R. Tam, Session 416 - Second Excerpt

We see a man setting in a chair by a table. After a few seconds of silence, he puts his hands to his neck and begins to cough violently. We see him pull what is apparently a pen out of his neck and throw it onto the table. After a few seconds of struggling, he falls out of his chair onto the floor. River, with blood on her hand, then appears on camera, and whispers, "I can see you."

R. Tam, Session 1 - Excerpt

We are introduced to a young girl named River. She is being interviewed by the same man who we were introduced to in the first clip. The setting is apparently the same room by the same table. This clip takes place before the previous one, as indicated by the numbering and River's personality. The interviewer begins to question River about her life, such as how school is going, and asks her if she would be interested in joining what is presumably "the Academy." This clip establishes River as being extremely intelligent, and hints at her having extremely intuitive, or possibly psychic, powers.

R. Tam, Session 22 - Excerpt

River is having second thoughts about how she may not be "the right subject" for the "treatments" being done to her. She requests a transfer back to a normal school, despite it being "too slow." The video then cuts to another conversation. River says "it's the Pax" (a reference to the events of Serenity), and makes another non sequitur about a patient who died on the table while the interviewer (apparently a doctor) was performing a surgery. She desires very much to see her brother (Simon) in person, but the interviewer obliquely denies this request, suggesting that she write to him instead.

This clip also introduces a Dr. Mathias as the person who is apparently in charge of whatever is being done to River. Mathias plays a role later on in the film Serenity.

R. Tam, Session 165 - Excerpt

In this excerpt, River has gone into one of her psychotic moods and is pacing around instead of sitting down as in the previous excerpts. She is rambling (with the occasional stutter) about how she apparently cut up her mattress for reasons unknown to anyone else but herself, making a reference to the fairy tale The Princess and the Pea. She claims that she has no "mission", apparently seeking the purpose to why she is at this institution. Suddenly after a video cut, she shrieks and bends over on the table, and claims that something in the mattress is "sticking in me" and screams repeatedly at the interviewer that "they cut it out" (a reference to the Firefly episode Ariel).

R. Tam, Session 416 - First Excerpt

River says that Dr. Mathias "gave [her] a mission", and is apparently aware that her brother Simon is looking for her. She says she can't tell the interviewer what this mission is, and that she'll have to write it down, extending a hand for the pen the interviewer is holding.