Bones · Season 1
You know what? This whole state of affairs where Brennan runs around fighting crime, it's stupid. It's nuts. Don't you agree?
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What is going on with her?
Angela, she started to change the day she met you.
What???
She sees how you do it. All fun and involvement and pizzazz. Big, ya know? Big life. Booth came along and gave her the opportunity but she got the idea from you. Brennan wants a big life like yours.
About a month ago, his daughter, Amy, was diagnosed with cancer. Meso--
Mesothelioma. Lung cancer.
Exactly. So she is not doing so well, so it's a lot easier for us to come to him right now.
Huh.
Huh what?
Nothing. It's just -- that's an extremely rare form of lung cancer. Odd for someone Amy's age to contract--
No. No no no. No probing, 'kay? Not to Cullen, not to his family. This will take five minutes. We go in there, we do the show and tell, we leave him with the case, and then we're outta there. Is that clear?
I just think it's peculiar--
No.
But I--
No!
How do you listen to this all day?
I find intelligence soothing.
She hated the guy. My guess is she got 10 G's stuffed in her mattress back in Trailerville.
So, is it him?
It's him. But here's the kickster--
Kicker, Bones. Here's the kicker.
Oh.
Doctor, you performed Amy Cullen's graft, correct?
Yes but I just do the procedure, Miss Brennan.
Dr. Brennan.
MD?
PhD.
[smiles] Well, those who can't do do research. [Booth is about to confront him but Brennan holds him back]
It's difficult knowing Kent will never play again. Makes the war so real.
Which is odd, because it was all fiction that got us there in the first place.
So you don't think we should stand up to tyrants?
Sure. I've been waitin' for the press to do that for three years now.
[imitating John Wayne] "Listen, cowboy. Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."
What was that? The Duke? That was horrible. That was, like, Jerry Lewis.
Was not.
Now you're a mind reader?
Maybe. You want me to guess your weight?
You do and you could lose a tooth.
Yeah. Men aren't like us. They're much more fragile and needy. The fact that they think we're the needy ones is a testament to our superiority.
Yeah. I guess I forgot.
I hate to say conspiracy; but, my peeps, we've got a conspiracy.
Never get used to the magnitude of this place, what it's taken to keep this country free.
All societies build monuments to their dead, to convince future combatants that it's an honor to die in battle.
[about the War in Iraq] Are you defending what's going on over there?
No, mistakes were made, obviously.
Yeah! Like establishing military bases over there instead of investing a fraction of what this war costs into alternative energy projects.
Nothing is that simple.
To me it is! We are ruled by the corporate oligarchy, face it.
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You want to make the world a better place, Jack? Try shutting your yap long enough to hear something other than the sound of your own voice.
This is hard for Booth, he's idealistic.
Well, it's nice to somebody who wants to keep honor and responsibility alive.
But I feel like Booth thinks I'm taking that away from him.
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You're just doing your job, he knows that.
I guess. [...] Tell Booth we're on the same side, I'm not the one who's disillusioning him, it's my findings, but when I look at him, I–– [sighs] I don't know what else I can do.
I do.
[scoffs] Ange.
As a friend, Brennan.
Yeah, the whole "friends with benefits" thing. [shakes head] That's...that's not happening.
I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about being there for him. Knowing when a simple touch is enough.
Maybe I could write him a note....I could be very articulate on paper.
People always surprise you.
That hasn't always been my experience.
[Silence]
I've done some things.
I know.
No, you don't.
[earnestly] But it's OK.
[hesitantly] Not...not that it's a secret. It's not. I have to be, uh, honest...about myself. I...I have to be able to tell someone.
You will in time, Booth. [pauses] You will.
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