"The Message" is the twelfth episode of science-fiction television series Firefly created by Joss Whedon. It is the second of three episodes that were not broadcast in the original 2002 Fox run.
A former Independence soldier who had served with Mal and Zoe returns in a dramatic manner, with a vicious Alliance officer chasing after him for some unusual smuggled goods.
The show opens on a space station, inside of which there are people wandering ab...
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"The Message" is the twelfth episode of science-fiction television series Firefly created by Joss Whedon. It is the second of three episodes that were not broadcast in the original 2002 Fox run.
A former Independence soldier who had served with Mal and Zoe returns in a dramatic manner, with a vicious Alliance officer chasing after him for some unusual smuggled goods.
The show opens on a space station, inside of which there are people wandering about in a kind of carnival. A barker extols an exhibit featuring "proof of alien life". Inside the exhibit, Simon and Kaylee stare at a tall, illuminated cylinder that holds a strange and apparently dead creature. The doctor declares that it is a mutated cow fetus, not an alien. Simon uses this moment alone with the engineer to attempt to get closer to her, but once again puts his foot in his mouth when he mentions that the other women he knows are either married (Zoe), professional (Inara), or related to him (River), and Kaylee leaves in a...
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