He asks for guidance to 'follow the path of righteousness and never stumble from it.' Book picks up his suitcase and rolling case. ( 2514) Book is kneeling in prayer, just like on the ship. Part Three: Southdown Abbey, two years earlier. Book moves on to his bunk and begins to pray. Kaylee wonders, 'How come water always looks s'much better when drinking it,' and Book waxes poetic about its fundamental beauty.īook wanders into the hold, where Mal and Zoe are wrestling with an arms dealer who pulled a gun on them. In the kitchen, Kaylee and Wash play cards and Book gets a drink of water. They discuss Jayne's sins and whether or not he'll get into heaven as River does handstands nearby. ( 2516) Book is doing bench presses with Jayne spotting. But I'm grateful for the journey and what I've stumbled across along the way. We each get to be in the world a time, and I've had mine. He mans a gun turret and shoots it down, but he is struck by a bullet. In fact, he knows exactly the make and model (A.V.-Sparrow, an alliance short-range gunship with a thick skin), as well as its weaknesses.

A rumble overhead signals the arrival of a ship, and Book recognizes from the sound that it's not a commercial freighter, but a gunship. The colony residents ask Book when the Firefly crew will be returning, and one wonders how he met Captain Mal. Part One begins at Haven, during the events of the Serenity film ( 2518). f you look at your life as a chain of events, each responsible for the next and caused by the last, where does any story begin?'

The Shepherd's Tale by Joss Whedon