“A Boy In a Bush” · Season 1, Episode 5
In this episode: Temperance Brennan (6), Zack Addy (4), Seeley Booth (2), Goodman (2), Jack Hodgins (1), Angela Montenegro (1)
You mind if I make an observation?
No, of course not.
In your book, the cops come off as very one-dimensional. Why is that?
You mean two-dimensional.
One-dimensionality exists only in theory as a mathematical value.
O-kay. Really looking forward to your next book.
When I said you should think of this invitation as a summons, I understated it. It's a subpoena, a Grand Jury subpoena. Ignore it at your own peril.
You're not going to fire us if we don't go.
No, not fire you, but I can move your parking spots to Lot M. Enjoy the shuttle ride.
The shuttle smells like feet.
These are the smallest remains I've ever worked on.
That's a valid observation, Zack, but it's not helpful to the investigation.
Sorry, Dr. Brennan.
I was at Waco. Branch Davidian compound. I helped identify children who had been killed in the fire, seventeen of them.
So you're saying I'll get used to it?
No, I'm saying you will never get used to it. We're primates, social creatures. It's coded into our DNA to protect our young, even from each other.
So I'm always going to feel terrible?
What helps me is to pull back emotionally. Just... put your heart in a box.
I'm not good with metaphor, Dr. Brennan.
Focus on the details.
Details, yeah. I can do that.
I'm afraid Angela might quit.
I'm amazed she stuck it out this long.
Why?
Well, because she's human. I'm sorry, Bones, it's just that, you know, Angela didn't get the same training the rest of you got on Planet Vulcan.
Do you remember me, Sean?
You're the museum lady, the one who's so smart.
Yeah, I'm pretty smart.
[sarcastically] And modest.
Oh, believe me, she is being modest.
What do we talk about?
Your work, of course.
Zack's work consists of removing flesh from corpses. Hodgins dissects bugs that have been eating people's eyeballs.
Leave me out of it, I am not going.
And how do you see your job?
I draw death masks.
Is that really how you see it?
Don't you?
You are the best of us, Miss Montenegro! You discern humanity in the wreck of a ruined human body! You give victims back their faces! Their identities! You remind us all of why we're here in the first place! Because we treasure human life!
[Angela absorbs this and, on the verge of tearing up, embraces Dr. Goodman]
Oh for God's sake.
What happened?
Apparently, all Angela needed was to hear her job description in a deep, African-American tone.
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