Saturday 29 May 2021

We Meant it for The Best.... To Make People Safer.

 
This Boat is My Home --
You All are Guests on it.
That Don't Include You 
'less I Conjure it Does.




An Operative of 
The Parliamentary Alliance :

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

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds :
I don't murder children

An Operative of 
The Parliamentary Alliance :
I• do -- If I have to.

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds :
Why
Do you even know 
why they sent you? 

An Operative of 
The Parliamentary Alliance :
It's not My Place to ask

I Believe in 
Something Greater Than Myself. 

A Better World. 
A World without Sin

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds :
So Me and Mine gotta lay down and die 
so you can Live in Your ‘Better World’? 

An Operative of 
The Parliamentary Alliance :
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

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds :
Keep Talking
You're not getting a location trace 
off this wave. 

An Operative of 
The Parliamentary Alliance :

And every minute you keep 
River Tam from me, 

MORE people will DIE

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds :
You think I care? 

An Operative of 
The Parliamentary Alliance :

Of course you care. 

You're not a Reaver, Mal. 

You're A Human Man 
and you will never understand how... 


Capt. Malcolm Reynolds :
Get these bodies together. 

We got time for grave digging? 

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds :
Zoe, You and Simon rope them together. 
Five or six. 

I want them laid out 
on the nose of Our Ship. 

Zoe Washburne :
Are you insane
I won't desecrate these bodies.
 
Simon Tam :
I don't understand. 
What do you mean, the bodies... 

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds :
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. 

Kaylee :
These people are Our Friends

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds :
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? 

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds :
I mean to Live. 
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. 


Mal, think about what you're asking. 

...those Reavers'll eat us alive... 

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds :
This is How it Is. 
Anybody doesn't wanna fly with me anymore... 
This is your Port of Harbour. 

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





Capt. Malcolm Reynolds :

This report is maybe twelve years old. Parliament buried it, 

and it stayed buried 'til River dug it up. 

This is what they feared she knew. 


And they were right to fear, 

'cause 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.


Y'all got on This Boat 

for different reasons, 

but y'all are come to 

The Same Place. 


So now I'm asking more of you 

than I have before. Maybe all


'Cause as 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, ten, 

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.

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