PAProtesters at chicken farm
Pluck you! Pluck you! Pluck you!
“The Tough Man in the Tender Chicken” · Season 5, Episode 6
In this episode: Temperance Brennan (6), Seeley Booth (6), Lance Sweets (2), Jack Hodgins (1), Angela Montenegro (1), Wendell Bray (1)
JPJosh Parsons
Are you here to protect them while they mistreat and torture the chickens on this farm and the people who live downwind of its foul emanations?
You practice that speech much, pal?
We found Nick Rabin's body.
As of now, you are our number one suspect.
PParsons
Please, I didn't kill anyone. I'm an extreme pacifist.
That's an oxymoron. You're either extreme or pacifist. You can't be both.
I'm losing it. I'm not up to speed here. I woke up this morning and I realized that I didn't even know if I liked brown sugar on my oatmeal.
Next time, call me. You like brown sugar on everything!
I'm the one who is supposed to know if people are lying. Who do I call for that?
Sweets.
Sweets?
You said he's like a human lie detector test!
I don't like things at half speed, you know? I'm a full speed kind of a guy.
Well, even at half speed, you're twice as fast as anyone else.
You noticed something! See! You've still got it!
You're not going to ask me what I saw?
Do I want to know?
No. Do you want to know anyway?
Nope. It can wait. I trust you.
[Seated at the diner with Sweets, Booth notices that Bones is upset. He discovers that she and Angela have had a fight.]
[to Bones] I'd do anything for you. I'd die for you, I'd kill for you, but I am not getting in the middle of two best friends.
[Inside Angela's office]
I thought Hodgins would have something on this whole "suspended animation" thing. [hands Angela a folder]
[amused] Hey, you listen to Hodgins?
I listen to Wendell.
[looks at the file Angela is reading] Woah...what is DARPA?
Uh, it's a Department of Defense agency. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Hodgins says they're into some pretty weird stuff, like creating super-soldiers who don't need sleep and can kill with their laser beam eyes.
[...]
[Angela shows Booth her reconstruction of the victim's face]
[chuckles, looks at Angela facetiously] What's that supposed to be?
Half man, half chicken.
Come on!
I believe this to be fairly accurate.
Ok, so you want me to go ask the Defense Department if their experimental super-soldier is half man half chicken?
DARPA created a chicken soldier?
I do not see the United States military making chicken soldiers. Eagle, maybe.
That's why we couldn't find his so-called fingers, because they're transformed into talons. I mean, talons would be much better weapons.
[shows Booth the menu] Hey, today's special: chicken. Ironic.
Right... [discreetly aside to Brennan, shields his face with menu] Everything ok there Bones? I know when something's wrong with you. And something's wrong. What can I do to help?
Angela and I had a fight.
[puts menu down] Nothing I can do to help!
You want to hear about it?
No!
Why not?
Why? Because her and Angela are best friends and Bones is gonna want me to take her side and agree that Angela was wrong. And then, you know, the two of them are gonna make up and then they're gonna be mad at me. So, no thank you!
It's very interesting.
[to Sweets] You know, the way you say "very interesting" is very irritating. Listen, Bones, I'd do anything for you. I'd die for you, I'd kill for you, but I am not getting in the middle of two best friends.
[...]
[Brennan gets up to leave]
[grabs her hand] Woah, woah, listen, Bones. Everything is gonna be ok between you and Angela. All right? You two are like sisters.
[sadly] I'm just not used to not getting along with people.
Seriously? 'Cause it seems like–– [groans as Booth cuts him off by kicking him extremely hard under the table]
Thanks, Booth.
Angela'll come around.
You're certain that she will.
Eventually, Angela will see the rational nature of my argument.
She will come around.
I already said that.
[smiles] Hey, crazy thought. What if this time you were the one who came around?
Saving one pig isn't a rational act. Are you suggesting that I point that out to Angela more clearly? Because that would make this conversation very much like a professional consultation.
No, I'm suggesting, in a very friendly conversational way, that you help her save that one pig.
But we agreed that that's a meaningless act.
Meaningless by your definition, not by Angela's.
My definition is correct.
Yes, and if life were simply a debate, you would win hands down. But we know it isn't a debate. It's something much tougher. You know, our very work shows us that... that those people that call the world an abattoir, a slaughterhouse, they have a point. Now, you handle that knowledge by imposing this gossamer web of rationality over the ugliness. Angela has a very different way of handling it. Sometimes you don't save the world, Dr. Brennan. Sometimes you just make your friend happy.
Even when it's irrational? [Sweets nods]
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