Helsinki, Baxter and Cash:
Beale gives himself a shake, his perpetual scowl reasserting itself. He looks at the mule. He looks at Helsinki. He looks straight down the barrel of Helsinki's autoloader.
Grimacing, he spits a great gob of phlem on the catwalk right next to Helsinki's foot. "I ain't gonna forget this, mei mei1. You best hope you don't see me again." Helsinki does not so much as twitch a muscle.
He takes a few steps backwards and nearly collides with Baxter. "You neither, Jon. Best grow eyes in the back o' your head 'cause I ain't the forgettin' kind."
He levels one more scowl at his three former crewmates and then stomps off in the direction of the foremost stairs to the middeck.
Kai and Win:
The woman on the catwalk stands stock still, her pistol perfectly steady, a neutral expression on her face. Someone above is speaking in a gravelly voice.
Mel:
The stranger pulls his communicator out as he nears the ramp of the ship. "Corbin! Get Lane on the gorram horn," he shouts into it. "We got a situation here as might interest her."
He steps onto the ramp, laughing to himself. "Some bendan thinks he won himself her ship."
Mel glances at the plackard out front of the enormous Dragonfly. It reads: Rapacious, Capt. Conrad DeWitte.
1"Little sister."