Temperance Brennan quotes from Bones

Brennan

For me, I keep thinking about her trying to find Sung. I could've so easily been like her, just missing the opportunity to live my life with you. I would thank God, if I believed in one.

Booth

[smiles] Then I'll do it for you.

Brennan

Dr. Wells, I often find you to be a real pain in my ass!

Oliver

[deadpan] Wow. If I wasn't so shocked I would be offended.

Brennan

[collects herself] The occasional curse word can serve as a healthy form of non-violent retribution.

Oliver

So you swore to stop yourself from hitting me?

Brennan

Given your personality, I imagine you're quite used to that.

Angela

[about Daisy] Cut her some slack, Valentina. A human being is trying to escape from her vagina.

Brennan

[takes Daisy's hand comfortingly] Perhaps I can walk with you and you can squeeze my hand. I did that when I was in labor and I took great comfort in knowing that Booth was in pain too.

Aubrey

[cringes at the foul-smelling corpse] Booth is a lucky man. Traffic school's looking pretty good right about now.

Brennan

I don't think Booth is enjoying it at all. Has anyone ever told you you say some pretty bizarre things?

Brennan

I'm a much better driver than you are.

Booth

Says who?

Brennan

The State of Virginia, for starters.

Booth

So it's official. Okay, so if that's a challenge, I hope it ends in a super cool drag race.

Brennan

Oh, that sounds dangerous.

Booth

Well, it's not if you're behind the wheel. Instead of The Fast and the Furious, it'd be The Slow and the Serious.

Booth

Bodies are so much bulkier than jewels.

Brennan

And yet you seemed right at home. I guess once a thief, always a thief.

Adults don't go climbing inside trees alone.

Hodgins

I do. That's where the really beautiful Hymenoptera are.

Right. But unless by some chance the victim was not an obsessive entomologist, this is probably a body dump.

Brennan

But why dump her inside of a tree?

Hodgins

Body stew like this, I feel like one of the witches from Macbeth.

  [upon Seeley Booth taking a bite of her edible, gelatinous brain mould prop]  Whoa, Booth!  That wasn't a model; that was an actual brain I brought back from the lab.

Seeley Booth

  Ugh, oh, God!

  Gotcha!

Booth

I'm not saying what Greystream Solutions does is right.

Brennan

But you're saying you dislike what Vivian did as much as they do.

Booth

Okay, and you're okay with what she did?

Brennan

I take the long view, the historical view. George Washington, in his day, was considered a traitor.

Booth

Oh, okay, well, now you're just trying to piss me off.

Brennan

Washington was a British subject who led an army against his own country.

Booth

It's not the same thing.

Brennan

How do we know? Sitting here today, how do we know if history will look at Vivian Prince as a patriot agitating for change or a traitor to her country?

Booth

You know what, I'm sorry, Bones, but it doesn't take me 200 years for me to know that she was wrong. I'll catch her killer, but Vivian Prince was wrong.

There's very little that I can disclose that isn't above your clearance level. I'm here purely as a courtesy.

Brennan

Did you kill Vivian Prince?

Booth

Bones, not exactly where I was gonna start.

Brennan

Well, if he's being difficult, we might as well cut to the chase.

I like her style.

Booth

I'll bring in Gill.

Hodgins

Uh, no, you can't.

Brennan

But we have to. He is very likely the last person to see Vivian alive.

Hodgins

If you bring Gill in, whoever killed Vivian is gonna know who "The American" is. You might as well pull the trigger yourself.

Booth

Well, maybe he should've thought of that before he committed treason.

Hodgins

Booth, there's got to be some way you can meet with this guy and talk to him in secret.

Booth

This guy put dozens of agents' lives in jeopardy. What, you want me to give him some kind of special treatment?

Hodgins

He was trying to do the right thing.

Booth

Stop right there, okay? You never served. You don't get the right to defend this guy.

Hodgins

I'm just saying, Booth––

Booth

[interrupts] What you're saying is that it's okay for this guy to put other people in danger. You know what? It's not.

Angela

Oh, this is where the victim was before he died-- the Frontier Games. It's a weekend-long, role-playing, Old-West-style shooting competition.

Angela

The next Frontier Games will be taking place this weekend.

[sighs] Why do I have a feeling Booth already knows this?

Aubrey

Undercover? Seriously?

Booth

Well, the likely suspects are the participants. [hands Brennan some notes] Look.

Brennan

85% of the competitors are repeat guests from all over the Eastern Seaboard.

Booth

Which is exactly why we have to go undercover. Because if we don't, we're gonna have to coordinate branches in seven different states, we're never gonna find the suspects––

Aubrey

Oh. You just want to dress up and play cowboy for the weekend.

Booth

Yeah, well, if I can do that and solve a crime, why, who wouldn't want to do that?

Brennan

[after Booth intentionally messes up in the shooting competition] You're not doing very well, Booth. You didn't even make the board.

Booth

I'm not even trying.

Brennan

I feel so foolish.

Booth

Why do you feel so foolish?

Brennan

All of this, all of it! Ah. It's so irrational. I mean, how could I think that flirting with another man and besting you at a game of skill would have a positive effect on our relationship?

Booth

Wait a second. First of all, if you think I'm worried about you running off with some doughy guy who's dressed in some U.S. Marshal's outfit that's way too tight, you're wrong. Secondly, besting me? I'm a trained sniper. I could win this competition blindfolded. The only reason I'm not doing it is 'cause I don't want to raise any eyebrows.

Booth

[shows his FBI credentials] There's a new sheriff in town, and his name is Special Agent Seeley Booth. And you're under arrest for the murder of Stanley Belridge.

Brennan

And I'm not Wanda. I'm Dr. Temperance Brennan. I'm also the mother of his children. [sees Glen and Franny's crestfallen look] That's right. Sorry.