1x05 Out of Gas - Firefly Episode Guide

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Firefly

- Episode 01x05

Episode: 01x05
Title: Out of Gas
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 1AGE07
First Aired: Oct. 25, 2002

Season 1 » Episode #05 - Out of Gas

Summary: After the engine fails to run, the ship starts to run out of oxygen. As the crew abandon ship, the captain stays behind to see if any nearby vessel responds to their distress call. Under the conditions of the low oxygen levels, Mal has flashbacks relating to how he assembled his crew.

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01x05 Safe (44:32) (Full Episode)

01x05 Safe (44:33) (Full Episode)

Clip: Long Story Short (0:56)

Clip: Actually I Was Being Ironic (3:07)

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds	played by Nathan Fillion
Captain	played by Steven Flynn
Marco	played by Ilia Volok
Salesman	played by Lyle Kanouse
Bester	played by Dax Griffin
Lacey #1	played by Roderick McCarthy

Episode Quotes

Season 1 / Episode 5: - Out of Gas

Mal: I tell you, Zoë, we get a mechanic, get her up and running again, hire a good pilot, maybe a cook - Live like real people. A small crew - They must feel the need to be free. Take jobs as they come. They never have to be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get... we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Zoë Washburne: "Get her running again"?
Mal: Yeah.
Zoë Washburne: So not running now?
Mal: Not so much.

Season 1 / Episode 5: - Out of Gas

Mal: Kaylee. Kaylee, look at me. I need you up in the engine room figurin' out what caused this.
Kaylee: [looking toward the injured Zoë] She ain't moving.

Kaylee: Serenity's not moving.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FACT: The explosion has allegedly put them "dead in the water", and several shots show the Serenity hanging motionless in space. However, under Newton's Law, the ship would continue to move, even if at greatly reduced speed.
CONT: In the scene where Zoe and Mal meet Jayne for the first time, each Mal close-up shows his bangs blowing in a steady breeze, but when we see him and Zoe together, his hair barely ever moves.
CONT: In the scene where the crew are eating dinner, just before the fire breaks out in the engine room, Kaylee brings out a birthday cake for Simon. In one shot all the candles are lit whilst in the reverse angle, one candle has gone out then all are alight again from the other angle.
CONT: The leather rope necklace that Zoe wears is a symbol of her commitment to Wash (like a wedding ring) but in the flashback scene in this episode where Zoe and Wash first meet, she is wearing the necklace.
CREW: When Mal and Zoe first walk onto Serenity, a cable on the floor behind them slides across the floor in one of the shots, then appears in a different position in a later shot.

TRIVIA

Gina Torres' character spends most of this episode unconscious in the ship's medical bay, partly because Torres was absent for part of the shoot. She was on her honeymoon with husband Laurence Fishburne.
The red button Wash rigs to call the shuttles back and return the crew to Serenity was removed from the set on one of the last days of filming by Alan Tudyk, as by that time the cast and crew knew they were being canceled. Scenes on the bridge for "Firefly" (2002) {Out of Gas (#1.5)} were filmed the next day, and the button is noticeably absent. Alan then mailed the button to series creator Joss Whedon, with a note saying "When you get your miracle, just hit this" (quoting Wash's line). Whedon was hoping to revive the series, which he did, in the form of the film Serenity (2005).