Seeley Booth quotes from Bones

Booth

You know, you need a better screening process down at the museum.

Goodman

Ironic, given we contract that out to the FBI.

Brennan

Music...Shhh, it's down there. [gesturing]

Booth

That's not music...it's bagpipes.

Booth

Guy was a Navy SEAL.

Brennan

So? You were a Guide.

Booth

A Ranger. I was a Ranger, Bones, ok? I was not a Guide. Guides, they show you waterfalls, they sell you cookies. Was a Ranger.

Brennan

What's he doing at the shaft?

Brennan

Are Rangers afraid of SEALs?

Booth

What? C'mon Bones. No, Rangers aren't afraid of anybody. SEALs are pretty good though.

Booth

Voodoo... [laughs] Who's gonna believe that stuff?

Brennan

It's a religion. No crazier than... well, what are you?

Booth

Catholic.

Brennan

They believe in the same saints you do. And prayer. What they call spells, you call miracles. They have priests.

Booth

We don't make zombies.

Brennan

Jesus rose from the dead after three days.

Booth

Jesus is not a zombie! I shouldn't even have to tell you that.

[to Booth] You found a prosecutor to defend her? Interesting tactic.

Brennan

I've told Detective Harding everything I know so far-

Caroline

She's a fool!? [to Booth] You didn't tell me she's a fool!

Booth

No, she's a a brilliant forensic anthropologist.

Brennan

Wa..I have three degrees. I-I've pioneered in research-

Caroline

What's that? [pointing to the evidence]

Brennan

A gris-gris bag, I find it in my hotel- [tries to hold evidence but Detective Harding took it away] -room. I'm assuming the person who left it there was trying to frame me, so the tooth is..probably Graham's.

Caroline

Three degrees and still a fool!

Brennan

Why are you nice to me?

Booth

Because. Because they think they get away with it.

Brennan

What?

Booth

They burn their victim. They blow him up. They toss him in the ocean. They bury him in the desert. They throw 'em to wood chippers. Sometimes, you know, years go by. They relax. Then they start living their lives like they didn't do anything wrong. Like they didn't spend somebody else's life in order to get what they got. They think they're safe from retribution. You make those bastards unsafe. That's why I'm nice to you.

Brennan

I couldn't do that without you, Booth.

Booth

Yeah. So, um, you should be a little nicer to me, huh?

Brennan

I really should.

Booth

And they put a forgetting spell on her!

Brennan

Booth!

Caroline

Hey, I can work with that. This N'awlins, baby.

It's a mojo, this one is meant to silence the dead so they can't speak.

Booth

Well usually dead people are pretty much silent on their own.

Booth

About a month ago, his daughter, Amy, was diagnosed with cancer. Meso--

Brennan

Mesothelioma. Lung cancer.

Booth

Exactly. So she is not doing so well, so it's a lot easier for us to come to him right now.

Brennan

Huh.

Booth

Huh what?

Brennan

Nothing. It's just -- that's an extremely rare form of lung cancer. Odd for someone Amy's age to contract--

Booth

No. No no no. No probing, 'kay? Not to Cullen, not to his family. This will take five minutes. We go in there, we do the show and tell, we leave him with the case, and then we're outta there. Is that clear?

Brennan

I just think it's peculiar--

Booth

No.

Brennan

But I--

Booth

No!

Booth

How do you listen to this all day?

Brennan

I find intelligence soothing.

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.

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.