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He assaults the Commander, but Mal gets behind him, and manages to snap the savage's neck.įor saving his life, the Commander allows Mal and his crew to go free without pressing charges. There, aboard Serenity, the emerging Reaver attacks the search team. Mal convinces the Commander to allow him to guide the Alliance troops through the freighter in search of the man. He slaughters the medical staff assigned to him, then makes his way through the cruiser back to Serenity, seeking familiar ground. Unable to deal with the memories of what happened aboard his ship, the man deals with it the only way he can-by emulating his tormentors. When Mal hears what's happened to the survivor, he realizes that the man has disfigured himself. After finding the derelict survivor aboard, horribly disfigured, Commander Harken charges Mal with torturing the survivor and committing the atrocities inflicted on the settlers' ship. The crew is brought into custody while Alliance troops scour the ship. When the radio operator brings up a flag that was posted for a Firefly for harboring fugitives, the ship's commander, Harken, decides that deadly force might be necessary. An ensign reports the identity of the derelict as a transport ship out of Bernadette headed for Newhall that was three weeks late in their arrival. Serenity undocks just in time to be intercepted by an Tohoku-class cruiser on routine patrol. Kaylee manages to disable the explosive, and Jayne finishes transferring the derelict's cargo to Serenity by the time Book finishes his sermon. This gives Serenity's crew time to deal with another problem: their ship has been snared by a Reaver booby trap, set to trigger when detaching from the other vessel and destroy both. Mal knocks the man unconscious, and he is restrained in Serenity's sickbay.Īt Book's insistence, Mal allows the Shepherd to hold funeral rites for the slaughtered crew of the other ship. While scavenging the galley, Jayne is attacked by the ship's sole surviving passenger, who, though in perfect physical health, has gone mad from the horrors he's witnessed. The derelict vessel was the victim of an attack by Reavers. In the cargo hold, they find enough goods to support a colony of more than fourteen families, but the hold contains a darker cargo: strung from the ceiling are the bodies of the settlers. The ship seems deserted, so the decision is made to loot the ship of its supplies and valuables. The Captain decides to dock with the derelict, and check for survivors. As she approaches, Serenity is struck by the dead body of a passenger from the other ship right in front of Hoban.

While on the border, the crew of Serenity (except Simon, Inara, and River) is playing a very random form of basketball when they encounter a transport ship adrift in deep space.
