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A bleeding, dying Mal Reynolds tries desperately to get to Serenity's engine to install a part. As he struggles, alone, through the abandoned ship, he alternately recalls how he got here, and how his crew was assembled….
Serenity isn't flight-worthy when Mal buys her, a fact that Zoë is quick to point out. Things don't go much more smoothly from there, as Zoë doesn't like the mustachioed pilot named Wash, though Mal raves about him, and their "genius" of a mechanic — Bester — can't seem to fix what ails Serenity.
Things soon start looking up: Bester brings aboard Kaylee, who promptly diagnoses what ails the boat, prompting Mal to give her Bester's job while Zoë gives Bester the boot; Wash, currying favor with Zoë, shaves his mustache. Later, the crew recruits a mercenary named Jayne, who gets the drop on Serenity while he is in the employ of a gent named Marco. Mal and Zoë convince him to switch sides by offering him better pay and accommodations.
A fire aboard Serenity cripples her engine, injures Zoë, and uses up a sizable chunk of the remaining air. Kaylee needs a part she doesn't have. Everyone save Mal abandons ship in the two shuttles, while Mal hopes for a rescue — which, surprisingly, comes — and, unsurprisingly, becomes a double-cross that Mal escapes only after being shot in the gut.
Written by TIM MINEAR
Directed by DAVID SOLOMON
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