"What worries me more is what you're not telling us."  Deacon would speak up looking over at Marry.  "The shot was a long way off, anyone hired to take out our companion here wouldn't be an amature and they wouldn't have missed, or only fired a single bullet when it didn't work.  So the target wouldn't be our friend, but the girl who was felled with a single bullet.  In the head as I recall, not an easy shot.  You'll have to pardon my bluntness, the captain and Catherine are the more diplomatic ones and more inclinded to beat around the bush to get the information out, but since you're asking about weapon implacements on a Firefly, I feel the need to interject bluntly.  What is the Gorram Secret you've deicded to keep? And before you say nothing?  Understand I'm smarter then you and don't appreciate my intelligence insulted with transparent lies."<br/><br/>So the engineer decided it was time to drop the show.  Not the wisest of moves, but she keeps being worried about guns on the ship and alluding to complications with the mission and triple the goring rate is usually enough to keep questions from being asked when the client doesn't keep talking about problems and guns..  Maybe she only made two mentions of it, but given the eariler events, it's enough to make deacon wary.  He was currently working on new tools, not new weapons and he would be really, displeased if they were blind sided by some complication.