Gina Torres credited as playing...
Zoë Washburne
- Zoë: Sir, is there some information, we might maybe be lacking, as to why there's an entire fedsquad sitting on this train?
- Mal: It doesn't concern us.
- Zoë: It kinda concerns me.
- Mal: I mean they're not protecting the goods. If they were, they wouldn't be letting people past 'em.
- Zoë: You don't think that changes the situation a bit?
- Mal: I surely do. Makes it more fun.
- Zoë: Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
- Mal: Come on. We stick to the plan, we get the goods, we're back on Serenity before the train even reaches Paradiso, only now we do it under the noses of twenty trained Alliance feds and that makes them look all manner of stupid. Hell, this job, I would pull for free.
- Zoë: Then can I have your share?
- Mal: No.
- Zoë: If you die can I have your share?
- Mal: Yes.
- Kaylee: So, what happened? Another terrible brawl?
- Zoë: [smiling] Oddly enough, there was.
- Wash: Are you getting my wife into trouble?
- Mal: Wha- I didn't start it. I just wanted a quiet drink.
- Zoë: Funny sir how you always seem to find yourself in an Alliance-friendly bar come "U" day... looking for a quiet drink.
- Mal: See, this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety. Breaks the heart.
- [Kaylee laughs inaudibly at the exchange]
- Jayne: [as the three of them are playing Chinese checkers, to Mal:] Your move.
- [Mal jumps four marbles]
- Zoë: That's a bold move.
- Mal: I live on the edge.
- [Zoe jumps six of his marbles]
- Jayne: Nice work, dumb-ass.
- Mal: [as Zoe chuckles] I've given some thought to moving off the edge. Not an ideal location. Might get a place in the middle.