Mal: Funny how the lawman got out of his room. You having tied him up so well and all.
Jayne: I didn’t have nothing to do with that. Anyway it all turned out just fine. Buzzards’re the only ones gonna find him…
Mal: But he did try to make a deal with you, right? (looks at Jayne) How come you didn’t turn on me, Jayne?
Jayne: Money wasn’t good enough.
Mal: What happens when it is?
Jayne: Well… that’ll be an interesting day.
Mal: Imagine it will.
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Simon: The shot I gave you will help you sleep.
River: I slept for so long…
Simon: Just a little while. Then we’ll find a place. We’ll find a safe place.
River: I didn’t think you’d come for me.
Simon: Well, you’re a dummy.
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Inara:You should really have the young doctor look at this.
Book: It’s not so bad.
Inara: Well, I’m sure you’ll be fine.
Book: I didn’t say that… Is this what life is, out here?
Inara: Sometimes.
Book: I’ve been out of the abbey two days, I’ve beaten a lawman senseless, I’ve fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect… And I’m not even sure if I think he was wrong.
Inara: Shepherd…
Book: I believe I just… I think I’m on the wrong ship.
Inara: Maybe. Or maybe you’re exactly where you ought to be.
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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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Jayne: Testing. Testing. Captain, can you hear me?
Mal: I’m standing right here.
Jayne: You’re coming through good and loud.
Mal: ‘Cause I’m standing right here.
Jayne: Yeah, well… but the transmitter’s…
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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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Jayne: Oh, I’m not gonna kill you, Dobson — what’s your first name?
Dobson: Laurence.
Jayne: Laurence. No, I’m just gonna cut on ya’ ’til you tell me how much they know.
Dobson: They know everything. They know every name, every record — they know how many nose hairs you’ve got.
Jayne: (Disappointed) Ah, see — they don’t know a damn thing. It’s all over your face, I ain’t even… I was gonna get me a ear, too. Aren’t you an officer of the law? Well, don’t they teach you how to withstand interrogation? Can’t even tell a damn lie.
Dobson: Okay. I can see you’re not an idiot.
Jayne: Wish I could say the same, Laurence, but… this is disappointing as hell.
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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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Simon: I am very smart. I went to the best medacad in Osiris, top three percent of my class, finished my internship in eight months. “Gifted” is the term. So when I tell you that my little sister makes me look like an idiot child, I want you to understand my full meaning. River was more than gifted. She… she was a gift. Everything she did, music, math, theoretical physics — even dance — there was nothing that didn’t come as naturally to her as breathing does to us. She could be a real… brat about it, too. I mean, she used to — There was a school… a government-sponsored academy, we had never even heard of it but it had the most exciting program, the most challenging. We could have sent her anywhere, we had the money, but she wanted to go. She wanted to learn. She was fourteen. I… I got a few letters at first, and then I didn’t hear for months. Finally I got a letter that made no sense. She talked about things that never happened, jokes that we never… it was a code. It just said… “They’re hurting us. Get me out.”
Zoe: How’d you do it?
Simon: Money. And luck. For two years, I couldn’t get near her. Then I was contacted by some men, some underground movement. They said that she was in danger, that the government was… playing with her brain. If I funded them they could sneak her out in cryo, get her to Persephone, and from there I could take her… wherever.
Inara: Will she be all right?
Simon: I don’t know if she’ll be all right. I don’t know what they did to her, orwhy. I just have to keep her safe.
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The Love Pirate 