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* ImpromptuFortress: The episode sees Mal and his crew persuaded to turn the brothel they've been hired to protect into a fortress against local aristocrat Rance Burgess, who has deliberately impregnated one of the girls and is coming to retrieve "his" child by force. They distribute what spare weapons they have, Wash and Zoe bury a cable under the entrance that can be raised to knock attackers off their steeds, Shepherd Book nails boards across the upper floor windows to create concealed firing positions, and Kaylee upgrades the well pump for use in fighting fires.
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* ClosestThingWeGot: Simon examines Petaline and acts as the primary doctor for her delivery, but privately admits to Inara that this is his first time dealing with a birth solo, and since he was a trauma surgeon before giving it up to rescue River this is certainly outside his area of expertise.
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* [[MistakenForGay Mistaken For Sly]]: When Mal doesn't show any particular interest in the house's girls, Nandi mentions that they have boys as well. Mal just chuckles and says "No, I like the womenfolk."
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* [[MistakenForGay Mistaken For Sly]]: MistakenForGay: When Mal doesn't show any particular interest in the house's girls, Nandi mentions that they have boys as well. Mal just chuckles and says "No, I like the womenfolk."
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* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Jayne doesn't give a crap about the whores and their problems, he just wants sex.
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* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Jayne doesn't give a crap about the whores and their problems, he just wants sex.but he'll help defend them for in exchange for their services.
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* ShoutOut: A group of people harassed by the bad guys hire mercenaries to protect them. Wait, is this Firefly or [[TheMagnificentSevenSamurai Seven Samurai/The Magnificent Seven?]]
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* WholePlotReference: A group of people harassed by the bad guys hire mercenaries to protect them. Wait, is this ''Firefly'' or ''[[TheMagnificentSevenSamurai Seven Samurai/The Magnificent Seven?]]''
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Aboard ''Serenity'', Malcolm is cleaning and playing with his guns at the kitchen table when Inara surprises him. As she questions the wisdom of taking over the whole table for his armory, Wash arrives and tells Mal that a distress call came in--for Inara. Aboard her shuttle, she takes the call from Nandi and it's revealed that the madame of the bordello is a former Companion who was a friend of Inara's years ago; upon leaving the order, Inara was meant to shun her. After Inara hangs up, Mal comes out from where he was obviously eavesdropping and agrees immediately to help the Heart of Gold out with no payment necessary (though Inara still insists on making sure he's paid). Jayne immediately agrees to the job upon finding out that they're helping a whorehouse.
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Aboard ''Serenity'', Malcolm is cleaning and playing with his guns at the kitchen table when Inara surprises him. As she questions the wisdom of taking over the whole table for his armory, Wash arrives and tells Mal that a distress call came in--for Inara. Aboard her shuttle, she takes the call from Nandi and it's revealed that the madame of the bordello is a former Companion who was a friend of Inara's years ago; upon leaving the order, Inara was meant to shun her. After Inara hangs up, Mal comes out from where he was obviously eavesdropping and agrees immediately to help the Heart of Gold out with no payment necessary (though Inara still insists on making sure he's paid). Jayne entirely dismisses the idea doing a job as a favour, but then immediately agrees to the job upon finding out that they're helping a whorehouse.
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%%* DeathBySex: Nandi.
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* DoubleStandard: Averted. Inara is obviously hurt by Mal sleeping with Nandi, but sticks by her principles regarding sex and doesn't make an issue of it.
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* DoubleStandard: Averted. Inara is obviously hurt by Mal sleeping with Nandi, but sticks by her principles regarding sex (plus the fact that she's never confessed her feelings for him) and doesn't make an issue of it.
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** [[CallBack Well, he wasn't always a Shepherd, after all.]]
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'''Original airdate:''' August 4, 2003
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'''Original airdate:''' August 4, 2003
air date:''' 12/9/2003 (DVD) ''(produced in 2002)''
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* SmartGun: Rance Burgess brags to Mal about his custom and apparently highly illegal laser pistol, which among other things features an automatic target adjust (something not even Alliance-issue guns have). [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Burgess, the gun runs out of power after only a few shots.]]
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* SmartGun: Rance Burgess brags to Mal about his custom and apparently highly illegal laser pistol, which among other things features an automatic target adjust (something not even Alliance-issue guns have). [[spoiler:Unfortunately Unfortunately for Burgess, the gun runs out of power after only a few shots.]]
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Non-lethal, but Chari gets sexually abused in public by Burgess after she tells him about the siege preparation. Later on when Petaline kills Burgess, she banishes Chari along with the rest of Burgess' mooks.
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Non-lethal, but Chari gets sexually abused in public by Burgess after she tells him about the siege preparation. Later on when Petaline kills Burgess, she banishes Chari along with the rest of Burgess' mooks.mooks, with the implication that Chari can expect a great deal more of such abuse without the brothel's protection.
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* ValuesResonance: Nandi offering [[MistakenForGay Mal the services of the brothel's male prostitutes]] isn't played as a joke or insult. She's just offering him another option off the menu, and he simply declines, taking no offense. A bit ahead of its time in 2002, but perfectly in line with today.
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* ThreeMonthOldNewborn
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* ThreeMonthOldNewbornThreeMonthOldNewborn: Yeah, either Jonah was one ''heck'' of a big baby, or that was a five-month-old at least.
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Non-lethal, but Chari gets sexually abused in public by Burgess after she tells him about the siege preparation.
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Non-lethal, but Chari gets sexually abused in public by Burgess after she tells him about the siege preparation. Later on when Petaline kills Burgess, she banishes Chari along with the rest of Burgess' mooks.
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* UnproblematicProstitution: Averted. Nandi runs a decrepit brothel where the girls are explicitly ''not'' Companions. Their harsh lives make a big contrast against the good companion life. Nandi also remarks that it used to be ''much worse'', with many of the girls being abused drug addicts, until she killed the brothel's previous owner and seized control.
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* UnproblematicProstitution: Averted. Nandi runs a decrepit brothel where the girls are explicitly ''not'' Companions. Their harsh lives make a big contrast against the good companion Companion life. Nandi also remarks that it used to be ''much worse'', with many of the girls being abused drug addicts, until she killed the brothel's previous owner and seized control.
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* HeirClubForMen: Rance Burgess's driving motivation. One assumes that if Petaline were having a daughter, he wouldn't have been interested.
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* LawOfInverseFertility: We don't know how much Rance Burgess's wife might have wanted a child personally, but there's little doubt that her husband is making her life miserable over her "failure" to give him an heir, and the whole situation with Petaline only adds to the humiliation. Meanwhile, Petaline is a poor prostitute who probably didn't want to bring a child into her already-difficult life.
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* DoubleStandard: Averted. Inara is obviously hurt by Mal sleeping with Nandi, but sticks by her principles regarding sex and doesn't make an issue of it.
