“The Girl in the Fridge” · Season 1, Episode 8
In this episode: Temperance Brennan (6), Angela Montenegro (4), Zack Addy (3), Seeley Booth (2), Jack Hodgins (2), Goodman (2)
[excitedly] The Anthropology Journal is publishing our piece on the evolution of the Coronals suture.
Worthy interruption.
[Zach offers his fist to Brennan, who looks confused.]
You're supposed to bump my fist with yours.
Why?
I'm told it's a widely acknowledged gesture of mutual success. [puts his fist down]
I love it when you two impersonate earthlings.
So why are you here?
George Washington University wants to talk to me about heading their Anthropology department.
They'd be lucky to get you.
I assume they tried you first.
I already had a job.
Not tonight. I have a dinner.
What? Wow. I just assumed that the two of you would be eating off an autopsy table.
Not tonight!
I was being...uh...Tomorrow's fine.
Using a refrigerator to hide a body... kinda perfect, isn't it?
A good way to remove the victim without being detected. The rubber gaskets seal in the odor.
Maybe the company should use that in their ads.
You know, you can take the day off. You deserve one day.
Michael wanted to look at our equipment.
...I'm gonna let that one go...
How I feel doesn't matter. My job doesn't depend on it.
But it's informed by it. Are you as cold and unfeeling as you seem?
I see a face on every skull. I can look at their bones and tell you how they walked, where they hurt. Maggie Schilling is real to me. The pain she suffered was real. Her hip was being eaten away by infection from lying on her side. Sure, like Dr. Stires said, the disease could contribute to that if you take it out of context; but you can't break Maggie Schilling down into little pieces. She was a whole person who fought to free herself. Her wrists were broken from struggling against the handcuffs. The bones in her ankles were ground together because her feet were tied. And her side, her hip and her shoulder were being eaten away by infection. And the more she struggled, the more pain she was in. So they gave her those drugs to keep her quiet. They gave her so much it killed her. These facts can't be ignored or dismissed because you think I'm boring or obnoxious, because I don't matter. What I feel doesn't matter. Only she matters; only Maggie.
[Hodgins and Zack stare at Michael and size him up]
You were Brennan's professor?
She was 23, an adult.
[mocking] That's what Clinton said.
You run through a lot of students?
That was a long time ago and Tempe was very advanced...more colleague than student.
I'm a pretty advanced student.
No offense, but, um, I'm not interested.
[Michael is analyzing the skeleton while Zack videotapes him. Booth gives him and Hodgins a thumbs-up]
[amused] Did you just give Zack and Hodgins a sign of encouragement?
You know what, that's the first time I've been able to look at them without imagining knocking their heads together.
[smiles] Agent Booth, you're accessing your inner squint.
The jury likes Michael better than they like me, apparently that's a problem. Are they stupid? Because they seem to be.
Compared to you, yes, they are stupid. However, compared to you most of the world is a little stupid. You have many skills Temperance, not one of them includes communicating with the average person on the street which is exactly what juries are made of.
I'm a better forensic anthropologist than Michael Stiers.
Which is why two years ago I hired you instead of him.
Michael applied for this job?
Yes.
His credentials are better than mine.
Yes, but you are the more rational, reasoned empirical scientist and you care and if he tries to convince you otherwise, tell him to go to hell.
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