Firefly (TV Series)

Jaynestown (2002)

Adam Baldwin: Jayne Cobb

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• Jayne : Listen, Mal, I was in Canton a few years back. I might have made me a few enemies thereabouts.

  Simon : Enemies? You? No! How can it be?

• Mal : Jayne?

  Jayne : Yeah?

  Mal : You wanna tell me how come there's a statue of you here lookin' at me like I owe him somethin'?

  Jayne : Wishin' I could, Cap'n.

• [last lines] 

  Jayne : Don't make no sense. Wh-Why the hell'd that mudder have to go an do that for, Mal? Jumpin' in front a' that shotgun blast. Hell, there weren't a one of 'em understood what happened out there. They're probably stickin' that statue right back up.

  Mal : Most like.

  Jayne : I don't know why that eats at me so.

  Mal : It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sommbitch or another. Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.

  Jayne : Don't make no sense.

• Zoë : Is that Jayne? Is that really him? Wash - pinch me, I must be dreamin'.

  Jayne Cobb : Ah, hell, I'll pinch ya.

• Jayne : [his speech to Jaynestown]  Far as I see it, you people been given the shortest end of the stick ever been offered a human soul in this crap-heel 'verse. But you took that end, and you - well, you took it. And that's - Well, I guess that's somethin'.

• Jayne : Mmm. They call it Mudder's Milk. All the protein, vitamins and carbs of your grandma's best turkey dinner, plus fifteen percent alcohol.

  Wash : It's horrific!

  Simon : Worked for the Egyptians.

  Jayne : What's that?

  Simon : The ancient Egyptians, back on Earth-That-Was. It's not so different from the ancestral form of beer they fed to the slaves who built their pyramids. Liquid bread. Kept them from starving, and knocked them out at night, so they wouldn't be inclined to insurrection.

  Kaylee : Wow, Simon. That's so... so historical.

  Jayne : [to Simon]  Tell me, Lil' Miss Big Words. You see a pyramid sittin' out there?

  Simon : ...No.

  Jayne : Neither do I. So here, let me pour you a big frosty mug of "shut-the-hell-up".

• Jayne : Shake your head, boy. Your eyes are stuck.

• Jayne : I don't know, you think we should be using my fame to hoodwink folks?

  Mal : You better laugh when you say that.

  Jayne : No really Mal, I mean maybe there's something to this. The mudders, I think I really made a difference in their lives. Me, Jayne Cobb.

  Mal : I know your name, jackass!

• Jayne : Ah, hey! I got an idea. Instead'a us hangin' around playin' art critic 'til I get pitched 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?

• Jayne : So the Magistrate, he let you folks keep all that cash?

  Mudder : It pained him, that's for dead sure. When he found out, he sent his prods in to take it back from us. But the workers resisted.

  Jayne : [proudly]  Fought the law, did you?

  Mudder : If the mudders are together on a thing, there's too many of us to put down. So in the end, he just called it a bonus.

  Jayne : That's one hell of a bonus.

  Mudder : And then when we put that statue of you up in town square, he rolled in, wanted to tear it down, but the whole town rioted.

  Jayne : [shocked to the verge of tears]  You guys had a riot? On account o' me? My very own riot?

  Mudder : I can't believe you're back.

  Jayne : [hugging the mudder and his girl]  How could I stay away?

• Simon : What happened in here?

  Jayne : Needed to find some tape.

  Simon : So you had to tear my infirmary apart?

  Jayne : Apparently.

• Jayne : All of you, you think there's someone just gonna drop money on you? Money they could use? Well there ain't people like that.

  Jayne : [He pauses]  There's just people like me.

• Jayne : [visibly moved]  My very own riot?

• Jayne : The living legend needs eggs!