The Train Job

Mal: “I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind you.” (Zoe punches the thug out) “Drunks are so cute.”

Mal:  (into com) “Wash, we’ve got some local color happening. Your grand entrance would not go amiss right now.”

 

(Zoe, Mal, and Jayne are backed up against the edge of a cliff by a bunch of drunken brawlers)

Mal: “There’s just an acre of you fellas, ain’t there?” (to Zoe) “This is why we lost, you know. Superior numbers.”

Zoe: “Thanks for the re-enactment, sir.”

 

Mal: “Well they tell you: never hit a man with a closed fist. But it is, on occasion, hilarious.”

 

Mal: “Well, what about you, Shepherd? How come you’re flying about with us brigands? I mean, shouldn’t you be off bringing religiosity to the Fuzzie-Wuzzies or some such?”

Book: “Oh, I got heathens aplenty right here.”

Mal: “If I’m your mission, Shepherd, best give it up. You’re welcome on my boat. God ain’t.”

 

Inara: (pissed) “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: “And Kaylee, what the hell’s goin’ on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?”

 

Jayne: “Time for some thrilling heroics.”

 

Jayne: “These are stone killers, little man. They ain’t cuddly like me.”

 

Jayne: “Do you know what the chain of command is here? It’s the chain I go get and beat you with to show you who’s in command.”