Firefly - Episode 7: 'Jaynestown'
Recap: Serenity's crew reaches a of ruthless capitalist foremen presiding over 'mudders.' Their principal export: clay. Jayne tries to keep a low profile as he once stole from the magistrate of this village, but it turns out that he's actually a folk hero because in his botched escape attempt, he dumped the loot out of his spaceship. Jayne is feted by the village until the magistrate unleashes Jayne's ex-partner, whom Jayne sold out, and he reveals the truth. An awesome concept for an episode, and obviously the perfect character to center it around. Jayne is defined primarily by three characteristics: his strength, his meanness, and his stupidity. The circumstances that plague Jayne at the beginning are entirely of his own doing - he used his strength to rob the magistrate, he cruelly ejected his own partner, and he stupidly bungled the operation by losing the money. Yet the interpretation of the events is obviously different from what Jayne remembers. Jayne Cob...