"Firefly" The Train Job (2002)

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:

The two-hour episode "Serenity" was originally intended as the pilot for the show. The network (FOX) however, decided not to air it, citing that they wanted an episode with a more action-packed feel to it. With exactly one weekend to write a new pilot, executive producers Joss Whedon and Tim Minear wrote "The Train Job", which did appear as the first episode of the show. A slightly retooled version of "Serenity" was later showed as an 'origins' episode after _"Firefly" (2002/I)_ had been canceled.

Goofs:

Continuity: The "Bar" hologram that Mal passes through during the bar fight is missing for the rest of the scene.

Quotes:

Mal: Ladies and menfolk,
[holds out a slip of paper]
Mal: we have ourselves a job.
[Zoe grabs the slip with a smile]
Mal: Take us out of the world, Wash. Got us some crime to be done.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Slither (2006)

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.