EXT. SERENITY RAMP - NIGHT
A motley group of immigrant workers walk down the ramp onto the dirt of a border planet. MAL and an equally motley bulbous man, the CASHIER, count them as they walk off.
<div align='center'> <p align='center'>MAL
Thirteen. Fourteen. Fifteen.
Seventeen.
CASHIER
(bored)
Sixteen.
MAL
Hey, that beefy guy easily ate enough
for two.
CASHIER
Sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. </p> | </div> Mal points to a skinny guy off to the side of a larger guy.
</p> <div align='center'> <p align='center'>MAL
I believe we're up to nineteen.
CASHIER
He was number seven.
MAL
Guess you could be right. Must've
forgot his knapsack. Eighteen.</p> | </div> ZOE follows the last two guys down the ramp.
</p> <div align='center'> <p align='center'>CASHIER
Nineteen. Twenty.
MAL
And done.</p> | </div> The cashier hands Mal a wad of bills. Mal starts to count it.
</p> <div align='center'> <p align='center'>MAL (cont'd)
Not that I don't trust you... but I
don't trust you.</p> | </div> Mal counts the last bill. Looks at the Cashier. Beat. The Cashier gives him two more bills. Grumbles, ambles off.
</p> <div align='center'> <p align='center'>ZOE
Ever full with the customer
relations, sir.
MAL
He works for the Alliance.
ZOE
And we worked for him which would
technically mean we also worked for
the Alliance.
MAL
Yep. Have to say not unhappy to be
makin' a buck off 'em.
ZOE
Ah, change is good. The crew?
MAL
Like the makin' money off the
Alliance bit, but really don't want
to push it by takin' part in their
celebratin'... makes me all twitchy. </p> | </div> Zoe just looks at him.
</p> <div align='center'> <p align='center'>MAL
Fine, but --</p> | </div> KAYLEE comes running down the ramp. Followed by JAYNE and BOOK.
</p> <div align='center'> <p align='center'>KAYLEE
We're goin' to the fair.
MAL
An hour. Sixty minutes. Nothing
more, nothing less, Miss Kaylee.
KAYLEE
No need to do a flippy-hiss, Capt'n.
We gotcha.</p> | </div> Mal gives her money. Then Jayne and Book.
</p> <div align='center'> <p align='center'>MAL
Don't spend it all in one place. </p> | </div> Kaylee puts one arm through Book, another through Jayne.
</p> <div align='center'> <p align='center'>KAYLEE
You can win me stuff.
BOOK
My pleasure. Always have enjoyed
guessing games.
JAYNE
Nope. I win it. I keep it. </p> | </div> Mal hands money to Wash. Wash swings his arm around Zoe's shoulders.
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