Arastoo Vaziri quotes from Bones

Arastoo

This was not the work of religion, it was arrogance, it was hypocrisy, it was hate. Those horrible men who hijacked those planes hijacked my religion that day too. They insulted my God. So no, this isn't too difficult. It's a privilege to be able to serve this victim, to be able to show him care and love that was so absent that day.

Arastoo

[to Cam] I was persecuted in Iran. I lost my home, my cousin was killed, so I have an idea of what it means to want vengeance. And I held onto that anger. I became that anger until that's all I was, until I decided to let it go and realize that sometimes the world is an unjust place that we have to accept. If I didn't decide to forgive I wouldn't have the life I have now. I want to be able to have you.

Mr. Vaziri, do you have the x-rays?

Arastoo Vaziri

Yes. I have never seen so many foreign objects in human remains. Arrows, marbles, jacks, various coins and cutlery. My best guess is that a nuclear explosion occurred just as the victim entered a 99 cent store.

Arastoo

[Irritated without Jordanian accent] I am a scientist! Okay? Just like the rest of you. I can deal! So please just back off and let me do my job!

Wow.

Arastoo

[With Jordian accent] I apologize for my outburst.

Arastoo

[as he's leaving] I have to pray.

Hodgins

Are you asking me to do an experiment?

With Arastoo.

Hodgins

Why are you saying his name like that?

Like what?

Hodgins

Arastooooo. You're chewing on his name.

Arastoo said that he looks at the devil every day.

Hodgins

Maybe he has low self-esteem.

Or -- you know what they call us, right?

Hodgins

They, being?

Muslims. Some Muslims. The ones over there trying to kill us.

Hodgins

Yeah, they call us the great Satan. Oh.

Arastoo

[walks in] Look here, what I found. Radiating microfractures in the cartilage of the victim's vestigial tail.

Radiating microfractures plus a ruptured intestine?

Hodgins

What does that mean?

He was slammed into something.

Arastoo

Perhaps, in fact, he did wrestle with an archangel and lose. As it should be. The devil lost, as he always must.

The devil lost?

Hodgins

As he always must?

What if Arastoo means us?

Hodgins

Arastoo is a very sweet, gentle guy, you know?

I know, but maybe in his heart he looks down on us! Do you want to work with someone who thinks you're the great Satan?

Hodgins

No! I don't want to be the great Satan. I don't even want to be a minor demon.

Okay, I still don't understand.

Brennan

They were face to face.[moving to a bigger space, gesturing Arastoo to participate, Arastoo obliged]. Duvall Price knocks her down.[Brennan lies down on the floor as Amy] He landed of top on her [gesturing Arastoo to be Duvall Price and get on top of her] Mr Vaziri?

Arastoo

[Awkwardly obliged, holds his body with his hands on top of Brennan] This is very awkward.

Brennan

[Below Arastoo] Mr Vaziri, this is a part of your job.

Arastoo

And I would like to quit this part of the job.

Arastoo

I got word that the journal isn't going to publish my paper.

Brennan

Is that all?

Arastoo

It got pulled in favor of a puff piece about Selena Gomez on a fossil hunt.

Brennan

I'm not familiar with Dr. Gomez's work, but I look forward to reading about it.

Fisher

9/11 was a trauma to us all - not like this guy or the people who died that day. But it still changed us, right? A-and we act like it doesn't matter. Clearly Wendell is freaking out and you ... [motions to Arastoo] you went nuts earlier. The first rule of the looney bin is to get it all out in the open. So, that's what we're going to do, alright? I'll go: I was in High School. It was my Senior Year. I was [chuckles] breaking into my history teacher's desk to steal a test I hadn't studied for and he walked in. He was crying. He couldn't care less what I was doing. That's when I found out. So I ... I talked with him. I had a stolen test in my hand, and we both sat...and we cried. Next? Oh, c'mon!

Clark

I was working. It was, uh, before school - coffee shop. Everyone was just staring at the TV. No one said a word. The cook came out to watch with the rest of us. I still remember the smell of food burning on that grill.

Finn

I was nine. I got in the way of my stepfather hitting my mama... he stuck me with some scissors. My mama wanted to take me to the hospital, but my hurt didn't seem like nothin' when we heard what had happened.

Arastoo

I was at morning prayers. I didn't believe that day. I didn't believe in anything.

Fisher

Wendell?

Wendell

I was, uh, with my aunt ... from that morning until the next few days. My uncle was a firefighter in New York. He never came home.

Arastoo

So what now? Do we just tip it over and let it drain into a tub? Or insert a tube? Or...

Hodgins

Safety first. You want to make sure everything's safe in there.

Hodgins

I've never smelt anything like that before. [gags] I mean, I suppose that that could be, um....[faints]

Arastoo

Symchay Conteh wasn't just a refugee from Sierra Leone. He was a child soldier. A small boy taught to kill. Who's the victim in that case?

Brennan

When you were growing up in Iran during the war with Iraq...

Arastoo

I was privileged, sheltered. I dealt with power outages, food shortages and propaganda. I had it easy.

Brennan

No one has it easy in war.

Arastoo

I'm not the victim here, Dr. Brennan. I'd like to focus on Symchay.

Arastoo

[amazed] What are the chances of lightning hitting a corpse?

Don't ask that question in front of Dr. Brennan. She'll force you to find the answer.

Arastoo

I remember the first morning I woke up as a citizen. It meant everything to me, but I never thought anything like this could happen here.

Brennan

Anthropologically speaking, in any society, one group will always occupy a higher status and will exploit those who are more vulnerable.

Arastoo

15,000 people a year are brought into this country to be slaves. Are we supposed to accept that?

Brennan

No, Mr. Vaziri. We fight it. No matter what the anthropological reasons, we fight to make the world a better place.