History Recap / FireflyE09Ariel

The crew make their escape from Ariel, but things are not done, as Mal quickly twigs to the fact that Jayne was the reason the Feds were even at the hospital and knocks Jayne out with a wrench. Jayne wakes up in the cargo bay airlock of Serenity as the ship is taking off and a confrontation between him and Mal ensues, in which Mal is in full-on PapaWolf mode and vehemently asserts that "you turn on ''any'' of my crew, [[EtTuBrute you turn on]] ''[[EtTuBrute me!]]''." The only thing that saves Jayne from being ThrownOutTheAirlock is when he urges Mal to "make something up" and not tell the rest of the crew what he did. Mal lets Jayne off with a deadly warning: "The next time you decide to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face."

* BrotherSisterTeam: Simon and River
* TheCaper: Obviously

* DeathGlare : Simon to [=McGinnis=].
* DistressedDamsel : River. That is the main point of the mission as far as Simon is concerned.

* DrillSergeantNasty : Simon. Yes, SIMON. When he was dressing down the incompetent doctor. Of course, he was a more genteel DrillSergeantNasty, but no less scary under the circumstances.

* HospitalParadiso : St. Lucy's. Which provides Mei-Mei the latest medical technology overseen by best medical practitioner on the Most Wanted List. With little paperwork necessary.

* KarmicDeath: The Fed would get his own thanks to the Hands of Blue. Shoudln't have ratted Jayne out...

* [[MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad My Big Brother is a Really Cool Doctor]]: River gives a sweet grin to Jayne after Simon saves a patient as a by-the-way and then stops to give his DrillSergeantNasty. You can just hear her saying [[FacialDialogue "THAT's my big brother."]]

* TheScrounger : Most of the crew does this at the beginning. Notable is Kaylee going through the dump and saying, "Synchronisers".

** A later episode shows he knows Jayne sold them out and was just guilting him for revenge.

* DangerousPhlebotinumInteraction: In the hospital Simon saves a patient from cardiac arrest, then tears the patient's doctor a new one for causing it. The doctor had made the mistake of giving his patient a painkiller that, when combined with a standard prep drug used for the patient's procedure, reacts to form a vasoconstrictor.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Jayne's reward for betraying the Tams was to get betrayed and arrested in turn because the chief Fed wanted to keep the reward money for himself. And then he almost gets ThrownOutTheAirlock once Mal cops wise to what Jayne did in the hospital.

* IdiotBall: Who's bright idea was is to put the two wanted fugitives in the care of the guy who obviously hates them? Even if they didn't expect betrayal, it's a recipe for disaster with Jayne's temperament and (lack of) self-control.

! Tropes include:

* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp: Simon, mostly at River's persistance.

* EasilyForgiven: Jayne. He did receive a CoolAndUnusualPunishment, being ThrownOutTheAirlock, but under the circumstances it was pretty easily. With no law to appeal to, many leaders of a smuggling ship would have felt that really throwing Jayne out the airlock was the ''only'' alternative.

* ThrowItIn: Mal putting his arm around Kaylee from behind as a friendly hug while celebrating the successful heist near the end of the episode was improvised by Nathan Fillion, and Joss Whedon kept it in as he felt it was a natural movement for Mal to make.

This is a good episode and one in which Simon gets to shine. So naturally it is attractive to Simon Tam fans.

* BloodFromEveryOrifice: The sonic weapon used by the Hands of Blue causes very painful death with bleeding from eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and nails.

* FootFocus: JossWhedon made sure River's bare feet were in full view while she and Simon are smuggled into the hospital. Bonus points for SummerGlau keeping her feet pointed [[TheCastShowOff like a ballerina]] the whole time.

* MagicalDefibrillator: Apparently defibrillators in the future can shock a flatline back to life...and knock out nosy doctors.

During the infiltration, Simon gets his first moment when River alerts him to a patient who is being treated incompetently and is about to die, and Simon, who is posing as a doctor that is not on the Most Wanted List, steps in and takes over the operation, saving the man's life and then chewing out the doctor responsible for the incompetent treatment. When the three of them find the room with the holo-imager, both Simon and Jayne learn a bit of what was done to River at the Academy, including having her amygdala stripped bare to remove her ability to block out anything she feels. Simon is horrified at this revelation, and Jayne shows a few signs that maybe turning them in wasn't such a great idea[[hottip:*:or he begins carrying out his original plan at the agreed-upon time]]. Jayne leads the two away toward a rear entrance, citing a change of plans, and as Jayne and Simon start arguing, River screams and starts babbling. Then the Feds show up.

* EasilyForgiven: Jayne. He did receive a CoolAndUnusualPunishment, being ThrownOutTheAirlock, but under the circumstances it wa pretty easily. With no law to appeal to, many leaders of a smuggling ship would have felt that really throwing Jayne out the airlock was the ''only'' alternative.
* FaceHeelTurn: Jayne's betrayal of River and Simon to the Alliance
* FakingTheDead: That is how Simon and River get in

During the infiltration, Simon gets his first CrowningMomentOfAwesome when River alerts him to a patient who is being treated incompetently and is about to die, and Simon, who is posing as a doctor that is not on the Most Wanted List, steps in and takes over the operation, saving the man's life and then chewing out the doctor responsible for the incompetent treatment. When the three of them find the room with the holo-imager, both Simon and Jayne learn a bit of what was done to River at the Academy, including having her amygdala stripped bare to remove her ability to block out anything she feels. Simon is horrified at this revelation, and Jayne shows a few signs that maybe turning them in wasn't such a great idea[[hottip:*:or he begins carrying out his original plan at the agreed-upon time]]. Jayne leads the two away toward a rear entrance, citing a change of plans, and as Jayne and Simon start arguing, River screams and starts babbling. Then the Feds show up.

This is a good episode and one in which Simon gets to shine. So naturally it is attractive to Simon Tam fans. It has a number of [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments Of Awesome]] and more than one CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

** "Your patient should be dead..."

* EasilyForgiven: Jayne. Considering...
** I wouldn't necessarily say he was ''[[CoolAndUnusualPunishment easily]]'' [[ThrownOutTheAirlock forgiven...]]
*** Under the circumstances pretty easily. With no law to appeal to, many leaders of a smuggling ship would have felt that really throwing Jayne out the airlock was the ''only'' alternative.

* LethalDiagnosis: And Simon points this out to an incompetent doctor.

* [[MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad My Big Brother is a Really Cool Doctor]]: In a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming just after the famous [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMoA]], River gives a sweet grin to Jayne after Simon saves a patient as a by-the-way and then stops to give his DrillSergeantNasty. You can just hear her saying [[FacialDialogue "THAT's my big brother."]]

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Jayne's reward for betraying the Tams was to get betrayed and arrested in turn because the chief Fed wanted to keep the reward money for himself.
** And then he almost gets ThrownOutTheAirlock once Mal cops wise to what Jayne did in the hospital.
** KarmicDeath: The Fed would get his own thanks to the Hands of Blue...
** {{Irony}}: Had Jayne been given his award, he probably would have been in the main room when the Hands of Blue arrived and thus gotten zapped like everyone else. By double-crossing Jayne, [=McGinnis=] unintentionally saved Jayne's life!
* RefugeInAudacity: the two most wanted fugitives in the Alliance going in the front door amid wanted posters for them and the possibility of meeting one of Simon's schoolmates.
** The [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMoA]] when he rescues the patient and then does his DrillSergeantNasty is REALLY pushing up the audacity. It works because no one dreams he would do so unless he belonged there.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: You know that quote from the page about keelhauling? This is where it's from. Jayne was lucky to have avoided this fate, as Mal was in full PapaWolf mode and fully intent on spacing him for what he did on Ariel.
** This isn't necessarily confirmed - it may have looked that way, but then, that's how Mal wanted it to look, no matter what his plans were. As well, the very next episode starts with a speech about holding a man over the volcano's edge in order to 'truly meet him'...

* NightmareFuel : The Hands of Blue

Tropes include:

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel : The Hands of Blue