Firefly

After taking aboard a group of passengers bound for another planet, the crew of the spaceship Serenity encounters lawmen, double-dealers and savages as they attempt to rid themselves of precious—but easily traceable—cargo salvaged from a wrecked vessel adrift in space.

Captain Mal and his crew are hired to hijack a train, but the situation gets even more complicated when a medicine theft operation aimed at helping a population stricken with a fatal disease is uncovered.

The crew stumbles upon an abandoned spacecraft and decides to board it to seize its contents. They find one survivor who confirms Captain Mal's suspicions that this is the result of a Reaver attack. Things complicate as the Alliance arrives.

Hoping to initiate a smuggling transaction, Mal attends an elegant social event with Kaylee. But when Mal upsets a wealthy man who hired Inara as his companion, he is challenged to a sword fight.

Book is critically injured when the crew of the Serenity is caught in the crossfire between policemen and outlaws; a backward people in need of a doctor kidnap Simon…and mistake River for a witch.

After ridding a peaceful planet of a group of bandits, Mal and his crew are honored for their heroism. But when he returns to the Serenity, a horrified Mal is told he inadvertently married one of the local women during the celebration.