Firefly: Black Cat Blues - 3.12 To Tell The Truth
According to chia_rhino, if I don't post for one day, it means that I've had a long and disturbing silence (who knew?), so I want to let you all know that my show on Friday went very well and I am very grateful to everyone who came out to see it.
Previous episode here.
In the WHEW safehouse outside of town, Archer, Jaya, and Quinn face down about a dozen armed men, with none other than Angelo Bernotte at the forefront of them. Quinn's half expecting him to threaten her in some way, but instead he just says that he and Quinn need to talk. She can actually agree with that, but insists that they do so in a side room, and not alone (Angelo takes two of his men, and Quinn takes Archer and Jaya after swearing them to secrecy about anything they might hear).
When they have some privacy, Angelo gets right to the point with an unsurprising question: "Aidan, what happened to our child?" As is her tradition when it comes to personal questions such as this one, Quinn spends a very long time dancing around the answer. First she tells Angelo that she doesn't understand why he would care so much about the child, seeing as how he was the one who abandoned her on Lilac; he responds that it wasn't his choice to do so, but refuses to say more until Quinn tells him where the child is. Quinn doesn't listen to this, and interrogates Angelo about Siqin (although he responds that this business is between himself and Siqin, and asks Quinn to pass his contact information to Siqin so that the two of them can talk personally), and about the slaving ring and whether he was really kidnapping children who were born on Lilac to try to find his daughter, which is what Quinn has suspected for awhile now; Angelo admits that this is the case, but swears (quite believably) that the ring was already in place thanks to someone else and he was just trying to use it for good. Finally, after a lot of cajoling and arguing, Quinn admits that she and Angelo's daughter, Cala, died before she could be born, and tells Angelo about the attack in the wedding house that led to this. Angelo is shocked and saddened, but admits that given the current situation, this is probably for the best. Quinn asks what that is supposed to mean, and Angelo finally tells her the truth.
Angelo says that when he left Lilac unexpectedly, it wasn't because he wanted to abandon Quinn and his unborn child. Rather, he had just discovered a previous unknown truth about his family. The Bernottes, it seems, are a powerful and influential family within the 'Verse-wide crime Syndicate - which Angelo admits is real, much to everyone's surprise. Because the family had trouble in the past with rival families targetting the Bernotte children for assassination, particularly those who later stood to inherit the family empire, a tradition began in which children in the line of succession were fostered out to distant relatives or family allies. The children were not told about their real heritage until they reached the age of majority, and even then only if the family decides that it's worth it to tell them the truth about their heritage. Angelo is one of these children, and when he disappeared from Lilac, it was because his real father (since Pietro Gianconi was just an ally of the Bernotte family) had summoned him back to the Bernotte family mansion on Ezra to tell him the truth about his parentage and tell him about his new responsibilities as an heir to the Syndicate - a twist of fate that Angelo doesn't seem particularly happy about.
Angelo continues to explain that his father is now in failing health and has only a few weeks left to live at the outermost. Angelo's brother Fortunato is putting up a strong campaign to be appointed as the new leader of the Bernotte crime empire, and although Giuseppe favors Angelo as his heir, the line of succession is unclear and the ultimate decision will be made by the Bernotte family council. As reluctant as Angelo is to spend the rest of his days as a crime lord, he knows that the alternative is the cruel and ruthless Fortunato taking control, and he can't sit back and let that happen. For this reason, it became essential for Angelo to use whatever means he had at his disposal to find Quinn and his daughter, so that Fortunato couldn't find a way to use their existence against him, or even worse just take them out of the picture in the quickest and most violent manner possible. He had to perform the questionable act of getting involved in the slaving ring to track the two of them down - and now that he has, he promises (after Quinn prods him) that he'll do everything in his power to set things right with regards to the slaving ring, although he warns that this will be easier said than done with his current standing and power in the family.
At this point, Quinn is even more confused than she was to begin with. If Angelo isn't really Pietro Gianconi's son, it means that he and Quinn aren't actually cousins - and with the child no longer alive to complicate the line of succession, why does it matter where Quinn is or what she's doing? Angelo sighs and admits a truth that astonishes everyone in the room. He actually has two siblings, the previously-mentioned Fortunato, and a younger sister who he has learned was also fostered on Lilac...at the Gianconi Vineyard. Angelo discovered that Quinn isn't actually his cousin - she's his sister! By extension, that makes her another possible Gianconi heir as well as an even bigger secret that Angelo will need to conceal if he wants to have any hope of taking his father's place.
Quinn is understandably freaked out and sickened by all of this, and tells Angelo that now that he knows the truth, he should leave her alone and focus on setting things right by returning the kidnapped and enslaved children to their families. Angelo glumly responds that he's doing everything he can, but unless he can take over his father's role soon, he won't have much luck. Archer, Jaya, and Quinn then leave, with Quinn feeling sad stating that she has no real desire to see more of Angelo from now on. On her way out the door, Jaya also notices her boss and realizes that he must have been the one who tricked them into this situation in the first place...so she looks him in the eye and says, "You're fired!" as she walks to the door, thus ending her association with WHEW forever. The three of them get into the mule and start heading back to the ship. As they walk, Quinn tells Archer and Jaya in no uncertain terms that they should never speak of what they heard today to anyone - particularly not Nicolas. Neither Archer nor Jaya seems inclined to argue with that command.
While Archer, Jaya, and Quinn are learning this bizarre and terrible news, Luke and Nicolas are braving the gauntlet of the big house, where they hope to talk to Mr. Gianconi, the owner of the vineyard, and find out what he knows and what he can do about the rash of child disappearances on the vineyard. The two of them easily get an audience with Mr. Gianconi, but find him a bit intractable in terms of providing information. Mr. Gianconi says he knows about the disappearances and has tried to do his part to prevent them by hiring more sheriff's deputies, warning families of what was going on, and closing the school, but that there's little else he can do to prevent it. Nicolas is starting to trip over his own words, still a bit intimidated by the man who controlled his whole world while he was growing up, but Luke remains calm and convinces Mr. Gianconi to say more by subtly threatening him with a GCRS tax audit and full inspection if he doesn't comply. Mr. Gianconi finally admits that he knew the abductions were going to happen, but that he didn't think they'd be as obvious and extensive as they were, and that anyway he couldn't do anything to stop them because he was ordered to look the other way by the shady types who are major investors in the vineyard. Luke can see that Mr. Gianconi is telling the truth, so he and Nicolas take their leave and return to the ship.
Archer, Jaya, and Quinn are en route to Black Cat as well, but their travels prove to be somewhat more eventful than Luke and Nicolas's short walk back from the big house. While driving through a canyon, they all see something quite suspicious happening in one of the small branching passageways that leads off the main canyon - three armed men attacking two young girls, aged about 10 and 4 respectively. The girls are struggling and calling out for help, but the men are obviously too strong for them and no one else is around. None of the three women in the mule can stand idly by and watch this happen, so they swing into action to rescue the two little girls. Quinn leaps from the mule and charges into the canyon to work on physically separating the girls from their captors, while both Archer and Jaya stand back on the mule and fire into the melee. The three kidnappers are taken totally by surprise, so it doesn't take very long for Archer and an extremely proud Jaya to subdue two of the three assailants; their ballistic mesh armor keeps them alive, but they've all taken enough bullets to the chest to be subdued for the time being. The third attacker decides to flee, and Archer, Jaya, and Quinn decide to let them go.
Quinn then approaches the two girls who were attacked, tells them that they're safe, and asks why they were out alone when everyone knows how dangerous it is. The girls respond that they were going to town to get medicine for their mother, who is sick and won't get better without it; they knew the danger but had no other choice. Quinn can't bring herself to reprimand them for that, and volunteers to take them to the general store in town and return them safely to their mother's house. The girls accept the offer and board the mule. In the meantime, the somewhat-full-of-herself Jaya is in the process of disarming the two unconscious attackers when she notices something interesting in one of their pockets - documents demanding that the three men capture some potential slaves to fill their quota, and signed by Fortunato Bernotte. Jaya points this out to Quinn, who is quite intrigued and suggests that they take the two unconscious men back to the ship for future questioning.
Archer, Jaya, and Quinn take the girls to the general store and then return them to their grateful mother before returning to Black Cat. They've been gone for quite some time now, so when Nicolas sees them in the company of two strange unconscious men, he's understandably curious. Quinn glosses over the question of how Jaya's "job" went, saying it was fine and she made a lot of money, but tells Nicolas about running into the kidnappers as a way of explaining why they brought the men back to the ship for questioning. Jaya also shows him the documents taken from the kidnappers and suggests that the crew might want to look into it if they're still interested in putting an end to the slaving ring. Nicolas agrees that this is interesting, but a lot of things still aren't adding up for him - like who on earth Fortunato Bernotte is and why that name causes so much interest for Archer, Jaya, and Quinn. He can also tell that Quinn is definitely hiding something about what went on that morning, and he decides not to rest until he prods her into revealing it.
Since Quinn can see that her secret is about to be revealed publicly, she decides to do damage control by taking Nicolas for a walk with her and revealing what happened during the meeting with Angelo - except for the fact that she and Angelo are actually brother and sister. Nicolas is astonished that Quinn wouldn't tell him this basic information without extreme prodding on his part, especially considering that it sounds to him like this is the sort of thing the crew wants to be involved in. If he hadn't bothered her about it, he never would have known and never would have been able to help. Quinn can only apologize and promise to trust Nicolas more in the future. The conversation ends with the two of them swearing up and down that neither of them has any more secrets from the other - but Quinn, at the very least, knows that she's lying when she says this.
When Nicolas and Quinn return from their walk, they decide to search in Black Cat to see if they can locate the kidnappers' shuttle in the area of the canyon, but come up empty and conclude that the escapee must have left the planet already. During this time, Luke is watching over the unconscious prisoners (and chasing away Jaya, who really wants to pick their pockets as another way of demonstrating her gunslinging superiority over them). When one of them wakes up, Luke shuts the door to the infirmary after posting Archer outside as a guard, and begins the process of questioning him. Luke has little sympathy for slavers, and the prisoner proves reluctant to talk, so this is a process that ends up involving forceps and other of the doctor's tools.[1] After a couple of hours, Luke tracks down Nicolas and announces that he has elicited an admission that the prisoners did indeed work for Fortunato Bernotte, and a drop location on Ezra where some of Fortunato's representatives will be waiting to pick up the "cargo". Luke thinks that this means its time to carry out a plan that he's talked about for a long time: using the crates in which the original five children came to Black Cat to make a sort of Trojan horse in which the crew's best fighters will hide, then burst out at an opportune moment to attack the slavers and wreak bloody revente.
Nicolas (who is a little disturbed by how much Luke is excited about this plan) remembers being interested in Luke's plan before, but now he's not so sure if it's the best thing to do. Considering Quinn's conversation with Angelo and the documents they have taken from the slavers, Nicolas thinks that a better option is to contact Angelo and volunteer to vouch for him to his family, thereby helping him become the leader of the Bernotte family and giving him the power to stop the slaving ring. Angelo told Quinn that his father hates the idea of slavery and that the ring was probably set up behind his back, so revealing Fortunato's involvement in it will go a long way toward securing Angelo's position. Nicolas tells Quinn to contact Angelo and tell him that the crew of Black Cat wants to support him at his family mansion on Ezra, which she does right away. The remaining question, then, is what to do with the captured slavers; Nicolas ultimately decides to turn them over to local law enforcement, reasoning that "if we turn in these guys, we're even more less slavers."
Although the decision has now been made to help Angelo on Ezra, Siqin's mind is not exactly set to rest about all of this...particularly considering the card Quinn gave her from Angelo, which has some very distressing information written on it such as Siqin's full name and the name of her mother. So late at night, when everyone else is asleep, Siqin calls the number to speak to Angelo in person. She demands to know more about their so-called "engagement", and Angelo responds by sending her very official documents that state that their families have agreed to an arranged marriage between the two of them. Angelo bluntly states that he has no real desire to marry Siqin, seeing as how he's never met her before in his life, and that if he becomes the head of the family, he'll have the power to dissolve that contract. If Siqin ensures that the crew of Black Cat helps him, he'll do just that...but if she doesn't, Angelo swears that he'll make sure that everyone knows "who and what" Siqin is. This is clearly an outcome that Siqin does not want under any circumstances, so she agrees to keep the crew in line...though she doesn't do so happily.
The next day, the crew of Black Cat prepares to travel to Ezra. As cargo, Nicolas arranges to transport a load of Gianconi Vineyards red wine to a distributor on Ezra (and Luke buys a bunch for himself as well). When the wine is aboard, the ship takes off, and arrives uneventfully on Ezra twelve hours later, landing at the Bernotte family's mansion. It's late, so the household staff leads them to their suite of rooms and tells them that they will be met the following morning. The accommodations are very swanky, but that doesn't do much to calm the minds of the crew, who are wondering if they've just gotten in over their heads by getting involved with a big-time crime family so directly...
1 - Luke: You know what I love about GCRS?
Prisoner: I don't really care.
Luke: There aren't any procedures for what to do with forceps.
Previous episode here.
In the WHEW safehouse outside of town, Archer, Jaya, and Quinn face down about a dozen armed men, with none other than Angelo Bernotte at the forefront of them. Quinn's half expecting him to threaten her in some way, but instead he just says that he and Quinn need to talk. She can actually agree with that, but insists that they do so in a side room, and not alone (Angelo takes two of his men, and Quinn takes Archer and Jaya after swearing them to secrecy about anything they might hear).
When they have some privacy, Angelo gets right to the point with an unsurprising question: "Aidan, what happened to our child?" As is her tradition when it comes to personal questions such as this one, Quinn spends a very long time dancing around the answer. First she tells Angelo that she doesn't understand why he would care so much about the child, seeing as how he was the one who abandoned her on Lilac; he responds that it wasn't his choice to do so, but refuses to say more until Quinn tells him where the child is. Quinn doesn't listen to this, and interrogates Angelo about Siqin (although he responds that this business is between himself and Siqin, and asks Quinn to pass his contact information to Siqin so that the two of them can talk personally), and about the slaving ring and whether he was really kidnapping children who were born on Lilac to try to find his daughter, which is what Quinn has suspected for awhile now; Angelo admits that this is the case, but swears (quite believably) that the ring was already in place thanks to someone else and he was just trying to use it for good. Finally, after a lot of cajoling and arguing, Quinn admits that she and Angelo's daughter, Cala, died before she could be born, and tells Angelo about the attack in the wedding house that led to this. Angelo is shocked and saddened, but admits that given the current situation, this is probably for the best. Quinn asks what that is supposed to mean, and Angelo finally tells her the truth.
Angelo says that when he left Lilac unexpectedly, it wasn't because he wanted to abandon Quinn and his unborn child. Rather, he had just discovered a previous unknown truth about his family. The Bernottes, it seems, are a powerful and influential family within the 'Verse-wide crime Syndicate - which Angelo admits is real, much to everyone's surprise. Because the family had trouble in the past with rival families targetting the Bernotte children for assassination, particularly those who later stood to inherit the family empire, a tradition began in which children in the line of succession were fostered out to distant relatives or family allies. The children were not told about their real heritage until they reached the age of majority, and even then only if the family decides that it's worth it to tell them the truth about their heritage. Angelo is one of these children, and when he disappeared from Lilac, it was because his real father (since Pietro Gianconi was just an ally of the Bernotte family) had summoned him back to the Bernotte family mansion on Ezra to tell him the truth about his parentage and tell him about his new responsibilities as an heir to the Syndicate - a twist of fate that Angelo doesn't seem particularly happy about.
Angelo continues to explain that his father is now in failing health and has only a few weeks left to live at the outermost. Angelo's brother Fortunato is putting up a strong campaign to be appointed as the new leader of the Bernotte crime empire, and although Giuseppe favors Angelo as his heir, the line of succession is unclear and the ultimate decision will be made by the Bernotte family council. As reluctant as Angelo is to spend the rest of his days as a crime lord, he knows that the alternative is the cruel and ruthless Fortunato taking control, and he can't sit back and let that happen. For this reason, it became essential for Angelo to use whatever means he had at his disposal to find Quinn and his daughter, so that Fortunato couldn't find a way to use their existence against him, or even worse just take them out of the picture in the quickest and most violent manner possible. He had to perform the questionable act of getting involved in the slaving ring to track the two of them down - and now that he has, he promises (after Quinn prods him) that he'll do everything in his power to set things right with regards to the slaving ring, although he warns that this will be easier said than done with his current standing and power in the family.
At this point, Quinn is even more confused than she was to begin with. If Angelo isn't really Pietro Gianconi's son, it means that he and Quinn aren't actually cousins - and with the child no longer alive to complicate the line of succession, why does it matter where Quinn is or what she's doing? Angelo sighs and admits a truth that astonishes everyone in the room. He actually has two siblings, the previously-mentioned Fortunato, and a younger sister who he has learned was also fostered on Lilac...at the Gianconi Vineyard. Angelo discovered that Quinn isn't actually his cousin - she's his sister! By extension, that makes her another possible Gianconi heir as well as an even bigger secret that Angelo will need to conceal if he wants to have any hope of taking his father's place.
Quinn is understandably freaked out and sickened by all of this, and tells Angelo that now that he knows the truth, he should leave her alone and focus on setting things right by returning the kidnapped and enslaved children to their families. Angelo glumly responds that he's doing everything he can, but unless he can take over his father's role soon, he won't have much luck. Archer, Jaya, and Quinn then leave, with Quinn feeling sad stating that she has no real desire to see more of Angelo from now on. On her way out the door, Jaya also notices her boss and realizes that he must have been the one who tricked them into this situation in the first place...so she looks him in the eye and says, "You're fired!" as she walks to the door, thus ending her association with WHEW forever. The three of them get into the mule and start heading back to the ship. As they walk, Quinn tells Archer and Jaya in no uncertain terms that they should never speak of what they heard today to anyone - particularly not Nicolas. Neither Archer nor Jaya seems inclined to argue with that command.
While Archer, Jaya, and Quinn are learning this bizarre and terrible news, Luke and Nicolas are braving the gauntlet of the big house, where they hope to talk to Mr. Gianconi, the owner of the vineyard, and find out what he knows and what he can do about the rash of child disappearances on the vineyard. The two of them easily get an audience with Mr. Gianconi, but find him a bit intractable in terms of providing information. Mr. Gianconi says he knows about the disappearances and has tried to do his part to prevent them by hiring more sheriff's deputies, warning families of what was going on, and closing the school, but that there's little else he can do to prevent it. Nicolas is starting to trip over his own words, still a bit intimidated by the man who controlled his whole world while he was growing up, but Luke remains calm and convinces Mr. Gianconi to say more by subtly threatening him with a GCRS tax audit and full inspection if he doesn't comply. Mr. Gianconi finally admits that he knew the abductions were going to happen, but that he didn't think they'd be as obvious and extensive as they were, and that anyway he couldn't do anything to stop them because he was ordered to look the other way by the shady types who are major investors in the vineyard. Luke can see that Mr. Gianconi is telling the truth, so he and Nicolas take their leave and return to the ship.
Archer, Jaya, and Quinn are en route to Black Cat as well, but their travels prove to be somewhat more eventful than Luke and Nicolas's short walk back from the big house. While driving through a canyon, they all see something quite suspicious happening in one of the small branching passageways that leads off the main canyon - three armed men attacking two young girls, aged about 10 and 4 respectively. The girls are struggling and calling out for help, but the men are obviously too strong for them and no one else is around. None of the three women in the mule can stand idly by and watch this happen, so they swing into action to rescue the two little girls. Quinn leaps from the mule and charges into the canyon to work on physically separating the girls from their captors, while both Archer and Jaya stand back on the mule and fire into the melee. The three kidnappers are taken totally by surprise, so it doesn't take very long for Archer and an extremely proud Jaya to subdue two of the three assailants; their ballistic mesh armor keeps them alive, but they've all taken enough bullets to the chest to be subdued for the time being. The third attacker decides to flee, and Archer, Jaya, and Quinn decide to let them go.
Quinn then approaches the two girls who were attacked, tells them that they're safe, and asks why they were out alone when everyone knows how dangerous it is. The girls respond that they were going to town to get medicine for their mother, who is sick and won't get better without it; they knew the danger but had no other choice. Quinn can't bring herself to reprimand them for that, and volunteers to take them to the general store in town and return them safely to their mother's house. The girls accept the offer and board the mule. In the meantime, the somewhat-full-of-herself Jaya is in the process of disarming the two unconscious attackers when she notices something interesting in one of their pockets - documents demanding that the three men capture some potential slaves to fill their quota, and signed by Fortunato Bernotte. Jaya points this out to Quinn, who is quite intrigued and suggests that they take the two unconscious men back to the ship for future questioning.
Archer, Jaya, and Quinn take the girls to the general store and then return them to their grateful mother before returning to Black Cat. They've been gone for quite some time now, so when Nicolas sees them in the company of two strange unconscious men, he's understandably curious. Quinn glosses over the question of how Jaya's "job" went, saying it was fine and she made a lot of money, but tells Nicolas about running into the kidnappers as a way of explaining why they brought the men back to the ship for questioning. Jaya also shows him the documents taken from the kidnappers and suggests that the crew might want to look into it if they're still interested in putting an end to the slaving ring. Nicolas agrees that this is interesting, but a lot of things still aren't adding up for him - like who on earth Fortunato Bernotte is and why that name causes so much interest for Archer, Jaya, and Quinn. He can also tell that Quinn is definitely hiding something about what went on that morning, and he decides not to rest until he prods her into revealing it.
Since Quinn can see that her secret is about to be revealed publicly, she decides to do damage control by taking Nicolas for a walk with her and revealing what happened during the meeting with Angelo - except for the fact that she and Angelo are actually brother and sister. Nicolas is astonished that Quinn wouldn't tell him this basic information without extreme prodding on his part, especially considering that it sounds to him like this is the sort of thing the crew wants to be involved in. If he hadn't bothered her about it, he never would have known and never would have been able to help. Quinn can only apologize and promise to trust Nicolas more in the future. The conversation ends with the two of them swearing up and down that neither of them has any more secrets from the other - but Quinn, at the very least, knows that she's lying when she says this.
When Nicolas and Quinn return from their walk, they decide to search in Black Cat to see if they can locate the kidnappers' shuttle in the area of the canyon, but come up empty and conclude that the escapee must have left the planet already. During this time, Luke is watching over the unconscious prisoners (and chasing away Jaya, who really wants to pick their pockets as another way of demonstrating her gunslinging superiority over them). When one of them wakes up, Luke shuts the door to the infirmary after posting Archer outside as a guard, and begins the process of questioning him. Luke has little sympathy for slavers, and the prisoner proves reluctant to talk, so this is a process that ends up involving forceps and other of the doctor's tools.[1] After a couple of hours, Luke tracks down Nicolas and announces that he has elicited an admission that the prisoners did indeed work for Fortunato Bernotte, and a drop location on Ezra where some of Fortunato's representatives will be waiting to pick up the "cargo". Luke thinks that this means its time to carry out a plan that he's talked about for a long time: using the crates in which the original five children came to Black Cat to make a sort of Trojan horse in which the crew's best fighters will hide, then burst out at an opportune moment to attack the slavers and wreak bloody revente.
Nicolas (who is a little disturbed by how much Luke is excited about this plan) remembers being interested in Luke's plan before, but now he's not so sure if it's the best thing to do. Considering Quinn's conversation with Angelo and the documents they have taken from the slavers, Nicolas thinks that a better option is to contact Angelo and volunteer to vouch for him to his family, thereby helping him become the leader of the Bernotte family and giving him the power to stop the slaving ring. Angelo told Quinn that his father hates the idea of slavery and that the ring was probably set up behind his back, so revealing Fortunato's involvement in it will go a long way toward securing Angelo's position. Nicolas tells Quinn to contact Angelo and tell him that the crew of Black Cat wants to support him at his family mansion on Ezra, which she does right away. The remaining question, then, is what to do with the captured slavers; Nicolas ultimately decides to turn them over to local law enforcement, reasoning that "if we turn in these guys, we're even more less slavers."
Although the decision has now been made to help Angelo on Ezra, Siqin's mind is not exactly set to rest about all of this...particularly considering the card Quinn gave her from Angelo, which has some very distressing information written on it such as Siqin's full name and the name of her mother. So late at night, when everyone else is asleep, Siqin calls the number to speak to Angelo in person. She demands to know more about their so-called "engagement", and Angelo responds by sending her very official documents that state that their families have agreed to an arranged marriage between the two of them. Angelo bluntly states that he has no real desire to marry Siqin, seeing as how he's never met her before in his life, and that if he becomes the head of the family, he'll have the power to dissolve that contract. If Siqin ensures that the crew of Black Cat helps him, he'll do just that...but if she doesn't, Angelo swears that he'll make sure that everyone knows "who and what" Siqin is. This is clearly an outcome that Siqin does not want under any circumstances, so she agrees to keep the crew in line...though she doesn't do so happily.
The next day, the crew of Black Cat prepares to travel to Ezra. As cargo, Nicolas arranges to transport a load of Gianconi Vineyards red wine to a distributor on Ezra (and Luke buys a bunch for himself as well). When the wine is aboard, the ship takes off, and arrives uneventfully on Ezra twelve hours later, landing at the Bernotte family's mansion. It's late, so the household staff leads them to their suite of rooms and tells them that they will be met the following morning. The accommodations are very swanky, but that doesn't do much to calm the minds of the crew, who are wondering if they've just gotten in over their heads by getting involved with a big-time crime family so directly...
1 - Luke: You know what I love about GCRS?
Prisoner: I don't really care.
Luke: There aren't any procedures for what to do with forceps.