Firefly

[Wash and Mal are blindfolded in Niska's torture chamber.]

Mal:
You okay?

Wash:
[Panicking] I think I've been kidnapped.

Mal:
Yeah.

Wash:
[Pauses] Can you see where we are?

Mal:
No.

Wash:
Mal, what the hell is going on?

Mal:
Ain't rightly sure.

Wash:
But you've got some theories?

Mal:
[Slightly irritated] Still working it through.

Wash:
[Loudly] I don't want you to spare me, Mal. If you think you know what's happening then you tell me. You wouldn't spare Zoe if she were in this situation with you, would you? You would be planning, and plotting, and possibly scheming. So, whatever Zoe would do in this instance is what I wanna do. And you know why? Because no matter how ugly it gets, you two always come back. With the stories. So... I'm Zoe. Now... what do I do?

Mal:
Probably not talk quite so much.

Wash:
Right. Less talking. She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic. [Pause] If I'm not gonna talk, then you have to! What else?

Mal:
We just gotta keep our heads.

Wash:
Right. Keep our heads. That way we'll be able to, you know, keep our heads. You and Zoe have been in plenty of situations like this before, right?

Mal:
Many a' time.

Wash:
Many a' time, you and Zoe.

Mal:
At least we know who it was took us-

Wash:
Zoe and you. Together, in a tricky...[Considers this] Mal, she's my wife!

Mal:
Huh?

Wash:
What gives you the right to put her in a dangerous situation like this?

Mal:
I didn't!

Wash:
You did!

Mal:
She ain't here, Wash!

Wash:
No, but she would've been!

Mal:
Okay.

Wash:
I mean, I'm the one that she swore to love, honor, and obey.

Mal:
Listen, if— [surprised] She swore to obey?

Wash:
Well, no... not— [breathing heavily] But that's just my point! You, she obeys! She obeys you. There's obeying going on right under my nose!

Mal:
Look, Zoe and I have a history— she trusts me.

Wash:
[Annoyed] What's that supposed to mean?

Mal:
Don't mean a thing, but you're making out like she blindly follows my every word; that ain't true.

Wash:
Sure it is.

Mal:
Not so. There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey.

Wash:
Name one!

Mal:
She married you!