First Aired: Sep. 20, 2002 on FOX

Rate Episode: 4.33/5 (9 votes)
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Season 1 » Episode #01 - The Train Job

Firefly - 01x01 The Train Job
Summary: Mal has second thoughts after discovering that two boxes of Alliance goods the crew has been hired to steal are full of badly needed medical supplies headed for the mining town of Paradiso.

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Guest Stars:

Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds played by Nathan Fillion
Zoë Washburne played by Gina Torres
Hoban 'Wash' Washburne played by Alan Tudyk
Lund played by Tom Towles
Crow played by Andrew Bryniarski
Adelai Niska played by Michael Fairman
Sheriff Bourne played by Gregg Henry
Deputy played by Valerie Red-Horse

Episode Quotes

Mal: Well, what about you, Shepherd? How come you're flying about with us brigands? I mean, shouldn't you be off bringing religiosity to the fuzzy-wuzzies or some such?
Book: Oh, I got heathens aplenty right here.
Mal: If I'm your mission, Shepherd, best give it up. You're welcome on my boat. God ain't.
Lund: [drunk] Hey, you gonna drink t'the Alliance with me? Six years today, the Alliance sent the Browcoats runnin', pissin' their pants. You know, your coat is kind of a brownish color.
Mal: It was on sale.

Lund: You didn't toast. Y'know, I'm thinkin' you're one o' them In'apendants.
Mal: And I'm thinking you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling. So why don't we just ignore each other till we go away?
Lund: The Independents were a bunch o' cowardly inbred piss pots. Should'a been killed off o' every world spinnin'.
Mal: [puts down drink] Say that to my face.
Lund: [threateningly] I said... you're a coward and a pisspot. Now what're you gonna do about it?
Mal: [smiles suddenly] Nothing. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya.

Mal: Drunks are so cute.
Zoë: [while fighting a group of independent-haters in a bar] There's just an acre of you fellas. [to Zoe] This is why we lost, you know. Superior numbers.
Mal: Thanks for the re-enactment, sir.
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Mistakes/Goofs

  • Goof (continuity error): 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.
  • Goof (continuity error): 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.
  • Goof (continuity error): 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.

Trivia

  • The two-hour "Firefly" (2002) {Serenity (#1.11)} was originally intended as the pilot for the show. The network (FOX) however, decided not to air it, citing that they wanted a pilot 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 "Firefly" (2002) {The Train Job (#1.1)}, which appeared first on the show. A slightly retooled version of "Serenity" was later showed as an 'origins' story after Firefly had been canceled.
  • When Serenity approaches to dock with Niska's space station, you can see what looks like a US Space shuttle docked in much the way it would be at the International Space Station.