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Simon : I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep?
Mal : You don't know me, son, so let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake. You'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
Simon : Are you always this sentimental?
Mal : I had a good day.
Simon : 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.
Mal : Well, we're still flying.
Simon : That's not much.
Mal : It's enough.
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Zoë : You never heard of Reavers?
Simon : Uh, campfire stories - men gone savage on the edge of space, killing...
Zoë : They're not stories.
Simon : What happens if they board us?
Zoë : 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.
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Jayne : [to Simon] Little Kaylee here just wishes you was a gynecologist.
[Jayne laughs]
Mal : Jayne, you will keep a civil tongue in that mouth, or I will sew it shut. Is there an understanding between us?
Jayne : You don't pay me to talk pretty. Just because Kaylee gets lubed up over some big-city dandy doesn't mean...
Mal : Walk away from this table. Right now.
[Jayne loads his plate with food and leaves]
Simon : What *do* you pay him for?
Mal : What?
Simon : I was just wondering what his job is - on the ship.
Mal : Public relations.
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Simon : I am very smart. I went to the best Medacad in Osiris, top three percent of my class, finished my internship in eight months. "Gifted" is the term. So when I tell you that my little sister makes me look like an idiot child, I want you to understand my full meaning. River was more than gifted. She... she was a gift. Everything she did, music, math, theoretical physics - even-even dance - there was nothing that didn't come as naturally to her as breathing does to us. She could be a real... brat about it, too. I mean, she used to
[notices the looks on everyone's face; tries to get back to explaining]
Simon : There was a... a school... a, uh, a government-sponsored academy, we had never even heard of it but it had the most exciting program, the most challenging. We could have sent her anywhere, we had the money, but, she wanted to go. She wanted to learn. She was fourteen.
[thoughtful pause]
Simon : I, uh... I got a few letters at first, and then I didn't hear for months. Finally I got a letter that made no sense. She-she talked about things that never happened, jokes that-that we never... It was code. It just said... "They're hurting us. Get me out."
Zoë : How'd you do it?
Simon : Money. And-and luck. For two years, I couldn't get near her. Then I was contacted by some men, some underground movement. They-they said that she was in danger, that-that the government was... playing with her brain. If I funded them they could sneak her out in cryo, get her to Persephone, and from there, I could take her... wherever.
Zoë : Will she be alright?
Simon : I don't know if she'll be alright. I don't know what they did to her. Or why. I-I just need to keep her safe.
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Simon : What business is that exactly?
[pause; Mal turns but doesn't answer]
Simon : I'm a dead man; I can't know? Is it gold?... Drugs? Pirate treasure? What is that makes you so afraid of the Alliance?
Mal : You don't want to go down this road with me, boy.
Simon : Oh, you're not afraid of them? I already know you'd sell me out to them for a pat on the head. Hell, you should probably be working for them. You certainly fit the profil...
[cut off as Mal punches him, knocks him into the wall and floor; Mal stands over him]
Jayne : [sounds cocky] Saw that comin'.
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Mal : [on the 'lawman'] Comes time, someone's gonna have to deal with him. That should be you. But I don't think you've got the guts... And I know you don't have the time.
Simon : What do you mean?
Mal : [pause; face deadpan, voice serious/grave] Kaylee's dead.
[Simon doesn't react at first, then he looks a little shocked and afraid; as Mal turns and walks to the Bridge, Simon runs to the infirmary; sees Kaylee, quite alive; she waves at him]
Simon : [out of breath] That man's psychotic.
[on bridge, Mal, Jayne, Zoë, and Wash are laughing hysterically]
Wash : You are psychotic!
Mal : No! You shoulda seen his face. Oh, I'm a bad man.
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Simon : So, does it happen a lot? Government commandeering your ship, telling you where to go?
Mal : That's what governments are for - get in a man's way.
Lawrence Dobson : Well, it's good, if the supplies are needed.
Jayne : We're just happy to be doin' good works.
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Simon : [after Mal says he could stay on the ship] I'm confused. No wait, I-I think maybe you're confused.
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[River wakes up screaming; looks around frantically; scrambles out of the box; cringes in fear, hyperventilating as Simon breaks loose from Jayne's grasp; cautiously approaches her]
Simon : R-River...
[River gasps]
Simon : Hey, it's okay. It's okay. It's okay... It's okay. I'm here.
River : [calms as recognition dawns on her] Simon.
[silence; starts breathing erratically and sounding frightened again]
River : Simon they-they talk to me. They want me to - They want me to...
Simon : No, they're gone.
[holding her face, sounds almost as afraid]
Simon : They're gone. They're gone. They're gone - We're safe now... We're safe. We're safe. I'm here.
[hugs her; whispers]
Simon : Come here.
[River still sobbing, hugs him tightly, as if afraid to let go]
Mal : What the hell is this?
Simon : [looks up, still holding a shaking River] This is my sister.
