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At a space station, the crew shops, pokes around, and picks up mail. Jayne gets a letter and a knit cap from his mother, and Mal and Zoë get … a corpse.
The corpse's name is Tracey, and Mal and Zoë served with him during the war. He had left a recording, requesting that his remains be brought home to St. Albans. However, a Fed named Lt. Womack also wants Tracey's corpse, and he's willing to shoot down the Serenity to get it.
Reluctantly, Mal orders an autopsy while Wash evades Womack. The most shocking discovery of the autopsy is that Tracey's alive. He was in a suspended state that simulated death — and now he says he wants to get home, but he's carrying transplantable organs that need to incubate in a person. He decided to take a better offer on the black market, but the new buyer was caught, so Tracey "killed" himself and had himself shipped to Mal and Zoë.
Womack, having grown tired of Mal's stalling, resumes shooting at Serenity. Eventually, the crew realizes that Womack won't stop until they're dead — but Book also notices that Womack hasn't checked in with the local Fed base.
Tracey doesn't like the crew's plan, and shoots Wash to keep him from contacting Womack, which results in Zoë shooting Tracey. Wounded, Tracey runs and takes Kaylee hostage, but Mal is able to gun him down, leaving Womack empty-handed — and a threat from Book to alert the Fed base to Womack's extracurricular activities leads the Fed to depart Serenity in peace.
The crew returns Tracey's body to St. Albans for proper burial.
Written by JOSS WHEDON and TIM MINEAR
Directed by TIM MINEAR
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