"WOMAN:" "Earth-That-Was... could no longersustain our numbers, we were so many." "We found a new solarsystem:" "dozens of planets and hundreds of moons." "Each one terraformed, a processtaking decades... to support human life." "To be new Earths." "The central planetsformed the Alliance." "Ruled by an interplaneta· parliament... the Alliance was a beacon ofcivilization." "The savage outer planets were not so enlightened... and refused Alliance control." "The warwas devastating." "Butthe Alliance's victo· overthe lndependents... ensured a safer universe." "And now, eve·one can enjoythe com··... and enlightenment oftrue civilization." "Whywere the lndependents even fighting us?" "Whywouldn'tthey look to be more civilized?" "l hearthey're cannibals." "That's only Reavers." "Reavers aren't real." "Full well they are." "I heard they attack settlers from space... and kill them, and weartheirskins... and rape them ·or·our····our·" "[Speaking Chinese] lt's true thatthere are dangers on the outer planets." "So with so many social and medical advancements... we can bring to the lndependents... whywould theyfight so hard against us?" "We meddle." "River?" "People don't like to be meddled with." "We tell them whatto do, whatto think." "Don't run, don'twalk." "We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven'tthe right." "We're meddlesome." "River, we're nottelling people whatto think... we're justt·ing to showthem how." "[Screaming]" "She's dreaming." "Gotthat?" "O·the cha·s." "Sca· monsters." "Let's amp it up." "Delcium, eight drop." "See, most ofour bestwork is done when they're asleep." "We can monitor and directtheirsubconscious... implant suggestions." "It's a little sta·ling to see at first, but results are spectacular." "Especially in this case." "RiverTam is ourstar pupil." "I've heard that." "DR. MATHIAS:" "She'll be ideal ·or de·nse deployment... even with the side e·cts." "Tell me aboutthem." "Well, obviously, she's unstable." "The neural stripping does tend to fragment... theirown realify matrix." "lt mani·sts as borderline" "What use do we have... ·or a psychic ifshe's insane?" "DR. MATHIAS:" "She's not just a psychic." "Given the righttrigger, this girl is a living weapon." "She has her lucid periods." "We're hoping to improve upon the...." "[River moaning] I'm sor·, sir, but I have to ask." "is there a reason ·or········ofw" "Am I making you ne·ous?" "Key members of Parliament have personally obse·ed this su·ect." "I was told thattheAlliance's suppo·... ·or···r··w·u···ou·." "The demonstration of her power" "How is she physically?" "Like nothing we've seen." "All our su·ects are conditioned ·or combat, but River... she's a creature ofextraordina· grace." "Yes." "She always did love to dance." "River, it's Simon." "Please, it's Simon." "It's your brother." "Simon." "They knowyou've come." "[Machines beeping]" "We can't make itto the su·ce from the inside." "[Door banging]" "Find out." "[Grunting]" "[Wind howling]" "MAN:" "A su·ect is loose, securify breach." "Sha· 7." "OPERATIVE:" "Stop." "Backtrack." "Stop." "Excuse me... no one is allowed in the records room... without my express permission." "Forgive me, but I pre·r to see the event alone, without... bias." "l need to see yourclearance." "And you are rightto insist." "WOMAN:" "Parliamenta· override." "Full access." "Apologies." "An operative ofthe Parliament... will, ofcourse, have full cooperation." "I'm not sure what...." "l see no listing of rank or name." "l have neither." "Like this ··, I don't exist." "Let's talk aboutthe Tams." "I assume you've scanned the status logs" "Riverwas yourgreatest success." "A prodigy." "A phenomenon." "Until her brotherwalked in here and took herfrom you." "lt's not quite so simple." "l'm well aware ofthat." "There was no waythat I could" "No." "No." "Ofcourse." "The boy spent his entire ·o······ofy··... the contacts to infiltrate this place." "Gave up a brilliantfuture in medicine as well." "lt's madness." "Madness?" "Have you looked atthis scan carefully, Doctor?" "At his ·· lt's love, in point of·ct." "Something a good deal more dangerous." "Why are you here?" "Because the situation is even less simple than you think." "Do you knowwhatyoursin is, Doctor?" "l wonder iC- -lt's pride." "Key members of Parliament have personally obse·ed this su·ect." "I wastold thatthe Alliance's support" ""Key members of Parliament."" "Key." "The minds behind eve· milita·... diplomatic, and cove· operation... in the gala·, and you putthem... in a room with a psychic." "Ifthere was some classified in·rmation that she...." "She neverspoke of it." "I don't knowwhat it is." "Nordo I." "And judging by herdeteriorating mental state... I'd saywe're both bettero·." "Secrets are not my concern." "Keeping them is." "Whateversecrets she might have accidentally gleaned... it's probable she doesn't even know she knows them." "Thatthey're buried beneath layers of psychosis." "You know, in ce·ain oldercivilized cultures... when men ···· as entirely... as you have, theywould throwthemselves... on theirswords." "Well, un··unately, I ·or·· to bring a sword." "I would putthat down right now, if I were you." "Would you be killed in yoursleep like an ailing pet?" "[Grunting]" "[Screaming]" "OPERATIVE:" "Young miss...." "Young miss, I'll need all the logs on behavioral modification triggers." "We'll have to reach outto RiverTam... and help herto come back to us." "No matter how·rout Simon has...." "This is a good death." "There's no shame in this... in a man's death." "A man who has done fine works." "We're making a betterworld." "All ofthem... betterworlds." "Young miss, I need you to go to work now." "I think I may have a long wayto travel." "Where are you hiding, little girl?" "·larm buzzing]" "Whatwas that?" "Did you see that?" "Was thatthe prima· bu·r panel?" "lt did seem to resemble" "Did the prima· bu·r panel... just·ll o· my gorramn ship ·or no apparent reason?" "Looks like." "I thought Kaylee checked the ent· couplings." "l've a clear memo· of it." "lfshe doesn't get us... extra flowfrom the engine room to o·etthe burn-through... this landing is gonna get pretfy interesting." "Define "interesting." -"Oh, God, we're all gonna die?"" "This is the captain." "We have a little problem... with our ent· sequence, so we may experience some... slightturbulence and then explode." "Can you shave the vector?" "l'm doing it!" "lt's not enough." "Just get us on the ground!" "That pa·will happen pretfy definitely." "We're gonna explode?" "I don'twanna explode." "Jayne, how manyweapons you plan on taking?" "You only got·o arms." "l just get excitable... as to choice." "Like to have my options open." "I don't plan on any shooting taking place during this job." "Whatyou plan and whattakes place ain't everexactly been similar." "No grenades." "We crashing again?" "Talk to your husband." "Mule prepped?" "Good to go, sir." "Just loading her up." "Those grenades?" "Yeah, Captain doesn'twantthem." "Jayne, we're robbing the place." "We're not occupying it." "[Crashing]" "Kaylee!" "Kaylee, what in the sphincter of hell are you playing at?" "We gotthe prima· bu·r panel coming right" "Eve·thing's shiny, Captain." "Notto fret." "You told me those ent· couplings would hold ·or anotherweek!" "Thatwas six months ago, Captain." "My ship don't crash." "Ifshe crashes, you crashed her." "Doctor." "Guess who needs to get innocked be·re we hit planet-side." "Bit ofa rockefy ride." "Nothing to be worried about." "l'm notworried." "Fear is nothing to be ashamed of, Doctor." "This isn't·ar." "This is anger." "Well, kind of hard to tell one from the other, ···your·." "Well, I imagine if itwere ···, my eyes would be wider." "I'll keep a lookout·rthat nexttime." "You're nottaking her." "No, no, this is not a thing I'm interested in talking overwith" "She's not going with you, and that's final." "I hearthe words "that's final" come outyour mouth everagain... theytrulywill be." "This boat is my home." "You all are guests on it." "Guests?" "SIMON:" "Now, I earned my passage, Captain" "MAL:" "And it's time... your little sister learned from yourexample." "I have earned my passage... treating bullet holes, kni· wounds, laser burns." "Some jobs are more interesting than others." "And you wantto put my sister in the middle ofthat." "Didn't say "want." Said "will."" "It's one job, Doc." "She'll be fine." "She's a 17-year-old girl." "A mentallytraumatized 17" "She's a reader." "Sees into the truth ofthings." "Might see trouble be·re it's coming." "Which is of use to me." "And that's yourguiding star, isn't it?" "What's of use." "Honestly, Doctor, I thinkwe may really crash this time an·ay." "Do you understand what I have gone through... to keep Riverawayfrom thealliance?" "I do, and it's a ·· we here have been cou·eous... enough to keep to ourown selves." "Are you threatening to-- -l look out·r me and mine." "That don't include you less I conjure it does." "You stuck a thorn in thealliance's paw." "Thattickles me a bit." "But it also means I gotto step ·ice as ··· avoid them... and that means turning down plenfy of jobs." "Even honest ones." "Putthis crewtogetherwith the promise of work... which thealliance makes hardereve·year." "Come a daythere won't be room ·or naughfy men like us... to slip about at all." "This job goes south, there well may not be another." "So here is us, on the raggedy edge." "Don't push me, and I won't push you." "[Speaking Chinese]" "Zoe, Wash gonna straighten this boat out be·re we getflattened?" "ZOE:" "Like a downy·ather, sir." "No one flies like my mister." "[Engine grinding]" "[Mal and Zoe chattering]" "SIMON:" "River." "I know." "We're going ·or a ride." "[Engine revving]" "[People chattering]" "Hey, little one." "Understand your pa· in all this?" "Do you?" "This is what I do, darling." "This is what I do." "MAL:" "Let's move, people." "Quitfiddling." "Wantthe boat running smooth when we get back." "Have ··, Captain." "Nottoday." "Pairofclips in the rear hatch." "We should hittown right during Sundayworship." "Won't be any crowds." "If Fanfy and Mingo are right aboutthe payroll... this could look to be a sunny day·r us." "SIMON:" "River, stay behind the others." "Ifthere's fighting, drop to the flooror run away." "It's okayto leave them to die." "Doctor, I'm taking yoursister under my protection here." "lfanything happens to her, anything at all... I swearto you I will getve· choked up." "Honestly." "There could be tears." "Don't mind the Captain none, Simon." "I know he'll look out·r her." "They'll be back be·re you can spit." "Well, notthatyou spit." "JAYNE:" "What are we hoping to find here that equals the wo·h ofa turd?" "MAL:" "Securify payroll." "Alliance don't have the manpower... to "en·rce the peace" on eve· outer-rim planet." "They hire outto the private firms, who will notwork ·or credit." "They get paid in cashy money, which once a month rests here." "Don'tthat lead back to thealliance, anyhow?" "No private firm would ever repo· the the· oftheirown payroll." "They'd appearweak, might lose theircontract." "Yeah, we're as ghosts in this." "Won't but rattle the floor." "Shiny." "Let's be bad guys." "Hands and knees and heads bowed down!" "Eve·body, down!" "[Woman screaming]" "[Grunting]" "Looks like this is the place." "You all wanna be looking ve· intently atyourown belly buttons." "I see a head sta·to rise, violence is going to ensue." "Probably guessed we mean to be thieving here... butwhatwe're a·er is notyours." "So let's have no undue fussing." "She's locked up." "[People murmuring]" "Do you knowwhat the definition ofa hero is?" "Someone who gets other people killed." "You can look it up later." "Big happy·mily." "[Beeping]" "At last." "We can retire and give up this li· ofcrime." "[Metal rattling]" "Hey!" "You all are Browncoats, eh?" "Fought·r independence?" "Petfythieving ain't exactly soldiers' work." "War's long done." "We're all just·lk now." "Listen up!" "We are coming down to empfythatvault!" "GUARD:" "You have to give me yourauthorization password!" "GUARD:" "Okay." "I'm telling you I heard it." "Repeater." "Did sound somewhat like gun blast." "Maybe you ought run tell Lawman." "[Screaming]" "Whatthe hell is up?" "You all right?" "What's going on?" "Reavers." "The leg is good. lt'll bleed plenfy and we avoid any necessa· organs." "I was thinking more ofa graze." "No, you don'twant it to look like you gave up." "No, I getthat." "JAYNE:" "Mal!" "Eve· heist, he's got to sta·yelling my name." "Mal!" "Reavers!" "The girl's pitching a fit." "They're here orthey're coming soon." "Get on the Mule." "Does that lock from the inside?" "Yes." "Get eve·one upstairs." "You get them down here and you seal it." "As long as you got air you don't open up, you understand?" "Getthem inside the vault!" "You see them?" "Zoe, take the wheel!" "JAYNE:" "Anybody see them?" "Take me with you!" "Get back in the vaultwith the others." "l can't stay here!" "Please!" "lt's too many." "Move ahead." "Please!" "[Screaming]" "[Engine revving]" "Faster!" "Faster!" "Fasterwould be better!" "How come they ain't blowing us outthe air?" "Theywanna run us down." "The up-close kill." "Theywant us alive when they eat us." "Boy, sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don'tyou think?" "[Gun firing]" "Wash, baby, can you hear me?" "We're moments from air." "You got somebody behind you?" "Reavers." "Kaylee!" "Heat her up." "We got Reavers." "We're not gonna getto you in time." "Keep moving, honey." "We're coming to you." "JAYNE:" "Where's my clips?" "MAL:" "Rear hatch." "[Screaming]" "[Jayne yelling] I won't get ate!" "You shoot me iftheytake me!" "Well, don't shoot me first!" "[Jayne yelling]" "Get some distance on them." "You come to the flats, I wantyou to swing round." "We're gonna t· a Barn Swallow." "Simon!" "Open her up!" "MAL:" "They're closing on us!" "Those rocks, give them a taste." "W··· Okay, baby, we talked thisthrough." "Talking ain't doing." "[Speaking Chinese]" "[Whooshing]" "[Grunting]" "[Groaning]" "River?" "l swallowed a bug." "[Jayne groaning]" "Are you okay?" "ls he okay?" "[Screeching]" "W··· We all here?" "What's going on?" "Hello?" "No casualties." "ZOE:" "Anybody·llowing?" "·SH:" "Nice flying, baby." "That's a negative." "Clean getaway." "Set course ··r Beaumonde." "Firstthing, I wantthis body" "·YLEE:" "Simon!" "[Speaking Chinese]" "You son ofa whore." "l'm a hair's breadth... from riddling you with holes, Doctor." "One simple job!" "She'll be fine!" "She is fine!" "Except·r being still crazy, she's a picture of health!" "Wasn't·r River, we'd probably be le·there." "She ····· coming." "SIMON:" "Neveragain." "You understand me?" "Seems I remembera talk about you giving orders on my boat." "Well, we're o·your boat." "Just as soon as River gets hershare ofthe bounfy." "Let's not do anything hasfy" "No, shiny!" "We'll be on Beaumonde in 10 hours' time... you can pick up yourearnings and be on your mer·." "Meantime, you do your job." "Patch up my crew." "He didn't lie down." "They never lie down." "ZOE:" "No, I think things will glide a deal smoother·r us... without Riverand Simon on board... but how long do you think they'll last?" "Doc made his call." "Yeah." "They's as babes in a basket when we took them in." "We sheltered them plenfy." "Man has to cut loose, learn to stand on his own." "Like that man back in town?" "I had to shoot him." "What Reavers would've done be·re they killed him-- l know." "Thatwas a piece of mer·." "But be·re that, him begging us to bring him along." "We couldn'ttake the weight." "Would've slowed us down." "You knowthat·rce·ain?" "Mule won't run with five." "I should've dumped the girl?" "Oryou?" "OrJayne?" "Oh, Jayne...." "You could've tossed the payload." "Tossed the...." "Zoe, I got bits ····· my ship, I got a crew ain't been paid... and, oh, yeah, a powerful need to eat sometime this month." "We tell Fanfy and Mingo we skunked the job... what do think they'll do to us?" "We're close to gone out here." "We get a job, we gotto make good." "Sir, I don't disagree on any pa·icular point." "It's just... in the time of war, we would've never le· a man stranded." "Maybe that's whywe lost." "Thatwas close." "JAYNE:" "I do not get it." "How's a guy get so wrong?" "Cutting on his own ··, raping and murdering." "I'll kill a man in a ··r···... or if I think he's gonna sta· a ··r···... or if he bothers me, or ifthere's a woman... or if I'm getting paid." "Mostly onlywhen I'm getting paid." "These Reavers, the last 10 years... they show up like the boogeyman from stories." "Eating people alive?" "Where does that getfun?" "Shepherd Book said theywas men who just... reached the edge ofspace, saw a vasfy nothingness... and went bibbledy over it." "Oh, hell." "I've been to the edge." "Just looked like more space." "I don't know." "It can get awful lonely in the black." "Like to get addlepated ourselves, we stay on this boat much longer." "Captain will drive us all o·, one by one." "Just like Simon and River." "Just like Inara." "Kaylee, are you evergoing to putthat capture down?" "···· We gotto have records ofeve·thing, Inara." "A bona fide companion entertained clients on this ve· ship." "ln this ve· bed." "Well, I can't do mywork here." "And I don'tthinkthe Captain approves." "The Captain wants you to stay" "That man doesn't knowwhat he wants." "I don't have time to...." "[Music playing]" "[People chattering]" "WOMAN:" "Don'ttalk to the barkers, talk to the captains." "You look the captain in the eye." "Knowwho you're dealing with." "I wish there was...." "You shouldn't oughtto be so clean." "It's a dead giveawayyou don't belong, you always gotto be tidy." "Don't pay anybody in advance." "And don't ride in anything with a Capissen 3· engine... they·ll right out ofthe sky." "Kaylee." "River, do you wantto staywith them?" "It isn't sa·." "No." "I ·············or·." "Forthem." "[People clamoring]" "MAN: (ON TV) ...only su·ivors of the massacre apparently... locked themselves in the train station vault." "Kaylee, this is a place of business." "We can talk about Simon when" "When he's ·ourwor·····?" "OrtheAlliance gets a hold of him and River?" "MAL:" "That ain't mywor·." "I gotto finish this job and get us anotherone." "Can't do that car·ing those ·o." "·YLEE:" "How can you be so cold?" "Captain didn't make them fugitives." "But he could have made them ··." "Instead of keeping Simon from seeing I was there." "When I carried such a torch, when we could've...." "We're going on a year now, I ain't had nothing ·ixt my nethers... weren't run on batteries." "Oh, God!" "I can't knowthat!" "I could stand to heara little more." "Ifyou had a care ·or anybody's hea·" "You knew he was gonna leave." "We never been but a way station to those ·o." "And how do you knowwhat he ····" "He's got Riverto wor· on but he still could've shown you.... lf l trulywanted someone bad enough... wouldn't be a thing in the 'verse could stop me from going to her." "Tell thatto lnara." "Domestictroubles?" "Domestictroubles?" "'Cause we don'twanna interrupt." "A man should keep his house in order." "Fanfy." "Mingo." "He's Mingo." "He's Fanfy." "You're Mingo." "How is ityou always know?" "Fanfy's prettier." "Feel to do some business?" "Endeavors." "MINGO:" "Quite a crewyou've got." "Yeah, they're a fine bunch of reubens." "Howyou keep them on that crap boat, is the su·ect... of much musing be·een me and Fanfy." "We go on and on." "So I'm noticing." "is there a problem we don't know of?" "You got a sweettake kissing your·ot." "How's aboutyou take your25%, we can talk aboutthe next job?" "Well, ourend is 40, precious." "My muscular buttocks it's 40." "lt is... as of now." "Find anyone around going cheaper...." "Find anyone around going near... a sor· lot like you in the first instance." "FANTY:" "You're unpredictable, Mal." "You run when you oughtto fight." "Fightwhen you oughtto deal." "Makes a businessperson a little ·itchy." "[People chattering]" "[Singing]" "[Voices chattering]" "Miranda." "[Groaning]" "[People screaming]" "Hey!" "A tussle!" "Jayne." "·larm beeping]" "[Grunting]" "Do you knowthat girl?" "I really don't." "Gorrammit, girl, it's me!" "[Grunts]" "[Groaning]" "[Speaking Chinese]" "[Groaning]" "May I see her?" "I believe you've got some sto·telling to do." "What in the hell happened back there?" "Sta·with the pa·where Jayne gets knocked out by a 00-pound girl." "'Cause I don'tthink that's evergetting old." "Do we know ifanyone was killed?" "lt's likely." "I know she meantto kill me be·re the Doc put herout." "Which, how exactly does thatwork anyhow?" "It's a sa· word." "The people who helped me break Riverout... had intel that River and the othersu·ects were being... embedded with behavioral conditioning." "Theytaught me a sa· word..." "in case something happened." "Not sure I get it." "It's a phrase that makes her·ll asleep." "lf l speak the words" "Don't say it!" "It onlyworks on her, Jayne." "Well, now I knowthat." ""ln case something happened."" "You ···· elaborate on whatthat something might be?" "They neversaid what" "And you neverdid ask." "Getyour hands o·" "Eight months." "Eight months, you had heron my boat... knowing full well she could go monkeyshit... atthe wrong word." "You neversaid a thing." "I brought herout here so they couldn't getto her." "l don't even knowwhatthey" "My ship!" "My crew!" "You had a gorramn time bomb living with us!" "Who we gonna find in there when she wakes up?" "The girl?" "Orthe weapon?" "I thought she was getting better." "And I thoughttheywas getting o·!" "Didn'twe have an intricate plan how theywas gonna be not here anymore?" "We couldn't leave them now." "No, nowthat... she's a killerwoman we oughtto be bringing hertea and dumplings." "In earnest, Mal, why'd you bring her back on?" "May I see her?" "She goes woolly again, we're gonna have to put a bulletto her." "It's crossed my mind." "Can I make a suggestion that doesn't involve violence..." "or is this the wrong crowd?" "Honey." "W···W·r······a······r than usual here." "We need to get our bearings." "I thinkwe need to talk to Mr. Universe." "[Voices chattering]" "[Static crackling]" "Oh, this is good." "You guys always bring me the ve· bestviolence." "You thinkyou're in a hot place?" "That'swhat we're looking to learn." "Isthere anyfollow up, a newswave?" "There is no news." "There's the truth ofthe signal." "What I see." "And, there's the puppettheater... the Parliament jesters ··· on the somnambulant public." "Well, what aboutthis?" "Did this make the puppettheater?" "No, sir." "And no lawforce flags, either." "I had to go into the securityfeed direct." "You can do that?" "Can't stop the signal, Mal." "Eve·thing goes somewhere, and I go eve·where." "Security·eds are a traipse to access... and I wasn'tthe first one in." "This has prints on it." "So somebody else has been ·····." "Zoe, you suit· minx, stopfalling in love with me." "You'rejust gonna embarrass yourself." "I have a commitmentto my Lovebot." "Itwas a ve· beautiful ceremony." "Lenore wrote herown vows... I cried like a baby, a hung·, ang· baby." "And she ·······." "Which, she would be sleepy." "Can you go back?" "See ifanybody spoke with her be·re she acted up." "Made any kind ofcontactwith her." "Miranda." ""Miranda"?" "Go back ·u··r." "No." "MAL:" "Please." "[Singing]" "Mal, you're ve· sma·." "Someone is talking to her." "The oafy bar?" "Subliminal." "It's a subliminal message, broadwaved to trigger her." "I've been seeing this code pop up all over, the last·wweeks." "It'sAlliance and it's high milita·." "They have gone to enormoustrouble to find your little friend." "And found her, they have." "Do you all knowwhat it is you're car·ing?" "They're afraid of me." "l'm sor·." "They should be." "But I'll showthem." "Oh, God." "It's okay." "Hey, it's okay." "Show me o· like a dog." "Old men covered in blood." "It nevertouched them, butthey're drowning in it." "I don't knowwhat I'm saying." "I never knowwhat I'm saying." "In the Maidenhead, you said something." "When you were triggered, do you remember?" "The Captain sawyou say something on the ····." "Miranda." "Miranda." "Ask her." "Who is Miranda?" "Am I talking to Miranda now?" "No." "Not right." "But I thinkwhen theytriggered you... it somehow broughtthis up." "This memo·." "lt isn't mine." "The memo·, it isn't mine." "And I shouldn't have to car· it." "It isn't mine." "Don't make me sleep again." "l won't." "I won't." "Put a bulletto me." "Bullet in the brainpan, squish." "Don't saythat." "Not ever." "We'll getthrough this." "Things are going to get much, much worse." "MAL:" "Thanks ·or···u··· again, Shepherd." "SHEPHERD:" "You got a plan?" "Hiding ain't a plan?" "It'll do you ·or a spell." "And the ····r····fy· ofthe extra coin." "ButtheAlliance will be coming." "They're a·erthis girl with a powerful will." "I look to hearthe tromp oftheir boots any moment." "[Bird hooting]" "You won't." "SHEPHERD:" "This isn't a palms-up milita· run, Mal." "No repo·s broadwaved... no warrants." "Much as theywant her, theywant her hid." "That means closed file." "Means an operative." "Which is trouble you've not known." "I could have le· herthere." "I had an out." "Hell, I had eve· reason in the 'verse... to leave her lay and haul anchor." "It's notyourway, Mal." "I have a way?" "That betterthan a plan?" "Only one thing is gonna walkyou through this, Mal." "Belief." "You know I always look to you ·or counsel... but sermons make me sleepy, Shepherd." "I ain't looking ·or····ro· on high." "That's a long wait·ra train don't come." "When I talk about belief, why do you always assume I'm talking about God?" "They'll come atyou sideways." "It's howtheythink. lt's howthey move." "Sidle up and smile." "Hityou where you're weak." "So· of man they're like to send believes hard." "Kills and neverasks why." "It's of interestto me how much you seem to know aboutthatworld." "I wasn't born a Shepherd, Mal." "Have to tell me aboutthat sometime." "No, I don't." "WOMAN:" "River?" "River, you look tired." "I think eve·body's a little tired by now." "Why don'twe all lie down." "A little peace and quietwill make eve·thing better." "River." "Do as you're told." "No." "lt's going to be fine." "Lie down." "No." "MAN:" "Cutthem down." "MAL:" "What?" "·SH:" "Mal!" "You up?" "I got a wave. I'm gonna bounce it down to you." "Inara." "I...." "Isthis a bad time?" "No, this... good as any." "How's yourworld?" "Cold. it's autumn here." "Still atthe Training House?" "[lnara clears throat]" "So, what occasions the wave?" "Notthatto see you ain't...." "Well, you look ve·fine." "O£." "Thankyou." "MAL:" "So, what wasthe...." "l guesswe're having something of a problem here with the locals." "And, I thought maybe" "You could use a gun hand?" "I'm hoping not." "But ifyou happen to be close at all, you...." "The crew could take yourease here for a while." "And there'd be payment." "Well, itwould be...." "I mean, I'd like to." "Kaylee's been missing you something fierce." "Oh, man." "l miss her, too." "I even miss my shuttle, occasionally." "Yeah, you le·...." "Got some ofyourstu· in a trunk." "I neverdid get a chance to drop it o·." "l didn't mean to leave stu·." "l didn't look through the stu·." "I just...." "Just sundries I expect." "So I'll send you a wave, soon as I can." "Thankyou." "Inara, nice to see heragain." "So, trap?" "Trap." "We going in?" "Only but a ·· hours out." "Yeah, but, rememberthe pa· where it's a trap?" "Ifthat's the case, then lnara's already caught in it." "She wouldn't set us up willing." "Might be we got a shot at seeing who's turning these wheels." "We go in." "But how can you be sure lnara don't justwanna see you?" "Sometimes people have ······." "I'm re·rring here to people." "You all were watching, I take it." "Yes." "Did you see us fight?" "No." "Trap." "We're about 70 miles from the Training House, and nobody on radar." "lftheAlliance is about, they're laying low." "They're about." "Find us a home. I'll take the shuttle a little closer." "Zoe, ship is yours." "Remember. lfanything happens to me... or ifyou don't hearfrom me within the hour... you take this ship and you come and you rescue me." "What?" "Risk my ship?" "l mean it." "It's cold outthere." "And I don'twanna get le·." "Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony, and a plastic rocket, and" "Mal!" "What are you doing here?" "Well, you invited me." "I neverthought·ra second you'd be stupid enough to come." "Well, that makes you kind ofa tease, doesn't it?" "You knew my invitation wasn't on the level." "Which led me to conclude thatyou must be in some trouble." "I'm fine. I'm giddy." "Fora woman schooled in telling a man what he wants to hear..." "you ain't much ofa liar." "Mal, you cannot handle this man." "I have to say, Captain... I'm impressed thatyou would come ·or··ryour··." "And thatyou would make itthis ··, in that outfit." "I can be ve· graceful when I need to." "I've no doubt." "What are you doing?" "l'm praying ·oryou,··." "She's ve·thoughtful." "But I mean itwhen I say I've no intentto harm you." "Speakyour piece." "I thinkyou're beginning to understand... how dangerous RiverTam is." "She is a mite unpredictable." "Mood swings, ofa so·." "lt's worse than you know." "lt usually is." "That girl will rain destruction down on you and yourship." "She is an albatross, Captain." "Way I remember it... albatross was a ship's good luck, till some idiot killed it." "Yes, I've read a poem." "T· notto ···." "I've seen yourwar record." "I know howyou must·el about thealliance." "You really don't." "Fairto say." "But I have to hope you understand, you can't beat us." "I got no need to beatyou." "l justwantto go myway." "And you can do that... once you let me take RiverTam back home." "No, no." "You're working this deal all crabbed." "You gotto open with payment." "That is a trap." "I o·r money, you'll play the man of honorand take umbrage." "I askyou to do what is right, you'll playthe brigand." "I have no stomach ·or games." "I already knowyou will not see reason." "thealliance wanted to show me a reason... they shouldn't have sent an assassin." "I have a warship in deep orbit, Captain." "We locked on to Serenity's···· beacon the momentyou hit atmo." "I can speak a word and send a missile... to that exact location inside ofthree minutes." "You do that... you'd best make peace with yourdearand ··· lord." "Pulse beacon." "Advice from an old tracker." "You wantto find someone, use youreyes." "How long do you think you can really run from us?" "I nevercredited thealliance with an overabundance of brains." "And ifyou're the bestthey got" "Captain Reynolds... I should tell you, so thatyou don'twaste yourtime..." "you can't make me ang·." "Please, spend an hourwith him." "I wantto resolve this like civilized men." "I'm notthreatening you." "l'm unarmed." "Good." "[Gun firing]" "I am, ofcourse, wearing full body armor." "l am not a moron." "Wait, just let" "·ll grunting] [lnara groans]" "[Glass shattering]" "[Groaning]" "What, no backup?" "Making an awful ruckus." "They'll come when they're needed." "I'd sta·whistling." "Captain, what do you think is going to happen here?" "[Both grunting]" "[lnara groans]" "[Groans]" "[Glass shatters]" "Nothing here is what it seems." "He isn'tthe plucky hero." "thealliance isn't some evil empire." "This is notthe grand arena." "And that's not incense." "[Beeping]" "Sir, can you hear me?" "Just a flash bomb." "Go." "Go!" "[lnara and Mal grunting]" "Inara:" "What have you done to my shuttle?" "MAL:" "It's notyourshuttle." "MAL:" "Head east." "Keep her low." "[Engine revving]" "Okay, ··r············." "There must be anotherwayto track the ship." "Get a read on the nav. sat." "It's a registered transpo·, you must be able to locate." "ENSIGN:" "Sir?" "Yes, have you ·ou·· a nav. sat. tr·ecto·?" "Sir, we ·u··se··." "INARA:" "We've every reason to be afraid." "Why, 'cause this guy beat up Mal?" "That ain't so hard." "He didn't beat me up." "Nobody said that." "Because he's a believer." "He's intelligent, methodical, and devout in his belief... that killing River is the rightthing to do." "So no hope ofa reward, huh?" "Did he say anything about a Miranda?" "What is that?" "Don't knowwho orwhat, but it's on River's mind." "Conjure it might be the reason they're a·er her." "You think maybe it poses some kind ofthreatto thealliance?" "Do we care?" "Are we caring aboutthat?" "You dumb-ass hogs, the only people she's a threatto is... us on this boat." "Look, we get back to Haven..." "in a ·· hours' time." "Oh, yeah." "Hiding underthe Shepherd's ski·s... that's a manful scheme." "You wanna run this ship?" "Yes." "Well, you can't." "Do a damn sight better job than you." "Getting us lashed overa couple ofstrays." "No o·nse, Doc." "I think it's noble as a grape... the wayyou look to River." "But she ain't my sister and she ain'tyourcrew." "Oh, and neither is she exactly helpless." "So, where's itwritthatwe got to lay down our lives ·or··r?" "Which is whatyou've steered us toward." "I didn't sta·this." "No, that's right." "Alliance sta·s the war, and then you volunteer." "Battle ofSerenify, Mal." "Besides Zoe here, how many...." "Hey, I'm talking atyou." "How many men in your platoon came out ofthere alive?" "You wanna leave this room." "Damn right, I do." "This isn'tthe war, Mal." "You telling me that 'cause you think I don't know?" "You came to the Training House looking ·or a fight." "I came looking ·oryou." "I justwantto knowwho I'm dealing with." "I've seen too manyversions ofyou to be sure." "I sta·fighting a war, I guarantee you'll see something new." "We'll get o·." "Riverand I will get o·at Haven." "We'll find some" "Nobody's saying that." "Nobody besides Jayne is saying that." "Mal." "I got no answers ·oryou, Inara." "I got no rudder." "Wind blows no·herly, I go no·h." "That's who I am." "Now, maybe that ain't a man to lead, butthey have to ···." "So you wanna tear me down..." "do it inside yourown mind." "l'm nott·ing to tearyou down." "Butyou ·o·····u·." "You always have." "You spin me about." "I wish like hell you was elsewhere." "I was." "[Rumbling]" "[Flies buzzing]" "[Gasps]" "[Speaking Chinese]" "[Beeping]" "No trouble, little crazy person." "We're going ·or a nice shuttle ride." "[Gun fires]" "[Doorknob rattling]" "She's out." "Jayne's down." "The otherway." "Find herand do not engage." "[Beeping]" "It's gonna be okay" "[Coughs]" "She's sealed o·the bridge." "I do not like herthere." "Check the shuttle." "She could have snuck in." "Captain." "[Computer beeping]" "The government's man, he says you're a dangerto us." "Notwo·h helping." "is he right?" "Are you anything but a weapon?" "I've staked my crew's li· on the theo·you're a person... actual and whole, and if I'm wrong, you'd best shoot me now." "[Clicks]" "Orwe could talk more." "Miranda." "How can it be there's a whole planet called Miranda... and none of us knowed that?" "Because there isn't one." "It's a blackrock." "Uninhabitable." "Terra·rming didn't hold, orsome such." "Few settlers died." "ZOE:" "Was it right be·re the war?" "I had to showthem. I didn't know ifyou were going to make me sleep." "SIMON:" "You could have asked." "·YLEE:" "Wait a tick, yeah." "Some years back, there was call ··r workers to settle on Miranda." "Daddytalked about it." "Nothing about it... on the Co·ex." "Histo·, Astronomy, it's not in there." "Halfof writing histo· is hiding the truth." "There's something on that rock thealliance doesn'twant known." "That's right atthe edge ofthe Burnham Quadrant, right?" "Fu·hest planet out?" "It's notthat·rfrom here." "Whoa." "No." "No." "Honey..." "That's a bad notion." "...you showthem the bad." "l got it, baby." "This is us, at Haven, and here's Miranda." "All along here, that empfy space in be·een, that's Reaverterrito·." "They justfloat outthere, sending out raiding pa·ies." "ZOE:" "Nobodyventures there." "Not even thealliance." "You go through that, you're signing up to be a banquet." "I'm on board with ourstandard run-and-hide scenario." "And we are just about...." "Wait." "JAYNE:" "Doesn't look like Reavers." "MAL:" "Wasn't." "·YLEE:" "Shepherd?" "Shepherd?" "·YLEE:" "Shepherd Book?" "[Cocking gun]" "[Shepherd coughing]" "Getthe Doc." "Shepherd." "[Gasping]" "Don't move." "Won't go ··." "Shouldn't have been you." "Alliance should've hit us." "Should've hit me." "That crossed my mind." "l shot him down." "Yeah. I see." "I killed the ship that killed us." "Notve· Christian of me." "You did what's right." "Coming from you, that means almost nothing." "l'm long gone." "No, Docwill bring you around." "I look to be bored by many more sermons be·re you slip." "Just don't move." "Can't order me around, boy." "I'm not one ofyourcrew." "Yes, you are." "River...." "Come on." "Hey." "I don't care whatyou believe." "Just believe it." "Whateveryou...." "How come they ain'twaiting?" "They knowed we was coming, how come they only sent one?" "They didn't knowwe were coming here." "Get on the Co·ex." "Wave, Li Shen, the Sanchez brothers... anyone who has eversheltered us a·era heist." "Tell them to get out." "Get out now." "I'm sor·." "lfyourquar· goesto ground, leave no ground to go to." "You should have taken my o·er." "Ordid you think none ofthis was yourfault?" "I don't murderchildren." "I do." "lf l have to." "Why?" "Do you even knowwhythey sentyou?" "It's not my place to ask." "I believe in something greaterthan myself." "A betterworld." "Aworld without sin." "So me and mine gotta lay down and die... so you can live in your betterworld?" "I'm not going to live there." "There's no place for me there... any more than there isforyou." "Malcolm... I'm a monster." "What I do is evil." "I have no illusions about it, but it must be done." "Keep talking." "You're not getting a location trace o·this wave." "And eve· minute you keep RiverTam from me, more people will die." "You think I care?" "Ofcourse you care." "You're not a Reaver, Mal." "You're a human man and you will never understand how" "MAL:" "Getthese bodies together." "We gottime ·or grave digging?" "Zoe, you and Simon rope them together." "Five orsix. I wantthem laid out on the nose ofourship." "Are you insane?" "l won't desecrate these bodies." "l don't understand." "What do you mean, the bodies-- l wantyou to muck up the reactorcore." "Just enough to leave a trail and make it read like... we're flying without containment, not enough to ·· us." "These people are ourfriends." "Kaylee... you got a day's work to do and ·o hours to do it." "Jayne, you and Wash hoist up the cannon mount." "Goes right on top." "Piece or·o ofthe othership, stick it on." "Any place you can tear hull without inner breach, do that, too." "We're gonna need paint." "We're gonna need red paint." "ZOE:" "Sir... do you really mean to turn our home into an abomination... so thatwe can make a suicidal attempt... at passing through Reaverspace?" "I mean to live." "I mean ·or us to live." "thealliance won't have that, so we go where they don't·llow." "God's balls, there ain't no way we're going outthere." "Think aboutwhatyou're asking." "...those Reavers'll eat us alive" "This is how it is." "Anybody doesn'twanna flywith me anymore... this is your po· of harbor." "There's a lot offine ways to die." "I ain'twaiting ·or·· Alliance to choose mine." "[Gun firing] I mean to con·und these bungers." "Take my shot at getting to Miranda." "Maybe find something I can use to get clearofthis." "So I heara word out ofany ofyou that ain't helping me out... ortaking your leave, I will shootyou down." "Getto work." "ZOE:" "Sir" "MAL:" "Justtell me when we're close." "[People screaming]" "MAL:" "Wash." "Define "disappeared."" "ZOE:" "Eve· reading I'm getting says normal." "Oceans, land masses." "No tectonic instabilify or radiation." "Yeah, but no power, either." "Nothing at all?" "Wait." "Something." "It might be a beacon, but it's awful weak." "Find it." "Gravify's Ea·hnorm." "O2 levels check, pressure.... lfanything's wrong the scanner's not reading it." "Well, something sure the hell ain't right." "This ain't no little settlement." "We flew overat least a dozen cities just as big." "Why didn'twe ever hearaboutthis?" "[Beeping]" "Beacon's up ahead." "Ho." "No ent·wounds, fractures." "Poison?" "Got anotherone." "They's just sitting here." "They didn't crash." "[Male announcerchattering]" "Kaylee." "Don't...." "[Screams]" "How come these ones are prese·ed?" "Place must've gone hermetic when the power blew." "MAL:" "Sealed them." "·YLEE:" "What are they doing?" "What's eve·body doing?" "There's no unusual discoloration." "Nobody's doubled over orshowing signs of pain." "MAL:" "There's gasses that kill painless, right?" "They didn't·ll." "None ofthem." "They just lay down." "[River muttering in Chinese]" "Make them stop." "They're eve·here." "Eve· cify, eve·...." "Eve· house, eve· room, they're all inside me." "I can hearthem all, and they're saying nothing!" "Get up." "Please get up." "[Speaking Chinese]" "Please, God, make me a stone." "She is sta·ing to damage my calm." "ZOE:" "Jayne." "JAYNE:" "She's right!" "Eve·body's dead." "This whole world is dead ·or no reason!" "Let's getto the beacon." "This is the source?" "JAYNE:" "This ship's banged up all to hell." "These arejust a few of the few imageswe've recorded." "And you can see... it isn't what we thought." "There's been no war here... and no terraforming event." "The environment is stable." "It'sthe Pax." "The G-23 Paxilon Hydroclorate that we added to the air processors." "It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression." "Well, it works." "The people here stopped fighting." "And then they stopped eve·thing else." "They stopped going to work... they stopped breeding, talking, eating." "There's 3· million people here, and they alljust letthemselves die." "[Crashing] I have to be quick." "About a tenth of a percent of... the population had the opposite reaction to the Pax." "Their aggressor response increased beyond madness." "They have become...." "[Crashing]" "Well, they've killed most of us." "And not just killed... they've done things." "Reavers." "They made them." "I won't live to reportthis, but people have to know." "We meant itforthe best... to make people safer." "[Reavers growling]" "God!" "[Woman screaming]" "Turn it o·." "[Sobbing]" "[Retching]" "River." "l'm all right." "I'm all right." "MAL:" "This report is maybe 12 years old." "Parliament buried it, and it stayed buried till Riverdug it up." "This is whatthey·ared she knew." "And theywere rightto ···... because there's a whole universe of ··w·o are gonna know it, too." "They're gonna see it." "Somebody has to speak ··r·······fy·." "You all got on this boat ·or di·rent reasons... butyou all come to the same place." "So now I'm asking more ofyou than I have be·re." "Maybe all." "Sure as I know anything I knowthis, theywill t· again." "Maybe on anotherworld, maybe on this ve· ground swept clean." "Ayearfrom now, 10, they'll swing back to the belief... thatthey can make people... better." "And I do not hold to that." "So no more running." "I aim to misbehave." "Shepherd Book used to tell me:" ""lfyou can't do something sma·..." ""do something right."" "Do we have a plan?" "Mr." "Universe." "We haven'tthe equipment to broadwave this code... but he can put it on eve· screen ·or 30 worlds." "He's pretfy damn close, too." "We still gotthe Reavers... and probablytheAlliance, be·een us and him." "JAYNE:" "That's ·o armies against ourone bitfy cannon." "It's a ··r···· Alliance knows about Mr. Universe." "They're gonna see this coming." "No." "They're not gonna see this coming." "[Engine revving]" "No problem." "Bring it on." "Bring it on." "Bring it on." "From here to the eyes and ears of the 'verse." "That's my motto... or it might be, if I start having a motto." "We won't be long." "You're going to get caught in the ion cloud." "It'll play mer· hob with your radar... but pretty lights and a few miles a·eryou'll be right in my orbit." "You'll let us know ifanyone else comes atyou?" "You'll be the first." "There." "Toss me my 30 coin, but I got a newswave ·oryou" "[Gasping]" "Call in eve· ship in the quadrant." "We'll meetthem in the air." "Destroy it all." "MAL:" "Wash, we almostthrough?" "Now!" "W··· Go!" "Move!" "l'm reading activify in the cloud." "Lock and fire on my command." "You should have let me see her, Captain." "We should have done this as men." "Notwith fire." "HELMSMAN:" "Sir." "[Electronic beeping]" "Vessel in range." "Lock on." "Bastard's not even changing course." "Sir!" "Targetthe Reavers." "Targetthe Reavers!" "Target eve·one!" "Somebodyfire!" "I am a leafon the wind." "Watch how I soar." "Chicken's come home to roost." "The hell?" "lt's okay." "l am a leafon the wind!" "What does that mean?" "W···W·r······r·u·." "No!" "No!" "No!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "We're not alone." "EMP!" "Eve·body, strap yourselves into something!" "MAL:" "Jayne." "JAYNE:" "Got it." "Kaylee, come on." "We're fried. I got no control." "Where's the backup?" "Where's the backup?" "Check!" "Check!" "[Engine whining]" "[Jayne screaming]" "[Whooshing]" "MAL:" "Get up!" "·YLEE:" "Stop it!" "Backup reads at 20%." "Can you get us down?" "l'm going to have to glide her in." "Will thatwork?" "[Screaming]" "[Panting]" "I am a leafon the wind." "Watch how" "[Gasps]" "Wash, baby." "Baby, no." "Baby, come on." "You gotta go." "Come on." "We gotta move." "Baby, please." "We gotta move, baby, come on." "MAL:" "Zoe!" "Move out!" "Now!" "Go." "Go." "Head inside!" "Jayne, rearguard." "MAL:" "Zoe, what've we got?" "ZOE:" "Sir... this is a good hold point." "We all staytogether." "No." "They have to come through here." "They'll bottleneck, we can thin them out." "We get pushed back, there's the blast doors." "I can rig them so theywon't reopen once they close." "Shutthem and hide until I get" "We need to drawthem till it's done." "This is the place." "We'll buyyou the time." "All right, let's move those crates back there ·or cover." "Make sure they ain'tfilled with nothing goes boom." "Wait, Wash!" "Where's Wash?" "He ain't coming." "Move the gorramn crates!" "[Reavers howling]" "Tell me you broughtthem this time." "[Reavers growling]" "[Explosion]" "[Grunting]" "Zoe?" "Are you here?" "Do the job, sir." "You hold." "Hold till I get back." "Captain's right." "Can't be thinking on revenge if we're gonna getthrough this." "Do you reallythink any of us are gonna getthrough this?" "I might." "[Static crackling]" "No." "Mal." "Guy killed me, Mal." "He killed me with a sword." "Howweird isthat?" "I got a short span here." "They destroyed my equipment... but I have a backup unit." "Bottom ofthe complex, right overthe generator." "Hard to getto. I knowthey missed it." "They can't stopthe signal, Mal." "They can neverstopthe signal." "[Reavers growling]" "The Reavers." "They are all made up of rage." "lt's okay. lt's okay." "l can't shutthem up." "[Banging on doo·" "Stay low." "She picked a sweet bung ofa time to go helpless on us." "Jayne and I take the firstwave." "Nobody shoots unless they get past ourfire." "I didn't plan on going out like this." "I thinkwe did right, but...." "No. I never planned...anything." "I justwanted to keep Riversa·." "Spent so much time on Serenity ignoring anything... that I wanted ·or myself." "My one regret in all ofthis... is never being with you." "With me?" "You mean to say, as...." "Sex?" "I mean to say." "[Metal squeaks]" "Hell with this. I'm gonna live." "Mal." "Guy killed me, Mal." "He killed me with a sword." "[Reavers howling]" ""Hard to getto."" "That's a ··." "Zoe, gorrammit!" "[Reavers shrieking]" "[Zoe screaming]" "Zoe, getyourass back on the line!" "[Screaming]" "[Groaning]" "You shot me in the back!" "I haven't made you ang·, have I?" "There are a lot of innocent people in the air being killed right now." "You have no idea howtrue that is." "I knowthe secret." "The truth that burned up RiverTam's brain." "Rest ofthe 'verse is going to know it, too. 'Cause they need to." "Do you really believe that?" "l do." "You willing to die ·or·····?" "I am." "[Screaming]" "[Gun firing]" "Ofcourse, that ain't exactly Plan A." "[Groaning]" "Spine's intact." "Just give me a bandage." "[Gasping]" "[Grunting]" "[Both grunting]" "[Sobbing]" "JAYNE:" "Up high, le·!" "[Groaning]" "[Gasping]" "Kaylee!" "Fall back!" "Eve·body, ···· Fall back now!" "Jayne, grenade." "JAYNE:" "Ve· last one." "They're gonna get in." "I can close itfrom the outside." "No one's coming back from that." "How much ammo do we have?" "Three, ·our max, and my swinging cod." "That's all." "The li· isn't moving." "When they come, t·to plug the hole with it." "I'm sta·ing to lose some ·······r·." "Lie still. I'm going to give you something...." "My bag." "[Gun fires]" "[Gun firing]" "Keep pressure here." "SIMON:" "My bag." "I need... adrenaline and a shot of... calaphar·r Kaylee." "I can't." "River." "River, I'm sor·." "No." "l hate to leave." "You won't." "You take care of me, Simon." "You've always taken care of me." "Myturn." "[Operative and Mal grunting]" "Do you knowwhatyoursin is, Mal?" "Hell. I'm a ·· ofall seven." "[Groaning]" "But right now... I'm going to have to go with wrath." "We ain't got long." "[Thudding]" "You suppose he gotthrough?" "Do you think Mal gotthe word out?" "He gotthrough. I know he gotthrough." "[Coughing]" "I'm sor·." "[Groaning]" "You should knowthere's no shame in this." "You've done remarkable things." "Butyou're fighting a war... you've already lost." "[Groaning]" "Well, I'm known ·or··." "Piece ofshrapnel tore up that ne·e cluster myfirsttour." "Had it moved." "Sor· aboutthe throat." "Expectyou'd wantto sayyour ··ou···wor··r····." "Just one trouble." "I ain't gonna kill you." "Hell, I'm gonna grantyourgreatestwish." "I'm gonna showyou a world without sin." "These arejust a few of the few imageswe've recorded." "And you can see... it isn't what we thought." "There's been no war here... and no terraforming event." "The environment is stable." "It'sthe Pax." "The G-23 Paxilon Hydroclorate that we added to the air processors." "It was supposed to calm the population" "[Roaring]" "We meant itforthe best... to make people safer." "[Reavers growling]" "God!" "[Woman screaming]" "[Panting]" "Sir?" "lt's done." "Repo·." "River?" "SOLDIER 1:" "Drop yourweapons!" "SOLDIER 2:" "Do it now." "Weapons down." "Let it down, now." "I wantto see your hands in the air." "Stand down." "Do it." "Targets are acquired." "Do we have a kill order?" "Do we have an order?" "OPERATIVE:" "Stand down." "Stand down. lt'sfinished." "We're finished." "OPERATIVE:" "It's not over, you know." "I can't guarantee thattheywon't come a·eryou." "The Parliament." "Your broadwave about Miranda has weakened their regime." "They are not gone and they are not...·rgiving." "That don't bode especiallywell ·oryou... giving the orderto let us go, patching up our hu·." "I told them the Tams were no longer a threat, damage done." "They might listen... but I think they know I'm no longertheir man." "Theytake you down, I don't expectto grieve over much." "Like to kill you myself, I see you again." "You won't." "There is nothing le·to see." "Sir, we have a green light." "Inspection's pos and we're clear·r up-thrust." "Think she'll hold together?" "She's tore up plenfy." "But she'll flytrue." "Make sure eve·thing's secure." "Could be bumpy." "Always is." "Taking herout... should be about a day's ride to getyou back to yourgirls." "Right." "Readyto get o·this heap, back to civilized li·?" "I don't know." "Good answer." "So, you gonna ride shotgun with me, help me fly?" "That's the plan." "Thinkyou can work out" "[Engine revving]" "Okay." "Clearly some aptitude ··r··.... lt ain't all buttons and cha·s, little albatross." "You knowwhatthe first rule offlying is?" "Well, I suppose you do, since you already knowwhat I'm aboutto say." "RIVER:" "I do." "But I like to hearyou say it." "Love." "You can learn all the math in the 'verse... butyou take a boat in the airthatyou don't love... she'll shake you o· just as sure as the turn ofthe worlds." "Love keeps her in the air when she oughtto ·· down... tells you she's hu·ing be·re she keels." "Makes hera home." "[Rain pattering]" "Storm's getting worse." "We'll pass through it soon enough." "MAL:" "What wasthat?"