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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 2295256" data-attributes="member: 93">Ask and ye shall receive:[spoiler]The crew is mystified by the corpses.  A brief thought that we were about to see Dawn of the Dead, Firefly-style crossed my mind.  I wouldn't put it past Joss.But no, it was worse than that.  The bodies showed absolutely no signs of injury or trauma.  No disease.  No defect.  It was like they just...  lost the desire to live.There is some sign of conflict, IIRC.  The crew finds a ??  (What was it?  A vehicle?  A small scientific monitoring station?  I'm not sure - and its not important).  Inside they find a holographic recording of a scientist making a "final log" of sorts.  She is explaining what happened on Miranda.The Alliance tried to introduce a drug into the atmosphere with the intention of pacifying the populace.  A huge experiment on a global scale.  Placid, compliant, docile citizens.  It worked too well: the citizens became so docile they lost all will to live, and just stopped.Well, not all.Some, we learn, had an extreme adverse reaction.  They became violent, depraved, and they arrive at the recording station at about the time we learn that.  The scientist is dragged "off camera" and killed.Now we know why the Reavers live in orbit around this planet.  And where they come from.The crew gets back on Serenity.  Mal makes a nice speech about the Alliance trying to create perfect little behaving children out of the citizenry."I aim to misbehave," he states.They've got the recording.  They figure out how to disseminate it - Mr. Universe from earlier in the film can do it.  Now they just have to figure out how to get there, as they find the place is surrounded by Alliance space ships, and Serenity is no warship (though they did cobble a blast cannon onto the ship at Book's place).Mal's got a plan.  "They won't be expecting this."They sneak past the Reavers again - but just as they zoom off to Mr. Universe's, Jayne unloads with the Blaster Cannon on a Reaver ship.Back with the Alliance fleet, The Operative waits for Serenity.  He's pleased when Mal obliges him and shows up.He's less pleased when he realizes that every Reaver in Known Space is right on his tail - and not terribly concerned about who they kill.Chaos ensues.  Wash does some incredible flying, and the ship eventually crash lands.Wash dies in the crash.[/spoiler]More to come soon - very near the end.</blockquote>

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