Jayne: Time for some thrilling heroics.
Firefly – Episode 2 – “The Train Job”
Simon: Hey.
Kaylee: Oh! Hey, Doctor.
Simon: You really should just call me Simon.
Kaylee: Oh, I’ll do that, then.
Simon: So, what are we doing?
Kaylee: Oh! Crime.
Simon: Crime? Good. Okay, crime.
Kaylee: It’s a train heist. See, we fly over the train car. The Captain and Zoe sneak in, we lower Jayne onto the car, and they bundle up the booty, and we haul ’em all back up. Easy as lyin’.
Simon: They’ve done this before?
Kaylee: (laughs) Hell no. But I think it’s gonna work.
Firefly – Episode 2 – “The Train Job”
Zoe: Sir, is there some information we might maybe be lacking as to why there’s an entire fedsquad sitting on this train?
Mal: Doesn’t concern us.
Zoe: It kinda concerns me.
Mal: I mean they’re not protecting the goods. If they were, they wouldn’t be letting people past ’em.
Zoe: You don’t think that changes the situation a bit?
Mal: I surely do. Makes it more fun.
Zoe: Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
Mal: Come on. We stick to the plan. We get the goods, we’re back on Serenity before the train even reaches Paradiso, only now we do it under the noses of twenty trained Alliance Feds. And that makes ’em look all manner of stupid. Hell, this job I would pull for free.
Zoe: Can I have your share?
Mal: No.
Zoe: If you die, can I have your share?
Mal: Yes.
Firefly – Episode 2 – “The Train Job”
Kaylee: Have you ever had to service a really hideous client? With boils and the like?
Inara: A Companion chooses her own clients, that’s Guild law. But physical appearance doesn’t matter so terribly. You look for a compatibility of spirit. There’s an energy about a person that’s difficult to hide, you try to feel that ―
Mal: (walking in) And then you try to feel the energy of their credit account. It has a sort of aura.
Inara: What did I say to you about barging into my shuttle?
Mal: That it was manly and impulsive?
Inara: Yes, precisely. Only the exact phrase I used was “don’t”.
Mal: Well, you’re holding my mechanic in thrall. And Kaylee, what the hell’s goin’ on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
Firefly – Episode 2 – “The Train Job”
Simon: We’re on a ship.
River: Mid-bulk Transport. Standard radion accelerator core. Class code 03-K64–Firefly.
Mal: Well, that’s somethin’. I can’t even remember all that.
Simon: Need a weave on that?
Mal: It’s nothin’.
Simon: I expect there’s someone’s face feels differently.
Mal: Well, they tell ya, never hit a man with a closed fist, but it is on occasion hilarious.
Simon: I suppose so. So the, ah, the fight…didn’t umm, draw any, umm, any attention.
Mal: No Feds. Just an honest brawl between folks. Ain’t none of us wanted the Alliance on us, Doctor, that’s why you’re here.
Simon: I thought I was here because you needed a medic.
Mal: Well, not today.
(Mal leaves)
River: Mal… bad… in the Latin.
Firefly – Episode 2 – “The Train Job”
Mal: My thanks Wash, nice save as always.
Wash: A pleasure.
Mal: And how are our passengers?
Kaylee: They’re fine. So, what happened? Was there a terrible brawl?
Zoe: Oddly enough, there was.
Wash: Are you gettin’ my wife into trouble?
Mal: Wha? I didn’t start it! Just wanted a quiet drink.
Zoe: Funny, sir, how you always seem to find yourself in an Alliance-friendly bar come U-day, looking for a “quiet drink.”
Mal: See, this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety. Breaks the heart.
Firefly – Episode 2 – “The Train Job”
Lund: Hey, you gonna drink t’the Alliance wi’ me? Six years today, the Alliance sent the browncoats running, pissing their pants. Y’know, your coat is kinda a brownish color.
Mal: It was on sale.
Lund: You didn’t toast? Y’know, I’m thinkin’ you one of them independents
Mal: And I’m thinkin’ you weren’t burdened with an overabundance of schooling. So why don’t we just ignore each other, til we go away?
Lund: The Independents were a bunch of cowardly inbred pisspots. Shoulda been killed off of every world spinnin’.
Mal: Say that to my face.
Lund: I said, you’re a coward, and a pisspot. Now what are you gonna do about it?
Mal: Nothin’. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya.
(Zoe decks him)
Mal: Drunks are so cute.
Firefly – Episode 2 – “The Train Job”