# Shepherd Book in Serenity (spoilers)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 10, 2009, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepherd-book-in-serenity-spoilers/513303 "2009-10-10T11:45:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepherd-book-in-serenity-spoilers/513303/21 "2009-10-13T10:37:13Z")

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“Shepherd” isn’t his name, either. It’s a title.

Mal: You a Shepherd?

Book(surprised): I thought the outfit gave it away.  
The clothes he was wearing were common priestly/pastorly apparel.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepherd-book-in-serenity-spoilers/513303/22 "2009-10-13T20:09:36Z")

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Yeah, “pastor” pretty much means “shepherd”, anyway-- They just use a different word in that 'verse. It’s basically the same thing as Battlestar Galactica using “So say we all” instead of “Amen”.

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepherd-book-in-serenity-spoilers/513303/23 "2009-10-13T20:24:38Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Yeah, “pastor” pretty much means “shepherd”, anyway–

“That ain’t no Shepherd.”

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepherd-book-in-serenity-spoilers/513303/24 "2009-10-13T21:58:06Z")

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> [@Weedy](#):
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> My partner reckons that Bush gets killed on the secret colony somehow, when it gets trashed. I don’t remember that happening at all. I thought they didn’t turn up their till way after. So did he or not?

Your partner is correct that Book dies, but not where. I’m assuming by “the secret colony” you mean Miranda, the planet where the Reavers were created. Book died elsewhere, before the crew visited Miranda. (Book’s was one of the towns that was destroyed by The Operative in order to give the crew no place to run to–he died in Mal’s arms, more or less.)

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