Kid Charlemagne
I am the Very Model of a Modern Moderator
OK, further on and further in.
More to come later...
Considering the mayhem River just caused, Mal has no choice but to take her and Simon back on board Serenity, and try to figure out what happened. They figure out about the subliminal trigger via a contact called Mr. Universe, who is an information broker who tracks almost everything broadcast anywhere (and has the aforementioned bot-girl). Mr Universe needs some more fleshing out or setting up somehow, BTW, as his part in the film turns out to be pretty major.
Obviously, sending a trigger like that out there is no small undertaking, so someone wants River bad. This gets the crew nervous.
A side effect of the trigger is that it brought something a little closer to the surface in River's addled brain. Right before she went nutso-ninja-River, she muttered a word or name under her breath: "Miranda."
I think at this point they hide out with Shepherd Book for a spell. Book is nice and advisor-ly.
Mal gets a message from Inara (the crew taps into the call from the bridge, and throws popcorn at the screen at various appropriate moments). She's got work for them if they're interested. My memory is failing me on the specifics, because they're irrelevant - Mal knows its a trap.
"How do you know its a trap?" the crew asks.
"Were you watching?" Mal responds. The crew sheepishly is silent.
"Did we fight?"
"It's a trap"
They go to wherever it is to help out Inara, who is being held by The Operative, who is all smiles and calmness (he is disturbingly calm throughout the film, even while killing people). He just wants to talk, he says. "I'm completely unarmed," he says.
"Good," Mal says, and shoots him.
Mal and Inara make to leave, but the Operative is not out yet, and a fight ensues.
("I am however wearing body armor," the Operative says. "I'm not a complete idiot.")
Mal and Inara manage to escape after Mal takes his typical beating. They throw off the pursuit via a couple of tricks.
The Operative pulls out all the stops now (my timing of events may be off here) and has every location that Serenity has used for refuge attacked, and wiped out. He threatens Mal very nicely. I can't remember all the details of this bit.
The crew goes back to Book's hideout to find that it has been hit too. Book is badly hurt, and has a ncie scene with Mal, as Mal tearfully says, "It should have been me!"
Book agrees, and passes on to his reward.
Mal's upset now, and comes up with a plan to go to Miranda to find out what's so important. The crew is not thrilled at his plan, however, since it involves dressing out the Serenity to look like a Reaver ship, dead bodies hanging off the side and all.
It works. The Reavers between them and Miranda do not react to Serenity.
They land on Miranda to find that it is a totally developed planet that appears in no starcharts, that no one has ever heard of. Capable of supporting millions of people.
But there's no one there now. No one left alive, that is.
Plenty of bodies, though.
Obviously, sending a trigger like that out there is no small undertaking, so someone wants River bad. This gets the crew nervous.
A side effect of the trigger is that it brought something a little closer to the surface in River's addled brain. Right before she went nutso-ninja-River, she muttered a word or name under her breath: "Miranda."
I think at this point they hide out with Shepherd Book for a spell. Book is nice and advisor-ly.
Mal gets a message from Inara (the crew taps into the call from the bridge, and throws popcorn at the screen at various appropriate moments). She's got work for them if they're interested. My memory is failing me on the specifics, because they're irrelevant - Mal knows its a trap.
"How do you know its a trap?" the crew asks.
"Were you watching?" Mal responds. The crew sheepishly is silent.
"Did we fight?"
"It's a trap"
They go to wherever it is to help out Inara, who is being held by The Operative, who is all smiles and calmness (he is disturbingly calm throughout the film, even while killing people). He just wants to talk, he says. "I'm completely unarmed," he says.
"Good," Mal says, and shoots him.
Mal and Inara make to leave, but the Operative is not out yet, and a fight ensues.
("I am however wearing body armor," the Operative says. "I'm not a complete idiot.")
Mal and Inara manage to escape after Mal takes his typical beating. They throw off the pursuit via a couple of tricks.
The Operative pulls out all the stops now (my timing of events may be off here) and has every location that Serenity has used for refuge attacked, and wiped out. He threatens Mal very nicely. I can't remember all the details of this bit.
The crew goes back to Book's hideout to find that it has been hit too. Book is badly hurt, and has a ncie scene with Mal, as Mal tearfully says, "It should have been me!"
Book agrees, and passes on to his reward.
Mal's upset now, and comes up with a plan to go to Miranda to find out what's so important. The crew is not thrilled at his plan, however, since it involves dressing out the Serenity to look like a Reaver ship, dead bodies hanging off the side and all.
It works. The Reavers between them and Miranda do not react to Serenity.
They land on Miranda to find that it is a totally developed planet that appears in no starcharts, that no one has ever heard of. Capable of supporting millions of people.
But there's no one there now. No one left alive, that is.
Plenty of bodies, though.
More to come later...
