Quotes
SafeSimon: It's fun, being forced to the ass-end of the galaxy. To get to live on a piece of luh-suh wreck. And we eat molded protein! And be bullied around by our pyen juh duh jiou chao wren of a captain. That's fun.
Kaylee: "Luh-suh"?! Serenity ain't a piece of "Luh-suh".
Out of Gas
Mal: Ship like this, be with you till the day you die.
Zoë: Because it's a death trap.
Mal: That's not— You are very much lacking in imagination.
Zoë: I imagine that's so, sir.
Mal: A-and try to see past what she is, and on to what she can be.
Zoë: What's that, sir?
Mal: Freedom, is what.
Zoë: I meant, what's that?
Mal: Oh. Yeah, just step around that. I think something must've been living in here.
Zoë: "Get her running again"?
Mal: Yeah.
Zoë: So not running now?
Mal: Not so much.
Zoë: Ah.
Mal: But she will.
Mal: I'm not leaving Serenity.
Salesman: Yup. Real beauty, ain't she? Yes sir.
The rocket-shaped vessel that the salesman is trying to sell Mal comes into view.
Salesman: Tell you what. You buy this ship - treat her proper - she'll be with you for the rest of your life. Son? Hey, son?
As we follow Mal's point of view, we see a battered old Firefly, someday to become "Serenity," sitting on the other side of the lot.
Salesman: You hear a word I been sayin'?