"Firefly" The Train Job (2002)

User Rating:

8.6/10   

Director:

Joss Whedon

Writers:

Joss Whedon (creator)
Joss Whedon (written by) ...

TV Series:

"Firefly" (2002)

Original Air Date:

20 September 2002 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Mal and his crew pull a train robbery.

Plot Keywords:

Robbery | Train | Medicine | Heist | Henchman

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
Tom Towles	...	Lund
Andrew Bryniarski	...	Crow
Michael Fairman	...	Adelai Niska
Gregg Henry	...	Sheriff Bourne
Valerie Red-Horse	...	Deputy
Kevin Will	...	Officer

Runtime:

42 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Company:

Mutant Enemy

Trivia:

In the episode "The Train Job", the armor worn by the Alliance troops is from the movie Starship Troopers (1997).

Goofs:

Continuity: Jayne's goatee is notably less thick compared to the other episodes.

Quotes:

Mal: Well, what about you, Shepherd? How come you're flying about with us brigands? I mean, shouldn't you be off bringing religiosity to the fuzzy-wuzzies or some such?
Book: Oh, I got heathens aplenty right here.
Mal: If I'm your mission, Shepherd, best give it up. You're welcome on my boat. God ain't.

Action Railway Style

OK, this show Firefly was a great show that got screwed over by fox. Premiting show times, moving show times, and most important not showing the pilot first. Train job was the first aired. This is out of sequence. Serenity pilot should have been the first aired. So fox who didn't like the pilot wanted a more A team approach so this was written in literally in a weekend. Its still a quality job done by the firefly boys. A western railroad train heist in the spirit of Ole Jesse James Gang except ya have a space ship coming down on a hyper train riding on air in arid type planet of the future. The crew of Serenity on the wrong side of the law perform a heist on a train in military fashion. With a sheriff who is fair and extremely upset that what is stolen is medicine for his small mining town. The crew of the firefly transport working for a gangster are remorseful and give it back. But now the motley crew has to deal with the gangster's hench men.