Serenity's Captain Malcolm Reynolds agrees to transport passengers, including a preacher and a wealthy doctor who carries mysterious cargo. 

The adventures of a small transport spaceship and its crew in the wake of a cosmic civil war. In this episode: Capt. Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) agrees to rob a train of its precious cargo. With Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Sean Maher, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Summer Glau, Ron Glass and. 

When Mal and the others overtake a derelict ship, they fear the crew has been slaughtered by the Reavers, an Alliance cruiser trails Simon and River. 

On the search for a smuggling job, Captain Reynolds is forced to attend a party where he is challenged to a duel. 

When border people kidnap River and Simon, they accuse her of being a witch and exalt him for his medical abilities. 

After a party to celebrate a successful job, Mal wakes up to discover he is now married and that his wife has stowed away on board. 

Serenity arrives on a planet where Jayne's considered to be a Robin Hood-like hero, but there's a price on his head and his former partner in crime is hunting him down for revenge. 

Serenity's engine explodes, draining its oxygen supply and sending Mal into a delirious state of flashbacks about how he came to own the ship and form his crew. 

A Serenity crew member turns traitor to help the government catch fugitive siblings River and Simon, who has hired the crew to break into an Alliance hospital to steal medical supplies and to learn more about experiments done on his sister. 

Zoe and the inexperienced crew scramble to rescue the captain after he is captured by crime lord Niska, who is still angry about a botched heist. 

Saffron convinces the crew to steal a prototype laser gun. 

Old war comrade of Mal's and Zoe's mails his corpse to them and leaves a note asking them to deliver him to his family. 

Serenity's crew strives to protect an outer-planet bordello from an unscrupulous landowner. 

A bounty hunter (guest star Richard Brooks) sneaks aboard the ship to capture River and collect the Alliance reward money.