Seeley Booth quotes from Bones

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.

Booth

[making a toast] To us.

Russ

Whoever the hell we are.

Brennan

To what we're becoming.

Booth

You licensed for this job?

Russ

You're a cop?

Booth

You know who would recognize a cop?

Russ

Other cops?

Booth

And crooks.

Booth

Yeah, Bones doesn't intimidate.

Then... what?

Booth

Have you seen the way she stares at human remains before she makes a decision?

Yes.

Booth

You're human remains and... she hasn't made a decision yet.

(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.

Booth

Monkeys are Daddy's favorite! They're just like people!

Brennan

Actually, three million base pairs of the genome differ in protein encoding and other functional areas.

Booth

What?

Brennan

The differences between chimps and humans.

Booth

I'm talking to a four-year-old, Bones.

Booth

You want me to what?

Brennan

Stab the body for me. We need to match force with the injuries recorded on the remains.

Booth

Okay, I'm stabbing the body.

Brennan

It's a replica. We're all going to do it. You're just the closest to Kyle Richardson.

Booth

Okay, you know what? That's great. I'll be there in twenty. But in the future you just got to ask me differently, Bones, because you know what? Come over to your place to stab a body? That is just freaky.

Brennan

You think Richardson can rise to the occasion? Be a decent father?

Booth

He's got Carlie's parents to help him and I like to think that people can change.

Brennan

Faith and hope, right?

Booth

Right.

Brennan

Angela threw in love, too.

Booth

Love is good.

Brennan

(about Richardson) He didn't kill her.

Booth

No, but he ran. How do you just cut your family out of your life like that?

Brennan

What about Abraham?

Booth

You're gonna throw religion in my face right now?

Brennan

I thought you find answers in what you believe.

Booth

Well, that's the one Bible story that I just don't like. I mean, God commands Abraham to kill his own son and he does.

Brennan

Abraham does not kill Isaac.

Booth

But old Ab, he had the intention.

Brennan

I thought what he had was faith.

Booth

Look, I have faith. But if God himself came down, pointed at Parker and said I want you to, you know, that ain't gonna happen.

Booth

Yeah. You know, grabbed his hand the last second right before the knife was about to go in.

Brennan

Ok, then the lesson I would learn from this myth -

Booth

Myth?

Brennan

Fits the definition.

Booth

Ok, fine.

Brennan

That when it comes to your children your love has to be absolute. The messenger represents goodness, what you know to be right, ergo you have to remain open to what you know is true.

Booth

(smiles) Are you sure you're not religious?

Brennan

Science all the way.

Booth

Science all the way.

Brennan

Hey, even an empiricist can have a heart, Booth.

Brennan

I understand killers, I just don't know how mothers can do it. I mean, dogs can be trained in a couple of weeks. Kids, mothers have to give up their lives for years.

Booth

No, no. When you're looking at your kid, you don't feel like you're giving up anything.

Brennan

So, you'd do it again?

Booth

What?

Brennan

You'd have Parker, even with everything you're going through?

Booth

What kind of question is that?

Brennan

Wouldn't it be easier if Parker wasn't caught in this drama of yours, with Rebecca, new boyfriend?

Booth

God, no, no, Bones! He's my son. Whatever we're going through, it's not about that and he knows that.

Brennan

That's what parents say when they want to justify themselves.

Booth

You know, I haven't walked out on Parker, alright? I would never have done what your parents did.

Brennan

I didn't say you would, I just - I don't know. You're the father, I don't know anything about raising kids.

Booth

Parker's fine.

Brennan

New boyfriend spending a lot of time with your son?

Booth

Yeah. So, you got any new information for me Bones?

Brennan

(referring to Parker) I'm sorry.

Booth

Yeah, there's no need.

Brennan

It must be hard, not being able to see him when you want to.

Booth

See, this is information that I already know, Bones. Why don't you, let's say we just discuss the case, hm?

Brennan

(sees that he's upset) Sure.

Booth

You know, I'm his father. Parker knows that. I mean, that's, that's what's important, not some stupid trip to the zoo.

Brennan

No, absolutely.

Booth

Right.

Brennan

Yeah.

Booth

Done.

Brennan

Of course.

Booth

Boom.

Brennan

I don't see why I couldn't drive.

Booth

Cause you're agitated.

Brennan

No, I am not.

Booth

You know what? You've turned this into a competition between you and Cam.

Brennan

I just like to be first on the scene, that's all, to protect the evidence.

Booth

She's not going to disturb anything.

Brennan

No, it's all tissue and blood and DNA with her. She doesn't appreciate the skeletal system. You can take the I70, it'll be quicker.

Brennan

Haha, I think I know who's agitated.

Booth

Someone is annoying me, ok? That's different.

Booth

Huh?

Brennan

That's who's annoying you. (teasingly) Because she has a new man in her life.

Booth

That's funny, you know, ok. I am concerned about my son. I wanna know what kind of guy this new boyfriend is and you know what? If she's not gonna tell me, I'll find out on my own.

Brennan

You're gonna run a background check on him?

Booth

You have kids and we'll talk.

Brennan

That's a lot to ask for a little conversation.

Brennan

And I'm supposed to know who that is?

Booth

Yeah. Disappeared a year ago, she was pregnant? Oh come on, Bones, you have to get a TV. Oh, hey, or at least, hey, thumb through a People to check out things.

Brennan

Was it in the Journal of Forensic Anthropology?

Booth

Oh, you know, I forgot to renew my subscription. You know Bones, you really need to take up some other interest.

Brennan

Well, I'm reading Ted Gioia's History of Jazz, was she mentioned in there? Or maybe in McGee's Science and Lore of the Kitchen. Or perhaps I should develop an interest in the mainstream media's exploitation of crimes for their entertainment value.

Booth

(amused) You know, that's amazing Bones, you can be really snotty sometimes.

Brennan

The knife is consistent with the one that caused the wounds. We've fitted it with an instrumented blade that will give us a digital readout of the Newton meters of each stab.

Zack

It's a dual-mass drop system.

Hodgins

Cliff notes version: We all stab. One of us is the killer.

Booth

Thank you!

Angela

Sort of like a real creepy party game.

Brennan

Do you want children?

What?

Brennan

Children?

Maybe, if I can find one that sleeps late and cleans. Does this apply to the case in any way?

Brennan

No, just curious. Most people think it's odd when a woman doesn't want children but obviously, you don't.

Are you pregnant?

Brennan

No! I'm not.

Booth

Why are you looking at me?

Well as long as you're not leaving the lab every two minutes to pee...

Brennan

No intention of it.

So all this back and forth was for nothing. Good to know.