Firefly (TV Series)

Trash (2003)

Nathan Fillion: Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds

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Quotes 

• Mal : Yeah. That went well.

  Inara : You call this going well?

  Mal : We got the loot, didn't we?

  Inara : Yes, but...

  Mal : Then I call it a win. What's the problem?

  Inara : Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere or the part where you have no clothes?

• Mal : Heard you were looking for me?

  Inara : I was. Care to sit? I was hoping to talk a little business. Would you like some tea?

  Mal : Okay, what's the game?

  Inara : I offered you tea.

  Mal : After inviting me into your shuttle of your own free will, which makes two events without precedent and which makes me more'n a little skittish.

  Inara : Honestly, Mal, if we can't be civilized and talk like...

  Mal : I'm plenty civilized. You're using wiles on me.

  Inara : I'm using what?

  Mal : Your feminine wiles. Your companion training, your some-might-say uncanny ability to make a man sweaty and/or compliant, of which I have had just about enough today.

• Inara : Well, since I can't seem to find work as companion, I might as well become a petty thief like you!

  Mal : Petty?

  Inara : I didn't mean petty.

  Mal : What did you mean?

  Inara : [meekly]  Suo-shee?

  Mal : That's Chinese for petty.

• [Mal searches Saffron for weapons. Saffron smiles like she's enjoying it] 

  Saffron : You missed a spot.

  Mal : [shoves Saffron away]  Can't miss a place you've never been.

• Durran Haymer : How long have you been with him?

  Mal : Oh!

  [scoffs] 

  Mal : We are not together.

  Saffron : He's my husband.

  Mal : Well, who in the damn galaxy ain't?

• Zoë : [about Saffron and her plan]  But Inara ain't wrong. She can't be trusted.

  Mal : I ain't asking you to trust her. I'll be with her on the inside the whole time.

  Saffron : See there? All you gotta do to be a rich woman, hon, is get over it.

  [smiles] 

  Zoë : [smiles back]  Okay.

  [punches Saffron in the face] 

  Zoë : I'm in.

• [walking in on Saffron pointing a gun at Mal, who is standing there holding Durran's historical laser pistol artifact] 

  Durran Haymer : Now I'm intruding.

  Saffron : Durran, this isn't what it looks like.

  Mal : Unless it looks like we're stealing your priceless Lassiter, 'cause, that's what we're doin'. Don't ask me 'bout the gun, though, 'cause that's new.

  Durran Haymer : Well, I appreciate your honesty. Not, you know, a lot, but...

• Inara : What was the last cargo we snuck past the Alliance to transport?

  Mal : That was...

  Inara : What was the cargo?

  Mal : [pauses]  They were dolls.

  Inara : They were little geisha dolls with big heads that wobbled!

  Mal : Hey, people *loved* those!

• Mal : [standing naked in the desert, watching his stolen shuttle fly by]  Aaaww dirty, dirty whore!

  [watches shuttle in the distance] 

  Mal : Yeah, you better run!

• Mal : [sitting naked in the desert]  Yeah.

  [pause] 

  Mal : That went well.

• [after the heist, Mal returns to the ship, butt-naked. The crew tries hard not to stare. Turning back to the desert landscape, he smiles, contently] 

  Mal : [closing the doors]  Good day!

• Mal : How about I stay out of your whoring...

  Inara : Well, that didn't take long.

  Mal : You keep out of my thieving?

• Mal : The beard! You shaved off your soup-catcher!

  Monty Reynolds : Yep.

  Mal : Wow, I thought you were gonna wear that ugly chin-wig to the grave.

• Mal : Woman, you are completely off your nut.

• Mal : You're usin' wiles on me.

• Mal : Monty! *You* have fallen from our noble bachelor ranks?