“The Dwarf in the Dirt” · Season 5, Episode 7
In this episode: Gordon Gordon Wyatt (5), Temperance Brennan (3), Lance Sweets (3), Seeley Booth (2), Vincent Nigel-Murray (1)
There have been a few changes in Booth.
Since the brain tumor?
Yeah, is that why he came to you? He doesn't trust me? Oh, right. How could I forget about cook/client privilege.
Chef/client privilege!
Has he also told you about how now when he climbs stairs he leads with his right foot rather than his left? He holds his phone to a different ear. Coffee in his left hand.
How wretchedly observant of you.
Not me: Dr. Brennan.
The only markings we know for sure came before the sinkhole are these three little nicks on his ribs.
Could he have been stabbed?
With what?
The world's dullest knife.
Perhaps something along the lines of a dull hatchet.
To a little person a hatchet would be the equivalent of an ax. Assuming the accomplice was already lying in wait, surely he would have had the forethought to bring a more suitable weapon.
Like a gun.
Or a giant sword. Or a gun.
I don't think Booth has brain damage.
What's his problem?
May I ask why you didn't publish your book on Booth and Brennan?
Is there a connection between my book and Booth's marksmanship?
I believe you didn't publish it because you're afraid of how Brennan and Booth would react to its conclusion.
My book concludes that Brennan and Booth are in love with each other.
It's a scrummy conundrum, isn't it?
I believe as a reaction to the childhood traumas of abuse and abandonment, Dr. Brennan utilizes her intellect to armor herself from intense levels of emotion, like love.
And Booth?
Well, subconsciously he's sensitive to her vulnerability. He knows that acting upon his feelings for her would amount to a kind of assault.
I couldn't agree with you more.
Maybe I should start packing heat again.
Packing heat?
Yes, it's a colloquialism. I'm quite a good shot.
Hey, if the leprechaun was shot, where would the bullet be?
I assume somewhere in the six tons of crap Hodgins hasn't sifted through yet.
Wait, wait a second. Did you just call forensic evidence crap?
It's colloquial again. What do you think?
I like it. It shows that you're adapting.
When you were in the coma, you got a glimpse of another world.
Great, and how does that help me aim my gun?
Temperance Brennan. You're in love with her. You're building a world around her. Family.
We're not compatible. She sees the world one way, I see it another way.
Of course! It's absolutely ludicrous, the idea of you together, but the heart chooses what it chooses, doesn't it? We don't really have a say in the matter.
She doesn't love me. I would know if she loved me.
May I counsel patience on this front. Hope and patience.
You two think I killed Bryce, tossed him into a sink hole so I could take over the franchise?
Well, I was there when Agent Booth identified himself as FBI and you ran.
Running away from the FBI is always suspicious.
[slams his hands on the table] I'm Canadian. My work visa expired a week ago. I thought you were gonna ship me back to Sudbury. Have you ever been to Sudbury? [Wyatt and Sweets shake their heads] You would've ran too.
Sometimes you have to help people against their wishes.
I can't think of anything I wouldn't do to help him.
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