Serenity Page #3

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...

...treating bullet holes,

knife wounds, laser burns.

Some 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.

Honestly, Doctor, I think we may

really crash this time anyway.

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.

Don't push me,

and I won't push you.

Zoe, Wash gonna straighten this

boat out before we get flattened?

Like a downy feather, sir.

No one flies like my mister.

River.

I know.

We're going for a ride.

Hey, little one.

Understand your part

in all this?

Do you?

This is what I do, darling.

This is what I do.

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.

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.

What are we hoping

to find here...

...that equals

the won'th of a turd?

Security payroll. Alliance

don't have the manpower...

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