Cliplist: Firefly and Serenity
Woo. This is a project and a half that I think I'm almost done with - well, this section anyway.
I have gone through Serenity and all 14 episodes of Firefly recording raw .wav sound clips of... well, whatever caught my fancy. Then I went back and cleaned them all up, trimming the ends and adding fades when possible (very short, in and out, just to keep the clips with background from being terribly jarring), then normalizing everything to a consistent volume. The resulting 237 clips is over an hour of yummy goodness, and includes a few clips from commentary and other extras, as well as quite a bit more music than might be expected. (I love the music, and tended to leave some in if it fit well.)
And here... here, I attempt to list everything I have. If you are willing to be patient with me, I will take requests of all of the following types: to upload a clip I have listed (or multiple, I'll probably zip though), to take an existing clip and cut it down (and upload), and to record a clip not listed (and upload). Speed of requests being filled is approximately in that order. When requesting, all I need to know is episode and number. (There's a few clips I split later, and a few that are lettered rather than numbered, so be careful.) For reference, the entirety of the folders is 688 MB - I can compress to .mp3 if requested, which will definitely speed up transfer time on any requested files. However, I don't think mp3s can be set as, for instance, Windows sound files or AIM alert sounds.
For my fingers' sake, names of the 9 main characters are abbreviated to one letter when indicating who is speaking. (Mal, Wash, Zoe, River, Simon, Kaylee, Book, Jayne, and Inara.) Episodes are in the DVD set order, not airing order. My spelling is atrocious, please exuse. Also excuse the lack of formatting - bolding or otherwise setting off the numbers would make my fingers strangle me, I think. Just look carefully, they're all there.
Serenity [pilot]
1 - M: We've done the impossible and that makes us mighty.
2 - W: Yes, yes. This is a fertile land and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... This Land. I think we should call it your grave! Aaah. Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Hahaha! Mine is an evil laugh. Now die! Raaah! Ohhh, no God! Raaar! Oh, dear God in heaven!
3 - K: I like to meet new people, they've all got stories...
J: Cap'n, can you stop her from being cheerful please?
M: I don't believe there's a power in the 'verse can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.
K: *smooch* I love my captain.
4 - K: How come you don't care where you're going?
B: Cause how you get there's the worthier part.
5 - J: I don't understand why we didn't leave that sumbitch in a pool of his own blood.
M: We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.
J: Can't get paid if you crawl away like a bitty little bug neither. I got a share of this job, and 10% of nothing is - lemme do the math. Nothin, and then nothin...
6 - J: We need coin.
M: Jayne, your mouth is talkin. You might want to look to that.
7 - Z: Now we have a boatful of citizens right on top of our stolen cargo. That's a fun mix.
M: Ain't no way in the 'verse they could find that compartment even if... even if they were lookin' for it.
Z: Why not?
M: Cause?
Z: Oh yeah. This is gonna go great.
M: If anyone gets nosy, you know, just... shoot 'em.
Z: Shoot 'em?
M: Politely.
8 - S: What do you pay him for?
M: What?
S: I was just wondering what his job is. On the ship.
M: Public relations.
9 - M: Oh, well, that ain't hardly a mosquito bite.
K: Big mosquito.
10 - S: Stay with me. Can you move your feet?
K: Are you asking me to dance?
11 - W: Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering-people issue?
12 - M: I've given Jayne here the job of finding out.
J: He was not specific as to how.
M: Now, you only gotta scare him.
J: Pain is scary.
M: Just do it right.
13 - J: Was gonna get me an ear, too.
14 - S: Men gone savage at the edge of space, killing--
Z: They're not stories.
S: What happens if they board us?
Z: If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order.
15 - M: Getting awful crowded in my sky.
16 - I: You're lost in the woods. We all are, even the captain. The only difference is, he likes it that way.
M: No, the only difference is, the woods are the only place I can see a clear path.
17 - S: The man's psychotic.
W: You are psychotic!
M: No, you shoulda seen his face. I'm a bad man.
18 - J: Testing. Testing, cap'n can you hear me?
M: I'm standing right here.
J: You're coming through good and loud.
M: Cause I'm standing right here.
J: Yeah, well, but - the transmitters...
19 - M: How closer are they?
W: About 20 seconds from spitting distance.
J: Lose 'em!
M: Gimme rear vid.
Z: [Chinese]
M: How close they need to be to fire those grapples?
J: Come on Wash, you dumbass, dodge 'em!
W: If everyone could just be quiet a moment...
20 - M: How we doin'?
W: I don't mean to alarm anybody, but I think we're being followed.
21 - W: Here's something you can't do.
22 - Z: Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.
W: Work, work, work.
23 - S: Are you always this sentimental?
M: Had a good day.
S: You had the Alliance on you, criminals and savages. Half the people on the ship have been shot or wounded, including yourself, and you're harboring known fugitives.
M: Well, we're still flyin'.
S: That's not much.
M: It's enough.
The Train Job
1 - J: Nice work, dumbass.
2 - Drunk: You didn't toast. You know, I'm thinking you're one of them independents.
M: And I'm thinking you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling. So why don't we just ignore each other until we go away?
Drunk: Independents were a bunch of cowardly, inbred pisspots. Shoulda been killed offa every world spinning.
M: Say that to my face.
Drunk: I said, you're a coward and a pisspot. Now what're you gonna do about it?
M: Nothing. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya. *punch* Drunks are so cute.
3 - M: Wash? We got some local color happening. Grand entrance would not go amiss.
4 - W: Every man there, go back inside, or we will blow a new crater in this little moon.
5 - S: We're on a ship.
R: Midbulk transport. Standard radion accellerator core, class code 03-K64. Firefly.
M: Well, that's something. I can't even remember all that.
6 - M: It's nothing.
S: I expect there's someone's face feels differently.
M: Well, they tell ya, never hit a man with a closed fist, but it is, on occasion, hilarious.
S: Mm. I suppose so.
7 - M: Well, how about you, Shepard? How come you're flying about with us brigands? I mean, shouldn't you be off bringing religiousity to the fuzzy wuzzies or somesuch?
B: Oh, I got heathens aplenty right here.
M: If I'm your mission, Shepard, best give it up. You're welcome on my boat. God ain't.
8 - I: You look for compatibility of spirit. There's an energy about a person that's difficult to hide. You try to feel that, and--
M: And then you try to feel the energy of their credit account, it has a sort of aura...
I: What did I say to you about barging into my shuttle?
M: That it was manly and impulsive?
I: Yes, precisely. Only the exact phrase I used was don't.
M: Well, you're holding my mechanic in thrall, and Kaylee - what the hell's going on in the engine room? Were there monkies? Some terrifying space monkies maybe got loose?
K: I had to rewire the grav thrust because somebody won't replace that crappy compression coil.
M: Well, get the place squared away. It's dangerous in there, and I ain't paying you to get your hair played at.
9 - Z: You don't think that changes the situation a bit?
M: I surely do! Makes it more fun!
Z: Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
M: Come on. We stick to the plan. We get the goods, we're back on Serenity before the train even reaches Paradiso, only now, we do it under the noses of 20 trained Alliance feds. And that makes them look all manner of stupid! Hell, this job, I would pull for free.
Z: Then can I have your share?
M: No.
Z: If you die, can I have your share?
M: Yes.
10 - J: Time for some thrilling heroics.
11 - M: Whatever happens, remember, I love you.
Z: Sir?
M: Because you're my wife.
Z: Right. Sir. Honey.
12 - M: That sounds like the Alliance. Unite all the planets under one rule so that everyone can be interfered with or ignored equally.
13 - J: You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here. Now we're finishing this deal, and then maybe, maybe we'll come back for those morons got themselves caught. You can't change that by getting all....bendy.
W: All what?
J: Got the--the light, from the console... keep you, lift you up... they shine like little angels... *thud*
W: Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?
S: I told him to sit down.
14 - K: Hey, how'd it go?
M: She hit me.
K: We tried to get him into the infirmary he's just...heavy.
W: Kept the engine running, we're good to go.
M: We're not going.
W: Not-what? Not-why?
Z: We're bringing the cargo back.
J: What? Whaddaya mean, back? I waited for you guys!
15 - M: Nice shot.
J: I was aimin' for his head.
16 - M: Now this is all the money Niska gave us in advance. You bring it back to him, tell him the job didn't work out. We're not thieves. Well, we are thieves - point is, we're not takin' what's his. Now we'll stay out of his way the best we can from here on in. You explain that's best for everyone, okay?
Krull: Keep the money. Use it to buy a funeral. It doesn't matter where you go or how far you fly, I will hunt you down, and the last thing you see will be my blade.
M: Darn. *thud-crunch* Now this is all the money Niska gave us in advance--
Thug: Oh, I got it. I'm good. Best thing for everyone. I'm right there with ya.
Bushwhacked
1 - S: Hello.
I: Who's winning?
S: I can't really tell, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
I: Well, we're pretty far from civilization.
2 - W: What the [Chinese] is going on in there?
Z: Not now, dear.
3 - S: Oh yes. He's a real beast. It's a wonder you're still alive.
J: Looked bigger when I couldn't see 'im.
4 - M: You tell me right now, little Kaylee, you really think you can do this?
K: Sure. Yeah. I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, it's not like you'll be able to yell at me.
Shindig
1 - M: Chance you might wanna head back to the ship.
I: I'm alright. This is entertaining, actually.
M: Yeah? What's entertaining?
I: I like watching the game. As with other situations, the key seems to be giving Jayne a heavy stick and standing back.
M: Still, might oughta clear out afore too much longer. Seems there's a thief about.
I: Thief?
M: Took this right off him. Now they earned that, with the sweat of their slave-trading brows...
I: Mal!
M: Oh, terrible shame. Course, they won't discover it 'til they go to order their next round of drinks.
Guy: Wei.
M: Good drinker, that one!
2 - W: Seem to you we clear out of Santo in a hurry?
Z: Seems to me we do that a lot.
3 - M: We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.
Z: Wasn't planning on the dirt-kissing, sir.
W: I wouldn't stand for it anyway, captain, jealous man like me. Closing in.
Z: Planet's coming up a mite fast.
W: Ah, that's just cause I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all.
M: Well, that happens, let me know.
W: Okay. Whoa. No, uh, we're good. We're good. It's okay.
4 - M: It sounds like the finest party I could imagine getting paid to go to.
I: I don't suppose you'd find it up to the standards of your outings. More conversation and somewhat less petty theft and getting hit with pool cues.
5 - K: Ooh, look at the pretties!
W: What am I looking at - the girls or the clothes?
J: There's girls?
Z: The clothes, please.
K: Say, look at the fluffy one.
Z: Too much foo-fer-ah. If I were gonna wear a dress, I'd want something with some slink.
W: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress?
J: I'll chip in.
Z: I can hurt you.
K: Only place I've seen something so nice is some of the things Inara has.
M: Well, we best be moving.
Z: I think she needs all that stuff, life she leads.
K: Well sure! Sometimes the customers buy her things, you know, the real rich men.
M: Come on, these ain't feathers I'm totin' here, yaknow?
K: I like the ruffles. Well, Inara gets to wear whatever she wants.
M: What are you gonna do in that rig? Flounce around the engine room? Be like a sheep walkin' on its hind legs.
Z: See you on the ship, Captain.
M: *sighs*
J: What, is she mad or something?
6 - J: This ain't bad.
Badger: There's a trick to it. Wood alcohol.
M: Now we're favored guests, treated to the finest in beverages that make you blind.
7a - M: Does this, um, does this seem kinda tight?
K: Shows off your backside. Did you see the chandelier? It's hovering.
M: What's the point of that, I wonder?
K: Oh, mangoes!
M: I mean, I see how they did it, I just ain't getting the why.
K: These girls have the most beautiful dresses. And so do I, how about that?
M: Well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery. You're supposed to make me look respectable.
K: Yes sir, Cap'n Tight-Pants.
7b - K: Is that him?
M: That's the buffet table.
K: Well, how can we be sure, unless we question it?
M: Fine, don't make yourself sick.
K: Shey-shey, Cap'n.
8 - W: Sleepiness is weakness of character, ask anyone.
Z: It is not.
W: You are acting captain. Know what happens if you fall asleep now?
Z: Jayne slits my throat and takes over.
W: That's right.
Z: And we can't stop it.
W: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral, something with imagery.
Z: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay.
W: I dunno, I'm starting to like this poetry idea. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower. Somewhat less attractive now that she's all corpsified and gross...
9 - Girl: It's not as good as last year.
K: Oh really? What'd they have last year?
Girl: Standards.
10 - Harrow: I know him, and I think he's a psychotic lowlife.
M: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community.
11 - I: I see Kaylee's here.
M: Cried Cinderella tears. You shoulda seen her when I told her she could have that layer cake she's wearing.
I: I think she looks adorable.
M: Yeah, but - I never said it.
12 - J: What we need's a diversion. I say Zoe gets naked.
W: Nope.
J: I could get naked.
[several people]: No!
13 - M: Cause in the case that it happens, that means he's the fellow who killed me, and I don't like fellows who kill me, not in general.
14 - M: It would be humiliating, having to lie there while the better man refuses to spill your blood. Mercy is the mark of a great man. *stab* Guess I'm just a good man. *stab* Well, I'm alright.
15 - I: Thank you for the wine, it's... very fresh.
M: To Kaylee, and her inter-engine fermentation system.
I: Are you in pain?
M: Absolutely. I got stabbed, you know. Right here.
I: I saw.
M: Don't care much for fancy parties. Too rough.
I: It wasn't entirely a disaster.
M: I got stabbed! Right here!
I: You also lined up exciting new crime.
Safe
1 - Young Simon: So, how'd the independents cut us off?
Young River: They were using dinosaurs.
Young Simon: [Chinese]
Father: Language, young man.
Young Simon: Sorry, Dad. The independents attacked us with dinosaurs.
Young River: Simon lost his head in the heat of battle.
Father: [Chinese] Because there were dinosaurs involved, I think we'll let it slide.
2 - R: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vacuuming systems.
M: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with. Long as she does it quiet-like.
3 - M: You know, they walk just as easy if you lead 'em.
J: I like smackin' 'em.
4 - R: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be but they forgot. Now they see sky, and they remember what they are.
M: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?
5 - M: This is the last time. Last time with cows. Hey, there's an idea regarding beagles, they have smallish droppings.
Z: I believe so, sir. Also, your disreputable men are here.
M: Time to go take their money.
6 - J: Dear Diary. Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today we were kidnapped by hill-folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.
7 - Z: You sanguine about the kind of reception we're apt to receive on an Alliance ship, Captain?
M: Absolutely. What's sanguine mean?
Z: Sanguine. Hopeful. Plus, point of interest, it also means bloody.
M: Well, that pretty much covers all the options, don't it?
8 - S: What's wrong?
Nurse: And they shall be among the people, and they shall speak truths and whisper secrets, and you will know them by their crafts.
S: What are you talking about?
Nurse: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!
9 - M: Well, look at this! Seems we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?
Z: Big damn heroes, sir.
M: Ain't we just. Sorry to interrupt, folks, but y'all got something that belongs to us, and we'd like it back.
Patron: This is a holy cleansing, you cannot think to thrwart God's will.
M: 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 kind of out of our way and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's looking to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting. Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folks is near miraculous.
S: Yes, I'm very proud.
M: Cut her down.
Patron: The girl is a witch.
M: Yeah, but she's our witch. So cut her the hell down.
10 - S: So finally a decent wound on this ship and I miss out. I'm sorry.
M: Well, you were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.
S: Captain - why did you come back for us?
M: You're on my crew.
S: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back?
M: You're on my crew. Why're we still talkin' about this?
Our Mrs. Reynolds
1 - I: So explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress?
M: Tactics, woman! Needed her in the back! Besides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice, there's a whole...airflow.
I: And you'd know that because...?
M: You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery.
I: Best keep it that way. I withdraw the question.
2 - M: Who are you?
Saffron: Mr. Reynolds, sir... I'm your wife.
3 - W: You brute.
K: Oh, sweetie, don't feel bad. He makes everybody cry. He's like a monster.
M: I'm not a monster!
4 - M: How drunk was I last night?
J: I dunno. I passed out.
5 - M: Someone ever tries to kill you, you kill 'em right back.
6 - M: You got the right, same as anyone, to live and try to kill people.
7 - B: 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 molestors and people who talk at the theatre.
M: Wha--I'm not--Preacher, you got a smutty mind!
B: Perhaps I spoke out of turn.
M: Per-maybe-haps, I'm thinkin'.
B: I apologize. I'll make her up a room in the passenger dorm.
M: Good.
B: The special hell.
8 - I: Yes, great. I wish you hundreds of fat children.
9 - J: Do I have your attention?
M: Kinda going to extremes here, ain't we?
J: There's times I think you don't take me seriously. I think that oughta change.
M: Do you think it's likely to?
J: You got something you don't deserve.
M: And it's brought me a galaxy of fun, I'm here to tell ya.
J: Six men came to kill me one time. The best of 'em carried this. It's a Callahan full-bore autolock. Customized trigger, double-cartridge thorough-gauge. It is my very favorite gun.
M: [Chinese] Are you offerin' me a trade?
J: A trade? Hell, it's theft! This is the best damn gun made by man. It has extreme sentimental value. It's miles more worthy'n what you got.
M: What I got? She has a name.
J: So does this! I call it Vera.
M: Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
J: Dammit, Mal, I'd treat her okay.
M: She's not to be bought. Nor bartered, or borrowed, or lent. She's a human woman, doesn't know a damn thing about the world and needs our protection.
J: I'll protect her!
M: Jayne. Go play with your rain stick.
10 - W: Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent 6 weeks on a moon where the principle form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese - goslings - they were juggled.
Z: Of course. The man rushes in to defend her.
W: I'm talking about geese.
11 - M: Oh. Good Bible.
12 - M: Oh, I'm gonna go to the special hell.
13 - W: Whoa. Good myth.
14 - I: I guess we've lied enough.
Saffron: You're good.
I: You're amazing. Who are you?
Saffron: Malcom Reynold's widow.
15 - M: Is it Christmas?
16 - M: You woulda kissed her too.
Z: Wash didn't.
M: But she was naked! And all - articulate!
W: Okay! Everybody not talking about sex, in here. Everybody else, elsewhere.
17 - J: See, Vera? Dress yourself up, you get taken out somewhere fun.
18 - M: *smooch*
W: Captain, don't you know kissing girls makes you sleepy?
M: Sometimes I just can't help myself.
Jaynestown
1 - S: My God. You're like a trained ape - without the training.
2 - M: Jayne?
J: Yeah?
M: You wanna tell me how come there's a statue of you here, lookin' at me like I owe him something?
J: Wishin' I could, Cap'n.
M: No, seriously. Jayne. You wanna tell me--
J: Look, Mal, I got no ruttin' idea. I was here a few years back, like I said. Pulled a second-story, stole a lotta scratch from the magistrate up on the hill. But things went way south, I had to hightail it. They don't put you on a pedestal in town square for that.
M: Yeah, but I'm looking at some fair compelling evidence says they do!
S: This must be what going mad feels like.
W: I think they captured him, though. You know. Captured his essence.
K: Looks sorta angry, don't he?
W: Kinda what I meant.
3 - J: Aw, hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging around playing art critic 'til I get pinched by the man, how's about we move away from this eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our increasingly eerie-ass day? How's that?
M: I don't know. This here's a spectacle might warrant a moment's consideration.
K: Everywhere I go, his eyes keep following me.
4 - I: Every problem, Mr. Higgins, is an opportunity in disguise.
5 - B: What are we up to, sweetheart?
R: Fixing your Bible.
B: I, um... What?
R: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics - doesn't make sense.
B: No, no, you can't--
R: So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherant metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number, prime number, one goes into the house of eleven 11 times but always comes out one. Noah's ark is a problem.
B: Really.
R: We'll have to call it early quantum state phenomenon. Only way to fit 5,000 species of mammal on the same boat.
6 - Hero of Canton (dialogue intact). I refuse to type it all.
7 - R: I-I tore these out of your symbol, and they turned into paper. But I want to put them back.
8 - S: You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
K: Hamsters is nice.
S: To Jayne, the box-dropping, man-ape-gone-wrong-thing.
K: You know, you are pretty funny.
S: And you're pretty.... pretty.
K: What did you just say?
S: I said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in engine grease, you're--no, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
M: It's time to get out of this nuthouse. Got some planning to work out.
K: Now, Cap'n? Things are going so well.
M: I suppose. Jayne's certainly feeling better about life, but--
K: I said, things are going well.
M: Oh, well. Well, I tell you what. Jayne is stuck here with his adoring masses. Why don't you and Simon hang around and keep an eye on him for me?
R: If the snow on the roof is too heavy, then the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger.
B: River? Please, why don't you come on out?
R: No! Can't. Too much hair.
B: Is-is that it?
Z: Hell yes, Preacher. If I didn't have stuff to get done I'd be in there with her.
B: It's the rules of my order. Like the book, it symbolizes--
Z: Uh-huh. River, honey, he's putting the hair away now.
R: Doesn't matter. It'll still be there. Waiting.
9 - M: Where's my hero?
J: *singing* My love for me now ain't hard to explain, the hero of Canton, the man they call me.
10 - Fess: Aren't I supposed to be a man now?
I: A man is just a boy who's old enough to ask that question.
11 - R: Just keep walking, preacher-man.
Out of Gas
1 - M: A small crew. They must feel the need to be free, take jobs as they come. They 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.
2 - S: How did-how'd you know? River, did--
R: Day is a vestigial mode of time measuerement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. I didn't get you anything.
3 - R: Don't be afraid. That's what it says. Don't be afraid.
B: Yes.
R: But you are afraid.
B: Yes.
4 - Bester: Mal, what do you need two mechanics for?
M: I really don't.
5 - I: Oh, one further addendum. That's the last time you get to call me whore.
M: Absolutely. Never again.
6 - J: That's a good idea. Good idea. Tell us where the stuff's at, so I can shoot ya.
M: Point of interest? Offering to shoot us might not work so well as an incentive as you might imagine. Anyway, we've hidden it.
7 - J: Hey, you know, we'd have been back first except there's something wrong with Inara's shuttle. She done something to it, Mal. It smells funny.
I: I told you, that's incense.
J: So you say.
8 - M: You all gonna be here when I wake up?
B: We'll be here.
M: Good. Thas good.
Salesman: 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'?
Ariel
1 - J: What's the point of coming to the core if I can't even step off the boat?
M: You coulda got off with Shepard Book at Bathgate Abbey. Coulda been meditatin' on the wonders of your rock garden by now.
J: Beats just sittin'.
W: It is just sitting.
2 - R: He looks better in red.
3 - S: If I didn't know better, I'd say you were ready to save some lives.
4 - R: Two by two, hands of blue.
5 - K: Oh, hey there, Inara, how was your checkup?
I: Same as last year. What's going on here?
K: Oh, well, let's see. We killed Simon and River, stole a buncha medicine, and now the cap'n and Zoe are off springin' the others got snatched by the feds.
6 - M: The next time you decide to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face.
J: Can I come in?
War Stories
1 - B: A government is a body of people, usually noteably ungoverned.
2 - M: Ah, the pitter-patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots. SHUT UP!
3 - M: (over indistinct Kaylee) One of you is gonna fall and die and I'm not cleaning it up.
4 - K: No power in the 'verse can stop me.
5 - Z: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity?
W: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lamby toes.
6 - W: [long string of Chinese]
7 - J: I'll be in my bunk.
8 - J: I'll be in my bunk.
9 - M: Not so. There's plenty of orders of mine she didn't obey!
W: Name one!
M: She married you!
10 - W: Screw you!
M: Get in line!
11 - B: [Chinese that sounds like Klingon]
12 - J: You really think you can mount a 2-man frontal assault on Niska's skyplex and live?
W: Technically it's a one-man, one-woman assault. A unisex.
13 - Z: He won't be expecting it.
J: Right, cause they ain't insane!
K: Uh, I just got a wave from Inara. No luck with the counselor. What are they doing?
J: Fixin' to get themselves killed.
Z: We're gonna go get the captain.
K: Oh. Good. Can they do that?
J: No.
W: You know, there's a certain motto, a creed, among folks like us. You may've heard it. Leave no man behind.
J: Suicide.
14 - B: This should do.
Z: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin'?
B: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.
15 - Z: You coulda stayed in your bunk.
J: Coulda, shoulda, woulda.
W: We're set!
Z: Okay, people. If it moves, shoot it.
K: Unless it's the captain!
Z: Unless it's the captain.
16 - R: No power in the 'verse can stop me.
17 - M: So, I hear y'all took up arms in that little piece of action back there. How you faring with that, Doctor?
S: I don't know, I uh, I never, never shot anyone before.
B: I was there, son. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone yet.
18 - W: Mmm. Wife soup. I must've done good.
Z: Yes dear. You done good. *smooch*
19 - M: I know it's a difficult mission, but you and I have to get it on.
Z: I understand. We have no choice. Take me sir, take me hard.
J: Now something about that is just downright unsettlin'.
W: We'll be in our bunk.
J: Aw, hey! Free soup!
A - Mal and Wash singing "Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand" from the commentary.
Trash
1 - Saffron: But face it, hubby. I'm really hot.
2 - M: No, let's set a course for the lonely, rich, yet appropriately hygenic, man. I'll tell Wash, we can park there for a month.
3 - M: How about I stay out of your whoring--
I: Well that didn't take long.
M: --you keep out of my thieving. I know my job very well, thank you very much.
I: Right, you're a criminal mastermind. What was the last cargo we snuck by the Alliance to transport? *Mal mumbles* What was the cargo?
M: They were dolls.
I: They were little geisha dolls with big heads that wobbled!
M: Hey, people love those!
I: And what exactly was our net profit on the famous wobbly-headed doll caper?
M: Our cut? So you're in the gang now?
I: Well, sine I can't seem to find work as a Companion, I might as well become a petty thief like you.
M: Petty?
I: I did't mean petty.
M: What did you mean?
I: Sua-shi?
M: That's Chinese for petty.
I: No, that's a narrow... There are nuances of meaning that--
M: Maybe you shoulda stuck with your wiles.
4 - R: She's a liar and no good will come of her.
J: Well, as a rule I say girlfolk ain't to be trusted.
R: Jayne is a girl's name.
J: Well Jayne ain't a girl! She starts in on that girl's name thing, I'll show her good and all I got man-parts.
S: I'm trying to think of a way for you to be cruder. I just... it's not coming.
5 - Durran: Now I'm intruding.
Saffron: Durran, this isn't what it looks like.
M: Unless it looks like we're stealing your priceless Lassiter, because that's what we're doing. Don't ask me about the gun though, cause that's new.
Durran: Well, I appreciate your honesty. Not, you know, a lot, but...
Saffron: Durran, you don't know what he's forced me to--
Durran: Stop. Yolanda, please just stop.
6 - M: No one's killing any folk today on account of we got a very tight schedule, Yo-Saff-Bridge.
7 - M: I seen you without your clothes on before. Never thought I'd see you naked.
8 - M: A brilliant, beautiful, evil, double-crossing snake. Cheer up, weepy. You made yourself a boatload of hard cash today. Can question the meaning of life on a floaty island of your own for a while.
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down?
M: I won't.
Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster.
9 - Saffron: What are you doing here?
I: Oh, just my part of the job.
Saffron: What part of the job?
I: You know. I put on the big act, storm away in a huff, then I fly off, wait for you to double-cross Mal, beat you to the rendevous spot, and grab the loot before you can get to it. What? You didn't see it coming?
10 - I: You know, I'm a little disappointed. Some of the crew's performances weren't quite as nuanced as they could've been. Thought they might've tipped the fact that we were playing you from the very second Mal took you out of that crate. Oh well. Guess not.
11 - I: (over Saffron protesting) You're not gonna die, you big baby. The authorities will be here in a few hours to dig you out.
12 - J: Das crazy talk.
13 - R: Also... I can kill you with my brain.
14 - I: You call this going well?
M: We got the loot, didn't we?
I: Yes, but--
M: Then I call it a win! What's the problem?
I: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere or the part where you have no clothes?
M: All according to plan.
I: Really? I thought the plan was for me to act as a fail-safe in case everything else went wrong. Like, for instance, if Saffron disabled Serenity and left you for dead.
M: Nonsense! You had a key role to play in this. How sad would you have been if you hadn't gotten to play it?
I: Heartbroken.
M: See? All according to plan. Wash, take us out of the world. Zoe, contact Brennert and Ellison, see if they'd be interested in fencing a priceless artifact for us. What?
K: Good work, Cap'n.
M: Thank you, Kaylee. Good day.
The Message
1 - S: Yep. It's a cow fetus.
K: Guess so. Does seem to have an awful lot of limbs.
S: It's mutated.
K: But cow? How do you figure?
S: It's upside-down.
K: Oh yeah. Cow.
S: And I'm out 12 bits.
2 - S: Oh, plus, every other girl I know is married, professional, or closely related to me, so... you're more or less - you're literally the only girl in the world.
K: Hmm. That's a hell of a thing to say.
S: I was joking.
K: Oh, no, no, I get it, I do. Back on Osirus you probably had nurses and debutantes crawling all over you, but down here at the bottom of the barrel it's just me.
S: No, that's not even--
K: I'm glad I rated higher than dead Bessie here. [Chinese]
W: Oh my God, it's grotesque! Oh, and there's something in a jar.
Z: Scare her away again, did ya?
S: This may come as a shock but I'm actually not very good at talking to girls.
Z: Why, is there someone you are good at talking to?
W: Do not fear me! Ours is a peaceful race and we must live in harmony.
3 - R: My food is problematic.
J: Girl's a mind-reading genius, can't even figure out how to eat ice planet.
4 - I: So, do aliens live among us?
K: Yeah, one of 'em's a doctor.
5 - J: How's it sit? Pretty cunning, dontcha think?
K: I think it's the sweetest hat ever.
W: Man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.
J: Damn straight!
M: Well, let's hope we get some funny hats too.
6 - J: What'd y'all order a dead guy for?
7 - Tracey: Thanks. I didn't know you were out there.
Z: Sort of the point. Stealth. You may've heard of it.
Tracey: I don't think they covered that in basic.
Z: Well, at least they covered dropping your weapon so you could eat beans and get yourself shot.
Tracey: Yeah, I got a badge in that. Won't happen again.
Z: It does, I'm just gonna watch.
8 - Z: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let them know where you are.
M: Wooo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah you do! Come on! Come on! Yaaaaah! Woo-hoo!
Z: Course there are other schools of thought.
M: That was bracing! They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself!
9 - M: Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is, die of old age before it finds you.
10 - R: You are such a boob.
11 - W: Police procedure has changed since I was little.
M: He calls back, you keep him occupied.
W: What do I do? Shadow puppets?
12 - Tracey: Um, Sarge?
M: Yeah?
Tracey: I think I'm nekkid.
13 - M: All right. You wanna explain to me why you got yourself all corpsified and mailed to me?
14 - W: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge!
Z: He ain't dead.
W: Oh.
15 - W: Wohoho! This kinda flying really wakes up a guy!
M: Awake helps.
16 - Womack: That hat makes you look like an idiot.
17 - M: You know the old saying.
Tracey: When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that...
Z: You find someone to carry you.
Heart of Gold
1 - I: Hi.
M: Bwaaah!
I: Sorry. Didn't mean to startle.
M: You didn't. I was just, uh... Bwah! That's more like a - that's a warrior-like - strikes fear into the hearts of--you know, not altogether wise, sneaking up on a fella when he's handling his weapon.
2 - I: In that case, every well-bred petty crook knows that the small concealable weapons always go to the far left of the place setting.
3 - M: This distress wouldn't happen to be takin' place in someone's pants, would it?
4 - J: Don't know these folks, don't much care to.
M: They're whores.
J: I'm in.
5 - J: That's the whorehouse?
I: Yes.
J: How come it looks like a frozen dinner pack?
K: Solar sheeting. Cheap power.
J: Hope the whores are prettier than the house.
6 - J: Whoop! My John Thomas is about to pop off and fly around the room, there's so much tasty in here!
W: Would be you'd get your most poetical about your pecker.
7 - K: Everyone's got somebody. Wash, tell me I'm pretty.
W: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion.
K: Cause I'm pretty?
W: Cause you're pretty.
8 - M: Inara? Think you can stoop to being on my arm?
I: Will you wash it first?
9 - M: Well, lady, I must say, you're my kind of stupid.
10 - Nandi: It was the dulcimer.
M: The dulcimer drove you out of Sihnon? What, did you kill a dulcimer in a terrible passion?
Nandi: Actually, yes.
M: And now that dulcimer's family is out to get even. I get it.
11 - I: One of the virtues of not being puritanical about sex is not feeling embarassed afterwards. You should look into it.
Objects in Space
1 - K: You couldn't possibly!
S: No, I wish I was lying. I just, you know, we'd all just made surgeon. That was it, we were the elite. The world was ours, you know?
K: So you had to be naked?
S: Naked, yes. And on top of the statue of Hippocrates. Can you just picture me?
K: What, naked? Oh, well, hmm, let's see, I'm gonna have to conjure up a... yeah, that's gonna be difficult. So did the feds come?
S: Mm. There were no feds. Until I started singing. No, this is not--
K: What did you sing?
S: This is not funny. This, this is a morality tale about the evils of sake. *all background cuts out* I would be there right now. *resume* I mean, it was, it was either that or the national anthem. Reports vary.
K: You don't remember any of this?
S: I remember talking the feds out of telling my father. Or paying the feds out of telling my father, I get fuzzy on aspects.
2 - B: I just direct my energy elsewhere.
J: You mean like masturbatin'?
B: I hope you're not thinking of taking orders yourself.
J: Heh. That'll be the day.
3 - J: Saint Jayne! It's got a ring to it.
B: I'm just trying to remember how many miracles you've performed.
J: I once hit a guy in the neck from 500 yards with a bent scope. Don't that count upstairs?
B: Oh, it'll be taken into consideration.
J: (faint) You make that sound kinda ominous.
4 - R: It's just an object. Doesn't mean what you think.
All: (overlapping, indistinct)
M: I'm not mad, just let me - thank you. Fully loaded, safety off. This here is a recipe for unpleasentness. Does she understand that?
R: She understands. She doesn't comprehend.
M: Well, I'm glad we've made that distinction. No touching guns. Okay?
R: No touching.
S: River--
R: It's getting very very crowded!
5 - S:--her system can't eventually break down, and--
M: When I want a lot of medical jargon, I'll talk to a doctor.
S: You are talking to a doctor.
6 - W: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next?
Z: Either blow us all up, or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up.
W: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
7 - Z: Sir, I know she's unpredictable, but I don't think she'd harm anyone.
J: Butcher's knife!
Z: Anyone we can't spare, I mean.
8 - J: Are you saying she's a witch?
W: Yes Jayne. She's a witch. She has had congress with the beast.
J: She's in Congress?
W: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!
9 - W: Psychic though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
Z: We live in a spaceship, dear.
W: So?
10 - J: Well, I don't like the idea of someone hearing what I'm thinking.
I: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
11 - S: Goodnight.
K: Don't let the space bugs bite. Space bugs?
12 - Early: Maybe I've always been here.
13 - S: Are you Alliance?
Early: Am I a lion?
S: What?
Early: Don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though. I have a mighty roar.
14 - S: So you're a bounty hunter.
Early: That ain't it at all.
S: Then what are you?
Early: I'm a bounty hunter.
15 - S: You're out of your mind.
Early: That's between me and my mind.
16 - Early: Man is stronger by far than woman, yet only woman can create a child. Does that seem right to you?
17 - R: You're wrong, Early.
Early: I'm not wrong, dumpling, I will shoot your brother dead if you don't--
R: (overlapping) Wrong about River. River's not in the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted. Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
Early: Not sure I take your meaning there.
R: I'm not on the ship. I'm in the ship. I am the ship.
S: River...
R: River's gone.
Early: Then who exactly are we talking to?
R: You're talking to Serenity. And Early? Serenity is very unhappy.
18 - Early: Where'd she go?
S: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a spaceship, don't look at me.
Early: That's some nonsensical crap. Ain't nobody can do that. You somewhere on this boat. Somewhere with a com, playing games! *River giggles* That's somewhat unsettling.
19 - S: He's really very... gentle. And fuzzy. We're becoming fast friends. *River giggles*
Early: You folks are all insane.
S: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
20 - M: What the hell's going on here?
R: I need you to do me a favor, Captain.
M: There was a guy. He's very blurry. You gotta be careful. How come there's a guy on board and how come you're all of a sudden the ship?
R: I know you have questions--
M: That would be why I just asked them.
R: But there isn't a lot of time, Captain. I need you to trust me.
M: Am I dreaming?
R: We all are. Don't make faces.
21 - Early: You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport, yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
S: What'd he do?
Early: Who?
S: The midget.
Early: Arson. The little man loved fire.
22 - R: Permission to come aboard?
M: You know, you ain't quite right.
R: It's the popular theory.
M: Go on, get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan.
R: He takes so much looking after.
23 - S: Okay, now very gently pull that aside...
Z: This is really not my area of expertise, Doctor. I tend to be putting these into people more than the other thing.
W: Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow-mop.
S: You got the bullet. Okay... I'm just gonna pass out for a minute, but you're doing great.
M: And we live to fight another day.
I: Any chance that [Chinese] might survive?
M: Air he had left, I'd say his chance would be about one in.. a very large number. Ain't odds I'd play. How's your lip?
B: I just feel such a fool.
J: Yeah, all them years of priest training, taken out by one bounty hunter.
B: Don't get me wrong, I gave him a hell of a fight.
J: Epic, I'm guessing.
B: There'll be poems and songs, just you wait.
J: At least you got some play. I missed every damn thing.
K: And then his folks swung by to fetch him, and it turns out he's like 14 years old. I mean he musta been some kind of genetic experiment, cause I swear this guy was, uh... Oh, my daddy whupped me so hard. Oh. Well I'm at fours. Let's see you match that.
R: I can win this.
K: Oh, I'm hearing a lot of talk, there, genius. Come on. Show me what you got.
Early: Well, here I am.
Serenity
1 - Teacher: River. We're not telling people what to think. We're just trying to show them how.
2 - Operative (hence, Op): Secrets are not my concern. Keeping them is.
3 - M: What was that?
W: Did you see that?
M: Was that the primary buffer panel?
W: It did seem to resemble--
M: Did the primary buffer panel just fall off my gorram ship for no apparent reason?
W: Looks like.
M: I thought Kaylee just checked the entry couplings. I am very sure--
W: Yeah, well, if she doesn't get us some extra flow from the engine room to offset the burn-through, this landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
M: Define interesting.
W: Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die?
M: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we might experience some slight turbulance and then explode. Can you shave the vector?
W: I'm doing it, it's not enough!
M: Well, just get us on the ground.
W: That part'll happen pretty definitely.
J: We're gonna explode? I don't wanna explode!
M: Jayne, how many weapons you planning on takin'? You only got the two arms.
J: Well, I just get excitable as to choice, like to have my options open.
M: I don't plan on any shooting taking place during this job.
J: Yeah, well, what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar.
M: No grenades.
J: Huh? Aww.
M: No grenades.
Z: We crashin' again?
M: Talk to your husband. Mule prepped?
Z: Good to go, sir, just loadin' her up. Those grenades?
J: Yeah, cap'n doesn't want 'em.
Z: We're robbing the place, we're not occupying it.
4 - S: I'm not worried.
M: Fear's nothing to be ashamed of, Doctor.
S: This isn't fear. This is anger.
M: Well. Kinda hard to tell one from t'other, face like yours.
S: Well, I imagine if it were fear my eyes would be wider.
M: Mm. I'll keep a lookout for that next time.
5 - S: If there's fighting, drop to the floor or run away. It's okay to leave them to die.
M: Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection here. If anything happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears.
6 - Z: You know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed. You can look it up later.
7 - M: The leg is good. It'll bleed plenty, and we avoid any necessary organs.
Guard: I was thinkin' more of a graze...
M: You don't want it to look like you just gave up.
Guard: No, I get that.
8 - M: Faster, faster, faster would be better!
9 - S: River?
R: I swallowed a bug.
10 - S: River, do you want to stay with them?
R: It isn't safe.
S: I fear it isn't safe anymore.
R: For them.
11 - K: How can you be so cold?
Z: Cap'n didn't make 'em fugitives.
K: But he coulda made 'em family, 'stead of keeping Simon from seein' I was there. And I carried such a torch, and we coulda... Full on a year now, I ain't had nothing 'twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries.
M: Oh, God! I can't know that!
J: I could stand to hear a little more.
12 - R: Miranda.
13 - M: What in the hell happened back there?
W: Start with the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a 90-pound girl, cause I don't think that's ever gettin' old.
14 - M: *following Jayne's guitar* Thanks for taking us in again, Shepard.
15 - B: When I talk about belief, why do you always assume I'm talking about God?
16 - M: We go in.
K: But how can you be sure Inara don't just wanna see you? Sometimes people have feelings. I'm referring here to people.
17 - M: Y'all were watching, I take it?
K: Yes.
M: Did you see us fight?
K: No.
M: Trap.
18 - M: Find us a home, I'll take the shuttle in closer. Zoe, ship is yours. And remember, anything happens to me, you don't hear from me within the hour, you take this ship, and you come and you rescue me.
Z: What? And risk my ship?
M: I mean it. It's cold out there, and I don't wanna get left.
19 - M: Dear Buddah, please bring me a pony, and a plastic rocket, and--
I: Mal, what are you doing here?
M: Well, you invited me.
I: I never thought for a second you'd be stupid enough to come!
M: Well that makes you kind of a tease, doesn't it?
20 - Op: I have to say, Captain, I'm impressed that you would come for her yourself. And that you would make it this far in that outfit.
M: I can be very graceful when I need to.
Op: I've no doubt.
21 - Op: It's worse than you know.
M: It usually is.
Op: That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, captain.
M: Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck 'til some idiot killed it. Yes, I've read a poem, try not to faint.
22 - Op: How long do you think you can really run from us?
M: I've never credited the Alliance with an overabundance of brains, and if you're the best they've got--
Op: Captain Reynolds, I should tell you so that you don't waste your time - you can't make me angry.
I: Please, spend an hour with him.
23 - Op: Nothing here is what it seems. He isn't the plucky hero, the Alliance isn't some evil empire, this is not the grand arena.
I: And that's not incense.
24 - M: Do you even know why they sent you?
Op: It's not my place to ask. I believe in something greater than myself. A better world. A world without sin.
M: So me and mine gotta lay down and die so you can live in your better world?
Op: I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there, any more than there is for you. Malcom, I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done.
25 - M: This is how it is. Anybody that doesn't wanna fly with me anymore, this is your port of harbor. There's a lotta fine ways to die, and I ain't waitin' for the Alliance to choose mine. I mean to confound these bungers. Take my shot at getting to Miranda, maybe find something I can use to get clear of this. So I hear a word outta any of you that ain't helpin' me out or takin' your leave, I will shoot you down.
26 - Op: Define disappeared.
27 - R: [Chinese] Please God make me a stone.
J: She is starting to damage my calm.
Z: Jayne!
J: She's right!
28 - M: Sure as I know anything, I know this: They will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.
29 - J: Shepard Book used to tell me, can't do something smart, do something right.
30 - Op: Target the Reavers. Target the Reavers! Target everyone! Somebody FIRE!
31 - W: I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
32 - M: What the hell?
W: It's okay. I'm a leaf on the wind!
M: What does that mean?
33 - J: Alright, let's move these crates back there for cover. Make sure they ain't filled with nothin' goes boom.
34 - Lovebot: They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal.
35 - S: My one regret in all of this is never being with you.
K: With me? You mean to say as... sex?
S: I mean to say.
K: Hell with this. I'm gonna live.
36 - S: Hey. I hate to leave.
R: You won't. You take care of me, Simon. You've always taken care of me. My turn.
37 - M: Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well, I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm about to say.
R: I do. But I like to hear you say it.
M: Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turn of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting afore she keels... makes her a home.
R: Storm's getting worse.
M: We'll pass through it soon enough.
A - Firefly theme on solo guitar, from the end of the credits.
B - Joss: And the story should end there, but it doesn't. Because the people who made the show, and the people who saw the show, which is roughly the same number of people, fell in love with it a little bit. Too much to let it go. Too much to lay down arms when the battle looked pretty much lost. In Hollywood, people like that are called unrealistic, quixotic, obsessive... In my world, they're called Browncoats.
C - Joss: Cause remember, they tried to kill us. They did kill us - and here we are. We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.
[Note: B and C from an introduction to a prescreening of Serenity, off the special features.]
..I need an icon for this fandom. And new fingers, I think I broke mine.
I have gone through Serenity and all 14 episodes of Firefly recording raw .wav sound clips of... well, whatever caught my fancy. Then I went back and cleaned them all up, trimming the ends and adding fades when possible (very short, in and out, just to keep the clips with background from being terribly jarring), then normalizing everything to a consistent volume. The resulting 237 clips is over an hour of yummy goodness, and includes a few clips from commentary and other extras, as well as quite a bit more music than might be expected. (I love the music, and tended to leave some in if it fit well.)
And here... here, I attempt to list everything I have. If you are willing to be patient with me, I will take requests of all of the following types: to upload a clip I have listed (or multiple, I'll probably zip though), to take an existing clip and cut it down (and upload), and to record a clip not listed (and upload). Speed of requests being filled is approximately in that order. When requesting, all I need to know is episode and number. (There's a few clips I split later, and a few that are lettered rather than numbered, so be careful.) For reference, the entirety of the folders is 688 MB - I can compress to .mp3 if requested, which will definitely speed up transfer time on any requested files. However, I don't think mp3s can be set as, for instance, Windows sound files or AIM alert sounds.
For my fingers' sake, names of the 9 main characters are abbreviated to one letter when indicating who is speaking. (Mal, Wash, Zoe, River, Simon, Kaylee, Book, Jayne, and Inara.) Episodes are in the DVD set order, not airing order. My spelling is atrocious, please exuse. Also excuse the lack of formatting - bolding or otherwise setting off the numbers would make my fingers strangle me, I think. Just look carefully, they're all there.
Serenity [pilot]
1 - M: We've done the impossible and that makes us mighty.
2 - W: Yes, yes. This is a fertile land and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... This Land. I think we should call it your grave! Aaah. Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Hahaha! Mine is an evil laugh. Now die! Raaah! Ohhh, no God! Raaar! Oh, dear God in heaven!
3 - K: I like to meet new people, they've all got stories...
J: Cap'n, can you stop her from being cheerful please?
M: I don't believe there's a power in the 'verse can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.
K: *smooch* I love my captain.
4 - K: How come you don't care where you're going?
B: Cause how you get there's the worthier part.
5 - J: I don't understand why we didn't leave that sumbitch in a pool of his own blood.
M: We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.
J: Can't get paid if you crawl away like a bitty little bug neither. I got a share of this job, and 10% of nothing is - lemme do the math. Nothin, and then nothin...
6 - J: We need coin.
M: Jayne, your mouth is talkin. You might want to look to that.
7 - Z: Now we have a boatful of citizens right on top of our stolen cargo. That's a fun mix.
M: Ain't no way in the 'verse they could find that compartment even if... even if they were lookin' for it.
Z: Why not?
M: Cause?
Z: Oh yeah. This is gonna go great.
M: If anyone gets nosy, you know, just... shoot 'em.
Z: Shoot 'em?
M: Politely.
8 - S: What do you pay him for?
M: What?
S: I was just wondering what his job is. On the ship.
M: Public relations.
9 - M: Oh, well, that ain't hardly a mosquito bite.
K: Big mosquito.
10 - S: Stay with me. Can you move your feet?
K: Are you asking me to dance?
11 - W: Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering-people issue?
12 - M: I've given Jayne here the job of finding out.
J: He was not specific as to how.
M: Now, you only gotta scare him.
J: Pain is scary.
M: Just do it right.
13 - J: Was gonna get me an ear, too.
14 - S: Men gone savage at the edge of space, killing--
Z: They're not stories.
S: What happens if they board us?
Z: If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order.
15 - M: Getting awful crowded in my sky.
16 - I: You're lost in the woods. We all are, even the captain. The only difference is, he likes it that way.
M: No, the only difference is, the woods are the only place I can see a clear path.
17 - S: The man's psychotic.
W: You are psychotic!
M: No, you shoulda seen his face. I'm a bad man.
18 - J: Testing. Testing, cap'n can you hear me?
M: I'm standing right here.
J: You're coming through good and loud.
M: Cause I'm standing right here.
J: Yeah, well, but - the transmitters...
19 - M: How closer are they?
W: About 20 seconds from spitting distance.
J: Lose 'em!
M: Gimme rear vid.
Z: [Chinese]
M: How close they need to be to fire those grapples?
J: Come on Wash, you dumbass, dodge 'em!
W: If everyone could just be quiet a moment...
20 - M: How we doin'?
W: I don't mean to alarm anybody, but I think we're being followed.
21 - W: Here's something you can't do.
22 - Z: Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.
W: Work, work, work.
23 - S: Are you always this sentimental?
M: Had a good day.
S: You had the Alliance on you, criminals and savages. Half the people on the ship have been shot or wounded, including yourself, and you're harboring known fugitives.
M: Well, we're still flyin'.
S: That's not much.
M: It's enough.
The Train Job
1 - J: Nice work, dumbass.
2 - Drunk: You didn't toast. You know, I'm thinking you're one of them independents.
M: And I'm thinking you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling. So why don't we just ignore each other until we go away?
Drunk: Independents were a bunch of cowardly, inbred pisspots. Shoulda been killed offa every world spinning.
M: Say that to my face.
Drunk: I said, you're a coward and a pisspot. Now what're you gonna do about it?
M: Nothing. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya. *punch* Drunks are so cute.
3 - M: Wash? We got some local color happening. Grand entrance would not go amiss.
4 - W: Every man there, go back inside, or we will blow a new crater in this little moon.
5 - S: We're on a ship.
R: Midbulk transport. Standard radion accellerator core, class code 03-K64. Firefly.
M: Well, that's something. I can't even remember all that.
6 - M: It's nothing.
S: I expect there's someone's face feels differently.
M: Well, they tell ya, never hit a man with a closed fist, but it is, on occasion, hilarious.
S: Mm. I suppose so.
7 - M: Well, how about you, Shepard? How come you're flying about with us brigands? I mean, shouldn't you be off bringing religiousity to the fuzzy wuzzies or somesuch?
B: Oh, I got heathens aplenty right here.
M: If I'm your mission, Shepard, best give it up. You're welcome on my boat. God ain't.
8 - I: You look for compatibility of spirit. There's an energy about a person that's difficult to hide. You try to feel that, and--
M: And then you try to feel the energy of their credit account, it has a sort of aura...
I: What did I say to you about barging into my shuttle?
M: That it was manly and impulsive?
I: Yes, precisely. Only the exact phrase I used was don't.
M: Well, you're holding my mechanic in thrall, and Kaylee - what the hell's going on in the engine room? Were there monkies? Some terrifying space monkies maybe got loose?
K: I had to rewire the grav thrust because somebody won't replace that crappy compression coil.
M: Well, get the place squared away. It's dangerous in there, and I ain't paying you to get your hair played at.
9 - Z: You don't think that changes the situation a bit?
M: I surely do! Makes it more fun!
Z: Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
M: Come on. We stick to the plan. We get the goods, we're back on Serenity before the train even reaches Paradiso, only now, we do it under the noses of 20 trained Alliance feds. And that makes them look all manner of stupid! Hell, this job, I would pull for free.
Z: Then can I have your share?
M: No.
Z: If you die, can I have your share?
M: Yes.
10 - J: Time for some thrilling heroics.
11 - M: Whatever happens, remember, I love you.
Z: Sir?
M: Because you're my wife.
Z: Right. Sir. Honey.
12 - M: That sounds like the Alliance. Unite all the planets under one rule so that everyone can be interfered with or ignored equally.
13 - J: You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here. Now we're finishing this deal, and then maybe, maybe we'll come back for those morons got themselves caught. You can't change that by getting all....bendy.
W: All what?
J: Got the--the light, from the console... keep you, lift you up... they shine like little angels... *thud*
W: Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?
S: I told him to sit down.
14 - K: Hey, how'd it go?
M: She hit me.
K: We tried to get him into the infirmary he's just...heavy.
W: Kept the engine running, we're good to go.
M: We're not going.
W: Not-what? Not-why?
Z: We're bringing the cargo back.
J: What? Whaddaya mean, back? I waited for you guys!
15 - M: Nice shot.
J: I was aimin' for his head.
16 - M: Now this is all the money Niska gave us in advance. You bring it back to him, tell him the job didn't work out. We're not thieves. Well, we are thieves - point is, we're not takin' what's his. Now we'll stay out of his way the best we can from here on in. You explain that's best for everyone, okay?
Krull: Keep the money. Use it to buy a funeral. It doesn't matter where you go or how far you fly, I will hunt you down, and the last thing you see will be my blade.
M: Darn. *thud-crunch* Now this is all the money Niska gave us in advance--
Thug: Oh, I got it. I'm good. Best thing for everyone. I'm right there with ya.
Bushwhacked
1 - S: Hello.
I: Who's winning?
S: I can't really tell, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
I: Well, we're pretty far from civilization.
2 - W: What the [Chinese] is going on in there?
Z: Not now, dear.
3 - S: Oh yes. He's a real beast. It's a wonder you're still alive.
J: Looked bigger when I couldn't see 'im.
4 - M: You tell me right now, little Kaylee, you really think you can do this?
K: Sure. Yeah. I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, it's not like you'll be able to yell at me.
Shindig
1 - M: Chance you might wanna head back to the ship.
I: I'm alright. This is entertaining, actually.
M: Yeah? What's entertaining?
I: I like watching the game. As with other situations, the key seems to be giving Jayne a heavy stick and standing back.
M: Still, might oughta clear out afore too much longer. Seems there's a thief about.
I: Thief?
M: Took this right off him. Now they earned that, with the sweat of their slave-trading brows...
I: Mal!
M: Oh, terrible shame. Course, they won't discover it 'til they go to order their next round of drinks.
Guy: Wei.
M: Good drinker, that one!
2 - W: Seem to you we clear out of Santo in a hurry?
Z: Seems to me we do that a lot.
3 - M: We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.
Z: Wasn't planning on the dirt-kissing, sir.
W: I wouldn't stand for it anyway, captain, jealous man like me. Closing in.
Z: Planet's coming up a mite fast.
W: Ah, that's just cause I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all.
M: Well, that happens, let me know.
W: Okay. Whoa. No, uh, we're good. We're good. It's okay.
4 - M: It sounds like the finest party I could imagine getting paid to go to.
I: I don't suppose you'd find it up to the standards of your outings. More conversation and somewhat less petty theft and getting hit with pool cues.
5 - K: Ooh, look at the pretties!
W: What am I looking at - the girls or the clothes?
J: There's girls?
Z: The clothes, please.
K: Say, look at the fluffy one.
Z: Too much foo-fer-ah. If I were gonna wear a dress, I'd want something with some slink.
W: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress?
J: I'll chip in.
Z: I can hurt you.
K: Only place I've seen something so nice is some of the things Inara has.
M: Well, we best be moving.
Z: I think she needs all that stuff, life she leads.
K: Well sure! Sometimes the customers buy her things, you know, the real rich men.
M: Come on, these ain't feathers I'm totin' here, yaknow?
K: I like the ruffles. Well, Inara gets to wear whatever she wants.
M: What are you gonna do in that rig? Flounce around the engine room? Be like a sheep walkin' on its hind legs.
Z: See you on the ship, Captain.
M: *sighs*
J: What, is she mad or something?
6 - J: This ain't bad.
Badger: There's a trick to it. Wood alcohol.
M: Now we're favored guests, treated to the finest in beverages that make you blind.
7a - M: Does this, um, does this seem kinda tight?
K: Shows off your backside. Did you see the chandelier? It's hovering.
M: What's the point of that, I wonder?
K: Oh, mangoes!
M: I mean, I see how they did it, I just ain't getting the why.
K: These girls have the most beautiful dresses. And so do I, how about that?
M: Well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery. You're supposed to make me look respectable.
K: Yes sir, Cap'n Tight-Pants.
7b - K: Is that him?
M: That's the buffet table.
K: Well, how can we be sure, unless we question it?
M: Fine, don't make yourself sick.
K: Shey-shey, Cap'n.
8 - W: Sleepiness is weakness of character, ask anyone.
Z: It is not.
W: You are acting captain. Know what happens if you fall asleep now?
Z: Jayne slits my throat and takes over.
W: That's right.
Z: And we can't stop it.
W: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral, something with imagery.
Z: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay.
W: I dunno, I'm starting to like this poetry idea. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower. Somewhat less attractive now that she's all corpsified and gross...
9 - Girl: It's not as good as last year.
K: Oh really? What'd they have last year?
Girl: Standards.
10 - Harrow: I know him, and I think he's a psychotic lowlife.
M: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community.
11 - I: I see Kaylee's here.
M: Cried Cinderella tears. You shoulda seen her when I told her she could have that layer cake she's wearing.
I: I think she looks adorable.
M: Yeah, but - I never said it.
12 - J: What we need's a diversion. I say Zoe gets naked.
W: Nope.
J: I could get naked.
[several people]: No!
13 - M: Cause in the case that it happens, that means he's the fellow who killed me, and I don't like fellows who kill me, not in general.
14 - M: It would be humiliating, having to lie there while the better man refuses to spill your blood. Mercy is the mark of a great man. *stab* Guess I'm just a good man. *stab* Well, I'm alright.
15 - I: Thank you for the wine, it's... very fresh.
M: To Kaylee, and her inter-engine fermentation system.
I: Are you in pain?
M: Absolutely. I got stabbed, you know. Right here.
I: I saw.
M: Don't care much for fancy parties. Too rough.
I: It wasn't entirely a disaster.
M: I got stabbed! Right here!
I: You also lined up exciting new crime.
Safe
1 - Young Simon: So, how'd the independents cut us off?
Young River: They were using dinosaurs.
Young Simon: [Chinese]
Father: Language, young man.
Young Simon: Sorry, Dad. The independents attacked us with dinosaurs.
Young River: Simon lost his head in the heat of battle.
Father: [Chinese] Because there were dinosaurs involved, I think we'll let it slide.
2 - R: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vacuuming systems.
M: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with. Long as she does it quiet-like.
3 - M: You know, they walk just as easy if you lead 'em.
J: I like smackin' 'em.
4 - R: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be but they forgot. Now they see sky, and they remember what they are.
M: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?
5 - M: This is the last time. Last time with cows. Hey, there's an idea regarding beagles, they have smallish droppings.
Z: I believe so, sir. Also, your disreputable men are here.
M: Time to go take their money.
6 - J: Dear Diary. Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today we were kidnapped by hill-folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.
7 - Z: You sanguine about the kind of reception we're apt to receive on an Alliance ship, Captain?
M: Absolutely. What's sanguine mean?
Z: Sanguine. Hopeful. Plus, point of interest, it also means bloody.
M: Well, that pretty much covers all the options, don't it?
8 - S: What's wrong?
Nurse: And they shall be among the people, and they shall speak truths and whisper secrets, and you will know them by their crafts.
S: What are you talking about?
Nurse: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!
9 - M: Well, look at this! Seems we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?
Z: Big damn heroes, sir.
M: Ain't we just. Sorry to interrupt, folks, but y'all got something that belongs to us, and we'd like it back.
Patron: This is a holy cleansing, you cannot think to thrwart God's will.
M: 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 kind of out of our way and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's looking to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting. Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folks is near miraculous.
S: Yes, I'm very proud.
M: Cut her down.
Patron: The girl is a witch.
M: Yeah, but she's our witch. So cut her the hell down.
10 - S: So finally a decent wound on this ship and I miss out. I'm sorry.
M: Well, you were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.
S: Captain - why did you come back for us?
M: You're on my crew.
S: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back?
M: You're on my crew. Why're we still talkin' about this?
Our Mrs. Reynolds
1 - I: So explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress?
M: Tactics, woman! Needed her in the back! Besides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice, there's a whole...airflow.
I: And you'd know that because...?
M: You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery.
I: Best keep it that way. I withdraw the question.
2 - M: Who are you?
Saffron: Mr. Reynolds, sir... I'm your wife.
3 - W: You brute.
K: Oh, sweetie, don't feel bad. He makes everybody cry. He's like a monster.
M: I'm not a monster!
4 - M: How drunk was I last night?
J: I dunno. I passed out.
5 - M: Someone ever tries to kill you, you kill 'em right back.
6 - M: You got the right, same as anyone, to live and try to kill people.
7 - B: 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 molestors and people who talk at the theatre.
M: Wha--I'm not--Preacher, you got a smutty mind!
B: Perhaps I spoke out of turn.
M: Per-maybe-haps, I'm thinkin'.
B: I apologize. I'll make her up a room in the passenger dorm.
M: Good.
B: The special hell.
8 - I: Yes, great. I wish you hundreds of fat children.
9 - J: Do I have your attention?
M: Kinda going to extremes here, ain't we?
J: There's times I think you don't take me seriously. I think that oughta change.
M: Do you think it's likely to?
J: You got something you don't deserve.
M: And it's brought me a galaxy of fun, I'm here to tell ya.
J: Six men came to kill me one time. The best of 'em carried this. It's a Callahan full-bore autolock. Customized trigger, double-cartridge thorough-gauge. It is my very favorite gun.
M: [Chinese] Are you offerin' me a trade?
J: A trade? Hell, it's theft! This is the best damn gun made by man. It has extreme sentimental value. It's miles more worthy'n what you got.
M: What I got? She has a name.
J: So does this! I call it Vera.
M: Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
J: Dammit, Mal, I'd treat her okay.
M: She's not to be bought. Nor bartered, or borrowed, or lent. She's a human woman, doesn't know a damn thing about the world and needs our protection.
J: I'll protect her!
M: Jayne. Go play with your rain stick.
10 - W: Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent 6 weeks on a moon where the principle form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese - goslings - they were juggled.
Z: Of course. The man rushes in to defend her.
W: I'm talking about geese.
11 - M: Oh. Good Bible.
12 - M: Oh, I'm gonna go to the special hell.
13 - W: Whoa. Good myth.
14 - I: I guess we've lied enough.
Saffron: You're good.
I: You're amazing. Who are you?
Saffron: Malcom Reynold's widow.
15 - M: Is it Christmas?
16 - M: You woulda kissed her too.
Z: Wash didn't.
M: But she was naked! And all - articulate!
W: Okay! Everybody not talking about sex, in here. Everybody else, elsewhere.
17 - J: See, Vera? Dress yourself up, you get taken out somewhere fun.
18 - M: *smooch*
W: Captain, don't you know kissing girls makes you sleepy?
M: Sometimes I just can't help myself.
Jaynestown
1 - S: My God. You're like a trained ape - without the training.
2 - M: Jayne?
J: Yeah?
M: You wanna tell me how come there's a statue of you here, lookin' at me like I owe him something?
J: Wishin' I could, Cap'n.
M: No, seriously. Jayne. You wanna tell me--
J: Look, Mal, I got no ruttin' idea. I was here a few years back, like I said. Pulled a second-story, stole a lotta scratch from the magistrate up on the hill. But things went way south, I had to hightail it. They don't put you on a pedestal in town square for that.
M: Yeah, but I'm looking at some fair compelling evidence says they do!
S: This must be what going mad feels like.
W: I think they captured him, though. You know. Captured his essence.
K: Looks sorta angry, don't he?
W: Kinda what I meant.
3 - J: Aw, hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging around playing art critic 'til I get pinched by the man, how's about we move away from this eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our increasingly eerie-ass day? How's that?
M: I don't know. This here's a spectacle might warrant a moment's consideration.
K: Everywhere I go, his eyes keep following me.
4 - I: Every problem, Mr. Higgins, is an opportunity in disguise.
5 - B: What are we up to, sweetheart?
R: Fixing your Bible.
B: I, um... What?
R: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics - doesn't make sense.
B: No, no, you can't--
R: So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherant metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number, prime number, one goes into the house of eleven 11 times but always comes out one. Noah's ark is a problem.
B: Really.
R: We'll have to call it early quantum state phenomenon. Only way to fit 5,000 species of mammal on the same boat.
6 - Hero of Canton (dialogue intact). I refuse to type it all.
7 - R: I-I tore these out of your symbol, and they turned into paper. But I want to put them back.
8 - S: You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
K: Hamsters is nice.
S: To Jayne, the box-dropping, man-ape-gone-wrong-thing.
K: You know, you are pretty funny.
S: And you're pretty.... pretty.
K: What did you just say?
S: I said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in engine grease, you're--no, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
M: It's time to get out of this nuthouse. Got some planning to work out.
K: Now, Cap'n? Things are going so well.
M: I suppose. Jayne's certainly feeling better about life, but--
K: I said, things are going well.
M: Oh, well. Well, I tell you what. Jayne is stuck here with his adoring masses. Why don't you and Simon hang around and keep an eye on him for me?
R: If the snow on the roof is too heavy, then the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger.
B: River? Please, why don't you come on out?
R: No! Can't. Too much hair.
B: Is-is that it?
Z: Hell yes, Preacher. If I didn't have stuff to get done I'd be in there with her.
B: It's the rules of my order. Like the book, it symbolizes--
Z: Uh-huh. River, honey, he's putting the hair away now.
R: Doesn't matter. It'll still be there. Waiting.
9 - M: Where's my hero?
J: *singing* My love for me now ain't hard to explain, the hero of Canton, the man they call me.
10 - Fess: Aren't I supposed to be a man now?
I: A man is just a boy who's old enough to ask that question.
11 - R: Just keep walking, preacher-man.
Out of Gas
1 - M: A small crew. They must feel the need to be free, take jobs as they come. They 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.
2 - S: How did-how'd you know? River, did--
R: Day is a vestigial mode of time measuerement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. I didn't get you anything.
3 - R: Don't be afraid. That's what it says. Don't be afraid.
B: Yes.
R: But you are afraid.
B: Yes.
4 - Bester: Mal, what do you need two mechanics for?
M: I really don't.
5 - I: Oh, one further addendum. That's the last time you get to call me whore.
M: Absolutely. Never again.
6 - J: That's a good idea. Good idea. Tell us where the stuff's at, so I can shoot ya.
M: Point of interest? Offering to shoot us might not work so well as an incentive as you might imagine. Anyway, we've hidden it.
7 - J: Hey, you know, we'd have been back first except there's something wrong with Inara's shuttle. She done something to it, Mal. It smells funny.
I: I told you, that's incense.
J: So you say.
8 - M: You all gonna be here when I wake up?
B: We'll be here.
M: Good. Thas good.
Salesman: 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'?
Ariel
1 - J: What's the point of coming to the core if I can't even step off the boat?
M: You coulda got off with Shepard Book at Bathgate Abbey. Coulda been meditatin' on the wonders of your rock garden by now.
J: Beats just sittin'.
W: It is just sitting.
2 - R: He looks better in red.
3 - S: If I didn't know better, I'd say you were ready to save some lives.
4 - R: Two by two, hands of blue.
5 - K: Oh, hey there, Inara, how was your checkup?
I: Same as last year. What's going on here?
K: Oh, well, let's see. We killed Simon and River, stole a buncha medicine, and now the cap'n and Zoe are off springin' the others got snatched by the feds.
6 - M: The next time you decide to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face.
J: Can I come in?
War Stories
1 - B: A government is a body of people, usually noteably ungoverned.
2 - M: Ah, the pitter-patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots. SHUT UP!
3 - M: (over indistinct Kaylee) One of you is gonna fall and die and I'm not cleaning it up.
4 - K: No power in the 'verse can stop me.
5 - Z: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity?
W: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lamby toes.
6 - W: [long string of Chinese]
7 - J: I'll be in my bunk.
8 - J: I'll be in my bunk.
9 - M: Not so. There's plenty of orders of mine she didn't obey!
W: Name one!
M: She married you!
10 - W: Screw you!
M: Get in line!
11 - B: [Chinese that sounds like Klingon]
12 - J: You really think you can mount a 2-man frontal assault on Niska's skyplex and live?
W: Technically it's a one-man, one-woman assault. A unisex.
13 - Z: He won't be expecting it.
J: Right, cause they ain't insane!
K: Uh, I just got a wave from Inara. No luck with the counselor. What are they doing?
J: Fixin' to get themselves killed.
Z: We're gonna go get the captain.
K: Oh. Good. Can they do that?
J: No.
W: You know, there's a certain motto, a creed, among folks like us. You may've heard it. Leave no man behind.
J: Suicide.
14 - B: This should do.
Z: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin'?
B: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.
15 - Z: You coulda stayed in your bunk.
J: Coulda, shoulda, woulda.
W: We're set!
Z: Okay, people. If it moves, shoot it.
K: Unless it's the captain!
Z: Unless it's the captain.
16 - R: No power in the 'verse can stop me.
17 - M: So, I hear y'all took up arms in that little piece of action back there. How you faring with that, Doctor?
S: I don't know, I uh, I never, never shot anyone before.
B: I was there, son. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone yet.
18 - W: Mmm. Wife soup. I must've done good.
Z: Yes dear. You done good. *smooch*
19 - M: I know it's a difficult mission, but you and I have to get it on.
Z: I understand. We have no choice. Take me sir, take me hard.
J: Now something about that is just downright unsettlin'.
W: We'll be in our bunk.
J: Aw, hey! Free soup!
A - Mal and Wash singing "Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand" from the commentary.
Trash
1 - Saffron: But face it, hubby. I'm really hot.
2 - M: No, let's set a course for the lonely, rich, yet appropriately hygenic, man. I'll tell Wash, we can park there for a month.
3 - M: How about I stay out of your whoring--
I: Well that didn't take long.
M: --you keep out of my thieving. I know my job very well, thank you very much.
I: Right, you're a criminal mastermind. What was the last cargo we snuck by the Alliance to transport? *Mal mumbles* What was the cargo?
M: They were dolls.
I: They were little geisha dolls with big heads that wobbled!
M: Hey, people love those!
I: And what exactly was our net profit on the famous wobbly-headed doll caper?
M: Our cut? So you're in the gang now?
I: Well, sine I can't seem to find work as a Companion, I might as well become a petty thief like you.
M: Petty?
I: I did't mean petty.
M: What did you mean?
I: Sua-shi?
M: That's Chinese for petty.
I: No, that's a narrow... There are nuances of meaning that--
M: Maybe you shoulda stuck with your wiles.
4 - R: She's a liar and no good will come of her.
J: Well, as a rule I say girlfolk ain't to be trusted.
R: Jayne is a girl's name.
J: Well Jayne ain't a girl! She starts in on that girl's name thing, I'll show her good and all I got man-parts.
S: I'm trying to think of a way for you to be cruder. I just... it's not coming.
5 - Durran: Now I'm intruding.
Saffron: Durran, this isn't what it looks like.
M: Unless it looks like we're stealing your priceless Lassiter, because that's what we're doing. Don't ask me about the gun though, cause that's new.
Durran: Well, I appreciate your honesty. Not, you know, a lot, but...
Saffron: Durran, you don't know what he's forced me to--
Durran: Stop. Yolanda, please just stop.
6 - M: No one's killing any folk today on account of we got a very tight schedule, Yo-Saff-Bridge.
7 - M: I seen you without your clothes on before. Never thought I'd see you naked.
8 - M: A brilliant, beautiful, evil, double-crossing snake. Cheer up, weepy. You made yourself a boatload of hard cash today. Can question the meaning of life on a floaty island of your own for a while.
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down?
M: I won't.
Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster.
9 - Saffron: What are you doing here?
I: Oh, just my part of the job.
Saffron: What part of the job?
I: You know. I put on the big act, storm away in a huff, then I fly off, wait for you to double-cross Mal, beat you to the rendevous spot, and grab the loot before you can get to it. What? You didn't see it coming?
10 - I: You know, I'm a little disappointed. Some of the crew's performances weren't quite as nuanced as they could've been. Thought they might've tipped the fact that we were playing you from the very second Mal took you out of that crate. Oh well. Guess not.
11 - I: (over Saffron protesting) You're not gonna die, you big baby. The authorities will be here in a few hours to dig you out.
12 - J: Das crazy talk.
13 - R: Also... I can kill you with my brain.
14 - I: You call this going well?
M: We got the loot, didn't we?
I: Yes, but--
M: Then I call it a win! What's the problem?
I: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere or the part where you have no clothes?
M: All according to plan.
I: Really? I thought the plan was for me to act as a fail-safe in case everything else went wrong. Like, for instance, if Saffron disabled Serenity and left you for dead.
M: Nonsense! You had a key role to play in this. How sad would you have been if you hadn't gotten to play it?
I: Heartbroken.
M: See? All according to plan. Wash, take us out of the world. Zoe, contact Brennert and Ellison, see if they'd be interested in fencing a priceless artifact for us. What?
K: Good work, Cap'n.
M: Thank you, Kaylee. Good day.
The Message
1 - S: Yep. It's a cow fetus.
K: Guess so. Does seem to have an awful lot of limbs.
S: It's mutated.
K: But cow? How do you figure?
S: It's upside-down.
K: Oh yeah. Cow.
S: And I'm out 12 bits.
2 - S: Oh, plus, every other girl I know is married, professional, or closely related to me, so... you're more or less - you're literally the only girl in the world.
K: Hmm. That's a hell of a thing to say.
S: I was joking.
K: Oh, no, no, I get it, I do. Back on Osirus you probably had nurses and debutantes crawling all over you, but down here at the bottom of the barrel it's just me.
S: No, that's not even--
K: I'm glad I rated higher than dead Bessie here. [Chinese]
W: Oh my God, it's grotesque! Oh, and there's something in a jar.
Z: Scare her away again, did ya?
S: This may come as a shock but I'm actually not very good at talking to girls.
Z: Why, is there someone you are good at talking to?
W: Do not fear me! Ours is a peaceful race and we must live in harmony.
3 - R: My food is problematic.
J: Girl's a mind-reading genius, can't even figure out how to eat ice planet.
4 - I: So, do aliens live among us?
K: Yeah, one of 'em's a doctor.
5 - J: How's it sit? Pretty cunning, dontcha think?
K: I think it's the sweetest hat ever.
W: Man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.
J: Damn straight!
M: Well, let's hope we get some funny hats too.
6 - J: What'd y'all order a dead guy for?
7 - Tracey: Thanks. I didn't know you were out there.
Z: Sort of the point. Stealth. You may've heard of it.
Tracey: I don't think they covered that in basic.
Z: Well, at least they covered dropping your weapon so you could eat beans and get yourself shot.
Tracey: Yeah, I got a badge in that. Won't happen again.
Z: It does, I'm just gonna watch.
8 - Z: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let them know where you are.
M: Wooo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah you do! Come on! Come on! Yaaaaah! Woo-hoo!
Z: Course there are other schools of thought.
M: That was bracing! They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself!
9 - M: Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is, die of old age before it finds you.
10 - R: You are such a boob.
11 - W: Police procedure has changed since I was little.
M: He calls back, you keep him occupied.
W: What do I do? Shadow puppets?
12 - Tracey: Um, Sarge?
M: Yeah?
Tracey: I think I'm nekkid.
13 - M: All right. You wanna explain to me why you got yourself all corpsified and mailed to me?
14 - W: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge!
Z: He ain't dead.
W: Oh.
15 - W: Wohoho! This kinda flying really wakes up a guy!
M: Awake helps.
16 - Womack: That hat makes you look like an idiot.
17 - M: You know the old saying.
Tracey: When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that...
Z: You find someone to carry you.
Heart of Gold
1 - I: Hi.
M: Bwaaah!
I: Sorry. Didn't mean to startle.
M: You didn't. I was just, uh... Bwah! That's more like a - that's a warrior-like - strikes fear into the hearts of--you know, not altogether wise, sneaking up on a fella when he's handling his weapon.
2 - I: In that case, every well-bred petty crook knows that the small concealable weapons always go to the far left of the place setting.
3 - M: This distress wouldn't happen to be takin' place in someone's pants, would it?
4 - J: Don't know these folks, don't much care to.
M: They're whores.
J: I'm in.
5 - J: That's the whorehouse?
I: Yes.
J: How come it looks like a frozen dinner pack?
K: Solar sheeting. Cheap power.
J: Hope the whores are prettier than the house.
6 - J: Whoop! My John Thomas is about to pop off and fly around the room, there's so much tasty in here!
W: Would be you'd get your most poetical about your pecker.
7 - K: Everyone's got somebody. Wash, tell me I'm pretty.
W: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion.
K: Cause I'm pretty?
W: Cause you're pretty.
8 - M: Inara? Think you can stoop to being on my arm?
I: Will you wash it first?
9 - M: Well, lady, I must say, you're my kind of stupid.
10 - Nandi: It was the dulcimer.
M: The dulcimer drove you out of Sihnon? What, did you kill a dulcimer in a terrible passion?
Nandi: Actually, yes.
M: And now that dulcimer's family is out to get even. I get it.
11 - I: One of the virtues of not being puritanical about sex is not feeling embarassed afterwards. You should look into it.
Objects in Space
1 - K: You couldn't possibly!
S: No, I wish I was lying. I just, you know, we'd all just made surgeon. That was it, we were the elite. The world was ours, you know?
K: So you had to be naked?
S: Naked, yes. And on top of the statue of Hippocrates. Can you just picture me?
K: What, naked? Oh, well, hmm, let's see, I'm gonna have to conjure up a... yeah, that's gonna be difficult. So did the feds come?
S: Mm. There were no feds. Until I started singing. No, this is not--
K: What did you sing?
S: This is not funny. This, this is a morality tale about the evils of sake. *all background cuts out* I would be there right now. *resume* I mean, it was, it was either that or the national anthem. Reports vary.
K: You don't remember any of this?
S: I remember talking the feds out of telling my father. Or paying the feds out of telling my father, I get fuzzy on aspects.
2 - B: I just direct my energy elsewhere.
J: You mean like masturbatin'?
B: I hope you're not thinking of taking orders yourself.
J: Heh. That'll be the day.
3 - J: Saint Jayne! It's got a ring to it.
B: I'm just trying to remember how many miracles you've performed.
J: I once hit a guy in the neck from 500 yards with a bent scope. Don't that count upstairs?
B: Oh, it'll be taken into consideration.
J: (faint) You make that sound kinda ominous.
4 - R: It's just an object. Doesn't mean what you think.
All: (overlapping, indistinct)
M: I'm not mad, just let me - thank you. Fully loaded, safety off. This here is a recipe for unpleasentness. Does she understand that?
R: She understands. She doesn't comprehend.
M: Well, I'm glad we've made that distinction. No touching guns. Okay?
R: No touching.
S: River--
R: It's getting very very crowded!
5 - S:--her system can't eventually break down, and--
M: When I want a lot of medical jargon, I'll talk to a doctor.
S: You are talking to a doctor.
6 - W: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next?
Z: Either blow us all up, or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up.
W: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
7 - Z: Sir, I know she's unpredictable, but I don't think she'd harm anyone.
J: Butcher's knife!
Z: Anyone we can't spare, I mean.
8 - J: Are you saying she's a witch?
W: Yes Jayne. She's a witch. She has had congress with the beast.
J: She's in Congress?
W: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!
9 - W: Psychic though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
Z: We live in a spaceship, dear.
W: So?
10 - J: Well, I don't like the idea of someone hearing what I'm thinking.
I: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
11 - S: Goodnight.
K: Don't let the space bugs bite. Space bugs?
12 - Early: Maybe I've always been here.
13 - S: Are you Alliance?
Early: Am I a lion?
S: What?
Early: Don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though. I have a mighty roar.
14 - S: So you're a bounty hunter.
Early: That ain't it at all.
S: Then what are you?
Early: I'm a bounty hunter.
15 - S: You're out of your mind.
Early: That's between me and my mind.
16 - Early: Man is stronger by far than woman, yet only woman can create a child. Does that seem right to you?
17 - R: You're wrong, Early.
Early: I'm not wrong, dumpling, I will shoot your brother dead if you don't--
R: (overlapping) Wrong about River. River's not in the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted. Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
Early: Not sure I take your meaning there.
R: I'm not on the ship. I'm in the ship. I am the ship.
S: River...
R: River's gone.
Early: Then who exactly are we talking to?
R: You're talking to Serenity. And Early? Serenity is very unhappy.
18 - Early: Where'd she go?
S: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a spaceship, don't look at me.
Early: That's some nonsensical crap. Ain't nobody can do that. You somewhere on this boat. Somewhere with a com, playing games! *River giggles* That's somewhat unsettling.
19 - S: He's really very... gentle. And fuzzy. We're becoming fast friends. *River giggles*
Early: You folks are all insane.
S: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
20 - M: What the hell's going on here?
R: I need you to do me a favor, Captain.
M: There was a guy. He's very blurry. You gotta be careful. How come there's a guy on board and how come you're all of a sudden the ship?
R: I know you have questions--
M: That would be why I just asked them.
R: But there isn't a lot of time, Captain. I need you to trust me.
M: Am I dreaming?
R: We all are. Don't make faces.
21 - Early: You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport, yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
S: What'd he do?
Early: Who?
S: The midget.
Early: Arson. The little man loved fire.
22 - R: Permission to come aboard?
M: You know, you ain't quite right.
R: It's the popular theory.
M: Go on, get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan.
R: He takes so much looking after.
23 - S: Okay, now very gently pull that aside...
Z: This is really not my area of expertise, Doctor. I tend to be putting these into people more than the other thing.
W: Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow-mop.
S: You got the bullet. Okay... I'm just gonna pass out for a minute, but you're doing great.
M: And we live to fight another day.
I: Any chance that [Chinese] might survive?
M: Air he had left, I'd say his chance would be about one in.. a very large number. Ain't odds I'd play. How's your lip?
B: I just feel such a fool.
J: Yeah, all them years of priest training, taken out by one bounty hunter.
B: Don't get me wrong, I gave him a hell of a fight.
J: Epic, I'm guessing.
B: There'll be poems and songs, just you wait.
J: At least you got some play. I missed every damn thing.
K: And then his folks swung by to fetch him, and it turns out he's like 14 years old. I mean he musta been some kind of genetic experiment, cause I swear this guy was, uh... Oh, my daddy whupped me so hard. Oh. Well I'm at fours. Let's see you match that.
R: I can win this.
K: Oh, I'm hearing a lot of talk, there, genius. Come on. Show me what you got.
Early: Well, here I am.
Serenity
1 - Teacher: River. We're not telling people what to think. We're just trying to show them how.
2 - Operative (hence, Op): Secrets are not my concern. Keeping them is.
3 - M: What was that?
W: Did you see that?
M: Was that the primary buffer panel?
W: It did seem to resemble--
M: Did the primary buffer panel just fall off my gorram ship for no apparent reason?
W: Looks like.
M: I thought Kaylee just checked the entry couplings. I am very sure--
W: Yeah, well, if she doesn't get us some extra flow from the engine room to offset the burn-through, this landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
M: Define interesting.
W: Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die?
M: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we might experience some slight turbulance and then explode. Can you shave the vector?
W: I'm doing it, it's not enough!
M: Well, just get us on the ground.
W: That part'll happen pretty definitely.
J: We're gonna explode? I don't wanna explode!
M: Jayne, how many weapons you planning on takin'? You only got the two arms.
J: Well, I just get excitable as to choice, like to have my options open.
M: I don't plan on any shooting taking place during this job.
J: Yeah, well, what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar.
M: No grenades.
J: Huh? Aww.
M: No grenades.
Z: We crashin' again?
M: Talk to your husband. Mule prepped?
Z: Good to go, sir, just loadin' her up. Those grenades?
J: Yeah, cap'n doesn't want 'em.
Z: We're robbing the place, we're not occupying it.
4 - S: I'm not worried.
M: Fear's nothing to be ashamed of, Doctor.
S: This isn't fear. This is anger.
M: Well. Kinda hard to tell one from t'other, face like yours.
S: Well, I imagine if it were fear my eyes would be wider.
M: Mm. I'll keep a lookout for that next time.
5 - S: If there's fighting, drop to the floor or run away. It's okay to leave them to die.
M: Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection here. If anything happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears.
6 - Z: You know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed. You can look it up later.
7 - M: The leg is good. It'll bleed plenty, and we avoid any necessary organs.
Guard: I was thinkin' more of a graze...
M: You don't want it to look like you just gave up.
Guard: No, I get that.
8 - M: Faster, faster, faster would be better!
9 - S: River?
R: I swallowed a bug.
10 - S: River, do you want to stay with them?
R: It isn't safe.
S: I fear it isn't safe anymore.
R: For them.
11 - K: How can you be so cold?
Z: Cap'n didn't make 'em fugitives.
K: But he coulda made 'em family, 'stead of keeping Simon from seein' I was there. And I carried such a torch, and we coulda... Full on a year now, I ain't had nothing 'twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries.
M: Oh, God! I can't know that!
J: I could stand to hear a little more.
12 - R: Miranda.
13 - M: What in the hell happened back there?
W: Start with the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a 90-pound girl, cause I don't think that's ever gettin' old.
14 - M: *following Jayne's guitar* Thanks for taking us in again, Shepard.
15 - B: When I talk about belief, why do you always assume I'm talking about God?
16 - M: We go in.
K: But how can you be sure Inara don't just wanna see you? Sometimes people have feelings. I'm referring here to people.
17 - M: Y'all were watching, I take it?
K: Yes.
M: Did you see us fight?
K: No.
M: Trap.
18 - M: Find us a home, I'll take the shuttle in closer. Zoe, ship is yours. And remember, anything happens to me, you don't hear from me within the hour, you take this ship, and you come and you rescue me.
Z: What? And risk my ship?
M: I mean it. It's cold out there, and I don't wanna get left.
19 - M: Dear Buddah, please bring me a pony, and a plastic rocket, and--
I: Mal, what are you doing here?
M: Well, you invited me.
I: I never thought for a second you'd be stupid enough to come!
M: Well that makes you kind of a tease, doesn't it?
20 - Op: I have to say, Captain, I'm impressed that you would come for her yourself. And that you would make it this far in that outfit.
M: I can be very graceful when I need to.
Op: I've no doubt.
21 - Op: It's worse than you know.
M: It usually is.
Op: That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, captain.
M: Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck 'til some idiot killed it. Yes, I've read a poem, try not to faint.
22 - Op: How long do you think you can really run from us?
M: I've never credited the Alliance with an overabundance of brains, and if you're the best they've got--
Op: Captain Reynolds, I should tell you so that you don't waste your time - you can't make me angry.
I: Please, spend an hour with him.
23 - Op: Nothing here is what it seems. He isn't the plucky hero, the Alliance isn't some evil empire, this is not the grand arena.
I: And that's not incense.
24 - M: Do you even know why they sent you?
Op: It's not my place to ask. I believe in something greater than myself. A better world. A world without sin.
M: So me and mine gotta lay down and die so you can live in your better world?
Op: I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there, any more than there is for you. Malcom, I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done.
25 - M: This is how it is. Anybody that doesn't wanna fly with me anymore, this is your port of harbor. There's a lotta fine ways to die, and I ain't waitin' for the Alliance to choose mine. I mean to confound these bungers. Take my shot at getting to Miranda, maybe find something I can use to get clear of this. So I hear a word outta any of you that ain't helpin' me out or takin' your leave, I will shoot you down.
26 - Op: Define disappeared.
27 - R: [Chinese] Please God make me a stone.
J: She is starting to damage my calm.
Z: Jayne!
J: She's right!
28 - M: Sure as I know anything, I know this: They will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.
29 - J: Shepard Book used to tell me, can't do something smart, do something right.
30 - Op: Target the Reavers. Target the Reavers! Target everyone! Somebody FIRE!
31 - W: I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
32 - M: What the hell?
W: It's okay. I'm a leaf on the wind!
M: What does that mean?
33 - J: Alright, let's move these crates back there for cover. Make sure they ain't filled with nothin' goes boom.
34 - Lovebot: They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal.
35 - S: My one regret in all of this is never being with you.
K: With me? You mean to say as... sex?
S: I mean to say.
K: Hell with this. I'm gonna live.
36 - S: Hey. I hate to leave.
R: You won't. You take care of me, Simon. You've always taken care of me. My turn.
37 - M: Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well, I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm about to say.
R: I do. But I like to hear you say it.
M: Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turn of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting afore she keels... makes her a home.
R: Storm's getting worse.
M: We'll pass through it soon enough.
A - Firefly theme on solo guitar, from the end of the credits.
B - Joss: And the story should end there, but it doesn't. Because the people who made the show, and the people who saw the show, which is roughly the same number of people, fell in love with it a little bit. Too much to let it go. Too much to lay down arms when the battle looked pretty much lost. In Hollywood, people like that are called unrealistic, quixotic, obsessive... In my world, they're called Browncoats.
C - Joss: Cause remember, they tried to kill us. They did kill us - and here we are. We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.
[Note: B and C from an introduction to a prescreening of Serenity, off the special features.]
..I need an icon for this fandom. And new fingers, I think I broke mine.