LOST CONVERSATIONS VI

1. WHERE SIMON AND DOBSON BOOK PASSAGE ON SERENITY FROM THE PILOT “Serenity”

EXT. SERENITY, DOCKING BAY, PERSEPHONE - DAY

Kaylee helps Shepherd Book carry his bags up the ramp to the cargo bay.

KAYLEE

This all you got?

BOOK

Yes. I rid myself of most of my worldly possessions before I entered the abbey.

INT. CARGO BAY - DAY

KAYLEE

How come?

He stops to thinks about it.

BOOK

I’d spent a lifetime gathering them and suddenly, the day before I entered and took my vows, I realized that they had no value to me. Not for where I was going, to be closer to God.

KAYLEE

I guess that makes sense. I ain’t got much myself. Most would fit in one of these bags.

BOOK

I believe its not what we have that makes us special, but who we are.

She smiles at that thought.

KAYLEE

That’s real nice. Makes sense, too.

Kaylee leads Book toward the center where some crates are and she helps him place his bags nearby.

KAYLEE (CONT’D)

You can leave your stuff here for now. We leave in about an hour. I’d show you around but I gotta try to..you know, get some more folks for our trip to Boros.

BOOK

That’s fine, Kaylee. I’ll take a walk and say goodbye to this little world before we leave.

They walk back out and down the ramp.

EXT. SERENITY, DOCKING BAY, PERSEPHONE -DAY

Book walks off and Kaylee sits down in her chair with her umbrella again. She looks at some people walking by, smiles at them, but they keep going. A man walks by in a fine suit. He looks at Serenity, pauses for a brief moment, shifts a heavy suitcase from one hand to the other. She smiles and stands.

KAYLEE

Heading to Boros? Serenity’s the sweetest...

MAN

(snobbish)

I wouldn’t be caught dead in this piece of junk of a Firefly.

He keeps walking. She’s livid.

KAYLEE

(angry)

Piece of junk! Now you get back...

She stops as she notices another man in a suit and dark glasses looking at her. It’s Simon Tam, standing by the electronic notice board.

He looks from her to Serenity and then the electronic notice board, reading the info