The two-hour premiere opens with Blade setting up shop in Detroit, investigating the vampire House of Chthon.  Along the way, he forms an uneasy alliance with Krista Starr, a former military veteren who becomes entrenched in the world of vampires while investigating the murder of her twin brother.

Rich and Laura sneak out of the hospital with the creature footage before Lee and his men can get to them. Upon their successful escape Rich and Laura take the exclusive footage to tape to a copying service company in an effort to upload it onto the internet and convince a news station to run a piece about the footage. Meanwhile, Miles is sad and defeated while he watches doctors preparing to perform an autopsy on Nim but that all changes when Nim sneezes and they realize he is still alive.

Inara gets a call from an old friend — Nandi, who has left the Companion Guild and opened a whorehouse. Nandi's place is being threatened by Ranse Burgess, who impregnated Petaline, one of Nandi's whores, and is claiming the child. Nandi offers to pay the Serenity crew to help protect them.

Mal's instinct, after meeting Burgess, is to skip out and avoid this mess, but Nandi refuses to give in. So the Serenity crew helps fortify the whorehouse — save for Simon, who is busy delivering Petaline's baby.

Nandi and Mal share a night together; in the morning Burgess attacks. Nandi is killed in the melee, but the Serenity crew and the whores emerge victorious. Petaline kills Burgess herself, right in front of his newborn child.

This episode never aired in the original 2002 running of the series.  It wasn't until the SciFi Channel picked up the rights that it was seen on broadcast television.

At a space station, the crew shops, pokes around, and picks up mail. Jayne gets a letter and a knit cap from his mother, and Mal and Zoë get … a corpse.

The corpse's name is Tracey, and Mal and Zoë served with him during the war. He had left a recording, requesting that his remains be brought home to St. Albans. However, a Fed named Lt. Womack also wants Tracey's corpse, and he's willing to shoot down the Serenity to get it.

Reluctantly, Mal orders an autopsy while Wash evades Womack. The most shocking discovery of the autopsy is that Tracey's alive. He was in a suspended state that simulated death — and now he says he wants to get home, but he's carrying transplantable organs that need to incubate in a person. He decided to take a better offer on the black market, but the new buyer was caught, so Tracey "killed" himself and had himself shipped to Mal and Zoë.

Womack, having grown tired of Mal's stalling, resumes shooting at Serenity. Eventually, the crew realizes that Womack won't stop until they're dead — but Book also notices that Womack hasn't checked in with the local Fed base.

Tracey doesn't like the crew's plan, and shoots Wash to keep him from contacting Womack, which results in Zoë shooting Tracey. Wounded, Tracey runs and takes Kaylee hostage, but Mal is able to gun him down, leaving Womack empty-handed — and a threat from Book to alert the Fed base to Womack's extracurricular activities leads the Fed to depart Serenity in peace.

The crew returns Tracey's body to St. Albans for proper burial.

This episode never aired in the original 2002 running of the series.  It wasn't until the SciFi Channel picked up the rights that it was seen on broadcast television.

While exchanging contraband with fellow rogue Monty — another former "browncoat" — Mal meets Monty's new wife. To Mal's shock, it's Saffron, now calling herself Bridgit. Monty is not thrilled to find out that his wife also married Mal once, so he leaves her behind on the moon with Mal while the latter waits for the Serenity to return.

Frustrated with Inara's complaints about Mal not flying to worlds where she can entertain clients, Mal brings Saffron aboard with a job she insists will provide them all with tremendous wealth: stealing a "Lassiter", a rare old laser weapon, from a collector on Bellerophon.

Kaylee comes up with a method of getting the Lassiter out of the estate without the sensors detecting its departure: by throwing it out with the garbage, then having Serenity intercept the trash carrier. Mal and Saffron infiltrate the estate and start to make the theft, when Durran, the owner, walks in — and recognizes Saffron as his wife, Yolanda.

Mal, not entirely surprised to meet yet another husband of Saffron's, quickly pretends to have "rescued" Yolanda, who went "missing" some years before. The tables are soon turned, and Mal and "Yo-Saff-Bridg" depart with the Lassiter, tossing it in the disposal.

Saffron then double-crosses Mal, taking his sidearm and leaving him naked in the desert. When Saffron arrives at the trash can, though, she finds nothing, even after digging through all the filth. Then Inara arrives with the Lassiter, which she claimed before Saffron arrived, as Mal planned from the start — the Serenity crew has conned the con artist.

This episode never aired in the original 2002 running of the series.  It wasn't until the SciFi Channel picked up the rights that it was seen on broadcast television.

LAURA AND RICH RETURN FROM PLUNGE TO THE OCEAN FLOOR -- WITH NO BOAT IN SIGHT -- When Laura and Rich return to the surface from the ocean floor, they realize the boat that took them to this location is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Miles is taken to the hospital after suspiciously passing out in class. Elsewhere, Miles' sister Savannah comes to the realization that her brothers sudden admittance to the hospital may have be a result of a bite mark on his body caused by his former pet Nimrod.

CBS decided to swap timeslots for Threshold and Close to Home.  Sounded like a good idea to me.  Friday Evenings are "SciFi Friday" and my TV and TiVo are glued to SciFi Channel for Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica.  If it wasn't for a second TiVo borrowed from a friend of mine, I never would of watched, or been able to watch, Threshold to begin with.

This swap allowed SciFi nuts like myself to watch Threshold without having to record it and get to it eventually.  SciFi nuts are often really busy building computers and talking to aliens and don't always get around to watching TV like we should.

But for some reason Threshold bombed on Tuesdays.  The switch worked for Close to Home, but not for Threshold.  It was below Close to Home's ratings and below it's own average on Fridays.  CBS has pulled Threshold from the schedule with no word yet on it's future.  Nearing the "Mid-Season Switch" it doens't look good for the series.  But it's possible that it will come back as some other show's replacement.

TV.com lists five unaired episodes:

Threshold 110:  The Crossing

Molly and Baylock realize the Threshold detainees must be moved immediately to a more secure facility in West Virginia when a prisoner attacks and infects a security guard, then tries to break himself and other infected prisoners out of their cells.

Followed by Escalation, Vigilante, Alienville, and Head Trip.  Alienville?  Man, I want to see that one.

Good luck, Threshold.  See you on DVD.

When three women from completely different walks of life appear to be infected, Molly and the Red Team discover the connection among them and must locate the common cause.

RACE AGAINST TIME. As Laura and Rich race against time in a submersible they realize the "unidentified species" are laying thousands of eggs on the ocean floor. Meanwhile, Miles hears a report of a vicious attack on two electricians working on a marine dock, and suspects that Nimrod may be the culprit. Elsewhere, Phil stakes out an underwater power cable in hopes of finding Nimrod only to discover Nimrod now has a lot of underwater friends.

SUBMERSIBLE SETBACK. Laura , Rich and Jackson race to finish the submersible they are building, and despite several setbacks during a test run, take it out to the spawning site. As Rich and Daughtery begin their descent, they spot the creatures spawning but a system failure causes the submersible to freefall, putting them in jeopardy. Elsewhere, Miles' parents consider sending him to a boot camp for problem children, but rethink their decision and send him to an aquarium for volunteer work.

Dr. Lee gives a small account of Cirko's death to his superiors, concluding that it was a necessity in the long run, before revealing a new and budding clue in this investigation. Laura and Rich enlist the help of Jackson when her home is mysteriously ransacked by strangers, sending the trio under the radar and up the coast. Meanwhile, Nim's uncontrollable behavior forces Miles and Phil to steal a pizza delivery car and lead the police on a chase to the beach where Miles lets Nim go in the ocean. Nim reluctantly swims away and Miles turns back to the shore where his parents and the police are waiting for him.

Molly and Cavennaugh discover some strange happenings in a missing Big Horn crew member's hometown when they investigate the disappearance of a Threshold field agent.

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST. While studying a sea orchid, Cirko figures out the origin of the "unidentified species" and subsequently is mysteriously run down by a car and left for dead after he tells Lee about his discovery. Meanwhile, Cirko's assistant, Singh, escapes a warehouse raid with the orchid and important computer files as well as a key to a storage locker before dying on her lawn. Elsewhere, Laura and Rich are now on the run because upon retrieving the orchid and returning back to Laura's house they find that her house has been ransacked by the government.

The SciFi Channel will release Battlestar Galactica, Season 2 DVD on December 20th, 2005.  With thirteen episodes in it's first season and ten in it's second, Battlestar Galactica is half as long as the other Friday Night SciFi series.  Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis both have ten episodes and then take a three month haitus and return in January for ten more episodes.  I had rather hoped that Battlestar Galactica would return for a second half of a season also.

While I haven't seen any official announcments yet, I'm confident that Battlestar Galactica, as well as SG-1 and Atlantis will all be around next year.  Although it's quite possible that SG-1's outlook past Season 10 is cloudy.  Depends on how many people watch the show this year, huh?

Molly and Cavennaugh investigate a newspaper leak regarding the Threshold program which might turn out to be an inside job. The Red Team look into a case of residents of a small town dreaming of trees made of glass.