LOST CONVERSATIONS IV

1. WHERE WE FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED ON INARA’S SHUTTLE AFTER IT LEAVES SERENITY IN “Out of Gas”

INT. INARA’S SHUTTLE

Inara pilots the shuttle as Book stands nearby looking at navigation star charts.

INARA

Should have enough fuel for six, maybe seven more hours.

BOOK

There’s no place in range?

INARA

(quiet)

Nothing.

He points to the star chart.

BOOK

Farther we go, closer we get to this travelled corridor, route to Greenleaf. Transmission might be picked up if we get close enough.

She looks at the chart, skeptical.

INARA

We don’t have the range.

BOOK

Anyway to extend out range?

INARA

I’ve never piloted her in deep space or very far. (beat) Kaylee might know.

They get up and move to the living area of her shuttle.

Kaylee is sitting on Inara’s bed, very sad. Jayne sits on the sofa before his guns laid out on the table. He picks one up and starts to clean it.

Book sits down next to Kaylee. She barley bats an eyelash, staring off at nothing.

BOOK

Kaylee, is there a way to extend the range of the shuttle?

KAYLEE

(emotionless)

Lean out the fuel mixture, run her slow, let our momentum carry us, switch off all unnecessary functions. Give us another hour, maybe two, more distance.

INARA

Show me how, Kaylee.

KAYLEE

It don’t matter. Ain’t nobody or no place out there.

BOOK

Kaylee, we need your help if we have a hope of surviving.

Jayne stops what he was doing.

JAYNE

You say a pray for us Shepherd cause that’s the only hope we got.

BOOK

I believe we need a little more faith and we will survive.

KAYLEE

Didn’t even get a chance to say a proper goodbye to the Capt’n, or Zoe, Wash, River...to Simon. I never had a chance to tell him...anything. Now, its too late.

Book takes her hand in his.

BOOK

You will get that chance. I don’t believe I’ve lived all these years to die out here, like this. Neither will you.

KAYLEE

I shoulda taken better care of her.

JAYNE

How many times you ask Mal to replace that part and a hundred others? If it’s anyone’s fault it’s...

INARA