Temperance Brennan quotes from Bones

Booth

So, is it him?

Brennan

It's him. But here's the kickster--

Booth

Kicker, Bones. Here's the kicker.

Brennan

Oh.

Brennan

Doctor, you performed Amy Cullen's graft, correct?

Yes but I just do the procedure, Miss Brennan.

Booth

Dr. Brennan.

MD?

Brennan

PhD.

[smiles] Well, those who can't do do research. [Booth is about to confront him but Brennan holds him back]

Brennan

[imitating John Wayne] "Listen, cowboy. Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."

Booth

What was that? The Duke? That was horrible. That was, like, Jerry Lewis.

Brennan

Was not.

Brennan

Now you're a mind reader?

Booth

Maybe. You want me to guess your weight?

Brennan

You do and you could lose a tooth.

Angela

Yeah. Men aren't like us. They're much more fragile and needy. The fact that they think we're the needy ones is a testament to our superiority.

Brennan

Yeah. I guess I forgot.

Booth

Never get used to the magnitude of this place, what it's taken to keep this country free.

Brennan

All societies build monuments to their dead, to convince future combatants that it's an honor to die in battle.

Brennan

This is hard for Booth, he's idealistic.

Angela

Well, it's nice to somebody who wants to keep honor and responsibility alive.

Brennan

But I feel like Booth thinks I'm taking that away from him.

Angela

You're just doing your job, he knows that.

Brennan

I guess. [...] Tell Booth we're on the same side, I'm not the one who's disillusioning him, it's my findings, but when I look at him, I–– [sighs] I don't know what else I can do.

Angela

I do.

Brennan

[scoffs] Ange.

Angela

As a friend, Brennan.

Brennan

Yeah, the whole "friends with benefits" thing. [shakes head] That's...that's not happening.

Angela

I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about being there for him. Knowing when a simple touch is enough.

Brennan

Maybe I could write him a note....I could be very articulate on paper.

Booth

People always surprise you.

Brennan

That hasn't always been my experience.

Booth

I've done some things.

Brennan

I know.

Booth

No, you don't.

Brennan

[earnestly] But it's OK.

Booth

[hesitantly] Not...not that it's a secret. It's not. I have to be, uh, honest...about myself. I...I have to be able to tell someone.

Brennan

You will in time, Booth. [pauses] You will.

I call... every year... on your birthday. You never pick up.

Brennan

Take a hint.

Russ

Tempy, that theory explains why Mom never came back for you during those one and a half years before she died!

Brennan

What's your excuse, Russ?

Russ

You're the one that left me! You needed someone to blame and you chose me.

Brennan

I was fifteen years old!

Russ

I was nineteen. My parents were gone. My sister hated my guts. Everyone told me that she'd be better off in foster care.

Brennan

You didn't even ask me!

Russ

I tried, Temperance. You wouldn't talk to me. You still wouldn't talk to me if Mom's bones didn't show up. And I kept trying. Every year. Every year on your birthday. You're the one that gave up. You turned your back on me and you made yourself a new family.

Brennan

Sometimes people need to explain things to me, I guess.

Russ

You have to let them talk.

Booth

[making a toast] To us.

Russ

Whoever the hell we are.

Brennan

To what we're becoming.

Brennan

Tell me that's not a real skeleton.

Zack

No, we made him out of calcium phosphate and hydroxyapatite.

Hodgins

And spam.

If it happens again, I will take action. And I am from New York, which means that I will take New York action. Am I clear?

Brennan

Not at all.

Zack

I'm from Michigan.

Hodgins

Dr Saroyan means she'll make us watch musical theatre.

(after advising Dr. Brennan and the rest of the team the Turko will only get 10 years for his involvement in the train crash) It's 10 years or nothing. I can only work with what I'm given, and the forensic work on this was not good enough.

Brennan

What?

You were fooled by fake dental records, you baked some spam.

What did you want us to do?

Your jobs.

Booth

Hey!

No, Ms. Supek, you want us to do your job. My people gave you all the evidence you need to fry Turko with any reasonable jury.

We gave you everything you needed to arrest Turko.

Arrest is not a conviction.

We definitely gave you enough to reject his plea bargain and indict him in the wrongful death of a Senator.

Indictment is not a conviction.

Booth

You accept that plea bargain and the investigation stops.

Brennan

Indict him. Give us time to get you what you need.

If you accept this plea bargain, you don't deserve to be a Federal Prosecutor.

Dr. Saroyan!

Yeah, it's scary. The whole country'll be watching the trial and you don't want to go in with less than a sure thing. But you put my people on the stand as expert witnesses and that's a sure thing.

Not Zack.

You can tell the story of what happened using the evidence these people provided, and if you any ability as a prosecutor you'll win the case.

Are you finished?

No, Ms. Supac. In the future when you have problems with my team, you'll register them with me, in private, not by grand standing in a public forum.