#1.11 Trash

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#1.11 Trash

Original airdate: never aired
Written by: Jose Molina & Ben Edlund
Directed by: Vern Gillum
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
Franc Ross ... Monty Reynolds
Dwier Brown ... Durran Haymer
John Eric Bentley ... Police Sergeant

Summary
The episode starts off with a rendezvous between Mal and an old war buddy-turned-smuggler by the name of Monty. It is soon discovered that Monty married a girl named Bridget - who also happened to be known as Saffron. A small brawl ensues and Monty discovers the truth about his wife, although it cost him his cherished "soup catcher" of a beard.
Basically, the premise of this episode is that "YoSafBridge" (a.k.a. Saffron, Bridget, Yolanda, etc.) was going to involve Monty and his crew on a heist of a priceless artifact - one of the first laser guns ever created. The crew, with Saffron's help, make plans to sneak the Lasiter out of a rich Alliance military officer's floating island on Bellerophon by throwing the laser gun into an automated disposal system. While the plan seems like a good one, obviously something goes wrong.
The visuals are interesting with the floating islands of Bellerophon where the wealthy live it up in an ultimate testament to paranoia privacy.
There is also the bit of story about Simon finding out about Jayne's betrayal on Ariel (in Ariel).

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Synopsis
The show opens in a desert, where a naked Mal sits on a rock, staring into the distance, and says to himself, "Yeah… That went well." Flashback to 72 hours earlier, where Mal meets fellow Independence soldier-turned-smuggler Monty. Monty's crew is engaged in unloading his own ship as the two captains chat. Monty announces that he's gotten married, and introduces his lovely new bride Bridget. As soon as they spot each other, Mal and "Bridget" pull guns on each other. "Bridget" turns out to be none other than Mal's nemesis Saffron. The two adversaries disarm each other and struggle until a bewildered Monty separates them. Mal tells Monty that "Saffron" is his wife, and Monty reluctantly believes him, leaving her stranded when he departs. When Mal orders Saffron to start walking away from his "scrap o' nowhere", Saffron unsuccessfully works her wiles on him, then switches to teasing him with a profitable planned theft in order to avoid being stranded on "this lifeless piece-of-crap moon".

Later, Serenity arrives to pick up Mal and the unloaded cargo. The crew is puzzled over Mal's injuries, which he refuses to discuss. When Inara invites him into her shuttle for tea, he rants about her use of "feminine wiles" to manipulate him. Inara gets to her point — she wants to be able to conduct her business, and implies he is deliberately making it hard for her to find clients. As their argument devolves into personal attacks, Inara calls him a "petty thief" and suggests that he hasn't been serious about his own work lately. The scene cuts to Mal in the cargo bay, opening one of the loaded crates, getting Saffron out for more details on her "million-square job".

In the common room, Saffron stands before the crew describing her plan to steal an antique laser pistol, the Lassiter, from Durran Haymer, a wealthy collector of Earth-That-Was artifacts. She claims a remarkable awareness of Haymer's security arrangements, but insists that she needs help to get the weapon off the estate. However, the crew expresses outrage that they're even considering working with her, given her previous attempt to get them all killed and steal their ship. Mal discusses his reasons for his leniency, pointedly quoting some of Inara's words in their earlier argument to imply that she's partly responsible for his "descent into lunacy". Zoe is skeptical, but decides to go with the plan — immediately after delivering a flooring punch to the con artist's chin.

While Jayne watches over Simon and River, keeping them out of Saffron's sight, River delivers warnings about not trusting Saffron. She tells Simon in private that Jayne has been afraid since their visit to Ariel, "afraid we'll know". Meanwhile, Wash and Kaylee describe their detailed plans of how to get Mal and Saffron in and the antique weapon out, interspersed with a montage of scenes of the activities as they take place. The key to the plan is to dump the collectible pistol into an automated trash disposal unit, which Kaylee will reprogram to take the trash to a remote location where they can pick it up.

Mal and Saffron enter the estate without difficulty, proving correct Saffron's claims about her inside knowledge. They quickly find the room that features the well-protected collectible, but are surprised when Durran himself enters. Mal is further surprised when Durran rushes to Saffron and embraces her, thanking him for bringing back his wife Yolanda. Apparently, Yolanda/Saffron disappeared six years earlier, at the same time an estate worker was killed. Mal comically tries to disappear into the background, but Saffron insists that Durran provide some compensation for Mal's "rescue". As Durran leaves to get the money, the uneasy partners finish retrieving the pistol while Mal wonders aloud about whether Saffron is actually in love with Durran, and if he might be her real husband. She responds by pulling her weapon on him and insulting him. When Durran arrives to observe this disconnect with her story, she tries to backpedal, but Mal tells him the truth about their robbery attempt. While Saffron expresses contempt for Durran, Mal surreptitiously drops the antique in the trash chute. Durran, however, informs his beloved "wife" that he had notified the authorities the moment he found them in his trophy room. "YoSaffBridge" (as Mal now refers to her) again demonstrates her erratic nature by switching back to her feminine wiles, but finally ends up knocking this husband unconscious. As the Feds descend on the estate, the two thieves barrel through them and leave in Serenity's shuttle.

Meanwhile, Wash has been hovering Serenity directly under Haymer's estate's trash unit while Jayne retrieved the control unit and Kaylee reprogrammed it, clinging to the ship's hull. During the windy EVA, Jayne is shocked unconscious. Book drags the mercenary back into Serenity to be treated by Simon. Zoe goes outside to help Kaylee, who barely manages to get the control board plugged in before the automated pickup vehicle comes up behind them and attaches itself to the trash unit and its priceless cargo.

As Mal's shuttle flies toward the rendezvous in Isis Canyon, he continues to explore his theory that Durran was Saffron's true love and original husband, and Saffron breaks down in contemplation of what she's lost. As Mal regretfully expresses his belief that she'll just go back to being her conniving self, she proves him correct by pulling his own gun on him. She forces him to disrobe and strands him in the desert, which brings the episode back to its opening scene.

At the trashyard, Saffron searches through the garbage for the antique laser pistol. To her surprise, Inara emerges above her to taunt her with the weapon. The Companion claims to have been part of the plan all along, knowing that Saffron would get the drop on them somehow and arranging to beat the clever thief at her own game of deception. She remotely closes the garbage container to trap Saffron for the authorities to pick up later.

On Serenity, the crew finds that Saffron again sabotaged their ship, forcing them down before reaching the rendezvous. In the infirmary, Jayne awakens to find himself medically paralyzed to rest a spinal injury. When Jayne asks if he's going to be okay, the doctor calmly asks him how much he was offered to hand over the Tams to the Alliance. When Jayne calls for assistance from the rest of the crew, only River appears. With Jayne paralyzed and in the company of the people he sold out, Simon ominously points out that in Jayne's "dangerous line of work", he will require the services of ship's doctor again. But he surprises the mercenary by promising, "I will never, ever harm you," because he is a doctor and Jayne is part of the ship's crew. (Furthermore, River leaves a parting shot that has become reknowned amongst the show's fandom: "Also? I can kill you with my brain.")

Later, Serenity makes it to Mal's location, where Inara and Mal trade some quips about Mal's "plan". Wash and Zoe look on, stunned, as Mal reboards Serenity and muses unselfconsciously about the success of their heist... Still unclothed.

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Trivia
* In the episode "Trash", the prized item is a Lasseter laser pistol, which shares its name with John Lasseter, Joss Whedon's co-writer on Toy Story (1995).
* The trash bin that Jayne and Kaylee have to reprogram is powered by a Microsoft Operating System. In the scene where they begin to reprogram it, you can clearly see a Microsoft Windows 2000 desktop with multiple windows open.
* In the scene where Mal and Saffron first arrive at her husband's estate a SR-71 Blackbird can be seen flying in the background.
* In the episode "Trash" when Saffron looks out the window of her husband's estate , Jubal Early's ship can be seen flying past (he had been following Serenity since Ariel.)

Goofs
* Continuity: The port side shuttle is visible in Serenity's port (left) docking bay when both shuttles have left the ship.
* Continuity: Mal and Saffron leave an estate after stealing an artifact, and as they exit the building, the inside of the metal door is painted brown and has a bar that one can push to open it from the inside. In the next shot they are holding it closed from the outside as federal soldiers pound on the door from the inside, but now the interior side of the door is a light color and has a lever handle instead of a bar.
* Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Saffron and Mal collect the Lassiter artifact, she pulls a gun on the Alliance Fed. Mal reaches into the bouquet of flowers on the floor and pulls out his gun and aims at Saffron. In the English subtitle it says 'speaks Chinese'. If you listen carefully, Mal actually says,"Yo-Saf-Bridge." Which as you learn in this episode, she's Yolanda to the alliance Fed Saffron to Mal, and Bridget to Monty ( Mal's war buddy in the intro). Yo-Saf-Bridge
* Revealing mistakes: When Simon gives Jayne a shot, you can see the fake needle retract into the syringe.
* Revealing mistakes: As Mal and Saffron leave the house, the security panel on the wall wobbles as Saffron puts the locking device on it.
* Continuity: In a shot of the garbage container showing Jayne working with the guidance system, the display screen is visible several times. In the first appearance, the screen shows a Microsoft Windows desktop with a "Wizard" screen on it and several folders open, a clear inconsistency with other computer interfaces shown in the show. Subsequent shots show a logo on the screen instead.
* Continuity: When Mal and Saffron are running from the authorities, they leave the house through a door which is using a Von Duprin style crash bar to exit. However, when the guards arrive to that door, it has changed color and the door hardware has transformed to a door handle/doorknob type device.
* Revealing mistakes: As the camera pans up to look at Jayne as he is altering the garbage canister's destination, the screen on the canister is clearly displaying some version of Microsoft windows. When the camera pans down again this is gone replaced by the correct image.

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Quotes
RIVER: Also, I can kill you with my brain.

SIMON: I'm trying to think of a way for you to be cruder. It's just not coming.

RIVER: Jayne is a girl's name.

RIVER: Also? I can kill you with my brain.



Chinese Phrases
* BUN tyen-shung duh ee-DWAY-RO.
"Stupid, inbred pile of meat." (Saffron, addressing the departing Monty.)

* HOE-tze duh PEE-goo!
"Monkey's butt!" (Saffron, addressing Mal.)

* EE-chee shung-hoo-shee.
"Let's take a deep breath." (Mal, as he and Inara argue.)

* suoxi or Suo-SHEE?
"narrow" (Inara, backpedaling to Mal how she didn't mean "petty".) \\ "suoxi" is technically trivial, small and tedious.

* Nee mun DOH shr sagwa.
"Idiots. All of you." (Inara, addressing those going along with Saffron's plan.)

* BOO hway-HUN duh PUO-foo
"remorseless harridan" (Simon, referring to Saffron.)

* Shun-SHENG duh gao-WAHN.
"Holy testicle." (Mal, on seeing ritzy estate parlor.)

* Wahg-ba {sic} DAN duh biao-tze.
"Harlots of S.O.B.s" (Saffron, Trash, addressing cops.)

* Tah-shr SUO-yo DEE-yure duh biao-tze duh MAH!
"Whores in hell!" (Kaylee, on seeing Saffron's engine sabotage.)

* {CUT SCENE} Chiang-BAO HOE-tze duh
"monkey raping" (Mal, referring to Alliance's Durran Haymer.)

* {CUT SCENE} KWAI chur hun-rien duh di fahng.
"Go far away very fast." (Simon, to the crude Jayne, as he hides the Tams from Saffron.)

* FAHNG-sheen.
"Don't worry." (Zoe, to Inara about keeping Mal safe.)

* JAN-doh duh ee-KWAI-ro
"dangly piece of flesh" (Zoe, referring to what Mal shouldn't think with.)