- Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'm the gambler. I believe in giving this a chance. Look, I want to give this a shot.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You mean us? No. The FBI won't let us work together.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Don't do that! That is no reason.
- [They kiss]
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No. No.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [Crying] You - you thought you were protecting me. But you're the one who needs protecting.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Protection from what?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: From me. I don't have your kind of open heart.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [Quietly] If we don't work together any more, we could have sex.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'll call a cab!
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: I just feel like um, this is going somewhere.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why did you feel this is going somewhere?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Oh I just... I feel like I want to kiss you.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: You kissed?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yes.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: There was tongue contact.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: My book is crap!
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Well, anthropologically speaking, paramilitaristic organizations tend to constrain individuality.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: That's for sure.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: But in any group, no matter how restrictive, the free thinkers, the mavericks, the rebels with leadership qualities find a way to declare their distinctiveness.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'd ask you out if I could.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why can't you?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well FBI rules again. No fraternizing with other agents, or consultants.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: That's too bad.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Glad you think so.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [after Bones hits Judge Haley] Is this very bad?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: I have been wanting to do that for years. You are so hot!
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: We are not spending the night together.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Of course we aren't. Why?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Tequila.
- [Bones enters the cab]
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Hey!
- [Booth runs to the cab]
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Hold - hold that cab. Hold that cab! Hey, so you afraid that when I look at you in the morning I'll have regrets?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: That would never happen.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: One of you has to have the courage to break this stalemate.
- [Sweets looks at Booth]
- Dr. Lance Sweets: You. It's gotta be *you*. Because you're the gambler. For once, make that work for you.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [First meeting] Are you a student here?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Special Agent Seely Booth from the FBI.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I'm Dr. Temperance Brennan of the Jeffersonian Institute.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Do you believe in fate?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Absolutely not. Ludicrous.
- [Jump to the present]
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I still don't.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: And I still do.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: I'm taking the clothing.
- Zack Addy: Why? You are a botanist.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Yeah. And a mineralogist, and an entomologist. Which gives me the same number of doctorates as the two of you put together. Because you *don't* have any! I could find fibers or - or spores or other particulates.
- Zack Addy: You can take the clothing and leave now.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Yeah. You can take that femur and shove it...
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Dr. Hodgins!
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Perhaps the two of you could design an experiment.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: What? Whoa. No. Wait, work together?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Yes.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Have you tried striking Zack in the soft tissue or in the liver?
- Zack Addy: What?
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Yeah, anatomy's really not my thing.
- [Bones grabs the bat and hits Zack]
- Zack Addy: Ow!
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Oh ho ho! That one had some pepper!
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: [after finding out Bones and Booth didn't sleep together] You ever feel like you saw something great that almost happened, but it didn't.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I find that I'm annoyed with you.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why, because I fired and hired you back? It's the Federal Government.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No. Because you got me drunk to fire me and then have sex with me.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Oh no, I got myself drunk so I could fire you. And you decided not to have sex with me which I accepted, gracefully. So you regretting that decision?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No. I'm not. It was a very good decision. I stand by it.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: We're not in love with each other. It took a year after we kissed to be in the same room together.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Oh absolutely right. No more kissing or anything.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I am not a gambler. I'm a scientist. I can't change. I don't know how... I don't know how.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: You called evidence crap. And she basically called you stupid.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: We were feeling each other up. Like a honeymoon period.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Out. We were feeling each other out.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: So, your murder victim? Most likely struck with something made out of maple.
- Zack Addy: Still an observation so vague as to approach meaninglessness.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Is he *trying* to piss me off?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You are always angry. I've been told you have an anger management problem.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: I'm... in a program. I'm supposed to snap this every time I get angry.
- [He snaps a rubber band around his wrist]
- Zack Addy: I'd be happy to do that for you.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Can we still work together?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Thank you.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: But I gotta move on. You know, I gotta find someone who's- who's going to love me in 30 years, or 40 or 50.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I know
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I'm Dr. Temperance Brennan from the Jeffersonian.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Uh, don't bother. You know, never remember Squints.
- Caroline Julian: That's correct. And you know why?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why?
- Caroline Julian: Because they get all wishy washy, and flip floppy on the witness stand. So it's better I *don't* remember the last time they let me down when I need 'em again.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You *will* be paid.
- Angela Montenegro: I'm in. I'm saving to go back to Paris.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: How much do you have saved up so far?
- Angela Montenegro: Whatever you're gonna pay me for that... skull, facial, murder, barf making monstrosity.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Even though my time and expertise are extremely valuable, I accept your decision to test my abilities. Obviously, I passed with a lot of color.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Pardon me?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: It means I did very well.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Oh, right. You, um... Flying colors. You passed with flying colors.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Yes. I know.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Can I come in and watch you broil the suspect?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, I could broil. But, I think you mean grill.
- Zack Addy: Are you Special Agent Booth?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: What are you? Oh. The Jeffersonian. You must be one of the squints.
- Zack Addy: I'm not familiar with that term.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Squint. You know, you guys... you squint when you look at things?
- [pointing at Zack's face]
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Just like that.
- Zack Addy: It was immensely stupid of you to fire us.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'm sorry, but did you just call me stupid?
- Zack Addy: I can only conclude that you are immensely stupid.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: What is that? Is that a monkey?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No. This is an Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba. The earliest known...
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Okay. Abracadabra can wait.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [after Dr. Sweets summarizes his conclusion about Brennan and Booth being in love] I just told you it's not what you think and you immediately say what you think.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: That's your interpretation. We recognize your right to interpret.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: You do?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: That's your right as a psychologist to get everything wrong.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Okay, excuse me, you know what, you really need to learn how to speak to human beings.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I speak six languages, two of which you've never heard of.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: You know what? You're a cold fish.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You're a superstitious moron.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Get a soul!
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Get a brain!
- FBI Forensics Tech: Agent Booth?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan, Special Agent Seeley Booth: What?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [to Bones] *I'm* Agent Booth.
- [to the Tech]
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: What?