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.
