How Kaylee Walk Again in Firefly After Getting Shot

Out of Gas is the eighth episode of the Firefly Goggle box series and was start aired on Flim-flam, on October 25, 2002. It differs stylistically from the rest of the series in that it tells its story alternately in three timeframes: events in the present, events in the well-nigh-by that led to the present, and events in the more distant by that led to the assembly of Placidity'south core crew.

On its fashion to Greenleaf, Tranquillity suffers a catastrophe that leaves her crew with but hours of oxygen. As the coiffure struggles to survive, flashbacks show how Mal and Zoë acquired Placidity and assembled their motley ring.

Synopsis [ ]

The episode opens in the present time with a mournful tune, showing Serenity apparently dead in infinite. The camera moves from darkened room to darkened room, showing no sign of any inhabitants. Mal falls into frame, collapsing onto the cargo bay grate floor. He hears voices coming from outside the cargo bay doors. A salesman is saying: "You buy this ship, treat her proper, she'll be with you the rest of your life"... Calorie-free falls across Mal's confront equally the bay doors open up and we realize we're being taken to that moment in Mal's retentiveness when he first enters the ship with Zoë.

Mal takes Zoë aboard his recently-bought ship, but she is taken aback at how run down information technology is and can't believe he paid for the "death trap". Mal is insistent that it's a good, solid transport and waxes eloquent about freedom from the Alliance and the ship's possibilities once they discover a modest crew. Every bit they leave to tour, he tells Zoë he'southward even got a name picked out.

The flashback pans dorsum to Mal in the present time, bleeding. Clutching his breadbasket, he laboriously drags a machine office along the catwalk. The photographic camera pans up into the dining room a deck above, to a well-nigh-present flashback of the crew enjoying a meal and telling amusing anecdotes from their pasts. This of import scene shows what a family the crew has become: sitting around a large dining table, eating, talking and laughing. It sets up the rest of the episode for the revelations of how they all met.

Ship's mechanic Kaylee arrives with a altogether cake for Simon. Before the doctor tin can accident out the candles, a power failure, accompanied by an odd sound, causes Kaylee to start toward the engine room. Merely as River quietly announces "fire", a fireball shoots through the passageway. Zoë leaps up to button Kaylee out of the way and gets hit by the leading pressure wave, which also throws everyone to the ground. Mal speedily shuts the rear entrance of the mutual surface area. The engine room is engulfed in flames. Simon can't become to his medical supplies considering the ship is sealed up. Mal remotely opens the cargo bay doors to blow the temper, sucking the fire out with it.

Back in the present fourth dimension, Mal continues his journeying with the machine part. A door opening leads to another near-present flashback to Simon treating a gravely injured Zoë, while Wash desperately tries to rouse her. A stunned Kaylee tells Mal that Serenity "ain't moving", just Mal prods her to check out the damage. When Wash refuses to leave Zoë'due south side and homo the bridge, Mal drags him abroad from her and forces him grudgingly to his postal service.

Mal and Zoë speak to a younger, mustachioed Wash who evaluates the condition of the new ship and considers taking the job the new captain is offering him. As Mal and Zoë head off into the depths of the ship, the first mate expresses her general misgivings of the potential pilot, although she doesn't know why she tells Mal that "he bothers me". Mal tells Zoë that Launder has come with glowing recommendations and is already being courted by other captains. Zoë tells Mal that information technology's all truthful, but nevertheless "he bothers me". Mal mentions they've also got a new "genius mechanic", causing an unfamiliar, unkempt man who overhears their word to be entertained by Mal's praise.

Back in the near-present, Simon jabs a flatlined Zoë with a shot of "pure adrenaline", and another jump cut takes the states to the present, where a lone Mal does the same matter to himself in club to continue his struggle. Jumping back to the nearly-present, Kaylee despondently tells Mal that their life support is completely disabled, giving them just a few hours of oxygen left.

While Simon muses about suffocation, Inara reflects on her dear of the transport. In his quarters, Shepherd Book is anxiously reading his Bible. River stops by to reassure him that they won't suffocate — they'll die from the common cold beginning. On the bridge, an angry Launder snarks most Mal's refusal to accept their doom, pointing out that he deliberately chose a travel path that kept them away from any possible contacts. Equally they fence, Mal slips in a suggestion to get the attention of passersby that turns out to have a remote possibility of working. When Jayne enters to complain about their wasting air, some other cut takes us back to the nowadays, where Mal hauls the car part toward the engine room as the P.A. arrangement needlessly sounds an alarm about the failed life support and depression oxygen levels.

Mal arrives in the engine room hollering at Bester, the send'south mechanic, for declining to get the send underway when he promised particularly as they've got a job waiting for them. When Mal arrives, he catches Bester existence intimate (and noisy) with an engineering groupie. When Bester finally notices, he explains that the girl gets hot around engines. Mal isn't interested, and orders him to get the girl off the ship and get the engine going. Bester starts to spout excuses for why it tin't be done when the groupie, who is getting dressed, interrupts Bester's spiel to correct his inaccurate diagnosis. As she emerges from behind the engine, nosotros run across that it is Kaylee. When Bester sputters incomprehension, Kaylee explains she diagnosed the trouble while on the floor and apace fixes it. Mal is very impressed, and asked how she learned to do it. Kaylee tells him she's ever had a natural talent around engines, equally she works with her dad whenever he has work (which is exceptional). Mal offers her a task there then, and Kaylee happily runs off to wind upwardly her affairs at home. Bester questions why Serenity would need two mechanics, and Mal ominously says "I really don't".

Another jump dorsum to the near-nowadays shows Mal encountering Kaylee, who apologizes for being unable to set up the ship. She tells Mal well-nigh the broken catalyzer, which cannot be repaired, only replaced. Back in the present time, Mal finally reaches the engine room and tries to install the function — a replacement catalyzer — remembering what Kaylee showed him earlier but only drops information technology into the bowels of the engine.

In the near-present, Mal assembles the coiffure to gild them to split into 2 groups and take each shuttle in opposite directions to try to find some help, however unlikely the possibility of success. With four per shuttle, he decides to stay backside in case someone is defenseless by Wash's beacon. Wash rigs a big ruby-red recall switch on the bridge so Mal can call them dorsum. Inara objects to Mal'south apparent desire to "go downwardly with your ship", simply Mal is just refusing to accept defeat.

A flashback to the past shows Inara's introduction to her future quarters and "office", one of Quiet'due south shuttles. In response to Mal's bargaining tactics, Inara confidently announces that he'll rent her the shuttle, at a disbelieve, in lodge to proceeds some respectability, helping him in his own, less licit business. The two also have their offset fight, when Inara tells Mal that she supported Unification. She gives him two rules; never to walk in on her uninvited and never to call her whore (both of which he would constantly pause).

Back in the near-present, when Inara pleads that "yous don't have to die alone", Mal responds, "Everybody dies lone." Wash likewise appears to want to say something about their departing without the captain, only Mal deftly turns his attention dorsum to his injured wife. As Mal seals off the ship compartments, the coiffure silently departs in opposite directions on their desperate missions.

Sometime later, Mal is awakened by a save ship attracted by Wash's beacon. The captain of the ship agrees to aid past giving Mal a spare catalyzer. When Mal opens the door to get the catalyzer, the skeptical captain holds a gun on him while his crew makes sure there is no ambush pending them.

Mal and Zoë are being held at gunpoint by three bandits, one of whom is Jayne. Mal and Zoë engage in clever banter with the bandits, with Jayne providing an example of his own limited wit. When Mal realizes how effective Jayne was at tracking them, he and Zoë encourage the gunman to switch sides and join their crew past promising a larger cut from jobs and his own bunk. Jayne casually shoots ane of his former partners Marco in the leg and holds the other at gunpoint while he negotiates for his new job.

Back in the near-nowadays, later the save crew gives the signal that they're alone, the captain also casually shoots Mal in the gut then he can steal Placidity itself. While the captain insouciantly chats with his crew, however, Mal finds a hidden gun and pulls it on the captain, ordering him to leave the catalyzer (every bit originally agreed) and to get off his ship. Equally soon equally his send is secure over again, he collapses onto the cargo bay grate floor, equally shown in the opening scene.

Back in the present time, weakened and injured, Mal manages to drag the new catalyzer out of the engine bowels and install it, starting the engine once again. He slowly makes his style to the span, only collapses once more, short of the recall switch.

Every bit he hears the voices from the various flashbacks, he gradually comes to in the hospital, where the crew is humming virtually. A supine just witting Zoë welcomes him dorsum to awareness, with Launder giving him a blood transfusion. She takes responsibility for ignoring his orders and returning to Tranquillity — fortunately, since he never sent the call back — just she promises not to do it again. Mal drowsily asks if he went someplace, Book replies wryly "Very nearly."

Inara says, with understated relief, "We thought nosotros'd lost you."

Simon who is tending to Mal administering more than pain medication reiterates Zoë'south statements saying that "The conclusion saved your life." Shortly after this exchange Simon firmly tells anybody that Mal needs to rest. The rest of crew starts to exit.

When Mal starts to drift off once again, he asks them, "Y'all gonna exist here when I wake up?" He reaches for Volume's hand, Volume takes it and gently assures him so. Reassured, Mal drifts off to slumber over again.

In an sometime shipyard, the salesman tells Mal "Yes sir, right smart purchase this vessel. Tell yous what. Yous purchase this ship, treat her proper, she'll be with you the rest of your life"... however he is referring to a yellowish, rocket-like ship. However, Mal's attention has drifted elsewhere, equally the salesman notices in the middle of his sales pitch. Mal is looking beyond the one thousand to an old, jerry-built and abandoned Firefly-class ship at the edge of the lot. As the salesman tries to attract his attending, for Mal it's love at start sight...

Allusions to earlier episodes [ ]

• In this episode, the transport is crippled by the failure of the catalyzer on the port compression roll. Kaylee mentioned that this office needed fixing twice earlier: in "Tranquility", when she asked Mal to buy a new compression coil for the engine, and in "The Train Job", when she complained that "somebody won't replace that crappy pinch coil". In the former case, Kaylee warned that it would go out them dead in space if it failed.

Foreshadowing [ ]

• River's power to sense the budgeted fireball before anyone else alludes to her psychic abilities, most notably seen in "Objects in Infinite". As often happens, her utterance has two interpretations; Simon assumes her "fire" is a reminder to blow out his altogether candles.

• At the cease of the episode, Jayne questions the genuineness of the incense in Inara'due south shuttle. In Serenity, Inara tricks The Operative with a Flashbang bearded every bit incense.

Production [ ]

According to the DVD commentary, Alan Tudyk took the big red "recall" button from the Placidity set and presented it to Joss Whedon, telling him that if Whedon managed to get the series renewed, he could printing information technology to telephone call the cast dorsum.

Too according to the commentary, Gina Torres (Zoë) was written out of the bulk of the episode considering the filming took place merely after her matrimony to Laurence Fishburne and they were away on their honeymoon.

Credits [ ]

Behind the scenes [ ]

Quotes [ ]

• Memorable Quotes From the Episode "Out of Gas"

Standard mandarin Translation [ ]

(Special Cheers to BrownCoats.com.)

• "It'southward a piece of feiwu [junk]." " Feiwu? [Junk?]" - Zoë and Mal talk about Serenity. (废物 fèi wù: rubbish)
• " Qu ni de. [Screw you.]" - Wash curses Mal when the helm demands he leave his injured wife to become to work.
• "What the gui [hell, demon] exercise you lot two recall yous're doing, fighting at a time like this? You'll employ upward all the air." - Jayne.
• " Gausaang haitung guzoeng. Gimcaa jeonghei gungjing. [Cantonese: Life back up failure. Cheque oxygen levels at one time.]" - Serenity. Repeated several times.
• "What in the name of suoyou de dou shidang... [all that'southward proper...]" - Mal walks in on Bester and Kaylee in the engine room.
• "Sad, Helm. I'm real sad. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention..." "I cannot be having this from you right now. We got work to do. Dong ma? [Understand?]" - Kaylee, and then Mal.
• "Baton, go this plugged in. Jesse, phone call Stern over here. Yous and him'll pilot this pile of goushi [dog crap] out of here." - The pirate captain instructs his crew on making off with Serenity.

External links [ ]

• "Out of Gas" transcript
• Firefly Talk podcast commodity - "Out of Gas: A Beloved Story"
• "Out Of Gas" shooting script from Firefly Browncoats at Internet Archive

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