Firefly (TV Series)

Shindig (2002)

Morena Baccarin: Inara Serra

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• Sir Warwick Harrow : You have to finish it, lad. You have to finish it. For a man to lay beaten... and yet breathing? It makes him a coward.

  Inara Serra : It's humiliation.

  Mal : Sure. It would be humiliating. Having to lie there while the better man refuses to spill your blood. Mercy is the mark of a great man.

  [lightly stabs Atherton with the sword] 

  Mal : Guess I'm just a good man.

  [stabs him again] 

  Mal : Well, I'm all right.

• Atherton Wing : Well, get ready to starve. I'll see to it you never work again.

  Inara : Actually, that's not how it works. You see, you've earned yourself a black mark in the client registry. No companion is going to contract with you ever again.

  Sir Warwick Harrow : You'll have to rely on your winning personality to get women. God help you.

• Inara : You have a strange sense of nobility Captain. You'll lay a man out for implying I'm a whore but you keep calling me one to my face.

  Mal : I might not show respect to your job, but he didn't respect *you*. That's the difference. Inara, he doesn't even see you.

  Inara : Well, I guess death will solve the issue to everyone's satisfaction.

• Atherton Wing : You belong here, Inara, not on that flying piece of go-se. You see that, don't you?

  Inara : Atherton, language.

  Atherton Wing : What? "Piece of go-se"? But it is a piece of go-se.

  Major Domo : Miss Kaywinnet Lee Frye and escort.

  Inara : Kaylee?

  [Kaylee enters with Mal] 

  Inara : Oh, go-se.

• Inara : I am grateful, you know, for the ill-conceived and high-handed attempt to defend my honor, although, I didn't want you to.

  Mal : Gracious as that is...

• Mal : Whoa, whoa, I'm not runnin' off. I don't know what you got in your head, but I didn't do this to prove some kind of point to you. I actually thought I was defending your honor. And I never back down from a fight.

  Inara : Yes, you do. You do all the time.

  Mal : Well, yeah. But, I'm not backin' down from this one.

• [Inara is teaching Mal how to fence; Mal just missed and got smacked on the behind] 

  Inara : How did I avoid that?

  Mal : By being fast like a freak?

• Inara : Are you in pain?

  Mal : Absolutely, I got stabbed you know, right here.

  [lifts shirt to show a bloodstained bandage on side of abdomen] 

  Inara : I saw.

  Mal : I don't care much for fancy parties. Too rough.

  Inara : It wasn't entirely a disaster.

  Mal : [lifts his shirt again]  I got stabbed. Right here.

• Atherton Wing : Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight.

  Inara : Only half? I must be losing my indefinable allure.

• Inara : I've seen him before.

  Mal : Oh, I never did. Not what I pictured. Young. Must be rich, to afford your rates.

  Inara : I suppose. He has engaged me for several days.

  Mal : Days? Boy must have stamina.

  Inara : Mmm. He does.

• Mal : It sounds like the finest party I could imagine gettin' paid to go to.

  Inara : I don't suppose you'd find it up to the standards of your outings. More conversation and somewhat less petty theft and getting hit with pool cues.

• Inara Serra : [Inara is watching Jayne and Mal play doubles pool]  As with other situations, the key seems to be... giving Jayne a heavy stick and standing back.

• Inara : Atherton's a heavy sleeper the night before a big day. He's got that killing in the morning, and a haircut later.

  Mal : Such a comfort, having friends visit at a time like this.

• Mal : Might ought to clear out before too much longer. Seems there's a thief about.

  Inara : A thief?

  Mal : Took this right off him.

  [Shows Inara a wad of money he stole from a group of slave-traders] 

  Mal : Now they earned that with the sweat of their slave-trading brows.

  Inara : [Inara states in disapproving shock]  Mal!

  Mal : Aw, terrible shame. Course they won't discover it till they go order their next round of drinks.

• Inara Serra : Besides, why would I wanna leave Serenity?

  Mal : Can't think of a reason.

• Inara : Good afternoon, Captain.

  Mal : Morning. We're downing, and in case that Wash don't kill us all, local time's going to be in the a.m.

• Inara : These people like me and I like them. I like Atherton too by the way.

  Mal : Well sure, what's not to like. I'm liable to sleep with him myself.

• Inara : [about Atherton]  You did manage to push him into saying something, yes. Made a nice justification for the punch.

  Mal : Well, he insulted you. I hit him. Seemed like the thing to do.

• Inara : [after accompanying the crew to a Border Planet Bar and witnessing a drunken brawl]  Lovely place, I'll tell my friends.

• Atherton Wing : Now there's the smile made of sunlight.

  Inara : Atherton, how wonderful to see you.

  Atherton Wing : Did you get my message? I was extra appealing.