Episode Five.

INT. SERENITY ENGINE ROOM – NIGHT

Serenity is quiet, peaceful. KAYLEE is sleeping soundly in her hammock in the engine room. She has a thin white cast shaped sock over her foot.

INT. RIVER’S DORM – NIGHT

RIVER is sleeping (soundly for once) in her dorm.

INT. SERENITY RANDOM – NIGHT

DERRIA has found some random place to fall asleep and looks extremely uncomfortable yet serene.

INT. INARA’S SHUTTLE

INARA is sleeping peacefully in her shuttle.

To the left of her bed we can see she has received a wave from The Guild. It says in flashes…

‘Request the presence’

‘Third Guild Gala’

‘Celebrating Alliance, Unification’.

INT. BRIDGE – NIGHT

ZOE is wide-awake sitting in the pilot’s chair in the bridge. She is watching the stars in the quiet with WASH who is standing behind her. We are looking in on them from the window when a black shadow runs behind them and heads towards the cargo bay.

ZOE and WASH both spot it out of the corner of their eyes.

ZOE: See somethin?

WASH: Maybe (not wanting to sound crazy if it turns out to be nothing) Did you see something?

INT. BRIDGE HALLWAY – NIGHT

ZOE leaves her seat to investigate.

She walks out the bridge, down past the bunks and to the left of the kitchen also heading down to the cargo bay where it look liked the shadow moved.

INT. CARGO BAY – NIGHT

In the cargo bay she moves swiftly, carefully eyeing her surrounds.

INT. SERENITY RANDOM – NIGHT

From the SHADOWS point of view and so we can’t see what it actually is we follow it through the empty quiet ship. It moves through the lounge, past the infirmary and almost to the dorms when it decides it would rather go upstairs. It moves past DERRIA ridiculously sprawled in the corner and almost into the kitchen when it stops suddenly.

It can hear the squeak of KAYLEE’S hammock.

INT. ENGINE ROOM – NIGHT

Turning around the shadow moves to the engine room and hovers above KAYLEE sleeping soundly. Still without seeing what it is