"Ariel" is the ninth episode of science-fiction television series Firefly created by Joss Whedon.
Hard up for cash, Serenity takes on a job from Simon: break into an Alliance hospital on central world Ariel so that he can get a thorough diagnostic of River and the crew can loot the valuable stores of medicine. But River's pursuers are hot on their trail, and they receive some unexpected inside help.
The episode opens as Serenity heads to Ariel, a...
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"Ariel" is the ninth episode of science-fiction television series Firefly created by Joss Whedon.
Hard up for cash, Serenity takes on a job from Simon: break into an Alliance hospital on central world Ariel so that he can get a thorough diagnostic of River and the crew can loot the valuable stores of medicine. But River's pursuers are hot on their trail, and they receive some unexpected inside help.
The episode opens as Serenity heads to Ariel, a central world of the Union of Allied Planets. Inara is due for her annual Companion physical exam and license renewal. The crew chats in the common room about what they might do while there, but Mal enters to announce that no one is leaving the ship, in order to minimize their visibility in this highly monitored bastion of the Alliance. Apparently unprovoked, River slashes Jayne in the chest with a kitchen carving knife, and Jayne responds by backhanding her.
As Simon stitches Jayne in the infirmary, the mercenary demands that she and the...
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