“The Harbingers In the Fountain” · Season 5, Episode 1
In this episode: Seeley Booth (3), Temperance Brennan (2), Lance Sweets (2), Avalon (2), Angela Montenegro (1), Cam (1)
I do not like cats.
Well, that's consistent with the person you were before your brain surgery.
I don't own a nightclub, I'm not married to Bones, you are not a singing bartender and I hate clowns. So, can I go back to work now?
When our sense of reality is challenged - you know - really challenged, it can take some time to regain our footing.
Look, it's been six weeks since I put my brain box through the blender, there. I am back, baby, huh! Special Agent Seeley Joseph Booth!
[Angela has enlisted the services of a psychic, Avalon Harmonia, to perform a tarot reading on Brennan]
This man was lost. You brought him the light that showed him the way home. Without it he would have died.
Booth was in a coma. Brennan read him the book that she was writing. When he woke up he thought that they had a whole different life together, he thought they were married. He thought that for days.
You were joined at that time. You're still joined.
[Getting up to leave.] Nothing either of you is saying makes sense.
[Turns over another card] Were you pregnant?
[Dismissively] What? No, of course not.
I mean in your book.
[Stares, surprised, for a moment] No, I deleted the book. I'm tired, Angela, I'm going to go check in at the office then go home. Nice to meet you, Miss Harmonia. [Leaves]
[About Brennan] Underneath the icy exterior beats a very warm heart.
Her life is at a very critical turning point. Between great happiness - [She turns over a card.]
[Reading the card] That's "Death".
[Avalon gives Angela a meaningful look but says nothing.]
What's really on your mind?
[Sighs, troubled] All right, um, that place that, uh, I went to, you know, in my coma dream? It was just, Bones and I, it was so real.
[Bluntly] You're in love with Dr. Brennan.
[Booth is shocked, Cam just smiles gently.]
[After a pause] What I'm wondering is, am I the same guy?
A sweet, kick-ass FBI murder solver with hard fists and a lion heart? Mmm, yep, you're still him. My advice, for what it's worth, is forget the bruised brain and go with the lion heart.
Right, and tell Bones how I feel.
Yes. Except, be sure about your feelings, because if you crack that shell and you change your mind, she'll die of loneliness before she'll ever trust anyone again.
Do you know what you're looking at?
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure you haven't been this close to one in a long time.
It's a PET scan of your brain.
Hmm. Then I was wrong.
This is called the ventral tegmental area, and this is the dorsal caudate body. Now these two areas have been proven to be linked to romantic love and sexual arousal.
If this is your version of dirty pictures, they're not working for me right now. [Closes the laptop computer.]
No. [Reopens computer] This scan was taken before your operation. The green and blue areas indicate low activity. The same scan while you were in the coma: lit up like the fourth of July. You were dreaming of being in love, of being married, right? [changes image] The same scan, three days ago. Before your operation you were not in love. After your operation you were. Conclusion: your feelings are not real and will fade away, like every other symptom. Now, I think you and I both know that Dr. Brennan's hyper-rationale is really just a cover for a very vulnerable and sensitive core.
Well, great. So we're talking about Bones' brain, too, here now.
So, if you breach those defenses and it turns out you don't really love her -- [puts PET scans on table] -- I left you hard copies.
Dr. Brennan, how are you feeling?
Well, they gave me medication, so I feel how I imagine people of average intelligence feel all the time. I came here to see if you ran away.
No, I'm here looking for clues. Something I might have missed.
In your cards? Because that is a waste of time.
You say that after I sent Agent Booth to save your life.
Well, you knew where the bodies were buried. You knew Dr. Leacock would attack me.
[turns over a card] You were an abandoned child. [turns over another card] The world scares you, so you wrap it up neatly in bonds of reason, education and proof. All riddles are solvable to you, except for one.
Yes, the riddle of how you knew where your sister was buried.
No. The riddle you can't solve is how somebody could love you.
[laughs dismissively] Well, I'm beautiful and very intelligent.
The answer to the question you're afraid to say out loud is: yes, he knows the truth about you, and he is dazzled by that truth.
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