Morena Baccarin credited as playing...
Inara Serra
- Inara Serra: A companion chooses her own clients. That's guild law. But physical appearance doesn't matter so terribly. You look for a compatibility of spirit... There's an energy about a person that's difficult to hide. You try to feel that...
- Mal: [walks in] And then you try to feel the energy of their credit account. It has a sort of aura...
- Inara Serra: What did I say to you about barging in to my shuttle?
- Mal: That it was manly and impulsive?
- Inara Serra: Yes, precisely. Only the exact phrase I used was "don't."
- Mal: Well you're holding my mechanic in thrall - and Kaylee, what the hell's going on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
- Book: I wish I could help.
- [Inara turns to face him & he realizes what he said]
- Book: I mean... I don't wanna help- Not *help* help, but- Not with the thieving, but-
- [Inara smiles, tries not to laugh]
- Book: I do feel awfully useless.
- Inara: You could always pray they make it back safely.
- Book: I don't think the captain would much like me praying for him.
- Inara: Don't tell him. I never do.
- 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.
- [after Inara has been doing Kaylee's hair and Mal has ordered her out]
- Mal: You're servicing crew now.
- Inara Serra: [snickers] In your lonely pathetic dreams.