[ Wash has found something here, then. Though the way he doesn't answer Byerly's question is probably telling that he's found at least a bit of something, too -- not anything Wash holds onto too fiercely, but certainly something he doesn't like talking about. ]

Did you just throw yourself between them? I don't think that'd be all that effective, if they had their sights set on Nadine. Unless they didn't, in the first place.

Enough of a distraction, were you? More than ten years ago. Were you much of a useless drunk, back then?