Nathan Fillion credited as playing...
Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds
- 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: 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.
- Inara Serra: The Lassiter is universally known. Fencing it is like... fencing the Mona Lisa.
- Mal: Well - The Mona who?