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Episode Studies by Clayton Barr enik1138-at-popapostle-dot-com |
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A junkyard heist goes wrong, leaving Kaylee to play the hero to get herself and the injured Wash out alive.
Story Summary
During a heist to steal some ship parts from a floating junkyard in space, Wash and Kaylee are injured, Wash seriously so. Serenity has no choice but escape without the two of them. Hiding inside an old Series One Firefly, Kaylee comes up with an idea to get the old girl's engine running again to make their own escape. She begins scrounging the parts she needs to make the engine work, all while trying to keep Wash from slipping into death's embrace and remaining hidden from the Bad Guys who run the yard.
During their intermittent conversation between his periods of unconsciousness and Kaylee running back-and-forth to get the engine running, Wash remarks that, while he's not heroic, he's a carrier of heroism for others; all the people around him act heroic, having caught the "disease" from him. After he convinces her that the ship is ready to go, that she just needs to trust her work and start 'er up, they make a successful escape and rendezvous with Serenity. Kaylee begins to think Wash is a carrier indeed.
THE END
Notes from the Firefly/Serenity Chronology
I've chosen to place this story after "War Stories" because here Kaylee provokes the injured Wash into remaining conscious by asking him about Zoe's relationship with Mal, which may be an indication that this takes place some time after Wash's irritation about Zoe and Mal's closeness comes to a head for all to see in the aforementioned episode. There is also a mention that the ship's money was tight, which would also be the case after "War Stories" due to the crew having had to pay off Niska for the return of Wash.
Didja Notice?
Page 1 of the story tells us that the injured Kaylee and Wash are aboard an old Series One Firefly inside a floating junkyard. Serenity is a Series 3 Firefly.
Page 3 of the story reveals there are grav dampeners under the floor plating of a ship's deck to provide an effect of gravity (up and down) for the ship.
On page 4 of the story, Kaylee is taking the Honnecourt Capacitors (frequently known as honeys in the 'Verse) from the old ship's grav dampeners. According to an article on the Firefly Ship Works website, the Honnecourt name comes from the 13th Century historical figure Villard de Honnecourt, who left drawings for his proposed perpetual motion machine among other mechanical designs.
On page 6 of the story, Wash and Kaylee both use the Chinese word "gou shi", which means "crap".
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