The Serenity crew is coerced into pulling a train robbery, but the cargo is not what they expect.
The crew comes across an abandoned ship of dead aliens.
When Archer and his crew pay a friendly visit to an ancient Vulcan monastery, they stumble into an interstellar conflict between the Vulcans and their militaristic rivals, the Andorians.
Simon hires the crew out to smuggle River into a hospital.
Grissom and crew are called in after high roller Tony Braun, a known drug addict, is found dead in his house by a gardener.