I hope you had a lovely time at Vision Quest, m'dear, and welcome back!
1) I don't hold it against you, Zoë.
I can't hold your happiness against you, I just, uh... you sure you couldn't have had your honeymoon on Serenity? I'd've let Wash fly her anywhere he wanted for those two weeks.
O' course I mighta had t'make a quick stop on Demeter or.... See, I can fly the old girl just fine m'self, but - you left me stuck with that fool mechanic! How could you do that to me, Zoë?
2) You know, Shepherd, if I'd the chance to go back to the day you and the Tams came under our roof... none of you'd be here now.
I'm fair certain of that.
But this ship needed some moral fibre in its diet and we didn't suffer too much for your company. None too much at all. So, thanks for that open invitation to Haven, you can be sure anticipate sufferin' our company for many days to come.
Be safe, old timer.
3) Kaylee, you've been on this ship long enough to know the rules - and as your Captain, I know you well enough t'anticipate the only way to say my piece is by not bein' in the room, so... here you have it:
The next time you insist t'bring a boy aboard my ship, make sure he's not the son o' the man we just swindled! And if you can do this much, then y' oughtta bring him before me, 'cos... n-nobody steps on Serenity without meeting the Captain first!
I don't want to have to find my mechanic is otherwise occupied by havin' t'see it with these own two eyes, do you understand me?
Check his background! Bring him to me. If I approve see all's well we'll be laughin' 'n shiny, see?
4) I don't like you and I don't like the trouble you've brought bangin' down my door since we took you 'n your sister in at Aerial, but it's all gone and done now. Bygones be by, bridge water 'n such. You got a half-decent criminal mind if you put it to use and you both put enough coin in our pockets to earn your keep, but aside from the... emergency medical attention, you know what I appreciate the most, Simon Tam?
Heh, I can't count the number of opportunities I'd have missed to upset the Alliance in new and creative ways if you Tams hadn't hauled anchor with us. Just the thought gets me all inner warm 'n fuzzy.
5) Hey... hi, Inara.
The, uh - the crew's sending a package your direction, thought it'd be nice - Kaylee thought it'd be nice - for us all to say hi and look into how you're doing.
So, how are you doing?
I'm good. Keeping busy, not that I have much 'a chance for boredom what with keeping my crew fed and my ship in the air, but you remember how it is.
We've been looking into new possibilities of someone renting out your shuttle, or either of the shuttles really, but yours is the better maintained for livin', Simon said. Heh, Simon says. Haven't had much luck, though I think little Kaylee's sabotaging the whole process. She misses you, River too, though she don' say so much clearly, we discernin' folk can tell.
... So, that's about it. As we're going there'll always be a shuttle free on Serenity if you ever... you know.
Firefly: 5 Letters Mal Never Wrote to His Crewmembers
1) I don't hold it against you, Zoë.
I can't hold your happiness against you, I just, uh... you sure you couldn't have had your honeymoon on Serenity? I'd've let Wash fly her anywhere he wanted for those two weeks.
O' course I mighta had t'make a quick stop on Demeter or.... See, I can fly the old girl just fine m'self, but - you left me stuck with that fool mechanic! How could you do that to me, Zoë?
2) You know, Shepherd, if I'd the chance to go back to the day you and the Tams came under our roof... none of you'd be here now.
I'm fair certain of that.
But this ship needed some moral fibre in its diet and we didn't suffer too much for your company. None too much at all. So, thanks for that open invitation to Haven, you can be sure anticipate sufferin' our company for many days to come.
Be safe, old timer.
3) Kaylee, you've been on this ship long enough to know the rules - and as your Captain, I know you well enough t'anticipate the only way to say my piece is by not bein' in the room, so... here you have it:
The next time you insist t'bring a boy aboard my ship, make sure he's not the son o' the man we just swindled! And if you can do this much, then y' oughtta bring him before me, 'cos... n-nobody steps on Serenity without meeting the Captain first!
I don't want to have to find my mechanic is otherwise occupied by havin' t'see it with these own two eyes, do you understand me?
Check his background! Bring him to me. If I
approvesee all's well we'll be laughin' 'n shiny, see?4) I don't like you and I don't like the trouble you've brought bangin' down my door since we took you 'n your sister in at Aerial, but it's all gone and done now. Bygones be by, bridge water 'n such. You got a half-decent criminal mind if you put it to use and you both put enough coin in our pockets to earn your keep, but aside from the... emergency medical attention, you know what I appreciate the most, Simon Tam?
Heh, I can't count the number of opportunities I'd have missed to upset the Alliance in new and creative ways if you Tams hadn't hauled anchor with us. Just the thought gets me all inner warm 'n fuzzy.
5) Hey... hi, Inara.
The, uh - the crew's sending a package your direction, thought it'd be nice - Kaylee thought it'd be nice - for us all to say hi and look into how you're doing.
So, how are you doing?
I'm good. Keeping busy, not that I have much 'a chance for boredom what with keeping my crew fed and my ship in the air, but you remember how it is.
We've been looking into new possibilities of someone renting out your shuttle, or either of the shuttles really, but yours is the better maintained for livin', Simon said. Heh, Simon says. Haven't had much luck, though I think little Kaylee's sabotaging the whole process. She misses you, River too, though she don' say so much clearly, we discernin' folk can tell.
... So, that's about it. As we're going there'll always be a shuttle free on Serenity if you ever... you know.
We'll make space.