No, you don't have to solve the whole case. Just tell me if I'm looking at a murder. Maybe, you know, pull a quick I.D.?
Don't use your charm smile on me.
What? It's a mark of respect. That's all.
“The Superhero in the Alley” · Season 1, Episode 12
In this episode: Temperance Brennan (6), Seeley Booth (6), Angela Montenegro (1), Goodman (1)
[Booth and Brennan are looking through the room of a teenage murder victim.]
Unbelievable. [sighs and goes over to pick up some comic books] This is quite the collection of comic books.
Hodgins said that the cellulose mass was a graphic novel. He sent it to Angela for analysis and recovery.
Sweet.
Sweet?
Ah, he has Batman #127, featuring The Hammer of the Thor. This is worth about three hundred bucks.
Booth, are you a nerd?
First of all, you mean geek. And no, I'm not, okay? It's quite normal for an American male to read comic books.
I find it hard to believe you have anything in common with Warren Granger.
Oh, you mean isolated, with an inner secret life? No, okay. I'd say you were more like Warren.
All writers reveal more of themselves than they intend on their page.
You know, I've gotta tell you, I never bought all that English 101 stuff. Sometimes a river is just a river.
[to Goodman] With all due respect, my writing, for example, is pure fiction.
Dr. Brennan, I fear you reveal much more of your worldview in your writing than you realize.
Such as?
Such as, archeologists make good administrators because they enjoy tedium.
Such as, artists are doomed to a life of loneliness because they are unable to think beyond instant gratification.
Such as, you know, FBI guys are hot and Angela here wants to have sex with me.
Yeah.
You said before that Warren reminded you of me. You think I'm just like him, that he hid from life by immersing himself in a fantasy world where he fought crime. And I do the same thing, only I don't have superpowers. I... I have science.
No, Bones. You do fight crime. It's not a fantasy. As far as any normal person is concerned, you do have superpowers.
You're just saying that to me.
No, I don't do that.
Yes, you do. You lied to Warren Granger's mother to make her feel better. That seems to be your superpower.
Well, in your book, your partner's a former Olympic boxer who graduated from Harvard and spoke six different languages. In real life, you got me.
So what you're saying is that reality falls far, far short of the fictional.
Yeah. Thanks a lot, Bones.
[Booth and Brennan enter into the driveway of the victim's house.]
It looks like every other house in the neighborhood.
Every family has it's secrets, Bones.
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