Episode Quotes

Mistakes/Goofs

• Goof (factual errors): The "newborn" baby is shown holding its head up. This doesn't happen until around the third month.
• Goof (revealing mistake): Baby Jonah is a fake baby doll when Rance Burgess comes out of the room after abducting it, then it turns back in to a real baby.
• Goof (factual errors): When Wash is shooting at Rance's men on board the Serenity, he is shown using a large caliber revolver. The chamber never revolves when he fires. And while he fires much faster than should be possible for a revolver of that caliber, they can be loaded with less powerful rounds, a .38 loaded in a .357 for example.
• Goof (continuity error): SPOILER: When Nandi is killed, she falls to the floor on her back, her left arm by her side and her right on the floor by her head. We see her in this position a number of times, but when Mal and Inara look at one another at the end of this scene, Nandi's left arm is now lying across her chest.
• Goof (continuity error): The first shot we see of Nandi waking up shows her hair loose on the pillow, and her hand curled up on the sheet beside her; in the next shot, a close-up, her hair is mostly tucked behind her ear and her hand is closer to her face than previously.

Trivia

• SPOILER: In keeping with the idea of fusion between the American and Chinese cultures, during the funeral, the predominant color is not black, but white, the Chinese color of mourning.
• In the theater scene, depicted on the screen in the background as shadow art, are ships leaving the planet Earth and arriving at various planets.