Firefly Logo 'Bushwhacked'

by Tim Minear
Firefly Cast

When the Serenity crew find a cargo hauler adrift in space, they decide to search it for salvage. Having docked with the vessel, Mal and his associates explore the ship; they find it to be apparently empty, its lifeboat launched a week earlier. When they then find a crewman terrified out of his mind, they initially believe he killed his crewmates – until they realise with horror that the ship was in fact attacked by Reavers, brutal, cannibalistic space scavengers. Mal immediately gives the order to leave, but as Serenity prepares to pull away Kaylee finds a Reaver booby-trap – if they try to detach from the hauler, both vessels will be blown up. Things get worse when another ship is detected on an intercept approach – but instead of Reavers, the vessel is an Alliance cruiser searching for Simon and his sister, River…

Nathan Fillion (Captain Malcolm ‘Mal’ Reynolds), Gina Torres (Zoe Washburne), Alan Tudyk (Hoban ‘Wash’ Washburne), Morena Baccarin (Inara Serra), Adam Baldwin (Jayne Cobb), Jewel Staite (Kaywinnit Lee 'Kaylee' Frye), Sean Maher (Doctor Simon Tam), Summer Glau (River Tam), Ron Glass (Shepherd Derrial Book), Branden Morgan (The Survivor), Doug Savant (Alliance Captain Harken), Lancer Dean Shull (Radio Operator), Doug Wax (Escobar), Jared Poe (Ensign)

Directed by Tim Minear
Produced by Ben Edlund and Gareth Davies
Executive Producers Joss Whedon and Tim Minear


TX (US): 27th September 2002

Notes:
*Featuring Captain Malcolm ‘Mal’ Reynolds, Zoe Washburne, Hoban ‘Wash’ Washburne, Inara Serra, Jayne Cobb, Kaywinnit Lee 'Kaylee' Frye, Doctor Simon Tam, River Tam and Shepherd Derrial Book