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Post by Gin on Feb 8, 2009 17:48:14 GMT 1
From fireflywiki.org and imdb.com
#1.02 The Train Job
Original Air Date : 9/20/02 Written by : Joss Whedon & Tim Minear Directed by : Joss Whedon Episode Cast Nathan Fillion ... Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds Gina Torres ... Zoë Washburne Alan Tudyk ... Hoban 'Wash' Washburne Morena Baccarin ... Inara Serra Adam Baldwin ... Jayne Cobb Jewel Staite ... Kaylee Frye Sean Maher ... Dr. Simon Tam Summer Glau ... River Tam Ron Glass ... Shepherd Book Tom Towles ... Lund Andrew Bryniarski ... Crow Michael Fairman ... Adelai Niska Gregg Henry ... Sheriff Bourne Valerie Red-Horse ... Deputy Kevin Will ... Officer Lina Patel ... Ensign David Reynolds ... Henchman Jeff Ricketts ... Blue Glove Man #1 Dennis Cockrum ... Blue Glove Man #2 Eric Lange ... Fed Rene Hamilton ... Immigrant Woman #1 (as Tawney René Hamilton) Michelle Ferrara ... Immigrant Woman #2
Summary The episode opens in a dark, musky bar on Unification Day - the day celebrating the final victory of the Alliance, giving them control of all the settled worlds. Zoe and Mal are playing a game while Jayne watches. Of course there is a loud mouth who has to badmouth those who fought in the war against the Alliance (such as Mal and Zoe), and the inevitable fight ensues. The bar brawl ends up outside with Wash bringing Serenity over for a last minute rescue along the edge of a cliff. Looking for work, Mal, Zoe and Jayne meet a man named Adelai Niska with his resident henchman Crow. Niska has a job for them - a train job stealing the cargo from a passenger train. As it's supposedly Alliance goods, Mal has no problem, but when he finds out the 'goods' are actually medicine needed for Paradiso residents who are suffering from Bowdens Malady, Mal must decide whether he wants to get paid and possibly be responsible for the death of miners and their families or return the cargo and face the wrath of Niska.
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Post by Gin on Feb 8, 2009 17:49:07 GMT 1
From wikipedia.org
Synopsis Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds, his first mate, Zoe, and fellow crewman Jayne Cobb are in a bar. An inebriated bar patron celebrates the anniversary of Unification Day, which motivates former rebel Mal to pick a fight. As the entire bar joins in, Mal radios his pilot, Wash, and shortly Serenity dramatically backs up the hapless crew. Through the ship's exterior speakers, Wash threatens to 'blow a new crater in this little moon'.
Back aboard Serenity, a young man, Dr. Simon Tam, tends to his mentally-disturbed sister River, who nevertheless shows a remarkable memory for factual data. Mal drops in on these two passengers, and he and Simon reveal a mutual desire to avoid Alliance attention, each for his own reasons. Book, a "shepherd" (preacher), who is also a passenger, probes Mal about his motivations for taking on passengers when he makes more money from smuggling. The two proceed to Serenity's engine room, which is in a shambles. Hunting for his mechanic, he dismisses Book. In a cozy living area inside one of Serenity's shuttles, we meet Inara Serra as she is brushing Kaylee Frye's hair. The former is revealed as a Companion, a licensed and well-respected courtesan, and the latter turns out to be the ship's missing mechanic. Kaylee is promptly booted back to the engine room by Mal. Subsequent bickering between Mal and Inara demonstrate a sometimes playful, sometimes hard-edged tenseness in their relationship, with some apparent undertones of mutual affection.
On a "skyplex" (an orbiting space city), Mal, Zoe, and Jayne meet with a local crime lord, Adelei Niska, and his brutish lieutenant Crow. After Niska demonstrates a viciousness with people who fail him, he outlines a train heist that he wants Mal to execute, stealing an Alliance cargo of an unspecified nature between two towns, the latter being Paradiso, along the route.
When Mal and Zoe board the train, they discover that an "entire regiment" of Alliance troops are also aboard. Mal reasons that because the Feds are showing no interest in the cargo, they can not only pull off the job as planned but make the hated Alliance look "all manner of stupid" in the process, however Zoe is hesitant. After they break into the locked train car and secure the cargo, Jayne is lowered on a winch from Serenity. While they attach the cargo to the winch, however, a curious Fed trips a smoke trap at the car door. In the resulting melee, a wounded Jayne is hoisted back to the ship, Mal knocks out the Fed before he sees what's happening, then Mal and Zoe use the smoke as cover to re-enter the passenger car.
On Serenity, Simon patches up Jayne's leg while the latter argues that they should leave Mal and Zoe behind to deliver the cargo to the dangerous Niska. As Jayne tries to force Wash to take off, he suddenly gets loopy and falls over. Simon reveals that he had doped Jayne during his treatment so he would not take over.
Meanwhile, in Paradiso, Mal and Zoe are aghast to find that the cargo was critical medicine for this mining town, in which everyone is suffering from "Bowden's malady", a degenerative disease. Although Mal deflects the suspicious sheriff's probing of their cover story, it takes Companion Inara to free them from custody, claiming that Mal is her runaway "indentured man" and Zoe his thieving accomplice.
Back on the ship, as Mal announces that they will be returning the cargo, however Crow arrives with henchman. A violent fight ensues, showing off Zoe's combat skills, Mal's endurance and tenacity, Wash's ingenuity, and Jayne's shooting skill. After the villains are secured, Mal and Zoe drive the cargo near the town, but the sheriff surprises them. Realizing the cargo is intact, the sheriff decides to let them go, respecting their courage to do the right thing.
Outside Serenity, Mal returns Niska's money to a trussed-up Crow, proposing that they will stay out of Niska's way from then on. When Crow rejects the offer and threatens to hunt him down wherever he goes, Mal casually kicks him into Serenity's engine intake. Another trussed-up henchman is then brought before Mal —- who begins repeating his proposal —- but the second man quickly agrees to take the money back to Niska.
Back on the Alliance cruiser, two mysterious men in suits and wearing blue gloves inquire about a girl — and show the captain a photo of River Tam.
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Post by Gin on Feb 8, 2009 17:49:44 GMT 1
From wikepedia.org and imdb.com
Foreshadowing * Kaylee again (or, for the original broadcast audience, for the first time) refers to problems with Serenity's compression coil. In "Out of Gas", the catalyzer on the compression coil will be the source of the explosion that stops Serenity dead, just as she predicted in "Serenity". * Niska warns Mal that "things between us [will be] not so solid" if Mal fails to bring him the cargo, and Zoe is perturbed by mental images of the dead man hanging from the ceiling (leading Mal to express a desire for it not to be him). Niska's lieutenant dies rather than accept Mal's returning of the money. Mal's thwarting of Niska's goal comes back to bite Serenity's crew in "War Stories". * This is our introduction to the ominous "Hands of Blue", two men who are pursuing River, presumably to return her to the institution where Simon had her smuggled out of. * As noted by Tim Minear in the DVD commentary, Book's knowledge of underworld dealings (particularly his theory of Niska's reaction to an incarcerated Mal and Zoe) is meant to reference his shady past.
Trivia * In the episode "The Train Job", the armor worn by the Alliance troops is from the movie Starship Troopers (1997). * The two-hour episode "Serenity" was originally intended as the pilot for the show. The network (FOX) however, decided not to air it, citing that they wanted an episode with a more action-packed feel to it. With exactly one weekend to write a new pilot, executive producers Joss Whedon and Tim Minear wrote "The Train Job", which did appear as the first episode of the show. A slightly retooled version of "Serenity" was later showed as an 'origins' episode after _"Firefly" (2002/I)_ had been canceled.
Goofs * Continuity: When Serenity leaves the planet, its running lights are switched: the port lights are green when they should be red and the starboard lights are red when they should be green. * Continuity: Jayne's goatee is notably less thick compared to the other episodes. * Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Mal and Zoe exit the train on the mining planet, we see a milling crowd. Look closely at the woman in the yellow veil to the left of the screen - she walks her "baby" head-first into a passing vehicle. * Continuity: The "Bar" hologram that Mal passes through during the bar fight is missing for the rest of the scene. * Continuity: When Mal is fighting with Crow on the ship, he falls over the shipment of containers, knocking some of them over. In the next shot, the containers are standing upright again. * Continuity: The position of the rolling tray, the objects knocked off it, and the sheet on the medical bed changes between shots after River awakes from her dream.
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Post by Gin on Feb 8, 2009 17:50:13 GMT 1
From fireflywiki.org
Quotes THUG: I'm thinkin' you're one a' them Independents. MAL: And I'm thinkin' you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling, so why don't we just ignore each other 'til we go away?
WASH: Every man there go inside or we will blow a new crater in this tiny moon.
MAL: See, this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety.
MAL: Well, they tell you never hit a man with a closed fist, but it is on occasion hilarious.
MAL: ...shouldn't you be off bringing religiosity to the fuzzy-wuzzys or some such? BOOK: Oh, I've got heathens aplenty right here.
INARA: What did I say to you about barging into my shuttle? MAL: That it was manly and impulsive? INARA: Except that the exact word I used was "don't".
MAL: Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
ZOE: Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
MAL: Hell, this job I would pull for free. ZOE: Can I have your share? MAL: No. ZOE: If you die, can I have your share? MAL: Yes.
KAYLEE: There's no call to be snappy, Jayne. JAYNE: Are you about to jump onto a movin' train?
JAYNE: Time for some thrilling heroics.
JAYNE: These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
RIVER: Two by two, hands of blue. Two by two, hands of blue.
MAL: Whatever happens, remember I love you. ZOE: Sir? MAL: Because you're my wife. ZOE: Right. Sir. Honey.
WASH: Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?
MAL: Nice shot. JAYNE: I was aiming for his head.
Chinese Phrases * Qing zai lai yi bei Ng-Ka-Pei? "Can I have one more glass of Ng-Ka-Pei, please?" (Mal, ordering in bar.) Note: Ngkapei is an actual Chinese rice wine/liqueur soaked in the root bark of the medicinal herb acanthopanax. More about Ngkapei(approve sites)
* Oh, ze zhen shi ge kwai le de jing jun... "Oh, this is a happy development..." (Mal, about impending barroom brawl.)
* Ke wu de lao bao jun... "Horrible old tyrant..." (Kaylee, referring to Mal and getting back to work)
* zhen de shi tian chai {Kaylee sounds like jun duh sh tyen-tsai} "an absolute genius" (Kaylee, referring to Mal and his plans.)
* Dong ma? Understand? (Jayne, to Simon about his unimportance.)
* go tsao duh {Jayne sounds like go tsao day} dog-humped (Jayne, about location not being Niska's rendezvous spot.)
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