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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Inara Serra : Besides, why would I wanna leave Serenity?
Mal : Can't think of a reason.
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Inara : [after accompanying the crew to a Border Planet Bar and witnessing a drunken brawl] Lovely place, I'll tell my friends.
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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.