Scenes with Temperance Brennan 725
So do you want the good news first or the bad news?
Brennan Is the order at all relevant?
You know, people like to get the bad news first so the conversation ends in happiness.
Brennan All right, then. What's the bad news?
Well, the court refuses to compel a DNA sample from Ericson based on what we have so far.
Brennan [mobile phone rings] Do you mind? It's not work related.
Brennan Brennan.
Brennan [to person on the phone] For Valentine's Day?
Oh! A Valentine's date, huh?
Brennan A secret service agent from my gym.
Brennan [laughs to person on the phone] No, it's not my mother. [to Booth] He thinks that you're my mother.
Look, I'm not her mother!
Brennan [to person on the phone] Okay, I don't have a mother. Could I phone you back to tell you no? Thanks! [to Booth] All right, what's the good news so that we may end this conversation on a happy note.
Ericson has a son in prison for insider trading.
Brennan Why is that good news? It seems the entire family is degenerate.
Bones, it's good news because it means the son's DNA is on file with CODIS.
Brennan Right. So Cam can compare it to the sample from under the fingernails to see if there's sufficient alleles in common to match the dad.
See. Always start with the bad news first then go with the happy. Are you happy now?
Brennan It's good news.
Brennan I'm happy!
Brennan [on the phone with Caroline, talking to Booth] Caroline is asking if we see anything?
The answer's still no and tell her to stop asking.
Brennan [to Caroline] Booth says stop asking.
I don't wait well, I'm an action person. Waiting makes my teeth hurt!
Brennan [to Booth] Her teeth..hurt.
Brennan Why are you mad at me?
Brennan No, you can't say forget it to your partner. You taught me that.
I just don't like the idea that my partner thinks that me and Jacob Broadsky are alike.
Brennan You are similar in many ways.
[sarcastically] Great! Thanks, Bones.
Brennan But not in the most important way. How can I put this in a way that you will understand?
Try to say it in teeny tiny words.
Brennan Okay. Broadsky is bad. You are good. That's as simply as I can put it.
[laughs] You don't believe in absolutes like good or bad, all right? You think it's where people stand.
Brennan From where I stand, you are good and Broadsky's bad.
Thanks for standing there, Bones.
Brennan I'm standing right beside you, Booth, like always. Like I always will. I'm being metaphorical, of course, because we are currently sitting.
Thank goodness, because I thought I'd shrunk.
Brennan [laughs] That's funny, because you made a joke based on relative position, which goes back thematically to our discussion of situation morality.
Ha! That's not why it's funny.
Brennan Tell me another one!
Please tell me that this meat is not human.
Brennan No, it's venison. We found it frozen in the suicide victim's cabin freezer.
I'm confused. Are we investigating a murder, or preparing lunch for the Palin family?
Brennan How-how can I put this in a way that you will understand?
Why don't you try and say it in teeny tiny words?
Brennan Oh, okay. (slowly and deliberately) Broadsky is bad. You... are good. That's as simply as I can put it.
All right. You don't believe in absolutes like good or bad. All right? You think it's where people stand.
Brennan From where I stand, you are good, and Broadsky's bad.
I mean, this is a computer chip. You can program it.
Brennan Which suggests you can program the bullet.
Yeah, which means we're looking at something from the future.
Brennan Time travel is physically impossible.
'Angela : Yeah, but so is a bullet that you can program like a computer. Like we didn't have it bad enough with the old kind.
Brennan I admire your certainty, but since good and bad are such subjective concepts, how could you ever be sure you were doing the right thing?
Okay, well, it's not subjective to me. I mean, there's good, and there's evil. Life is all about taking sides, and Broadsky, well, he joined the wrong team
Brennan The bullet severed the C5.
Right. Severing the spinal cord from the brain stem is the gold standard for snipers. We call it disconnecting the computer.
You can never have too many cute phrases for taking a life.
[brennan is sitting on him in the elevator fixing his back. one hand is on his knee and the other rests on his thigh.] Wow. that feels great. Ahhh it's like you're untying the knots.
Brennan It's Thai massage. It combines deep tissue with acupressure it's quite effective.
[laughing in pleasure] Yeah...Right...I can feel that [brennan moves her hand down right next to his crotch. booth laughs] Oh ho ho ho wee hee stop...you know before Sweets comes back.
Brennan Why?
Well... [indicates their...position]
Brennan Ohh I understand you think... he'll interpret our physical contact as another sign that we...
[sighs and gets up] Yeah... yeah yeah yeah...ohh but I gotta tell you my back feels... wow so much better thanks!
Brennan No problem.
Yeah...You know... I can see how Sweets could... get confused.
Brennan [realizing what he's talking about] W-we both did tell him how we felt about each other.
Brennan [nodding] In the past...And we... both thought about it, he knows that.
Brennan Sleeping together. It would be odd if we didn't.
Right uhh...so we're talking about this now?
Brennan We seem to be. [both laugh] I always assumed that we'd be very compatible. Didn't you?
Brennan Because we're both so physical.
Right...the way we throw ourselves into a case.
Brennan We both have excellent stamina. [laughs] Making love would be..quite satisfying.
Yeah...but then what? I mean...as a couple, me and you would never...
Brennan [awkwardly] No.. it wouldn't work...
So, what do you think the chances are that me and my dad actually sat in these seats watching the game?
Brennan Hmmm. Let's see, 60,000 seats -- are you going to stop me?
No, I just like watching you do the math, that's all. I'm just glad the power's back on. These pills that I have to take, they look huge.
Brennan They're an extremely potent anti-viral. As long as you just don't skip any doses you'll be fine.
Yeah, as long as I don't choke to death. I can't get these to open.
Brennan [takes the bottle] How's your back?
It feels great since you magically fixed it.
Brennan It wasn't magic.
Well, me and you, we both have different definitions on that word.
Brennan [laughs] That's true. You think that microwave ovens are magic.
Well, I'll tell you what. Cooking a baked potato in five minutes? That's magic.
I'm just angry. I'm really angry. [sees Brennan looking at him warily] Not at you.
Brennan [sighs] Okay.
I just need time, that's all. I just need time to kind of hang back and find that inner peace before I, you know, get back out there. You know what we're talking about here, right?
Brennan Yes.
You and me, you know, and love, happiness, and life and fate.
Brennan I don't believe in fate, but I know what we're talking about. I am improving.
Brennan Yes, I'm quite strong.
Yeah, well you've always been strong.
Brennan You know the difference between strength and imperviousness, right?
[smiles] Not if you're going to get all scientific on me.
Brennan [chuckles] Well, a substance that is impervious to damage doesn't need to be strong. When you and I met I was an impervious substance. Now I am a strong substance.
I think I know what you mean.
Brennan A time could come when you aren't angry anymore and I'm strong enough to risk losing the last of my imperviousness, maybe then we could try to be together.
Brennan [Booth explains why he wanted the row of seats] And these seats were there and you're sentimental about it.
My dad and I were there. [pauses] He quit drinking for two weeks. Long enough to remember that I was his kid. [Brennan looks at him intently] [pauses] Best day of my life.
Brennan Did you think that you could reclaim a part of that day?
It's just history, that's all. [wistfully] It's our one perfect day.
Hey, Bones! Bones, Bones, just when you go over there, be nice. They're Canadians.
Brennan Are you referring to the broad generalization that Canadians are polite?
Brennan More expertise is required instead of just feet.
Yeah, gosh. You really are not going to stop until this Canadian foot guy is paralyzed from head to toe.
Brennan Would you accept an agent who specialized in murders that only occurred in February?
Brennan Not to me.
I'm glad that you apologized to the Canadian. I'm proud of you, Bones!
Brennan I didn't apologize.
Brennan The word apology derives from the ancient Greek apologia, which means a speech in defense. When I defended what I said to him you told me that wasn't a real apology.
Why don't you think of a word that means you feel bad for making someone else feel bad.
Brennan Contrite! From the Latin contritus, meaning crushed by a sense of sin.
There it is! Contrite! I'm happy that you contrited to the Canadian.
Brennan Right. Would you like to hear some more things that I feel contrite about?
Brennan Yes. I feel contrite that I think your socks are silly.
Brennan Also, I am contrite in the way that I think you are foolhardy in the way that you approach a cup of coffee.
How do I approach a cup of coffee?
Brennan You drink it without checking the temperature and then you complain all day that your tongue is burnt! I feel contrite that I think that's stupid.
Let's recap: foolhardy and stupid.
Brennan There's more.
Bones, you don't have to apologize for things that you think.
Brennan Oh!
Believe me, if we had to feel sorry for every single thought...
Brennan Like what?
Oh, believe me, I'm not going to fall down that path.
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