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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Bushwhacked
[Serenity's crew and passengers are playing a kind of "spaceball," as Simon watches. Inara comes up next to him.]
Inara: Who's Winning?
Simon: I can't really tell... they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
Inara: Well, we're pretty far from civilization.
...

[An alarm sounds.]
Zoe: Proximity alert. Must be coming up on something.
Wash: [alarmed.] Oh my god! What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's FLYING this thing?! [deadpan.] Oh right, that would be me. Uh, back to work.

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Jayne: [referring to a derelict vessel in space] If there's folks on board who needed help, why aren't they beaming no distress call?
Zoe: It's true. There's no beacon.
Mal: Which means it's likely no one's looking to find her.
Book: All the more reason for us to do the right thing.
Jayne: How's about you just say a prayer and we slide on by?
Book: [to Mal] Shall I remind you of the story of the Good Samaritan?
Mal: I'd rather you didn't, but we'll check it out. Could be survivors. But if not, well, then we might as well take a look around and see if there's something of value they might have left behind.
Jayne: Yeah! No, uh... someone could be hurt!

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Jayne: [to Simon] Where do you think you're headed?
Simon: I thought I'd offer my services. [intently watching Mal and Zoe suit up] ...in case anyone on board required medical attention.
Jayne: Cap'n and Zoe are going in first, we'll holler if we need you... something wrong?
Simon: Uh... no, I suppose it's just the thought of a little mylar and glass being the only thing separating a person from... nothing.
Jayne: It's impressive what nothing can do to a man.

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Jayne: [to Simon] Grab your medkit, let's hoof it. Mal wants us over there on the double.
...
Mal: [to Simon] Uh, hi. What are you doing here, and what's with the suit?
[Jayne begins laughing]

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[After Jayne shoots an attacker, Mal finds him hiding behind a fan grate.]
Mal: No one's gonna hurt you.
Survivor: No. No mercy. No!
Mal: Any.… more than we already did.
...
Survivor: No mercy. No mercy-
Mal: [soothingly] We got lots of mercy. Lots. [punches survivor in the jaw, rendering him unconscious]
...
Simon: [dryly.] Oh, yes. He's a real beast! It's a wonder you're still alive.
Jayne: Looked bigger when I couldn't see him.

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Mal: [referring to the survivor] Charity would be putting a bullet in his brainpan.

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Mal: Reavers ain't men — or they forgot how to be.

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[Kaylee contemplates bypassing a boobytrap.]
Kaylee: Sure. Yeah. [long pause.] I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, it's.… not like you'll be able to yell at me.
[Wash begins to talk with himself]

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[Alliance Commander Harken discovers the brother-and-sister fugitive alert provides little information to help them.]
Harken: Well, I'm not about to have these surprises on a routine check. We run into these two, we shoot first. The brass can sort it out later.

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[Commander Harken questions the crew.]
Harken: You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war?
Zoe: Fought with a lot of people in the war.
Harken: And your husband?
Zoe: Fight with him sometimes, too.
Harken: Is there any particular reason you don't wish to discuss your marriage?
Zoe: Don't see that it's any of your business, is all. We're very private people.
[Cut to Zoe's husband, Wash.]
Wash: The legs! [laughs.] Oh yeah, definitely have to say it was her legs. You can put that down. Her legs, and right where her legs.… meet her back. Tha— actually, that whole area. That, and… and above it. […] Have you seen what she wears? Forget about it. Have you ever been with a warrior woman?

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Harken: Seems odd you'd name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of.
Mal: May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

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Mal: That poor bastard you took off my ship. He looked right into the face of it — was made to stare.
Harken: "It"?
Mal: That darkness. Kind of darkness you can't even imagine. Blacker than the space it moves through.
Harken: Very poetic.
Mal: They made him watch. He probably tried to turn away, and they wouldn't let him. You call him a survivor? He's not. A man comes up against that kind of will, the only way to deal with it, I suspect, is to become it.

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Jayne: You save his gorram life, he still takes the cargo. Hwoon dahn.
Mal: He had to. Couldn't let us profit. Wouldn't be civilized.

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