Season 4 - Booth and Brennan Moments (Part 1)
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401. Yanks in the UK
Booth sleeps as Brennan gives a speech at Oxford University, telling her students, "Agent Booth is the intuitive humanist while I am the logical empiricist although recently I have seen how destructive pure logic can be." Wexler invites Brennan and "your cowboy" to the crime scene and Booth stands beside Brennan declaring, "Bones and I are the best crime-solving team in America." Next morning Booth complains about his hotel breakfast and the tea.
When Wexler propositions Brennan later she tells him, "Booth says I shouldn't trust you ... he says you like to rack 'em up ... Booth is very good at reading people." She goes out on a date with Wexler but the next morning informs Booth that she did not sleep with him. Booth is agitated as he tries to drive the mini:
Booth: "I'm not agitated because of you and Dr. Wexler. Wexler's just another guy looking for a one-night stand. So, he doesn't take it seriously."
Brennan: "Seriously? What do you mean? You never laugh during sex? Because I do. Whoa, do you see that lorry? "
Booth: "I see that lorry. It's a truck, okay? We're an American, and that is a truck. I laugh during sex. It's just, it's not that kind of serious."
Brennan: "Well, I think Dr. Wexler is serious about having sex with me. Very interested."
Booth: "Okay, news bulletin for ya, Bones. There's not a guy in this country who wouldn't want to have sex with you. Probably half the gay men...whoa, easy."
Brennan: " Are you being nice about me or awful about British men?"
Booth: "Wexler is not special; you are."
Brennan: "You think I'm special?"
Booth: "Of course I think that you're special, yes."
Cam hears part of this conversation as she calls in the middle of it.
When B+B return to the Bonham estate Booth takes out his gun and Brennan asks for one:
Brennan: "I want a gun. I'm a very good shot and I - I've killed before. It didn't bother me as much as I thought."
Booth: "Well, it bothered you a little."
Brennan: "Well, yes, but not as much as I thought."
Case closed and Wexler makes another play for Brennan who tells him, "It would upset Booth if I slept with you ... Common sense says you don't offend your partner for an hour of fun." Booth watches looking sorry for himself and when Brennan returns to him says, "Why are you looking at me like that - I'm just here to help you pick out a guy, you know?"
402. Yanks in the UK
B+B load up the taxi with gifts and luggage and Booth continues to talk about Wexler saying he is "Busy trying to get you into bed for the past two weeks. The least he can do is call ... I gotta tell you, a guy who doesn’t wanna talk to you just because you decide not to have sex with him, he can’t be that great." They discuss royalty as Booth asks Brennan, "What, you never wanted to be a princess when you were a kid? ... I wonder if I can get Congress to pass something like a knighthood ... “Sir Seeley Booth.” It just sounds right." She explains, " I get my worth from my intelligence and accomplishments. From actual achievements. I don’t need a title."
B+B are called to a crime scene where it appears Wexler is dead. As Brennan heads to his apartment Booth stops her for a second and concerned asks, "Are you ready for this?" Pritchard asks B+B to help with the case and when she gets shirty with Booth Brennan defends him but Booth tells her "Bones, it’s okay."
Booth tells Brennan that Pritchard is "having a tough time with this. I would, too you know, if you were killed." Brennan simply tells Booth, "Oh yeah, you’re sentimental that way." When B+B discover Pritchard had sex with Wexler she asks Brennan:
Pritchard: "So why didn’t you sleep with him then?"
Brennan: "Because of Booth."
Prithcard: "Ohhh, you know, I suspected that you two might be more than just partners."
Brennan: "Oh, no. That’s incorrect. Booth advised me not to sleep with Ian because Booth didn’t want me to be another notch on Ian’s bedpost."
Pritchard tells Brennan that sleeping with Wexler, was like climbing Everest and suggests Brennan sleep with Booth, "I’d encourage you not to forego Everest."
B+B enjoy a beer in a British pub and later coffee in a huge church (?) where, speaking about sex and metaphors Brennan asks, "I turned down my chance to sleep with Robin Hood?" to which Booth smiles and says, "Sometimes you just take the oddest leap." Brennan tells Booth Pritchard likes him and they stand, linking arms and leave.
403. The Man in the Outhouse
Booth arrives at Brennan's apartment with two coffees to find Brennan has a man over. Booth comments on her "bed head" and in the SUV they discuss Mark:
Brennan: "It would be good if you called first."
Booth: "Well, who knew you were even dating?"
Brennan: "Well, I wouldn't call it dating. We occasionally make arrangements to spend time together."
She explains she has a "purely physical" relationship with Mark and tells Booth he is a deep sea welder:
Brennan: "He can hold his breath for three minutes down there."
Booth: "Underwater?" As he says this he looks down at her thighs and then grins, raising an eyebrow.
Later in the SUV B+B bicker about relationships:
Booth: "Well, you know what? You cheat on your spouse, you get what's coming to you."
Brennan: "Anthropologically, 83 percent of societies are polygamous."
Booth: "Now you sound French, okay? Look, being faithful is what separates us, you know, from the chimps."
Brennan: "No, actually, it's a gene called HAR1F."
Booth: "We're talking about the Ten Commandments here, Bones. "Thou shalt not commit adultery." One down from your personal favourite, 'Thou shalt not kill.'"
Brennan: "Oh, so you also believe that Moses wandered the desert for 40 days, climbed Mount Sinai, at which point a supernatural force carved a convenient list of behavioural guidelines on two pieces of rock?"
Booth: "Yeah. That's why it's on the Supreme Court."
When Booth later finds out Brennan has a date with a different guy he berates her, "Okay, so all that stuff you said about monogamy being unnatural, you're just making excuses." Brennan tells him "I know what I'm doing, Booth." but he follows her to the elevator saying, "My gut says you're going with your gut on this one, and we all know how that ends up. Not good." She leaves Booth to go do work with Sweets while she goes on a date ... which he (and Sweets) later interrupt. Both mock Brennan that her date, Jason, is gay and Booth tells Sweets about Brennan dating two guys. When Brennan complains about the interruption Booth tells her, "I'm just looking out for you, all right? You don't have the, uh, best taste in men."
B+B's bickering carries over into the interrogation room as they question Holly. And when B+B are leaving her office when both Jason and Mark arrive, Booth is highly amused!
Finally, in therapy Brennan admits to Booth that she's been dumped, I'm considering the argument for monogamy ..... I guess they weren't as accepting of each other as I thought." Sweets opens a discussions:
Sweets: "Is it typical for you two to discuss your love lives?"
Booth: "Well, I mean, only when she has naked men in her apartment."
Brennan: "No, that's not true. I'm very open about my relationships, as opposed to you."
Booth: "Okay, what's that supposed to mean?"
Brennan: "You're very secretive. As if discussing your sex life would somehow be offensive to me. I assume you are sexually active."
Booth: " I do fine."
Sweets: "Does it seem that your partnership provides a surrogate relationship, making it more difficult to form other bonds?"
Brennan: "A surrogate relationship wouldn't necessarily be such a bad thing because then I could avoid the sting of rejection, which, however fleeting, is still uncomfortable."
Booth: "Right. Okay, look, I'm sorry. You know what? If Mark and Jason don't know how lucky they are, they don't deserve you in the first place."
Brennan: "All relationships are temporary."
Booth: "No, that's not true, Bones. You're wrong. Okay, there is someone for everyone. Someone you're meant to spend the rest of your life with. All right? You just have to be open enough to see it. That's all."
B+B stare at each other for a long time caught in the moment and Sweets can do nothing but watch on. Booth finally breaks the moment suggesting, "Come on, I'll buy you dinner. Hey, I can be fun in a strictly conversational setting.
404. The Finger in the Nest
As Booth sits in the SUV he tells Brennan about Parker finding the finger in the next and Booth is worried about the affect it might have on Parker:
Brennan: "When I was five years old, I went next door to visit our neighbour, Mrs. Walkey, and she was dead; sitting at the kitchen table. And I’m alright."
Booth: "You spend your life with skeletons. It’s just a matter of time. He’s just a kid. He’s gonna realize that he had a dead finger in his hand. He’s gonna freak out."
Brennan: "Are you afraid you’re going to get into trouble with Rebecca?"
Booth: "There’s a chance that he might not say anything to her."
Brennan: "So, yes."
As they approach the crime scene there is an opossum and Brennan sends Booth after it.
When they interrogate the victims ex-wife Brennan holds the dog which barks at Booth. Later at the barn it appears Booth is "afraid of the dog" and they wait in the car for people to come out. Brennan (unafraid) ends up throwing toys for the dog. Whilst waiting B+B again discuss Parker:
Booth: "Okay, yeah. I get it. You saw a whole lady’s corpse when you were a little girl, and you were fine."
Brennan: "Yes. Although, for some reason that I do not understand, I kept staging my own death. Pretending that I drowned in the bathtub, faking electrical shock. It really freaked my parents out. And then once when Russ found me hanging he had to go see the school psychologist."
Booth: (concerned) "But otherwise you were fine?"
When they later find remains Brennan seems upset, "It’s a mass grave." Booth tries to make her feel better saying, "We’ll send it all back to the Jeffersonian. See if we can trace the betting slips. Find these people and charge them."
When Booth enters Brennan's office to have the murderers dog lying with her on the sofa he is somewhat freaked but she tells him, "He’s actually a very nice dog, aren’t you? He reminds me of you. He’s got warm and reassuring brown eyes, and he’s capable of great violence."
Case solved and Brennan tells Booth she wants to adopt Ripley. Booth has to tell her he's been put down. Brennan asks, "What are they going to do with his remains?" And so, B+B go to bury Ripley. They discuss how the whole thing with Parker and Brennan tells him, "You're a very good father." Booth suggest Brennan "speak from your heart" at the grave site. Brennan does and when she's finished and starts to tear up, Booth wraps his arm around her and she leans into him.
**405. Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond
At the crime scene Brennan notices Booth has strained his "inner transverse ligament" and offers to fix it for him. Booth makes two attempts to "protect" Brennan from the FBI guy's snippy moments. Brennan tells him, "I can take care of myself."
Booth lets Brennan drive the SUV but denies it is due to his bad back. He realises she is "breaking in a new intern ... you get all overly precise" and offers to help. Brennan jumps on this, "Booth you don't have to fix everything for everyone all the time, I can handle myself." Booth tells her "Partners watch out for each other." and then shouts at Brennan, "Watch the road!"
When B+B takes Sweets to the victims bedroom they mock him mildly. As they discuss his OCD:
Sweets: "She is wicked literal!"
Booth: "Okay, it's her process, don't be mean to her."
Brennan: "Booth!"
Booth: "What? I'm not defending, I'm just explaining."
Brennan: "I can defend myself ... you were defending."
Booth: "I was explaining."
Sweets: "Woah, this is an interesting development in your interpersonal behaviours."
After Brennan again mentions Booth won't let her fix his back they continue to look around the room and Sweets thinks sex may be something which has changed. When they ask where a boy might hide a masturbatory aid Booth quickly responds, "Check the shoes!"
Brennan: "Do all boys keeps their masturbatory aids in their shoes or os that particular to you?"
Booth: "That's for me to know and you to find out!"
B+B interrogate the victims publisher and he calls Brennan a "hot scientist chick!" which causes Booth to get defensive, "Don't call my partner a chick!"
Booth tries to stop Brennan touching and eating the fertilizer. He ends up copying her and tasting it too.
In Brennan's office Booth quotes Brennan's review, "suspenseful and chilling, Temperance Brennan leads the pack, anthropology has never been more exciting." and says he's read "every single word" of her books. She smiles and says "You've never said anything" to which Booth responds "Well, I'm all over your real world, I figure why would you want me in your fantasy world too?" Since they are partners he agrees to let Brennan fix his back pain - he goes very quiet when she touches him at first and tells her, the way you really help me is to let me be a guy."
406. Crank in the Shaft
In therapy, Brennan grabs Booth's fidgeting knees - he is agitated and tells about the desk chair he covets. He asks Brennan, "Hey Bones, maybe you can write me a doctors note saying I need the chair?" but she tells him "I'm not a medical doctor." As they walk to the crime scene Booth charms her saying, "If I could help you get a better chair I would."
B+B bicker whilst walking through the office cubicles and Brennan suggests Booth is a "drone" saying "it's not a pejorative statement, without the drones the hive would die." When Booth explains "I work for the United States government and so do you which makes you a drone too." Of course Brennan considers herself "the queen bee." Brennan mocks Booth strength when he can't open the elevator.
As Booth tests out his new office chair Brennan tells him, "I didn't lie to them, I wouldn't do that ... I just told them why I felt it was important for you to have it ... because of how important you are to them, I mentioned your dedication and courage and sensitivity ... I said that a chair is a good way to show the other employees in the office how much those qualities are valued ... I'll never understand why you felt you had to lie to get the chair."
407. The He in the She
B+B sit in silence at therapy and Booth plays with a slinky until his cell calls them to a murder. At the crime scene Brennan tells her intern (VNM) to return to the lab so she can "spend her time aiming Agent Booth in the right direction." Booth is unimpressed with this, "Aiming Agent Booth....?"
They drive to the island and Booth guide Brennan, his hand on her arm, when they arrive at the house. They look around and discuss bicker about religion, "Oh, really!? You're going after the pope now?" Later, when Booth suggests JP's call was an "ain't too proud to beg phone call" Brennan asks him, "have you made many of these ain't too proud to beg phone calls in the past?"
At the beach Booth has to shush Brennan during the moment of silence. And during an interrogation he again has to step in when she is overly judgemental about certain religious things relating to the case.
In the car B+B discuss the victims ex-wife:
Booth: "... she only called him by his given name or referred to him as Ryan's father, you know, never my husband ..."
Brennan: "I call you Booth and I like you just fine."
Booth: "Thank you but we're not married."
Brennan then asks Booth:
Brennan: "Would you like me just as much if I were a man?"
Booth: "Oh yeah. Much better. I wouldn't have to be so polite and accommodating. What about you, would you like me better if I was a woman?"
Brennan: "No, I would not."
Booth: "Why?"
Brennan: "I'd be jealous that you might be prettier than I am."
Booth: "I would be too. I'd be hot. Smoking hot!"
B+B go to Ryan's service at the end and Booth does a double take at Bones. Eye sex galore.
408. Skull in the Sculpture
The invoice for the 'art' was made out to B+B Enterprises as B+B approach the art gallery Booth pulls Brennan back reminding her that, "Gun goes first!" He picks the lock telling her, "If anyone asks the door was open"
When B+B question as artist Booth admits, "Alright, someone I understand less that you!" Brennan explains there was nothing before the big bang and Booth stops her saying, "I'm just gonna write it's been a while." They tell Angela, Roxy is a suspect and Angela admits having a relationship with Roxy. Brennan asks Booth, "You have a problem with that?" When Angela tells Brennan about her past feelings for Roxy, Brennan tells her "Booth tells me that sometimes people say the exact opposite of what they mean."
Back at the gallery Brennan asks Booth for his lighter and burns off the turpentine to reveal the blood, " ... almost lit my butt on fire!"
B+B watch with Cam and Hodgins as Sweets fires Daisy:
Hodgins: "I'm totally shocked!"
Brennan: "Yeah! They should not be doing that on the forensic platform!"
Cam: "That's a method of termination I've never tried. But bravo Dr Sweets."
Booth: "Wow, That'll never work, they're like complete opposites"
Brennan: "I agree. For all her faults she's a woman of science. Sweets bases his life on the vagueries of psychology and emotion."
Booth: "Yeah!"
Brennan: "There's no common ground!"
Booth: "Right!"
Brennan: "You need common ground, I mean, what else is there?"
Booth: "Absolutely!"
B+B awkwardly glance at one another.
**409. Con Man in the Meth Lab
Booth is late to therapy as he's been working on the RICO case, which he's told Brennan about, even though it's meant to be top secret. When Jared calls, Brennan tells Sweets it's Booth brother, "don't feel bad I've never met him either."
Booth brings Jared to the Jeff' where Brennan tells him, "I can see the family resemblance. You're facial structure is even more symmetrical than Booths." Booth watches Brennan study Jared and when Jared asks, "Is she coming onto me?" Booth tells him, "No, it's just the way she talks." Jared declares he needs a date and asks Cam out, Brennan offers herself saying, "I'm quite intelligent."" but Booth says, "No ... not that you're not intelligent ..." When Cam decides not to go Brennan suggests she could go on the date as B+B drive the SUV:
Jared: "Seeley, would you mind?"
Booth: "No, why would I mind? It's alright."
Booth hangs up and Brennan watches him as he looks the other way.
On the date Brennan brings up Booth:
Brennan: "I was thinking how Booth would be bored at a function like this."
Jared: "This kind of event would make Seeley very nervous. I don't mean, he's incapable, my brothers very, very capable ... it's just like Seeley is afraid of success. He stays in his comfort zone. It drove our Dad nuts."
Brennan: "Really?"
Jared: "Maybe that's what made him a good sniper. He doesn't like to be visible above the ridge line, so he keeps his head low. Instinct. Me on the other hand, well, I cannot help but run that risk."
Brennan: "Can you give me an example"
Jared leans in and kisses Brennan
Jared: "I bet you Seeley never took that risk."
Brennan: "Nope."
The next morning Booth is agitated when Bones is late for work, "Have you seen Bones this morning?" Cam reminds him, "You were the one who said you didn't mind them going out together." When Brennan finally gets in Cam tries to "Offer her a little insight into Booth's little brother." Brennan admits, "I didn't have sex with him Cam." which Angela hears as she enters saying, "Good .. because he's Booth's little brother and it would just be a creepy way to have sex with a Booth without having sex with the real Booth ... Jared's Booth!Lite. Booth is the real Booth."
In the FBI viewing room Brennan asks about the RICO bust:
Brennan: "Jared warned me that you tend to sabotage yourself."
Booth: "Jared said that?" (looks annoyed)
Brennan: "Hum, hmm. He said that you're afraid of success."
Booth: "So basically I'm a loser?"
Brennan: "No, he never said the word loser."
Booth: "Do you think I'm a loser? Like that guy in there, some clown in some dumb ass uniform who basically can't do any better? Is that what you think?"
Brennan: "Anthropologically males tend to rank themselves into a hierarchy. There's no shame in not being at the top of the hierarchy."
Booth: "You;re not answering the question Bones. Answer my question."
Booth's phone rings and interrupts the intense staring match between the partners. Brennan tries to call Booth back but he walks away saying, "Bones, lets just go and do our work."
B+B discuss the case in the SUV:
Brennan: "People make stupid irrational decisions".
Booth: "They act from the heart sometimes Bones, it's not a crime".
Back at the Jeff' Cam and Sweets form an intervention and tell Brennan about Jared and Booth's history. Cam also suggests "however it is Booth lost all the credit for that RICO bust, it's cos of Jared." Brennan meets Jared at a bar and realises he is to blame - she gets annoyed and pushes him off the bar stool, "you made me think that he's a loser and what really makes me angry is that I believed you!"
B+B drive and discuss the case, realising the cop is in on it. Booth has a shotgun so Brennan removes Booth's gun from his side holster. When Brennan gets shot in the shoulder Booth has to kill the cop.
In the Founding Father Brennan proposes a toast to Booth, "I know who he is, but I forget sometimes. Because... because he never shines the light on himself. [...] I now think that anthropology may have it wrong. In working with Booth, I have come to realise that the quiet man, the invisible man, the man who is always there for friends and family, that's the real alpha male. And I promise that my eyes will never be caught by those shiny baubles again."
Brennan links her arm with his and leads him to the quiet end of the bar, "Come here for a sec." where he tells her, "Come on Bones, don't get me mad at you after that great speech ... not after I got you shot ... I don't wanna talk about my brother." Brennan is insistent and gives him a psychology lesson explaining that in protecting Jared he is thwarting Jared's ability to help himself. Booth admits he "The RICO case, I traded my one shot at glory to keep my brother from being arrest ... for drunk driving." Brennan is shocked and tells Booth he "shouldn't have done that." to which he replies, "Right, says the women who got her father off a murder charge. (pause) Face it, we do things for family." Booth goes to speak to Jared outside where Jared asks, "Are you bringing me outside to give me advice on your partner, because I think that ship has sailed." Booth tells him he's no longer going to step in and rescue him. He punches the bus stop shelter and sits down as Brennan comes out with cake. Booth tells her, "Bones you know, I just need some time." She asks, "Do you need time and space?" and Booth smiles and gestures for her to sit down saying, "Just some time." As they share the cake Booth sighs and as he stares out at the road says simply, "My Dad drank."
410. The Passenger in the Oven
B+B are on a plane, Booth in coach and Brennan in first class. Booth sneaks up and sits next to Bones, waking her using a sock as a glove puppet to pinch her. She pulls the sock from his hand saying, "You know you aren't allowed up here." And sure enough it isn't long until he is asked to return to coach:
Booth: "See, we’re partners, we like being together."
Hostess: "Your sexual relationship’s not relevant, sir. This is first class."
Brennan: "Why does everyone else think we have a sexual relationship when we barely even touch each other?"
As Booth explains the nature of their trip Brennan confesses, "This trip is taking me back to my real passion. Prehistoric anthropological discoveries." Booth is upset by her comment asking, "What do you mean, your “real passion”? I thought us working together was your real passion."
He returns to his seat but it isn't long until his brooding self heads back to first class to ask:
Booth: ""You didn’t answer me before. You tired of working with me?""
Brennan: "No, it’s not that. But the identification and analysis of ancient remains, that’s why I became a forensic anthropologist."
Booth: "You’re bored. Hmm. Spark is gone."
Brennan: "I’m a scientist first."
Booth: "Right. (small laugh) Yeah. Scientist first. I, I get it. I understand."
He still looks a little put out but lays down anyway.
B+B find the body and work to solve the case:
Booth: "I am definitely not a squint. Woah."
Brennan: "Well, I’ve always known that. You have no training in the field of forensic science."
Booth: "Really don’t want any."
When Booth walks down to find Brennan wearing glasses Booth asks her, "All right, what I want you to do is take off your glasses, (steps closer) shake out your hair and say, “Mr. Booth, do you know what the penalty is for an overdue book?”" She stares at him, totally ignorant. Booth keeps obtaining things for Brennan to use from passengers and tries to convince Brennan, "Isn't this more fun than ..... " as he smiles at her from the steps.
Once the murderer is found B+B have to return to the USA on the plane. Booth walks out with champagne grinning "There's that smile!" and apologises to Brennan:
Booth: "You want to get off the plane, to see those old Chinese bones. I’m sorry."
Brennan: "It’s not your fault."
Booth: "Yeah, it is, because I’m the one that dragged you out of pure science and pulled you into murder solving."
Brennan: "That’s not how I remember it." (Brennan leans across the aisle)
Booth: "Really?" (Booth leans forward towards her)
Brennan: "Yes. As I recall, I had to force you to take me into the field."
Booth: "Really?" (smiles)
Brennan: "Yes. You didn’t want to, remember? This is all my fault."
B+B smile at one another across the aisle and are interrupted from the back of the plane:
Eli: "Hey, are you two gonna make out?"
Booth: "Hey quiet. You lost your right to talk."
Brennan: "Why do people always think we’re going to make out?"
They clink their glasses together, "To us!" and lean back in their seats.
411. The Bone That Blew
At the crime scene Booth tells Brennan, "Oh, God. You know I hate when you sniff and smell dead things." At the victims house Booth asks Brennan about her Dad working at the Jeff' and explains Cam was doing her a favour.
B+B discuss schools in the SUV as Booth considers sending Parker to private school:
Booth: "Public school was good enough for me, it's good enough for my kid."
Brennan: "Of course it is ... Probably."
Booth: "What's that supposed to mean?"
Brennan: "Parker is a bright, engaged little boy. I'm sure he'll do fine in a large classroom. I did."
Booth: "Except ..."
Brennan: "Except what?"
Booth: "Your dad was a science teacher. You're a scientist."
Brennan: "Yes, my education was enriched at home."
Booth: "That's what I gotta do! Enrich Parker at home."
Brennan: "In what academics are you qualified to offer enrichment?"
Booth looks suddenly concerned. After questioning the children whose nanny has been killed B+B return to the SUV and again discuss schooling and children:
Booth: "You think those kids are better off than Parker?"
Brennan: "Yeah, Of course they are. They have every advantage: a wonderful school, a successful father, mother committed to charity work ..."
Booth: "I spend more time with my house plants than they do with their kids ... You know what's more important than academic enrichment? A loving environment. You ask anyone."
Brennan: "Parker is a wonderful child, BOOTH: . You shouldn't feel inadequate."
Booth gets defensive and seems edgy. Brennan later tells Booth, "Parker will be fine. Peer groups and random environmental factors are far more important than family." Booth feels so guilty that he later asks Sweets what he thinks about public schools.
When Booth goes to make coffee at the Jeff' he runs into Max:
Max: "Can I ask you a question?"
Booth: (turning back) "Sure."
Max: "You, are you, uh... Are you sleeping with my daughter?"
Booth: "No."
Max: "Why? Are you gay?"
Booth: (amused, whispers) "No."
Max: "Is she not attractive enough?"
Booth: "(serious) Bones is beautiful."
Max: "Is it because of me? Because I killed one man, and we both know he deserved it."
Booth: "Right, just cut it out, Max, alright, I'll talk to her. Probably ain't gonna get anywhere with her, but... I'll talk to her."
Max: "You're a good man. And I want that for her."
Booth watches Max walk away with an odd look on his face.
B+B stand on the balcony drinking coffee and watch Max and Parker do a science experiment with mentos and cola as they discuss the case:
Booth: "Don't fire Max. Let him keep his job. You know, he's a teacher, he's not a janitor."
Brennan: "I can't overlook the sanctity of the forensic lab, Booth."
Booth: "Yeah, maybe you can overlook it for me."
Brennan: "For you?"
Booth: "Yeah. Personal favour."
Brennan: "What, like a partner thing?"
Booth: "A partner thing."
Brennan: (chuckles) "I know you, Booth. You're trying to do me a favour by telling me it's a favour for you."
Booth: "No. Mm-mm, no, I ... I can't afford that school. I can't enrich Parker, not with the science thing, but ... you can, Max can."
The cola explodes and Parker squeals in delight as B+B watch on:
Brennan: "Look at my dad!"
Booth: "Look at my little boy there with your dad."
Brennan: (she smiles) "Okay. Yes. All right."
Booth: "Thanks, Bones."
They both look happy and smile as they lean over the balcony.
412. Double Trouble in the Panhandle
B+B are called to a body at the Texas/Oklahoma border and Booth steals Brennan's water, "I’m out of water, give me yours. " They explain to Sweets that the dead twins were from the circus and Sweets unintentionally suggests they go undercover, "We’ll have a knife throwing act ... I had the best knife-skills in the rangers." So B+B head undercover with the circus as Booth and Wanda Moosejaw:
Booth: "What’s my name there Wanda?"
Brennan: "It's written right there on the side of the truck, which high wire is not."
Booth: "It’s just sometimes you get irritated and you say Booth without thinking."
Brennan: "I don't do anything without thinking ... ever ... Buck"
As B+B sell their act to the manager Booth throws some knifes and Brennan looks impressed letting out a "Wow!"
Booth is not happy when Brennan chooses a Russian act and they bicker in their trailer. When Sweets says to keep to themselves they decide to pretend to have sex and stand so they can rock the trailer from side to side:
Brennan: "What I think we need to do is get a syncopated rhythm going that takes advantage of the natural frequency of the springs."
Booth: "Woah, woah, woah." (pauses) Wait. Are you this spontaneous during real sex?"
Brennan: "Yes, I am"
They both pause briefly looking slightly awkward before rocking the trailer again.
When Brennan uses the word duress Booth covers up suggesting "She likes to read the dictionary." Brennan doesn't see why Wanda can't be literate.
Back in the trailer, Cam via the webcam asks "Is there only one bed?" as B+B sit on the bed, bickering:
Booth: "Booth you’re sitting in my clothes."
Brennan: "I’m sorry but it’s kind of tight in here."
Booth: "Which is why you shouldn’t throw your underwear on the floor."
Brennan: "It fell."
Brennan: "Don’t blame gravity for a lack of tidiness."
B+B drive the motorcycle and side car to question the doctor and Brennan has to dig in Booth's pockets to find his cell phone.
B+B emerge from their trailer and appreciate one another in costume:
Booth: "Wow Wanda,you...you look..wow."
Brennan: "You to Boris."
Booth: "You make beautiful Natasha."
Brennan does however ask "What’s with the moustache? It looks like a small animal."
Before their act they take props from the clowns and Booth accidentally hits Brennan in the eye forcing her to wear an eye patch. During the circus introduction it is Brennan who has to rile Booth and get him going, "They’re clapping for us Boris, smile Boris and wave. Show them your knives. Come on, where’s the Buck Moosejaw I married."
Backstage before their act Brennan is excited but Booth appears nervous:
Brennan: "I got props ... objects for you to throw knives at."
Booth: "No, you will stand against the board still. I am going to throw knives around you but not too close."
Brennan: "That does not sound like a very good act. I’m sure the crowd is expecting a lot more than that."
Booth: "There is no act. There’s just me trying not to kill you."
Brennan: "You said you were very good, trained in knife throwing skills by the military."
Booth: "I am very good, but it’s you I’m concerned for."
Brennan: "If you say you’re skilled than I have no reason to ... "
They are interrupted by Magnum and moments later Buck and Wanda begin their act with Booth holding Brennan firmly against the backboard and placing her arms into position:
Booth: "Bones just keep your arms outstretched like this okay? Be very, very still."
Brennan: "Okay. Shouldn’t the balloons be closer to my body."
Booth: "Not if you want to live."
Booth throws knives at Brennan with intense concentration on his face. Brennan laps up the cheers from the crowd. After the act Brennan leads Booth backstage:
Brennan (enthusiastically) "They loved us! You were great. Superb hand eye coordination, Buckie."
Booth: "I could have killed you." (grinning but obviously a little annoyed)
Brennan: "Therein lies the excitement for the spectators."
Back in the trailer Booth says the act is over and they need to catch the bad guys. Brennan seems a little sad. When Cam asks about Brennan's eye Booth closes the laptop.
As Brennan takes to the high wire Booth gets nervous and closes his eyes, concerned as she falls. But Brennan realises how the twins died and they solve the non-murder case.
Next morning B+B wake to find the circus has gone and their trailer is alone. Brennan hands Booth a cup of coffee, seeing his cup has flowers on his switches with Brennan for the Route 66 mug:
Booth: "Buck and Wanda were damn good".
Brennan: "Buck was more dashing that you, I mean Buck drove a motorcycle"
Booth: "Well, Wanda was funner than you".
Brennan: "How?"
Booth: "Well, she let me knock of a rubber nose from her face with a knife. You would never let me do that, you are way too rational." (he teases)
Brennan: "Where do you think they are now?"
Booth: "Over the horizon."
413. Fire in the Ice
Brennan watches Booth play ice hockey and waves at him when he is sent to the disciplinary box. After the game she walks into the locker room to check if Booth is okay, "your hand might be broken. Do you want me to look at it?" Booth grins and asks her to "wait outside."
When B+B find a murder victim weeks later they realise he might be a suspect. He is taken off the case and Agent Perotta steps in but Brennan says, "I won't work the case without Booth." and so Perotta allows Booth to be involved. When Perotta questions Booth she asks is he had an alibi to which he responds, "Bones and I are just partners." Perotta then starts to flirt with Booth asking if he works out.
At the lab Brennan tells Cam, "Booth says I suck at non verbal communication."
At the skating rink Perotta and Brennan talk:
Perotta: "You've worked with Booth for a while now, right?"
Brennan: "Mmm hmm."
Perotta: "Is he the kind of guy that, uh, you know, I... Is he flirty?"
Brennan: "Flirty?"
Perotta; "Would you say he twinkles his eyes at all women?"
Brennan: "Twinkly eyes actually result when the pupils dilate very wide which is an unconscious result of intense interest or sexual attraction."
Perotta: "So, no, he doesn't twinkle at everyone?"
Brennan: "No."
As Booth takes to the ice again he takes a hit and is knocked out and dreams Luc Robitaille tells him, "You protect the ones you love on and off the ice. Brennan runs onto the ice to rouse him:
Booth: "Bones, what are you doing on the ice?"
Brennan: "I get nervous when you fall down and don't get up. Come up here."
As Brennan and Wendell help Booth leave the ice he seems to call Wendell, Bones and Brennan corrects him looking hurt, "But ... I'm Bones."
Brennan holds an ice pack to Booth's head as they sit in her office. When Sweets starts to question Booth about his hallucination Booth suggests "Bones is gonna drive me home and get me soup." which is exactly what they do.
Later B+B skate:
Brennan: "I'm not positive this is a good idea." (Brennan falls down)
Booth: "Oh, I got you! I got you. Stay up here. Okay, it's all right. Here we go, one more. (he picks her up) Well, you know what, I gotta stay up all night so who better to keep me company than you?"
Brennan: "You and me skating is saving you from slipping into a coma?" (Brennan pulls on Booth arm)
Booth: "Oh, easy, Bones. Now I'm gonna go down."
Brennan: "I have a lot of natural athletic ability."
Booth: "Oh, yeah, natural. (mocking) I can... I can see that. Real smooth and natural. That's it. Well done."
Brennan: "That Agent Perotta, she really enjoyed working with us."
Booth: "Yeah."
Brennan: "But, um ... you're the only FBI agent I want to work with." (Brennan looks up at Booth and he smiles) "Will you tell me what the Lucky Luciano told you?"
Booth: "He's not an Italian opera singer. Bones, why do you always say that wrong? You do it on purpose, don't you?"
They both laugh as Booth takes Brennan hand.
Brennan: "I would like to know what he said."
Booth: "He said that I'm not like my old man. He said I'm made of better stuff."
Brennan:: "Well ... I don't know your old man, your father, but ... I think you're made of very, very good stuff."
Booth: (smiles) "Hey, you know what? Forget about Agent Perotta, all right? Nothings gonna change between me and you." (Booth pushes Brennan on the ice)
Brennan: "Well, entropy is a natural force that pulls everything apart at a subatomic level. Everything changes."
Booth: "Not everything, Bones."
Brennan: "Don't."
Booth: "Not everything."
Brennan: "You're gonna make me fall."
Booth: "I'm never gonna make you fall. I'm always here."
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401. Yanks in the UK
Booth sleeps as Brennan gives a speech at Oxford University, telling her students, "Agent Booth is the intuitive humanist while I am the logical empiricist although recently I have seen how destructive pure logic can be." Wexler invites Brennan and "your cowboy" to the crime scene and Booth stands beside Brennan declaring, "Bones and I are the best crime-solving team in America." Next morning Booth complains about his hotel breakfast and the tea.
When Wexler propositions Brennan later she tells him, "Booth says I shouldn't trust you ... he says you like to rack 'em up ... Booth is very good at reading people." She goes out on a date with Wexler but the next morning informs Booth that she did not sleep with him. Booth is agitated as he tries to drive the mini:
Booth: "I'm not agitated because of you and Dr. Wexler. Wexler's just another guy looking for a one-night stand. So, he doesn't take it seriously."
Brennan: "Seriously? What do you mean? You never laugh during sex? Because I do. Whoa, do you see that lorry? "
Booth: "I see that lorry. It's a truck, okay? We're an American, and that is a truck. I laugh during sex. It's just, it's not that kind of serious."
Brennan: "Well, I think Dr. Wexler is serious about having sex with me. Very interested."
Booth: "Okay, news bulletin for ya, Bones. There's not a guy in this country who wouldn't want to have sex with you. Probably half the gay men...whoa, easy."
Brennan: " Are you being nice about me or awful about British men?"
Booth: "Wexler is not special; you are."
Brennan: "You think I'm special?"
Booth: "Of course I think that you're special, yes."
Cam hears part of this conversation as she calls in the middle of it.
When B+B return to the Bonham estate Booth takes out his gun and Brennan asks for one:
Brennan: "I want a gun. I'm a very good shot and I - I've killed before. It didn't bother me as much as I thought."
Booth: "Well, it bothered you a little."
Brennan: "Well, yes, but not as much as I thought."
Case closed and Wexler makes another play for Brennan who tells him, "It would upset Booth if I slept with you ... Common sense says you don't offend your partner for an hour of fun." Booth watches looking sorry for himself and when Brennan returns to him says, "Why are you looking at me like that - I'm just here to help you pick out a guy, you know?"
402. Yanks in the UK
B+B load up the taxi with gifts and luggage and Booth continues to talk about Wexler saying he is "Busy trying to get you into bed for the past two weeks. The least he can do is call ... I gotta tell you, a guy who doesn’t wanna talk to you just because you decide not to have sex with him, he can’t be that great." They discuss royalty as Booth asks Brennan, "What, you never wanted to be a princess when you were a kid? ... I wonder if I can get Congress to pass something like a knighthood ... “Sir Seeley Booth.” It just sounds right." She explains, " I get my worth from my intelligence and accomplishments. From actual achievements. I don’t need a title."
B+B are called to a crime scene where it appears Wexler is dead. As Brennan heads to his apartment Booth stops her for a second and concerned asks, "Are you ready for this?" Pritchard asks B+B to help with the case and when she gets shirty with Booth Brennan defends him but Booth tells her "Bones, it’s okay."
Booth tells Brennan that Pritchard is "having a tough time with this. I would, too you know, if you were killed." Brennan simply tells Booth, "Oh yeah, you’re sentimental that way." When B+B discover Pritchard had sex with Wexler she asks Brennan:
Pritchard: "So why didn’t you sleep with him then?"
Brennan: "Because of Booth."
Prithcard: "Ohhh, you know, I suspected that you two might be more than just partners."
Brennan: "Oh, no. That’s incorrect. Booth advised me not to sleep with Ian because Booth didn’t want me to be another notch on Ian’s bedpost."
Pritchard tells Brennan that sleeping with Wexler, was like climbing Everest and suggests Brennan sleep with Booth, "I’d encourage you not to forego Everest."
B+B enjoy a beer in a British pub and later coffee in a huge church (?) where, speaking about sex and metaphors Brennan asks, "I turned down my chance to sleep with Robin Hood?" to which Booth smiles and says, "Sometimes you just take the oddest leap." Brennan tells Booth Pritchard likes him and they stand, linking arms and leave.
403. The Man in the Outhouse
Booth arrives at Brennan's apartment with two coffees to find Brennan has a man over. Booth comments on her "bed head" and in the SUV they discuss Mark:
Brennan: "It would be good if you called first."
Booth: "Well, who knew you were even dating?"
Brennan: "Well, I wouldn't call it dating. We occasionally make arrangements to spend time together."
She explains she has a "purely physical" relationship with Mark and tells Booth he is a deep sea welder:
Brennan: "He can hold his breath for three minutes down there."
Booth: "Underwater?" As he says this he looks down at her thighs and then grins, raising an eyebrow.
Later in the SUV B+B bicker about relationships:
Booth: "Well, you know what? You cheat on your spouse, you get what's coming to you."
Brennan: "Anthropologically, 83 percent of societies are polygamous."
Booth: "Now you sound French, okay? Look, being faithful is what separates us, you know, from the chimps."
Brennan: "No, actually, it's a gene called HAR1F."
Booth: "We're talking about the Ten Commandments here, Bones. "Thou shalt not commit adultery." One down from your personal favourite, 'Thou shalt not kill.'"
Brennan: "Oh, so you also believe that Moses wandered the desert for 40 days, climbed Mount Sinai, at which point a supernatural force carved a convenient list of behavioural guidelines on two pieces of rock?"
Booth: "Yeah. That's why it's on the Supreme Court."
When Booth later finds out Brennan has a date with a different guy he berates her, "Okay, so all that stuff you said about monogamy being unnatural, you're just making excuses." Brennan tells him "I know what I'm doing, Booth." but he follows her to the elevator saying, "My gut says you're going with your gut on this one, and we all know how that ends up. Not good." She leaves Booth to go do work with Sweets while she goes on a date ... which he (and Sweets) later interrupt. Both mock Brennan that her date, Jason, is gay and Booth tells Sweets about Brennan dating two guys. When Brennan complains about the interruption Booth tells her, "I'm just looking out for you, all right? You don't have the, uh, best taste in men."
B+B's bickering carries over into the interrogation room as they question Holly. And when B+B are leaving her office when both Jason and Mark arrive, Booth is highly amused!
Finally, in therapy Brennan admits to Booth that she's been dumped, I'm considering the argument for monogamy ..... I guess they weren't as accepting of each other as I thought." Sweets opens a discussions:
Sweets: "Is it typical for you two to discuss your love lives?"
Booth: "Well, I mean, only when she has naked men in her apartment."
Brennan: "No, that's not true. I'm very open about my relationships, as opposed to you."
Booth: "Okay, what's that supposed to mean?"
Brennan: "You're very secretive. As if discussing your sex life would somehow be offensive to me. I assume you are sexually active."
Booth: " I do fine."
Sweets: "Does it seem that your partnership provides a surrogate relationship, making it more difficult to form other bonds?"
Brennan: "A surrogate relationship wouldn't necessarily be such a bad thing because then I could avoid the sting of rejection, which, however fleeting, is still uncomfortable."
Booth: "Right. Okay, look, I'm sorry. You know what? If Mark and Jason don't know how lucky they are, they don't deserve you in the first place."
Brennan: "All relationships are temporary."
Booth: "No, that's not true, Bones. You're wrong. Okay, there is someone for everyone. Someone you're meant to spend the rest of your life with. All right? You just have to be open enough to see it. That's all."
B+B stare at each other for a long time caught in the moment and Sweets can do nothing but watch on. Booth finally breaks the moment suggesting, "Come on, I'll buy you dinner. Hey, I can be fun in a strictly conversational setting.
404. The Finger in the Nest
As Booth sits in the SUV he tells Brennan about Parker finding the finger in the next and Booth is worried about the affect it might have on Parker:
Brennan: "When I was five years old, I went next door to visit our neighbour, Mrs. Walkey, and she was dead; sitting at the kitchen table. And I’m alright."
Booth: "You spend your life with skeletons. It’s just a matter of time. He’s just a kid. He’s gonna realize that he had a dead finger in his hand. He’s gonna freak out."
Brennan: "Are you afraid you’re going to get into trouble with Rebecca?"
Booth: "There’s a chance that he might not say anything to her."
Brennan: "So, yes."
As they approach the crime scene there is an opossum and Brennan sends Booth after it.
When they interrogate the victims ex-wife Brennan holds the dog which barks at Booth. Later at the barn it appears Booth is "afraid of the dog" and they wait in the car for people to come out. Brennan (unafraid) ends up throwing toys for the dog. Whilst waiting B+B again discuss Parker:
Booth: "Okay, yeah. I get it. You saw a whole lady’s corpse when you were a little girl, and you were fine."
Brennan: "Yes. Although, for some reason that I do not understand, I kept staging my own death. Pretending that I drowned in the bathtub, faking electrical shock. It really freaked my parents out. And then once when Russ found me hanging he had to go see the school psychologist."
Booth: (concerned) "But otherwise you were fine?"
When they later find remains Brennan seems upset, "It’s a mass grave." Booth tries to make her feel better saying, "We’ll send it all back to the Jeffersonian. See if we can trace the betting slips. Find these people and charge them."
When Booth enters Brennan's office to have the murderers dog lying with her on the sofa he is somewhat freaked but she tells him, "He’s actually a very nice dog, aren’t you? He reminds me of you. He’s got warm and reassuring brown eyes, and he’s capable of great violence."
Case solved and Brennan tells Booth she wants to adopt Ripley. Booth has to tell her he's been put down. Brennan asks, "What are they going to do with his remains?" And so, B+B go to bury Ripley. They discuss how the whole thing with Parker and Brennan tells him, "You're a very good father." Booth suggest Brennan "speak from your heart" at the grave site. Brennan does and when she's finished and starts to tear up, Booth wraps his arm around her and she leans into him.
**405. Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond
At the crime scene Brennan notices Booth has strained his "inner transverse ligament" and offers to fix it for him. Booth makes two attempts to "protect" Brennan from the FBI guy's snippy moments. Brennan tells him, "I can take care of myself."
Booth lets Brennan drive the SUV but denies it is due to his bad back. He realises she is "breaking in a new intern ... you get all overly precise" and offers to help. Brennan jumps on this, "Booth you don't have to fix everything for everyone all the time, I can handle myself." Booth tells her "Partners watch out for each other." and then shouts at Brennan, "Watch the road!"
When B+B takes Sweets to the victims bedroom they mock him mildly. As they discuss his OCD:
Sweets: "She is wicked literal!"
Booth: "Okay, it's her process, don't be mean to her."
Brennan: "Booth!"
Booth: "What? I'm not defending, I'm just explaining."
Brennan: "I can defend myself ... you were defending."
Booth: "I was explaining."
Sweets: "Woah, this is an interesting development in your interpersonal behaviours."
After Brennan again mentions Booth won't let her fix his back they continue to look around the room and Sweets thinks sex may be something which has changed. When they ask where a boy might hide a masturbatory aid Booth quickly responds, "Check the shoes!"
Brennan: "Do all boys keeps their masturbatory aids in their shoes or os that particular to you?"
Booth: "That's for me to know and you to find out!"
B+B interrogate the victims publisher and he calls Brennan a "hot scientist chick!" which causes Booth to get defensive, "Don't call my partner a chick!"
Booth tries to stop Brennan touching and eating the fertilizer. He ends up copying her and tasting it too.
In Brennan's office Booth quotes Brennan's review, "suspenseful and chilling, Temperance Brennan leads the pack, anthropology has never been more exciting." and says he's read "every single word" of her books. She smiles and says "You've never said anything" to which Booth responds "Well, I'm all over your real world, I figure why would you want me in your fantasy world too?" Since they are partners he agrees to let Brennan fix his back pain - he goes very quiet when she touches him at first and tells her, the way you really help me is to let me be a guy."
406. Crank in the Shaft
In therapy, Brennan grabs Booth's fidgeting knees - he is agitated and tells about the desk chair he covets. He asks Brennan, "Hey Bones, maybe you can write me a doctors note saying I need the chair?" but she tells him "I'm not a medical doctor." As they walk to the crime scene Booth charms her saying, "If I could help you get a better chair I would."
B+B bicker whilst walking through the office cubicles and Brennan suggests Booth is a "drone" saying "it's not a pejorative statement, without the drones the hive would die." When Booth explains "I work for the United States government and so do you which makes you a drone too." Of course Brennan considers herself "the queen bee." Brennan mocks Booth strength when he can't open the elevator.
As Booth tests out his new office chair Brennan tells him, "I didn't lie to them, I wouldn't do that ... I just told them why I felt it was important for you to have it ... because of how important you are to them, I mentioned your dedication and courage and sensitivity ... I said that a chair is a good way to show the other employees in the office how much those qualities are valued ... I'll never understand why you felt you had to lie to get the chair."
407. The He in the She
B+B sit in silence at therapy and Booth plays with a slinky until his cell calls them to a murder. At the crime scene Brennan tells her intern (VNM) to return to the lab so she can "spend her time aiming Agent Booth in the right direction." Booth is unimpressed with this, "Aiming Agent Booth....?"
They drive to the island and Booth guide Brennan, his hand on her arm, when they arrive at the house. They look around and discuss bicker about religion, "Oh, really!? You're going after the pope now?" Later, when Booth suggests JP's call was an "ain't too proud to beg phone call" Brennan asks him, "have you made many of these ain't too proud to beg phone calls in the past?"
At the beach Booth has to shush Brennan during the moment of silence. And during an interrogation he again has to step in when she is overly judgemental about certain religious things relating to the case.
In the car B+B discuss the victims ex-wife:
Booth: "... she only called him by his given name or referred to him as Ryan's father, you know, never my husband ..."
Brennan: "I call you Booth and I like you just fine."
Booth: "Thank you but we're not married."
Brennan then asks Booth:
Brennan: "Would you like me just as much if I were a man?"
Booth: "Oh yeah. Much better. I wouldn't have to be so polite and accommodating. What about you, would you like me better if I was a woman?"
Brennan: "No, I would not."
Booth: "Why?"
Brennan: "I'd be jealous that you might be prettier than I am."
Booth: "I would be too. I'd be hot. Smoking hot!"
B+B go to Ryan's service at the end and Booth does a double take at Bones. Eye sex galore.
408. Skull in the Sculpture
The invoice for the 'art' was made out to B+B Enterprises as B+B approach the art gallery Booth pulls Brennan back reminding her that, "Gun goes first!" He picks the lock telling her, "If anyone asks the door was open"
When B+B question as artist Booth admits, "Alright, someone I understand less that you!" Brennan explains there was nothing before the big bang and Booth stops her saying, "I'm just gonna write it's been a while." They tell Angela, Roxy is a suspect and Angela admits having a relationship with Roxy. Brennan asks Booth, "You have a problem with that?" When Angela tells Brennan about her past feelings for Roxy, Brennan tells her "Booth tells me that sometimes people say the exact opposite of what they mean."
Back at the gallery Brennan asks Booth for his lighter and burns off the turpentine to reveal the blood, " ... almost lit my butt on fire!"
B+B watch with Cam and Hodgins as Sweets fires Daisy:
Hodgins: "I'm totally shocked!"
Brennan: "Yeah! They should not be doing that on the forensic platform!"
Cam: "That's a method of termination I've never tried. But bravo Dr Sweets."
Booth: "Wow, That'll never work, they're like complete opposites"
Brennan: "I agree. For all her faults she's a woman of science. Sweets bases his life on the vagueries of psychology and emotion."
Booth: "Yeah!"
Brennan: "There's no common ground!"
Booth: "Right!"
Brennan: "You need common ground, I mean, what else is there?"
Booth: "Absolutely!"
B+B awkwardly glance at one another.
**409. Con Man in the Meth Lab
Booth is late to therapy as he's been working on the RICO case, which he's told Brennan about, even though it's meant to be top secret. When Jared calls, Brennan tells Sweets it's Booth brother, "don't feel bad I've never met him either."
Booth brings Jared to the Jeff' where Brennan tells him, "I can see the family resemblance. You're facial structure is even more symmetrical than Booths." Booth watches Brennan study Jared and when Jared asks, "Is she coming onto me?" Booth tells him, "No, it's just the way she talks." Jared declares he needs a date and asks Cam out, Brennan offers herself saying, "I'm quite intelligent."" but Booth says, "No ... not that you're not intelligent ..." When Cam decides not to go Brennan suggests she could go on the date as B+B drive the SUV:
Jared: "Seeley, would you mind?"
Booth: "No, why would I mind? It's alright."
Booth hangs up and Brennan watches him as he looks the other way.
On the date Brennan brings up Booth:
Brennan: "I was thinking how Booth would be bored at a function like this."
Jared: "This kind of event would make Seeley very nervous. I don't mean, he's incapable, my brothers very, very capable ... it's just like Seeley is afraid of success. He stays in his comfort zone. It drove our Dad nuts."
Brennan: "Really?"
Jared: "Maybe that's what made him a good sniper. He doesn't like to be visible above the ridge line, so he keeps his head low. Instinct. Me on the other hand, well, I cannot help but run that risk."
Brennan: "Can you give me an example"
Jared leans in and kisses Brennan
Jared: "I bet you Seeley never took that risk."
Brennan: "Nope."
The next morning Booth is agitated when Bones is late for work, "Have you seen Bones this morning?" Cam reminds him, "You were the one who said you didn't mind them going out together." When Brennan finally gets in Cam tries to "Offer her a little insight into Booth's little brother." Brennan admits, "I didn't have sex with him Cam." which Angela hears as she enters saying, "Good .. because he's Booth's little brother and it would just be a creepy way to have sex with a Booth without having sex with the real Booth ... Jared's Booth!Lite. Booth is the real Booth."
In the FBI viewing room Brennan asks about the RICO bust:
Brennan: "Jared warned me that you tend to sabotage yourself."
Booth: "Jared said that?" (looks annoyed)
Brennan: "Hum, hmm. He said that you're afraid of success."
Booth: "So basically I'm a loser?"
Brennan: "No, he never said the word loser."
Booth: "Do you think I'm a loser? Like that guy in there, some clown in some dumb ass uniform who basically can't do any better? Is that what you think?"
Brennan: "Anthropologically males tend to rank themselves into a hierarchy. There's no shame in not being at the top of the hierarchy."
Booth: "You;re not answering the question Bones. Answer my question."
Booth's phone rings and interrupts the intense staring match between the partners. Brennan tries to call Booth back but he walks away saying, "Bones, lets just go and do our work."
B+B discuss the case in the SUV:
Brennan: "People make stupid irrational decisions".
Booth: "They act from the heart sometimes Bones, it's not a crime".
Back at the Jeff' Cam and Sweets form an intervention and tell Brennan about Jared and Booth's history. Cam also suggests "however it is Booth lost all the credit for that RICO bust, it's cos of Jared." Brennan meets Jared at a bar and realises he is to blame - she gets annoyed and pushes him off the bar stool, "you made me think that he's a loser and what really makes me angry is that I believed you!"
B+B drive and discuss the case, realising the cop is in on it. Booth has a shotgun so Brennan removes Booth's gun from his side holster. When Brennan gets shot in the shoulder Booth has to kill the cop.
In the Founding Father Brennan proposes a toast to Booth, "I know who he is, but I forget sometimes. Because... because he never shines the light on himself. [...] I now think that anthropology may have it wrong. In working with Booth, I have come to realise that the quiet man, the invisible man, the man who is always there for friends and family, that's the real alpha male. And I promise that my eyes will never be caught by those shiny baubles again."
Brennan links her arm with his and leads him to the quiet end of the bar, "Come here for a sec." where he tells her, "Come on Bones, don't get me mad at you after that great speech ... not after I got you shot ... I don't wanna talk about my brother." Brennan is insistent and gives him a psychology lesson explaining that in protecting Jared he is thwarting Jared's ability to help himself. Booth admits he "The RICO case, I traded my one shot at glory to keep my brother from being arrest ... for drunk driving." Brennan is shocked and tells Booth he "shouldn't have done that." to which he replies, "Right, says the women who got her father off a murder charge. (pause) Face it, we do things for family." Booth goes to speak to Jared outside where Jared asks, "Are you bringing me outside to give me advice on your partner, because I think that ship has sailed." Booth tells him he's no longer going to step in and rescue him. He punches the bus stop shelter and sits down as Brennan comes out with cake. Booth tells her, "Bones you know, I just need some time." She asks, "Do you need time and space?" and Booth smiles and gestures for her to sit down saying, "Just some time." As they share the cake Booth sighs and as he stares out at the road says simply, "My Dad drank."
410. The Passenger in the Oven
B+B are on a plane, Booth in coach and Brennan in first class. Booth sneaks up and sits next to Bones, waking her using a sock as a glove puppet to pinch her. She pulls the sock from his hand saying, "You know you aren't allowed up here." And sure enough it isn't long until he is asked to return to coach:
Booth: "See, we’re partners, we like being together."
Hostess: "Your sexual relationship’s not relevant, sir. This is first class."
Brennan: "Why does everyone else think we have a sexual relationship when we barely even touch each other?"
As Booth explains the nature of their trip Brennan confesses, "This trip is taking me back to my real passion. Prehistoric anthropological discoveries." Booth is upset by her comment asking, "What do you mean, your “real passion”? I thought us working together was your real passion."
He returns to his seat but it isn't long until his brooding self heads back to first class to ask:
Booth: ""You didn’t answer me before. You tired of working with me?""
Brennan: "No, it’s not that. But the identification and analysis of ancient remains, that’s why I became a forensic anthropologist."
Booth: "You’re bored. Hmm. Spark is gone."
Brennan: "I’m a scientist first."
Booth: "Right. (small laugh) Yeah. Scientist first. I, I get it. I understand."
He still looks a little put out but lays down anyway.
B+B find the body and work to solve the case:
Booth: "I am definitely not a squint. Woah."
Brennan: "Well, I’ve always known that. You have no training in the field of forensic science."
Booth: "Really don’t want any."
When Booth walks down to find Brennan wearing glasses Booth asks her, "All right, what I want you to do is take off your glasses, (steps closer) shake out your hair and say, “Mr. Booth, do you know what the penalty is for an overdue book?”" She stares at him, totally ignorant. Booth keeps obtaining things for Brennan to use from passengers and tries to convince Brennan, "Isn't this more fun than ..... " as he smiles at her from the steps.
Once the murderer is found B+B have to return to the USA on the plane. Booth walks out with champagne grinning "There's that smile!" and apologises to Brennan:
Booth: "You want to get off the plane, to see those old Chinese bones. I’m sorry."
Brennan: "It’s not your fault."
Booth: "Yeah, it is, because I’m the one that dragged you out of pure science and pulled you into murder solving."
Brennan: "That’s not how I remember it." (Brennan leans across the aisle)
Booth: "Really?" (Booth leans forward towards her)
Brennan: "Yes. As I recall, I had to force you to take me into the field."
Booth: "Really?" (smiles)
Brennan: "Yes. You didn’t want to, remember? This is all my fault."
B+B smile at one another across the aisle and are interrupted from the back of the plane:
Eli: "Hey, are you two gonna make out?"
Booth: "Hey quiet. You lost your right to talk."
Brennan: "Why do people always think we’re going to make out?"
They clink their glasses together, "To us!" and lean back in their seats.
411. The Bone That Blew
At the crime scene Booth tells Brennan, "Oh, God. You know I hate when you sniff and smell dead things." At the victims house Booth asks Brennan about her Dad working at the Jeff' and explains Cam was doing her a favour.
B+B discuss schools in the SUV as Booth considers sending Parker to private school:
Booth: "Public school was good enough for me, it's good enough for my kid."
Brennan: "Of course it is ... Probably."
Booth: "What's that supposed to mean?"
Brennan: "Parker is a bright, engaged little boy. I'm sure he'll do fine in a large classroom. I did."
Booth: "Except ..."
Brennan: "Except what?"
Booth: "Your dad was a science teacher. You're a scientist."
Brennan: "Yes, my education was enriched at home."
Booth: "That's what I gotta do! Enrich Parker at home."
Brennan: "In what academics are you qualified to offer enrichment?"
Booth looks suddenly concerned. After questioning the children whose nanny has been killed B+B return to the SUV and again discuss schooling and children:
Booth: "You think those kids are better off than Parker?"
Brennan: "Yeah, Of course they are. They have every advantage: a wonderful school, a successful father, mother committed to charity work ..."
Booth: "I spend more time with my house plants than they do with their kids ... You know what's more important than academic enrichment? A loving environment. You ask anyone."
Brennan: "Parker is a wonderful child, BOOTH: . You shouldn't feel inadequate."
Booth gets defensive and seems edgy. Brennan later tells Booth, "Parker will be fine. Peer groups and random environmental factors are far more important than family." Booth feels so guilty that he later asks Sweets what he thinks about public schools.
When Booth goes to make coffee at the Jeff' he runs into Max:
Max: "Can I ask you a question?"
Booth: (turning back) "Sure."
Max: "You, are you, uh... Are you sleeping with my daughter?"
Booth: "No."
Max: "Why? Are you gay?"
Booth: (amused, whispers) "No."
Max: "Is she not attractive enough?"
Booth: "(serious) Bones is beautiful."
Max: "Is it because of me? Because I killed one man, and we both know he deserved it."
Booth: "Right, just cut it out, Max, alright, I'll talk to her. Probably ain't gonna get anywhere with her, but... I'll talk to her."
Max: "You're a good man. And I want that for her."
Booth watches Max walk away with an odd look on his face.
B+B stand on the balcony drinking coffee and watch Max and Parker do a science experiment with mentos and cola as they discuss the case:
Booth: "Don't fire Max. Let him keep his job. You know, he's a teacher, he's not a janitor."
Brennan: "I can't overlook the sanctity of the forensic lab, Booth."
Booth: "Yeah, maybe you can overlook it for me."
Brennan: "For you?"
Booth: "Yeah. Personal favour."
Brennan: "What, like a partner thing?"
Booth: "A partner thing."
Brennan: (chuckles) "I know you, Booth. You're trying to do me a favour by telling me it's a favour for you."
Booth: "No. Mm-mm, no, I ... I can't afford that school. I can't enrich Parker, not with the science thing, but ... you can, Max can."
The cola explodes and Parker squeals in delight as B+B watch on:
Brennan: "Look at my dad!"
Booth: "Look at my little boy there with your dad."
Brennan: (she smiles) "Okay. Yes. All right."
Booth: "Thanks, Bones."
They both look happy and smile as they lean over the balcony.
412. Double Trouble in the Panhandle
B+B are called to a body at the Texas/Oklahoma border and Booth steals Brennan's water, "I’m out of water, give me yours. " They explain to Sweets that the dead twins were from the circus and Sweets unintentionally suggests they go undercover, "We’ll have a knife throwing act ... I had the best knife-skills in the rangers." So B+B head undercover with the circus as Booth and Wanda Moosejaw:
Booth: "What’s my name there Wanda?"
Brennan: "It's written right there on the side of the truck, which high wire is not."
Booth: "It’s just sometimes you get irritated and you say Booth without thinking."
Brennan: "I don't do anything without thinking ... ever ... Buck"
As B+B sell their act to the manager Booth throws some knifes and Brennan looks impressed letting out a "Wow!"
Booth is not happy when Brennan chooses a Russian act and they bicker in their trailer. When Sweets says to keep to themselves they decide to pretend to have sex and stand so they can rock the trailer from side to side:
Brennan: "What I think we need to do is get a syncopated rhythm going that takes advantage of the natural frequency of the springs."
Booth: "Woah, woah, woah." (pauses) Wait. Are you this spontaneous during real sex?"
Brennan: "Yes, I am"
They both pause briefly looking slightly awkward before rocking the trailer again.
When Brennan uses the word duress Booth covers up suggesting "She likes to read the dictionary." Brennan doesn't see why Wanda can't be literate.
Back in the trailer, Cam via the webcam asks "Is there only one bed?" as B+B sit on the bed, bickering:
Booth: "Booth you’re sitting in my clothes."
Brennan: "I’m sorry but it’s kind of tight in here."
Booth: "Which is why you shouldn’t throw your underwear on the floor."
Brennan: "It fell."
Brennan: "Don’t blame gravity for a lack of tidiness."
B+B drive the motorcycle and side car to question the doctor and Brennan has to dig in Booth's pockets to find his cell phone.
B+B emerge from their trailer and appreciate one another in costume:
Booth: "Wow Wanda,you...you look..wow."
Brennan: "You to Boris."
Booth: "You make beautiful Natasha."
Brennan does however ask "What’s with the moustache? It looks like a small animal."
Before their act they take props from the clowns and Booth accidentally hits Brennan in the eye forcing her to wear an eye patch. During the circus introduction it is Brennan who has to rile Booth and get him going, "They’re clapping for us Boris, smile Boris and wave. Show them your knives. Come on, where’s the Buck Moosejaw I married."
Backstage before their act Brennan is excited but Booth appears nervous:
Brennan: "I got props ... objects for you to throw knives at."
Booth: "No, you will stand against the board still. I am going to throw knives around you but not too close."
Brennan: "That does not sound like a very good act. I’m sure the crowd is expecting a lot more than that."
Booth: "There is no act. There’s just me trying not to kill you."
Brennan: "You said you were very good, trained in knife throwing skills by the military."
Booth: "I am very good, but it’s you I’m concerned for."
Brennan: "If you say you’re skilled than I have no reason to ... "
They are interrupted by Magnum and moments later Buck and Wanda begin their act with Booth holding Brennan firmly against the backboard and placing her arms into position:
Booth: "Bones just keep your arms outstretched like this okay? Be very, very still."
Brennan: "Okay. Shouldn’t the balloons be closer to my body."
Booth: "Not if you want to live."
Booth throws knives at Brennan with intense concentration on his face. Brennan laps up the cheers from the crowd. After the act Brennan leads Booth backstage:
Brennan (enthusiastically) "They loved us! You were great. Superb hand eye coordination, Buckie."
Booth: "I could have killed you." (grinning but obviously a little annoyed)
Brennan: "Therein lies the excitement for the spectators."
Back in the trailer Booth says the act is over and they need to catch the bad guys. Brennan seems a little sad. When Cam asks about Brennan's eye Booth closes the laptop.
As Brennan takes to the high wire Booth gets nervous and closes his eyes, concerned as she falls. But Brennan realises how the twins died and they solve the non-murder case.
Next morning B+B wake to find the circus has gone and their trailer is alone. Brennan hands Booth a cup of coffee, seeing his cup has flowers on his switches with Brennan for the Route 66 mug:
Booth: "Buck and Wanda were damn good".
Brennan: "Buck was more dashing that you, I mean Buck drove a motorcycle"
Booth: "Well, Wanda was funner than you".
Brennan: "How?"
Booth: "Well, she let me knock of a rubber nose from her face with a knife. You would never let me do that, you are way too rational." (he teases)
Brennan: "Where do you think they are now?"
Booth: "Over the horizon."
413. Fire in the Ice
Brennan watches Booth play ice hockey and waves at him when he is sent to the disciplinary box. After the game she walks into the locker room to check if Booth is okay, "your hand might be broken. Do you want me to look at it?" Booth grins and asks her to "wait outside."
When B+B find a murder victim weeks later they realise he might be a suspect. He is taken off the case and Agent Perotta steps in but Brennan says, "I won't work the case without Booth." and so Perotta allows Booth to be involved. When Perotta questions Booth she asks is he had an alibi to which he responds, "Bones and I are just partners." Perotta then starts to flirt with Booth asking if he works out.
At the lab Brennan tells Cam, "Booth says I suck at non verbal communication."
At the skating rink Perotta and Brennan talk:
Perotta: "You've worked with Booth for a while now, right?"
Brennan: "Mmm hmm."
Perotta: "Is he the kind of guy that, uh, you know, I... Is he flirty?"
Brennan: "Flirty?"
Perotta; "Would you say he twinkles his eyes at all women?"
Brennan: "Twinkly eyes actually result when the pupils dilate very wide which is an unconscious result of intense interest or sexual attraction."
Perotta: "So, no, he doesn't twinkle at everyone?"
Brennan: "No."
As Booth takes to the ice again he takes a hit and is knocked out and dreams Luc Robitaille tells him, "You protect the ones you love on and off the ice. Brennan runs onto the ice to rouse him:
Booth: "Bones, what are you doing on the ice?"
Brennan: "I get nervous when you fall down and don't get up. Come up here."
As Brennan and Wendell help Booth leave the ice he seems to call Wendell, Bones and Brennan corrects him looking hurt, "But ... I'm Bones."
Brennan holds an ice pack to Booth's head as they sit in her office. When Sweets starts to question Booth about his hallucination Booth suggests "Bones is gonna drive me home and get me soup." which is exactly what they do.
Later B+B skate:
Brennan: "I'm not positive this is a good idea." (Brennan falls down)
Booth: "Oh, I got you! I got you. Stay up here. Okay, it's all right. Here we go, one more. (he picks her up) Well, you know what, I gotta stay up all night so who better to keep me company than you?"
Brennan: "You and me skating is saving you from slipping into a coma?" (Brennan pulls on Booth arm)
Booth: "Oh, easy, Bones. Now I'm gonna go down."
Brennan: "I have a lot of natural athletic ability."
Booth: "Oh, yeah, natural. (mocking) I can... I can see that. Real smooth and natural. That's it. Well done."
Brennan: "That Agent Perotta, she really enjoyed working with us."
Booth: "Yeah."
Brennan: "But, um ... you're the only FBI agent I want to work with." (Brennan looks up at Booth and he smiles) "Will you tell me what the Lucky Luciano told you?"
Booth: "He's not an Italian opera singer. Bones, why do you always say that wrong? You do it on purpose, don't you?"
They both laugh as Booth takes Brennan hand.
Brennan: "I would like to know what he said."
Booth: "He said that I'm not like my old man. He said I'm made of better stuff."
Brennan:: "Well ... I don't know your old man, your father, but ... I think you're made of very, very good stuff."
Booth: (smiles) "Hey, you know what? Forget about Agent Perotta, all right? Nothings gonna change between me and you." (Booth pushes Brennan on the ice)
Brennan: "Well, entropy is a natural force that pulls everything apart at a subatomic level. Everything changes."
Booth: "Not everything, Bones."
Brennan: "Don't."
Booth: "Not everything."
Brennan: "You're gonna make me fall."
Booth: "I'm never gonna make you fall. I'm always here."