Episode One.

INT. SERENITY CARGO BAY – DAY

In the cargo bay JAYNE is checking over the weaponry.

INT. INFIRMARY – DAY

Through to RIVER who is standing in the Infirmary simply grinning, head leaning to one side.

INT. ENGINE ROOM – DAY

Around the corner and up the stairs KAYLEE is tinkering away at the ships main engine with SIMON trying to help.

INT. KITCHEN – DAY

Back through the corridor and down to the kitchen where INARA is making a cup of tea while MAL watches from the other side of the counter. They are talking business….kind of…

INARA: It would only set you back a day to Persephone. I left the training house so suddenly that there were a lot of arrangements left un made. The rest of my belongings? I hadn’t planned on coming back to Serenity.

MAL: It’s not that I don’t want you to have your things ‘Nara. We might not make it to Persephone on the fuel we got, we can’t take a chance on seeing the scenic route.

INARA: You could refuel at the training house.

MAL: With our many bagfuls of money.

INARA: I’ll reimburse you; make it purely business not a fav….

MAL: Inara…

INARA: (Frustrated) Well you either want me here Mal or you don’t!

INARA ends the conversation and leaves the kitchen towards the engine room, probably heading back to her shuttle. MAL sighs and then heads towards the bridge. He’s worried she will want to leave again.

INT. SERENITY BRIDGE – DAY

We follow MAL up the stairs and into the cockpit. ZOE is standing behind the ‘empty’ pilots chair staring out into space.

MAL: How much fuel we got?

In front of ZOE, now sitting in the pilots chair is WASH.

WASH: Maybe enough for a crash landing on Persephone? If we turned off all the engines and begun the very slow descent to our deaths now.

ZOE: Not enough Sir.

ZOE is the only who can hear WASH.

There is silence as MAL contemplates things for a moment.

MAL: Plot a course, lets get us Inara’s things.

ZOE: And the lack of fuel?

MAL: Got word of business, might be somethin