All language subtitles for Serenity.2005.1080p.BluRay.x264-OFT

WOMAN: Earth-That-Was

could no longer sustain our
numbers, we were so many.

We found a new solar system,

dozens of planets
and hundreds of moons.

Each one terraformed,
a process taking decades,

to support human life.
To be new Earths.

The central planets
formed the Alliance.

Ruled by an interplanetary
parliament,

the Alliance was
a beacon of civilization.

The savage outer planets
were not so enlightened,

and refused Alliance control.

The war was devastating.

But the Alliance's victory
over the Independents

ensured a safer universe.

And now, everyone
can enjoy the comfort

and enlightenment
of true civilization.

Why were
the Independents
even fighting us?

Why wouldn't they look
to be more civilized?

I hear they'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 wear their skins

and rape them for
hours and hours...

(SPEAKING CHINESE)

It's true that
there are dangers
on the outer planets.

So with so many social
and medical advancements

we can bring to
the Independents,

why would they fight
so hard against us?

We meddle.

River?

People don't like
to be meddled with.

We tell them
what to do,
what to think.

Don't run,
don't walk.

We're in their homes
and in their heads and
we haven't the right.

We're meddlesome.

River, we're not
telling people
what to think,

we're just trying
to show them how.

(SCREAMING)

DR. MATHIAS:
She's dreaming.
Got that?

Off the charts.

Scary monsters.

Let's amp it up.
Delcium, eight drop.

(PANTING)

See, most of our
best work is done
when they're asleep.

We can monitor
and direct their
subconscious,

implant suggestions.

It's a little startling
to see at first,

but the results
are spectacular.

Especially in this
case. River Tam is
our star pupil.

I've heard that.

She'll be ideal for
defense deployment,

even with the
side effects.

Tell me about them.

Well, obviously,
she's unstable.

The neural stripping
does tend to fragment

their own
reality matrix.

It manifests
as borderline...

What use do we have
for a psychic if
she's insane?

(GROANING)
DR. MATHIAS: She's
not just a psychic.

Given the right
trigger, this girl
is a living weapon.

She has her lucid
periods. We're hoping
to improve upon the...

I'm sorry, sir,
but I have to ask.

Is there a reason
for this inspection?

Am I making you nervous?

Key members of Parliament
have personally observed
this subject.

I was told that the
Alliance's support

for the project
was unanimous.

The demonstration
of her powers...

How is she physically?

Like nothing
we've seen.

All our subjects
are conditioned for
combat, but River,

she's a creature of
extraordinary grace.

Yes.

She always did
love to dance.

(MACHINERY WHIRRING)

(GLASS SHATTERING)

River, it's Simon.

(MOANING)

Please, it's Simon.

It's your brother.

Simon.

They know you've come.

(MACHINES BEEPING)

We can't make it
to the surface
from the inside.

(CLANGING)

Find out.

(GRUNTING)

(WIND HOWLING)

(MACHINERY CLANKING)

MAN: A subject is loose,
security breach. Shaft 7.

(THUDDING)

THE OPERATIVE: Stop.

Backtrack. Stop.

Excuse me,

no one is allowed
in the records room

without my express
permission.

Forgive me, but
I prefer to see the
event alone, without

bias.

I need to see
your clearance.

And you are right to insist.

(BEEPING)

AUTOMATED VOICE:
Parliamentary override.
Full access.

Apologies.

An operative of
the Parliament

will, of course,
have full cooperation.

I'm not sure what...

I see no listing
of rank or name.

I have neither.

Like this facility,
I don't exist.

Let's talk about
the Tams.

I assume you've scanned
the status logs...

River was your
greatest success.
A prodigy.

A phenomenon.

Until her brother
walked in here and
took her from you.

It's not quite
so simple.

I'm well aware of that.

There was no way
that I could...

No. No. Of course.

The boy spent
his entire fortune

developing the contacts
to infiltrate this place.

Gave up a brilliant
future in medicine
as well.

It's madness.

Madness?

Have you looked at
this scan carefully,
Doctor?

At his face?

It's love,
in point of fact.

Something a good deal
more dangerous.

Why are you here?

Because the situation
is even less simple
than you think.

Do you know what
your sin is,
Doctor?

I wonder if...
It's pride.

Key members of Parliament
have personally observed
this subject.

I was told that
the Alliance's
support...

"Key members
of Parliament."

Key.

The minds behind
every military,

diplomatic, and
covert operation

in the galaxy,
and you put them

in a room with
a psychic.

(STAMMERING) If there
was some classified
information that she...

She never spoke of it.
I don't know what it is.

Nor do I.

And judging by her
deteriorating
mental state,

I'd say we're
both better off.

Secrets are not
my concern.

Keeping them is.

Whatever secrets
she might have
accidentally gleaned,

it's probable she
doesn't even know
she knows them.

That they're buried
beneath layers
of psychosis.

You know,
in certain older
civilized cultures,

when men failed
as entirely

as you have, they would
throw themselves

on their swords.

Well, unfortunately,
I forgot to bring a sword.

I would put that
down right now,
if I were you.

Would you be killed
in your sleep like
an ailing pet?

(GRUNTING)

(SCREAMING)

THE OPERATIVE: Young miss...

(CLANKING)

Young miss, I'll need all
the logs on behavioral
modification triggers.

We'll have to reach
out to River Tam

and help her to
come back to us.

No matter how far
out Simon has...

(CLANKING)

(GASPING)

This is a good death.

(GASPING)

There's
no shame
in this,

in a man's death.
A man who has
done fine works.

We're making
a better world.

All of them,

better worlds.

Young miss,
I need you to
go to work now.

I think I may have
a long way to travel.

Where are you hiding,
little girl?

(EXPLOSION)

(ALARM BUZZING)
What was that?

Did you see that?

Was that
the primary
buffer panel?

It did seem
to resemble...

Did the primary
buffer panel

just fall off my
gorramn ship for
no apparent reason?

(RUMBLING)

Looks like.

I thought Kaylee
checked the entry
couplings.

I've a clear
memory of it.
If she doesn't get us

extra flow from the
engine room to offset
the burn-through,

this landing is gonna
get pretty interesting.

Define "interesting."

"Oh, God, we're
all gonna die?"

This is the captain.
We have a little problem

with our entry sequence,
so we may experience some

slight turbulence
and then explode.

Can you shave
the vector?
I'm doing it!

It's not enough.

Just get us
on the ground!

That part will happen
pretty definitely.

We're gonna explode?
I don't wanna explode.

Jayne, how many
weapons you plan
on taking?

You only got two arms.
I just get excitable

as to choice.
Like to have
my options open.

I don't plan on
any shooting taking
place during this job.

What you plan and what
takes place ain't ever
exactly been similar.

No grenades.
No grenades!
Huh? Aw!

We crashing again?

MAL: Talk to your husband.

Mule prepped?
Good to go, sir.

Just loading her up.

Those grenades?
JAYNE: Yeah, Captain
doesn't want them.

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 got the primary
buffer panel
coming right...

Everything's shiny,
Captain. Not to fret.

You told me those entry
couplings would hold
for another week!

That was six months
ago, Captain.

(ELECTRICITY BUZZING)

My ship don't crash.

If she crashes,
you crashed her.

Doctor.

Guess who needs to get
innocked before we
hit planet-side.

(CRASHING)

Bit of a
rockety ride.

Nothing to be
worried about.

I'm not worried.

Fear is nothing to be
ashamed of, Doctor.

This isn't fear.
This is anger.

Well, kind of hard
to tell one from the
other, face like yours.

Well, I imagine
if it were fear, my
eyes would be wider.

Hmm. I'll keep
a lookout for
that next time.

You're not taking her.

No, no, this is not
a thing I'm interested
in talking over with...

She's not going
with you, and
that's final.

I hear the words
"that's final" come out
your mouth ever again,

they truly will be.

This boat is
my home. You all
are guests on it.

Guests?

Now, I earned my
passage, Captain...

And it's time your
little sister learned
from your example.

I have earned
my passage

(EXPLOSION)

treating bullet holes,
knife wounds,
laser burns.

Some of our jobs are
more interesting
than others.

And you want to put
my sister in the
middle of that.

Didn't say "want."
Said "will."

It's one job, Doc.
She'll be fine.

She's a 17-year-old girl.

A mentally
traumatized 17...

She's a reader.

Sees into the
truth of things.

Might see trouble
before it's coming.
Which is of use to me.

And that's your guiding
star, isn't it?
What's of use.

(RUMBLING)

Honestly, Doctor,
I think we may really
crash this time anyway.

(CLICKING)

Do you understand
what I have gone
through

to keep River away
from the Alliance?

I do, and it's a
fact we here have
been courteous

enough to keep
to our own selves.

Are you
threatening to...

I look out for
me and mine.

That don't include you
less I conjure it does.

You stuck a thorn
in the Alliance's paw.
That tickles me a bit.

But it also means
I got to step twice
as fast to avoid them

and that means turning
down plenty of jobs.

Even honest ones.

Put this crew together
with the promise of work,

which the Alliance
makes harder
every year.

Come a day there won't
be room for naughty
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.

(METAL CLANKING)

Don't push me,
and I won't push you.

(SPEAKING CHINESE)

Zoe, Wash gonna
straighten this boat out
before we get flattened?

ZOE: Like a downy feather,
sir. No one flies
like my mister.

(ENGINE GRINDING)

(MAL AND ZOE CHATTERING)

SIMON: River.

I know. We're
going for a ride.

(ENGINE REVVING)

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

Hey, little one.

Understand your
part in all this?

Do you?

This is what I do,
darling.

This is what I do.

MAL: Let's move, people.

Quit fiddling.
Want the boat running
smooth when we get back.

Have faith, Captain.

Not today.

Pair of clips
in the rear hatch.

We should hit town
right during Sunday
worship.

Won't be any crowds.

If Fanty and Mingo
are right about
the payroll,

this could look to be
a sunny day for us.

SIMON: River, stay
behind the others.

If there's fighting,
drop to the floor
or run away.

It's okay to leave
them to die.

Doctor, I'm taking
your sister under
my protection here.

If anything
happens to her,
anything at all,

I swear to you,
I will get very
choked up.

Honestly.
There could be tears.

Don't mind the Captain
none, Simon. I know
he'll look out for her.

They'll be
back before
you can spit.

Well, not that you spit.

JAYNE: What are we hoping
to find here that equals
the worth of a turd?

MAL: Security payroll.
Alliance don't have
the manpower

to "enforce the peace"
on every outer-rim planet.

They hire out to
the private firms, who
will not work for credit.

They get paid in cashy
money, which, once
a month, rests here.

Don't that
lead back to the
Alliance, anyhow?

No private firm would
ever report the theft
of their own payroll.

They'd appear weak,
might lose their
contract.

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!
Everybody, down!

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

(GRUNTING)

Looks like this
is the place.

You all wanna be
looking very intently
at your own belly buttons.

I see a head start
to rise, violence
is going to ensue.

Probably guessed
we mean to be
thieving here,

but what we're after
is not yours.

So let's have
no undue fussing.

She's locked up.

(PEOPLE MURMURING)

(GUN COCKS)

Do you know what
the definition
of a hero is?

Someone who gets
other people killed.

You can look
it up later.

Big happy family.

(BEEPS)

At last. We can
retire and give up
this life of crime.

(METAL RATTLING)

Hey!

You all are Browncoats,
eh? Fought for
independence?

Petty thieving
ain't exactly
soldiers' work.

War's long done.
We're all just folk
now. Listen up!

We are coming down
to empty that vault!

GUARD: You have to give
me your authorization
password!

(FIRING)

GUARD: Okay.

I'm telling you
I heard it.
Repeater.

Did sound somewhat like
gun blast. Maybe you
ought run tell Lawman.

(SCREAMING)

What the hell is up?
You all right?

What's going on?

Reavers.

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

The leg is good.
It'll bleed plenty and we
avoid any necessary organs.

I was thinking
more of a graze.

No, you don't want it
to look like you
just gave up.

No, I get that.

JAYNE: Mal!

Every heist,
he's got to start
yelling my name.

Mal! Reavers!

The girl's pitching
a fit. They're here
or they're coming soon.

Get on the Mule.

Does that lock
from the inside?
Yes.

Get everyone upstairs.
You get them down here
and you seal it.

As long as you got air,
you don't open up,
you understand?

But...

Get them inside
the vault!

You see them?

Zoe, take the wheel!

JAYNE: Anybody see them?

(ENGINE REVVING)

Take me with you!

Get back in the vault
with the others.

I can't stay here!
Please!

It's too many.
Move ahead.

Please!

Please!

(SCREAMING)

(ENGINE REVVING)

(SCREAMING)

(GRUNTING)

(ROARS)

(FIRING)

Faster! Faster!
Faster would
be better!

How come they
ain't blowing
us out the air?

They wanna run us down.
The up-close kill.

They want us alive
when they eat us.

Boy, sure would be nice
if we had some grenades,
don't you think?

(GUN FIRING)

Wash, baby,
can you hear me?

We're moments from air.

You got somebody behind you?

Reavers.

(MURMURING)

Kaylee!

Heat her up.
We got Reavers.

(GASPS)

We're not gonna
get to you in time.

Keep moving, honey.

We're coming to you.

(FIRING)

JAYNE: Where's my clips?

Rear hatch.

(SCREAMING)

(YELLING)

Jayne!

(YELLING)

I won't get ate!

You shoot me if they
take me! Well, don't
shoot me first!

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

Get some distance
on them.

You come to the flats,
I want you to
swing round.

We're gonna try
a Barn Swallow.

Simon! Open her up!

MAL: They're closing on us!

Those rocks,
give them a taste.

WASH: Okay, baby,
we talked this through.

Talking ain't doing.

(SPEAKING CHINESE)

(WHOOSHING)

(GRUNTING)

(GROANING)

River?

I swallowed a bug.

Are you okay?

(INDIGNANTLY) Is he okay?

WASH: We all here?
What's going on?

Hello?

No casualties.

Anybody following?

WASH: Nice flying, baby.

That's a negative.
Clean getaway.

Set course for Beaumonde.
First thing, I want
this body...

KAYLEE: Simon!

(SPEAKING CHINESE)

You son of a whore.
I'm a hair's breadth

from riddling you
with holes, Doctor.

One simple job!
She'll be fine!

She is fine!

Except for being
still crazy, she's
a picture of health!

Wasn't for River, we'd
probably be left there.
She felt them coming.

Never again.
Do you understand me?

Seems I remember a talk
about you giving orders
on my boat.

Well, we're
off your boat.

Just as soon
as River gets her
share of the bounty.

Let's not do
anything hasty...

No, shiny!

We'll be on Beaumonde
in 10 hours' time,

you can pick up
your earnings and
be on your merry.

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 for us

without River and
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 plenty.

Man has to cut loose,
learn to stand
on his own.

Like that man
back in town?

I had to shoot him.

What the Reavers
would've done to him
before they killed him...

I know. That was
a piece of mercy.

But before that,
him begging us
to bring him along.

We couldn't take the
weight. Would've
slowed us down.

You know that
for certain?

Mule won't run
with five.

I should've dumped
the girl? Or you?
Or Jayne?

Oh, Jayne...

You could've
tossed the payload.

Tossed the...

Zoe, I got bits falling
off my ship, I got a
crew ain't been paid,

and, oh, yeah, a
powerful need to eat
sometime this month.

We tell Fanty 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 got to make good.

Sir, I don't disagree
on any particular point.

It's just,

in the time of war,
we would've never
left a man stranded.

Maybe that's
why we lost.

That was close.

JAYNE: I do not get it.

How's a guy
get so wrong?

Cutting on his own face,
raping and murdering.

I'll kill a man
in a fair fight,

or if I think he's
gonna start a
fair fight,

or if he bothers me,
or if there's a woman,

or if I'm getting paid.
Mostly only when
I'm getting paid.

These Reavers,
the last 10 years,

they show up like the
bogeyman from stories.

Eating people alive?
Where does that get fun?

Shepherd Book
said they was
men who just

reached the edge of space,
saw a vasty nothingness

and went bibbledy
over it.

Oh, hell.

(CLANKING)

JAYNE: 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 off, one by one.

Just like
Simon and River.

Just like Inara.

Kaylee, are you ever going
to put that capture down?

KAYLEE: We got
to have records of
everything, Inara.

A bona fide companion
entertained clients
on this very ship.

In this very bed.

Well, I can't do
my work here.

And I don't think
the Captain approves.

The Captain wants
you to stay...

That man doesn't
know what he wants.
I don't have time to...

(MACHINERY WHINING)

(POP MUSIC PLAYING)

(CHATTERING)

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

WOMAN: Don't
talk to the barkers,
talk to the captains.

You look the captain
in the eye. Know who
you're dealing with.

I wish there was...

You shouldn't
ought to be
so clean.

It's a dead giveaway
you don't belong, you
always got to be tidy.

Don't pay anybody
in advance.

And don't ride
in anything with
a Capissen 38 engine,

they fall right
out of the sky.

Kaylee.

River, do you want
to stay with them?

It isn't safe.

No.

I fear it isn't
safe anymore.

For them.

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

(MAN CHATTERING ON TV)

MAN ON TV: ...only survivors
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 four
worlds away?

Or the Alliance
gets a hold of
him and River?

MAL: That ain't my worry.
I got to finish this job
and get us another one.

Can't do that
carrying those two.

KAYLEE: How can
you be so cold?

Captain didn't make
them fugitives.

But he could have
made them family.

Instead of keeping
Simon from seeing
I was there.

When I carried
such a torch,
when we could've...

Going on a year now,
I ain't had nothing
twixt my nethers

weren't run
on batteries.

Oh, God!
I can't know that!

I could stand to
hear a little more.

If you had a care
for anybody's heart...

You knew he was
gonna leave.

We never been but
a way station
to those two.

And how do you know
what he feels?

He's got River to
worry on, but he still
could've shown you...

If I truly wanted
someone bad enough,

wouldn't be a thing in
the 'verse could stop
me from going to her.

Tell that to Inara.

Domestic troubles?

Domestic troubles?

'Cause we don't
wanna interrupt.

A man should keep
his house in order.

Fanty. Mingo.

He's Mingo.

He's Fanty.
You're Mingo.

(CHUCKLES)

How is it you
always know?

Fanty's prettier.

Feel to do
some business?

(ORIENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)

Endeavors.

(MAN CHATTERING ON TV)

MINGO: Quite a
crew you've got.

Yeah, they're
a fine bunch
of reubens.

How you keep them
on that crap boat,
is the subject

of much musing
between me
and Fanty.

We go on and on.

So I'm noticing.

Is there a problem
we don't know of?

You got a sweet take
kissing your foot.

How's about you take
your 25%, we can talk
about the next job?

Well, our end
is 40, precious.

My muscular buttocks
it's 40.

It is,

as of now.

Find anyone around
going cheaper...

Find anyone around
going near

a sorry lot like you
in the first instance.

FANTY: You're
unpredictable,
Mal.

You run when you
ought to fight.

Fight when you
ought to deal.

Makes a businessperson
a little twitchy.

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

(JINGLE PLAYING)

(SINGING) Fruity oaty bars
make a man of a mouse

Fruity oaty bars make you
bust out of your blouse

(SINGING JINGLE)

(DISTORTED VOICES CHATTERING)

Miranda.

(GROANING)

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(PEOPLE SHOUTING)

(GRUNTING)

Hey! A tussle!

Jayne.

(ALARM BEEPING)

(GRUNTING)

Do you know
that girl?

I really don't.

(EXCLAIMING)

(GRUNTING)

Gorrammit, girl,
it's me!

(GRUNTS)

(GROANING)

(YELLING)

(SPEAKING CHINESE)

(PANTING)

(GROANING)

May I see her?

I believe
you've got some
storytelling to do.

What in the hell
happened back there?

Start with the part where
Jayne gets knocked out
by a 90-pound girl.

'Cause I don't think
that's ever getting old.

Do we know if
anyone was killed?

It's likely.

I know she meant to kill me
before the Doc put her out.

Which, how exactly
does that work anyhow?

It's a safe word.

The people who helped
me break River out

had intel that
River and the other
subjects were being

embedded
with behavioral
conditioning.

They taught me
a safe word,

in case something
happened.

Not sure I get it.

It's a phrase
that makes her
fall asleep.

If I speak the words...

Don't say it!

It only works
on her, Jayne.

Well, now I know that.

"In case something
happened."

You feel to elaborate
on what that something
might be?

They never said what...

And you never did ask.

Get your hands off...

Eight months.
Eight months, you
had her on my boat,

knowing full well
she could go
monkeyshit

at the wrong word.
You never said a thing.

I brought her
out here so they
couldn't get to her.

I don't even know
what they...

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?

Or the weapon?

I thought she was
getting better.

And I thought they
was getting off!

Didn't we have an
intricate plan how they was
gonna be not here anymore?

We couldn't leave them now.

JAYNE: No, now that

she's a killer woman,
we ought be bringing
her tea 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 bullet to her.

It's crossed my mind.

Can I make a suggestion
that doesn't involve
violence,

or is this the
wrong crowd?

Honey.

We're flying
a lot blinder
than usual here.

We need to get
our bearings.

I think we need to talk
to Mr. Universe.

(VOICES CHATTERING)

(STATIC CRACKLING)

Oh, this is good.

You guys always bring me
the very best violence.

You think you're
in a hot place?

That's what we're
looking to learn.

Is there any follow up,
a newswave?

There is no news.
There's the truth
of the signal.

What I see.
And there's the
puppet theater

the Parliament
jesters foist on the
somnambulant public.

Well, what about this?
Did this make the
puppet theater?

No, sir. And no
lawforce flags,
either.

I had to go into the
security feed direct.

You can do that?

Can't stop the
signal, Mal.

Everything goes somewhere,
and I go everywhere.

Security feeds are
a traipse to access,

and I wasn't the
first one in.

This has prints on it.

So somebody else
has been fed this.

Zoe, you sultry minx,
stop falling in love
with me.

You're just gonna
embarrass yourself.

I have a commitment
to my Lovebot.

It was a very
beautiful ceremony.
Lenore wrote her own vows,

I cried like a baby,
a hungry, angry baby.

And she falls asleep.
Which, she would be
sleepy.

Can you go back?

See if anybody spoke
with her before
she acted up.

Made any kind of
contact with her.

(JINGLE PLAYING)

Miranda.

"Miranda"?

Go back further.

No.

MAL: Please.

(SINGING JINGLE)

(CHUCKLING) Mal,
you're very smart.

Someone is
talking to her.

The oaty bar?

Subliminal.

It's a subliminal message,
broadwaved to trigger her.

I've been seeing this
code pop up all over,
the last few weeks.

It's Alliance and
it's high military.

They have gone to
enormous trouble to
find your little friend.

And found her, they have.

Do you all know what
it is you're carrying?

They're afraid
of me.

I'm sorry.

They should be.

But I'll show
them. Oh, God.

(SHUSHING)

It's okay.
Hey, it's okay.

Show me off
like a dog.

Old men covered
in blood.

It never touched
them, but they're
drowning in it.

I don't know what I'm
saying. I never know
what I'm saying.

In the Maidenhead,
you said something.

When you were triggered,
do you remember?

The Captain saw you
say something
on the feed.

Miranda.

Miranda.

Ask her.

Who is Miranda?

Am I talking
to Miranda now?

No.

Not right.

But I think when
they triggered you,

it somehow
brought this up.

This memory.

It isn't mine.

The memory,
it isn't mine.

And I shouldn't
have to carry it.
It isn't mine.

Don't make me
sleep again.

I won't.

I won't.

Put a bullet to me.

Bullet in the
brainpan, squish.

(SOBBING)

Don't say that.
Not ever.

We'll get through this.

Things are going to
get much, much worse.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(WATER RUNNING)

(CHATTERING)

MAL: Thanks for taking
us in again, Shepherd.

SHEPHERD: You got a plan?

Hiding ain't a plan?

It'll do you
for a spell.

And the folks
here'll be glad
of the extra coin.

But the Alliance
will be coming.

They're after this girl
with a powerful will.

I look to hear the
tromp of their boots
any moment.

You won't.

This isn't a palms-up
military run, Mal.

No reports broadwaved,

no warrants.

Much as they want her,
they want her hid.

That means
closed file.

Means an operative.

Which is trouble
you've not known.

I could have
left her there.

I had an out.

Hell, I had every
reason in the 'verse

to leave her lay
and haul anchor.

It's not your
way, Mal.

I have a way?

That better
than a plan?

Only one thing
is gonna walk you
through this, Mal.

Belief.

You know I always look
to you for counsel,

but sermons make me
sleepy, Shepherd.

I ain't looking for
help from on high.

That's a long wait
for a train don't come.

When I talk about belief,
why do you always assume
I'm talking about God?

They'll come at
you sideways.

It's how they think.
It's how they move.

Sidle up and smile.
Hit you where
you're weak.

Sort of man they're like
to send believes hard.

Kills and never
asks why.

It's of interest to
me how much you seem
to know about that world.

I wasn't born
a Shepherd, Mal.

Have to tell me
about that sometime.

(SIGHING)

No, I don't.

WOMAN: River?

River, you look tired.

I think everybody's
a little tired by now.
Why don't we all lie down?

A little peace and
quiet will make
everything better.

River. Do as
you're told.

No.

It's going to be
fine. Lie down.

No.

MAN: Cut them down.

(MUMBLING) What?

WASH: Mal! You up?

I got a wave. I'm gonna
bounce it down to you.

Inara.

I... Is this
a bad time?

No, it's

good as any.

How's your world?

Cold. It's autumn here.

Still at the
Training House?

(CLEARING THROAT)

So, what occasions the wave?
Not that to see you ain't...

Well, you look very fine.

Oh. Thank you.

MAL: So, what was the...

I guess we'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
if you happen to be
close at all, you...

The crew could take your
ease here for a while.
And there'd be payment.

Well, it would be...
I mean, I'd like to.

Kaylee's been missing
you something fierce.

ALL: Oh, man.
I miss her, too.

I even miss my shuttle,
occasionally.

Yeah, you left...

Got some of your
stuff in a trunk.

I never did get a chance
to drop it off.

(STAMMERING) I didn't
mean to leave stuff.

I didn't look
through the stuff.

I just... Just
sundries, I expect.

So I'll send you a
wave, soon as I can.

Thank you.

Inara, nice to
see her again.

So, trap?

Trap.

ZOE: We going in?

Only but a
few hours out.

Yeah, but, remember
the part where
it's a trap?

If that's the case,
then Inara'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 Inara don't
just wanna see you?

Sometimes people
have feelings.

I'm referring
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.

If the Alliance 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.
If anything
happens to me,

or if you don't
hear from me
within the hour,

you take this ship
and you come and
you rescue me.

What?

Risk my ship?

I mean it.

It's cold out there.
And I don't wanna
get left.

Dear Buddha, please
bring me a pony, and
a plastic rocket, and...

Mal! What are
you doing here?

Well, you invited me.

I never thought
for a second you'd be
stupid enough to come.

Well, that makes you
kind of a tease,
doesn't it?

You knew my invitation
wasn't on the level.

Which led me to conclude
that you must be
in some trouble.

I'm fine. I'm giddy.

For a woman schooled
in telling a man what
he wants to hear,

you ain't much of a liar.

Mal, you cannot
handle this man.

I have to say, Captain,

I'm impressed that
you would come for
her yourself.

And that you would
make it this far,
in that outfit.

I can be very
graceful when
I need to.

I've no doubt.

What are you doing?

I'm praying for you, Mal.

She's very thoughtful.

But I mean it when
I say I've no intent
to harm you.

Speak your piece.

I think you're beginning
to understand

how dangerous River Tam is.

She is a mite
unpredictable.

Mood swings,
of a sort.

It's worse
than you know.

It usually is.

That girl will rain
destruction down on
you and your ship.

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.
Try not to faint.

I've seen your
war record.

I know how you must
feel about the Alliance.

You really don't.

Fair to say.

But I have to hope
you understand,
you can't beat us.

I got no need
to beat you.

I just want
to go my way.

And you can do that,

once you let me take
River Tam back home.

No, no. You're working
this deal all crabbed.

You got to open
with payment.

That is a trap.

I offer money, you'll
play the man of honor
and take umbrage.

I ask you to do what
is right, you'll play
the brigand.

I have no stomach
for games.

I already know you
will not see reason.

The Alliance 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 pulse beacon
the moment you hit atmo.

I can speak a word
and send a missile

to that exact location
inside of three minutes.

You do that,

you'd best make peace
with your dear and
fluffy lord.

Pulse beacon.

Advice from an old tracker.
You want to find someone,
use your eyes.

How long do
you think you can
really run from us?

I never credited
the Alliance with an
overabundance of brains.

And if you're
the best they got...

Captain Reynolds,

I should tell you,
so that you don't
waste your time,

you can't make me angry.

Please, spend
an hour with him.

I want to resolve this
like civilized men.

I'm not
threatening you.

I'm unarmed.
Good.

I am, of course,
wearing full
body armor.

I am not a moron.

INARA: Wait, just let...

(GRUNTING)

(GLASS SHATTERING)

(GROANS)

(PANTING)

(GASPING)

What, no backup?

Making an awful ruckus.

They'll come when
they're needed.

I'd start whistling.

Captain, what do you
think is going to
happen here?

(BOTH GRUNTING)

(GROANS)

(RIPPING)

(CLATTERING)

(GROANING)

(GLASS SHATTERS)

(PANTING)

Nothing here is what
it seems. He isn't
the plucky hero.

The Alliance isn't some
evil empire. This is
not the grand arena.

And that's not incense.

(BEEPING)

Sir, can you hear me?

Just a flash bomb.
Go. Go!

(INARA AND MAL GRUNTING)

What have you done
to my shuttle?

It's not your shuttle.

Head east. Keep her low.

(ENGINE REVVING)

Okay, forget the
pulse beacon.

There must be another way
to track the ship.

Get a read on
the nav. sat.

It's a registered transport,
you must be able to locate.

ENSIGN: Sir?

Yes, have you found
a nav. sat. trajectory?

Sir, we found seven.

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 right thing
to do.

So no hope of
a reward, huh?

Did he say anything
about a Miranda?

What is that?

Don't know who or
what, but it's on
River's mind.

Conjure it might be
the reason they're
after her.

You think maybe it poses
some kind of threat
to the Alliance?

Do we care?

Are we caring
about that?

You dumb-ass hogs,
the only people
she's a threat to is

us on this boat.

Look, we get back
to Haven in a few
hours' time.

Oh, yeah. Hiding under
the Shepherd's skirts

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 over
a couple of strays.

No offense, Doc. I
think it's noble
as a grape,

the way you
look to River.

But she ain't my sister
and she ain't your crew.

Oh, and neither is
she exactly helpless.

So where's it writ that
we got to lay down
our lives for her?

Which is what you've
steered us toward.

I didn't start this.

No, that's right.

Alliance starts the war,
and then you volunteer.

Battle of Serenity, Mal.

Besides Zoe here,
how many... Hey,
I'm talking at you.

How many men in
your platoon came
out of there alive?

You wanna leave this room.

Damn right, I do.

This isn't
the war, Mal.

You telling me that
'cause you think
I don't know?

You came to
the Training House
looking for a fight.

I came looking
for you.

I just want to know
who I'm dealing with.

I've seen too many
versions of you
to be sure.

I start fighting a war,
I guarantee you'll see
something new.

We'll get off.

River and I will
get off at Haven.

We'll find some...
Nobody's saying that.

Nobody besides Jayne
is saying that.

Mal.

I got no answers
for you, Inara.
I got no rudder.

Wind blows northerly,
I go north. That's
who I am.

Now maybe that
ain't a man to lead,
but they have to follow.

So you wanna
tear me down,

do it inside
your own mind.

I'm not trying
to tear you down.

But you fog things up.

You always have.

You spin me about.

I wish like hell
you was elsewhere.

(SIGHS)

I was.

(RUMBLING)

(FLIES BUZZING)

(GASPS)

(SPEAKING CHINESE)

(BEEPING)

No trouble,
little crazy person.

We're going for
a nice shuttle ride.

(GUN FIRES)

(DOORKNOB RATTLING)

She's out. Jayne's down.

The other way.
Find her and
do not engage.

(BEEPING)

It's gonna be okay...

(COUGHS)

She's sealed off the
bridge. I do not
like her there.

Check the shuttle.
She could have
snuck in.

Captain.

(COMPUTER BEEPS)

The government's man,
he says you're a
danger to us.

Not worth helping.

Is he right?

Are you anything
but a weapon?

I've staked my crew's
life on the theory
you're a person,

actual and whole,
and if I'm wrong,
you'd best shoot me now.

(CLICKS)

Or we 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.

Terraforming didn't
hold, or some such.
Few settlers died.

ZOE: Was it right
before the war?

I had to show them. I
didn't know if you were
going to make me sleep.

You could
have asked.

KAYLEE: Wait
a tick, yeah.

Some years back, there
was call for workers
to settle on Miranda.

Daddy talked about it.
Nothing about it
on the Cortex.

History, Astronomy,
it's not in there.

Half of writing history
is hiding the truth.

There's something on
that rock the Alliance
doesn't want known.

That's right at the edge
of the Burnham Quadrant,
right?

Furthest planet out?
It's not that far
from here.

Whoa. No. No. Honey...
That's a bad notion.

...you show
them the bad.
I got it, baby.

This is us, at Haven,
and here's Miranda.

All along here, that
empty space in between,
that's Reaver territory.

They just float out
there, sending out
raiding parties.

ZOE: Nobody ventures there.
Not even the Alliance.

You go through that,
you're signing up
to be a banquet.

I'm on board with our
standard run-and-hide
scenario.

And we are just about...

Wait.

JAYNE: Doesn't
look like Reavers.

Wasn't.

KAYLEE: Shepherd?

Shepherd?

KAYLEE: Shepherd Book?

(COCKING GUN)

(MAN COUGHING)

Get the Doc.

Shepherd.

(GASPING)

Don't move.

Won't go far.

Shouldn't have
been you.

Alliance should've hit
us. Should've hit me.

That crossed my mind.

(COUGHING)

I shot him down.

Yeah. I see.

I killed the ship
that killed us.

Not very Christian
of me.

You did what's right.

Coming from you,
that means almost
nothing.

(COUGHING)

I'm long gone.

No, Doc will
bring you around.

I look to be bored
by many more sermons
before you slip.

Just don't move.

Can't order me
around, boy.

I'm not one
of your crew.

Yes, you are.

River...
Come on.

Hey.

I don't care
what you believe.
Just believe it.

Whatever you...

How come they
ain't waiting?

They knowed we was
coming, how come
they only sent one?

They didn't know
we were coming here.

Get on the Cortex.

Wave, Li Shen,
the Sanchez brothers,

anyone who has ever
sheltered us after
a heist.

Tell them to get out.

Get out now.

I'm sorry.

If your quarry goes to ground,
leave no ground to go to.

You should have
taken my offer.

Or did you think
none of this was
your fault?

I don't murder children.

I do.

If I have to.
Why?

Do you even know
why they sent you?

It's not my
place to ask.

I believe in something
greater than myself.

A better world.

A world without sin.

So me and mine
gotta lay down
and die

so you can live in
your better world?

I'm not going to live there.

There's no place
for me there

any more than there
is for you. Malcolm,

I'm a monster.

What I do is evil.

I have no illusions
about it, but it
must be done.

Keep talking.

You're not getting
a location trace
off this wave.

And every minute you
keep River Tam from me,
more people will die.

You think I care?

Of course you care.

You're not a Reaver, Mal.

You're a human man
and you will never
understand how...

Get these bodies together.

ZOE: We got time
for grave digging?

Zoe, you and Simon
rope them together.

Five or six of them.
I want them laid out
on the nose of our ship.

Are you insane?
I won't desecrate
these bodies.

I don't understand.
What do you mean,
the bodies...

I want you to muck up
the reactor core.

Just enough to leave
a trail and make
it read like

we're flying
without containment,
not enough to fry us.

These people
are our friends.
Kaylee,

you got a day's
work to do and
two hours to do it.

Jayne, you and Wash hoist
up the cannon mount.
Goes right on top.

Piece or two of
the other ship,
stick it on.

Any place you can
tear hull without inner
breach, do that, too.

We're gonna need
paint. We're gonna
need red paint.

Sir,

do you really mean
to turn our home
into an abomination

so that we can make
a suicidal attempt

at passing through
Reaver space?

I mean to live.

(MAN COUGHING)
I mean for us to live.

The Alliance won't have
that, so we go where
they don't follow.

God's balls,
there ain't no way
we're going out there.

Think about what
you're asking.

JAYNE: Those Reavers'll
eat us alive...

This is how it is.

Anybody doesn't wanna
fly with me anymore,

this is your port
of harbor.

There's a lot of
fine ways to die.

I ain't waiting
for the Alliance
to choose mine.

I mean to confound these
bungers. Take my shot
at getting to Miranda.

Maybe find
something I can use
to get clear of this.

So I hear a word out
of any of you that
ain't helping me out

or taking your leave,
I will shoot you down.

Get to work.

ZOE: Sir...

Just tell me
when we're close.

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

MAL: Wash.

Define "disappeared."

ZOE: Every reading
I'm getting says normal.

Oceans, land masses.
No tectonic instability
or radiation.

Yeah, but no
power, either.

Nothing at all?

Wait.

Something.

It might be a beacon,
but it's awful weak.

Find it.

Gravity's Earthnorm.

O2 levels check,
pressure...

If anything's wrong
the scanner's not
reading it.

Well, something sure
the hell ain't right.

This ain't no
little settlement.

We flew over
at least a dozen
cities just as big.

Why didn't we ever
hear about this?

(BEEPING)

Beacon's up ahead.

Ho.

No entry wounds,
fractures.

Poison?

Got another one.

They's just
sitting here.

They didn't crash.

(MALE ANNOUNCER CHATTERING)

Kaylee. Don't...

(SCREAMS)

How come these ones
are preserved?

Place must've gone
hermetic when the
power blew.

Sealed them.

KAYLEE: What are
they doing?

What's everybody doing?

There's no unusual
discoloration.

Nobody's doubled over
or showing signs of pain.

MAL: There's gasses
that kill painless,
right?

They didn't fall.
None of them.

They just lay down.

(RIVER MUTTERING IN CHINESE)

Make them stop.
They're everywhere.

Every city, every...

Every house, every room,
they're all inside me.

I can hear them all,
and they're saying
nothing!

Get up.

Please get up.

(SPEAKING CHINESE)

Please, God,
make me a stone.

She is starting
to damage my calm.

ZOE: Jayne.
She's right!

Everybody's dead.

This whole world is
dead for no reason!

Let's get to
the beacon.

WASH: This is the source?

JAYNE: This ship's
banged up all to hell.

These are just a few of
the images we've recorded.

And you can see

it isn't what we thought.

There's been no war here,

and no terraforming event.
The environment is stable.

It's the Pax.

The G-23 Paxilon Hydroclorate
that we added to the
air processors.

It was supposed to
calm the population,
weed out aggression.

Well, it works.

The people here
stopped fighting.

And then they stopped
everything else.

They stopped going to work,

they stopped breeding,
talking, eating.

There's 30 million people
here, and they all just
let themselves die.

(CRASHING)

(GASPS)

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 report this,
but people have to know.

We meant it
for the best,

to make people safer.

(REAVERS GROWLING)

God!

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

(REAVER GROWLING)

Turn it off.

(SOBBING)

(RETCHING)

River.

I'm all right.

I'm all right.

MAL: This report is
maybe 12 years old.

Parliament buried it,
and it stayed buried
till River dug it up.

This is what they
feared she knew.

And they were
right to fear,

because there's a whole
universe of folk who
are gonna know it, too.

They're gonna see it.

Somebody has to speak
for these people.

You all got on this boat
for different reasons,

but you all come
to the same place.

So now I'm asking
more of you than
I have before.

Maybe all.

Sure as I know
anything I know this,
they will try again.

Maybe on another world,
maybe on this very
ground swept clean.

A year from now, 10,
they'll swing back
to the belief

that they 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,

"If you can't do
something smart,

"do something right."

Do we have a plan?

Mr. Universe.

We haven't the equipment
to broadwave this code,

but he can put it
on every screen
for 30 worlds.

He's pretty damn
close, too.

We still got
the Reavers

and probably the
Alliance, between
us and him.

JAYNE: That's two armies
against our one bitty cannon.

It's a fair bet
the 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 merry hob
with your radar,

but pretty lights and a few
miles after, you'll be
right in my orbit.

You'll let us know
if anyone else
comes at you?

You'll be the first.

There.

Toss me my 30 coin,
but I got a news
wave for you...

(GRUNTING)

Call in every ship
in the quadrant. We'll
meet them in the air.

Destroy it all.

MAL: Wash, we
almost through?

Now!

WASH: Go! Move!

I'm reading activity
in the cloud.

Lock and fire
on my command.

You should have let
me see her, Captain.

We should have
done this as men.
Not with fire.

HELMSMAN: Sir.

(ELECTRONIC BEEPING)

Vessel in range.
Lock on.

Bastard's not even
changing course.

Sir!

Target the Reavers.
Target the Reavers!

Target everyone!
Somebody fire!

I am a leaf on the wind.
Watch how I soar.

Chicken's come
home to roost.

MAL: The hell?
It's okay.

I am a leaf on the wind!

What does that mean?

We're almost through.

No! No! No!
Yes! Yes!

(RUMBLING)

We're not alone.

EMP!

Everybody, strap
yourselves into
something!

Jayne.
Got it.

Kaylee, come on.

We're fried.
I got no control.

Where's the backup?

Where's the backup?

(GLASS SHATTERING)

(EXPLOSIONS)

Check! Check!

(ENGINE WHINING)

(JAYNE SCREAMING)

(WHOOSHING)

(RUMBLING)

MAL: Get up!

KAYLEE: Stop it!

Backup reads at 20%.
Can you get us down?

I'm going to have
to glide her in.

Will that work?

(SCREAMING)

(PANTING)

I am a leaf on 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.

Zoe, what've we got?

ZOE: Sir,

this is a good
hold point.

We all stay together.
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
they won't reopen
once they close.

Shut them and
hide until I get...

We need to draw them
till it's done.

This is the place.
We'll buy you the time.

All right,
let's move these crates
back there for cover.

Make sure they ain't
filled with nothing
goes boom.

Wait, Wash!
Where's Wash?

He ain't coming.

Move the gorramn crates!

(REAVERS HOWLING)

Tell me you brought
them 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
get through this.

Do you really think
any of us are gonna
get through this?

I might.

(STATIC CRACKLING)

No.

Mal.

Guy killed me, Mal.

He killed me with a sword.
How weird is that?

I got a short span here.

They destroyed
my equipment,

but I have
a backup unit.

Bottom of the complex,
right over the generator.

Hard to get to.
I know they missed it.

They can't stop
the signal, Mal.

They can never
stop the signal.

(REAVERS GROWLING)

The Reavers. They are
all made up of rage.

It's okay.
It's okay.

(SHUSHING)
I can't shut them up.

(BANGING ON DOOR)

Stay low.

She picked a sweet bung
of a time to go
helpless on us.

Jayne and I take
the first wave.

Nobody shoots unless
they get past our fire.

(BANGING ON DOOR)

I didn't plan on
going out like this.

I think we did
right, but...

No. I never
planned anything.

I just wanted to
keep River safe.

Spent so much time
on Serenity ignoring
anything

that I wanted
for myself.

My one regret
in all of this

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 GROWLING)

(BANGING)

"Hard to get to."

That's a fact.

(GROWLING)

Zoe, gorrammit!

(REAVERS SHRIEKING)

(GRUNTING)

Zoe, get your ass
back on the line!

(SCREAMS)

(GROANING)

You shot me in the back!

I haven't made you
angry, have I?

There are a lot of
innocent people in the
air being killed right now.

You have no idea
how true that is.

I know the secret.

The truth that burned
up River Tam's brain.

Rest of the 'verse is
going to know it, too.
'Cause they need to.

Do you really believe that?

I do.

You willing to die
for that belief?

I am.

(GRUNTING)

Of course, that ain't
exactly Plan A.

(GROANING)

Spine's intact.

Just give me a bandage.

(GRUNTING)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

(SOBBING)

JAYNE: Up high, left!

(GROANS)

(GASPS)

Kaylee!

(SCREAMING)

(GROANS)

Fall back! Everybody,
fall back! Fall back
now!

Jayne, grenade.

Very last one.

They're gonna get in.

I can close it
from the outside.

No one's coming
back from that.

How much ammo
do we have?

Three, four max,
and my swinging
cod. That's all.

The lift isn't moving.

When they come,
try to plug the
hole with it.

I'm starting to lose
some feeling here.

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 for Kaylee.

I can't.

River.

River, I'm sorry.

No.

No.

I hate to leave.

You won't.

You take care
of me, Simon.

You've always
taken care of me.

My turn.

(GRUNTING)

(OPERATIVE AND MAL GRUNTING)

Do you know what
your sin is, Mal?

Hell. I'm a fan
of all seven.

(GRUNTING)

But right now,

I'm going to have
to go with wrath.

We ain't got long.

(THUDDING)

You suppose he
got through?

Do you think Mal
got the word out?

He got through.
I know he got
through.

(GROANS)

(COUGHS)

(GROANS)
I'm sorry.

You should know
there's no shame
in this.

You've done
remarkable things.

But you're
fighting a war

you've already lost.

(GROANS)

(GASPING)

Well, I'm known for that.

(GROANING)

Piece of shrapnel tore
up that nerve cluster
my first tour.

Had it moved.

Sorry about the throat.

Expect you'd want to
say your famous last
words right now.

Just one trouble.

I ain't gonna kill you.

(GASPING)

Hell, I'm gonna grant
your greatest wish.

(BEEPING)

I'm gonna show you
a world without sin.

These are just a few
of the few images
we've recorded.

And you can see

it isn't what we thought.

There's been no war here,

and no terraforming event.
The environment is stable.

It's the Pax.

The G-23 Paxilon Hydroclorate
that we added to the
air processors.

It was supposed to
calm the population...

(ROARING)

We meant it for the best,

to make people safer.

(REAVERS GROWLING)

God!

(REAVERS GROWLING)

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

(PANTING)

Sir?

It's done.

Report.

River?

(CLANKING)

SOLDIER 1: Drop your weapons!

SOLDIER 2: Do it now.

Weapons down.
Let it down, now.

I want to see your
hands in the air.

Stand down.
Do it.

Targets are acquired.

Do we have a kill order?

Do we have an order?

THE OPERATIVE: Stand down.

Stand down. It's finished.

We're finished.

THE OPERATIVE: It's
not over, you know.

I can't guarantee
that they won't
come after you.

The Parliament.

Your broadwave about
Miranda has weakened
their regime.

They are not gone
and they are not
forgiving.

That don't bode
especially well
for you,

giving the order to
let us go, patching
up our hurt.

I told them the
Tams were no longer
a threat, damage done.

They might listen,

but I think they know
I'm no longer their man.

They take you down,
I don't expect to
grieve over much.

Like to kill you myself,
I see you again.

You won't.

There is nothing
left to see.

Sir, we have
a green light.

Inspection's pos
and we're clear
for up-thrust.

Think she'll
hold together?

She's tore up plenty.
But she'll fly true.

Make sure
everything's secure.

Could be bumpy.

Always is.

Taking her out.

Should be about
a day's ride to get
you back to your girls.

Right.

Ready to get off
this heap, back
to civilized life?

I...

I don't know.

Good answer.

So you gonna ride
shotgun with me,
help me fly?

That's the plan.

Think you can
work out...

(ENGINE REVVING)

Okay.

Clearly some aptitude
for the...

It ain't all buttons
and charts, little
albatross.

You know what
the first rule
of flying is?

Well, I suppose you do,
since you already know
what I'm about to say.

I do.

But I like to
hear you say it.

Love.

You can learn all the
math in the 'verse,

but you take a boat
in the air that you
don't love,

she'll shake you off
just as sure as the
turn of the worlds.

Love keeps her
in the air when she
ought to fall down,

tells you she's hurting
before she keels.

Makes her a home.

(RAIN PATTERING)

Storm's getting worse.

We'll pass through
it soon enough.

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

MAL: What was that?