Firefly (TV Series)
Bushwhacked (2002)
Doug Savant: Commander Harken
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Quotes
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Commander Harken : I notice your ship's called "Serenity". You were stationed on Hera at the end of the war. Battle of Serenity Valley took place there, if I recall.
Captain Reynolds : [slightly sarcastic] You know, I believe you might be right.
Commander Harken : Independents suffered a pretty crushing defeat there. Some say that after Serenity, the Browncoats were through. That the war ended in that valley.
Captain Reynolds : Hmm.
Commander Harken : Seems odd you'd name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of.
Captain Reynolds : May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
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[the crew is being interrogated individually]
Commander Harken : You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war?
Zoë : [terse; slightly irritated tone] Fought with a lot of people in the war.
Commander Harken : And your husband.
Zoë : Fight with him sometimes, too.
Commander Harken : Is there any particular reason you don't wish to discuss your marriage?
Zoë : Don't see that it's any of your business, is all. We're very private people.
[in Wash's interrogation]
Wash : [enthusiastic; animated] The legs!
[chuckles]
Wash : Oh, yeah! I definitely have to say it was her legs. You can put that down! Her legs, and right where her legs meet her back. That - actually that whole area. That and - and above it.
[in Kaylee's interrogation]
Kaylee : [angry; slightly defensive] Six gerslters crammed right under every cooling drive so that you strain your primary artery function and you end up having to recycle secondary exaust through a bypass system...just so's you don't end up pumping it through the main atmofeed and asphyxiating the entire crew. Now *that's* junk!
[back to Wash]
Wash : [very enthusiastically] Have you seen what she wears? Forget about it. Have you ever been with a warrior woman?
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Commander Harken : [has ordered the crew to be taken into custody] I want every inch of this junker tossed.
Kaylee : [offended] "Junker"?
Mal : Settle down, Kaylee.
Kaylee : But Captain, did you hear what that purple-belly called Serenity?
Mal : Shut up!
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Commander Harken : Looks to me like an illegal salvage operation.
Mal : It does? That's discouraging.
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Commander Harken : [During Book's interrogation] Pirates. Pirates with their own chaplain. There's an oddity.
Book : Not the only oddity this end of space, Commander. Way of things not always so plain as on the central planets. Rules can be a mite fuzzier.
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Captain Reynolds : So we attacked that ship, then brought the only living survivor to our infirmiry. Is that what we did?
Commander Harken : I'd ask him.....only I'm not sure he'll be able to speak with his tounge split down the middle.
Captain Reynolds : [Mal's eyes widen slightly with shock; mutters to himself in Chinese]
Commander Harken : I haven't seen that kind of torture since...well since the war.
Captain Reynolds : [sighs, almost a whisper] I should have known.
Commander Harken : You and you crew are bound by law. Formal charges will be transmitted to the central authority.
Captain Reynolds : Commander, I'm not what you need to be concerned about right now. Things go the way they are, there's gonna be blood.
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Captain Reynolds : I'm gonna...make a leap here and figure this is your first tour out here on the border.
Commander Harken : [audibly drops the file he was sifting through on the table; sniffs] It's a very loyal crew you have there.
Commander Harken : [Mal smiles briefly with pride] But then, I can tell by your record you have a-a tendency to inspire that quality in people...Sergeant.
Captain Reynolds : It's not Sergeant. Not anymore. War's over.
Commander Harken : For some the war'll never be over.
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Commander Harken : [Alliance message to Serenity] Firefly class transport, you are ordered to release control of your helm.
Mal : Looks like civilization finally caught up with us.
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Commander Harken : Reavers?
Mal : That is what I said.
Commander Harken : You can't imagine how many times men in my position hear that excuse. "Reavers did it."
Mal : It's the truth.
Commander Harken : You saw them, did you?
Mal : Wouldn't be sitting here talking to you if I had.