FIREFLY

“Karin”

TEASER

Ext. Serenity is coasting into the far reaches of space.

1 Int. The Doctor’s medical bay. The Doctor is treating Kaylee for a minor scrape.

KAYLEE: I’m tellin’ ya Doc, it’s nothing serious.

DOC: We’re talking about six tons of spinning metal.

KAYLEE: Well, Serenity’s just not a mornin’ gal, that’s all. I woke her up too early.

DOC: Here.

DOC zaps KAYLEE with a medical instrument that heals her.

KAYLEE: Ooh. So future-like.

DOC: The miracle of science.

KAYLEE: It’s all so amazin’ sometimes. Biology and technology all workin’ together.

DOC: Yeah but then you break it down into formulas and equations and it all seems so…banal after that.

KAYLEE: I dunno. I know Serenity from front to aft and there ain’t a day that goes by I don’t find her the most fascinatin’ lady in the verse.

DOC: I guess once a relationship is formed, it all stops being so mundane. There’s a word for that…

KAYLEE: Chemistry.

DOC: Madness.

2 Off that. Onto the bridge. MAL, ZOE, and WASH are talking into a screen. MARCUS, a smuggler, is talking to them.

MARCUS: It isn’t far off your course. And I’d make it worth your while.

MAL: Aww, well ain’t you just the most carin’ gent in town.

ZOE: How do you plan to do that?

MARCUS: There’s money in it.

WASH: Here that sweetie, there’s money in it!

MAL: There’s money in a lotta things, Marcus.

MARCUS: But here there’s something extra. A little device I picked up on Sentrus VII. It maps out all of the nearest Alliance ships within a lightyear. You’ll never have a run-in with the Alliance again. At least not one you didn’t know about before hand.

ZOE: We could use that, Captain.

MAL: And how do we know this thing works?

MARCUS: Stop over. I’ll show you how it works. If you’re in the least bit unsatisfied, then you can get out of the deal.

MAL: Gonna take more than that.

MARCUS: All right. And you can take 25,000. Just for your troubles.

WASH: Free money!

MARCUS: But if you do go through with