Blog 13: Firefly episode 13

Alright, I have been saying this often but I have to say it again.  This was one of my more favorite of the Firefly episodes.  In this episode, Inara receives a distress signal from one of her old companion friends.  It turns out that her friend is the head of a whore house that is being terrorized by a local man and his men because the man has a child with one of the whores.  The man wants his child and is willing to do whatever it takes to get it.  This is where Mal and his crew come into play.  The whore house hires them to set up a defense of the house and fight off the attack.  A really large battle ensues and in the end the crew obviously saves the whore house and kills the men.  On a different plot line, Mal sleeps with Inara's friend and Mal and Inara's true feelings for each other are finally kind of revealed.  Inara is hurt that Mal slept with her but then Inara's friend dies.  In the end Mal is being truthful and confessing his feelings to Inara and it really seems like she is going to confess hers too.  Then, however, she drops a bombshell and says she is leaving the ship.  To me this is very cowardly and bitchy.  It makes me angry that a man who is as stubborn as Mal finally comes out and says what needs to be said and confesses his feelings and she automatically turns and runs away.  I am anxious to see how this turns out in the 14th and final episode.