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“Book: Whatever horror he witnessed, whatever acts of barbarism it was done by men, nothing more.

Jayne: Reaver's ain't men.

Book: Of course they are. Too long removed from civilization perhaps, but men. And, I believe there's a power greater than men. A power that heals.

Mal: Reavers might take issue with that philosophy...if they had a philosophy...and they weren't too busy gnawing on your insides. Jayne's right. Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Come to just nothin'. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothin', and that's what they became.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: Bushwhacked
Tagged: Horror, Barbarism, civilization, Philosophy
“Jayne: We're sittin' put for a funeral?

Mal: Yes, Jayne. That's exactly what we're gonna do. Not gonna have these people lookin' over my shoulder once we're gone. I ain't sayin' there's any peace to be had, but on the off chance there is, those folks deserve a little of it.

Inara Serra: Just when I think I've got you figured out.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: Bushwhacked
Tagged: funeral, Peace
“It's a real burden being right so often.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Bushwhacked
Tagged: Humblebragging
“Kaylee: [about Simon] You shouldn't be so rude to him.

Jayne: Why? Cause he's all rich and fanciable?”
— Kaylee Frye, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Rude, rich
“ We didn't fly 86 million miles to track down a box of Band-Aids, Colonel.”
— Hands of Blue, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: band-aids, Space Travel
“Tell you what I think. I figure that fella we run into did everyone on board. Killed 'em all. Then he decided to take a swim, see how fast his blood would boil out his ears.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: Bushwhacked
Tagged: Murder, blood boiling
“Book: How's the girl?

Mal: Still a little whimsical in the brainpan. Seems calm enough, though.

Mal: [River knocks over a tray of medical instruments; both look her way at the sound of instruments clattering] Mm-hmm.

Book: That young man's very brave.

Mal: Yeah. [sarcastically]

Mal: He's my hero.

Book: Gave up everything to free his sister from that place. Go from being a doctor on the central planets to hiding on the fringes of the system... Not many who would do that.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Brave, Hero
“[after Inara has been doing Kaylee's hair and Mal has ordered her out]
Mal: You're servicing crew now.

Inara Serra: [snickers] In your lonely, pathetic dreams.”
— Inara Serra, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Come-ons, shot down
“That sounds like the Alliance. Unite all the planets under one rule so that everybody can be interfered with or ignored equally.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Unity
“Zoë: Jayne?

Jayne: Hey, I didn't fight in no war. Best o' luck, though.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: War
“These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: killers, Cuddly
“Ladies and menfolk…[holds out a slip of paper]…we have ourselves a job. Take us out of the world, Wash. Got us some crime to be done.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Crime
“Mal: [after getting tossed out a simulated bar window] Wash, we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss.

[Zoe comes out fighting a drunk; more join in as Mal takes on the one Zoe knocked down]

Mal: Is Jayne even awake?
[Jayne comes out fighting two at once, pushing them back with his stool]”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: local color, fights
“You're a very 'up' person.”
— Zoë Washburne, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: positive
“Mal: [backed up against the edge of a cliff, facing the drunks from the bar] Oh, ho-ho! There's just an acre of you fellas, isn't there? This is why we lost, you know. Superior numbers.

Zoë: Thanks for the reenactment, sir.”
— Zoë Washburne, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: fights
“Book: So...how do you think it's going?

Inara: The caper? Mal knows what he's doing.

Book: How long have you known him?

Inara: I've been on the ship eight months now. I'm not certain I'll ever actually know the captain.”
— Inara Serra, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Ship, Captain, caper
“Sheriff Bourne: We had some, uh, unrelated trouble. His story had kind of an odor to it.

Inara Serra: Yes, it's not the only thing about him that does.”
— Inara Serra, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: odor, body odor
“Niska: Oh, you do not like I kill this man?

Mal: Oh no, I'm sure he was a...very bad person.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Murder
“Mal: [on Niska] He's not the first psycho to hire us. Nor the last. You think that's a commentary on us?

Zoë: I just have an image in my head of a guy hanging from the ceiling.

Mal: I've got an image of it not being me. Let's do the thing.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: psycho, murder plot
“Sheriff Bourne: You mind telling me, uh, when it was you last spoke to Joey Bloggs?

Mal: Never did, myself.

Sheriff Bourne: Right. Your uncle. And it was indicated to you that, uh, Joey had an opening?

Mal: Any job would do.

Sheriff Bourne: It's funny your Uncle never went to mentioning the Bowden's problem. Or that Joey Bloggs ate his own gun 'bout eight months back.

Mal: Did he?

Sheriff Bourne: Yep. Blew the back of his head right off.

[long pause]
Mal: So... would his job be open?”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Uncle, Suicide
“Inara: You have such lovely hair. I'm sure the doctor would agree.

Kaylee: Who? Simon? No, he's much too—I mean I'm just—do you think it looks better up?

Inara: We can experiment. We might even get wild later and wash your face.”
— Inara Serra, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: hair, experiment
“Jayne: [the three of them are playing Chinese checkers; to Mal] Your move.

[Mal jumps four marbles]
Zoë: That's a bold move.

Mal: I live on the edge.
[Zoe jumps six of his marbles]

Jayne: Nice work, dumbass.

Mal: [as Zoe chuckles] I've given some thought to moving off the edge. Not an ideal location. Might get a place in the middle.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: chinese checkers
“[Jayne takes out Crow with leg shot]

Mal: Nice shot!

Jayne: [sitting on the floor, drugged] I was aiming for his head.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: shooting, Missing
“Book: I wish I could help.
[Inara turns to face him & he realizes what he said] I mean...I don't wanna help—not help help, but—not with the thieving, but— [Inara smiles, tries not to laugh]

Book: I do feel awfully useless.

Inara: You could always pray they make it back safely.

Book: I don't think the captain would much like me praying for him.

Inara: Don't tell him. I never do.”
— Inara Serra, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: useless, prayer
“Simon: So, what are we doing?

Kaylee: [looks up] Oh, crime.

Simon: Crime! Good! Okay! Crime.

Kaylee: It's a train heist. See we fly over the train car, the captain and Zoë 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: So you've done this before?

Kaylee: [laughs] Oh, hell no….[serious]…But I think it's gonna work.”
— Simon Tam, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Crime, train heist
“Kaylee: So, what happened? Another terrible brawl?

Zoë: [smiling] Oddly enough, there was.

Wash: Are you getting my wife into trouble?

Mal: Wha—I didn't start it. I just wanted a quiet drink.

Zoë: 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.”
— Kaylee Frye, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: brawl, bar, trouble, Dementia, Paranoid
“Jayne: [as Lund raises a gun] Hey, hey, hey, them ain't kosherized rules.

Lund: I'm thinkin' somebody needs to put you down, dog. What do you think?

Mal: I'm thinking we'll rise again.

[Serenity rises into view behind them]

Wash: [over loudspeaker] Every man there go back inside, or we will blow a new crater in this little moon.
[door opens and Jayne, Zoe and Mal run onto the ship; watching the men from the bar retreat inside, Mal waves goodbye as the door closes]

Jayne: Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it.
[laughing] 'Blow a new crater in this moon.'”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: yokels, kosher, crater, Moon, Guns
“Simon: [looking at Mal's swollen knuckles] 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: Hmm. I suppose so.”
— Simon Tam, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: fights, closed fist
“If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.”
— Shepherd Derrial Book, Firefly, Season 1: Our Mrs. Reynolds
Tagged: Child Molestors, Sexual Advantage, Hell, Threats
“How we treat our dead is part of what makes us different...than those did the slaughtering.”
— Shepherd Derrial Book, Firefly, Season 1: Our Mrs. Reynolds
Tagged: Death, burial, slaughtering
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