“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.”
— Tim Minear, Joss Whedon, Malcolm Reynolds, Nathan Fillion, imdb.com