#1.06 Our Mrs Reynolds

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#1.06 Our Mrs Reynolds

Original air date: 10.04.02
Written by: Joss Whedon
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall
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
Christina Hendricks ... Saffron
Benito Martinez ... Boss
Erik Passoja ... Bree
Bob Fimiani ... Elder Gommen
Alex Stemkovsky ... Bandit #1

Summary
Mal, Jayne and Zoe shoot up some local thugs for some nice settlement people, and everyone hangs around afterward to drink wine and dance. Only, the captain imbibes a little more than he should, and they end up with an extra passenger on Serenity when they take off: the new Mrs. Reynolds -- a young, innocent lamb by the name of Saffron.

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Plot Synopsis
A Conestoga wagon makes its way through a shallow river. When a band of men on horseback stops it to demand its cargo, the driver Jayne and his "wife" Mal pull their weapons on the bandits and quickly defeat them with the help of Zoe. At a celebration party that night, Mal dances with a beautiful young woman, who gives him a wreath and wine.

After Serenity is underway again, Mal encounters the young woman in the cargo bay. She informs him that she is now his wife, and Zoe calls the entire crew down to enjoy the show. Shepherd Book reads up on the local customs and informs Mal that he had taken part in a marriage ritual by dancing with the woman and taking her gifts. Other crew members are given gifts, for example Jayne is given a wooden Rain stick by a villager, but do not end up married.

Mal has a heart-to-heart talk with the woman, who identifies herself as Saffron. Despite Mal's encouragement to be her own woman, Saffron cooks him a meal as Zoe looks on in mocking disbelief. After eating, Mal escapes an offer to have his feet washed and visits Inara, who also shows contempt for Mal's treatment of the situation. Jayne attempts to trade his favorite gun, named Vera, for Saffron, but Mal turns him down.

Zoe and Wash continue to argue about Saffron. When Mal enters his quarters later, he is seduced by Saffron, whose lipstick contains a narcotic. As Mal succumbs to unconsciousness, Saffron tries her wiles on Wash who is at the cockpit. After trying unsuccessfully to seduce Wash, Saffron knocks him out with a kick to the back of his head. She subsequently takes control of the ship, welds the bridge door shut behind her. When running to a shuttle to escape she meets Inara and tries to seduce her too. Inara plays along with her to try to get her to her shuttle but the alarm goes off and Inara remarks how skillful Saffron is. After dodging a kick from Saffron Inara rushes to Mal after Saffron departs saying she is Malcolm Reynold's widow. After Inara finds the still alive but unconscious Mal she kisses him and then collapse soon after calling for help, realizing Mal's moment of 'weakness'.

After breaking into the bridge, Kaylee and Wash find that the ship is headed straight for an electronic net. Book explains, with a mysterious knowledge of criminal activity, that the net will retain the craft but kill everyone inside. Jayne shorts the structure with his gun and Serenity passes through the net unharmed.

Later, on a snowy world, Mal bursts into Saffron's cabin and, after an unsuccessful attempt to get some answers, knocks her unconscious. Back on Serenity, Mal presses Inara for an explanation of her supposed dizziness. Inara thinks Mal knows about the kiss and agrees to "not play" with him, but Mal, still clueless, only thinks she's admitting to kissing Saffron.

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Trivia
* This is the only episode in which River does not speak. She had lines in the original shooting script, but they were cut before the episode made it to air.
* The episode's title, "Our Mrs. Reynolds" is a play on the 1952 radio show, Our Miss Brooks.

Goofs
* Factual errors: Jayne says that his gun (which we know as "Vera" from earlier in the episode) needs oxygen around it to fire. The gun is shown with standard projectile rounds which produce all the oxygen they need. The producers were not sure if "Vera" would need oxygen to fire. So they asked a gun expert, who gave them the wrong information, according to commentary on the DVDs.
* Continuity: Wash's position in the doorway, after Saffron hits him changes.

Deleted Scene
* River confounds the crew with one of her seeming whimsies, this time demanding that Book marry her and Simon. When Simon tries to explain that they can't get married because they are siblings, River gets very upset and questions his love for her. Mal and Saffron then come in and River accuses Saffron of being a thief, though River says she never saw Saffron stealing food. This indicates River's knowledge of Saffron's true nature, though at this point Saffron is still playing the subservient wife. After they leave, River takes a pillow from nearby and puts it in her dress at the stomach, stating that she and Simon have to get married now: "I'm in the family way." Joss Whedon said on the DVD commentary that this was one of his, the cast's and the crew's favorite scenes, but they had to edit it out due to time constraints. Because this scene was cut, River has no lines in this episode.

Production
* According to Jayne, "Vera" needs oxygen around her to fire; however, gunpowder incorporates both fuel and oxidizer and will combust regardless of the presence or absence of atmosphere. According to the DVD commentary, the episode's producers checked this with a gun expert, but were incorrectly informed. Vera herself is a rather extensively modified Saiga-12 semi-automatic shotgun.

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Quotes
JAYNE: I married me a powerful ugly creature.
MAL: How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people?

MAL: You been bird-doggin' this township awhile now... folks 'round here wouldn't mind a corpse of you.

MAL: I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.

MAL: Like woman, I am a mystery.

MAL: And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back!

BOOK: If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

ZOE: Remember that sex we were planning to have, ever again?

JAYNE: It is my very favorite gun.

MAL: She has a name.
JAYNE: So does this. I call it Vera.

MAL: Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

WASH: Some people juggle geese!

MAL: Whoa! Hey! Flesh...

MAL: Whoa, good Bible.

MAL: It's been a while -- a long d**n while -- since anybody but me took ahold of my plow.

MAL: Oh, I'm gonna go to the Special Hell.

WASH: Whoa, good myth.

WASH: Oh do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not... madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!

INARA: You stupid son of a... collapses

JAYNE: That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth.
Everyone pauses uncomfortably.

MAL: But she was naked! And all... articulate!

WASH: Okay! Everybody not talking about sex, in here. Everyone else, out.

JAYNE: See, Vera? Dress yourself up, you get taken out somewhere fun.

MAL: Honey, I'm home.

SAFFRON: You gonna kill me?
MAL: Can you conjure up a terribly compelling reason for me not to?



Chinese Phrases
* Dahng rahn. {Simon sounds like Dahng nang}
"Of course." (Simon, about whether or not he has an encyclopedia.)

* Nee boo (gahn dahng), nee (hwong chong). {Kaylee sounds like Nee boo goo gah, nee hwong chiong.}
"You don't deserve her, you fink." (Kaylee, to Mal about his treatment of new wife.)

* Gwon nee tze-jee duh shr.
"Mind your own business." (Mal, to Kaylee about his treatment of new wife.)

* {BORROWED CHINESE} bao
"bao" or stuffed bun (specific type of food) (Wash, on seeing Saffron's cooking.)

* Da-shiong bao (tse shr la) doo tze! {Mal sounds like ...tse shr la duh too-tze}
"The explosive diarrhea of an elephant!" {in script as English} (Mal, response to Jayne's Vera-for-Saffron offer.)

* hwoon dahn
"bastard" (Mal, referring to Elder Gommen, for paying his bill with a wife.)

* Wuh duh ma huh ta duh fung-kwong duh wai-shung doh {Wash sounds like Woo duh ma huh ta duh fong-kwong duh wai-shuh doo}
"Holy mother of God and all her wacky nephews" (Wash, response to Saffron's advances.)

* Run-tse duh FWO-tzoo...
"Merciful buddha..." {in script as English} (Inara, on seeing that Mal's alive.)

* jien hwo {Zoe sounds like jien hwa}
"cheap floozy" (Zoe, referring to Saffron.)

* jing-tsai {Wash sounds like jing-zai}
"brilliant" (Wash, referring to Saffron's sabotage rewiring.)

* Dung ee-miao {Wash sounds like Duh-ning mah}
"Hold on a second." (Wash, to Mal as checks if Saffron signaled anyone.)

* Ai ya!
"d**n!" (Wash, as notices electrical interference.)

* {HILARIOUS CUT SCENE} mei-mei
little sister {in script without English} (Simon, addressing River.)