Firefly (TV Series)

The Message (2003)

Nathan Fillion: Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds

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• Mal : Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carryin' a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is, die of old age before it finds you.

• Zoë : First rule of battle, little one, don't ever let them know where you are.

  Mal : [comes running in shouting and shooting]  Woo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of this? Yeah, you do! Come on! Come on!

  [dives for cover from an explosion] 

  Mal : Woo-hoo!

  Zoë : 'Course there are other schools of thought.

• Mal : Using corpses for smuggling is a time honored repulsive custom.

  Jayne : Maybe it's gold.

  Zoë : And maybe he was a friend of ours and you need to show a little respect.

  Jayne : I got respect. I'm just saying...

  [points at body] 

  Jayne : gold!

• Mal : They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself.

• Mal : And you never seen a man more proud of his moustache than Colonel Obrin. I mean, in all my life, I will never love a woman the way this officer loved that lip ferret.

• Tracey : Do you think I'm stupid?

  Mal : In every way possible.

• Inara Serra : The Lassiter is universally known. Fencing it is like... fencing the Mona Lisa.

  Mal : Well - The Mona who?

• Mal : You wanna explain to me exactly why you got yourself all corpsified and mailed to me?

• Tracey : Well, that call, that call means you just murdered me.

  Mal : No, son, you murdered yourself. I just carried the bullet a while.

• Simon : Captain, I don't mean to

  [walks to Tracey with stethoscope] 

  Simon : ... We may have a medical emergency here. This man appears to be in cardiac arrest.

  Mal : What? Tracey, you havin' a heart attack? Don't look like he's havin' a heart attack.