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JAYNE: Hiding under the Shepherd's skirts, that's a manful scheme

MAL: You wanna run this ship?

JAYNE: Yes!

MAL: Well you can't!

JAYNE: Do a damn sight better job'n 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 we gotta lay down our lives for her, which is what you've steered us toward.

MAL: I didn't start this.

JAYNE: No, the Alliance starts the war -­ and then you volunteer. Battle of Serenity, Mal besides Zoe here, how many -- I'm talkin' at you --how many men in your platoon came out of there alive?

ZOE: You wanna leave this room.

's got the ring of a plan to me.

Wouldn't it be easier to rescue Zoe if you had ten of me?

Which you? 'Cause I seen two versions and one of 'em's only useful if we're entering a haiku contest.

It was the last episode we filmed and therefore the funeral scene was incredibly funereal.

Joss Whedon made an uncredited cameo in THE MESSAGE as a family member at Tracey’s funeral.

FireflyFacts 28/98 | The Message (via shewhohangsoutincemeteries)

The Message was the last Firefly episode filmed, by which time the cast and crew knew the show had been cancelled. The final scene, in which Serenity’s crew return Tracey’s body to his family on St Albans, marking an end to the former soldier’s journeys, therefore had an extra poignancy for them

It was the last episode we filmed and therefore the funeral scene was incredibly funereal.