Zoe quotes from Firefly

Zoe

Cap'n'll come up with a plan.

Kaylee

Well, that's good. Right?

Zoe

Possible you're not recalling some of his previous plans.

Zoe

You sanguine about the kind of reception we're apt to receive on an Alliance ship, Cap'n?

Mal

Absolutely. [pauses] What's "sanguine" mean?

Zoe

"Sanguine". Hopeful. Plus, point of interest: it also means "bloody".

Mal

Well, that pretty much covers all the options, don't it?

Simon

She has done nothing to you! If she dies tonight, it won't be God's will that killed her! It'll be you! Your lunacy, your... ignorance!

Simon

Light it.

River

Time to go.

Mal

Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?

Zoe

Big damn heroes, sir.

Mal

Ain't we just? [Moves to front of crowd, covers them with shotgun.] Sorry to interrupt, folks, but y'all got something that belongs to us, and we'd like it back.

This is a holy cleansing. You cannot think to thwart God's will.

Mal

Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. [But] It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really, it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.

Mal

Gotta say, Doctor, your talent for alienatin' folks is near miraculous.

Simon

Yes, I'm very proud.

Mal

Cut her down!

The girl is a witch.

Mal

Yeah, but she's our witch. [cocks gun] So cut her the hell down.

Mal

Zoe, would you get Wash?

[on the intercom] This is Zoe. We need all personnel in the cargo bay.

Mal

"All"? I said Wash!

Zoe

Captain, everyone should have a chance to congratulate you on your day of bliss.

Mal

There's no bliss. I don't know this girl!

Jayne

Then can I know her?

Zoe

Jayne! Don't sully this.

Mal

You are going to be cleaning out latrines with your face if you don't cut that out.

Wash

Is there any more where that came from?

Saffron

[to Mal] I didn't think to make enough for your friends... [to Zoe] But everything's laid out if you'd like to cook for your husband.

Wash

[nervously] Z— heh-heh... Isn't she quaint? I'm just not hungry.

Zoe

So… are you enjoying your own nubile little slave girl?

Mal

She wanted to make me dinner. Well, at least she's not cryin'.

Wash

I might. Did she really make fresh bao?

Wash

...Quaint!

Zoe

Remember that sex we were planning to have, ever again?

Mal

I would appreciate it if one person on this boat would not assume I'm an evil, lecherous hump.

Zoe

No one's saying that, sir.

Wash

Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.

Simon

They called it the "good-night" kiss.

Zoe

So you two were kissin'?

Book

Well, isn't that... special [Referring to the "special hell" he threatend Mal with when he would take sexual advantage of "Saffron"]?

Zoe

If she can fly this thing, why just take the shuttle?

Wash

Maybe she likes shuttles.

Wash

Some people juggle geese!

Mal

You woulda kissed her too.

Zoe

Wash didn't.

Mal

But she was naked! And all... articulate!

Wash

Okay! Everybody not talking about sex, in here. Everybody else, elsewhere.

River

They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger.

Book

River? Please, why don't you come on out?

River

No! Can't. Too much hair.

Book

Is— is that it?

Zoe

Hell, yes, preacher. If I didn't have stuff to get done, I'd be in there with her.

Zoe

River, honey, he's putting the hair away now.

River

Doesn't matter. It'll still be there. Waiting.

Zoe

You paid money for this, sir? On purpose?

Mal

Whoa! Come on, seriously, Zoe. What d' you think?

Zoe

Honestly, sir, I think you got robbed

Mal

Robbed? What? What d' you mean?

Zoe

It's a piece of fay-yoo.

Mal

Fay-yoo? Ah... ah... OK, she won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon, but she is solid. Ship like this, be with you till the day you die.

Zoe

Because it's a death trap.

Mal

That's not- You are very much lacking in imagination!

Zoe

I imagine that's so, sir.

Mal

Try to see past what she is, and on to what she can be.

Zoe

What's that, sir?

Mal

Freedom, is what.

Zoe

[pointing] I meant, what's that?

Mal

Oh. Yeah, just step around that. I think somethin' must've been livin' in here.

Mal

Tell you, Zoe, we get a mechanic, get her up and runnin' again, hire a good pilot, maybe a cook. Live like real people. Small crew, them as feel the need to be free, take jobs as they come. Ain't never have to be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.

Zoe

Get her running again?

Mal

Yeah.

Zoe

So not running now?

Mal

Not so much.

Reason? He's gonna talk to us about reason now.

Jayne

Yeah, that's a joke.

Mal

Which one you figure tracked us?

Zoe

The ugly one, sir.

Mal

[nods, pauses] Could you be more specific?

Do we look reasonable to you?

Mal

Well, looks can be deceiving.

Jayne

Not as deceiving as a low-down... dirty... deceiver.

Mal

Well said. Wasn't that well said, Zoe?

Zoe

Had a kind o' poetry to it, sir.

Mal

Look, forget anything I said. I'm sure you're treated very well. You get the perks, got your own room.

Mal

No? You share a bunk?

Jayne

[indicates third bandit] With that one.

Mal

[smirks] Really.

Jayne, this ain't funny!

Jayne

Huh, yeah, I ain't laughing.

Mal

You move on over to this side, we'll not only show you where the stuff's at, we'll see to [it] you get your fair share. Not no sad seven [percent].

Jayne

[interest piqued] Private room?

Jayne!

Mal

Your own room. Full run of the kitchen. Whole shot.

Jayne, I ain't asking-

Jayne

[shoots Marco in the leg] Shut up. [aims at the other bandit without looking] How big a room?

Zoe

Welcome back, sir.

Mal

I go someplace?

Very nearly.

Inara

We thought we lost you.

Mal

No, I've been right here.

Mal

Wash, you okay?

Wash

[a little buzzed from giving blood] Yeah, Mal, I'm fine.

Mal

You got a thing in your arm.

Wash

[smiling] Yeah.

Simon

Try not to speak. You're heavily medicated and you lost a lot of blood.

Simon

All right, I have to insist the Captain needs to rest.

Mal

Yeah. Think the doc might not be wrong about that one. Just gonna need a few.... [trails off as he closes his eyes]

Mal

Y'all gonna be here when I wake up?

Book

We'll be here.

Mal

Good. That's good.

Yep. Real beauty, ain't she? Yes, sir. Right smart purchase, this vessel.

I tell you what. You buy this ship, treat her proper - she'll be with you for the rest of your life.

Son? Hey, son!

You hear a word I been sayin'?

Mal

Patients were cynical, and not responding, and we couldn't bring 'em back.

Simon

They were cyanotic...

Mal

They were cyanotic...

Simon

...and not responsive...

Mal

...not responded— responsive...

Simon

...and we were unable to...

Zoe

Res—

Mal

Resuscitate them!

Simon

Which methods did you use?

Zoe

We— we tried pulmonary stimulators, and— and cardiac... we...

Simon

Infusers.

Zoe

Infusers!

Simon

What about cortical electrodes?

Jayne

Oh! [long pause] We forget 'em.

Simon

Let's try that again.

Mal

Pupils were fixed and dilapitated—

Simon

Dilated.

Mal

Dilated. Dilated! Ching-wah TSAO duh liou mahng! Shiny.

Jayne

Unable to get a neural...

Simon

Response.

Jayne

Response! Hell, I don't know. If I wanted schooling, I'd-a gone to school.