Poor poor pitiful me

So last night, to my joy, I discovered and procured a copy of the second Top Ten TPB.
This morning I sat down with Joss Nevin's annotations to the series and something snacky and.... discovered that I cannot find the first TPB. I have no idea where the hell I put the thing.
Damn it.
I need to find myself another simple pleasure to avoid being glum the rest of the day. Maybe UPS will actually deliver my afri-persian pop music CD today.

Edit: The CD came. Now all I need is to find somebody who can read the scrawly Arabic script the liner notes are all in.

burn the earth and boil the sea

So I finally saw all the episodes of Firefly, which I hoped might give me insight. But it didn't.
The episode is Objects in Space, with bounty hunter Jubal Early. Opening sequence, River goes around listening to people's heads. And Shepherd Book says/thinks "I don't give half a hump if you're innocent or not."

Who is he referring to? What is he talking about? The others were all pretty clear. Is he self-referencing?