“The Soldier in the Grave” · Season 1, Episode 21
In this episode: Temperance Brennan (6), Seeley Booth (5), Jack Hodgins (3), Angela Montenegro (3), Goodman (1)
It's difficult knowing Kent will never play again. Makes the war so real.
Which is odd, because it was all fiction that got us there in the first place.
So you don't think we should stand up to tyrants?
Sure. I've been waitin' for the press to do that for three years now.
[imitating John Wayne] "Listen, cowboy. Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."
What was that? The Duke? That was horrible. That was, like, Jerry Lewis.
Was not.
Now you're a mind reader?
Maybe. You want me to guess your weight?
You do and you could lose a tooth.
Yeah. Men aren't like us. They're much more fragile and needy. The fact that they think we're the needy ones is a testament to our superiority.
Yeah. I guess I forgot.
I hate to say conspiracy; but, my peeps, we've got a conspiracy.
Never get used to the magnitude of this place, what it's taken to keep this country free.
All societies build monuments to their dead, to convince future combatants that it's an honor to die in battle.
[about the War in Iraq] Are you defending what's going on over there?
No, mistakes were made, obviously.
Yeah! Like establishing military bases over there instead of investing a fraction of what this war costs into alternative energy projects.
Nothing is that simple.
To me it is! We are ruled by the corporate oligarchy, face it.
[...]
You want to make the world a better place, Jack? Try shutting your yap long enough to hear something other than the sound of your own voice.
This is hard for Booth, he's idealistic.
Well, it's nice to somebody who wants to keep honor and responsibility alive.
But I feel like Booth thinks I'm taking that away from him.
[...]
You're just doing your job, he knows that.
I guess. [...] Tell Booth we're on the same side, I'm not the one who's disillusioning him, it's my findings, but when I look at him, I–– [sighs] I don't know what else I can do.
I do.
[scoffs] Ange.
As a friend, Brennan.
Yeah, the whole "friends with benefits" thing. [shakes head] That's...that's not happening.
I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about being there for him. Knowing when a simple touch is enough.
Maybe I could write him a note....I could be very articulate on paper.
People always surprise you.
That hasn't always been my experience.
[Silence]
I've done some things.
I know.
No, you don't.
[earnestly] But it's OK.
[hesitantly] Not...not that it's a secret. It's not. I have to be, uh, honest...about myself. I...I have to be able to tell someone.
You will in time, Booth. [pauses] You will.
It's never just the one person who dies, Bones, never. We all die a little bit, Bones. With each shot we all die a little bit.
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