[Flashback to Booth and Brennan's first case]
Are you a student here?
Special Agent Seeley Booth from the FBI.
I'm Dr. Temperance Brennan of the Jeffersonian Institution.
Do you believe in fate?
[smiling] Absolutely not. It's ludicrous.
“The Parts in the Sum of the Whole” · Season 5, Episode 16
In this episode: Temperance Brennan (7), Seeley Booth (7), Lance Sweets (1)
[Flashback to Booth and Brennan's first case]
I'd ask you out if I could.
Why can't you?
Well, FBI rules again. No fraternizing with other agents or consultants.
That's too bad.
I'm glad you think so.
[Flashback to Booth and Brennan's first case]
Listen, I've got something to confess.
Is it the fact that you're a direct descendant of John Wilkes Booth? I already know that.
Wait, wait a second. How do you know that?
From your bone structure.
Keep that under your hat for now, okay?
[laughs] Okay.
I'm a gambler. [Brennan gives him a quizzical look] I believe in giving this a chance. Look, I wanna give this a shot.
You mean us? [Booth nods] No, the FBI won't let us work together --
Don't do that, that is no reason -- [he kisses her, but after a moment she pushes him away]
[close to tears] No! No!
[desperately] Why? Why?
You -- you thought you were protecting me, but you're the one who needs protecting.
Protecting? From what?
From me. I -- I don't have your kind of open heart.
Just -- just give it a chance, that's all I'm asking!
No, you said it yourself: the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.
Well, then let's go for a different outcome, here! All right, let's just hear me out, right? You know when you talk to older couples who, you know, have been in love for thirty or forty or fifty years, all right? It's always the guy who says, "I knew." I knew, right from the beginning.
Your evidence is anecdotal.
I'm that guy. Bones, I'm that guy! I know.
[crying] I -- I am not a gambler. I'm a scientist. I can't change! I don't know how. I don't know how. [Booth looks crushed] Please don't look so sad.
All right, okay. [sighs, then hangs his head.] You're right. You're right.
Can we still work together?
[Booth hesitates, Brennan gives him a pleading look] Yeah. [wipes away a tear]
Thank you.
But I gotta move on. You know, I gotta find someone who -- who's gonna love me in -- in thirty years, or forty or fifty.
I know.
What did you think we were going to talk to him about?
The whole, uh, love thing?
The love thing? Oh, his conclusion that we're in love? I don't care about that.
What mistake?
Hint: it's not what you think.
You disagree with my conclusion that the two of you are in love, and the sublimating energies of that connection are responsible for the energy, vigor, and rigor that you bring to your homicide investigations.
I just told you it's not what you think and you immediately say what you think.
That's your interpretation. We recognize your right to interpret.
You do?
That's your right as a psychologist to get everything wrong.
[Flashback to Booth and Brennan's first case]
Okay, excuse me, you know what, you really need to learn how to speak to human beings.
I speak six languages .. two of which you've never even heard of.
You know what, you're a cold fish.
You're a superstitious moron!
Get a soul!
Get a brain!
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