Season 3 - Booth and Brennan Moments
Here I am again - season 3 BB moments by episode this time. Note: Reviews are for flist only.
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301. The Widows Son in the Windshield review
Booth arrives at the lab and doesn't walk directly to Bones to drag her out of there, instead he talks to Cam, asking what Bones is doing and finally says, "You gotta a minute? One minute?" He takes her to a crime scene (where he drags her by the arm towards the victims skull) and we learn Brennan hasn't been working in the field much with Booth since Zack left. "You know, you used to like to come out to the field ... Now you’re just anxious to get back, you know, I can barely get you out of your lab coat." When Booth tries to pronounce a science term and Brennan doesn't respond he is disappointed, "....the sublixicated sternacallum thing ... You used to correct me." As Brennan talks about the victim Booth continues to be sulky, "I’m just saying. I mean, you at the lab; me at the field - we are not working at our full symbiotic potential ... It just seems like, maybe you don’t want to work with me anymore?" Brennan states that she won't leave the lab until a suitable replacement for Zack has been found but says, "I work with you."
When Brennan calls Booth to tell him the victim was gnawed on by a human he is excited because, "This is good. Mhm, first time you called me in weeks."
Meanwhile, Angela has her own theory as to why Brennan won't leave the lab:
Angela: "Because when Hodgins and I ran away from our wedding, we left you and Booth standing at the altar, and that iconic image totally freaked you out."
Brennan: "No, it didn’t."
Angela: "Sweetie, this is not one of those things where you try to keep a secret and I ferret out the truth. This is where I tell you something that’s true so you can catch up to your own reality."
And Booth confesses to Cam that he blames himself:
Booth: Yeah, well. You know ... I did arrest her father for murder. She could be having trouble with that.
When they identify the victim Booth asks Brennan to go with him to question the girlfriend but she refuses and mocks him for saying symbiotic, "What is it? The word of the day?"
Meanwhile, Brennan (oddly) explains herself to Jack, "the reason that I’m not going out in the field with Booth is that I haven’t found a replacement for Zack."
Finally, Cam persuades Brennan to join Booth in the field and they head to the Bank where they locate the vault. As Booth and Brennan sit on the steps Booth mentions arresting her father, assuming that is the reason she won't work with him. Brennan just says, "Don’t start again, Booth. We’ll be together as soon as I replace Zack." When they enter the vault protective!Booth arrives, tackling Brennan to the floor and lying on top of her after seeing what he thought was a bomb - but was a transmitter. Brennan pokes fun at him asking, "Why are your eyes closed?" He gets up and tells her to "be careful" and they find the skeleton.
Back at the lab as Brennan and the squints work on the vault contents Booth enters all pissed: "You, you’re getting all of them to help you now .... No, this is enabling. You’re enabling somebody with a mental problem ... " At this point Zack enters and it doesn't take long for him to find key evidence and Brennan goes to the FBI to tell Booth about psycho boy Jason with the diamond tooth. She tells Booth, "I’d like to be in on it when you interrogate him." Booth is really happy but when he asks "That simple?" Brennan is worried for a moment and says "Why? Did Angela say something to you?"
The next time Zack finds evidence B+B run into the lab (wearing nearly matching green jackets!) and Brennan says to Booth, "See why he should never have left!"" Suddenly Booth realises why Brennan has been annoyed with him:
Booth: ""ou were more upset over the fact that I didn’t stop him from going in the first place. I mean, look I could’ve said to him, Zack, ‘Iraq is no place for a guy like you’."
Brennan: "And he’d never have left. You could have stopped him. Why didn’t you do that?"
Booth explains he couldn't stop Zack flying the nest, that it wouldn't have been fair.
Later at the Reflecting Pool, Booth and Brennan have coffee. When Brennan goes to take a sip Booth puts his hand over the cup, "Hey it's hot!" and she pauses apparently kissing Booth's hand. Booth tells her she needs to slow down with the case because it's a marathon not a sprint and he asks if they are solid:
Brennan: "Why are you asking me this?"
Booth: : "Because. You and me - we're the center."
Brennan: (Nods) "And the center must hold."
Booth: : "Right. So, are we gonna hold?"
Brennan: "Yeah. We’ll hold. We’re the center."
Booth: "The center."
Brennan holds out her hand and Booth cautiously shakes it and laughs saying "I thought you were going to kiss my hand again."
302. Soccer Mom in the Mini Van review
At the crime scene Booth tells Brennan that Caroline has arranged special visitations with her father - she seems ungrateful:
Brennan: "The federal detention facility already has visiting areas."
Booth: "Yeah, behind 2 inch glass. Now you’ll be able to give your old man a hug. (he grabs Brennan and hugs her)
Brennan: "I didn’t ask for special treatment, Booth."
Booth: "That’s because you don’t have to because you are special."
Brennan: "Why do you care about my relationship with my father, Booth? You were only too happy to arrest him and put him in prison.
Booth: "Alright, look Bones. Ya know what, it’s not about being happy, okay. It’s about doing my job."
When Booth asks Brennan to go out with him into the field, she tells him she can't because she is going to see her father. When Booth later asks how the visit went she tells him, "It's not like I ever really had a father. Max was absent for years." Booth tells her simply, "Well, here's what I know. I know that Nash girl would give anything to spend one more day with her mother. I'm sure you'd feel the same way if something happened to your father." Brennan doesn't tell Booth that Max said, "Well, you thank him for me. I always liked Booth. Nicest guy that ever arrested me." when he learned Booth set up the room for them. Booth's words do seem to affect Brennan because she goes back to see her father - but once again this interferes with their field work, with Caroline telling Booth, "Leave her be, Cher. Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
Later at the FBI B+B both talk to Sam who seems to dislike Brennan saying, "Is she really necessary? .... If she were a guy, I'd deck her." As they talk Booth places something on his desk and turns round bumping into Brennan. He then leads her by her wrist from his office and towards the interrogation room where he grabs her and moves her away from Sam and into the room. Afterwards B+B grab coffee and head to Booth's office with Sam who is getting more and more annoyed with Brennan:
"Sam: "You know, Booth. She must be really good in bed because I can't see any other reason you keep her around here."
Brennan: "I am. Very good. But Booth has no direct knowledge of that fact."
Booth: "Okay, okay. Let's all stay focused here, people."
Back at the Jeff' Brennan brings Booth coffee on the balcony and they discuss her father. Booth apologises saying, "Ya know, look. I'm - I should never have gotten in the middle of all this, I'm - I'm sorry. I was just - I'm just trying to help." Brennan tells Booth her father "wants to use me" and is "keeping score." Booth encourages her to give Max a chance, "You're never gonna forgive yourself if you don't cut the guy some slack just because you're afraid to get hurt."
B+B drive to question Watkins and Brennan says Sam is too irrational and probably has "male menopause." Booth says "there is no such thing, it's a sexist myth!":
Brennan: "Factually, hormone production drops in your 50's. Sexual desire decreases. You have to deal with the reduction of muscle mass, erectile dysfunction-" (she looks towards Booth's crotch)
Booth: "Hey, alright, hey. Let's just keep the conversation up, shall we?"
Brennan: "And, there's evidence that certain men become very unstable."
Booth: "Do you want me to start talking about your father again?"
Brennan: "You're very testy."
Booth: "And 35. I'm only 35."
Once the case is closed B+B meet up on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial and Booth is a little drunk. Booth drinks coffee and they discuss Brennan playing cards with her father and the fact that Sam doesn't like her. Booth leans closer to Brennan and finally leans his head on her shoulder.
303. Death in the Saddle review
At the crime scene Brennan asks why she has been called in on the case since there is lots of flesh, "Is it because you’re trying to think of excuses to put Booth and me together on cases? ... Well, cause we worked things out, and we’re fine." Booth agrees with her saying, "Yeah. Hundred percent." However, neither Booth not Cam appear convincing.
They discover they can draw "multiple equine implications" from the victim's body and when Booth enters Brennan's office she makes a horse jokes. When B+B head over to the Ambassadora they learn "people come to indulge in pony play fantasy twenty-four hours a day without fear of judgement"
Booth: "Is this some kind of a sex thing?"
Brennan: "How’d you get there so quickly?"
Booth: "The man said ‘fantasy’, I just made the leap. "
Of course it is a sex thing and B+B enter a room where horses and their riders are eating lunch. Brennan explains it is a fetish:
Booth: "Do you think that’s sexy?"
Brennan: "Fetishism is a way of indulging in sexual activity, without actually engaging emotionally with the other person as a fully formed human being."
Booth: "Okay, sex is all about engaging. You don’t wanna engage, you just stay home, and ... you know."
Brennan: "Well, they have masturbation fetishes. Often involving women’s shoes or undergarments ..."
Booth looks embarrassed and interrupts.
In the car Booth asks Brennan, "What’s worse? Okay, finding out that uh, your spouse is having an affair, or finding out that he has a secret life as a pony?" Brennan starts to tell Booth all the historical examples of people involved in pony type sexual events. Booth dismisses her saying:
Booth: "When you turn someone into an object of sexual pleasure, it’s wrong."
Brennan: "How do you know?"
Booth: "It says in the Bible."
Brennan: "It does not! "
Booth: "Then it got left out by mistake."
When Brennan plays with a baseball bat in Booth's office he asks, "You wanna put that down!?" They walk to the elevator and both reach to push the button to call the elevator at the same time. Brennan grins and says, "Giddy up!"
This time they are faced with "sicko rodeo?":
Booth: "This is not normal, okay, it’s uh..."
Brennan: "It’s what, Booth?"
Booth: "You’re not interested in, uh..." (concerned)
Brennan: "Pony play?! No, but I’m the first to admit that in sexual situations, I have indulged in... role-playing."
Booth: "Okay, you know what, it’s getting a little warm out here ... "
As they walk over to speak with Thor, Brennan explains to Booth, "We all indulge in role-playing in sexual situations ... Booth, any time you look at a woman and make the judgement that she’s beautiful, you’re objectifying her. Any time I put on lipstick and nice clothes, I’m objectifying myself. It’s more subtle than what these people are doing, but otherwise it’s the same dynamic." Booth disagrees replying, "Okay, you wearing lipstick, Bones, it’s not like this."
After questioning Thor, B+B have a cute partner moment:
Booth: "What was with all the lying? We’ve got voice tape, and public display of sexual paraphernalia..."
Brennan: "It was role-playing! I was being all ‘lard-ass and good cop.’"
Booth: "Hard-ass and bad cop, Bones. Hard-ass and bad cop."
B+B question the butcher after they knock him down in the alley behind his shop, "Stop! Or I’ll...kick you in the testicles!" But they final arrest Annie Oakley for the murder and head to the diner where Booth looses his appetite:
Booth: "I didn’t lose my appetite because you mentioned horse meat, I lost my appetite because you made me think about all those people parading around, pretending to be something they aren’t, just so they could have crappy sex."
Brennan: "How do you know it’s crappy?"
Booth: "Gotta be, Bones, come on! It’s gotta be!"
Brennan: "Why?"
Booth: "Why? I’ll tell you why. Here we are. All of us are basically alone, separate creatures just circling each other. All searching for that slightest hint of a real connection. Some look in the wrong places. Some, they just give up hope because in their mind they're thinking 'Oh, there's nobody out there for me.' But all of us, we keep trying over, and over again. Why? Because every once in a while, two people meet. And there's that spark. And yes Bones, he's handsome. And she's beautiful. And maybe that's all they see at first...But making love? Making. Love. That's when two people become one." ♥
Brennan: "It is... scientifically impossible for two objects to occupy the same space."
Booth: "Yeah, but what’s important is we try. And when we do it right, we get close. "
Brennan: "To what? Breaking the laws of physics?"
Booth: "Yeah, Bones. A miracle. Those people- role-playing and their fetishes and their little sex games- It’s crappy sex. Well, at least compared to the real thing. "
Brennan: "You’re right. "
Booth: "Yeah, but- Wait a second, I just won that argument?"
Brennan: "Yep!" (they share smiles)
304. Secret in the Soil review plus end scene pic!spam
The episode opens with B+B standing, palm to palm in a therapy session with Dr Sweets. When Booth complains "We agreed to see another therapist, not be action figures for a 12-year-old." Sweets tells the pair, "The FBI is considering severing your partnership." B+B are shocked and agree to complete the questionnaire given to them and "cooperate".
In the SUV Brennan starts to fill in her questionnaire Booth leans over to look and she pulls it away saying, "Don't look on my paper." The next day Booth asks asks what answer she put for number 7 to which Brennan tells him, "We're not supposed to discuss our answers ... Is this how you got through school, Booth?"
B+B discuss organic food as Brennan tells Booth, "You're over-simplifying an enormously complex issue". She tells him, "A researcher at the University of Florida proved that alligators who swim in pesticide contaminated waters have smaller genitalia than their clean-water counterparts." When she zones out briefly Booth tells her, "Hey, Bones, you know we're having a lively discussion here."
At the pineapple place Booth is still annoyed with Sweets, "I bet Sweets was picked that on all through school ... crawny kid like that sees me coming, a former jock, and he's thinking to himself, "Time for a little payback," you know? Make him fill out all those stupid forms. Threatens to take my partner away from me." He suggests Brennan made a bad smell, to which she replies, "He who smelt it, dealt it." Later B+B head to the compost yard where Brennan proclaims, "I'm fine. Agent Booth tends to be squeamish."
Back in therapy B+B await a call about a warrant as Sweets asks, "When you guys argue, how do you come to a resolution?" Brennan replies simply, "We don't argue." but Booth admits, "Fine. We might bicker a little bit, but that's not arguing." Brennan disagrees:
Brennan: "Bicker? I don't bicker."
Booth: "No? What about the whole environmentalism thing?"
Brennan: "That was a discussion."
Booth: "You pretty much told me my penis was going to shrink if I didn't eat organic food."
Brennan: "That's not bickering, that's being a good friend."
Booth: "My penis is just fine, thank you."
As Sweets continues with his therapy B+B watch but don't commit and as the call comes in to say they have the warrant Booth jumps up and says, "Let's boogie, Bones." and leads her from the room.
In the SUV on the way to see Noel the stalker, Angela watches on as B+B bicker about the case:
Angela: "Is it always like this when you two are together?"
Brennan: "Yes!" Booth: "No!" (said simultaneously.)
Angela: "It's kind of hot." (B+B share a look)
In the end B+B solve the case and when they tell Kat she killed her sister, it is Brennan who reaches across the table to comfort the girl, as Booth looks on. Back in therapy they discuss wrapping up the case and when Sweets comments they don't look happy and questions Booth response, Brennan jumps to her partners defence:
Booth: "Sometimes, if you win, you end up with somebody else's pain and screwed-up life. You work for the FBI, you should know that."
Sweets: "Must be a challenge for you to access those feelings."
Brennan: "Okay, stop.(annoyed!) You don't know Booth. You don't know me, you have a limited view of us based on superficial data you've accumulated on a standardized questionnaire, and a subjective analysis from talking to us that is not at all scientific, so back off."
Sweets: "Just trying to help."
Brennan: "By questioning his humanity?"
Booth: "Okay, Bones, now you're going a little bit overboard. He's just a kid. Right? I mean, the worst thing that's probably ever happened to him was he lost at Mortal Kombat."
Sweets: "Are you normally this protective of him, Dr. Brennan?"
Brennan: "We are partners. Our lives depend on being protective of each other."
Sweets: "And you feel the same way, Agent Booth?"
Booth: "Sweets, I can only hope that one day you know what a real partnership is."
Once this has been resolved Sweets goes on to discuss the answers from the questionnaires and what he has discovered about the partners:
Sweets: "You two are very close, that was evident in your superficial, standardized questionnaire and my unscientific observations."
Booth: "Yeah?"
Sweets: "You complement each other."
Booth: "No, she never compliments me. Did you compliment me in the questionnaire?"
Brennan: "Complement," not "compliment." "Ple." He means that we complete each other, as a team."
Booth: "Yeah, right."
Booth looks uncomfortable however Sweets gives them the good news that they can continue to work together so long as they remain in therapy. He comments on their closeness and says he thinks the pair have, "some underlying issues that need to be addressed":
Booth: "Issues?"
Sweets: "Yes. There's clearly a very deep emotional attachment between you two."
Booth: "We're just partners."
Sweets: "And er, why do you think I would have thought otherwise?"
Booth: "'Cause you're 12."
Brennan: "Don't read into anything that Booth said. We're professionals. There's a line that doesn't even need to be there."
Booth: "Not at all, I mean if er .... if there were no more murders, I would probably ... not even ... you know ... see her." (unconvincing)
Brennan: "That's very true."
Booth: "Might have coffee."
Brennan: "Probably not."
Booth: "What?" (he looks at Brennan)
Brennan: "What?" (she looks back)
Booth: "You wouldn't even have coffee with me?" (hurt and now it's as if Sweets isn't there)
Brennan:: "Well, in your scenario we wouldn't even know each other because there are no murders."
Booth: "Were. I said "no more murders."
Brennan: "Then fine. I mean, we could have coffee. So that's clear, then? I mean, we'd have coffee and that's our relationship? Coffee."
Booth: "Yeah, let's move on." ♥
305. Mummy in the Maze review
B+B enter the maze where the mummy was found Booth asks Brennan what she is wearing to the Jeffersonian Halloween Ball. Brennan seems surprised asking Booth, "Are you going this year? " and says she'll be wearing, "What I always wear."
B+B go to the church thrift store where they get into a religious dispute but Booth sides with Brennan. In the SUV later he lets her know he doesn't agree with the pastor's method of "trying to scare kids into Christianity" and they bicker.
At Shoreline Amusement Park, Booth tells Brennan, "Fact, Bones, there are no coincidences in a murder investigation." and at the time she mocks him saying, "You do know the strict definition of a fact, right? It's not the same as a funny feeling." Booth has to deal with a clown as Brennan mock explains to Booth, "The fear of clowns. Coulrophobia. May explain why you shot that clown last year."
When B+B question the grim reaper at the FBI Brennan repeats Booth's words from earlier:, "There are no coincidences in a murder investigation." Booth gets rough with the boy, slapping him and grabbing him by the shoulder. Brennan then slaps him herself. But when she later asks Booth if he is planning to hit Lola too he says, "No, not with a closed fist .. because it leaves a mark" as he leads her, hand on her lower back from his office towards the FBI elevator. The pair get into the elevator as Booth tells Brennan they should split up, "I'll do my street thing, you do your lab thing, all right? Together, we catch bad guys. That's good math."
The next time they see one another they are in fancy dress costume. Brennan walks from her office and asks Booth, "How do I look?" to which he gawps and replies "Good. Wonder-ful. Get it? 'Cause you're Wonder Woman." She asks him what he is meant to be and he confesses he's dressed as "a nerd squint." and they walk towards the main lab area:
Brennan: "That's not what they look or sound like"
Booth: "You mean "we." That's not what 'we' look or sound like"
Brennan: "Okay."
Booth: "You see what I did right there? I corrected you, you know, in character ... as a squint."
As the squints try and locate the missing girl Brennan asks Cam, Booth and Angela to leave and go to the party explaining, "People like us can't work at full capacity with people like you constantly interrupting with irrelevancies." Booth at first refuses to leave, sitting on a chair, arms crossed in a staring competition with Brennan. Brennan stares, hands on her hips, "Booth no!" and after a brief moment he leaves, complaining, "Fine, I'll wait outside. With this chair!" Once located, Brennan goes to find Booth and in the SUV Booth teases Brennan by suggesting they guessed the location:
Booth: "I think you did. I dare you to put that lasso of truth around you."
Brennan: "Now you're being completely irrational. This lasso doesn't actually work. These bracelets aren't actually made of Amazonium. They're stainless steel. They can't stop a bullet."
Booth looks at her incredulously and says, "Okay!"
They arrive at the scene still in costume and Booth shoots out the lock to gain access to the vent. Brennan takes out a gun prompting Booth to ask, "Okay, where did you even find a place to carry that?" as they approach what appears to be a locked gate she asks, "Look, could I please shoot this one?" but Booth kicks open the gate. When Brennan uses her gun to blow the padlock out on the room containing the missing girl the bullet ricochets and hits Booth in the leg, "You shot me! Damn it! I said no! Don't shoot! No!" Apologising, Brennan screams and jumps on top of a crate away from the snakes. Booth moves to her, "Just get on my back." and carries her, piggy back style into the room. The girl screams when the murderer enters wearing a clown mask. Brennan turns to shoot at the murderer and the force from her weapon causes Booth to fall and drop her, banging her head. Booth goes after the killer, but only after switching weapons with Brennan who finally admits, "My gun is too big for me" and shoots him.
Back at the Jeff' once the case is closed Booth and Brennan enter and sit on the steps to the forensic platform and discuss whether to go the party:
Brennan: "We could be Wonder Woman and...what's Superman's secret identity?"
Booth: "Clark Kent." (puts on his glasses)
Brennan: "Yes. We could be Wonder Woman and Clark Kent after a really, really bad date"
Booth: "Yeah, bad date because you shot me."
Brennan: "It was only a flesh wound. And you dropped me on my head!"
Booth: "After you shot me! Okay, I think I got you on this one. Okay, Wonder Woman?"
Brennan: "I'm sorry you had to kill someone. I know you hate that."
Booth: "Yeah, he had it coming."
Brennan: "You hate it. I'm sorry that happened to you."
Booth: "We saved the girl. That's a pretty good date."
Brennan: "Except not really a date."
Booth: "I know. It was..."
Brennan: "work. Not a date."
Booth: "Really, really hard work."
Brennan: "And we're not really Wonder Woman and Clark Kent. We're Brennan and Booth."
Booth: "Look, you're the one who brought up the date analogy."
Brennan: "You hungry?"
Booth: "Yeah."
Brennan: "Me, too."
Booth: "Okay, let's go grab a bite to eat."
Booth heads towards the door and Brennan stops and begins to spin around and around in a circle.
Booth: "What the hell are you doing?"
Brennan: "Nothing."
She stops spinning, raises her armbands and follows Booth from the Jeff'.
306. Intern in the Incinerator review
Booth is very cop-like this episode except when Cam asks him to attend her father birthday party as her pretend date. Although Brennan doesn't find out about this (or the fact Cam's sister kissed Booth) she does raise an eye brow when Cam mentions having had dinner with Booth.
Brennan tells the victims father she was murdered and then admits to Booth it was an unpleasant experience. Booth tries to convince Brennan that the murder is not related to the Gormogon serial killer. As they walk along the balcony they see a body fall past the window - B+B pull up in a little car to find Zack and Hodgins dropped a dummy.
When Booth asks Brennan to interrogate Aldrige she asks:
Brennan: "Why do you want me to interrogate Aldrige?"
Booth: "Because he thinks I’m stupid."
Brennan: "You’re not!" (he opens the door for her)
Booth: "Thanks, Bones, I know. Listen, during the interrogation, always refer to the victim by her first name."
Brennan: "Well, you’re the one that told me that personalizing the victim doesn’t work with sociopathic serial killers. They lack all empathy. (Poking Booth) You told me that!"
Booth: "We are not looking for gorgonzola today!"
Brennan: "Gormogon. Gor-mo-gon."
Booth: "We’re looking for someone who murdered one girl and tossed her down an incinerator chute. Entirely different kind of a guy, so, inside." (shooing her into the interrogation room)
Brennan: "Don’t .. tell me .. Don’t .." (she points at Booth and tries to resist) "You are not bossing me" (smacks his hand) "Stop it."
She finally enters the room and Booth goes to the viewing room.
When Hodgins and Brennan cannot access the logs of the items authenticated by the victim, Booth logs in successfully admitting he has Cam's password:
Booth: (taps Brennan on the shoulder) "I know your password too. It’s daffodil."
Brennan: "I never told you that!"
Booth: "What? I got eyes. I mean you guys aren’t exactly CIA material."
Brennan is surprised that Booth knows her password and goes to change it.
Booth: "Daisy?"
Brennan: "How did you know?"
Booth: "It’s your second favorite flower. I know you Bones. Try a planet .... Jupiter!"
Hodgins laughs as he watches their interaction.
When B+B go on their stake out Booth asks Brennan, "Come on, I mean, it’s a stake out. Play with me. Speculate."
After they uncover the murderer and solve the case B+B drink in Booth's office. Booth tells Brennan, "What you’re taking hard is, uh, the fact that it happened in your house ... Not where you sleep! Okay, you’re favorite place, the house of reason, the Jeffersonian." Brennan tries to argue saying, "It’s not my favorite place." But Booth continues saying that he knows her:
Booth: "Daffodil. Daisy. Jupiter." (pours more shots) "Okay, I’ll tell you what else I know," (they toast) "you were hoping that it was gorgonzola." (they take the shots)
Brennan: "Gormogon."
Booth explains:
Booth: "You were all offended that it was one of you."
Brennan: "You know what? I am offended."
Booth: "I just said that." (pours another shot)
Brennan: "I’m offended! Because ..." (pause) " ...because"
Booth: "Because you were betrayed by one of your own."
Brennan: "Yes. ... Are you going to betray me?"
Booth: "No." (they toast)
Brennan: "Nonetheless, I shall be vigilant."(they take the shots)
Booth: "Nonetheless”?(they laugh and he pours more)
Brennan: "I’m not gonna have a headache tomorrow, am I?"
Booth: "Well, we’re gonna find out. Hodgins and Zack, they do their experiments. We do ours. (they toast) To Gorgonzola."
Brennan: "Gormogon."
They take the shots, sit the cups down and before Brennan can crush hers, it falls of the table, "You missed." (laughs)
307. Boy in the Time Capsule review
Booth talks about his football trophies as B+B approach the crime scene and Brennan surmises that Booth was, "One of those guys." As they travel in the SUV Booth asks Brennan, "What sort of teenager were you Bones?" Brennan responds by telling him about Andy Fluger, the Varsity Lacrosse captain. (Interesting that the character in her books is called Andy!) Booth asks if she kissed Andy and Brennan explains to Booth, "I was weighing the pros and cons when he became my secret Santa ... he taped the gift to my locker. Everyone saw it. Teenagers can be cruel ... It was a Brainy Smurf." Booth laughs even though he promised not too and Brennan is annoyed. She brings it up in their next therapy session with Sweets ... this in turn annoys Booth who tries to defend himself:
Booth: "I was appreciating it. Don't get him involved."
Brennan: "Snorting does not suggest appreciation."
Booth: "It was about a cartoon character from the 1980's! I didn't think you'd be so sensitive."
As they discuss the issue of trust Sweets suggests, "Perhaps a way to bring this relationship back into symmetry is if you reveal a childhood story about yourself. Show your vulnerability to Dr. Brennan." And so Booth spends the rest of the episode trying to come up with an embarrassing story from his school days to share with Brennan.
As B+B make coffee at the FBI Booth tells how he stripped naked under the bleachers and was left "in my socks and my St. Christopher medal." Brennan is unimpressed with Booth's story, telling him, "this is a story about sexual prowess, Booth. You're bragging." Brennan than admits to Booth just how private her Brainy Smurf story was when she compares their stories, "You enjoyed displaying your penis. It showed alpha male mastery. Only one other person knew about Brainy Smurf. It was my mother."
As Sweets visits the Jeff' fulfilling Booth's request to have him profile for them he tells Brennan, "I'm afraid Agent Booth's report on Mr. Adamson is more revealing of Agent Booth than it is of Adamson." And Brennan is immediately interested, "Really? Why!" Of course Sweets won't answer. When Hodgins comes in to discuss his discovery with Brennan she asks Jack, "Dr. Hodgins, do boys change after high school?"
Booth's second attempt at an embarrassing story is told as B+B approach the house of Janelle Brown. He tells how he went on the loud speaker to ask Sharay Bellapini to prom. Even when Booth tells Brennan everyone laughed at him she is still unimpressed telling him, "Okay, this is merely another story of victory and sexual conquest."
Brennan defends Booth to Dr Sweets in her office telling Sweets, "Agent Booth is an incredibly good listener." :)
It is not until the closing scene that Brennan forgives Booth for laughing at her story. First Booth admits he didn't know what a Philistine was telling a kid, "Look, I'm not Philistine. I'm Catholic." When Brennan giggles he admits that's not the humiliating story. He continues to tell her about his buddies hanging a guy over the balcony and feeling bad that he didn't step in. Brennan asks, "So you were humiliated because you didn't act like a hero?" Brennan notices Booth has something in his hand:
Brennan: "What is that?"
Booth: "Nothing." (crosses his arms and hides it from her)
Brennan: "Well, you evolved. And evolution is very impressive and that is definitely not nothing."
Booth: "This?"(holding up Brainy Smurf)
Brennan: "Did you bring that for me?"
Booth: "No."
Brennan: "Good, because it's the wrong Smurf. I liked Smurfette. That's Brainy Smurf."
Booth: "Well, Smurfette was a stupid, shallow Smurf who only had her looks. Look, you're better than Smurfette. You have your looks and a whole lot more."
Brennan tells Booth she is impressed by his story and corrects his statement that: "Evolution is a long, long process. It takes hundreds of years." telling him she corrects him "To help you evolve."
Booth smiles, Brennan smiles back at him and shakes her head.
308. The Knight on the Grid review
Booth calls Cam to the crime scene and Cam tells him, "Dr Brennan looked a little hurt when you asked me to come out here instead of her" Booth says Bones' feelings "don't get hurt" cos she's not "a girl" like Cam.
When the kneecaps are mailed to Brennan Booth suggests, "you are going to you know stay with a friend, check into a hotel right?" When she refuses he brings in Cam:
Booth: "Cam, she goes nowhere alone."
Brennan: "Cam, don’t listen to him."
Booth: "Cam, Who are you more afraid of, me or her?"
Brennan: "Booth!"
Cam: "Whoa! So this is what it’s like to be a kindergarten teacher."
Sweets walks in to hear their bickering and comments on their "Fascinating interpersonal interaction."
After visiting the vault Booth picks up on Brennan's mood and asks her, "Ok, what's the matter?" She confides in Booth, telling him about the visit from Amy. As Zack approaches they discuss the case and Booth says he is bringing in Sweets on the Gormogon case. Brennan "dismisses" Zack much to Booth amusement! Later Brennan seems annoyed when she discovers Booth has given Sweets the Gormogon case file.
When Russ arrives at Booth office, Booth arrests Russ but one look from Brennan and Booth takes Russ to the hospital. As B+B look on from the doorway Brennan turns to Booth:
Brennan: "Thank you, Booth."
Booth: "Oh, this never happened. Don’t thank me. As far as the bureau is concerned I
caught him here, fifteen minutes from now."
She leans up and kisses Booth on the cheek.
Brennan: "Thank you. Booth."
Booth: "Just don’t tell anyone."
Brennan attaches the knee caps and they go to move the skeleton. In the taxi cab a motorcycle overtakes B+B and drops a bag. Booth yells for Brennan to "Get down!" and places a hand over her as he reverses the taxi. The bag explodes and the car flips over leaving B+B injured. Protective!Booth climbs from through the window and pulls Brennan out of the car, sitting her on the pavement. After his immediate concern Booth begins to argue with Brennan that their cover was blown because of her "bad acting ... you were loud! That’s what they call overacting." They realise that Gormogon was trying to kill them and find a tooth in the wound in Brennan's arm, "He was trying to kill us because - we know his next target. The corrupter. That lobbyist." Booth races off to rescue the lobbyist telling Brennan, "Stay right there!"
Protective!Booth returns at the nursing home when the original Gormogon master snarls at Brennan causing her to step back in fright. He holds onto Brennan, pulling her away.
At the courthouse Brennan realises Booth has turned in a few favours for Russ. Brennan thanks Booth (Caroline smacks him!) and tells Amy to do the same. Booth meanwhile denies any involvement, "I didn’t do anything" and tells Russ, "You run again? You disappoint that woman and her kids and you break your sister's heart, I will ... "
309. Santa in the Slush review
In the SUV Booth tells Brennan "You got that sad little girl look on your face after you've been with your dad." She says her father wants to spend Christmas with the family whilst Booth is sad that he isn't getting to spend Christmas with Parker. He suggests Brennan "Pull a few strings" for her father but she tells Booth she is going to Peru anyway to which he replies with the same words used by her father, "skeletons and Christmas do not mix."
Back at the lab Brennan returns from visiting her Dad to find Booth asleep on her sofa. They again discuss the magic of Christmas and "making the impossible happen"
In the street, Booth grabs Brennan to stop her walking out in front of a car and yells, "Watch out." She consoles Booth saying, "I'm sorry you can't be with Parker, Booth." and tells him Rebecca is being unfair taking Parker away. Inside the apartment they bicker in front of the landlord repeatedly, arguing about the "Santa myth."
B+B sulk as Booth drives:
Brennan:: "Thinking of Parker?"
Booth: "No. Thinking about your dad?"
Brennan: "No."
Brennan finally admits she is thinking about Russ and the fact he is lying to the girls. She compares him to Booth saying, "He's living a lie. You'd never do that." Booth tells her he lies to Parker at Christmas time, "kids deserve to live a different kind of truth." He suggests she come up with a lie as to why Russ is at the jail and plan family Christmas.
At the diner Brennan eats at the counter whilst Booth and Parker eat at a table.
Brennan goes to ask Caroline for help arranging the trailer and she agrees to do it if Brennan kisses Booth for five steamboats, on the lips. At the lab, Brennan puts up mistletoe and informs Booth of Caroline's puckish side:
Brennan: "Listen, Booth! She's going to be here any second. Do you want some gum?"
Booth: " No, my breath is just fine. Alright, look. I'll have a - talk with Caroline."
Brennan: "No."
Booth: "No?"
Caroline arrives and pushes Booth under the mistletoe with Brennan. The partners kiss for five steamboats as Caroline looks on, somewhat stunned. Booth wanders off leaving Brennan at her desk.
At the diner Sweets discovers B+B have kissed:
Brennan: "I have a crisis."
Booth: "Bones, it was just mistletoe."
Brennan: "Not the kiss. That was nothing."
Sweets: "You kissed?"
Booth: "Mistletoe."
Brennan: "That’s not the crisis."
Sweets: "Was there tongue?"
Booth: "Alright, you know what? Get your own sex life, alright Sweets."
Brennan: "Well, that has nothing to do with sex."
Booth: "Nothing."
Brennan: "No."
Booth: "There was no se- it was - mistletoe."
Brennan: "Totally sex less."
Sweets explains to Brennan that it's okay to lie to children at Christmas. B+B sit very close together and she continues to briefly mock Booth and his love for Christmas and even his religious beliefs:
Sweets: "Yeah, there’s a fictional element to Christmas."
Brennan: "You mean the whole ‘birth of a Savior’ rigmarole?"
Booth: "It is NOT rigmarole."
Once the case is solved Booth takes Parker to the prison and calls Brennan to tell her he has her present. When she looks out of the window she sees that Booth has hooked up a Christmas tree to his car:
Brennan: "I love my gift Booth"
Booth: "Merry Christmas Bones.
310. The Man In The Mud review
B+B at the crime scene bicker a little as they gather evidence and Booth corrects her after she says "serious as a gas attack"
In therapy Booth gets embarrassed when Brennan says the word "anus". Sweets suggests B+B never discuss anything other than work, "would it be fair to say that you use work to avoid confronting personal issues?" At first they disagree but then Brennan admits "Sweets could be right; I mean, we talk a lot about work." They say they talk about Parker and Max but Sweets says they are still work related:
Booth: "Mm...okay, what are you trying to get at here?"
Sweets: "Your inability to share your personal lives. I thought that was obvious."
Booth: "Okay, that was snotty. I don't respond well to snotty."
Brennan: (laying a hand on Booth's arm) "After a case, sometimes, we have a drink, or coffee, Booth has pie. I don't...like pie."
Booth: "Aw...you really should just give it a chance."
Brennan: "I find it too sweet."
Booth: "Okay, there. We talked about pie. Nothin' to do with work."
Sweets ask B+B to go out for an evening with him and his girlfriend.
When B+B interview Danny he asks Brennan out:
Booth: "Nah, she doesn't wanna go out with you."
Brennan: "Let me speak for myself!"
In the next therapy session Booth gets agitated because Sweets isn't talking. When Sweets asks why it is Brennan who replies,
Brennan: "He gets bored!"
Booth: "You're right, I do, I get bored."
Brennan: "You should see him on stakeouts; he talks and talks and ..."
Sweets: "Is it always about work?"
When Brennan says no Sweets suggests she is lying to cover for her partner.
Sweets asks Booth what is bothering him and he admits, "It's this whole...going on a date thing." When Brennan pulls focus from Booth Sweets suggest B+B planned their 'session'.
At the ceramics class Booth makes a horse and Brennan makes a pot as April talks about fish and their souls. When April and Lance start to fight Booth throws some of the clay at Brennan which triggers a mini battle.
They discuss their "date" in the car the next morning and Brennan tells Booth he is being "distasteful." They then discuss the case agreeing "no changies .. no take backs .."
Later when April visits Brennan at the Jeff' she tells her, "Booth and I are not blue fish" Finally, B+B share coffee at the Jeff' after the case and when Sweets arrives they invite him to join them ten pin bowling.
311. Player Under Pressure review
Booth mocks Brennan when hearing only 4 students turned up to her lecture on campus. Brennan is surprised to learn Booth was a jock when he tells her "last time I was under the bleachers, I was, uh, getting ready to smoke a cigarette and make out with Vanessa Taylor." Brennan tells Booth that, "anthropologically speaking, sports are a way for boys to practice their battle skills ... The truth is athletes are basically emotionally arrested in boyhood, acting out childish games as if they have adult importance. The only thing more juvenile are grown adults who watch sports." This annoys Booth who tells her, "I’m a little irritated with you. Just leave me alone long enough so I can get over it? She asks why he's irritated and says, "I love sports. I watch sports. You know, I’m all about sports. You know? "
Booth remains annoyed with Bones though out the case and it's not until they found the murderer that she explains, "I never meant you ... You don’t play at being a warrior. You are a warrior. Every day. You’re definitely ... a fully developed man." She also suggests Booth was "lying when you said you treated women like that beneath the bleachers ... because you still remember that first girl’s name."
312. Baby in the Bough review
B+B discuss money and Brennan admits she is getting a seven figure advance on her next book. They find a baby at the crime scene:
Booth: "Oh, look at him, Bones. He looks a little fussy there. Why don’t you pick him up and give him a cuddle? "
Brennan: "What? Just because I have breasts doesn’t mean that I have magical powers over infants. You’re the one with the son. "
B+B go to change the nappy, "We’ll work together on this one ... Changin’ Diapers 101." Brennan finds a key in the diaper bag only to have the baby swallow it and Booth calls her crazy, "That key was evidence. You know how chain of custody works. That kid stays with us until we get the key back." And so B+B spend the episode with a baby.
Brennan is a registered foster parent (at Russ's request) and takes the baby. Booth tells her, "You know, you look very mom-like with that baby monitor." and is surprised to here she has bought clothes and toys. When the baby cries they bicker over who will go to him:
Booth: "Are you gonna get him?"
Brennan: "I figured you’d get him."
Booth: "Don’t you have a “responsibility under state law”?"
Brennan: "But you’re the baby daddy."
Booth: "Baby daddy?!"
Brennan: "You have prior experience with pre-verbal infancy."
Booth: "You can be the daddy mommy."
Angela winds up getting the baby telling B+B, "Okay, you two had better get your act together or I’m suing for custody."
B+B head to the town where the victim was from and find her trailer door open. Booth tells Brennan to stay in the car with the baby, "If you hear gunfire, anything like that, drive away." Brennan protests telling Booth, "Bu ... I’m not leaving you." Booth makes her promise she will drive away if there is any trouble. She is not happy about it but finally says, "I promise."
When the squints discover the victim has chronic back pain but took no pain meds Booth says it was "probably because she didn’t want it affecting her, you know, her supply." Brennan mocks him for being unable to say the word breasts. "Would teat make you more comfortable?" And when Andy finally poops out the key Booth is read to hand him over to state police but Brennan refuses to leave him in the sticks and pleads with Booth. He of course agrees to keep the baby with them.
When Cam tells them his condition is not serious Booth smiles at Brennan, "Looks like our little guy’s going to be just fine" he then corrects himself, ... the little guy ..." They give Andy to his new parents and sit talking in the back of the SUV. Brennan tells Booth she is going to rebuild the bridge and he suggests she build a house in the town, "What? I’m just saying. Andy’s going to miss his Auntie Bones. He’s going to want to see you. We could all go fishing, come back home, plop ourselves in front of that one hundred and three inch plasma screen of *heaven* and *football* and you can make the *five layer* dip." As Booth talks about there imaginary future, Brennan sticks the dummy into his mouth.
313. Verdict in the Story review
Caroline shows up at a crime scene to tell B+B, "Dr. Brennan is suspended from all crime-related duties ... We have a date for your father’s murder trial. Booth is the arresting officer. You can’t work together until it’s over." Both B+B defend this:
Brennan: "This is not necessary."
Booth: "They don’t need to separate us."
Brennan: "I’m very compartmentalized."
Booth: "Very compartmentalized."
The pair look at one another, unsure what to do and Booth says simply, "Well this sucks!"
B+B meet Sweets at the diner and tell him, "there’s no use in doing partners’ therapy when we aren’t partners."
In court during the trial Booth and Brennan sit on different sides of the court room. However, they whisper across the aisle on multiple occasions. Their conversations do not go unnoticed by the judge who finally moves them further apart by asking them to switch seats with Cam and Russ. Booth continues to steal looks across at Brennan to see how she is doing during the trial and when Clarke's evidence causes the judge to say the trial might be thrown out of court Booth grins at Bones.
During recess Booth takes Brennan coffee before he has to go on the stand and guiltily tells her to, "remember I’m the one who gave you this delicious coffee ... Because I’m the first prosecution witness against your father."
Later it is Brennan who brings coffee to Booth saying "Psst." and the pair sit on a bench outside the courthouse. Sweets approaches with a proposal, "I’m writing a book. Taking a clinical approach to efficacy and focused outcomes. You shouldn’t work well together, but you do. I’d like to study it further ... Okay, see. That thing you do when you talk to each other while excluding the third party, namely me, its an adaptive mechanism for, uh, disparate entities to bond together against their own individual impetuses to dissociate." B+B agree to let Sweets "study" in exchange for "psychological profiling on demand." But they also mock Sweets saying, "You like us!"
Booth takes Zack to Brennan's to find the murder weapon and asks, "How ya doing there, Bones?" They sit and she admits to him that when she thought her father might get off she liked the idea. She is confused by this and looks to Booth to explain:
Brennan: "What I do - what we do is put murders like him away."
Booth: "Okay. You're not Dr. Brennan today. You're Temperance."
Brennan: "I don't know what that means."
Booth: "The scientist part of you got sidelined, temporarily."
Brennan: "I still don't know what that means."
Booth: "Bones, just, take the brain, okay, put it in neutral. Alright? Take the heart - pop it into overdrive."
Booth imitates revving a car engine and Brennan laughs.
Brennan: "Sometimes I think you're from another planet."
Booth smiles and leans forward looking at Brennan who looks back at him.
Brennan: "And sometimes I think you're really very nice."
They gaze at one another but Zack interrupts having found the weapon.
When the defence need a bogey man Brennan asks Booth to meet her at the diner:
Brennan: "I have a way to lodge reasonable doubt in the jury."
Booth: "We can't talk about this."
Brennan: "Please? You're the person I talk to about things like this."
Booth concedes, telling her the jury are the human element and that it's okay so long as "No perjury involved. Just an interpretation of existing facts." When she asks if it's okay to take advantage of the jury Booth tells her, "Brain and heart, Bones. Brain and heart." He also reminds her, "You don't know that he did it, you know, your old man ... not the way that you define “know”. You know, with proof and all that"
And so with Booth on the stand she makes herself the bogeyman by implying she could have murdered Deputy Director Kirby. Booth seems stunned and once he has answered all the questions posed by the defence he adds, "Bones was with me all day ... Forty five minutes we were apart, but we talked on the phone." Asked if she had time to kill Kirby, Booth doesn't answer and stares at Brennan across the courtroom until he is prompted by the judge, "The witness will answer the question." - his only response is directed at Bones - "That's a lot of heart, Bones.". When asked again for an answer Booth finally speaks, "Could Bones have killed Kirby? Temperance Brennan - I've worked with this woman. I've stood over death with her, I've faced down death with her. And Sweets, he's brilliant, he is, but he's wrong. She could not have done this." However, he finally has to admit, "Yes, she had time."
As the verdict is about to be given Booth realises Brennan is not in the courtroom and heads outside to find her. She is standing on the steps and he walks down and takes her into his arms in a hug. Her father is a free man and she hugs him whilst looking towards Booth who looks on smiling.
314. The Wannabe in the Weeds review
At the crime scene Booth suffers with allergies causing Brennan to ask, "How does a former sniper have a grass allergy? I mean, wouldn't a sneeze give away your position?" but Booth explains, "Bones, okay, I worked in the desert. Sand, no grass."
When B+B go to the victims house and there is no answer next door Brennan eagerly tells Booth, "Hey! Break down the door!" but he refuses saying, "It hurts my shoulder when I break down the door." - which makes sense since he told her in Player Under Pressure that it was a shoulder injury that stopped him playing basketball. Inside they question the neighbour and when mentioning sex Booth won't say the words he claps his hands and it is Brennan who asks "Did they have sexual intercourse? Why are you clapping?"
At the gym Brennan swats Booth teasingly, "You are ogling that woman!" Later when interviewing Pam, Pam suggests Brennan is thin and she appears self confident, immediately asking Booth for reassurance, "D-do I look like a scarecrow?"
B+B go to the Checkerbox and then to the diner where they discuss the singers. Brennan compares the singers innate need to stand out to Booth's days as a ranger, "You were the best sniper when you were in the army! ... And that set you apart from the others." She explains the singers:
Brennan: " ... have the power and prestige. You enjoy it because you are a superb agent."
Booth: "You think?"
Brennan: "Yes, of course. Since I am the best in my field, it would be self destructive for me to work with someone who's beneath me."
Booth: "Oh. Okay. Well that's good. 'Cause, um, you know, I have to be honest here. Sometimes I think that you think you're better than me."
Brennan: "Well, objectively, I am more intelligent.."
Booth: "There you go..."
Brennan: "In certain areas, and in others... I understand my limitations, and I... admire your expertise."
Booth: "Huh. You admire me?"
Brennan: "In certain areas of expertise."
Booth: "Well, I admire your expertise. You have a whole... science thing."
After Pam calls and asks to meet Booth alone she is annoyed and Booth explains Pam wants to meet him alone, "Probably because you make her feel uncomfortable ... Well because... You're you. You're a well adjusted woman."
One the case is solved Booth arranges for Brennan to sing at the Checkerbox. He pushes her towards the stage as Sweets tells her, "This opportunity is a gift from Agent Booth." Brennan steps up on stage and sings as Booth proudly watches on. Pam calls out from the back of the bar, "Seeley!" but before Booth has time to pull his gun, Pam shoots and Booth takes the bullet meant for Brennan. He falls to the floor and Brennan is immediately above him. She looks back at Pam realising she still has a gun and lifts Booth's weapon, shooting Pam in the throat before turning her attention back to Booth. Holding his hand and looking into his eyes she repeats, "Booth, you're going to be fine. I'm right here. God. You're gonna do this. You're gonna be fine. You're going to make this .. No, come on Booth... COME ON BOOTH!"
315. The Pain in the Heart review
Brennan is working as the squints come to tell her it's time for Booth funeral. She says she won't go until Angela begs her to:
Sweets: "It's Agent Booth's funeral, Dr. Brennan. Losing a loved one is -"
Brennan: "A partner, Sweets. I lost a partner."
At the funeral Brennan looks uncomfortable and when Caroline asks God to have mercy on Booth Brennan says, "If there were a merciful God, why wouldn't he have saved Booth."
When Booth jumps out from the line of officers Brennan jumps to his aid and knocks out the man. She then turns to face Booth and with an angry look on her face and punches him in the jaw, knocking him to the ground. Booth looks stunned.
Back at the lab Booth tries to explain what has happened to Brennan:
Booth: "After I got shot, the Bureau faked my death so I could finally get that guy."
Brennan: "I don't care ... I knew I shouldn't have gone to that funeral. It was a complete waste of time, just like I said."
Booth: (hurt) "Wait a second, you thought that my funeral was a waste of time?"
Booth continues to plead his case:
Booth: "Bones, I'm telling you. You were supposed to know that I wasn't really dead. I swear! That's why I thought you weren't crying! ... I gave a list of people to the bureau to inform that I was not really dead. You know, if they didn't tell you, it's not my fault."
Sweets: "Dr. Brennan's actually upset because she had to face strong emotions that she'd rather deny. Striking Agent Booth, indicated the depth of your feelings for him. It was a very passionate act."
Booth: (to Sweets) "Thank you!" (to Brennan) "Did you hear that? Passion!"
Brennan: "Yes, passion, because anger is a passion! Anger at being manipulated!"
Brennan later shows up at Booth's place, breaking in (using the spare key) and storming into his bathroom where she finds Booth wearing a beer hat and reading a graphic novel. She yells at him and Booth is annoyed, "I already explained this to you. The bureau has to vet everyone when there is a security issue. I was just following protocol." but Brennan won't accept his reasoning telling him, "Well, you could have called me. Did you really think I needed to be vetted by your boss? I mean, don't you trust me?" She continues, "We've been partners for three years, Booth, and you've broken protocol before - sometimes putting my life in danger. Which makes sense because you clearly don't have any real concern for me." Booth gets angry and stands up yelling, "I took a bullet for you!" As Booth stands naked in front of Brennan both pause and take a breath. Brennan offers him a towel which he refuses before sitting back down. Booth agrees to find out why Brennan was not told about his fake death and promises to tell her next time he fake dies. Brennan leaves but only after telling Booth, "Just so you know, I find your lack of Puritan modesty very refreshing."
In the Gormogon vault Brennan comments that, "for all we know, Gormogon is dead and we're not on the list of people who get to find that out." This immediately grabs Sweets attention and Booth tells him about Brennan's visit to his apartment the previous night. When Booth discovers it was Sweets who got the list and did not tell Brennan he drags Sweets to her office and tell her to "Slug him!" When Brennan accepts Sweets' rational Booth is confused:
Booth: "Woah. Wait a minute. Now why are you mad at me then?"
Brennan: "Because you should have told me, personally."
Booth: "Oh, I should have just ignored National Security concerns, broken the law and told you."
Brennan: "Yes. You know I'm very trustworthy."
Booth is unhappy with the logic and suggests something else is going on. This leads them to discuss pie:
Booth: "Come on! I mean, when I offer her a piece of pie you say it has deeper meaning."
Brennan: "I don't like pie, Booth."
Booth: "Well, apple pie. She doesn't like baked pie."
As Booth leaves Sweets smiles and comments, "You know, I think it's interesting, psychologically how Agent Booth's constant efforts to persuade you to enjoy fruit pie could be interpreted as a kind of seduction."
Although Brennan sided with Sweets in front of Booth she challenges him when Booth is out of earshot, "You experimented on us ... Not telling me Booth was alive? You wanted to quantify our reactions for your own research? You took advantage of us. Booth and I agreed to let you observe us. We did not agree to be used as lab rats, so you better cut it out ... if Booth hears why you did what you did? He'd beat ya up ... So you better not do it again."
B+B have coffee at the diner - Booth does not have pie. Sweets suggests Hodgins is Gormogon's apprentice and Brennan asks why, saying it could just as easily be her:
Sweets: "You have a reverence for life that belies the cold, calculations of a killer. And the emotional connection you share with Agent Booth ..."
Brennan: "No. That ... I -" (she starts getting up) "I don't have time for this. No." (she leaves)
Booth: "Don't you know by now you can't rush her?" (Booth rushes after Bones)
When Brennan realises Zack is Gormogon's apprentice Booth gives her time at the hospital to talk it out with him before asking for a name. Later as the squints looks through the box of Zack's favourite things Brennan gets upset, saying"I never gave him anything" and leaving the room to sit on the stairs. Booth stops Angela and goes after her himself holding a letter which he reads to her:
Booth: "“Dear Mr. Addy. It is my pleasure to offer you the post of my intern in Forensic Anthropology. I choose you from hundreds of applicants because of your knowledge, your desire to learn and because I feel you will find a home here.” (he sets the letter in the envelope) I think you gave him something great, Bones."
He gives her the letter and she leans her head against his shoulder.
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301. The Widows Son in the Windshield review
Booth arrives at the lab and doesn't walk directly to Bones to drag her out of there, instead he talks to Cam, asking what Bones is doing and finally says, "You gotta a minute? One minute?" He takes her to a crime scene (where he drags her by the arm towards the victims skull) and we learn Brennan hasn't been working in the field much with Booth since Zack left. "You know, you used to like to come out to the field ... Now you’re just anxious to get back, you know, I can barely get you out of your lab coat." When Booth tries to pronounce a science term and Brennan doesn't respond he is disappointed, "....the sublixicated sternacallum thing ... You used to correct me." As Brennan talks about the victim Booth continues to be sulky, "I’m just saying. I mean, you at the lab; me at the field - we are not working at our full symbiotic potential ... It just seems like, maybe you don’t want to work with me anymore?" Brennan states that she won't leave the lab until a suitable replacement for Zack has been found but says, "I work with you."
When Brennan calls Booth to tell him the victim was gnawed on by a human he is excited because, "This is good. Mhm, first time you called me in weeks."
Meanwhile, Angela has her own theory as to why Brennan won't leave the lab:
Angela: "Because when Hodgins and I ran away from our wedding, we left you and Booth standing at the altar, and that iconic image totally freaked you out."
Brennan: "No, it didn’t."
Angela: "Sweetie, this is not one of those things where you try to keep a secret and I ferret out the truth. This is where I tell you something that’s true so you can catch up to your own reality."
And Booth confesses to Cam that he blames himself:
Booth: Yeah, well. You know ... I did arrest her father for murder. She could be having trouble with that.
When they identify the victim Booth asks Brennan to go with him to question the girlfriend but she refuses and mocks him for saying symbiotic, "What is it? The word of the day?"
Meanwhile, Brennan (oddly) explains herself to Jack, "the reason that I’m not going out in the field with Booth is that I haven’t found a replacement for Zack."
Finally, Cam persuades Brennan to join Booth in the field and they head to the Bank where they locate the vault. As Booth and Brennan sit on the steps Booth mentions arresting her father, assuming that is the reason she won't work with him. Brennan just says, "Don’t start again, Booth. We’ll be together as soon as I replace Zack." When they enter the vault protective!Booth arrives, tackling Brennan to the floor and lying on top of her after seeing what he thought was a bomb - but was a transmitter. Brennan pokes fun at him asking, "Why are your eyes closed?" He gets up and tells her to "be careful" and they find the skeleton.
Back at the lab as Brennan and the squints work on the vault contents Booth enters all pissed: "You, you’re getting all of them to help you now .... No, this is enabling. You’re enabling somebody with a mental problem ... " At this point Zack enters and it doesn't take long for him to find key evidence and Brennan goes to the FBI to tell Booth about psycho boy Jason with the diamond tooth. She tells Booth, "I’d like to be in on it when you interrogate him." Booth is really happy but when he asks "That simple?" Brennan is worried for a moment and says "Why? Did Angela say something to you?"
The next time Zack finds evidence B+B run into the lab (wearing nearly matching green jackets!) and Brennan says to Booth, "See why he should never have left!"" Suddenly Booth realises why Brennan has been annoyed with him:
Booth: ""ou were more upset over the fact that I didn’t stop him from going in the first place. I mean, look I could’ve said to him, Zack, ‘Iraq is no place for a guy like you’."
Brennan: "And he’d never have left. You could have stopped him. Why didn’t you do that?"
Booth explains he couldn't stop Zack flying the nest, that it wouldn't have been fair.
Later at the Reflecting Pool, Booth and Brennan have coffee. When Brennan goes to take a sip Booth puts his hand over the cup, "Hey it's hot!" and she pauses apparently kissing Booth's hand. Booth tells her she needs to slow down with the case because it's a marathon not a sprint and he asks if they are solid:
Brennan: "Why are you asking me this?"
Booth: : "Because. You and me - we're the center."
Brennan: (Nods) "And the center must hold."
Booth: : "Right. So, are we gonna hold?"
Brennan: "Yeah. We’ll hold. We’re the center."
Booth: "The center."
Brennan holds out her hand and Booth cautiously shakes it and laughs saying "I thought you were going to kiss my hand again."
302. Soccer Mom in the Mini Van review
At the crime scene Booth tells Brennan that Caroline has arranged special visitations with her father - she seems ungrateful:
Brennan: "The federal detention facility already has visiting areas."
Booth: "Yeah, behind 2 inch glass. Now you’ll be able to give your old man a hug. (he grabs Brennan and hugs her)
Brennan: "I didn’t ask for special treatment, Booth."
Booth: "That’s because you don’t have to because you are special."
Brennan: "Why do you care about my relationship with my father, Booth? You were only too happy to arrest him and put him in prison.
Booth: "Alright, look Bones. Ya know what, it’s not about being happy, okay. It’s about doing my job."
When Booth asks Brennan to go out with him into the field, she tells him she can't because she is going to see her father. When Booth later asks how the visit went she tells him, "It's not like I ever really had a father. Max was absent for years." Booth tells her simply, "Well, here's what I know. I know that Nash girl would give anything to spend one more day with her mother. I'm sure you'd feel the same way if something happened to your father." Brennan doesn't tell Booth that Max said, "Well, you thank him for me. I always liked Booth. Nicest guy that ever arrested me." when he learned Booth set up the room for them. Booth's words do seem to affect Brennan because she goes back to see her father - but once again this interferes with their field work, with Caroline telling Booth, "Leave her be, Cher. Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
Later at the FBI B+B both talk to Sam who seems to dislike Brennan saying, "Is she really necessary? .... If she were a guy, I'd deck her." As they talk Booth places something on his desk and turns round bumping into Brennan. He then leads her by her wrist from his office and towards the interrogation room where he grabs her and moves her away from Sam and into the room. Afterwards B+B grab coffee and head to Booth's office with Sam who is getting more and more annoyed with Brennan:
"Sam: "You know, Booth. She must be really good in bed because I can't see any other reason you keep her around here."
Brennan: "I am. Very good. But Booth has no direct knowledge of that fact."
Booth: "Okay, okay. Let's all stay focused here, people."
Back at the Jeff' Brennan brings Booth coffee on the balcony and they discuss her father. Booth apologises saying, "Ya know, look. I'm - I should never have gotten in the middle of all this, I'm - I'm sorry. I was just - I'm just trying to help." Brennan tells Booth her father "wants to use me" and is "keeping score." Booth encourages her to give Max a chance, "You're never gonna forgive yourself if you don't cut the guy some slack just because you're afraid to get hurt."
B+B drive to question Watkins and Brennan says Sam is too irrational and probably has "male menopause." Booth says "there is no such thing, it's a sexist myth!":
Brennan: "Factually, hormone production drops in your 50's. Sexual desire decreases. You have to deal with the reduction of muscle mass, erectile dysfunction-" (she looks towards Booth's crotch)
Booth: "Hey, alright, hey. Let's just keep the conversation up, shall we?"
Brennan: "And, there's evidence that certain men become very unstable."
Booth: "Do you want me to start talking about your father again?"
Brennan: "You're very testy."
Booth: "And 35. I'm only 35."
Once the case is closed B+B meet up on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial and Booth is a little drunk. Booth drinks coffee and they discuss Brennan playing cards with her father and the fact that Sam doesn't like her. Booth leans closer to Brennan and finally leans his head on her shoulder.
303. Death in the Saddle review
At the crime scene Brennan asks why she has been called in on the case since there is lots of flesh, "Is it because you’re trying to think of excuses to put Booth and me together on cases? ... Well, cause we worked things out, and we’re fine." Booth agrees with her saying, "Yeah. Hundred percent." However, neither Booth not Cam appear convincing.
They discover they can draw "multiple equine implications" from the victim's body and when Booth enters Brennan's office she makes a horse jokes. When B+B head over to the Ambassadora they learn "people come to indulge in pony play fantasy twenty-four hours a day without fear of judgement"
Booth: "Is this some kind of a sex thing?"
Brennan: "How’d you get there so quickly?"
Booth: "The man said ‘fantasy’, I just made the leap. "
Of course it is a sex thing and B+B enter a room where horses and their riders are eating lunch. Brennan explains it is a fetish:
Booth: "Do you think that’s sexy?"
Brennan: "Fetishism is a way of indulging in sexual activity, without actually engaging emotionally with the other person as a fully formed human being."
Booth: "Okay, sex is all about engaging. You don’t wanna engage, you just stay home, and ... you know."
Brennan: "Well, they have masturbation fetishes. Often involving women’s shoes or undergarments ..."
Booth looks embarrassed and interrupts.
In the car Booth asks Brennan, "What’s worse? Okay, finding out that uh, your spouse is having an affair, or finding out that he has a secret life as a pony?" Brennan starts to tell Booth all the historical examples of people involved in pony type sexual events. Booth dismisses her saying:
Booth: "When you turn someone into an object of sexual pleasure, it’s wrong."
Brennan: "How do you know?"
Booth: "It says in the Bible."
Brennan: "It does not! "
Booth: "Then it got left out by mistake."
When Brennan plays with a baseball bat in Booth's office he asks, "You wanna put that down!?" They walk to the elevator and both reach to push the button to call the elevator at the same time. Brennan grins and says, "Giddy up!"
This time they are faced with "sicko rodeo?":
Booth: "This is not normal, okay, it’s uh..."
Brennan: "It’s what, Booth?"
Booth: "You’re not interested in, uh..." (concerned)
Brennan: "Pony play?! No, but I’m the first to admit that in sexual situations, I have indulged in... role-playing."
Booth: "Okay, you know what, it’s getting a little warm out here ... "
As they walk over to speak with Thor, Brennan explains to Booth, "We all indulge in role-playing in sexual situations ... Booth, any time you look at a woman and make the judgement that she’s beautiful, you’re objectifying her. Any time I put on lipstick and nice clothes, I’m objectifying myself. It’s more subtle than what these people are doing, but otherwise it’s the same dynamic." Booth disagrees replying, "Okay, you wearing lipstick, Bones, it’s not like this."
After questioning Thor, B+B have a cute partner moment:
Booth: "What was with all the lying? We’ve got voice tape, and public display of sexual paraphernalia..."
Brennan: "It was role-playing! I was being all ‘lard-ass and good cop.’"
Booth: "Hard-ass and bad cop, Bones. Hard-ass and bad cop."
B+B question the butcher after they knock him down in the alley behind his shop, "Stop! Or I’ll...kick you in the testicles!" But they final arrest Annie Oakley for the murder and head to the diner where Booth looses his appetite:
Booth: "I didn’t lose my appetite because you mentioned horse meat, I lost my appetite because you made me think about all those people parading around, pretending to be something they aren’t, just so they could have crappy sex."
Brennan: "How do you know it’s crappy?"
Booth: "Gotta be, Bones, come on! It’s gotta be!"
Brennan: "Why?"
Booth: "Why? I’ll tell you why. Here we are. All of us are basically alone, separate creatures just circling each other. All searching for that slightest hint of a real connection. Some look in the wrong places. Some, they just give up hope because in their mind they're thinking 'Oh, there's nobody out there for me.' But all of us, we keep trying over, and over again. Why? Because every once in a while, two people meet. And there's that spark. And yes Bones, he's handsome. And she's beautiful. And maybe that's all they see at first...But making love? Making. Love. That's when two people become one." ♥
Brennan: "It is... scientifically impossible for two objects to occupy the same space."
Booth: "Yeah, but what’s important is we try. And when we do it right, we get close. "
Brennan: "To what? Breaking the laws of physics?"
Booth: "Yeah, Bones. A miracle. Those people- role-playing and their fetishes and their little sex games- It’s crappy sex. Well, at least compared to the real thing. "
Brennan: "You’re right. "
Booth: "Yeah, but- Wait a second, I just won that argument?"
Brennan: "Yep!" (they share smiles)
304. Secret in the Soil review plus end scene pic!spam
The episode opens with B+B standing, palm to palm in a therapy session with Dr Sweets. When Booth complains "We agreed to see another therapist, not be action figures for a 12-year-old." Sweets tells the pair, "The FBI is considering severing your partnership." B+B are shocked and agree to complete the questionnaire given to them and "cooperate".
In the SUV Brennan starts to fill in her questionnaire Booth leans over to look and she pulls it away saying, "Don't look on my paper." The next day Booth asks asks what answer she put for number 7 to which Brennan tells him, "We're not supposed to discuss our answers ... Is this how you got through school, Booth?"
B+B discuss organic food as Brennan tells Booth, "You're over-simplifying an enormously complex issue". She tells him, "A researcher at the University of Florida proved that alligators who swim in pesticide contaminated waters have smaller genitalia than their clean-water counterparts." When she zones out briefly Booth tells her, "Hey, Bones, you know we're having a lively discussion here."
At the pineapple place Booth is still annoyed with Sweets, "I bet Sweets was picked that on all through school ... crawny kid like that sees me coming, a former jock, and he's thinking to himself, "Time for a little payback," you know? Make him fill out all those stupid forms. Threatens to take my partner away from me." He suggests Brennan made a bad smell, to which she replies, "He who smelt it, dealt it." Later B+B head to the compost yard where Brennan proclaims, "I'm fine. Agent Booth tends to be squeamish."
Back in therapy B+B await a call about a warrant as Sweets asks, "When you guys argue, how do you come to a resolution?" Brennan replies simply, "We don't argue." but Booth admits, "Fine. We might bicker a little bit, but that's not arguing." Brennan disagrees:
Brennan: "Bicker? I don't bicker."
Booth: "No? What about the whole environmentalism thing?"
Brennan: "That was a discussion."
Booth: "You pretty much told me my penis was going to shrink if I didn't eat organic food."
Brennan: "That's not bickering, that's being a good friend."
Booth: "My penis is just fine, thank you."
As Sweets continues with his therapy B+B watch but don't commit and as the call comes in to say they have the warrant Booth jumps up and says, "Let's boogie, Bones." and leads her from the room.
In the SUV on the way to see Noel the stalker, Angela watches on as B+B bicker about the case:
Angela: "Is it always like this when you two are together?"
Brennan: "Yes!" Booth: "No!" (said simultaneously.)
Angela: "It's kind of hot." (B+B share a look)
In the end B+B solve the case and when they tell Kat she killed her sister, it is Brennan who reaches across the table to comfort the girl, as Booth looks on. Back in therapy they discuss wrapping up the case and when Sweets comments they don't look happy and questions Booth response, Brennan jumps to her partners defence:
Booth: "Sometimes, if you win, you end up with somebody else's pain and screwed-up life. You work for the FBI, you should know that."
Sweets: "Must be a challenge for you to access those feelings."
Brennan: "Okay, stop.(annoyed!) You don't know Booth. You don't know me, you have a limited view of us based on superficial data you've accumulated on a standardized questionnaire, and a subjective analysis from talking to us that is not at all scientific, so back off."
Sweets: "Just trying to help."
Brennan: "By questioning his humanity?"
Booth: "Okay, Bones, now you're going a little bit overboard. He's just a kid. Right? I mean, the worst thing that's probably ever happened to him was he lost at Mortal Kombat."
Sweets: "Are you normally this protective of him, Dr. Brennan?"
Brennan: "We are partners. Our lives depend on being protective of each other."
Sweets: "And you feel the same way, Agent Booth?"
Booth: "Sweets, I can only hope that one day you know what a real partnership is."
Once this has been resolved Sweets goes on to discuss the answers from the questionnaires and what he has discovered about the partners:
Sweets: "You two are very close, that was evident in your superficial, standardized questionnaire and my unscientific observations."
Booth: "Yeah?"
Sweets: "You complement each other."
Booth: "No, she never compliments me. Did you compliment me in the questionnaire?"
Brennan: "Complement," not "compliment." "Ple." He means that we complete each other, as a team."
Booth: "Yeah, right."
Booth looks uncomfortable however Sweets gives them the good news that they can continue to work together so long as they remain in therapy. He comments on their closeness and says he thinks the pair have, "some underlying issues that need to be addressed":
Booth: "Issues?"
Sweets: "Yes. There's clearly a very deep emotional attachment between you two."
Booth: "We're just partners."
Sweets: "And er, why do you think I would have thought otherwise?"
Booth: "'Cause you're 12."
Brennan: "Don't read into anything that Booth said. We're professionals. There's a line that doesn't even need to be there."
Booth: "Not at all, I mean if er .... if there were no more murders, I would probably ... not even ... you know ... see her." (unconvincing)
Brennan: "That's very true."
Booth: "Might have coffee."
Brennan: "Probably not."
Booth: "What?" (he looks at Brennan)
Brennan: "What?" (she looks back)
Booth: "You wouldn't even have coffee with me?" (hurt and now it's as if Sweets isn't there)
Brennan:: "Well, in your scenario we wouldn't even know each other because there are no murders."
Booth: "Were. I said "no more murders."
Brennan: "Then fine. I mean, we could have coffee. So that's clear, then? I mean, we'd have coffee and that's our relationship? Coffee."
Booth: "Yeah, let's move on." ♥
305. Mummy in the Maze review
B+B enter the maze where the mummy was found Booth asks Brennan what she is wearing to the Jeffersonian Halloween Ball. Brennan seems surprised asking Booth, "Are you going this year? " and says she'll be wearing, "What I always wear."
B+B go to the church thrift store where they get into a religious dispute but Booth sides with Brennan. In the SUV later he lets her know he doesn't agree with the pastor's method of "trying to scare kids into Christianity" and they bicker.
At Shoreline Amusement Park, Booth tells Brennan, "Fact, Bones, there are no coincidences in a murder investigation." and at the time she mocks him saying, "You do know the strict definition of a fact, right? It's not the same as a funny feeling." Booth has to deal with a clown as Brennan mock explains to Booth, "The fear of clowns. Coulrophobia. May explain why you shot that clown last year."
When B+B question the grim reaper at the FBI Brennan repeats Booth's words from earlier:, "There are no coincidences in a murder investigation." Booth gets rough with the boy, slapping him and grabbing him by the shoulder. Brennan then slaps him herself. But when she later asks Booth if he is planning to hit Lola too he says, "No, not with a closed fist .. because it leaves a mark" as he leads her, hand on her lower back from his office towards the FBI elevator. The pair get into the elevator as Booth tells Brennan they should split up, "I'll do my street thing, you do your lab thing, all right? Together, we catch bad guys. That's good math."
The next time they see one another they are in fancy dress costume. Brennan walks from her office and asks Booth, "How do I look?" to which he gawps and replies "Good. Wonder-ful. Get it? 'Cause you're Wonder Woman." She asks him what he is meant to be and he confesses he's dressed as "a nerd squint." and they walk towards the main lab area:
Brennan: "That's not what they look or sound like"
Booth: "You mean "we." That's not what 'we' look or sound like"
Brennan: "Okay."
Booth: "You see what I did right there? I corrected you, you know, in character ... as a squint."
As the squints try and locate the missing girl Brennan asks Cam, Booth and Angela to leave and go to the party explaining, "People like us can't work at full capacity with people like you constantly interrupting with irrelevancies." Booth at first refuses to leave, sitting on a chair, arms crossed in a staring competition with Brennan. Brennan stares, hands on her hips, "Booth no!" and after a brief moment he leaves, complaining, "Fine, I'll wait outside. With this chair!" Once located, Brennan goes to find Booth and in the SUV Booth teases Brennan by suggesting they guessed the location:
Booth: "I think you did. I dare you to put that lasso of truth around you."
Brennan: "Now you're being completely irrational. This lasso doesn't actually work. These bracelets aren't actually made of Amazonium. They're stainless steel. They can't stop a bullet."
Booth looks at her incredulously and says, "Okay!"
They arrive at the scene still in costume and Booth shoots out the lock to gain access to the vent. Brennan takes out a gun prompting Booth to ask, "Okay, where did you even find a place to carry that?" as they approach what appears to be a locked gate she asks, "Look, could I please shoot this one?" but Booth kicks open the gate. When Brennan uses her gun to blow the padlock out on the room containing the missing girl the bullet ricochets and hits Booth in the leg, "You shot me! Damn it! I said no! Don't shoot! No!" Apologising, Brennan screams and jumps on top of a crate away from the snakes. Booth moves to her, "Just get on my back." and carries her, piggy back style into the room. The girl screams when the murderer enters wearing a clown mask. Brennan turns to shoot at the murderer and the force from her weapon causes Booth to fall and drop her, banging her head. Booth goes after the killer, but only after switching weapons with Brennan who finally admits, "My gun is too big for me" and shoots him.
Back at the Jeff' once the case is closed Booth and Brennan enter and sit on the steps to the forensic platform and discuss whether to go the party:
Brennan: "We could be Wonder Woman and...what's Superman's secret identity?"
Booth: "Clark Kent." (puts on his glasses)
Brennan: "Yes. We could be Wonder Woman and Clark Kent after a really, really bad date"
Booth: "Yeah, bad date because you shot me."
Brennan: "It was only a flesh wound. And you dropped me on my head!"
Booth: "After you shot me! Okay, I think I got you on this one. Okay, Wonder Woman?"
Brennan: "I'm sorry you had to kill someone. I know you hate that."
Booth: "Yeah, he had it coming."
Brennan: "You hate it. I'm sorry that happened to you."
Booth: "We saved the girl. That's a pretty good date."
Brennan: "Except not really a date."
Booth: "I know. It was..."
Brennan: "work. Not a date."
Booth: "Really, really hard work."
Brennan: "And we're not really Wonder Woman and Clark Kent. We're Brennan and Booth."
Booth: "Look, you're the one who brought up the date analogy."
Brennan: "You hungry?"
Booth: "Yeah."
Brennan: "Me, too."
Booth: "Okay, let's go grab a bite to eat."
Booth heads towards the door and Brennan stops and begins to spin around and around in a circle.
Booth: "What the hell are you doing?"
Brennan: "Nothing."
She stops spinning, raises her armbands and follows Booth from the Jeff'.
306. Intern in the Incinerator review
Booth is very cop-like this episode except when Cam asks him to attend her father birthday party as her pretend date. Although Brennan doesn't find out about this (or the fact Cam's sister kissed Booth) she does raise an eye brow when Cam mentions having had dinner with Booth.
Brennan tells the victims father she was murdered and then admits to Booth it was an unpleasant experience. Booth tries to convince Brennan that the murder is not related to the Gormogon serial killer. As they walk along the balcony they see a body fall past the window - B+B pull up in a little car to find Zack and Hodgins dropped a dummy.
When Booth asks Brennan to interrogate Aldrige she asks:
Brennan: "Why do you want me to interrogate Aldrige?"
Booth: "Because he thinks I’m stupid."
Brennan: "You’re not!" (he opens the door for her)
Booth: "Thanks, Bones, I know. Listen, during the interrogation, always refer to the victim by her first name."
Brennan: "Well, you’re the one that told me that personalizing the victim doesn’t work with sociopathic serial killers. They lack all empathy. (Poking Booth) You told me that!"
Booth: "We are not looking for gorgonzola today!"
Brennan: "Gormogon. Gor-mo-gon."
Booth: "We’re looking for someone who murdered one girl and tossed her down an incinerator chute. Entirely different kind of a guy, so, inside." (shooing her into the interrogation room)
Brennan: "Don’t .. tell me .. Don’t .." (she points at Booth and tries to resist) "You are not bossing me" (smacks his hand) "Stop it."
She finally enters the room and Booth goes to the viewing room.
When Hodgins and Brennan cannot access the logs of the items authenticated by the victim, Booth logs in successfully admitting he has Cam's password:
Booth: (taps Brennan on the shoulder) "I know your password too. It’s daffodil."
Brennan: "I never told you that!"
Booth: "What? I got eyes. I mean you guys aren’t exactly CIA material."
Brennan is surprised that Booth knows her password and goes to change it.
Booth: "Daisy?"
Brennan: "How did you know?"
Booth: "It’s your second favorite flower. I know you Bones. Try a planet .... Jupiter!"
Hodgins laughs as he watches their interaction.
When B+B go on their stake out Booth asks Brennan, "Come on, I mean, it’s a stake out. Play with me. Speculate."
After they uncover the murderer and solve the case B+B drink in Booth's office. Booth tells Brennan, "What you’re taking hard is, uh, the fact that it happened in your house ... Not where you sleep! Okay, you’re favorite place, the house of reason, the Jeffersonian." Brennan tries to argue saying, "It’s not my favorite place." But Booth continues saying that he knows her:
Booth: "Daffodil. Daisy. Jupiter." (pours more shots) "Okay, I’ll tell you what else I know," (they toast) "you were hoping that it was gorgonzola." (they take the shots)
Brennan: "Gormogon."
Booth explains:
Booth: "You were all offended that it was one of you."
Brennan: "You know what? I am offended."
Booth: "I just said that." (pours another shot)
Brennan: "I’m offended! Because ..." (pause) " ...because"
Booth: "Because you were betrayed by one of your own."
Brennan: "Yes. ... Are you going to betray me?"
Booth: "No." (they toast)
Brennan: "Nonetheless, I shall be vigilant."(they take the shots)
Booth: "Nonetheless”?(they laugh and he pours more)
Brennan: "I’m not gonna have a headache tomorrow, am I?"
Booth: "Well, we’re gonna find out. Hodgins and Zack, they do their experiments. We do ours. (they toast) To Gorgonzola."
Brennan: "Gormogon."
They take the shots, sit the cups down and before Brennan can crush hers, it falls of the table, "You missed." (laughs)
307. Boy in the Time Capsule review
Booth talks about his football trophies as B+B approach the crime scene and Brennan surmises that Booth was, "One of those guys." As they travel in the SUV Booth asks Brennan, "What sort of teenager were you Bones?" Brennan responds by telling him about Andy Fluger, the Varsity Lacrosse captain. (Interesting that the character in her books is called Andy!) Booth asks if she kissed Andy and Brennan explains to Booth, "I was weighing the pros and cons when he became my secret Santa ... he taped the gift to my locker. Everyone saw it. Teenagers can be cruel ... It was a Brainy Smurf." Booth laughs even though he promised not too and Brennan is annoyed. She brings it up in their next therapy session with Sweets ... this in turn annoys Booth who tries to defend himself:
Booth: "I was appreciating it. Don't get him involved."
Brennan: "Snorting does not suggest appreciation."
Booth: "It was about a cartoon character from the 1980's! I didn't think you'd be so sensitive."
As they discuss the issue of trust Sweets suggests, "Perhaps a way to bring this relationship back into symmetry is if you reveal a childhood story about yourself. Show your vulnerability to Dr. Brennan." And so Booth spends the rest of the episode trying to come up with an embarrassing story from his school days to share with Brennan.
As B+B make coffee at the FBI Booth tells how he stripped naked under the bleachers and was left "in my socks and my St. Christopher medal." Brennan is unimpressed with Booth's story, telling him, "this is a story about sexual prowess, Booth. You're bragging." Brennan than admits to Booth just how private her Brainy Smurf story was when she compares their stories, "You enjoyed displaying your penis. It showed alpha male mastery. Only one other person knew about Brainy Smurf. It was my mother."
As Sweets visits the Jeff' fulfilling Booth's request to have him profile for them he tells Brennan, "I'm afraid Agent Booth's report on Mr. Adamson is more revealing of Agent Booth than it is of Adamson." And Brennan is immediately interested, "Really? Why!" Of course Sweets won't answer. When Hodgins comes in to discuss his discovery with Brennan she asks Jack, "Dr. Hodgins, do boys change after high school?"
Booth's second attempt at an embarrassing story is told as B+B approach the house of Janelle Brown. He tells how he went on the loud speaker to ask Sharay Bellapini to prom. Even when Booth tells Brennan everyone laughed at him she is still unimpressed telling him, "Okay, this is merely another story of victory and sexual conquest."
Brennan defends Booth to Dr Sweets in her office telling Sweets, "Agent Booth is an incredibly good listener." :)
It is not until the closing scene that Brennan forgives Booth for laughing at her story. First Booth admits he didn't know what a Philistine was telling a kid, "Look, I'm not Philistine. I'm Catholic." When Brennan giggles he admits that's not the humiliating story. He continues to tell her about his buddies hanging a guy over the balcony and feeling bad that he didn't step in. Brennan asks, "So you were humiliated because you didn't act like a hero?" Brennan notices Booth has something in his hand:
Brennan: "What is that?"
Booth: "Nothing." (crosses his arms and hides it from her)
Brennan: "Well, you evolved. And evolution is very impressive and that is definitely not nothing."
Booth: "This?"(holding up Brainy Smurf)
Brennan: "Did you bring that for me?"
Booth: "No."
Brennan: "Good, because it's the wrong Smurf. I liked Smurfette. That's Brainy Smurf."
Booth: "Well, Smurfette was a stupid, shallow Smurf who only had her looks. Look, you're better than Smurfette. You have your looks and a whole lot more."
Brennan tells Booth she is impressed by his story and corrects his statement that: "Evolution is a long, long process. It takes hundreds of years." telling him she corrects him "To help you evolve."
Booth smiles, Brennan smiles back at him and shakes her head.
308. The Knight on the Grid review
Booth calls Cam to the crime scene and Cam tells him, "Dr Brennan looked a little hurt when you asked me to come out here instead of her" Booth says Bones' feelings "don't get hurt" cos she's not "a girl" like Cam.
When the kneecaps are mailed to Brennan Booth suggests, "you are going to you know stay with a friend, check into a hotel right?" When she refuses he brings in Cam:
Booth: "Cam, she goes nowhere alone."
Brennan: "Cam, don’t listen to him."
Booth: "Cam, Who are you more afraid of, me or her?"
Brennan: "Booth!"
Cam: "Whoa! So this is what it’s like to be a kindergarten teacher."
Sweets walks in to hear their bickering and comments on their "Fascinating interpersonal interaction."
After visiting the vault Booth picks up on Brennan's mood and asks her, "Ok, what's the matter?" She confides in Booth, telling him about the visit from Amy. As Zack approaches they discuss the case and Booth says he is bringing in Sweets on the Gormogon case. Brennan "dismisses" Zack much to Booth amusement! Later Brennan seems annoyed when she discovers Booth has given Sweets the Gormogon case file.
When Russ arrives at Booth office, Booth arrests Russ but one look from Brennan and Booth takes Russ to the hospital. As B+B look on from the doorway Brennan turns to Booth:
Brennan: "Thank you, Booth."
Booth: "Oh, this never happened. Don’t thank me. As far as the bureau is concerned I
caught him here, fifteen minutes from now."
She leans up and kisses Booth on the cheek.
Brennan: "Thank you. Booth."
Booth: "Just don’t tell anyone."
Brennan attaches the knee caps and they go to move the skeleton. In the taxi cab a motorcycle overtakes B+B and drops a bag. Booth yells for Brennan to "Get down!" and places a hand over her as he reverses the taxi. The bag explodes and the car flips over leaving B+B injured. Protective!Booth climbs from through the window and pulls Brennan out of the car, sitting her on the pavement. After his immediate concern Booth begins to argue with Brennan that their cover was blown because of her "bad acting ... you were loud! That’s what they call overacting." They realise that Gormogon was trying to kill them and find a tooth in the wound in Brennan's arm, "He was trying to kill us because - we know his next target. The corrupter. That lobbyist." Booth races off to rescue the lobbyist telling Brennan, "Stay right there!"
Protective!Booth returns at the nursing home when the original Gormogon master snarls at Brennan causing her to step back in fright. He holds onto Brennan, pulling her away.
At the courthouse Brennan realises Booth has turned in a few favours for Russ. Brennan thanks Booth (Caroline smacks him!) and tells Amy to do the same. Booth meanwhile denies any involvement, "I didn’t do anything" and tells Russ, "You run again? You disappoint that woman and her kids and you break your sister's heart, I will ... "
309. Santa in the Slush review
In the SUV Booth tells Brennan "You got that sad little girl look on your face after you've been with your dad." She says her father wants to spend Christmas with the family whilst Booth is sad that he isn't getting to spend Christmas with Parker. He suggests Brennan "Pull a few strings" for her father but she tells Booth she is going to Peru anyway to which he replies with the same words used by her father, "skeletons and Christmas do not mix."
Back at the lab Brennan returns from visiting her Dad to find Booth asleep on her sofa. They again discuss the magic of Christmas and "making the impossible happen"
In the street, Booth grabs Brennan to stop her walking out in front of a car and yells, "Watch out." She consoles Booth saying, "I'm sorry you can't be with Parker, Booth." and tells him Rebecca is being unfair taking Parker away. Inside the apartment they bicker in front of the landlord repeatedly, arguing about the "Santa myth."
B+B sulk as Booth drives:
Brennan:: "Thinking of Parker?"
Booth: "No. Thinking about your dad?"
Brennan: "No."
Brennan finally admits she is thinking about Russ and the fact he is lying to the girls. She compares him to Booth saying, "He's living a lie. You'd never do that." Booth tells her he lies to Parker at Christmas time, "kids deserve to live a different kind of truth." He suggests she come up with a lie as to why Russ is at the jail and plan family Christmas.
At the diner Brennan eats at the counter whilst Booth and Parker eat at a table.
Brennan goes to ask Caroline for help arranging the trailer and she agrees to do it if Brennan kisses Booth for five steamboats, on the lips. At the lab, Brennan puts up mistletoe and informs Booth of Caroline's puckish side:
Brennan: "Listen, Booth! She's going to be here any second. Do you want some gum?"
Booth: " No, my breath is just fine. Alright, look. I'll have a - talk with Caroline."
Brennan: "No."
Booth: "No?"
Caroline arrives and pushes Booth under the mistletoe with Brennan. The partners kiss for five steamboats as Caroline looks on, somewhat stunned. Booth wanders off leaving Brennan at her desk.
At the diner Sweets discovers B+B have kissed:
Brennan: "I have a crisis."
Booth: "Bones, it was just mistletoe."
Brennan: "Not the kiss. That was nothing."
Sweets: "You kissed?"
Booth: "Mistletoe."
Brennan: "That’s not the crisis."
Sweets: "Was there tongue?"
Booth: "Alright, you know what? Get your own sex life, alright Sweets."
Brennan: "Well, that has nothing to do with sex."
Booth: "Nothing."
Brennan: "No."
Booth: "There was no se- it was - mistletoe."
Brennan: "Totally sex less."
Sweets explains to Brennan that it's okay to lie to children at Christmas. B+B sit very close together and she continues to briefly mock Booth and his love for Christmas and even his religious beliefs:
Sweets: "Yeah, there’s a fictional element to Christmas."
Brennan: "You mean the whole ‘birth of a Savior’ rigmarole?"
Booth: "It is NOT rigmarole."
Once the case is solved Booth takes Parker to the prison and calls Brennan to tell her he has her present. When she looks out of the window she sees that Booth has hooked up a Christmas tree to his car:
Brennan: "I love my gift Booth"
Booth: "Merry Christmas Bones.
310. The Man In The Mud review
B+B at the crime scene bicker a little as they gather evidence and Booth corrects her after she says "serious as a gas attack"
In therapy Booth gets embarrassed when Brennan says the word "anus". Sweets suggests B+B never discuss anything other than work, "would it be fair to say that you use work to avoid confronting personal issues?" At first they disagree but then Brennan admits "Sweets could be right; I mean, we talk a lot about work." They say they talk about Parker and Max but Sweets says they are still work related:
Booth: "Mm...okay, what are you trying to get at here?"
Sweets: "Your inability to share your personal lives. I thought that was obvious."
Booth: "Okay, that was snotty. I don't respond well to snotty."
Brennan: (laying a hand on Booth's arm) "After a case, sometimes, we have a drink, or coffee, Booth has pie. I don't...like pie."
Booth: "Aw...you really should just give it a chance."
Brennan: "I find it too sweet."
Booth: "Okay, there. We talked about pie. Nothin' to do with work."
Sweets ask B+B to go out for an evening with him and his girlfriend.
When B+B interview Danny he asks Brennan out:
Booth: "Nah, she doesn't wanna go out with you."
Brennan: "Let me speak for myself!"
In the next therapy session Booth gets agitated because Sweets isn't talking. When Sweets asks why it is Brennan who replies,
Brennan: "He gets bored!"
Booth: "You're right, I do, I get bored."
Brennan: "You should see him on stakeouts; he talks and talks and ..."
Sweets: "Is it always about work?"
When Brennan says no Sweets suggests she is lying to cover for her partner.
Sweets asks Booth what is bothering him and he admits, "It's this whole...going on a date thing." When Brennan pulls focus from Booth Sweets suggest B+B planned their 'session'.
At the ceramics class Booth makes a horse and Brennan makes a pot as April talks about fish and their souls. When April and Lance start to fight Booth throws some of the clay at Brennan which triggers a mini battle.
They discuss their "date" in the car the next morning and Brennan tells Booth he is being "distasteful." They then discuss the case agreeing "no changies .. no take backs .."
Later when April visits Brennan at the Jeff' she tells her, "Booth and I are not blue fish" Finally, B+B share coffee at the Jeff' after the case and when Sweets arrives they invite him to join them ten pin bowling.
311. Player Under Pressure review
Booth mocks Brennan when hearing only 4 students turned up to her lecture on campus. Brennan is surprised to learn Booth was a jock when he tells her "last time I was under the bleachers, I was, uh, getting ready to smoke a cigarette and make out with Vanessa Taylor." Brennan tells Booth that, "anthropologically speaking, sports are a way for boys to practice their battle skills ... The truth is athletes are basically emotionally arrested in boyhood, acting out childish games as if they have adult importance. The only thing more juvenile are grown adults who watch sports." This annoys Booth who tells her, "I’m a little irritated with you. Just leave me alone long enough so I can get over it? She asks why he's irritated and says, "I love sports. I watch sports. You know, I’m all about sports. You know? "
Booth remains annoyed with Bones though out the case and it's not until they found the murderer that she explains, "I never meant you ... You don’t play at being a warrior. You are a warrior. Every day. You’re definitely ... a fully developed man." She also suggests Booth was "lying when you said you treated women like that beneath the bleachers ... because you still remember that first girl’s name."
312. Baby in the Bough review
B+B discuss money and Brennan admits she is getting a seven figure advance on her next book. They find a baby at the crime scene:
Booth: "Oh, look at him, Bones. He looks a little fussy there. Why don’t you pick him up and give him a cuddle? "
Brennan: "What? Just because I have breasts doesn’t mean that I have magical powers over infants. You’re the one with the son. "
B+B go to change the nappy, "We’ll work together on this one ... Changin’ Diapers 101." Brennan finds a key in the diaper bag only to have the baby swallow it and Booth calls her crazy, "That key was evidence. You know how chain of custody works. That kid stays with us until we get the key back." And so B+B spend the episode with a baby.
Brennan is a registered foster parent (at Russ's request) and takes the baby. Booth tells her, "You know, you look very mom-like with that baby monitor." and is surprised to here she has bought clothes and toys. When the baby cries they bicker over who will go to him:
Booth: "Are you gonna get him?"
Brennan: "I figured you’d get him."
Booth: "Don’t you have a “responsibility under state law”?"
Brennan: "But you’re the baby daddy."
Booth: "Baby daddy?!"
Brennan: "You have prior experience with pre-verbal infancy."
Booth: "You can be the daddy mommy."
Angela winds up getting the baby telling B+B, "Okay, you two had better get your act together or I’m suing for custody."
B+B head to the town where the victim was from and find her trailer door open. Booth tells Brennan to stay in the car with the baby, "If you hear gunfire, anything like that, drive away." Brennan protests telling Booth, "Bu ... I’m not leaving you." Booth makes her promise she will drive away if there is any trouble. She is not happy about it but finally says, "I promise."
When the squints discover the victim has chronic back pain but took no pain meds Booth says it was "probably because she didn’t want it affecting her, you know, her supply." Brennan mocks him for being unable to say the word breasts. "Would teat make you more comfortable?" And when Andy finally poops out the key Booth is read to hand him over to state police but Brennan refuses to leave him in the sticks and pleads with Booth. He of course agrees to keep the baby with them.
When Cam tells them his condition is not serious Booth smiles at Brennan, "Looks like our little guy’s going to be just fine" he then corrects himself, ... the little guy ..." They give Andy to his new parents and sit talking in the back of the SUV. Brennan tells Booth she is going to rebuild the bridge and he suggests she build a house in the town, "What? I’m just saying. Andy’s going to miss his Auntie Bones. He’s going to want to see you. We could all go fishing, come back home, plop ourselves in front of that one hundred and three inch plasma screen of *heaven* and *football* and you can make the *five layer* dip." As Booth talks about there imaginary future, Brennan sticks the dummy into his mouth.
313. Verdict in the Story review
Caroline shows up at a crime scene to tell B+B, "Dr. Brennan is suspended from all crime-related duties ... We have a date for your father’s murder trial. Booth is the arresting officer. You can’t work together until it’s over." Both B+B defend this:
Brennan: "This is not necessary."
Booth: "They don’t need to separate us."
Brennan: "I’m very compartmentalized."
Booth: "Very compartmentalized."
The pair look at one another, unsure what to do and Booth says simply, "Well this sucks!"
B+B meet Sweets at the diner and tell him, "there’s no use in doing partners’ therapy when we aren’t partners."
In court during the trial Booth and Brennan sit on different sides of the court room. However, they whisper across the aisle on multiple occasions. Their conversations do not go unnoticed by the judge who finally moves them further apart by asking them to switch seats with Cam and Russ. Booth continues to steal looks across at Brennan to see how she is doing during the trial and when Clarke's evidence causes the judge to say the trial might be thrown out of court Booth grins at Bones.
During recess Booth takes Brennan coffee before he has to go on the stand and guiltily tells her to, "remember I’m the one who gave you this delicious coffee ... Because I’m the first prosecution witness against your father."
Later it is Brennan who brings coffee to Booth saying "Psst." and the pair sit on a bench outside the courthouse. Sweets approaches with a proposal, "I’m writing a book. Taking a clinical approach to efficacy and focused outcomes. You shouldn’t work well together, but you do. I’d like to study it further ... Okay, see. That thing you do when you talk to each other while excluding the third party, namely me, its an adaptive mechanism for, uh, disparate entities to bond together against their own individual impetuses to dissociate." B+B agree to let Sweets "study" in exchange for "psychological profiling on demand." But they also mock Sweets saying, "You like us!"
Booth takes Zack to Brennan's to find the murder weapon and asks, "How ya doing there, Bones?" They sit and she admits to him that when she thought her father might get off she liked the idea. She is confused by this and looks to Booth to explain:
Brennan: "What I do - what we do is put murders like him away."
Booth: "Okay. You're not Dr. Brennan today. You're Temperance."
Brennan: "I don't know what that means."
Booth: "The scientist part of you got sidelined, temporarily."
Brennan: "I still don't know what that means."
Booth: "Bones, just, take the brain, okay, put it in neutral. Alright? Take the heart - pop it into overdrive."
Booth imitates revving a car engine and Brennan laughs.
Brennan: "Sometimes I think you're from another planet."
Booth smiles and leans forward looking at Brennan who looks back at him.
Brennan: "And sometimes I think you're really very nice."
They gaze at one another but Zack interrupts having found the weapon.
When the defence need a bogey man Brennan asks Booth to meet her at the diner:
Brennan: "I have a way to lodge reasonable doubt in the jury."
Booth: "We can't talk about this."
Brennan: "Please? You're the person I talk to about things like this."
Booth concedes, telling her the jury are the human element and that it's okay so long as "No perjury involved. Just an interpretation of existing facts." When she asks if it's okay to take advantage of the jury Booth tells her, "Brain and heart, Bones. Brain and heart." He also reminds her, "You don't know that he did it, you know, your old man ... not the way that you define “know”. You know, with proof and all that"
And so with Booth on the stand she makes herself the bogeyman by implying she could have murdered Deputy Director Kirby. Booth seems stunned and once he has answered all the questions posed by the defence he adds, "Bones was with me all day ... Forty five minutes we were apart, but we talked on the phone." Asked if she had time to kill Kirby, Booth doesn't answer and stares at Brennan across the courtroom until he is prompted by the judge, "The witness will answer the question." - his only response is directed at Bones - "That's a lot of heart, Bones.". When asked again for an answer Booth finally speaks, "Could Bones have killed Kirby? Temperance Brennan - I've worked with this woman. I've stood over death with her, I've faced down death with her. And Sweets, he's brilliant, he is, but he's wrong. She could not have done this." However, he finally has to admit, "Yes, she had time."
As the verdict is about to be given Booth realises Brennan is not in the courtroom and heads outside to find her. She is standing on the steps and he walks down and takes her into his arms in a hug. Her father is a free man and she hugs him whilst looking towards Booth who looks on smiling.
314. The Wannabe in the Weeds review
At the crime scene Booth suffers with allergies causing Brennan to ask, "How does a former sniper have a grass allergy? I mean, wouldn't a sneeze give away your position?" but Booth explains, "Bones, okay, I worked in the desert. Sand, no grass."
When B+B go to the victims house and there is no answer next door Brennan eagerly tells Booth, "Hey! Break down the door!" but he refuses saying, "It hurts my shoulder when I break down the door." - which makes sense since he told her in Player Under Pressure that it was a shoulder injury that stopped him playing basketball. Inside they question the neighbour and when mentioning sex Booth won't say the words he claps his hands and it is Brennan who asks "Did they have sexual intercourse? Why are you clapping?"
At the gym Brennan swats Booth teasingly, "You are ogling that woman!" Later when interviewing Pam, Pam suggests Brennan is thin and she appears self confident, immediately asking Booth for reassurance, "D-do I look like a scarecrow?"
B+B go to the Checkerbox and then to the diner where they discuss the singers. Brennan compares the singers innate need to stand out to Booth's days as a ranger, "You were the best sniper when you were in the army! ... And that set you apart from the others." She explains the singers:
Brennan: " ... have the power and prestige. You enjoy it because you are a superb agent."
Booth: "You think?"
Brennan: "Yes, of course. Since I am the best in my field, it would be self destructive for me to work with someone who's beneath me."
Booth: "Oh. Okay. Well that's good. 'Cause, um, you know, I have to be honest here. Sometimes I think that you think you're better than me."
Brennan: "Well, objectively, I am more intelligent.."
Booth: "There you go..."
Brennan: "In certain areas, and in others... I understand my limitations, and I... admire your expertise."
Booth: "Huh. You admire me?"
Brennan: "In certain areas of expertise."
Booth: "Well, I admire your expertise. You have a whole... science thing."
After Pam calls and asks to meet Booth alone she is annoyed and Booth explains Pam wants to meet him alone, "Probably because you make her feel uncomfortable ... Well because... You're you. You're a well adjusted woman."
One the case is solved Booth arranges for Brennan to sing at the Checkerbox. He pushes her towards the stage as Sweets tells her, "This opportunity is a gift from Agent Booth." Brennan steps up on stage and sings as Booth proudly watches on. Pam calls out from the back of the bar, "Seeley!" but before Booth has time to pull his gun, Pam shoots and Booth takes the bullet meant for Brennan. He falls to the floor and Brennan is immediately above him. She looks back at Pam realising she still has a gun and lifts Booth's weapon, shooting Pam in the throat before turning her attention back to Booth. Holding his hand and looking into his eyes she repeats, "Booth, you're going to be fine. I'm right here. God. You're gonna do this. You're gonna be fine. You're going to make this .. No, come on Booth... COME ON BOOTH!"
315. The Pain in the Heart review
Brennan is working as the squints come to tell her it's time for Booth funeral. She says she won't go until Angela begs her to:
Sweets: "It's Agent Booth's funeral, Dr. Brennan. Losing a loved one is -"
Brennan: "A partner, Sweets. I lost a partner."
At the funeral Brennan looks uncomfortable and when Caroline asks God to have mercy on Booth Brennan says, "If there were a merciful God, why wouldn't he have saved Booth."
When Booth jumps out from the line of officers Brennan jumps to his aid and knocks out the man. She then turns to face Booth and with an angry look on her face and punches him in the jaw, knocking him to the ground. Booth looks stunned.
Back at the lab Booth tries to explain what has happened to Brennan:
Booth: "After I got shot, the Bureau faked my death so I could finally get that guy."
Brennan: "I don't care ... I knew I shouldn't have gone to that funeral. It was a complete waste of time, just like I said."
Booth: (hurt) "Wait a second, you thought that my funeral was a waste of time?"
Booth continues to plead his case:
Booth: "Bones, I'm telling you. You were supposed to know that I wasn't really dead. I swear! That's why I thought you weren't crying! ... I gave a list of people to the bureau to inform that I was not really dead. You know, if they didn't tell you, it's not my fault."
Sweets: "Dr. Brennan's actually upset because she had to face strong emotions that she'd rather deny. Striking Agent Booth, indicated the depth of your feelings for him. It was a very passionate act."
Booth: (to Sweets) "Thank you!" (to Brennan) "Did you hear that? Passion!"
Brennan: "Yes, passion, because anger is a passion! Anger at being manipulated!"
Brennan later shows up at Booth's place, breaking in (using the spare key) and storming into his bathroom where she finds Booth wearing a beer hat and reading a graphic novel. She yells at him and Booth is annoyed, "I already explained this to you. The bureau has to vet everyone when there is a security issue. I was just following protocol." but Brennan won't accept his reasoning telling him, "Well, you could have called me. Did you really think I needed to be vetted by your boss? I mean, don't you trust me?" She continues, "We've been partners for three years, Booth, and you've broken protocol before - sometimes putting my life in danger. Which makes sense because you clearly don't have any real concern for me." Booth gets angry and stands up yelling, "I took a bullet for you!" As Booth stands naked in front of Brennan both pause and take a breath. Brennan offers him a towel which he refuses before sitting back down. Booth agrees to find out why Brennan was not told about his fake death and promises to tell her next time he fake dies. Brennan leaves but only after telling Booth, "Just so you know, I find your lack of Puritan modesty very refreshing."
In the Gormogon vault Brennan comments that, "for all we know, Gormogon is dead and we're not on the list of people who get to find that out." This immediately grabs Sweets attention and Booth tells him about Brennan's visit to his apartment the previous night. When Booth discovers it was Sweets who got the list and did not tell Brennan he drags Sweets to her office and tell her to "Slug him!" When Brennan accepts Sweets' rational Booth is confused:
Booth: "Woah. Wait a minute. Now why are you mad at me then?"
Brennan: "Because you should have told me, personally."
Booth: "Oh, I should have just ignored National Security concerns, broken the law and told you."
Brennan: "Yes. You know I'm very trustworthy."
Booth is unhappy with the logic and suggests something else is going on. This leads them to discuss pie:
Booth: "Come on! I mean, when I offer her a piece of pie you say it has deeper meaning."
Brennan: "I don't like pie, Booth."
Booth: "Well, apple pie. She doesn't like baked pie."
As Booth leaves Sweets smiles and comments, "You know, I think it's interesting, psychologically how Agent Booth's constant efforts to persuade you to enjoy fruit pie could be interpreted as a kind of seduction."
Although Brennan sided with Sweets in front of Booth she challenges him when Booth is out of earshot, "You experimented on us ... Not telling me Booth was alive? You wanted to quantify our reactions for your own research? You took advantage of us. Booth and I agreed to let you observe us. We did not agree to be used as lab rats, so you better cut it out ... if Booth hears why you did what you did? He'd beat ya up ... So you better not do it again."
B+B have coffee at the diner - Booth does not have pie. Sweets suggests Hodgins is Gormogon's apprentice and Brennan asks why, saying it could just as easily be her:
Sweets: "You have a reverence for life that belies the cold, calculations of a killer. And the emotional connection you share with Agent Booth ..."
Brennan: "No. That ... I -" (she starts getting up) "I don't have time for this. No." (she leaves)
Booth: "Don't you know by now you can't rush her?" (Booth rushes after Bones)
When Brennan realises Zack is Gormogon's apprentice Booth gives her time at the hospital to talk it out with him before asking for a name. Later as the squints looks through the box of Zack's favourite things Brennan gets upset, saying"I never gave him anything" and leaving the room to sit on the stairs. Booth stops Angela and goes after her himself holding a letter which he reads to her:
Booth: "“Dear Mr. Addy. It is my pleasure to offer you the post of my intern in Forensic Anthropology. I choose you from hundreds of applicants because of your knowledge, your desire to learn and because I feel you will find a home here.” (he sets the letter in the envelope) I think you gave him something great, Bones."
He gives her the letter and she leans her head against his shoulder.