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"Inara passionately reunites with an old lover while Simon and Jayne work together in a race against time to prevent tragedy in Jayne's hometown."

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Season 4: Episode 23 of 24 Title : ADRIFT

With Zoe expecting the birth of her first child - she, Wash, Inara and Kaylee make the difficult decision to remain on Persephone. Simon and River, in the meantime, take a freighter ship bound to the outer rim to further evade the far reaching grip of high-priced bounty hunters; and Book, Jayne, Saphron and Mal still remain missing after their initial search for SERENITY -which had been impounded by the Alliance - was rumoured to have ended in failure amid a reaver attack off the rings of Boreus.

Nice topic Schism

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Originally posted by AgentRouka:

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"Inara passionately reunites with an old lover while Simon and Jayne work together in a race against time to prevent tragedy in Jayne's hometown."

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Ok I'm intrigued!!!!

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I love Jayne and Simon bonding, mastermind Simon and family!Jayne... It'd be something medical, I'm sure. Something road movie-ish where their ground transport breaks down and they hitch-hike and walk through terraformed, young woods and by ugly factories and farms and meet lots of people and are in danger all the time. Like "O Brother Where Art Thou" in Firefly-esque - to bring a certain kind of medication to the village. Medication they stole. And Simon has to communicate with the village medics via comm links and coordinate care efforts while the situation becomes more and more desperate. Or something!

As for Inara... I figure a mutual "one who got away" type relationship that abruptly ended when she chose to leave the Core. They meet again in a vague connection to one of Mal's jobs, dance around one another, pretending they're not, very profundly seduce each other and very gently break each other's hearts again knowing it couldn't work, with the lives they lead now. Inara feels oddly bereft and emotionally inspired at the same time and ends the episode talking about life paths with Mal, not knowing that he knows and is bothered by what happened.

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Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
The crew recieves a transmission about a job on a rim world, but Book recognizes the client. The two had previously met during the Unification War when Book was an *ahem* operative.

During the job Mal learns some things about Book that are upsetting, namely that Book fought on the opposite side and is responsible for Browncoat deaths that Mal and Zoe take rather personally. The job winds up a success but the episode ends with heightened tension twixt Book and Mal/Zoe.

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Originally posted by scouseratheart:
During a refit/refuel on Persephone, Mal, Zoe, Kaylee, Wash and Jayne return to find no Serenity. Why/where have River, Simon and Book taken the ship?

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Fanty & Mingo get arrested on Persephone for impersonating Fruity Oaty Bar Sweepstakes winners."*

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Originally posted by scouseratheart:
Nope. Inara was blissfully (pun intended) unaware of the situation until, later, she too returns to the docks to find no Serenity. Meanwhile, the crew is landlocked and this makes them all kinds of twitchy (in different ways).

I'll spill my whole idea later.

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Season 4: Episode 04 of 24 Title : Castaways

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This one sounds amazing!! I love the plotty set-up for later episodes and the crew development (River??) weaved together!

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Plus, the contaminated air aspect would create some nice moments of irrational claustrophia... they're surrounded by space every day but poisenous air? Ooooh! Brilliant!

Also, since you post with episode numbers and all... plllleeeeeeaaase, tell me you have three extra seasons worth of episode blurbs! :D

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:

Yes. Seasons Two and Three will be mainly comprised of self-contained episodes but this season, season four has an arc (Kinda :D)

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and the poor air quality will come to have further significance at a later stage :)

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...!!! So are you going to share?? :D Must I bribe you?

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Uh oh. I'm torn between it being PAX-related, and it being related to either River's brain or someone's unborn child. Or maybe they just all get a bad cough and need to take a special vacation episode? Argh! *handflap*

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Share something from Season 3! :D

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:

Bribes are good! Back handers, brown envelopes, a duffel bag left beside your foot at the airport terminal... All's good :D Even jelly beans have been known to work. :P

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Dang it! I gave it to you too soon.

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Well I was going to concentrate on Book in Season three. The core element being that there is a high priced 'Hit' out on the good Shepherd. It's a curious build up at first but as the season goes on more and more of these hits take place and eventually Book has to leave Serenity to try and put an end to it. How he does it and just whom is issuing these hits is the mystery. I'll see if I can do a couple tonight.

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
"After a job he sets up for the BDH goes wrong, Badger winds up married to Yo-Saff-Brig."

The beginning of a whole story arc...

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Any color jelly beans?

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*grabby hands* No way....

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I do not htink I've seen this approach taken to a Book plot before! Especially if the mystery is not resolved at all but rather even heightened!

Also, I would be most delighted!

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Season 2 episode 18 "We Were Soldiers"

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In an opening sequence, we are gifted with a new sequence from the war. Mal is between battles and eating with Browncoat solders in a trench. The sequence ends with him staring into a cup of water in his hand. Transition: we are now shown Mal, sitting alone in the dinning room in Serenity, with a cup on the table and he's lost in thought.

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:

Could Kaylee maybe be talking frivously about a liason she had with an army man, and she says something like :
" Y'know how ripped those guys are..."
and Mal takes offence to it because he once was such a man - before he was bitter and broken...

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Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
I also thought of a scene where Wash could walk away with Zoe and once out of range make a sideways comment only to be tersely rebuked by Zoe who, even after seemingly defending Mal, refuses to explain why.

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TS, you really know how to reel them in! The Commissar Lars Forrester, now?? What's the story behind that?

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I like how sneaky Book is about all this, absolutely refusing to give anything away, even knowing it must chip away at Mal's trust and patience...

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Bacchus port is some kind of space station, I take it, for Mal to be able to float in with a space suit? :) Gah, he and his pranks.

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Moreplease?

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Thank you. Ahh yes Forrester... Someone Mal stole from? An old war time nemesis? Or perhaps an angry husband...? Who knows at this stage....

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Will do, but I'm wondering. Should I maybe do this elsewhere?

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Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
I've worked on this one awhile, the specifics aren't there, but the structure of the story skeleton is worked out in my mind.

Season 2 episode 18 "We Were Soldiers"

In an opening sequence, we are gifted with a new sequence from the war. Mal is between battles and eating with Browncoat solders in a trench. The sequence ends with him staring into a cup of water in his hand. Transition: we are now shown Mal, sitting alone in the dinning room in Serenity, with a cup on the table and he's lost in thought. He gets up to join the crew to see whats going on, since they just left a world and are flying into the black from port and Kaylee is calling everyone into the cargo hold to show/tell them something. I don't know what Kaylee wants to show the crew...It could be an object she aquired, or wants to talk about someone she met on planet, or any number of different things. But whatever it is, Mal reacts BADLY to it. As in he turns into a total A-hole and makes Kaylee cry thus upseting Inara who scolds him. Everyone else has a vocal opinion about Mal's bad behavior (including River who says something cryptic) except for one person: Zoe. There needs to be a camera angle on her in the scene showing her looking at Mal, wordlessly. It should be subtle, like an easter egg for fans to find later, as they will come to understand that Zoe knows exactly why Mal is upset.

The remainder of the episode consists of various flashbacks to the War, where we learn the truth of Mal's bad reaction to Kaylee. The episode finishes with Mal back in the dinning area, again with his cup, sitting in silence. The final scene ends with a camera angle of his face in frame looking away towards his cup in thought, and we watch as a single tear leaks from an eye. It is the first time we have ever seen such emotion from him. A mournful rim world fiddle plays over this scene and holds a final note as we read "Executive Producer, Joss Whedon"

Many of the best Buffy episodes hold sound into that 1st credit for dramitic effect.

I've had this episode in my mind for 3 years. I don't know the specifics, just the framework. I'd leave it to Joss to Wow us.

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Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
How about a fun little episode about Kaylee where the crew is required to set down on the very planet/moon where Kaylee first came aboard with Bester. The reason they're here is that Kaylee's sister (played by Sarah Chalke) has sent her a wave on the Cortex for (insert reason). Once aboard, (perhaps she needs a free ride somewhere and is freerolling on sis? This would annoy profit motivated Mal) we find out that she has a history of trying to steal Kaylee's boyfriends and immediately starts hitting on Simon who has NO CLUE how to handle it. In the end, hilarity ensues and Kaylee's sis is eventually dumped off at her destination. By episodes end the process of meeting her actually strengthens Simon and Kaylee's relationship. In the final scene we'd be gifted with a 1st kiss.

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