Firefly Episode 12

This episode was alright compared to the previous episodes.  This episode shows us a little bit about what life was like for Mal and Zoe when they were fighting for the brown coats in the civil war that was held against the Alliance.  Anyways, the crew is mailed a body of a dead man named Chase who they used to fight with back during the previously mentioned war.  Chase was a private who served under Mal and Zoe and from what I could gather he wasn't a very good soldier.  Smuggling a dead corpse is a felony under the Alliance control and soon after bringing the dead body onto the ship, Federal marshals show up to take the body back and take the crew into custody.  Little does the crew know that the Federal marshals are actually crooked cops who are smuggling organs as a side job.  Also, Chase isn't actually dead.  He was given a sedative that made him sleep for over a week.  Why the crew wouldn't just check his pulse is beyond me but they didn't, and Chase decides to turn on the crew when they decide they are going to let the Feds come on board and search for the body the crew says they don't have.  Chase ends up being shot by the crew and the shepherd saves the day when he realizes the Feds are actually crooked cops and shouldn't be there in the first place.  The Feds leave and Chase dies (again) and then the crew takes his body back to his family like they were supposed to do in the first place.