Malcolm Reynolds shows one of Serenity's shuttles to Inara Serra

Life, Relationship change

Malcolm Reynolds shows one of Serenity's shuttles to Inara Serra, a registered Companion and potential renter. She is interested, but insists on a number of conditions...

Malcolm Reynolds shows one of Serenity's shuttles to Inara Serra, a registered Companion and potential renter. She is interested, but insists on a number of conditions--complete autonomy and privacy, an understanding that she won't service him or anyone in his employ, and some measure of assurance that when she makes an appointment with a client, she is in a position to keep that appointment.   Mal says he'll take all that into consideration, but she tells him she already knows he'll rent the shuttle to her--for one quarter less than his asking price--because she can bring a certain respectability to his ship that others can't. He questions why she is even there, and what she could be running from, but she ducks the question, and adds that he does not get to call her a whore. Mal promises that he won't do so ever again. ["The Train Job," "Bushwhacked," and "Out of Gas." In "The Train Job," Inara tells Book she has been on the ship "eight months now," while in "Bushwhacked," she tells Commander Harken that "(i)n a few weeks, it will be a year" since she came aboard. These events are finally shown in flashback in "Out of Gas."]   In time, Inara will call Mal by names which are worse than "whore." ["Serenity." Inara assures Book that she has done this.]