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Quotes | Serenity
2005 Major Motion Picture

     
Earth-That-Was...could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many. We found a new solar system.
Dozens of planets and hundreds of moons. Each one terraformed, a process taking decades to support human life. To be new Earths. The central planets formed the Alliance. Ruled by an interplanetary parliament the Alliance was a beacon of civilization. The savage outer planets were not so enlightened and refused Alliance control. The war was devastating. but the Alliance's victory over the Independents ensured safer universe. And now, everyone can enjoy the comfort and enlightenment of true civilization.
Young River: People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think. Don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome.
Dr. Mathias: All our subjects are conditioned for combat, but River...she's a creature of extraordinary grace.
Simon: Yes. She always did love to dance.
Dr. Mathias: I see no listing of rank or name.
Operative: I have neither.
Dr. Mathias: The boy spent his entire fortune developing... the contacts to infiltrate this place. Gave up a brilliant future in medicine as well. It's madness.
Operative: Madness? Have you looked at this scan carefully, Doctor? At his face? It's love, in point of fact. Something a good deal more dangerous.
Operative: Where are you hiding, little girl?
Mal: What was that?
Wash: Did you see that?
Mal: Was that the primary buffer panel?
Wash: It did seem to resemble...
Mal: Did the primary buffer panel just fall off my gorramn ship for no apparent reason? I thought Kaylee
checked the entry couplings. I've a clear memory of it.
Wash: If she doesn't get us extra flow from the engine room to offset the burn through this landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting."
Wash: "Oh, God, we're all gonna die?"
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence. and then explode.
Mal: Just get us on the ground!
Wash: That part will happen pretty definitely.
Jayne: We're gonna explode? I don't wanna explode.
Mal: Jayne, how many weapons you plan on taking? You only got two arms.
Jayne: I just get excitable as to choice. Like to have my options open.
Mal: I don't plan on any shooting taking place during this job.
Jayne: What you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar.
Mal: No grenades!
Zoe: We crashin' again?
Mal: Talk to your husband.
Mal: Hey, little one. Understand your part in all this?
River: Do you?
Mal: This is what I do, darling. This is what I do.
Simon: River-stay behind the others. If there's fighting, drop to the floor or run away. It's okay to leave them to die.
Mal: Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection here. If anything happens to her, anything at all...I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly. There could be tears.
Kaylee: Don't mind the Captain none, Simon. I know he'll look out for her. They'll be back before you can spit. Well, not that you spit.
Jayne: Shiny. Let's be bad guys.
Mal: You all wanna be looking very intently at your own belly buttons. I see a head start to rise, violence is going to ensue. Probably guessed we mean to be thieving here...but what we're after is not yours. So let's have no undue fussing.
Zoe: Do you know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed.
You can look it up later.
Jayne: MAL!
Mal: Every heist, he's got to start yelling my name.
Jayne: Mal! Reavers! The girl's pitching a fit. They're here or they're coming soon.
Mal: Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Jayne: Boy, sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?
Jayne: I won't get ate! You shoot me if they take me! Well, don't shoot me first!
Simon: River?
River: I swallowed a bug.
Kaylee: (to Simon) Are you okay?
Mal: Is he okay?
Simon: One simple job! She'll be fine!
Mal: She is fine! Except for being still crazy, she's a picture of health!
River: He didn't lie down. They never lie down.
Jayne: I do not get it. How's a guy get so wrong? Cutting on his own face, rapin' and murderin'. I'll kill a man in a fair fight...or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight...or if he bothers me...or if there's a woman...or if I'm getting paid. Mostly only when I'm getting paid. These Reavers, the last ten years...they show up like the bogeyman from stories. Eating people alive? Where does that get fun?
Kaylee: Captain will drive us all off, one by one. Just like Simon and River. Just like Inara.
Kaylee: Don't talk to the barkers, talk to the captains. You look the captain in the eye. Know who you're
dealing with.
Simon: I wish there was...
Kaylee: You shouldn't ought to be so clean. It's a dead giveaway you don't belong, you always got to be tidy. Don't pay anybody in advance. And don't ride in anything with a Capissen engine...they fall right out of the sky.
Simon: Kaylee...
Simon: River, do you want to stay with them?
River: It isn't safe.
Simon: No, I fear it isn't safe anymore.
River: For them.
Kaylee: We're going on a year now, I ain't had nothing twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries.
Mal: Oh, God! I can't know that!
Jayne: I could stand to hear a little more.
Mal: If I truly wanted someone bad enough, there wouldn't be a thing in the verse could stop me from goin' to her.
Kaylee: Tell that to Inara.
Mingo: Do you know that girl?
Mal: I really don't.
Mal: What in the hell happened back there?
Wash: Start with the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a 90 pound girl, cause I don't think that's ever
gettin' old.
Mal: You had a goram time bomb living with us. Who we gonna' find in there when she wakes up? The girl,
or the weapon?
Simon: I thought she was getting better.
Jayne: And I thought they was getting off. Didn't we have an intricate plan on how they was gonna be not
here anymore?
Kaylee: We couldn't leave them now.
Jayne: No, now that she's a killer woman we outta be bringing her tea and dumplings.
Jayne: She goes wooley again we're gonna have to put a bullet to her.
Mal: It's crossed my mind.
Mr Universe: There is no news. There's the truth of the signal.
Mr. Universe: Zoe, you sulty minx. Stop falling in love with me. You're just gonna embarrass yourself.
I have a commitment...to my lovebot. It was a very beautiful ceremony. Lenore wrote her own vows.
I cried, like a baby. A hungry, angry baby.
Mr. Universe: Oh, Mal. You're very smart. Someone is talking to her.
Wash: The Oaty Bar?
River: They're afraid of me.
Simon: I'm sorry.
River: They should be. But I'll show them. Oh God.
Simon: Shhhh...it's okay. Hey-it's okay.
River: Show me off like a dog. Old men covered in blood. It never touched them but they're drowing in it.
I don't know what I'm saying. I never know what I'm saying.
River: It isn't mine. The memory, it isn't mine. And I shouldn't have to carry it. It isn't mine.
Don't make me sleep again.
Simon: I won't.
River: Put a bullet to me. Bullet in the brainpan, squish.
Simon: Don't say that. Not ever. We'll get through this.
River: Things are going to get much, much worse.
Kaylee: But how can you be sure Inara don't just wanna see you? Sometimes people have feelings.
I'm referring here to people.
Mal: You all were watching, I take it.
Group: Yes.
Mal: Did you see us fight?
Kaylee: No.
Mal: Trap.
Mal: Zoe, ship is yours. Remember-if anything happens to me, or if you don't hear from me within the hour, you take this ship....and you come and you rescue me.
Zoe: What? Risk my ship?
Mal: I mean it. It's cold out there. And I don't wanna get left.
Mal: Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony, and a plastic rocket, and...
Inara: Mal! What are you doing here?
Mal: Well, you invited me.
Inara: I never thought for a second you'd be stupid enough to come.
Mal: Well, that makes you kind of a tease, doesn't it?
Operative: I think you're beginning to understand how dangerous River Tam is.
Mal: She is a mite unpredictable. Mood swings, of a sort.
Operative: It's worse than you know.
Mal: It usually is.
Operative: That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship.
Inara: We've every reason to be afraid.
Jayne: Why, 'cause this guy beat up Mal? That ain't so hard.
Inara: He didn't beat me up. Nobody said that.
Mal: You wanna run this ship?
Jayne: Yes.
Mal: Well...you can't.
Jayne: Do a damn sight better job than you. Getting us lashed over a couple of strays. No offense, Doc.
I think it's noble as a grape the way you look to River. But she ain't my sister and she ain't your crew.
Oh, and neither is she exactly helpless. So, where's it writ that we got to lay down our lives for her?
Which is what you've steered us toward.
Jayne: No trouble, little crazy person. We're going for a nice shuttle ride.
Mal: The government's man, he says you're a danger to us. Not worth helping. Is he right? Are you anything but a weapon? I've staked my crew's life on the theory you're a person actual and whole, and if I'm wrong, you'd best shoot me now. Or, we could talk more.
Mal: Shouldn't have been you. Alliance should've hit us. Should've hit me.
Book: That crossed my mind. I shot him down.
Mal: Yeah, I see.
Book: I killed the ship that killed us. Not very Christian of me.
Mal: You did what's right.
Book: Coming from you, that means almost nothing.
Mal: Just don't move.
Book: Can't order me around, boy. I'm not one of your crew.
Mal: Yes, you are.
Operative: I believe in something greater than myself. A better world. A world without sin.
Mal: So me and mine gotta lay down and die, so you can live in your better world?
Zoe: Sir...do you really mean to turn our home into an abomination so that we can make a suicidal attempt at passing through Reaver space?
Mal: I mean to live. I mean for us to live.
Mal: This is how it is. Anybody doesn't wanna fly with me anymore this is your port of harbor. There's a lot of fine ways to die. I ain't waiting for the Alliance to choose mine. I mean to confound these bungers. Take my shot at getting to Miranda. Maybe find something I can use to get clear of this. So I hear a word out of any of you that ain't helping me out or taking your leave, I will shoot you down. Get to work.
River: Make them stop. They're everywhere. Every city, every...every house, every room, they're all inside me. I can hear them all, and they're saying nothing! Get up. Please get up. Please, God, make me a stone.
Mal: You all got on this boat for different reasons but you all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.
Zoe: It's a fair bet the Alliance knows about Mr. Universe. They're gonna see this coming.
Mal: No. They're not gonna see this coming.
Helmsman: Sir...
Operative: Target the Reavers! Target Everyone! Somebody Fire!
Wash: I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
Jayne: Captain's right. Can't be thinking on revenge if we're gonna get through this.
Zoe: Do you really think any of us are gonna get through this?
Jayne: I might.
Mr. Universe: Mal. Guy killed me, Mal. He killed me with a sword. How weird is that?
Mr. Universe: They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal.
Jayne: She picked a sweet bung of a time to go helpless on us.
Simon: My one regret in all of this... is never being with you.
Kaylee: With me? You mean to say, as...Sex?
Simon: I mean to say.
Kaylee: Hell with this. I'm gonna live.
Operative: You willing to die for that belief?
Mal: I am. Of course, that ain't exactly Plan A.
River: You take care of me, Simon. You've always taken care of me. My turn.
Operative: Do you know what your sin is, Mal?
Mal: Aw, hell. I'm a fan of all seven. But right now I'm going to have to go with wrath.
Mal: I ain't gonna kill you. Hell, I'm gonna grant your greatest wish. I'm gonna show you a world without sin.
Mal: Think she'll hold together?
Zoe: She's tore up plenty. But she'll fly true.
Mal: Ready to get off this heap, back to civilized life?
Inara: I, uh...I don't know.
Mal: Good answer.
Mal: So, you gonna ride shotgun with me, help me fly?
River: That's the plan.
Mal: Think you can work out...Okay, clearly some aptitude for...It ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flying is? Well, I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm about to say.
River: I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Mal: Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love she'll shake you off just as sure as the turn of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down-tells you she's hurting before she keels. Makes her a home.
River: Storm's getting worse.
Mal: We'll pass through it soon enough.