Booth, Cam and others in “The Death in the Defense”

Booth

Boy, Hodgins would have been all over something like that.

Yeah. But I sent him home. I just....I had to.

Booth

Are you sure about that?

It was the only responsible thing to do.

Booth

Hodgins didn't have a choice about what happened to him. You should let him decide how he's going to come back from it.

I couldn't forgive myself if anything more were to happen to him.

Booth

I-I get that. But, you know, he should at least have the choice. I mean, work could actually give him hope.

Brennan

I do not understand why you think Hodgins needs a misguided sense of optimism about his condition.