"And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill'em right back.

Look, wife or no, you are no one's property to be tossed aside. You got the right, same as anyone, to live and try to kill people. I mean ... you know ... people that are ...

... That's a ... that's a dumb planet."

Mal Reynolds, #Firefly, s01e06

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Adam Baldwin's performance as Jayne at the end of the Jaynestown episode really gets me. The way he captures the raw human beneath the gruff exterior, as Jayne's realises he was wrong in his cynical speech to the Mudders, that there are people who will sacrifice themselves for others. It's heartbreaking and hopeful at the same time.