As of the end of the original Firefly series,[4] most of what is known about Companions is derived from Inara herself and incidental discussions with and about other Companions and Companion-trained individuals. She has suggested that she "wanted to see the universe", although it is strongly hinted that she had other reasons. In "The Message" he is noticeably upset while seeing a family receive their dead son and in "Jaynestown" when a young man saves his life by jumping in front of a shotgun blast meant for him. Haarsma to found the charity Kids Need to Read, which provides books to underfunded schools and libraries. And if the cooperation in the early 80s was limited to the release of arcades and video games based on popular movies (such as Tron by Walt Disney or Steven Spielberg's Alien), then later actors began to appear in specially filmed FMV-videos (say, in Command & Conquer or Wing Commander) and voice characters. While in the hands of the Alliance doctors and scientists, River was secretly and extensively experimented on, including surgery that removed most of her amygdala, preventing River from being able to control her emotions. Castle and Beckett save him from himself after he coerces a false murder confession out of an innocent kid. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Book's past appears to involve the Alliance in some way; he possesses an Alliance identity card that gives Book priority status for medical treatment on an Alliance ship, and in "The Message", he demonstrates knowledge of Alliance military procedures. In "Out of Gas" Jayne is seen on-screen curiously poking at Simon's birthday cake. EXTRA! According to Nandi, Burgess was the richest man on the planet, and kept everyone else poor so he could play at being "a cowboy in his own gorram theme park". And she channeled some similar energy when she guest-starred on "Castle.". Less than a year before the events of the pilot episode, Inara leased one of Serenity's shuttles for transportation, living space, and work space, providing her with some mobility. Higgins is a man who looks out only for himself. Nathan's appearance is mainly known for three television series, 2002's Firefly, 2009's Castle, and 2018's The Rookie. [13], Though generally acting brutish and simple, occasionally he hints at a more complex and sensitive character. This process is also underlined by a change in his costume: After the events in "Ariel" he dresses more casually, wearing pullovers instead of shirts and waistcoats. Fanty and Mingo are twin brothers who appear in the Serenity comic as well as the film. Impressed with her mechanical ability, Mal immediately offered her Bester's job. Shepherd Book dies in the movie Serenity when Haven, the planet where he had been living, is attacked by Alliance forces on orders of the Operative. Having a high intellect and a ready grasp of complex subjects, she was sent to a government learning facility known only as The Academy at the age of fourteen. Christina Hendricks made her first appearance in the "Firefly" episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds" as the seemingly simple and naive Saffron, who Mal unwittingly marries during a drunken visit to her planet. show on map site. Instead of a trial and formal dismissal, he and the Alliance's devastating defeat were swept under the rug, and he was left to die on a random planet with no supplies. This might explain why, in one of the deleted scenes from the Firefly pilot, Mal is described as having commanded at least 2000 men. Similar to a black ops agent, the Operative does work that is not specifically acknowledged by the government. In the documentary Re-Lighting the Firefly, her name is given as Zo Warren, apparently a version of her name which was considered at one time, but changed by the time the film Serenity was released. Mr. Universe is a reclusive techno-geek in the movie Serenity portrayed by David Krumholtz. Eric Lange (born February 19, 1973) is an American actor. He is known for playing Dagonet in the film King Arthur (2004) and Titus Pullo in the BBC/HBO television series Rome (2005-2007). When he reiterated this during the Firefly 10th anniversary reunion at the 2012 San Diego Comic Con International, Tudyk was apparently ecstatic. [40] In the comics, Dobson is still alive, his right eye (destroyed by Mal's bullet) replaced by a prosthesis. Mal was also involved in the ground campaign during the Battle of Sturges (as seen in the comic book Serenity: Those Left Behind), which according to Badger was the "bloodiest and shortest battle in all the war", although Mal considers it a distant second. The time Castle dressed as a "space cowboy": (For those who don't speak Mandarin, that translates to:). These are actors, episodes or elements with clear links to Joss Whedon's short-lived 2002 "space cowboy" series " Firefly ". When asked why he named his ship after a lost battle, Zoe comments "Once you're in Serenity, you never leave. Stana Katic's announcement that she would be leaving Castle after eight seasons on the ABC series only comes as a mild surprise, since ABC has previously commented that the series would go on without one or more of its stars, but that doesn't make the news any less disheartening for Castle fans or for the remaining Castle stars. He is portrayed by Kevin Gage. He often comes across as stuffy or pretentious and is far more formal than the majority of the crew. She is also known to seduceand frequently marryher marks. Castle, which ran for eight seasons on ABC, and The Rookie, which . Badger reappears in the episode "Shindig", and hires the crew again to collect some cargo (in truth a herd of cattle) from a "fancy reception" where he is unwelcome. Monty is a long-time colleague of Mal Reynolds who also fought on the side of the Independents in the Unification War. The true story is that Jayne double-crossed his partner Stitch Hessian and was forced to jettison the money in order to escape. In the DVD commentary for the episode "The Train Job", Joss Whedon refers to them as "the men with blue hands" and "the blue-hands men". On-screen information from the film Serenity suggests that Mal was given a brevet promotion to Captain during the Battle of Serenity Valley to take command of the ever-increasing number of Independent troops who were losing their officers at the hands of the Alliance. Jewel Staite is the latest Firefly alum to touch down on ABC's Castle. Seamus Dever played Det. The Real Housewives franchise gets a Castle spin in this episode featuring Gina Torres, the second Firefly regular to drop by. After River attacks him with a knife during one of her psychotic outbursts, Jayne attempts to turn them in and collect the reward, although the plan backfires when he is double crossed by his Alliance contact. An extremely large (Zoe refers to him as a "sasquatch") and mostly genial man, he is known among his friends for wearing a thick beard and mustache. Glau co-starred in the 2013 comedy-horror film "Knights of Badassdom" and joined her "Firefly" brother Sean Maher with a stint as Ravager on the CW's "Arrow. ", Glau and husband Val Morrison welcomed their first child in 2015 and a second in 2017. [37] When the Alliance learns of River's rescue, they promptly freeze all of Simon's monetary accounts, leaving him with nothing but his medkit, and put out a warrant for the arrest of both Simon and River, labeling them as fugitives. After being rescued by her brother Simon, River takes refuge among the Serenity crew, her near-supernatural abilities becoming a focus of the show and the follow-up film "Serenity. When the conversation turned to the show "Castle," co-stars Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), and Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito) made an appearance. Some of his backstory is given in the Serenity novelization. Castle is at Supernova Con signing copies of his. Meanwhile, we'll see another Whedon alumni appear in Castle's May 7 season finaleDollhouse's Tahmoh Penikett, in a possible recurring role. In "Safe", Gabriel Tam is played by William Converse-Roberts and Regan Tam is played by Isabella Hofmann. He has a great affinity for data and is capable of intercepting nearly any transmission or signal in the system. She seems innocent at first, but once the truth comes out that the murder victim stole an Oscar-worthy directing job right out from under her she tells the detectives that she snapped. Doctor Simon Tam, played by Sean Maher (and in a flashback by Zac Efron), appears in all episodes of Firefly, the feature film Serenity, and the Serenity comics. Actors Richard Burgi, Fredric Lehne, and Gregg Henry each had one-episode guest appearances on both "Firefly" and "Castle." Malcolm Reynolds, returning from his mission, sizes up the situation and without hesitation shoots Dobson in the head. After he refuses to deal with Badger, Badger sends Malcolm Reynolds to talk to him. She looks really guilty at first, especially since the murder victim was having an affair with her husband, and she has a broken nail which matches the victim's defensive wounds. Arguably, one of the most successful post-"Firefly" career moves happened for Nathan Fillion (who plays Captain Malcolm Reynolds on "Firefly") when the space cowboy hung up his space pistols and traded them in for a writer's pen on ABC's campy crime drama "Castle." @media all and (max-width:720px){body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .tocright{display:none}.mw-parser-output .tocright{width:100%!important}}@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tocright{float:right;clear:right;width:auto;margin:0 0 0.5em 1em}.mw-parser-output .tocright-clear-left{clear:left}.mw-parser-output .tocright-clear-both{clear:both}.mw-parser-output .tocright-clear-none{clear:none}}. Monty apparently has a formidable reputation as a brawler; when Kaylee asks if Mal got into a fight with him (due to wounds from his scuffle with Saffron/Bridget), Zoe notes that if he had, the crew would be down in the dirt picking up Mal's teeth. Former dancer Summer Glau landed her first screen acting role in 2002, playing a ballerina on an episode of "Angel" a few months before Joss Whedon cast her on "Firefly" in the role of River Tam, a troubled child prodigy who had fallen into the hands of evil Alliance experimenters. Tudyk also jokes that Wash's ship was shot down after a single flight and he was put in a POW camp, where he spent the remainder of the war entertaining the other prisoners with shadow puppets. Shifting between the 1970s and the 2000s, Netflix's new dramedy, Firefly Lane, features two versions of best friends Tully Hart and Kate Mularkey.Actresses Roan Curtis and Ali Skovbye play the pals during their bellbottom-filled teen years, while Grey's Anatomy's Katherine Heiglwho is as hopeful for a second season as we areand Scrubs' Sarah Chalke portray them as adults. Baldwin is active in the video game world, providing his voice to many titles, including "Halo 3" and "Mass Effect 2." However, she is seen wearing the necklace in the flashback sequences of "Out of Gas", well before she has married Wash. Here's what the crew of the Serenity has been up to since the mid-2000s, and what they look like today. In 2015, according to Reason, Baldwin reportedly coined the hashtag #GamerGate, which would come to be associated with a harassment campaign against several female figures in the gaming world. . The Alliance then passes the assignment to retrieve the Tams to the Operative. He is only ever referred to as "Wash", the first syllable of his surname. She loves all of those people. He also threatened to rape Kaylee if she did not do as he told her, and used the same threat of raping Kaylee when he dealt with Simon. His mother was using the money to care for a sick child named Mattie. He is very proud of his achievements and the importance it brought to him. Jim Carrey is the exception: the rubber-faced Canadian comedian put on the very tight green onesie of evil in 1995's Batman Forever early in his career. [citation needed] River refers to the pair with the litany "two by two, hands of blue". She is portrayed by Bonnie Bartlett. In "Firefly," Gina Torres plays Corporal Zo Alleyne/First Mate Zo Washburne, a war buddy of Reynolds who eventually falls for their new pilot, Hoban "Wash" Washburne (Tudyk). Later in the same episode Simon is apparently arrested for his actions involving trying to gain access to River. Kristin Hannah definitely has enough source material in her bestselling novel of the same name and its sequel to fill out more than two seasons, but Netflix will likely only use part of it. Whedon served as an executive producer, along with Tim Minear. Most notably, he's landed leading roles on two other primetime TV shows - Castle, which ran for eight seasons on ABC, and The Rookie, which currently airs on ABC. Star Trek is everywhere in this Castle episode. While everyone else is floored by Castle's roguish charm, the. His "Firefly" cast members Alan Tudyk (who played Wash) and Gina Torres (who played Zoe) also appeared. The fighting style used by River in Serenity was a kung fu/kickboxing hybrid, modified to be more "balletic".[39]. Simon decoded the message and sets out to rescue his sister, despite his parents' insistence that he was simply being paranoid. [33] After an incident in "Safe" involving the absence of River, Simon is clearly more a part of the crew. From 2015 to 2019, Baccarin recurred as Leslie Thompkins on the Batman-based "Gotham," a show which also stars her husband, Ben McKenzie. Nathan Fillion# Long before Nathan Fillion became a household name, he was cast in Joss Whedon's canceled-way-too-soon sci-fi Western, Firefly. He quickly settles into the rhythm of daily life aboard Serenity, becoming an integral part of the crew, but viewers learn that Book had a far darker past from which he was actively running away. She was considered a prodigy from a very young age, intelligent beyond her years and athletically gifted. Companions do not view themselves as prostitutes and are insulted by the suggestion. In Atherton's social circle (and unbeknownst to Mal), such an attack is regarded as an invitation to a duel, which he accepts. Alan Wray Tudyk ( TYOO-dik; born March 16, 1971) is an American actor and voice actor known for his roles as Hoban "Wash" Washburne in the space western series Firefly and the film Serenity and .more Christina Hendricks Firefly, Mad Men, Kevin Hill Christina Rene Hendricks (born May 3, 1975) is an American actress and former model. Fess Higgins is portrayed by Zachary Kranzler. He is locked up for a while, and when interrogated by Jayne, he attempts to bribe Jayne for his freedom. [6] Joss Whedon explained in the DVD audio commentary for the pilot episode that the syringe Inara takes out during the Reaver encounter is not for suicide. "[23] Staite told Interview magazine, "She's kind of a floozy who wears her heart on her sleeve. Jayne." . Kaylee has exceptional mechanical aptitude, despite her lack of formal training, and serves as ship's mechanic on Serenity. Her most high-profile role to date has been that of Vanessa Carlysle in the mega-blockbusters "Deadpool" and "Deadpool 2." Badger, an "honest businessman" refuses to pay for cargo that he has commissioned the crew to retrieve after finding out it had the stamp of the Alliance forces. And his love of the sci-fi hit was still as fresh in his heart as it was for the fans. Mal fought in many more battles, but the turning point for him and the Independents came with their physical and emotional defeat at the Battle of Serenity Valley on the planet Hera. As he dies, she is used to record a warning message for Mal. "Saffron" is one of several known aliases of a character played by Christina Hendricks. The streamer announced today that season 2 would the show's last. Magistrate Higgins is the final word of law on Higgins' Moon, a small moon that has a primary export of mud used to make ceramics. Jayne has demonstrated fear of dying in what he considers an unmanly fashion, notably being "spaced". [24] The romantic attraction to Simon Tam remains unconsummated during the run of the series, even though it is clear that Simon bears strong feelings for her as well. Actor Nathan Fillion has made a career for himself, starring in long-running hit series Castle, as well as his current ABC cop drama The Rookie, but many of us remember back when he got his start on the Fox sci-fi adventure show, Firefly. As revealed in the comic Serenity: Float Out, Zo was pregnant with Wash's daughter. She trusts Mal unconditionally, but has been known to disobey orders in serious situations when she disagrees with him. He then confronts and tries to kill Jayne in revenge, revealing the truth about the heist to the people of Higgins' Moon, who believe Jayne had dropped the money out of benevolent rather than selfish motives. Studios Announces First-Ever Firefly Event, Blue Sun Rising Other actors to appear include Molly Quinn, Seamus Dever and Jon Huertas -- who starred alongside Fillion on ABC's Castle from 2009 to 2016 -- as well as Mekia Cox, who currently stars alongside Fillion on ABC's The Rookie. The Firefly alum made his producer debut on Castle in 2015 and has since worked behind the camera on Con Man, The Rookie and The Rookie: Feds. Wash usually served as a voice of reason and logic during arguments on board, and there's no doubting both his loyalty to his shipmates and his willingness to put his life on the line. Adam Baldwin auctioned the original hat from the show for the charity Marine CorpsLaw Enforcement Foundation for US$4,707.57[14] and Fox asserts intellectual property rights in the burgeoning replica market.[15]. But there were some even bigger "Firefly" stars that paid Fillion a visit on his new show, to the delight of fans. His actions sometimes appear cowardly, but Wash has proven his resolve and willingness to put himself in harm's way and do violence on behalf of his friends on many occasions. Kaylee happily accepted, and left her family (and Bester) behind to join the crew. He treats his workers, known as mudders, harshly, almost as slaves, and metes out strict punishment to any who cross him, as evidenced by the confinement cage in which he imprisons Stitch Hessian after he and Jayne Cobb robbed him. Jayne has shown a fear of anything to do with Reavers, a subpopulation of feral, cannibalistic humans. . Originally a member of a gang that ambushes Malcolm and Zoe, Jayne switches allegiances and joins them after Mal offers him a larger share of the take from heists and his own cabin. After discovering that she's immune to the Cordyceps infection that has claimed so many. After the brief run of the series, Staite reprised her role in "Serenity" and took on a recurring role in "Wonderfalls," another short-lived, much-loved mid-2000s Fox series. In Season 8, Episode 14 of "Castle," known as "The G.D.S.," Castle is in a rush to solve a murder before his competition so that he can earn a spot on the secret and distinguished Greatest Detectives Society. The prop used as her weapon of choice, a Mare's Leg lever action pistol, was originally used in the series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.[2]. Recently, Alan Tudyk (who played Torres' on-screen husband Wash in "Firefly") confirmed that the entire cast would be on board for an "Arrested Development" style revival, while Joss Whedon admitted that he'll "never really accept" the abrupt ending of the cult sci-fi series. We watched Det. Born February 15, 2484, "Vesselside" (given her statements to Wash during an argument in the episode "Heart of Gold", this is clearly an expression meaning "aboard a spaceship"), Zo served in the Unification War under Sergeant Malcolm Reynolds and continues under his command on his spaceship, Serenity. Disturbed by this, Inara broke the Companion Guild's strict confidentiality rules and reported what she had heard including the location of Fiddlers Green, a secret Independent military base. Malcolm Reynolds and the crew of Serenity have encountered her twice as of the close of the original Firefly series. The ship's mechanic, Kaylee Frye, is immediately infatuated with Simon. There are Chinese characters tattooed along the right side of his face, and his personality is depicted as very greedy (he even tries to take Mal's gun from the war). He often tries to paralyze his targets by taking out a nerve cluster near the waist, and then stabs them; on some occasions, he has his enemies fall forward onto his sword, much like disgraced Roman generals used to do. Early's fate is unknown, but, when questioned by Inara, Mal stated that his chances for survival were "One in a very large number" with the oxygen he had remaining. Bester was Serenity's original engine mechanic, portrayed by Dax Griffin. When Mal broadcasts this secret to the universe, the Operative admits defeat and decides to leave the Alliance, calling off the search for River and helping the crew piece Serenity back together after the damage sustained in the crash. There was the time Castle didn't get the appeal of an old sci-fi show: Especially after this very conspicuous scene involving a brown coat: And finally, there were these blue-handed signals from Castle. Adelei Niska is a major crime lord of the Firefly universe, played by Michael Fairman and first seen in "The Train Job". In "Ariel", he shows shame for having sold out Simon and River and is noticeably disgusted upon hearing what the Alliance has done to River. Adam Baldwin, when asked to describe the character, said "Sex. They will not hesitate to kill anyone who has had contact with River, even Alliance personnel, using a handheld device that induces fatal hemorrhaging to anyone near it (except themselves). In the pilot Firefly episode called "Serenity", Lawrence Dobson's initial clumsiness and common appearance contrasts him to the viewer (and the other characters) with the more suspicious-looking Simon Tam, to conceal Dobson's role as villain on the ship. 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