Jayne gets an offer to join Serenity

Life, Career

Jayne Cobb; his boss, Marco Ferlinghetti; and another lackey are holding guns on Mal and Zoe. After a brief job offer, Jayne accepts...so to speak...

Jayne Cobb; his boss, Marco Ferlinghetti; and another lackey are holding guns on Mal and Zoe. The three want to know where Mal and Zoe have hidden some goods, but they won't say, and Mal offers Jayne a better cut than the seven percent straight off the top he gets now--along with his own room and full run of the kitchen--if he switches over to his crew. When Marco shouts at him, Jayne shoots him in the leg, trains his gun on the lackey, and keeps talking to Mal, ultimately accepting his offer. ["Our Mrs. Reynolds" and "Out of Gas." These events are shown in flashback in the latter episode. In "Our Mrs. Reynolds," Mal tells Jayne he is "not the man (he) met a year ago." Although he says this in the midst of a ruse, there is no reason to think the date reference is inaccurate. Marco's last name comes from the Serenity novelisation (page 45).]