JAYNE: (to cattle) Yah! Get along!
MAL:You know, they walk just as easy if you lead ‘em.
JAYNE:I like smackin’ ‘em.

RIVER: Little soul, big world. Eat, sleep, and eat… Many souls.
MAL: (to Jayne) Cattle on the ship three weeks, she don’t go near ‘em. Suddenly we’re on Jiangyin and she’s got a driving need to commune with the beast?
RIVER: They weren’t cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are.
MAL: (to Jayne) Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?