History Recap / FireflyE11Trash

* TemptingFate: at the end of the episode Amal mentions two underworld contacts he thinks will buy the Lassiter but in the next episode it's mentioned the weapon hasn't been too valuable for anyone to make him an offer yet.

* {{Tuckerization}}: The Lassiter Pistol is named after noted Pixar director Creator/JohnLasseter, an old friend and collaborator of Creator/JossWhedon. Lasseter is perhaps best known as the director of the original ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', which was one of Whedon's first film credits as a screenwriter.

* {{Tuckerization}}: The Lassiter Pistol is named after noted Pixar director Creator/JohnLasseter, an old friend and collaborator of Creator/JossWhedon. Lasseter is perhaps best known as the director of the original ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', which was one of Whedon's first film credits as a screenwriter.

'''Original airdate:''' July 21, 2003

* BadBadActing: It's not terrible, by any means, but the crew are a little... ''off'' while discussing the plan with Saffron. It may not stand out on a first viewing, but a careful watch on a second viewing makes things like out of place laughter, expressions that don't quite match the situation, and other little quirks stand out. Inara even remarks that she's surprised Saffron didn't see through it.

* NotMeThisTime: Saffron denies having killed the security programmer named Heinrichthough Mal suspects she might have put him in a position to die easy.

* BrutalHonesty: When Saffron attempts to invoke NotWhatItLooksLike (see the quote below), Mal diffuses the completely unrealistic expectation (she was holding a gun on him and he was holding a priceless gun from Durren's collection, which should have been secured and in a display case) with this instead.

** The crew seems surprisingly willing to work with Saffron, even after the whole lightningy-death thing from "[[Recap/FireflyE06OurMrsReynolds Our Mrs. Reynolds]]". But then, that doesn't mean they ''trust'' her.

* ImpliedDeathThreat: Simon pulls a masterful one on Jayne. A direct threat would be met with violence or bravado, so he paralyses Jayne and then says that he would ''never'' harm Jayne for betraying them. [[InconvenientHippocraticOath While this might be true]], he knows that Jayne would never believe it.

Back on the ship, Jayne finally comes to in the med bay, unable to move. Simon lets Jayne thinks that he's paralyzed for a few seconds (during which Jayne is clearly terrified) before explaining that it's a temporary situation to make sure that Jayne wouldn't injure himself upon coming to, and then has a nice chat with Jayne about [[Recap/FireflyE09Ariel what happened on Ariel]], and how they really should trust each other and live together instead of looking for opportunities to back stab each other. He promises never to hurt Jayne, despite all the times that Jayne is likely to be helpless and under Simon's knife due to the wounds that Jayne tends to pick up in his line of work, and then Simon leaves. River informs Jayne that she can kill him with her brain.