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* OriginsEpisode: The episode features flashbacks showing how each of the main characters ended up on Serenity (except for Book, Simon and River, who came aboard in the pilot episode). Zoe was Mal's old Army buddy from the Unification Wars, Wash signed on as pilot right after Mal and Zoe found ''Serenity'', Jayne was a bandit who tried to kill Mal (until Mal convinced him to turn against his two partners by offering to pay him better), and Kaylee replaced the ship's original engineer after Mal found her having sex with him and discovered that she knew more about engines than he did.
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* OriginsEpisode: The episode features flashbacks showing how each of the main characters ended up on Serenity (except for Book, Simon and River, who came aboard in the pilot episode). Zoe was Mal's old Army buddy from the Unification Wars, Wash signed on as pilot right after Mal and Zoe found ''Serenity'', Jayne was a bandit who tried to kill Mal (until Mal convinced him to turn against his two partners by offering to pay him better), Mal rented a shuttle to Inara as she pointed out her reputation would open more doors for him, and Kaylee replaced the ship's original engineer after Mal found her having sex with him and discovered that she knew more about engines than he did.
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* TheWorfEffect: An interesting example from Firefly. Mal has to rough up his pilot to get him on the bridge, and Jayne, resident tough guy, is shown being visibly scared of Mal.
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* TheWorfEffect: An interesting example from Firefly. example; Mal has to rough up his pilot to get him on the bridge, and Jayne, resident tough guy, is shown being visibly scared of Mal.
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* InjuredSelfDrag: The episode starts with Mal gravely wounded and dragging himself through ''Serenity'' to the engine room to replace a critical part, with cuts back to the events [[HowWeGotHere leading up to how he got injured in the first place]].
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The final flashback shows Mal and Zoe on a used ship lot. The salesman is in mid-pitch, trying to sell Mal on a flashy-looking rocket ship, but Mal isn't listening. His eyes have already found the last and most important member of his crew, sitting forlorn at the edge of the lot: a ''Firefly''-class transport.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Bester presented himself as this to excuse his slacking off. When Kaylee is able (from a single look ''while having sex'') to figure out an engine issue that left him baffled, Mal realizes the "lazy" part is far more accurate than the "brilliant" part and fires Bester/hires Kaylee on the spot.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Bester presented himself as this to excuse his slacking off. When Kaylee is able (from a single look ''while having sex'') to figure out an engine issue that left him baffled, Mal realizes the "lazy" part is far more accurate than the "brilliant" part and fires Bester/hires replaces Bester with Kaylee on the spot.
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Some unspecified amount of time later, Mal and Zoe are doing some crime when a gang tracks them down and demands their loot at gunpoint. Mal is suitably impressed that they were found at all, and Jayne, one of the gang members, takes credit. Instead of revealing where the loot is hidden, Mal bribes Jayne into defecting with a job offer. Mal rents out the shuttle to [[BareYourMidriff Inara]], who accepts on the condition that he [[ContinuityNod never to walk into her shuttle without permission, or call her a whore]]. This completes the crew as of the pilot episode, where Book, River, and Simon arrive.
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Some unspecified amount of time later, Mal and Zoe are doing some crime when a gang tracks them down and demands their loot at gunpoint. Mal is suitably impressed that they were found at all, and Jayne, one of the gang members, takes credit. Instead of revealing where the loot is hidden, Mal bribes Jayne into defecting with a job offer. Mal rents out the shuttle to [[BareYourMidriff Inara]], Inara, who accepts on the condition that he [[ContinuityNod never to walk into her shuttle without permission, or call her a whore]]. This completes the crew as of the pilot episode, where Book, River, and Simon arrive.
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* ThePeteBest: In-universe, we discover that Kaylee was not the crew's original mechanic. That guy, Bester, was quickly let go when Mal discovered Kaylee.
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* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: When the engine isn't spinning, things are bad...
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* SpectacularSpinning: When the engine isn't spinning, things are bad...
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'''Original airdate:''' October 25, 2002
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'''Original airdate:''' October 25, 2002
air date:''' 10/25/2002
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* CallBack: Mal really should've listened to Kaylee back during the pilot about that coil...
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* CallBack: Mal really should've listened to Kaylee back during the pilot about that coil...coil. The damage from its failure was even ''worse'' than she predicted.
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Not So Different has been renamed, and it needs to be dewicked/moved
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* NotSoDifferent: Defied. When the scavenger that shot Mal leaves ''Serenity'' at gunpoint, he claims "You would've done the same." Mal growls "[[IfIWantedYouDead We can already see that I haven't.]]"
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Defied. When the scavenger that shot Mal leaves ''Serenity'' at gunpoint, he claims "You would've done the same." Mal growls "[[IfIWantedYouDead We can already see that I haven't.]]"
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The SalvagePirstes leave the ship when Mal threatens them, leaving behind the part Mal needed in the process. Justified given that showing him the part is how they were able to board in the first place.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The SalvagePirstes SalvagePirates leave the ship when Mal threatens them, leaving behind the part Mal needed in the process. Justified given that showing him the part is how they were able to board in the first place.
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* OriginsEpisode: The episode features flashbacks showing how each of the main characters ended up on Serenity (except for Book, Simon and River, who came aboard in the pilot episode). Zoe was Mal's old Army buddy from the Unification Wars, Wash signed on as pilot right after Mal and Zoe found ''Serenity'', Jayne was a bandit who tried to kill Mal (until Mal convinced him to turn against his two partners by offering to pay him better), and Kaylee replaced the ship's original engineer after Mal found her having sex with him and discovered that she knew more about engines than he did.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The SalvagePirstes leave the ship when Mal threatens them, leaving behind the part Mal needed in the process. Justified given that showing him the part is how they were able to board in the first place.
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* HowWeGotHere: 3 interweaving timelines--the very beginning of ''Serenity'', the beginning of the current predicament, and the present predicament.
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* HospitalSurprise: Mal passes out from blood loss and oxygen deprivation just as he restarts the engine, but before he can give the signal for his crew to return to Serenity. He wakes up in the medical facility, with the rest of his crew around him, being treated by Simon. It turns out that Zoe, who had last been seen unconscious and severely injured from an explosion, ordered the crew to go back for Mal, without waiting for his signal.
* HowWeGotHere:3 Three interweaving timelines--the very beginning of ''Serenity'', the beginning of the current predicament, and the present predicament.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Of a sort. The ending scene shows Mal staring lovingly at the soon-to-be-Serenity while tuning out a salesman trying to talk up a different ship. Interestingly, [[BirdsOfAFeather the only other crewmate to experience this is Inara]].
-->'''Inara:''' I love this ship. I have from the first moment I saw it.
-->'''Inara:''' I love this ship. I have from the first moment I saw it.
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* LikeASurgeon: At Simon's birthday party, the crew (mainly Kaylee) surprise him with a cake. As Simon's a surgeon, Kaylee jokingly asks him to make the first incision. Sadly, an explosion cripples the ship before he can blow out the candles. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse It's not known what happened to the cake.]]
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* BrilliantButLazy: Bester presented himself as this to excuse his slacking off. When Kaylee is able (from a single look ''while having sex'') to figure out an engine issue that left him baffled, Mal realizes the "lazy" part is far more accurate than the "brilliant" part and fires Bester/hires Kaylee on the spot.
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* Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}:
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* FlashbackBPlot: Mixed with AnachronicOrder. As Mal struggles to treat his injuries and repair the ship, flashbacks alternate between [[HowWeGotHere the immediate lead-up to this event]] and the backstory of how Mal first purchased the ''Serenity'' and [[EveryoneMeetsEveryone assembled his trusty crew]].
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* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: Mixed with AnachronicOrder. As Mal struggles to treat his injuries and repair the ship, flashbacks alternate between [[HowWeGotHere the immediate lead-up to this event]] and the backstory of how Mal first purchased the ''Serenity'' and [[EveryoneMeetsEveryone assembled his trusty crew]].
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* CoitusUninterruptus: We see a flashback where Mal goes to the engine room to get a status report on repairs to find his mechanic-at-the-time Bester busily putting it to a local girl with a starship fetish. Bester had...a hard time pulling himself away from his new friend to tell Mal why the ship wasn't fixed yet. But the girl in question is Kaylee, who proceeds to impress Mal by correctly diagnosing and fixing the engine problem. It's even implied that they'd only been doing it in the engine room in the first place because Kaylee wanted get a look at the engines, and was busy diagnosing the problem while he was occupied. Kaylee ''really'' likes engines.
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** River's ability to sense the approaching fireball before anyone else alludes to her psychic abilities, most notably seen in "[[Recap/FireflyE14ObjectsInSpace Objects in Space]]". As frequently happens, her utterance has two interpretations; Simon assumes her "fire" is a reminder to blow out his birthday candles.
** At the end of the episode, Jayne questions the genuineness of the incense in Inara's shuttle. In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', Inara tricks The Operative with a Flashbang disguised as incense.
** River's ability to sense the approaching fireball before anyone else alludes to her psychic abilities, most notably seen in "[[Recap/FireflyE14ObjectsInSpace Objects in Space]]". As frequently happens, her utterance has two interpretations; Simon assumes her "fire" is a reminder to blow out his birthday candles.
** At the end of the episode, Jayne questions the genuineness of the incense in Inara's shuttle. In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', Inara tricks The Operative with a Flashbang disguised as incense.
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* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: Mixed with AnachronicOrder. As Mal struggles to treat his injuries and repair the ship, flashbacks alternate between [[HowWeGotHere the immediate lead-up to this event]] and the backstory of how Mal first purchased the ''Serenity'' and [[EveryoneMeetsEveryone assembled his trusty crew]].
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* CavalryBetrayal: Much to Mal's bad luck, the people who detect the emergency transmission from ''Serenity'' are SalvagePirates.
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* ContinuousDecompression: Mal uses this to put out a fire in Serenity's engine room. This is much more plausible because a fire merely needs to run out of oxygen to go out, and sealing/venting the room will help the fire use up all the oxygen, putting it out before it can damage too much equipment. Chemical fire retardants (e.g. the stuff in the red canisters and the stuff used for chemical fires) actually smother fires to put them out in real life, too!
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* FlashbackEffects: Lighting and camera effects are used to create distinct visual styles for the scenes in the present (starting with Mal on the cargo bay floor), the HowWeGotHere scenes in the recent past, and and the EveryoneMeetsEveryone scenes in the more distant past.
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* FlashbackEffects: Lighting and camera effects are used to create distinct visual styles for the scenes in the present (starting with Mal on the cargo bay floor), for the HowWeGotHere scenes in the recent past, and and for the EveryoneMeetsEveryone scenes in the more distant past.
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* FlashbackEffects: Lighting and camera effects are used to create distinct visual styles for the scenes in the present (starting with Mal on the cargo bay floor), the HowWeGotHere scenes in the recent past, and and the EveryoneMeetsEveryone scenes in the more distant past.
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'''Original airdate:''' October 25, 2002
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'''Kaylee:'''We're dead in the water.
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'''Jayne:''' ''[enters the room]'' What the hell do you two think you're doing? Fighting at a time like this? [[spoiler:You'll use up all the air!]]
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'''Jayne:''' ''[enters the room]'' What the hell do you two think you're doing? Fighting at a time like this? [[spoiler:You'll You'll use up all the air!]]air!
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--> '''Kaylee:''' Catalyzer on the port compression coil blew. That's where the trouble started.\\
'''Mal:''' I need that in Captain Dummy-Talk, Kaylee.
'''Mal:''' I need that in Captain Dummy-Talk, Kaylee.
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'''Mal:''' I need that in Captain Dummy-Talk, Kaylee.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Wash started off as an odd dude that neither Mal or Zoe really liked, hired based on recommendations. He eventually proves his worth.
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* FalseReassurance: River telling Book that they're not going to run out of air... because they'll freeze to death first.
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* GuileHero: Mal and Zoe initially recruited Jayne using their wits, talking their way out of a bad situation by insinuating that Jayne was being paid too little, convincing him to turn on his old employer.
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--> '''Kaylee:''' Catalyzer on the port compression coil blew. That's where the trouble started.\\
'''Mal:''' I need that in Captain Dummy-Talk, Kaylee.
'''Kaylee:'''We're dead in the water.
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'''Mal:''' I need that in Captain Dummy-Talk, Kaylee.
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* NotSoDifferent: Defied. When the scavenger that shot Mal leaves ''Serenity'' at gunpoint, he claims "You would've done the same." Mal growls "[[IfIWantedYouDead We can already see that I haven't.]]"
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* DyingAlone: Invoked by Inara as a FateWorseThanDeath... except for, you know, [[CaptainObvious already dying and all]].
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* DyingAlone: Invoked by Inara as a FateWorseThanDeath... except for, you know, [[CaptainObvious already dying and all]].all.
