Gregg Henry credited as playing...
Sheriff Bourne
- [Sheriff Bourne has caught Mal returning stolen medicine to a plague-stricken town]
- Sheriff Bourne: You were truthful back in town. These are tough times. A man can get a job. He might not look too close at what that job is. But a man learns all the details of a situation like ours... well... then he has a choice.
- Mal: I don't believe he does.
- Sheriff Bourne: You mind telling me, uh, when it was you last spoke to Joey Bloggs?
- Mal: Never did, myself.
- Sheriff Bourne: Right. Your uncle. And it was indicated to you that, uh, Joey had an opening?
- Mal: Any job would do.
- Sheriff Bourne: It's funny your Uncle never went to mentioning the Bowden's problem. Or that Joey Bloggs ate his own gun 'bout eight months back.
- Mal: Did he?
- Sheriff Bourne: Yep. Blew the back of his head right off.
- [long pause]
- Mal: So... would his job be open?
- Sheriff Bourne: We had some, uh, unrelated trouble. His story had kind of an odor to it.
- Inara Serra: Yes, it's not the only thing about him that does.