"Firefly" The Message (2003)

User Rating:

8.6/10   

Director:

Tim Minear

Writers:

Joss Whedon (creator)
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TV Series:

"Firefly" (2002)

Original Air Date:

28 July 2003 (Season 1, Episode 14)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

A pleasant day out at a space station turns sour when Mal and Zoe receive the dead body of one of their old army buddy's in the post office...

Plot Keywords:

Old Friend | Death | Heroine | Back From The Dead | War Veteran

Cast

Nathan Fillion	...	Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds
Gina Torres	...	Zoë Washburne
Alan Tudyk	...	Hoban 'Wash' Washburne
Morena Baccarin	...	Inara Serra
Adam Baldwin	...	Jayne Cobb
Jewel Staite	...	Kaylee Frye
Sean Maher	...	Dr. Simon Tam
Summer Glau	...	River Tam
Ron Glass	...	Shepherd Book
Jonathan M. Woodward	...	Tracey
Richard Burgi	...	Lieutenant Womack
Al Pugliese	...	Amnon Duul
Tod Nakamura	...	Fendris
Craig Vincent	...	Skunk
Morgan Rusler	...	Barker

Runtime:

44 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M

Company:

Mutant Enemy

Trivia:

When Kaylee is sitting in her hammock holding the message recorder, there is a 12" tall Star Wars figure of Han Solo in Carbonite figure to her left.

Goofs:

Continuity: When all of the crew are around the Coffin, listening to the recording, Jayne removes the hat his mother made. The camera cuts back to the crew and Jayne still has his hat on.

Quotes:

Simon: [looking at the "alien"] Yep. It's a cow fetus.

Desperation of an exbrowncoat

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

This episode was the last show made in the Firefly series. I don't think it ever aired but it is the third to the last episode in the DVD Box set. A young man who is an ex browncoat war vetran from the unification war served under Mal and Zoe in the volunteers comes back into their lives. A boy named Tracey who is desperate, immature, and being hunted by crooked federal marshals. He has involved himself with stone cold killers who sell body parts called wet wear. A new bio tech where a human incubates growing internal organs it is also illegal. Tracy who double crosses these men is on the run. He figures he could make triple with other buyers. This would help his family get off of St Albans an ice planet. Not thinking of the consequences he is in deep trouble. Brings this trouble onto the crew of Serenity by duping them into believing he his dead and a voice mail to send him home. Serenity gives chase to get away from marshals who may kill everyone who gets in their way to get their wet wear back. An exciting but a solemn sad episode which is a final ending to the series.