Post by FillionRules on Aug 24, 2004 10:43:35 GMT -5
1.Serenity (1)
After a flashback to Zoe's and Mal's days in the wars six years previous, we cut to the modern day where the Serenity crew is running a salvage operation on a deserted ship and are forced to flee witht he cargo when the Alliance show up. Their buddy Badger refuses to buy the cargo so they head off to the rim worlds after picking up three passengers: Book, Simon, and Dobson. En route someone sends a signal to the Alliance and it turns out to be Dobson, an undercover Federal agent, who arrests Simon but is glad to take the whole crew in. He shoots Kaylee before being captured, and Simon forces Mal to flee in return for his doctoring services. When Mal investigates Simon's cargo he finds a naked woman...
2. Serenity (2)
The naked woman is Simon's sister River, a government test subject he helped to escape. After ducking a dreaded reaver ship, Mal tries and cuts a deal with Patience, an old "friend" but suspects a trap. Patience tries an ambush but the team escapes just as the Reavers return and the Federal agent breaks loose. Mal shoots the agent dead and Wash manages to duck the Reavers. at the end Mal decides to take on all three of his remaining passengers full-time.
3. The Train Job
Serenity continues to travel through space, conducting illegal runs across the Star System, under the control of The Alliance. A powerful and fearsome mobster named Adelei Niska demands that the crew of the Serenity to pull a train robbery. The train is carrying medical supplies for a community, and Reynolds and Zoe get held on suspicion. They get free with Inara's help but realize they were tricked and try to return Niska's money. His henchman isn't too happy but Nelson "persuades" the next guy to take the money back. Meanwhile, two blue-handed black-suited operatives close in on River.
4. Bushwhacked
On a salvage mission aboard a drifting colony ship, the Serentiy crew find signs that the crew were killed by the cannabalistic Reavers. They find one survivor, but things take a turn for the worse when an Alliance ship looking for an unspecified Firefly-class ship with brother-and-sister stowaways shows up and takes them in. They hide Simon and River and deflect the Alliance commander's questions but the survivor has been rendered insane by his exposure to the Reavers and goes on a bloody rampage. Mel saves the Alliance commander and he eventually lets them go.
5. Our Mrs. Reynolds
After completing a job on a planet, Mal inadvertently ends up married to Saffron, a naive young woman who stows away to be with her "husband". Awkwardness and hilarity ensues until Saffron knocks out Mal and Wash and sets up the ship to be captured by pirates, locking it off-course and sealing the controls. The Serenity is on course with a carrion house, a ship that converts ships to scrap via an electronic net. They manage to shoot out the breakers on the net and catch up to Saffron.
6. Jaynestown
gs: Josef Cannon (Prod #2) Gregory Itzin (Magistrate Higgins) Daniel Bess (Mudder) Kevin Gage (Stitch Hessian)
The Serenity sets down at the mudder colony of Canton where it turns out Jayne is a hero for having dropped a bunch of money there years ago that he and his partner Stitch stole from the local magistrate. The drop was unintentional but Jayne doesn't turn down the attentions. Meanwhile, Kaylee and Simon dance, River rewrites Book's bible, and Inara beds the magistrate's son, a virgin.
The magistrate turns Stitch loose to get revenge and tell the townspeople what went on, but they don't seem to care and one sacrifices his life to save Jayne, a sacrifice he has trouble understanding. With the son's help, they manage to get away.
7. Out of Gas
The episode begins with a wounded Mal wandering the ship, delirious. We find out that after an engine explosion the Serenity lost its life support. The other eight crew take the two shuttles as Mal remains to respond if anyone comes for their beacon. Back in the present, Mal wanders the ship and flashbacks to how he purchased Serenity, hired Wash and Kaylee, acquired Inara as a passenger, and was tracked down by Jayne and recruited him.
A salvage ship arrives and offers Mal the part they need, but its captain shoots him before he drives them off and keeps the part. The badly wounded Mal tries to attach the part, succeeds, and fails to sends the signal to recall the shuttles. But they come back for him anyway.
8. Shindig
On the planet Persephone the crew contact their old "friend" Badger the ruthless crimelord to transport some goods on behalf of a local lord. While at a ball to arrange a transport job with the lord, Mal defends Inara's honor when her current customer insults her. By local custom he unintentionally challenges her date, Atherton Wing, to a duel. Inara must teach Mal how to use a sword, while Badger takes the rest of the Serenity crew hostage so they don't interfere and mess up Badger's reputation. Thanks to a distraction by Inara, Mal manages to win, spares Atherton, and earns the job - hauling cows.
9. Safe
The Serenity delivers their cattle (from "Shindig"). Kaylee and Inara are shopping on the planet, and Kaylee's crush on Simon is again brought up. Later, Book is shot as a bystander during the crew's cattle deal. Unfortunately Simon and River have been captured by hillfolk who need a doctor for their community. Book eventually receives medical attention when Mal takes a chance and takes him to an Alliance base. When they see Book's ident card they immediately give him treatment.
Meanwhile, Simon and River receive an initially warm welcome from the community which has many afflicted people who are in need of serious help. When River is able to telepathically find out things about a little girl named Ruth who has not spoken since her mother went insane and tried to kill her, she is accused of being of witch. The townfolk try to burn her at the stake, but Simon is able to stall, just enough for Mal and the crew to come back and save them.
Meanwhile, we see flashbacks to how River was taken to The Academy and Simon's early attempts to get her free.
10. Ariel
The crew visit the planet Ariel because Inara needs to receive an annual Companion physical. The crew is offered a surprising job by Simon: in return for stolen medicine he wants them to get him into a hospital to use a high-end scanner to diagnosis River. Simon devises a plan - Kaylee and Wash browse through the local dump and find parts to make an imitation emergency vehicle so the crew can get into the hospital posing as EMTs. Simon and River pose as corpses with the aid of a drug Simon has. While Mal and Zoe round up some medicine, Jayne stays with River and Simon, who are unaware he has ratted them out to the Alliance in return for money.
Jayne rushes Simon through the examination and on the way out Jayne, Simon, and River are caught by the Alliance. Jayne is betrayed by the Alliance and becomes a prisoner himself. They manage to escape as the Men With Blue Hands arrive and ruthlessly execute anyone who had contact with the Tams. Mal and Zoe end up saving their friends and Simon makes a big deal about Jayne fighting, thinking he was trying to save River and himself. Mal realizes that Jayne leaked the information about Simon and River to the alliance and tosses Jayne in the airlock. Jayne admits to doing so and Mal decides to let Jayne off the hook. In the end, Inara returns, and Simon begins "healing" River.
After a flashback to Zoe's and Mal's days in the wars six years previous, we cut to the modern day where the Serenity crew is running a salvage operation on a deserted ship and are forced to flee witht he cargo when the Alliance show up. Their buddy Badger refuses to buy the cargo so they head off to the rim worlds after picking up three passengers: Book, Simon, and Dobson. En route someone sends a signal to the Alliance and it turns out to be Dobson, an undercover Federal agent, who arrests Simon but is glad to take the whole crew in. He shoots Kaylee before being captured, and Simon forces Mal to flee in return for his doctoring services. When Mal investigates Simon's cargo he finds a naked woman...
2. Serenity (2)
The naked woman is Simon's sister River, a government test subject he helped to escape. After ducking a dreaded reaver ship, Mal tries and cuts a deal with Patience, an old "friend" but suspects a trap. Patience tries an ambush but the team escapes just as the Reavers return and the Federal agent breaks loose. Mal shoots the agent dead and Wash manages to duck the Reavers. at the end Mal decides to take on all three of his remaining passengers full-time.
3. The Train Job
Serenity continues to travel through space, conducting illegal runs across the Star System, under the control of The Alliance. A powerful and fearsome mobster named Adelei Niska demands that the crew of the Serenity to pull a train robbery. The train is carrying medical supplies for a community, and Reynolds and Zoe get held on suspicion. They get free with Inara's help but realize they were tricked and try to return Niska's money. His henchman isn't too happy but Nelson "persuades" the next guy to take the money back. Meanwhile, two blue-handed black-suited operatives close in on River.
4. Bushwhacked
On a salvage mission aboard a drifting colony ship, the Serentiy crew find signs that the crew were killed by the cannabalistic Reavers. They find one survivor, but things take a turn for the worse when an Alliance ship looking for an unspecified Firefly-class ship with brother-and-sister stowaways shows up and takes them in. They hide Simon and River and deflect the Alliance commander's questions but the survivor has been rendered insane by his exposure to the Reavers and goes on a bloody rampage. Mel saves the Alliance commander and he eventually lets them go.
5. Our Mrs. Reynolds
After completing a job on a planet, Mal inadvertently ends up married to Saffron, a naive young woman who stows away to be with her "husband". Awkwardness and hilarity ensues until Saffron knocks out Mal and Wash and sets up the ship to be captured by pirates, locking it off-course and sealing the controls. The Serenity is on course with a carrion house, a ship that converts ships to scrap via an electronic net. They manage to shoot out the breakers on the net and catch up to Saffron.
6. Jaynestown
gs: Josef Cannon (Prod #2) Gregory Itzin (Magistrate Higgins) Daniel Bess (Mudder) Kevin Gage (Stitch Hessian)
The Serenity sets down at the mudder colony of Canton where it turns out Jayne is a hero for having dropped a bunch of money there years ago that he and his partner Stitch stole from the local magistrate. The drop was unintentional but Jayne doesn't turn down the attentions. Meanwhile, Kaylee and Simon dance, River rewrites Book's bible, and Inara beds the magistrate's son, a virgin.
The magistrate turns Stitch loose to get revenge and tell the townspeople what went on, but they don't seem to care and one sacrifices his life to save Jayne, a sacrifice he has trouble understanding. With the son's help, they manage to get away.
7. Out of Gas
The episode begins with a wounded Mal wandering the ship, delirious. We find out that after an engine explosion the Serenity lost its life support. The other eight crew take the two shuttles as Mal remains to respond if anyone comes for their beacon. Back in the present, Mal wanders the ship and flashbacks to how he purchased Serenity, hired Wash and Kaylee, acquired Inara as a passenger, and was tracked down by Jayne and recruited him.
A salvage ship arrives and offers Mal the part they need, but its captain shoots him before he drives them off and keeps the part. The badly wounded Mal tries to attach the part, succeeds, and fails to sends the signal to recall the shuttles. But they come back for him anyway.
8. Shindig
On the planet Persephone the crew contact their old "friend" Badger the ruthless crimelord to transport some goods on behalf of a local lord. While at a ball to arrange a transport job with the lord, Mal defends Inara's honor when her current customer insults her. By local custom he unintentionally challenges her date, Atherton Wing, to a duel. Inara must teach Mal how to use a sword, while Badger takes the rest of the Serenity crew hostage so they don't interfere and mess up Badger's reputation. Thanks to a distraction by Inara, Mal manages to win, spares Atherton, and earns the job - hauling cows.
9. Safe
The Serenity delivers their cattle (from "Shindig"). Kaylee and Inara are shopping on the planet, and Kaylee's crush on Simon is again brought up. Later, Book is shot as a bystander during the crew's cattle deal. Unfortunately Simon and River have been captured by hillfolk who need a doctor for their community. Book eventually receives medical attention when Mal takes a chance and takes him to an Alliance base. When they see Book's ident card they immediately give him treatment.
Meanwhile, Simon and River receive an initially warm welcome from the community which has many afflicted people who are in need of serious help. When River is able to telepathically find out things about a little girl named Ruth who has not spoken since her mother went insane and tried to kill her, she is accused of being of witch. The townfolk try to burn her at the stake, but Simon is able to stall, just enough for Mal and the crew to come back and save them.
Meanwhile, we see flashbacks to how River was taken to The Academy and Simon's early attempts to get her free.
10. Ariel
The crew visit the planet Ariel because Inara needs to receive an annual Companion physical. The crew is offered a surprising job by Simon: in return for stolen medicine he wants them to get him into a hospital to use a high-end scanner to diagnosis River. Simon devises a plan - Kaylee and Wash browse through the local dump and find parts to make an imitation emergency vehicle so the crew can get into the hospital posing as EMTs. Simon and River pose as corpses with the aid of a drug Simon has. While Mal and Zoe round up some medicine, Jayne stays with River and Simon, who are unaware he has ratted them out to the Alliance in return for money.
Jayne rushes Simon through the examination and on the way out Jayne, Simon, and River are caught by the Alliance. Jayne is betrayed by the Alliance and becomes a prisoner himself. They manage to escape as the Men With Blue Hands arrive and ruthlessly execute anyone who had contact with the Tams. Mal and Zoe end up saving their friends and Simon makes a big deal about Jayne fighting, thinking he was trying to save River and himself. Mal realizes that Jayne leaked the information about Simon and River to the alliance and tosses Jayne in the airlock. Jayne admits to doing so and Mal decides to let Jayne off the hook. In the end, Inara returns, and Simon begins "healing" River.