Quotes

Mal: "Get these bodies together!"

Zoe: "We got time for gravedigging?"

Mal: "Zoe, take this and rope them together; five or six of them, I want
them laid out on the nose of our ship."

Simon: "Are you insane?"

Mal: "Put Book front and center. He's our friend; we should honor him.
Kaylee! Find that kid who's taking a dirt nap with Baby Jesus; we need a
hood ornament. Jayne! Try not to steal too much of their shit."

Mal: "Don't f'in tell me what to goddamn do!"

Kaylee: (laughing) "Goddamn do?"

Mal: "TRAAAAAAAAAAPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Everyone: "Summer!"

[Ed: It was a running joke on-set that whenever anything went wrong, it was
actress Summer Glau (River)'s fault.]

Mal: "Whoa, Whoa, you see that? You see it, right? You see that?"

Mal: "Turn? Would you turn?"

Wash: "You want to fly this thing?"

Mal: "You want me... would you pull over? Is that what you call what you're
doing?"

Wash: "I will pull over this spaceship right now!"

Mal: "Christ almighty!"

Wash: "Dammit, I don't need a back spaceship driver!"

Mal: "Get out of the way!!!"

Wash: "Christ, that's it!" (throws up hands, leaves seat) "You wanna fly,
f'in fly!" (off set) "I'll be in my bunk."

Sheydra: "All the more reason the girls look to you. You've seen so much.
You're a figure of great romance to them."

Inara: "Great romance has nothing to do with being a companion, Sheydra; you
should know better."

Sheydra: (coyly) "I'm not the one who had a torrid affair with a pirate."

Inara: (shocked) "A who? With a what?"

Sheydra: "It's the talk of the house. The girls all trade stories in the
dorms at night."

Inara: "I... didn't... have a... pirate!"

Sheydra: "In one of the stories, you make love in a burning temple. I think
that's my favorite."

Book: "Lord - I'm walking your way. Let me in, for my feet are sore. My
clothes are ragged. Look in my eyes, Lord, and my sins will play out in
them as on the screen. Read them off. Forgive what you can, and send me
on my path. I will walk on until you give me rest."

Mal:"They take you down, I don't expect to grieve over it much. I'd like
to kill you myself if I ever see you again."

Operative: "You won't." (pause) "There is nothing left to see."

(Operative walks off, then stops near the engine, looking up at the ship
through the rain)

Operative: "Serenity. You lost everything in that battle. Everything you
had, everything you were. How did you go on?"

Mal: "You're still standing there when that engine starts, you never will
figure it out." (walks into Serenity) "What a whiner!"

Zoe: (to Wash, lovingly) "That was close." (They hug each other playfully)

Mal: "Hey, what are you guys doin?" (beat) "Making out?"

Wash: (flips off Mal) "Blow it, captain."

Mal: "Ready to go to work, darlin'?"

River: "There's no pattern to the pebbles here. Completely random. "I
tried to count them, but you drove too fast. Hummingbird.

Mal: "Alright. Great. Lets go."