"I'm too old for this shit."

"Lethal Weapon series." Pulling her legs up into the co-pilot's seat, Shepard smirked. "And that was practically a gimmie, especially with the latest Blasto reusing that line."

Joker shrugged. "Hey, what can I say? Everything old is new again. Come on, your turn." He didn't know when it had come up, but during one of their conversations, Shepard had thrown out a movie quote and he'd correctly guessed it. That had led to them discovering that they shared a love for old movies made from the mid-1960's to the early 2000's, and Guess the Movie Quote had been born.

He'd even discovered that Shepard had a huge collection of vids spanning a variety of genres that had been painstakingly re-mastered and downloaded onto her omni-tool. He still hadn't gotten the nerve to ask if he could get a copy, but he was working on that.

"Good grief, planet scanning is boring as hell."

"That's not a quote."

"No, but it's an observation." Wrapping her arms around her legs, she rested her chin on her knees. "Is it always this boring up here?"

"Nah. I'm usually busy keeping an eye on your ground team or checking to see that the ship doesn't suddenly make a nosedive into the planet you're on. This is Dead Air; kind of like the times when we're going in FTL mode and there's nothing really to do except wait until we get to wherever we're going."

"So what do you do in times like this?"

"I dunno. Grab a bite to eat in the Mess, take a quick catnap, catch up on my Fornax reading." He wiggled his eyebrows at her, which made her laugh. "Play Guess the Movie Quote with my commanding officer. You know, stuff like that."

Shepard rolled her eyes. "Oh, well I'd hate to take you away from valuable alone time with your Fornax."

"That's all right; I already finished the latest issue. I think I gave it to one of the guys down in Engineering. Probably won't get it back either. At least not in the same condition."

She made a face. "Okay, gross mental image there."

"I can keep going. That is, unless you hit me with a quote. Still your turn."

She stared at the screen in front of her, watching as the probes they sent around the planet searched for anything valuable. Unfortunately, she was drawing a blank. "I don't mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your left hand?"

"Princess Bride, 1987. You're one to talk about gimmies, you've already quoted three lines from that movie in the past week."

"I love that movie."

"Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!"

"Iocane powder. I'd bet my life on it."

"You mock my pain."

Shepard jumped when the screen started blinking, signaling that the probes had found something. "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." Stretching her legs back out in front of her, she turned to him. "Hey, I've got that movie on my 'tool. Wanna hang out and watch it when we've got some more time?"

He thought about it. While they hadn't been working together for very long, Shepard had a way of connecting with him. She was probably the most laid back commanding officer he had ever known and didn't seem to mind getting chummy with her crew. He didn't know if it was because she was so used to being amongst the working ranks instead of cloistered in her officer's quarters, but he liked it.

Pulling the Normandy out of its flight pattern, he made a beeline to the closest site the search probes had given him. "As you wish."