Once Mal and Zoe had returned to the Firefly "Serenity", Mal gave the order: "Close it up, we're moving out."

"Got us a new job, cap'n?" a young girl, covered with enough oil grease to suggest she's the ship's mechanic, and who was all pumped up about this, asked this.

"No, just Badger who wouldn't keep his fly or his mouth shut." Mal replied.

While the mechanic looked somewhat disturbed by this, a young man, about her age, dressed up in a more casual way, which contradicts the rest of the ship's crew's more wild western outfit, had to know more details: "His fly?"

"Let's just say, he only wanted to meet your accent-posing sister." Mal replied, without even looking at him and going straight up to the ship's cockpit.

"He what?" the young man shouted back at him.

"Calm down, Simon." the young girl tried to soften him.

"How can I calm down, Kaylee?" the young man, Simon, asked of her, "Someone wants to rape my sister, how can I be calm about that?"

"It's too bad." someone whispered. When Simon and the other girl, Kaylee, turned to look, they saw the aformentioned sister, River, who sat down at the bottom of the stairs.

"What?" Simon couldn't believe he heard this.

"I wish I knew what it's like to be with a guy." River whined.

"How can you think of that?" Simon started to rage.

"Come on now!" Kaylee still tried to calm him down, still with the smile on her face, "It's not unusual at her age she would feel that way."

"She's right." Zoe agreed, "She's not a child anymore that needs her brother's protection. Or even needs anyone's protection."

"Zoe, you got everything closed up?" Mal called through the intercom.

Zoe replied: "Yes, sir."

Shortly after that, the Firefly had let loose of its docks and set off into the black, where every next sound it makes would never be heard.

Shortly after their departure, Zoe went to talk to Mal: "So what do we do now? Now that Badger won't provide us any more jobs."

"I'm sure that we'll find a more suitable one on our next planet." Mal said, sounding confident, but as usual for no good reason, "But I think we've got a much bigger problem."

"Which is, sir?" Zoe asked.

"Badger was one son of a bitch, but he has more advantages if we kept our ship." Mal explained, "So why did he want to set a trap for us?"

Meanwhile, Badger had been dragged into another ship, which stopped at a space-station, where he was immediately brought to see it's main leader. Once he arrived, his face still battered and bruised with his earlier fight, he started to talk to the leader: "I'm sorry sir, I couldn't..."

The leader raised his hand, so to say that Badger didn't need to say more. Upon seeing that hand, he silenced himself, but the man started talking: "I thought you were in need for money, and you could not do something easy."

The leader's accent was something that kept surprising Badger to hear, but not under circumstances which were this serious.

"I don't know why I keep underestimating..." he started, but got interrupted again.

"You talk so big, everyone talks big of you, but you don't stay true to the talks." the leader said.

That's when he turned around to face Badger, while holding something that looked like a taser-gun.

Badger looked frightened at the sight of this: "Oh no, please! Mr. Nishka, you really don't need to do this!"

The leader, Nishka, merely smiled: "You're telling me what I do not need to do?"

Badger muttered some incoherent words, after which Nishka decided: "Maybe, I can use you for something else."

After hearing this, Badger sighed of relieve. But then Nishka: "But you need to look more convincing."

That's when his henchmen took knives out of their pockets, at which Badger looked frightened. He hoped that Nishka was joking, but the henchmen tightened their grip on him, so he couldn't run away. No matter how much he begged, the henchmen's knives got closer to him, when they decided to have some fun with him.