Blog 11

The story in Firefly episode 12 ‘Message’, was about the Mal and Zoe’s war comrade from the past. When Serenity visited the trading post to get the mail or package. Jayne got a hat from his mom that she knitted herself.. However, Mal and Joe got a package that they did not expected to get which is the corpse of their comrade, Tracey. After they took the body to Serenity, they heard the message from Tracey that someone is going to kill him and requested to Mal and Zoe that if he dies, then give his body to his parents. The crew members agreed to follow Tracey’s last wish. However, an alliance came and asks for Tracey’s body. Mal was curious about why the alliance needs his body. So, he tried to find an item from Tracey. Then, Traycey alived and told that he took a drug to make him looks like he was dead. He said he was changing his original organs to new ones. I was curious why he was changing his organs and give the old one to someone. He could just give the other organs to the buyer. However, Womack, who tries to find Tracey, attacked Serenity to get Tracey. While the attack was very powerful, Book suggested to Mal to Surrender and give Tracey to Womack. Then Tracy grabed a gun and pointed to the crew members because he thought they were going to give him to Womack. Mal tried to make him to surrender. However, after he realized that it was possible to calm Tracey down, Mal shooted him. While Tracey was dying, he realized that Mal was not going to give him to Womack and appolized for his rude action. Then the episode ends. This episode was kind of confused of Tracey’s dead. I thought there’s a way for Tracey to survive. It was kind of sad story that Tracey died.