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Sep 20, 2002 · The Train Job: Directed by Joss Whedon. With Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin. Mal has second thoughts after discovering that two boxes of Alliance goods his crew has been hired to steal are full of badly needed medical supplies headed for the mining town of Paradiso.
" The Train Job " is the original series premiere and second episode of the American science-fiction western television series Firefly created by Joss Whedon. It was the second episode produced and aired on Friday, September 20, 2002, on Fox.
River has a horrifying nightmare about her time in the Academy. Serenity takes off and heads for a skyplex on a tip received at the bar. The skyplex is run by a man named Adelai Niska, a crime boss notorious for his cruelty. The crew needs work though, and so they risk taking on a job from him.
The Serenity crew is coerced into pulling a train robbery, but the cargo is not what they expect. Sci-fi western set 500 years in the future, in the aftermath of a universal civil war, that centers on the renegade crew of a small transport spaceship.
"Firefly" The Train Job (TV Episode 2002) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Synopsis. Inside a bar, Mal, Jayne, and Zoe are playing Chinese checkers when a man stands up and proposes a toast to Unification Day, the day the Alliance (the government) won out over the Independents (otherwise known as Browncoats) and united all the planets under their rule.
The Train Job. A battle for control of the craft threatens to erupt after Mal and Zoe become entangled in a botched mission to steal medicine from a moving train. The episode opens in a dark, musky bar on Unification Day - the day celebrating the final victory of the Alliance, giving them control of all the settled worlds.
