 Make sure we cite them for that. 329 00:26:41,825 --> 00:26:45,420 Sir, we've identified the transport ship they were attached to. 330 00:26:45,620 --> 00:26:48,357 It was licensed to a group of families out of Bernadette. 331 00:26:48,557 --> 00:26:51,764 They were due to touch down in Newhall three weeks ago. Never made it. 332 00:26:51,964 --> 00:26:55,171 Once we secure these vultures, we'll send a team over, check it out. 333 00:26:55,371 --> 00:26:57,902 Sir, didn't we have a flag on a Firefly a while back? 334 00:26:58,102 --> 00:26:58,622 Check. 335 00:27:02,013 --> 00:27:03,747 Oh, here it is. 336 00:27:03,947 --> 00:27:06,545 An alert issued on an unidentified Firefly-class... 337 00:27:06,745 --> 00:27:10,185 believed to be carrying two fugitives... a brother and sister. 338 00:27:10,385 --> 00:27:11,989 What are they wanted for? 339 00:27:12,189 --> 00:27:14,218 It's not available. It's classified. 340 00:27:14,418 --> 00:27:18,360 Forty thousand of these old wrecks in the air, and that's all they give us. 341 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,627 Well, I'm not about to have any surprises on a routine check. 342 00:27:21,827 --> 00:27:24,567 We run into these two, we shoot first. 343 00:27:24,767 --> 00:27:27,366 Brass can sort it out later. 344 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,837 - So what was it? - Open the stash, pull out the goods. 345 00:27:32,037 --> 00:27:35,705 - I just got done putting it in. - Now I'm telling you take it out again. 346 00:27:35,905 --> 00:27:38,845 - Why for? - I got no notion to argue this. 347 00:27:39,045 --> 00:27:41,711 In about two minutes, this boat's gonna be crawling with Alliance. 348 00:27:41,911 --> 00:27:42,461 No. 349 00:27:45,290 --> 00:27:48,355 - We've gotta run. - Can't. They're pulling us in. 350 00:27:48,555 --> 00:27:52,393 If they find us, they'll send River back to that place to be tortured. 351 00:27:52,593 --> 00:27:53,993 I'd never see her again. 352 00:27:54,193 --> 00:27:58,726 Stack everything in plain sight. Wouldn't want it to seem like we got anything to hide. 353 00:27:58,926 --> 00:28:01,203 Might give them Alliance boys the wrong impression. 354 00:28:01,403 --> 00:28:03,200 - Or the right one. - That too. 355 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,876 - Now, go fetch your sister. - What? 356 00:28:10,348 --> 00:28:12,748 Why? Are you gonna put her in plain sight too? 357 00:28:12,948 --> 00:28:15,484 Don't get touchy. Just do as I say. 358 00:28:15,684 --> 00:28:19,087 Is that why you let us stay, so you could use us as bargaining chips? 359 00:28:19,287 --> 00:28:22,092 - Knew there was a reason. - They are not taking her and you are not giving her to them. 360 00:28:22,292 --> 00:28:23,923 Don't be a fool, son. 361 00:28:25,163 --> 00:28:27,563 Do as the man says. 362 00:28:47,152 --> 00:28:50,080 Well, quite a lot of fuss. 363 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,518 If I didn't know better, I'd think we were dangerous. 364 00:28:55,927 --> 00:29:00,421 - Is this your vessel? - It is. Bought and paid for. I'm Captain Malcolm Reynolds. 365 00:29:00,621 --> 00:29:03,324 - And is this everyone, Captain? - By way of crew, it is. 366 00:29:03,524 --> 00:29:07,093 Though in our infirmary, you're gonna find a fella we rescued off that derelict. 367 00:29:07,293 --> 00:29:08,799 Saved him, guess you could say. 368 00:29:08,999 --> 00:29:09,799 Mmm. 369 00:29:11,476 --> 00:29:14,104 Straight to the back, next to the common area. 370 00:29:15,246 --> 00:29:18,238 And these items, I take it you rescued them as well? 371 00:29:32,964 --> 00:29:35,125 Looks to me like an illegal salvage operation. 372 00:29:35,325 --> 00:29:37,560 It does? That's discouraging. 373 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,797 Alliance property too. You could lose your ship. 374 00:29:39,997 --> 00:29:43,735 But that is a wrist slap compared to the penalty for harboring fugitives. 375 00:29:43,935 --> 00:29:47,674 A brother and sister. When I search this vessel, I won't find them, will I? 376 00:29:47,874 --> 00:29:50,207 No children on this boat. 377 00:29:50,407 --> 00:29:53,059 Mmm. I didn't say children. 378 00:29:53,259 --> 00:29:55,803 Siblings. Adult siblings. 379 00:29:56,003 --> 00:29:58,547 - I misunderstood. - Mmm. 380 00:30:01,226 --> 00:30:03,344 No chance they could have stowed away? 381 00:30:03,544 --> 00:30:05,462 No one would blame you for that, Captain. 382 00:30:05,662 --> 00:30:10,326 I know how these older-model Fireflies tend to have those troublesome little nooks. 383 00:30:10,526 --> 00:30:12,295 Do they? 384 00:30:12,495 --> 00:30:16,631 Smugglers and the like tend to prefer them just for that reason. 385 00:30:26,851 --> 00:30:30,787 We will continue this conversation in a more official capacity. 386 00:30:30,987 --> 00:30:32,948 I want every inch of this junker tossed. 387 00:30:33,148 --> 00:30:35,759 - "Junker"? - Settle down, Kaylee. 388 00:30:35,959 --> 00:30:38,962 But, Captain, did you hear what that purple-belly called Serenity? 389 00:30:39,162 --> 00:30:41,021 Shut up. 390 00:30:43,501 --> 00:30:45,492 Get him outta here. 391 00:30:59,250 --> 00:31:01,990 - You are a Companion. - Yes. 392 00:31:02,190 --> 00:31:04,683 And you were based for years on Sihnon. 393 00:31:04,883 --> 00:31:07,894 It's only in the last year that you've been shipping out with the crew of The Serenity? 394 00:31:08,094 --> 00:31:09,896 It's just Serenity, and that's correct. 395 00:31:10,096 --> 00:31:12,858 In a few weeks it will be a year. 396 00:31:13,058 --> 00:31:16,399 - Why is this important? - I'm just trying to put the pieces together. 397 00:31:16,599 --> 00:31:19,365 It's a, uh... It's a curiosity... 398 00:31:19,565 --> 00:31:22,201 a woman of stature such as yourself... 399 00:31:22,401 --> 00:31:23,874 falling in with... these types. 400 00:31:24,074 --> 00:31:28,439 Not in the least. It's a mutually beneficial business arrangement. 401 00:31:28,639 --> 00:31:32,584 I rent the shuttle from Capt. Reynolds, which allows me to expand my client base... 402 00:31:32,784 --> 00:31:36,067 and the captain finds that having a Companion on board... 403 00:31:36,267 --> 00:31:39,678 opens certain doors that might otherwise be closed to him. 404 00:31:39,878 --> 00:31:43,290 - And do you love him? - I don't see how that's relevant. 405 00:31:43,490 --> 00:31:45,832 - Well, he is your husband. - Yes. 406 00:31:47,135 --> 00:31:48,926 You two met through Capt. Reynolds? 407 00:31:49,126 --> 00:31:52,139 Captain was looking for a pilot. I found a husband. 408 00:31:52,339 --> 00:31:53,702 Seemed to work out. 409 00:31:53,902 --> 00:31:56,944 - You fought with Reynolds in the war? - Fought with a lot of people. 410 00:31:57,144 --> 00:31:59,309 - And your husband. - Fight with him sometimes too. 411 00:32:01,249 --> 00:32:04,514 Is there any particular reason you don't wish to discuss your marriage? 412 00:32:04,714 --> 00:32:08,283 Don't see that it's any of your business is all. 413 00:32:08,483 --> 00:32:10,290 We're very private people. 414 00:32:10,490 --> 00:32:11,887 The legs. 415 00:32:12,087 --> 00:32:14,958 Oh, yeah. Definitely have to say it was her legs. 416 00:32:15,158 --> 00:32:17,320 You can put that down. 417 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:22,127 Her legs, and right where her legs meet her back. Actually, that whole area. 418 00:32:22,327 --> 00:32:24,671 That, and above it. 419 00:32:25,940 --> 00:32:28,704 Six gerstlers crammed under every cooling drive... 420 00:32:28,904 --> 00:32:31,468 so that you strain your primary artery function... 421 00:32:31,668 --> 00:32:35,113 and you end up having to recycle secondary exhaust through a bypass system... 422 00:32:35,313 --> 00:32:38,448 just so's you don't end up pumping it through the main atmofeed... 423 00:32:38,648 --> 00:32:40,510 and asphyxiating the entire crew. 424 00:32:40,710 --> 00:32:42,117 Now, that's junk. 425 00:32:42,317 --> 00:32:44,984 Have you seen what she wears? Forget about it. 426 00:32:45,184 --> 00:32:47,391 Have you ever been with a warrior woman? 427 00:33:01,309 --> 00:33:03,043 Pirates. 428 00:33:03,243 --> 00:33:05,802 Pirates with their own chaplain. 429 00:33:06,002 --> 00:33:08,308 There's an oddity. 430 00:33:08,508 --> 00:33:11,147 Not the only oddity this end of space, Commander... 431 00:33:11,347 --> 00:33:15,219 where things aren't always so plain as on the central planets. 432 00:33:15,419 --> 00:33:17,615 Rules can be a mite fuzzier. 433 00:33:17,815 --> 00:33:21,692 These fugitives that we're looking for... the brother and the sister. 434 00:33:21,892 --> 00:33:25,130 - They were last seen on Persephone. - That a fact? 435 00:33:25,330 --> 00:33:28,368 They also left port aboard a Firefly-class transport... 436 00:33:28,568 --> 00:33:31,764 just about the same time that you shipped out with Serenity. 437 00:33:31,964 --> 00:33:35,075 Well, Persephone's a big place. 438 00:33:35,275 --> 00:33:38,339 Yes. Yes, it is. And that Firefly isn't. 439 00:33:38,539 --> 00:33:41,604 And if anyone's hiding anywhere on it... 440 00:33:41,804 --> 00:33:44,174 we will find them. 441 00:35:06,434 --> 00:35:10,165 So, I figure by now you been over to the derelict, seen for yourself. 442 00:35:10,365 --> 00:35:12,502 Yes. Terrible thing. 443 00:35:14,375 --> 00:35:17,110 If you want my advice, you won't tow it back. 444 00:35:17,310 --> 00:35:20,636 Just fire the whole gorram thing from space, be done with it. 445 00:35:20,836 --> 00:35:24,476 That ship is evidence. I'm not in the habit of destroying evidence. 446 00:35:24,676 --> 00:35:27,282 Course not. Be against the rules. 447 00:35:28,556 --> 00:35:30,290 I'm gonna make a leap here... 448 00:35:30,490 --> 00:35:33,459 and figure this is your first tour out here on the border. 449 00:35:35,296 --> 00:35:38,288 It's a very loyal crew you have there. 450 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,134 But then, I can tell by your record... 451 00:35:41,334 --> 00:35:46,840 you have a... a tendency to inspire that quality in people... Sergeant. 452 00:35:48,443 --> 00:35:51,742 It's not sergeant. Not anymore. War's over. 453 00:35:51,942 --> 00:35:54,112 For some, the war'll never be over. 454 00:35:54,312 --> 00:35:56,283 I notice your ship's called Serenity. 455 00:35:56,483 --> 00:35:59,286 You were stationed on Hara at the end of the war. 456 00:35:59,486 --> 00:36:02,921 Battle of Serenity Valley took place there, if I recall. 457 00:36:03,121 --> 00:36:04,724 I believe you might be right. 458 00:36:04,924 --> 00:36:07,056 Independents suffered a pretty crushing defeat there. 459 00:36:07,256 --> 00:36:10,058 Some say that after Serenity the browncoats were through... 460 00:36:10,258 --> 00:36:11,860 that the war ended in that valley. 461 00:36:12,060 --> 00:36:12,860 Hmm. 462 00:36:14,068 --> 00:36:17,952 Seems odd you'd name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of. 463 00:36:18,152 --> 00:36:22,037 May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one. 464 00:36:25,580 --> 00:36:27,644 Is that why you attacked that transport? 465 00:36:27,844 --> 00:36:30,907 - What? - You're still fighting the same battle. 466 00:36:31,107 --> 00:36:33,151 Only those weren't soldiers you murdered. 467 00:36:33,351 --> 00:36:36,004 They were civilians, families, citizens loyal to the Alliance... 468 00:36:36,204 --> 00:36:38,657 trying to make a new life, and you just can't stand that, can you? 469 00:36:38,857 --> 00:36:41,861 So we attacked that ship, then brought the only survivor to our infirmary. 470 00:36:42,061 --> 00:36:43,794 Is that what we did? 471 00:36:43,994 --> 00:36:45,599 I'd ask him... 472 00:36:45,799 --> 00:36:50,133 only I'm not sure he'll be able to speak with his tongue split down the middle. 473 00:36:52,138 --> 00:36:55,403 I haven't seen that kind of torture since... 474 00:36:55,603 --> 00:36:57,403 well, since the war. 475 00:36:57,603 --> 00:36:59,988 - I should have known. - You and your crew are bound by law. 476 00:37:00,188 --> 00:37:02,374 Formal charges will be transmitted to central authority. 477 00:37:02,574 --> 00:37:06,313 Commander, I'm not what you need to be concerned about right now. 478 00:37:06,513 --> 00:37:09,948 Things go the way they are, there's gonna be blood. 479 00:37:10,148 --> 00:37:12,891 Get him down! Let's start the pressure. 480 00:37:13,091 --> 00:37:16,252 Get a line in. Go. 481 00:37:16,452 --> 00:37:19,466 - All right. - Come on, go. 482 00:37:27,108 --> 00:37:28,933 Reavers? 483 00:37:29,133 --> 00:37:30,944 That is what I said. 484 00:37:31,144 --> 00:37:34,648 You can't imagine how many times men in my position hear that excuse... 485 00:37:34,848 --> 00:37:36,449 Reavers did it. 486 00:37:36,649 --> 00:37:39,611 - It's the truth. - You saw them, did you? 487 00:37:39,811 --> 00:37:43,118 - Wouldn't be sitting here talking to you if I had. - No, of course not. 488 00:37:43,318 --> 00:37:46,569 I'll tell you who did... that poor bastard you took off my ship. 489 00:37:46,769 --> 00:37:50,020 He looked right into the face of it and was made to stare. 490 00:37:50,220 --> 00:37:52,327 - It. - The darkness. 491 00:37:53,601 --> 00:37:56,365 The kind of darkness you can't even imagine. 492 00:37:56,604 --> 00:37:59,300 Blacker than the space it moves through. 493 00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:01,937 Very poetic. 494 00:38:02,137 --> 00:38:03,944 They made him watch. 495 00:38:04,144 --> 00:38:07,113 He probably tried to turn away. They wouldn't let him. 496 00:38:07,313 --> 00:38:10,173 You call him a survivor. He's not. 497 00:38:12,753 --> 00:38:15,488 A man comes up against that kind of will... 498 00:38:15,688 --> 00:38:19,192 the only way to deal with it, I suspect, is to become it. 499 00:38:19,392 --> 00:38:23,253 He's following the only course left to him. 500 00:38:24,865 --> 00:38:28,301 First he'll try to make himself look like one. 501 00:38:28,501 --> 00:38:30,735 Cut on himself, desecrate his flesh. 502 00:38:30,935 --> 00:38:33,169 And then... he'll start acting like one. 503 00:38:39,113 --> 00:38:43,379 Let's have two M.P.s up here to escort Sergeant Reynolds to the brig. 504 00:38:55,096 --> 00:38:57,087 Let's go again. 505 00:38:58,099 --> 00:39:00,527 Later... maybe. 506 00:39:00,727 --> 00:39:03,497 The captain said once the coast is clear... 507 00:39:03,697 --> 00:39:05,596 we should lay low in the shuttle. 508 00:39:05,796 --> 00:39:07,903 - Come on. - Coming back. 509 00:39:09,744 --> 00:39:12,406 Yes. Yes, of course he is. They all are. 510 00:39:14,782 --> 00:39:16,482 Your ship and its contents will be auctioned. 511 00:39:16,682 --> 00:39:19,413 The proceeds of the sale will be applied to the cost of your defense. 512 00:39:22,285 --> 00:39:24,886 Get him out of here. 513 00:39:25,086 --> 00:39:27,519 Go to full lockdown. I want guards on the nursery. 514 00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:32,425 It won't matter. You won't find him. But I know where he'll go. 515 00:39:37,705 --> 00:39:39,696 Wait, no. Don't. Don't. 516 00:39:39,896 --> 00:39:41,802 River, it's okay. 517 00:39:42,002 --> 00:39:44,005 Wait. Wait... here. 518 00:39:44,205 --> 00:39:46,008 They've gone. Come on. 519 00:39:46,208 --> 00:39:48,544 - Don't... - River, it's okay. 520 00:39:48,744 --> 00:39:49,294 No. 521 00:39:50,551 --> 00:39:52,746 - Come on. - No. 522 00:39:52,946 --> 00:39:54,713 Don't... 523 00:39:54,913 --> 00:39:56,718 You don't have to be afraid. 524 00:40:01,295 --> 00:40:03,029 Why would he come back here? 525 00:40:03,229 --> 00:40:06,494 Looking for familiar ground. He's on the hunt. 526 00:40:07,902 --> 00:40:10,296 All right, let's get him to the brig. 527 00:40:10,496 --> 00:40:13,802 - No, no, no. I should go with you. - That's out of the question. 528 00:40:14,002 --> 00:40:17,435 How many more men you feel like losing today, Commander? 529 00:40:17,635 --> 00:40:20,480 Nobody knows Serenity like I do. I can help you. 530 00:40:21,882 --> 00:40:24,112 We let him go first. 531 00:40:25,219 --> 00:40:25,939 Right. 532 00:40:27,221 --> 00:40:29,712 You want to, uh... 533 00:40:44,038 --> 00:40:47,303 Thanks. Now I'll really have the advantage. 534 00:41:03,190 --> 00:41:07,820 We don't know how long it's going to be. Once we're settled I don't think we should move around much. 535 00:41:08,020 --> 00:41:09,795 I'm just gonna grab some food... 536 00:41:11,399 --> 00:41:14,891 Someone's coming. 537 00:42:47,528 --> 00:42:50,725 You save his gorram life. He still takes the cargo. 538 00:42:53,266 --> 00:42:56,326 He had to. Couldn't let us profit. 539 00:42:56,526 --> 00:42:59,099 Wouldn't be civilized.