Firefly (TV Series)

Ariel (2002)

Nathan Fillion: Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds

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• Mal : The next time you decide to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face.

• Jayne : What are you taking this so personal for? It ain't like I ratted you out to the feds!

  Mal : Oh, but you did. You turn on any of my crew, you turn on me! But since that's a concept you can't seem to wrap your head around then you got no place here! You did it to me, Jayne, and that's a fact.

• Mal : Now, all we need are a couple of patients.

  Dr. Simon Tam : Corpses, actually. For this to work, River and I will have to be dead.

  Jayne : Huh. I'm startin' to like this plan.

• Mal : You could've got off with Shepherd Book at the Bathgate Abbey. Could'a been meditating on the wonders of your rock garden by now.

  Jayne : Beats just sittin'.

  Wash : It *is* just sitting.

• Mal : This is exactly what I didn't want. I wanted simple, I wanted in-and-out, I wanted easy money.

  Zoë Washburne : Things always get a little more complicated, don't they, sir?

  Mal : Once, just once, I want things to go according to the gorram plan!

• Mal : You called the feds.

  Jayne : What? I got pinched!

  Mal : Which is what happens when you call the feds.

  Jayne : No, I would never do that, my hand to God, may he strike me down as I'm standing here.

  Mal : Well, you won't be standing there long.

• Mal : Hey. How was your thing?

  Inara : As advertised, lots of needles and cold exam tables. I heard you had some excitement.

  Mal : Oh, nothin' much, lots of runnin' around, a little gunplay, couple needles.