Annie's reply is just as animated and just as nonsensical to almost everyone else. Wash rolls his eyes and slips an arm around Zoe.

"And when you two are done," he says to Mal when Annie pauses for breath, "this is my mom and dad, and I think they want to say hi in a language the rest of us can understand."

Keane offers a hand to Mal. "Keane Washburne.