

MAL, in the lead, stops, seeing something OS. The crew walks down a muddy lane between two rows of MUD DWELLINGS. But Kaylee falls in step with him, brushing the mud off his jacket, smiling. The foreman gives him a somewhat confused look.Īs they pass by Simon, he reads from their looks that he didn't handle things so effectively. Now the foreman turns to him, a little quizzical. Simon struggles to hold his cover, but the foreman isn't listening closely enough to notice. MUD WORKERS shamble by, bent under heavy loads of mud-bricks clearly back-breaking work. The others follow a distance behind, and by their looks this has been going on a bit long. The foreman leads Simon on a tour of the plant.

He claps Simon on the back, his glove leaving a dusty handprint of dried mud on Simon's jacket. But the foreman shuts off his bullhorn collar and steps forward, all salesman smiles now. Mal trades a look with Wash over Simon's awkwardness. He touches it, and his voice projects as if from a BULLHORN, gruff and confrontative. At his throat is a thin METAL COLLAR with two flat black discs, mounted over his larynx. Our crew passes through a chain-link fence which surrounds the area. He wears hip-high rubberized boots, a MACHETE strapped in its sheath to one leg. Mud encrusts everything the WORKERS, the pipelines that feed out of the mud-bog, the crappy structures, and THE FOREMAN who oversees it all. Mal smiles and guides Simon into the lead of their party. Mal turns to Jayne, sees his hat/goggles, squints at him for a beat, then continues. Book turns to Simon.īook turns to River, who smiles at him sweetly, nodding.
Wash sees his new look and raises his eyebrows. He's tying the flaps of his 'thrilling heroics' hat under his chin. Jayne stomps down the ramp, joining them. Kaylee and Simon stand with Book and River at the top of the ramp, looking around. SERENITY - CARGO RAMP - LANDING AREA - DAY Factory structures stand on the peninsula's far side.ĮXT. Beyond it, Serenity comes to rest on a landing field at the edge of a peninsula that stretches out into the bog. Inara's shuttle disengages, peeling away.ĪNGLE OVER MUD-BOG - which bubbles and farts in the FG. SERENITY - HIGGINS' MOON ATMOSPHERE - DAY We hear LOUD METAL CA-THUNKS as Serenity's locks on the shuttle are released.ĮXT. Inara works her controls, heating up the shuttle's engine, disengaging from Serenity. Wash pilots, hits switches in preparation for landing, then hits the ship's comm. She makes a controlled tumble into the atmosphere. Serenity rakes back, her belly glowing red as she hits re-entry. Higgins' Moon below: small, muddy brown, no place to raise a kid. MAL stares at him, and leaves as Jayne glumly pulls the tape off, wincing. MAL appears at the door, looking at the gun taped to Jayne's middle. Jayne pulls a length of tape with a loud rip, biting it off with his teeth. Simon starts putting it all away, fuming. Jayne sits on the examination table, quietly taping a SMALL HANDGUN to his bare mid-section with medical tape. The contents of the cabinets cover every surface. Then Simon catches sight of something through the infirmary window, shouts, and makes his way around to the door. Simon turns, momentarily stunned by her elegance. Inara walks toward them, heading for the stairs up to the shuttle catwalk. Kaylee and Simon enter from the passenger corridor, walking slowly as they talk. Firefly Brownoats: Jaynestown Shooting Script Firefly - "Jaynestown"
