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Episode Summaries
1.1The Train Job
Writers: Joss Whedon & Tim Minear
Director: Joss Whedon
Airdate: 9/20/02
Summary: The crew is hired to steal something from a heavily guarded boxcar, but when Mal
discovers it is medicine, he wrestles with his conscious. The last scene is a must
see.
1.2Bushwhacked
Writer: Tim Minear
Director: Tim Minear
Airdate: 9/27/02
Summary: they find a defunct ship that has been the victim of the Reavers.
They find a survivor, but he is not all well, it seems to survive he has become one of the
enemy. to top things off, they are "pulled over" and boarded by an
alliance ship that suspects they are harbouring fugatives. After Mal saves the
Alliance captain's life they are stripped of their cargo and let go.
1.3Our Mrs.
Reynolds
Writer: Joss Whedon
Director: Vondie Curtis Hall
Airdate: 10/4/02
Summary: A celebration on a planet that hired the crew to rid them of outlaws gets out of
hand when Mal is given a wife for a present. Or is he. It turns out that the
back water wife is a trained companion, set aboard to hijack Serenity.
1.4"Jaynestown
Writer: Ben Edlund
Director: Marita Grabiak
Airdate: 10/18/02
Summary: A job leads them to a moon that that Jayne had once pulled a heist on. He
is nervous about the job until he realizes that he is a folk hero for these 'Mudders'.
His partner who he pulled the heist with four years ago is set upon Jayne, once the
magistrate, (the one whose money they stole) found out he was back. When a child
died protecting Jayne from a gunshot, Jayne knocks down the statue and tries to explain
that he was just a regular man.
1.5Out of Gas
Writer: Tim Minear
Director: David Solomon
Airdate: 10/25/02
1.6Shindig
Writer: Jane Espenson
Director: Vern Gillum
Airdate: 11/1/02
1.7Safe
Writer: Drew Z. Greenberg
Director: Michael Grossman
Airdate: 11/8/02
1.8"Ariel"
Writer: Jose Molina
Director: Alan Kroaker
Airdate: 11/15/02
1.9"War Stories"
Writer: Cheryl Cain
Director: Jim Contner
Airdate: 11/22/02
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