Seeley Booth quotes from Bones

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

Aubrey, what are you doing here??

Aubrey

Isn't it obvious? I'm your posse!

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.

Booth

[gets off the phone] Yeah, that was Aubrey. There was a body found in Columbia Heights.

Brennan

So does this mean you'll be missing date night?

Booth

Nah, Aubrey can take care of himself. Besides, I don't want to miss that whore sauce.

Brennan

Will you please stop referring to the puttanesca as "whore sauce".

Booth

I'm sorry but does puttanesca not mean "in the style of the whore" in Italian?

Brennan

Yeah, it does, and every time I make it, I regret having told you that.

Booth

Whore sauce.

Brennan

Are you sure you want to take this case, Booth?

Booth

What are you talking about?

Brennan

Aubrey may die.

Booth

Don't talk like that! Aubrey is not gonna die.

Brennan

He may, and if he does, I'm worried you'll react the same way you did when Sweets died.

Booth

Okay, look, when Sweets died, I blamed myself. You understand? The weight of the guilt is what drove me to gamble again.

Booth

Boy, Hodgins would have been all over something like that.

Yeah. But I sent him home. I just....I had to.

Booth

Are you sure about that?

It was the only responsible thing to do.

Booth

Hodgins didn't have a choice about what happened to him. You should let him decide how he's going to come back from it.

I couldn't forgive myself if anything more were to happen to him.

Booth

I-I get that. But, you know, he should at least have the choice. I mean, work could actually give him hope.

Brennan

I do not understand why you think Hodgins needs a misguided sense of optimism about his condition.

Booth

Coffee?

Aubrey

Not if we're still out of cinnamon.

Booth

We work at the FBI, Aubrey. We don't put cinnamon in our coffee.

Aubrey

[brings Booth a box of donuts] I figured some emotional eating might help. It's been a rough couple weeks for the Flyers.

Booth

You know what, I'm pretty sure Bones is causing it.

Aubrey

You think Dr. Brennan is a jinx?

Booth

I don't know, you tell me. All right, the Flyers have lost the last six when she's watched with me.

Aubrey

Oh, no, no, no, no, you need to nip this one in the bud, okay? Trust me, as a lifelong Cubs fan, jinxes are real.

Booth

What am I supposed to do? Hmm? Tell her that she can't watch the Flyer games with me?

Aubrey

Well, uh, sounds like a good start.

Booth

Oh, wow, seriously. Bones is not gonna like it if I put hockey before her. That's bad news.

Aubrey

Well, let me remind you that my all-time favorite baseball team hasn't made it to a World Series since 1945. You want a postseason, you may not have a choice.

Paul, I can take care of this.

No, there is only on thing you're going to do and that's keep your damn mouth shut.

Brennan

Mrs. Walters, as a proponent for equality between sexes, I'm shocked you'd allow your husband to speak to you like that.

That one likes flapping her gums, doesn't she? You might want to get a muzzle on her.

Booth

Outside.

Brennan

That idea is not only misogynistic, it's downright sociopathic.

What can I say? All bitches need to be muzzled sometime.

Booth

I suggest you stop talking before I do something we both regret.

Brennan

Booth, stop. You could lose your job for striking a civilian. [punches Paul]

Booth

Aw, Bones.

Brennan

Whereas I might face disciplinary action at most.

I think his jaw is broken.

We'll be filing charges of criminal assault against this woman.

As well as a civil suit.

I told you, she needs to be muzzled!

Brennan

Actually, the problem isn't my mouth, it's yours.

Booth

Look, if it's not a cup of coffee about this big, I'm not interested.

Aubrey

Rough night, huh?

Booth

Yeah, Christine, she's been having these really bad, Freddy Krueger-like nightmares about monsters in her closet.

Aubrey

You want my advice?

Booth

Your advice, right, because you're a single guy who knows how to deal with kids.

Aubrey

No, trust me. Look, the key is that Christine's got to confront the monster head-on. She's got to get out of the bed, walk up to the closet, tell the monster to go bye-bye, or else her dad's going to put a cap in his ass.