Reaper Madness

George is romantically drawn to a schizophrenic who seems able to see death as she does. When Rube grows concerned George might be revealing too much to the young man, he forbids her from seeing him anymore. but George persists, tempting chaos of biblical proportions!

My Room

When Daisy, a gorgeous but demanding actress, joins the group of reapers, Rube moves her in with George. Immediately, Daisy steamrolls over George’s privacy and patience and a reluctant George must find the courage to speak up for herself.

The Message

An old war comrade of Mal’s and Zoe’s, Tracey, mails his corpse to them. He also leaves a message asking them to deliver his body to his family. Some men claiming to be with the Alliance is on the trail of the body and catch up to them demanding the body. The crew can’t find anything on Tracey’s corpse, but as they prepare to cut it open, Tracey comes back to life. He explains he is smuggling super-organs in his own body. They flee to the planet with the men in hot pursuit and eventually/supposedly agree to give up Tracey. Tracey gets wind of the plan and makes a break for it with Kaylee as a hostage, they shoot him down and Mal reveals they were going to send the officer off since he’s out of his jurisdiction and on a personal mission with no authority. Then Tracey dies and they deliver his body for real this time.

Reaping Havoc

Since becoming a grim reaper, George has become quite friendly with Betty, a wildly glamorous co-reaper. But when the dazzling Betty becomes too curious about what lives on the other side of the undead, George learns yet another difficult lesson: Even in the afterlife, friends are hard to keep.

Trash

Saffron (from « Our Mrs. Reynolds ») returns – after Mal breaks up her current gig, she convinces him and the crew to help out with a «  »perfect crime » » that isn’t. The crime: go to Bellerophon and steal a criminal’s prototype laser gun from his collection. The plan: Saffron and Mal sneak in and dump the gun down the trash, bypassing security, and the Serenity crew grab it from the disposal system. Of course, this is Saffron, and it turns out she’s married to the crook, Durran, and plans to double-cross Mal. Things don’t work out so well and Saffron strands Mal naked in the desert. Fortunately Mal and Inara anticipated a betrayal and set it up so Inara grabs the gun, leaves Saffron behind, and rescues Mal.
Meanwhile, Simon figures out Jayne betrayed them (in « Ariel ») and the two have words.

Reapercussions

After discovering a loophole in the « reaper rules, » George decides to test fate and help a man miss his appointment with destiny. But when she sees the devastating domino effect of her actions – and receives a drastic punishment – George learns a lesson about fate she won’t soon forget.