SETTING THE SCENE
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Firefly
2002–2003SERIES
A renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.
AdventureSci-Fi
THE STORY UNFOLDS
Episodes 14
EPISODE 01The Train Job
The Serenity crew is coerced into pulling a train robbery. When they discover the stolen cargo is actually medicine intended for refugees, they are forced to reevaluate their priorities.
Sep 20, 2002
EPISODE 02Bushwhacked
The Serenity crew drifts upon the ruins of a colony ship and goes on a salvage mission. The expedition turns from bad to worse when the entire crew massacred… except for one.
Sep 27, 2002
EPISODE 03Our Mrs. Reynolds
Mal unwittingly marries a beautiful village girl during a job in the backwater. But the surprises don’t end there.
Oct 4, 2002
EPISODE 04Jaynestown
When the Serenity crew travels to a planet to strike a smuggling deal, Jayne discovers the populace worships him as a hero; Inara makes a man out of a magistrate's 26-year-old virginal son; Book's nerves fray as he tends to River.
Oct 18, 2002
EPISODE 05Out of Gas
When Serenity’s life support system fails, Mal orders the crew off the ship — but he stays behind.
Oct 25, 2002
EPISODE 06Shindig
On a mission to transport some goods on the planet Persephone, the Serenity crew attend a ball where Mal finds himself at odds with one of Inara’s “clients.”
Nov 1, 2002
EPISODE 07Safe
Things go terribly wrong during a job on an outer planet; both Simon and River are kidnapped by the locals in need of a doctor, while the rest of the crew finds themselves in need a doctor of their own.
Nov 8, 2002
EPISODE 08Ariel
On return to Ariel, Simon hires the crew out to smuggle River into a hospital so Simon can figure out what the Alliance did to her.
Nov 15, 2002
EPISODE 09War Stories
Tensions begin to run high on board the Serenity when Wash finds himself feeling threatened by the closeness between Mal and Zoe.
Dec 6, 2002
EPISODE 10Objects in Space
A bounty hunter named Jubal Early sets his sites on capturing River Tam and manages to sneak aboard the Serenity in deep space.
Dec 13, 2002
EPISODE 11Serenity
In desperate times, the crew of Serenity is transporting passengers to another planet, only to discover that one of them has smuggled something strange in their cargo.
Dec 20, 2002
EPISODE 12Heart of Gold
The Serenity goes to the moon of Deadwood to answer a distress call from Inara’s old friend who runs a brothel.
Jun 23, 2003
EPISODE 13Trash
Mal has to make a tough choice in whether he should trust Saffron when she offers the Serenity crew an opportunity to make a lot of money on a risky job.
Jul 21, 2003
EPISODE 14The Message
What starts out as a nice day at a space station goes very wrong when Mal and Zoe receive the corpse of their old war buddy in the mail.
Jul 28, 2003
