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Season 2 Episode 10: Letters to Home

Written by Thomas Cohn

Directed by DC Washington

Teaser from 2x10: Letters to Home

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INT. PARTY - BALLROOM – NIGHT

The elegant ballroom is filled with ritzy PARTY-GOERS, circulating WAITERS, and live MUSICIANS. Mounds of fresh fruit and expensive-looking arrangements of cheeses and meats cover a buffet table.

There is also a hovering chandelier.

ATHERTON WING and INARA dance into frame with some of the other guests.

ATHERTON: I'm trying to give you something, you know. A life. If you want it.

INARA (uncomfortable smile): Atherton...

ATHERTON: You can live here, on Persephone. As my personal Companion.

INARA: You are a generous man.

ATHERTON: That's not a "yes."

INARA (after a beat): I couldn’t leave Serenity… or my captain.

Atherton abruptly stops dancing.

ATHERTON: You belong here, Inara, not on that flying piece of gos se, with that bèn captain of yours. You see that, don't you?

INARA: Atherton, language.

ATHERTON: What, "piece of gos se"? But it is a piece of gos se.

INARA: I said no, Atherton.

Atherton grabs Inara by the arm, hard, and starts pulling her off the dance floor.

ATHERTON: Money changed hands, which makes you mine for tonight. No matter how you dress yourself, you’re still a—

A hefty PUNCH knocks Atherton to the floor.

JAYNE (VO): Now, Ma, I couldn’t let a troll like Atherton Wing say what he was going to say.

Atherton looks up, shielding his eyes from the light of the chandelier, to see JAYNE, decked out in a fine outfit complete with a white COWBOY HAT.

JAYNE: I believe the lady said no, sha gua .

The music stops playing and the guests stop dancing.

INARA (pleased but worried): Oh, Captain…

JAYNE (VO): Now, I know I shouldn’ta used cuss words, Ma, but that guy, he just gets me all worked up…

JAYNE: What? The hwoon dahn deserved it.

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