Firefly quote lemming.

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Okay. This excerpt has three of my favorite exchanges in it. I've left my ABSOLUTE favorite exchange out of the cut. . .

MAL
[ . . . ] Girl
knows things she shouldn't. Things she couldn't.

JAYNE
Are you saying she's a witch?

WASH
Yes, she's a witch, Jayne. She has had congress with the beast.

JAYNE
She's in congress?

WASH
How did your brain master human speech? I'm just so curious.

INARA
< Shut up, you inconsiderate schoolboys >! [BEE-jway, neen hen BOO-TEE-TYEH duh NAN-shung!] This isn't a joking matter. This is about your -- about our lives. And River's.

MAL
Thank you.

SIMON
She's deeply intuitive, it's true she has a --

MAL
I don't think she's just intuitive, Doctor. I think she's a reader.

ZOE
Psychic?

WASH
Is that even remotely possible?

MAL
(to Simon)
You tell me. You been studying what they did to her.

SIMON
They've definitely altered the way she reacts to things, even the way she perceives... but I'm not...

WASH
Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction!

ZOE
You live in a spaceship, dear.

WASH
So?

JAYNE
(suddenly more uncomfy)
Back up a sec. You're saying she might really read minds?

MAL
Or near enough. Am I the only one thinking along those lines?

BOOK
No.

JAYNE
I don't like the idea of someone hearing what I'm thinking.

INARA
No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.