Gregg Henry as "Bourne"
Tom Towles as "Lund"
Andrew Bryniarski as "Crow"
Michael Fairman as "Niska"
Jeff Ricketts as "Man"
Mark Sheppard as "Badger"

Summary: The crew of Serenity accepts a job, because hey, we all have to eat. And what's so bad about a little snitching from the Alliance coffers? Only when Mal and Zoe board the train to do the job, the simple operation ain't so simple. They got the Law on one side and bloodthirsty criminals wanting their merchandise on the other. Rock? Meet hard place.

Doug Savant as "Commander Harken"
Brandon Morgan as "Survivor"
Jared Poe as "Ensign"
Lancer Dean Shull as "Radio Operator"

Summary: Dead guy on the windshield interrupts a little game of calvinball. Crew boards the derelict ship from whence the dead guy came, looking for salvage first, and survivors second. And just when they think a ship full of crazed cannibals intent on chewing their innards is the worst thing that could happen, up pulls a ship full of stuffy purple bellies hell-bent on giving 'em a parking ticket.

There's just that small matter of a coupla fugitives on-board, not to mention the five-finger-discount cargo...

Christina Hendricks as "Saffron"
Bob Fimiani as "Elder Gamman"
Alex Stenkovsky as "Bandit #1"
Erik Passoja as "Bree"
Benito Martinez as "Boss"

Summary: Mal, Jayne and Zoe smack around some local thugs for some nice settlement people, and everyone hangs around afterward to drink wine and dance. Only, the captain imbibes a little more than he should, and they end up with an extra passenger on Serenity when they take off: the new Mrs. Reynolds.

Oh, the captain's going to a special hell...

Gregory Itzin as "Magistrate Higgins"
Daniel Bess as "Mudder Man"
Kevin Gage as "Stitch Hessian"
Zachary Kranzler as "Fess Higgins"
Jordan Lund as "Foreman"
Bob McCracken as "Well-Dressed Man"
Ronald Craig Williams as "Busker"
John Jabaley as "Bartender"
Laura Niemi as "Woman"
Simon Brooke as "Prod"
Clement E. Blake as "Mudder Elder"

Summary: Captain lands Serenity on Canton, a moon settlement dedicated to making mud. Crew's bound to pick up some merchandise for a buyer, but the local magistrate and his prods are suspicious types who are more than likely to cut off your hands and feet than let strangers walk about, unless you're looking to do legitimate business. And Jayne's a mite twitchy, 'cause the last time he was here, he wasn't exactly doing legitimate business. In fact, the magistrate is out for his thieving blood.

So Simon takes point, being the fancy-man on the ship who looks like he's got money to burn, and they all head into town. Only when they get there, the crew discovers the local Mudders have turned Jayne into a bit of a folk hero. One with his own theme song.

Now they've got to retrieve the merchandise, keep their hands and arms attached to their bodies at all times, and figure out how to work Jayne's newfound fame to their advantage. That is, until Jayne's old business partner Stitch shows up with a chip on his shoulder the size of Mt. Rushmore.

Steven Flynn as "Captain"
Ilia Volok as "Marco"
Lyle Kanouse as "Salesman"
Dax Griffin as "Bester"
Roderick L. McCarthy as "Lackey #1"

Summary: A non-linear storyline with events unfolding in three separate points in time. Little birthday celebration for Simon is interrupted by an explosion that injures Zoe and cripples the ship. The crew works furiously to save Zoe's life and repair the damage to the engine. But the catalyzer's broken, and the engine ain't running. Which means no life support. Which means they're literally running out of gas -- oxygen.

Mark A. Sheppard as "Badger"
Edward Atterton as "Atherton Wing"
Larry Drake as "Sir Warrick Harrow"
Carl Bresk as "Wright"
Larry Pennell as "Murphy"
Michael McMillian as "Younger Hopeful"
Joshua Grenrock as "Porter"
Kim Onasch as "Banning"
Janora McDuffie as "Cabott"
Casey Piotrowski as "Older Farmer"
Hunter Cochran as "Younger Farmer
Roy Werner as "Gentleman"

Summary: Crew lands on Persephone. Wash, Kaylee and Zoe do a little shopping. Inara goes off to do some Companioning in high style with a chap named Atherton. And Mal and Jayne get nabbed by Badger to have a little chat about a smuggling job. Turns out Mal has to meet the client at a hoity-toity shindig that Inara is attending with Atherton. So Mal buys li'l Kaylee a frou-frou dress and they crash the ball, while the rest of the crew spends some downtime in Serenity. Atherton gets a little tetchy when he discovers Inara's captain is young and kinda hot.

That's where the dueling with swords part comes in, and hey, look! Wash'n'Zoe sex!

Isabella Hofmann as "Regan Tam"
William Converse-Roberts as "Gabriel Tam"
John Thaddeus as "Stark"
Gary Werntz as "Patron"
Andrew A. Rolfes as "Older Grange"
Matthew C. Ferreira as "Younger Grange"
Joel Steingold as "Head Cop"
Erica N. Tazel as "Doralee"
Ron Ostrow as "Commander"
Morina Pierce as "Ruby"
Skylar Roberge as "Young River"
Zac Efron as "Young Simon"

Summary: Cattle delivery! Only, the Grange brothers Mal's selling to are a mite twitchy, with good reason. Cops come to arrest 'em, and in the ensuing firefight, Book gets shot pretty damn badly. While this is going on, River and Simon are in town on Mal's orders. They get grabbed by the hillfolk looking to land themselves a doctor.

Mal orders Wash to take off without River and Simon, and they rush Book to the only medical facility available: the Alliance.

Blake Robbins as "Agent McGinnis"
Jeff Ricketts as "Blue Glove #1"
Dennis Cockrum as "Blue Glove #2"
Tom Virtue as "Pompous Doctor"
Roma Chugani as "Receiving Doctor"
Ira Steck as "Young Intern"
Michael Nagy as "Particularly Dressed Man"
Alex Connie as "Patient"
Cate Cohen as "Crash Team Nurse"

Summary: The crew travels to the central planet Ariel -- it's all shiny and clean, and very high tech. Inara sets off to do her yearly physical, and Simon hires the crew to pull a heist. We'd best start calling him a criminal mastermind, 'cause his plan? It's actually good.

They're to break into the hospital and steal some pricey drugs while Simon puts River under a 3-D imager to see what the Alliance did her her gray matter. Problem one: Simon and River need to be kind of dead to get into the hospital without the security system throwing up a flag. Problem two: leaving Jayne in charge of anything pretty much guarantees that somethin's gonna go south.

As usual, things get complicated.

Michael Fairman as "Niska"
Katherine Kendall as "Councilor"
Rolando Molina as "Bolles"
John Dunn as "Torturer"
Michael A. Bentt as "Viktor"
Adam Pilver as "Vanilla Husband"
Johnny Shakespeare as "Torture Victim"
Jason Van as "Man"

Summary: Wash and Zoe are having a bit of a tiff about Zoe's relationship with Mal, so instead of Zoe going down planet-side for a drug drop-off, Wash goes with Mal instead. But when they try to sell their stolen Alliance medical supplies, Mal and Wash are ambushed and kidnapped. Turns out their captor is Niska, the crime lord Mal pissed off something fierce back in "The Train Job". There's torture. Lots of it. And it's pretty gross.

Zoe goes in to make a ransom deal. She's only got enough for one of her guys, and she immediately chooses Wash. Wash and Zoe head back to Serenity and arm themselves to the teeth, preparing to go back in with guns blazing to rescue Mal. The rest of the crew surprises her by volunteering to go along.

Richard Brooks as "Jubal Early"

Summary: Deep space. No one else about but Serenity. In the midst of crew indecision over whether River should remain on the ship after of her latest flirtation with violence, bounty hunter Jubel Early secretly boards the ship. He locks the crew in their quarters and stalks River throughout Serenity's nooks and crannies, with Simon his hostage.

Objects in space. Incorporeal beings. Existentialism with bullets.

Carlos Jacott as "Lawrence Dobson"
Mark A. Sheppard as "Badger"
Andy Umberger as "Captain (Dortmunder)"
Philip Sternberg as "?"
Eddie Adams as "?"
Colin Patrick Lynch as "Radio Operator"
Bonnie Bartlett as "Patience"
Domingo Vara as "Ensign"
Stephen O'Mahoney as "Man (Dortmunder)"
Jamie McShane as "Man"
John F. Kearney as "Old Man"
Gabrielle Wagner as "Slave #1"

Summary: