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Miss Nandi, I have a confession to make.
Maybe I should get the Shepherd.
Well, I ain't sinned yet. And I'd feel a little more'n awkward if he were here when I did.
. . .
Malcolm, I been waiting for you to kiss me since I showed you my guns.
[Mal kisses Nandi, then draws back for a moment.]
You okay with this?
I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.
[Nandi's girl Chari reports to Rance Burgess on Mal's defensive preparations.]
Earned yourself quite a bag of silver, little kitten. But I got a… few more chores in mind before you get any.
I'm ready.
[He turns to speak to his men.]
Now, Chari here, she understands a whore's place, don't she? But Nandi, and those others, they spit on our town! They've no respect for the sanctity of fatherhood, or... decency, or family! They have my child held hostage to their decadent ways, and that I will not abide. We will show them what power is! We will show them what their position in this town is! Let us all remember, right here and now, what a woman is to a man!
[He turns back to Chari, who stands facing him.]
[whispering intensely] Get on your knees!
So you took to bed with Nandi. I'm glad.
Glad?
Yes! She's a dear friend, and probably in need of some comfort about now.
. . .
So, you're okay. Well, yeah. Why… why wouldn't you be?
I wouldn't say I'm entirely okay. I'm a little appalled at her taste.
[Cut later to a shot of Inara crying in her room]
Cap'n seem a little... funny to you at breakfast this morning?
Come on, Kaylee. We all know I'm the funny one.
Girls, nobody's going to die!
[Cut to Jayne.]
There's people gonna die.
[over radio] Whoa, now, girl, that is just plain dirty.
Jayne, you aware your radio's transmittin'? Cause I ain't feelin' particular girlish or dirty at the moment.
Mal! Looks like we got some imminent violence!
[Rance is on his knees before Petaline, who holds her infant son.]
Rance, this is Jonah. Jonah... say "hi" to your daddy.
[She shoots Rance.]
Say "goodbye" to your daddy, Jonah.
You couldn't possibly!
No, I wish I was lying, I just...You know, we'd all just made surgeon. That was it, we were the elite. The world was ours, you know?
So you had to be naked?
Naked. Yes. And, uh, on top of the statue of Hippocrates. (they laugh) Can't you just picture me?
What, naked? Oh, well, hmm, mmm...Let's see, I'mma have to conjure up a...yeah, that's, that's gonna be difficult...(laughs and pokes him in the cheek with her foot) So did the feds come?
There were no feds. (grins) Until I started singing.
Oh, no! (cracks up)
This is not--
What did you sing?
This is not funny. This, this is a morality tale about the evils of sake.
(they laugh, then turn and look at River)
I would be there right now.
(back to reality, Simon and Kaylee are still laughing, having not really noticed River)
I really miss...It was, it was either that or the national anthem. I, reports vary...
You don't remember any of this?
I remember talking the feds out of telling my father. Or, or paying the feds out of telling my father. I get fuzzy on the aspect...
...
So like, never?
Well, no.
Not ever ever?
Some orders allow shepherds to marry, but I follow a narrower path.
But you still got the urge? They don't...cut it off or nothin'?
No, I'm more or less intact. I just...direct my energy elsewhere.
You mean like masturbatin'?
I hope you're not thinking of taking orders yourself?
Heheh, yeah, that's be the day.
I got stupid, the money was too good.
I don't give half a hump if you're innocent or not. So where does that put you?
(back to reality, Jayne and Book are laughing)
Saint Jayne, got a ring to it!
I'm just trying to remember how many miracles you've performed.
I once hit a guy in the neck from five hundred yards with a bent scope, don't that count upstairs?
Oh, it'll be taken into consideration.
You made that sound kinda ominous.
...
You know, the only thing you're gonna find in New Melborne is fish and fish-related activities, so unless you got the overwhelming urge to gut sturgeon--and who hasn't, occasionally--
But it's a layover point for almost every planet this side of the system. I could--I just don't want to draw this out.
Have you decided when you're gonna tell the others?
I...No. I appreciate your not saying anything.
Well, I don't. So make up your mind.
I'm a big girl, just tell me.
None of it means a damn thing.
...
[River bends down to look at a bent branch on the leaf-strewn cargo bay floor and picks it up]
It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think.
...
[River comes out of a vision to find herself holding a gun, which Mal takes from her.]
Fully loaded, safety off. This here is a recipe for unpleasantness. [to Simon] Does she understand that?
She understands. She doesn't comprehend.
Well, I'm glad we've made that distinction.
If I want a lot of medical jargon, I'll talk to a doctor.
You are talking to a doctor.
Little River gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next?
Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up.
I hope she does the soup thing, it's always a hoot and we don't all die from it.
Where's River at now?
In her room, which I'm thinking we bolt from the outside from now on.
That a little extreme, isn't it?
Anyone remember her comin' at me with a butcher's knife?
[reminiscently] Wacky fun…
You wanna go, little man?
Only if it's someplace with candlelight.
Sir, I know she's unpredictable. But I don't think she'd harm anyone.
Butcher's knife?!
Anyone we can't spare.
Girl knows things. Things she shouldn't. Things she couldn't.
What, are you— are you sayin' she's a witch?
[sarcastically] Yes, Jayne. She's a witch. She has had congress with the beast.
She's in Congress?
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
. . .
Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
We live in a spaceship, dear.
So?
. . .
Well… I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'.
No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
The Alliance could have any number of uses for a psychic.
A psychic… or an assassin.
She's just a kid! And she just wants to be a... kid.
I wish it were that simple.
Yeah, and if wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak.
[Kaylee hears something and crawls out from under engine.]
River? ...River? [startled by Early] Wah!
I like this ship... Serenity... she's good looking.
[stuttering] Ha-how how did you... g-get on—
Strains the mind a bit don'it? You think you're all alone... maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee, bring presents to the good girls and boys. Maybe not, though. Maybe I've always been here.
What do you want?
[looks at engine] That's a beating heart isn't it? Pull off any one of a thousand parts she'll just die. Such a slender thread... [coldly] You ever been raped?
[almost in tears] Th-the captain is right down the hall-hallway- He... c-can... hear you—
The captain is locked in his quarters. They all are. There's nobody can help you... Say it.
[breathlessly, a tear starting down her right cheek] There's... there's nobody can help me.
I'm gonna tie you up now—
[whimpers]
And you know what I'm gonna do then? I'm gonna give you a present. Get rid of a problem you've got. And I won't touch you in any wrong fashion, nor hurt you at all, unless you make some kind of ruckus. You throw a monkey wrench into my dealings in any way, your body is forfeit. Ain't nothing but a body to me and I can find all unseemly manner of use for it. Do you understand?
[holding back tears] Yes.
Turn around and put your hands behind yer back.
Oh ughhhh... [moans, but does as she's told.]
[From behind her as he ties her up] Now tell me Kaylee, where does River sleep?
[The mysterious intruder holds Simon at gunpoint.]
Are you Alliance?
Am I a lion?
What?
I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though: I have a mighty roar.
I said "Alliance".
Oh, I thought—
No, I was—
That's weird.
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