In this episode, Serenity is dying. An explosion damages part of the engine that maintains life support. The crew has hours to live if they stay aboard. Mal sends everyone away as he waits for a response to the distress signal and goes down with the ship. Flashbacks tell us the story of how Serenity came to be and how the crew started.
At one point Kaylee tells Mal that "sometimes something broke can't be fixed." I've been thinking a lot about brokenness. It's a term we throw around freely - broken relationships, broken world, broken heart, etc. I asked some youth what we do when things are broke. Some said fix it and some said throw it away. I guess both are right. I won't throw a broken heart away, yet I've thrown some broken relationships away. Serenity is broke, but Mal won't throw her away. He has faith to the end that an answer will come...and it does.
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