Such a much needed scene. Explained more mals character and how he could be misjudged when in fact he had been through such trauma. Love this scene and series. 😊

"Once you've been in Serenity, you never leave." Then later, Inara says, "Why would I want to leave Serenity?" and Mal response, "I can't think of a reason." But this says the difference in what they had in their minds is greater than we thought.

I wish Simon had said “Those winners butchered my sister’s brain”

“…..They’re Not Coming; Command says it’s Too Hot - We’re to Lay-Down Arms….”

Blasted from space or rescued... at this point I don't much care as long as it ends.

I know we'll never get any more episodes, but I would love to see a directors cut off firefly and serenity.

It's ashame they deleted all these scenes.

Sigh...

It'd be awesome to get Firefly full cut or something, with all the deleted scenes put back in the show. Better than nothing since we can't get a continuation.

Shepard Book is to Firefly what Friar Tuck is to Robin Hood and the Merry Men...

BTW: the "pistol" she carries is known as a "Mare's Leg" (Made popular for awhile by Steve McQueen's TV show called: "Wanted: Dead Or Alive"

Damn, never saw this scene but it fills in some major character moments. Thanks for uploading it, 13 years ago..

I still can’t believe so many people have never heard of this show. Definitely one of the best sci-fi series I’ve ever watched…bar none.

"once you've been in Serenity, you never leave... you just kind of learn to live there" as both a literal, and metaphorical statement... that statement hurts so much to really process. ---if you've ever survived a seriously traumatic event, that PTSD feeling... it's a very apt description if you supplant the ship with your trauma. ---if you've found "personal peace" and ever lost it... your mind can refuse to let go of that... I lost SERENITY in mid 2020 and like Mal I can't pull myself out of that place, empty now as it is...

How did this scene get cut? Wow! That was powerful. The feels...

So glad I saw this. Great character building and world building.

This is what taught me how bad war truly is, not some person talking in third person about war, not some unknown refugee on the news (though now I see the tragedy there too), but a character I know, at least enough to emphasize with, telling about how her friends died, in gruesome war.

That swallow 💀

That scene should not have been cut.

This should've stayed in. It would've made kaylee's "he prayed over me once" line and mal's punch make more much sense and this is killer backstory

Damn near shed a tear . Why the flying frak would they delete that scene. that could have been a whole episode really with flash backs.

Sometimes I think the people who make films and series delete the wrong scenes. This seems to me to be important.

Lenox4171

always remove the best parts of any show is on the cutting room floor sigh

Things not going the way we hoped doesn’t mean God isn’t there. He gives people free will and they often abuse it. Anyway I like the description that it wasn’t that he necessarily stopped believing, he just didn’t think God was on his side

I wonder if this was TOO MUCH of a great scene, gave too much away. JK Rowling rewrote Harry Potter 12 times because in each version she kept giving away too much of the plot in the first book.

Great scene

I've watched this entire series at least a hundred times. If I figured it's the greatest program to ever been on television

This should have been kept in for sure.

I wish so much they hadn't cut this scene.

"God? Whose flag is He flying?"

That was beautiful.

Another powerful scene that ended up on the cutting room floor...

Why was this ever cut???

Monkey was one of my favorites,🥰🥰🥰 such fun and tenacious energy. Wished she had more scenes with everyone and got a happy sweet ending with Yoon Ji-hoo. (They deserved better) Thank you so much for uploading!!

Simon: “Hey Siri”

This is the perfect example of why "show, don't tell" is important.

They were in love with each other, spats happen.

Huzzah

Should never havevdeleted that scene.

This scene should have been left in. Anyone who suffers from PTSD, for whatever reason,

I always liked this scene. They never should have taken it out. It explains her loyalty to Mal

"Only the dead have seen the end of war. Those who have seen it and lived will forever know its sight."

Yeah, well I live in Oakland. East side. And I sure as shit ain’t gonna name my ship that when I make it out.😁

I cannot believe this scene ended up on the cutting room floor!

Great writing, great acting, but there's a very good reason this was cut, besides timing. It lays too much out too soon. Finding out about the war through snippets of dialogue makes for a much more engaging series than scenes which only exist for exposition.

Notice at the end it dropped the name of the Alliance General who won the battle? First time I saw this scene I actually suspected for a moment that Shepard Book was that General. When he told Simon to check out the name, he already new the history behind it, because he was there. This origin would have fit perfectly with all the mystery surrounding Book's character. Zoe's description of the carnage would be the reason Book became a Shepard, he sought Penance for what he had done. When the alliance scans his ID card and suddenly he gets special treatment when moments before they would have let him die, they probably saw that he was an alliance citizen, former high ranking officer, and a decorated War hero.

This changes everything I thought about Zoë. It really needed to be in.

THIS was deleted? Why in the name of all that is right would this be a deleted scene? It was awesome.

AH, CURSE YOUR SUDDEN BUT INEVITABLE BETRAYAL!!