1x05 Out of Gas - Firefly Episode Guide

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- 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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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: You know, I'm gettin' a little weary of this attitude, Wash.
Wash: Oh, are you? Well, I'm so very sorry, sir. I guess the news that we're all gonna be purple and bloated and fetal in a few hours has made me a little snippy.
Mal: It's possible someone might pick up that signal.
Wash: No, Mal. It's not possible. No one's gonna pick up the damn signal. You wanted us flying under the radar, remember? Well, that's where we are, out of range of anyone or anything.
Mal: Then make it go further.
Wash: I - What?
Mal: Make the signal go further.
Wash: Can't make it go further.
Mal: Not if all you're gonna do is sit around here and whinge about it. No.
Wash: What do you expect me to do, Mal?
Mal: Whatever you have to. And if you can't do it from here, then get a suit on and go outside on the side of the boat...
Wash: And what? Wave my arms around?
Mal: Wave your arms around. Jump up and down. Divert the nav sats to the transmitter. Whatever.
Wash: Divert the - Right! Because teenage pranks are fun when you're about to die!
Mal: Give the beacon a boost, wouldn't it?
Wash: Yes, Mal, it would boost the signal. But even if some passerby did happen to receive, all it would do is muck up their navigation.
Mal: Could be that's true.
Wash: Damn right, it's true. They'd be forced to stop and dig out our signal before they could even go anyplace.

Wash: [Still yelling as if he's angry] Well maybe I should do that, then!
Mal: Maybe you should!
Wash: Okay!
Mal: Good!
Wash: Fine!
Jayne: Hey! What you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this? You'll use up all the air.

Season 1 / Episode 5: - Out of Gas

Mal: Let me show you the rest. And-and try to see past what she is and onto what she can be.
Zoë Washburne: What's that, sir?
Mal: Freedom is what.
Zoë Washburne: I meant, what's *that*?
Mal: Oh, yeah, just step around that. I think something must have been living in here.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: Kaylee has just put Simon's birthday cake down on the table when the explosion happens, but in many subsequent shots of both the table and the floor in the dining room, the cake is nowhere to be seen.
CREW: During the scene where Mal and Zoe enter the ship for the first time, lights are visible during many of the shots.
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: One candle on Simon's birthday cake is lit and unlit in alternating shots.
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.

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).

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