Ariel

Overview: Simon offers the crew a proposition: if they help him sneak River into a hospital so he can run-tests on her, he'll tell them where to find medical supplies that will fetch an enormous price on the black market.

Airdate: 11/15/2002

Directed by: Allan Kroeker

Guest Stars: Blake Robbins (Agent McGinnis), Dennis Cokrum (Blue Hand Man #2), Jeff Ricketts (Blue Hand Man #1), Alex Connie (Patient), Cate Cohen (Cash Team Nurse), Ira Steck (Young Intern), Michael Nagy (Particularly Dressed Man), Roma Chugani (Receiving Doctor), Tom Virtue (Doctor).

Of Note:
Shepard Book did not appear in this episode.

Quotes:
Mal: This is my boat, and they're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.

Mal: Next time you decide to stab me in the back... have the balls to do it to my face.

Review By: Jason James Rating:

I liked this episode a lot because it had us going to a core world. We don't get to see to many of them during the series so it was kind of nice to actually be on a core world for an episode. Once again the character interactions are great as is pretty common during the series. Overall I did find a few week points in the plot keeping this from being a 5 star episode otherwise it was a great episode and was fun to watch.