Safe.

This episode of Firefly proved to me that almost every character on the ship has some secret hidden past we don’t know about. The most shocking thing about this episode to me was that of all of them the Shepherd emerges as having a secret.  The most upstanding seeming person turns out to be way more powerful with the alliance then he has let on which you find out when they take him in to get medical care after his gunshot wound. Now not only am I intrigued as to find out what River’s deal is I also am now curious about what the Shepherd has done to make him valuable in the eyes of the alliance. In other news you got to see a lot more into Simon and River’s past and you find out about how their family didn’t believe River was in danger at the academy they sent her to. Sadly I got the feeling that his father knew that River was being tortured and put through hell. If this is true I don’t know but when Simon was presenting them with the letters I got the eerie feeling that the father wasn’t as dumb as he was pretending to be about the situation. We may never know but what we did find out is that they can never go back to their home and that River is apparently psychic or something of the sort. She can tell people’s past by looking at them. To see how this unfolds in the next couple episodes will be interesting.