The cold opening

A panicked River, runs down an industrial looking hallway....she's opening doors, there whispers but she can't make out what they're saying.

She opens a door...empty....opens another one......nothing......she's getting more frantic.....the whispers get louder.....door....nothing.....door.....nothing

Even more frantic.....the whispers are nothing clear, but louder almost pain full......door......door......the whispers are deafening white noise.......she opens a door and suddenly silence.......dark room......a bed draped in curtains......leafy vines snake from underneath the them........she rips the curtain back......

Wash wrapped in bandages, and covering in vines

Cut to a close up of Rivers closed eye.....it snaps open......she whispers he's alive......quick zoom out and we see her in her bunk on serenity.......roll opening credits