"Firefly" Trash (2003)

User Rating:

9.0/10   

Director:

Vern Gillum

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"Firefly" (2002)

Original Air Date:

21 July 2003 (Season 1, Episode 13)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

When Mal bumps in to his ex-wife, Saffron, he has to make a difficult decision whether or not to trust...

Plot Keywords:

Antique | Flower | Femme Fatale | Redhead | Nose Bleed

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
Christina Hendricks	...	Saffron
Franc Ross	...	Monty Reynolds
Dwier Brown	...	Durran Haymer
John Eric Bentley	...	Police Sergeant

Runtime:

44 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Company:

Mutant Enemy

Trivia:

The trash bin that Jayne and Kaylee have to reprogram is powered by a Microsoft Operating System. In the scene where they begin to reprogram it, you can clearly see a Microsoft Windows 2000 desktop with multiple windows open.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: As Mal and Saffron leave the house, the security panel on the wall wobbles as Saffron puts the locking device on it.

Quotes:

Monty Reynolds: Mal, I want you to meet my Bridget.
["Bridget" walks out... and she is Saffron. She and Mal instantly pull guns on each other]
Monty Reynolds: So... you guys have met?

Christina is incandescent

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

I saw the Firefly series only after it came out on DVD, thanks to the suicide Friday night time slot in which it was run. My only beef about the show was that Christina/Saffron was only in two of the episodes. If the show had continued for more seasons, I would like to think Whedon and company might have found a way for her and Mal's crew to let bygones be bygones and get her on the ship as a regular. They are all thieves, after all.

I think this episode would have been impossible to shoot without an actress like Ms Hendricks, who can change her face and turn her character on a dime. You can just look at the shots of her in the Bio section on her page, and see that she can look quite different from one shot to the next. Looking at her filmography, I realize that I've seen her many times on TV when she made little impression on me, but her skills are a perfect fit for her character on Firefly.