Zoe: Sir? I’d like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.
Wash: Work, work, work…
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Mal: Zoe?
Zoe: Armor’s dented.
Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea.
Zoe: Thanks for sayin’, sir.
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Patience: We can deal. I’ll upload coordinates for a rendezvous point outside of town.
Mal: See you in the world. (Mal ends the transmission, followed by a long pause.) I believe that woman’s planning to shoot me again.
Jayne: She meant to pay you, she’d’a haggled you down some.
Wash: Just a little effort to hide it would’ve been —
Zoe: Sir, we don’t have to deal with her.
Mal: Yes, we do.
Jayne: Here’s a little concept I been workin’ on. Why don’t we shoot her first?
Wash: It is her turn.
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Mal: Now I got to know how close the Alliance is, exactly how much you told them before Wash scrambled your call. So, I’ve given Jayne here the job of finding out.
Jayne: He was non-specific as to how.
Mal: (to Jayne) Now you only gotta scare him.
Jayne: Pain is scary…
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Mal: You send word to Patience?
Wash: Ain’t heard back yet. Didn’t she shoot you one time?
Mal: Everybody’s makin’ a fuss.
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Zoe: Now we have a boat full of citizens right on top of our stolen cargo. That’s a fun mix.
Mal: Ain’t no way in the ‘Verse they could find that compartment, even if they were lookin’ for it.
Zoe: Why not?
Mal: ………… ‘Cause……..
Zoe: Oh, yeah, this is gonna go great.
Mal: If anyone gets nosy just, you know, shoot ’em.
Zoe:Shoot ’em?
Mal: Politely.
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Mal: It’s been a long time since Patience shot me, and that was due to a perfectly legitimate conflict of interest. I got no grudge.
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Jayne: I don’t understand why we didn’t leave that sumbitch in a pool of his own blood.
Mal: We’d be dead. Can’t get paid if you’re dead.
Jayne: Can’t get paid if you crawl away like a bitty little bug neither. I got a share of this job. Ten percent of nothin’ is — lemmie do the math here — nothin’, and then nothin’, carry the nothin’…
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