Ron Glass credited as playing...
Shepherd Derrial Book
- Commander Harken: [During Book's interrogation] Pirates. Pirates with their own chaplain. There's an oddity.
- Book: Not the only oddity this end of space, Commander. Way of things not always so plain as on the central planets. Rules can be a mite fuzzier.
- Jayne: How about you just say a prayer when we slide on by?
- Book: Shall I remind you of the story of the Good Samaritan?
- Mal: I'd rather you didn't, but we'll check it out - see if there are survivors. If not, then, well no one's going to mind if we take a look around, see if there's not something of value they might have left behind.
- Jayne: Yeah, no, uh, someone could be hurt.
- Book: Whatever horror he witnessed, whatever acts of barberism it was done by men, nothing more.
- Jayne: Reaver's ain't men.
- Book: Of course they are. Too long removed from civilization perhaps, but men. And, I believe there's a power greater than men. A power that heals.
- Mal: Reavers might take issue with that philosophy...if they *had* a philosophy...and they weren't too busy gnawing on your insides. Jayne's right. Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Come to just nothin'. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothin', and that's what they became.
- Jayne: If there's folks on board in need of help, why ain't they beaming no distress call?
- Zoë Washburne: 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 about you just say a prayer when we slide on by.