| The tension has been building between the two for a long time but finally they decide that they are both equally pretty. |
| OPERATIVE: Say it.SAY IT!MAL: I sometimes wear Kinky boots. |
| Mal: "Ha ha ha! You're such an idiot! You can't vamp here! Wrong Whedonverse!" |
| In a classic misunderstanding, the Operative asked Mal for a mixed drink, but the Captain thought he was being challenged to a duel using small tools. |
| River (OS): One of you is going to fall and die and I'm not cleaning it up! |
| *Grabbing Mal below the belt*Operative: Have you moved any nerve clusters down here? |
| Mal: Your sword is in my guts!Op: Yeah? Well your guts are on my sword! |
| MAL: if i had my slayer powers back, i'd be punning right now. |
| MAL: No, nuh-nuh-nothing happened. No, there was, uh, there was some drinking, but, uh, we, no we certainly didn't. No, I would never! Not with the Operative.OPERATIVE: What do you mean, not with me? |