Season 4 - Booth and Brennan Moments (Part 2)
Continuing from Part One of my B+B Season 4 moments .....
414. Hero In The Hold
Brennan calls Booth to ensure he is on his way to her award ceremony. He isn't but tells her Don’t worry, I will be there when they crown you super scientist ..." and checks his reflection in the mirror whilst suggesting, "I bet you are looking beautiful ..."
Brennan looks distressed when she receives a call saying the gravedigger has Booth. She is angry when they realise Jack has stolen evidence putting Booth's life is in danger. And later, she tells Hodgins they can't try and solve the case because they don't have time and because, "We don't have Booth to help."
Brennan tells Angela "I don't love Booth" with Angela who tells her they all love Booth and Brennan silently agrees by placing the evidence on the boundary stone.
Teddy asks Booth about his partner, "Yeah ... Um ... we’re uh ... you would have ... you’d like her. She’s ..." Later they talking about not telling people you loved them and Teddy thinks, "So maybe that’s why I’m here. To get you to say “I love you” to somebody."
Brennan asks Jared to steal a body from FBI storage which the squints analyse to try and find out where Booth is being held, telling him, "You are a selfish coward and you never deserved him.". Her anger again boils over when they learn Booth's location and she whacks the gravedigger with a case before taking the helicopter to rescue Booth and giving him into a tight hug.
We learn from them talking that she collected him from the hospital. She also accompanies him to the cemetery the next day to visit the grave of his friend Teddy who he confesses helped him escape, Booth calls him a ghost. She hands Booth a new Cocky belt buckle and he smiles. Booth tells her, "Corporal Edward Parker. He was slain while serving his country. (pauses) He was 20. He was just a kid." Brennan seems to understand Booth feels guilt for this but asks gently, "Was it ... your fault that he died?" He tells her no and then leaves Brennan amazed that he is about to give a woman a message from a ghost.
415. Princess in the Pear
Brennan arrives at Booth's place - it appears he asked her to come over before they head to the crime scene - to find him in his shirt and boxer shorts and with back pain, "Look, I figured you fixed my back last time, really well, and I just thought that maybe you could fix it again, so use your little magic knuckles, and hit it up, and we're good to go." Brennan refuses telling him he should seek help for what seems to be a recurring injury. He pleads with his best charm smile, "I'm not asking you to perform surgery; just do what you did last time and fix it with your magic knuckles ... Look, there's no one I trust more to get my back and crack it, than *you*. " and she finally gives in telling him, "that was effective. Turn around." She further injures his back - telling Angela and Cam (as she enters the Jeff') that he has a suspected "herniated disc ... The vicodin seems to be working. He claims it makes the furniture feel friendly. But he'll be on bed rest for the remainder of the week." So Agent Perotta is to stand on on the case and Brennan compares and complains she is different to Booth a number of times starting with, "Booth usually waits for me to conduct my own examination of the scene." and then telling Angela "I like working with Booth. I'm nice to him."
When B+B talk on the phone Brennan asks how his back is doing. The calls ends up as a conference call when Booth accidentally adds Perotta and Perotta has to listen to B+B bicker over whether or not Booth should be allowed to come in and question a suspect.
When Brennan is asked by Agent Perotta to watch the video feed of the auction with her, rather than be happy to be involved in the case she asks, "Is there a special reason why you wanted me here, Agent Perotta?"
After the car crash B+B again talk on the phone this time Booth asking if Brennan is okay. Booth, still in pain, is determined to get back to work to protect Brennan and ends up asking to speak to Perotta telling her, "The only reason that I'm not coming in right now is because Bones told me not to. But she is your responsibility. Nothing can happen to her, okay? If anything happens to her, you know, that silky black hair and ... that soft skin..." True to her word Perotta tells Brennan, "Please don't go out in the field without me." to which Brennan replies, "I don't need a sitter. Booth gets needlessly protective sometimes. I have no idea why." Perotta, amused answers, "You really don't, do you?"
At Booth's apartment Brennan tells Booth about the case as she looks over his back x-rays. Brennan proclaims she is glad the age of chivalry and knights and maidens is past, but Booth confesses, "I gotta tell you, I think they had it pretty good idea with the whole chivalry thing, you know, open cart doors, kill dragons, small hearts ... " When Brennan tells him he has a simple misalignment which she can fix Booth is sceptical, "Let’s not make it about trust!" but lets her fix his back - which she does as Agent Perotta walks in and there is a seemingly awkward moment, where Booth has two women in his apartment taking care of him whilst he is off work - both of them leave.
416. The Bones That Foam
As B+B walk over the rocks Brennan almost falls and Booth, concerned says, "Watch yourself." Booth suggests seeing a dead body may "put a crimp in their wedding night ... coming face to face with death like that, kind of kills the desire don't you think." Brennan dismisses this notion saying, "I work with remains every day but if I'm sexually attracted to someone I'm perfectly capable of engaging in spirit ... " Booth interrupts her before she can finish her sentence. After deciding to take the remains to the Jeff' Booth goes to high five Brennan but she stops as she is wearing gloves.
Cam suggests to Brennan that she join Booth in the field as she gets impatient when the Bones are contained due to the foam. As they arrive to the car showroom to question the victim's brother Brennan tells Booth, "You need to stop using cartoons as a scientific reference." Once inside Brennan seems annoyed when Booth growls at the sales girl:
Booth: "What? She rawred me first."
Brennan: "Doesn't mean you have to rawr her back."
Speaking to the brother Brennan asks Booth "What's a sensitive way to murdered?"
B+B question several more suspects and at another car showroom Brennan tells Booth, "That makes no sense" after he and the two men agree people want to buy a car "from a guy whose vital, makes a man feel like you know he's on the winning team, makes a woman feel all protected and safe."
As Brennan watches Booth question a suspect and tells Sweets "I wanna do that ... connect to people, like Booth does ... you can teach me!"
B+B go to a strip club to question a dancer:
Booth: "You know what you didn't have to come inside with me."
Brennan: "I look forward to observing your behaviour."
[ ... Brennan tells Booth she wants to study his "technique" ... ]
Booth: "Alright Bones, you know it's a little weird that you're here watching why don't you just go outside?"
Strawberry Lust: "It's not weird baby, lots of people like to watch."
Brennan: "Thank you. I get tremendous satisfaction out of observing a whole variety of activities."
Booth: "I'd like to ask you a couple of questions." (Booth is pushed into a seat)
Strawberry Lust: (giggles) "You're boyfriend's shy isn't he. Sweet. That'll be sixty bucks."
Brennan: "Okay, I got that." (she hands over the cash and sits down to watch)
Booth: "Bones!"
Strawberry Lust: "Relax, she's going to be enjoying this too."
Booth looses his focus whilst Strawberry Lust dances in front if him provocatively. Brennan observes, "You have excellent control of your hips ... she's quite arousing which I imagine turns into excellent tips."
Booth questions Strawberry Lust as Brennan watches and they finally get a lead:
Brennan: "Then tell Miss Lust to get up."
Strawberry Lust: "I think that might be a little embarrassing right now. Huh baby!"
Booth: (to Miss Lust) "That's my gun." (to Brennan) "Give us a minute?"
Brennan: "Okay." (she sits down)
Booth: "Outside?" (pleading)
Brennan: "What's outside?"
Booth: "Can you go outside please?" (embarrassed)
Brennan: "Did we get our sixty dollars worth yet?"
Brennan asks if she can interrogate a suspect, "Please Booth, I'm ready ... really if you can do it I can." Booth asks, "Seriously, you think you can do anything I can?" and Brennan replies, "Not the big, strong, sheerly physical things but otherwise yes!" She is terrible and Booth blames Sweets, "It's all your fault you know!" But he is impressed she found out something important. Over dinner she is puzzled as to what she found out and Booth has to explain to her.
Brennan seems agitated when she tells Angela, "I have been to 74 interrogations with Booth, 42 in the room and 32 observing, I should be able to do it." Angela laughs and explains "What Booth has you can't learn from baby boy shrink ... Booth's brilliant at pretending to be stupider actually is, most of the time ... especially around you ... he knows that you like to be the smart one, so he lets you have that." Brennan asks, "Why would Booth do that?" and even though she states, "You know I am smarter than Booth" she fails to understand Booth's gift. Angela smiles at her friend and suggests, "Maybe you should just let him have the people skills part of the job to himself then?"
At the Founding Fathers B+B split the bill and Brennan seems upset:
Brennan: "You haven't said anything about my interrogation."
Booth: "Okay, you know what (gently) ... you did great. Better than I thought."
Brennan: "I was terrible." (laughs) "Everybody's right. I lack empathy."
Booth: "You got empathy. You're awkward. That's different."
Brennan: "My stuff in Bones. Yours is people."
Booth: "Right, so you're admitting that I'm better at something than you are?" (carefully)
Brennan: "No ... " (they share a look) "Yes. A lot better." (she smiles)
Booth: "Thanks Bones."
B+B go outside and Booth is excited to tell Brennan he has the sports car. Brennan wants to drive it but Booth is concerned:
Booth: "Driving a machine like this is like making love you have to go gently."
Brennan: "I go for passionate and uninhibited rather than gentle."
Booth: Bones, gently. Gentle Bones. Gentle!"
When Brennan drives the car too fast they immediately start to bicker and Booth tells her, "You know what do it without me." but Bones complains, "It's no fun without you."
417. The Salt in the Wounds
B+B find the body of a teenage girl and when speaking with the victims parents Brennan is a little direct> Booth doesn't say anything to her as he seems to sense she understands what she said was too harsh. At the chiropractor Brennan is surprised / impressed when Booth knows the knee damage is jumpers knee. Booth grins when the doctor tells Brennan, "You aren't a real medical doctor either."
B+B question the boys at the high school and Brennan whispers to Booth, "Pregnancy is unlikely without intercourse." Booth considers her for a moment, "Thanks for the tip Bones." They then question the girls and both B+B agree high school girls getting pregnant at a young age is a bad idea and both look shocked when Clinton is found to be the father of four of the children.
Brennan talks to Angela about living in the moment as opposed to looking to the future.
When Booth is unable to get a warrant for the chiropractor Brennan states, "If Booth and I hadn't questioned Dr Fitz we could mount one of our clever undercover operation." She grins at Booth who grins back.
At the bar B+B discuss the case and bicker over the girls choosing to raise their children together without men. Booth says, "Men do not like a world without responsibility." But Brennan reminds him Clinton was fine with that idea. Booth realises she is right and decides to call Clinton and arrange to meet him. Brennan understands "It's a guy guy thing." She watches him leave and later she stands across the street from the diner and watches Booth talking to Clinton and smiles.
418. Dr in the Den
B+B attend the crime scene and Booth tells Brennan he visited the Safari park with Parker and asks if they can visit the monkeys. Booth gives Brennan several facts from Parker's animal book, and when he tells her giraffe sleep only 2 hours a day he is victorious, "Yes! Pinky stumps the Brain."
B+B drive Cam to tell Michelle her father has been killed and Booth tells Brennan, "t’s best that you...stay in the lab a little bit more. Just this time around ... She needs this. Just trust me on this, Bones." Brennan looks unimpressed suggesting she should work in the lab "Because that’s where I’m most useful. I understand. You and Cam can rely on your statistically inaccurate guts to solve the case."
419. The Science in the Physicist
At the crime scene when Brennan tells Booth something is the size of an Australopithecus he reminds her, "Sports terms Bones, remember we talked about this ... soft ball ... good you're getting better." He whispers to Bones, "Would you even wanna guess what happened to this human being ... [NO] .. I knew you'd say that, I just had to ask."
When Hodgins and VNM blow up the lab protective!Booth throws Brennan against the wall. They look at one another and then they grab hands and run out just as the alarms go off the and doors shut.
At the Collar Institute for Physics Research Booth asks Brennan, "Are these people here smarter than you?" It is Dr Collar who answers Booth's question suggesting, "That would depend on how one defines intelligence." Booth realises Dr Collar and Brennan have met before and seems perturbed when Dr Collar touches and flirts with Brennan.
As B+B question students at the institute Booth finds he is somewhat out of his league and tells Brennan, "This one’s all yours." During the questioning Brennan tells Booth, "You wouldn’t understand, Booth." and Booth admits, "This place is making me cranky." As Brennan and Collar continue to be clever Booth tells them, "Oh come on. Don’t look at each other like that. I bet neither one of you know how to make your own beer."
B+B watch Sweets interrogate:
Booth: "In my opinion it's a good thing they didn’t accept you at that place."
Brennan: "Why?"
Booth: "It’s creepy. Everyone there is creepy."
Brennan: "Well if you think they’re creepy then you must think that I’m creepy."
Booth: "Well, you have a creepy mode, Bones."
Booth uses a lot of air quotes before heading in to question the suspect himself.
B+B wear hazmat suits and Booth freaks when Brennan explains why she was touching his spine, "Woah! You're testing me on the cancer chair!? ... No, no, no, no. You don’t just go around doing human testing on people, Bones. I got to go to the bathroom"
When B+B approach the lab door and hears moans from inside Booth pulls out his gun and asks Brennan to get the door. They walk in on a couple having sex and turn to leave as Booth says, "It’s like ClubMed Mensa around here." Booth sits on the floor leaning against the wall as Brennan comes to join him they talk:
Booth: "You know, most people you bust in on having sex with a gun, you know, (he whistles) it kinda disrupts the mood."
Brennan: "Perhaps they decided to start all over again from the beginning." (She leans against the wall and slides down into a sitting position next to Booth. She laughs and Booth looks away, embarrassed) "It’s just sex Booth."
Booth: "It’s not that. Look, I’m not a prude."
Brennan: "Well ... you have what they would call hang ups."
Booth: (looks around to make sure no one is around.) "You know that guy Landis?"
Brennan: "Yes."
Booth: "He’s about to make a move on you."
Brennan: (she shakes her head) "How do you know?"
BOOTH: "Because it is the rational and smart thing to do and he is all about that. I see how he looks at you."
Brennan: "How he looks at me? He’s blind."
Booth: "It’s too literal, Bones. His fiancé was just murdered and he’s already moving on."
Brennan: "Well she’s gone. He has accepted it."
Booth: "Look, good people. They leave marks on each other. The least we could do is let them fade away naturally, not you know, scrape them off, or paint over them with new marks."
Brennan: "So you’re not a prude?"
Booth: (laughs) "Moi? Hey, I am a very fun and (he stands and does a little dance) very sexy guy." (Brennan laughs) "That’s right."
Brennan: (standing) "So you just think that if two people care about each other they leave metaphorical marks which should be allowed to fade naturally?"
Booth: "You heard me but you just didn’t understand me."
Brennan: "Yeah, I wonder that about you call the time." (Booth looks at her quizzically)
In Booth's car he again impresses Brennan with his understanding from the institute and he admits, "Yeah, well I’ve learned a lot from you. And a lot from watching the Discovery Channel with Parker." When B+B get trapped inside the high pressure chamber Brennan tells Booth, "We have to get out of here. (scared) Booth, what we have to do here is we have to try to counter ... counteract the wavelengths." They begin making high pitched squeeling noises but both collapse to the floor. Brennan passes out but Booth manages to shoot the glass. As he passes out alongside Brennan we see his hand is on Brennan's thigh underneath her hand. After they are found by Dr Collar both shout at one another as Brennan tries to rouse Booth.
In the interrogation room Booth is proven right when Dr Collar asks Brennan for her phone number. She refuses his offer. And when Dr Collar accidentally punches Agent Booth, Brennan is concerned and touches Booth's face asking, "Are you okay>" Booth tells her he's alright and admits, "You know you’re the only smart person I really like."
At the Founding Fathers B+B talk about the case:
Booth: "I didn’t mean to call you creepy."
Brennan: "You said I have a creepy mode."
Booth: "I apologize. Okay, look, I wasn’t in my element."
Brennan: "What? Every element is your element."
Booth: "No, that is not true. Okay, listen. (he pauses) We just got to stop hanging out with geniuses because you’re going to figure out that I’m really stupid. "
Brennan: "What? Don’t worry about that. I figured out a long time ago how stupid you are."
Booth: (thinks about that for a sec) "Hmmm."
Brennan: "What I just said is true and yet it really sounded wrong. What I should say is I don’t care how stupid you are." (Booth doesn’t say anything) "It’s not any better?"
Booth: "No. No. Not at all." (squints arrives)
Brennan: "..... But then there’s another quality which is the ability to use intelligence. That is what you have."
Booth: (he thinks about that and then smiles) "Thanks, Bones."
They have a moment where they just look at one another.
420. Cinderella in the Cardboard
Booth tells Brennan, "Miracles do happen." at the crime scene but Brennan proves it is a murder and not the Virgin Mary.
B+B bicker in front of the plastic surgeon in Booth's office and he assumes they are seeing each other:
Brennan: "Self mutilation for an antiquated ritual .. it's barbaric."
Booth: "Well come on, marriage is very important to a lot of people Bones."
Brennan: "It's ridiculous. No-one can guarantee how they're going to feel about some one for life. We're not a monogamous species."
Booth: "Marriage has been around since the beginning of time."
Brennan: "Women from Amazonian tribes express their love by spitting in their partners faces I hope we've progressed past that."
Booth: "Okay well, you know what, sometimes love trumps logic." (Booth gets up and leans towards Brennan)
Brennan: "Love ..." (she leaves forward towards Booth) "... is a chemical process which causes delusion. An intellectually rigorous person would never get married."
Booth: "Never say never."
Brennan: "That's a paradox it makes no sense!"
Doctor: "Am I still needed here?" (both turn towards the man) "Because if you two are having relationship issues I can .... "
Brennan: "We're not a couple."
Booth: "We just, work together, that's all." (Both move apart glancing at one another)
When B+B visit the bridal shop Booth has his hand on Brennan's back as they enter and as they walk through the shop his arm is almost around her. The manager tells them, "You two are obviously meant for each other." B+B look at one another and Brennan laughs and says, "No." After questioning the manager Booth picks up a dress and says, "Oh come on Bones. You must have dreamt about being a bride before your heart turned to stone." But Brennan is offended, telling Booth, "Just because I don't wanna take part in a meaningless ritual doesn't mean I'm not a warm and affectionate person. There are even children who have taken to me." She tilts her head and looks at Booth who raises his eye brows. When Booth notices Daisy trying on a dress he does put his arm around Bones and turns her away from Daisy so they are not seen. One arm over her shoulder he places his other hand on the shoulder closet to him so he is holding her. When offered a veil Brennan embarrasses Booth by saying, "Well it's a symbol of virginity and I've been sexually active since I was ... "
At the FBI B+B discuss their new found knowledge that Daisy is (they assume) cheating on her fiancée with Sweets. Brennan wants to tell Sweets but Booth disagrees:
Brennan: "A woman buys a wedding dress to get married Booth, you know if you're such a strict adherer to monogamy then shouldn't you tell Sweets that he's being cuckolded?"
Booth: "No, listen Bones, there are complicated emotions that are involved here and it's definitely not your thing."
Brennan: "It's a matter of honesty."
Booth: "Bones, just trust me on this one alright, it's none of our business. It's none of our business."
Sweets enters asking what's none of their business and Booth pushes Brennan away and takes her coffee cup handing it to Sweets.
At lunch B+B talk about the case and Booth brings up the fact Brennan said she won't ever get married:
Brennan: "You're usually quite certain."
Booth: "No Bones, that would be you. (repeats her words) I'm never getting married."
Brennan: "You've never been married."
Booth: "Well I will."
Brennan: "That's impossible to know."
Booth: "You know what, obviously you have issues with this so next time when we see Sweets you should bring it up."
Brennan: "Sweets is having an affair with a women whose engaged. He's hardly one to give advice."
Booth: "You know what, you're scared. That's what it is! You are scared of love."
Sweets and Daisy enter and when Booth fears Brennan will reveal something regarding Daisy's affair he lifts her from her seat by her shoulders and pushes her from the bar - leaving without lunch.
Back at the lab Brennan tells Angela Booth won't let her tell Sweets about Daisy and Angela agrees with Booth.
When B+B enter the club it is Brennan who grabs onto Booth's arm as they walk through the crowd. As they search the back alley Brennan calls Booth over and places the orange safety glasses on Booth so he can see the blood.
Brennan goes to Booth's office to confess she has told Sweets about Daisy and Booth screws up his face and asks, "Why d'ya have to tell Sweets? He's gonna come in here, he's gonna cry and stuff." He does - asking Brennan to leave and Booth doesn't offer a guy hug to Sweets, "They don't hug things out .. they just, you know slug on the arm. It's the more manly thing to do." Guy hug?
At the FBI B+B discuss the case. Brennan turns the topic back to Sweets telling Booth that Cam agreed with him that she should have kept quiet:
Brennan: "I don't understand. Our lives are devoted to pursuit of truth."
Booth: "Look Bones you can't go around telling everyone what's on your mind even though it's the truth, okay? Look what if you and I were going out? Okay." (Brennan considers him briefly) "And you were taking forever to get ready and you came out in this dress and I told you I didn't like it. What are you going to do?"
Brennan: "I'd re-evaluate, change or ignore you."
Booth: "Of course you would Bones. Good answer."
Brennan arrives unexpectedly at Booth's apartment, knocking and calling to him:
Brennan: "I should have called."
Booth: "What .. no, are you kidding me?"
Brennan: "I saw Sweets and Daisy and I was wrong she wasn't cheating on him."
Booth: "That's a good thing right."
Brennan: "Well, I wanted to spare him pain but all I did was cause it." (she sits down on Booth's sofa)
Booth: "You meant well."
Brennan: "I made him so jealous I almost ruined their relationship. I should have listened to you."
Booth: "Maybe next time you will. Hey, I was just gonna go out and grab a bite to eat, some Chinese maybe some .. "
Brennan: "I'd rather drink. Do you want one?" (She gets up and walks to the sideboard returning with a bottle and a glass)
Booth: "Yes. We could do that. My ... good bottle of Scotch. Bottoms up Bones." (She pours Booth a glass and sits back down with the bottle)
Brennan: "You know intellectually I know that jealousy is absurd. But I see that its real for people." (pauses) "I even experience it myself." (She looks to Booth who walks over to her and settles next to her)
Booth: "So, erm, (softly) who are you jealous of?"
Brennan: "Angela ... Hodgins ... Cam ... you?"
Booth: "Why?"
Brennan: "Because you all want to loose yourself in another person. You believe that love is transcendent and eternal." (pauses and looks at Booth) "I wanna believe that too."
Booth: "Hey, you will (he sits next to her) I promise, some day, you will. You will. Some day. Okay." (they toast) "You will"
421. Mayhem on the Cross
Gordon Gordon visits Booth at the FBI and tells him Sweets is writing a book about B+B. When GG and Sweets meet GG says that in reading Sweets' books it appears they realise they have differing opinions on B+B:
Sweets: "Okay, now I'm hearing a caveat."
GG: "It's a small one. It's just that, Brennan and Booth, aren't in any way opposites."
Sweets: "Wow. Small. What is that? British understatement?"
GG: "Well, yes. He's a man and she's a woman. He's instinctual, she's empirical."
Sweets: "Opposites."
GG: "Superficial ephemera, Dr Sweets."
Sweets: "Ok, what about the sexual component in their relationship?"
GG: "Ah!"
Sweets: "Would you agree that they have both sublimated their attraction to each other out of fear of endangering their working relationship because their working relationship is paramount to both of them?"
GG: "Alas, I'm afraid I wouldn't agree with that no."
Sweets: "Wow. Which part?"
GG: "Well everything you just said. Yes, one of them is acutely aware of that attraction and struggles with it daily as a matter of fact."
Sweets: "Wow. I'm sorry to keep saying that. Which one?"
GG: "It's your book Dr Sweets. I would never tell you what to write."
During lunch at the diner Sweets tells B+B he asked GG to write the introduction to the book he has written about them but that he refused and is retiring. When Booth takes a call from Cam he tells Brennan, "Just figure out cause of death for me okay?"
B+B take GG to see the death metal band and when the band won't stop playing Booth fires his gun causing GG to remind him, "If you recall it was shooting inanimate objects that had you brought to me for therapy in the first place." B+B agree it was a justifiable shooting. Booth gets Brennan to wear an ear plug for the following interrogation he can't attend (desk duty!) and he secretly watches on a laptop and gives Brennan advice and interrogation tips.
When Brennan goes alone to a gig Booth tells her, Listen Bones, I don't want you there alone okay." When she asks Booth to call an ambulance he refuses to hang up and she has to hang up on him.
Booth again coaches Brennan in her interrogation form his desk and this time she acts all tough guy. Booth loves it, "Atta girl! Give it to him!"
B+B have lunch at the diner with GG and he gives Booth his gun back causing Brennan to ask, "So Booth is back?" They discuss the case but the topic turns to Sweets and his book about B+B. GG suggests that it reveals more about Sweets than about B+B causing Brennan to share with Booth and GG that she saw scars on Sweets' back:
GG: "He finds it extremely frustrating, your lack of willingness to discuss your childhood experiences with him."
Brennan: "What does that tell you?"
Booth: "No, don't ask him that. He's going to think we both had traumatic childhood."
Brennan: "We did. Your father was a violent drunk and mine abandoned me."
Booth: "Great (clapping) Just tell everyone at the diner won;t you Bones."
In Brennan's office B+B talk with both shrinks and GG points at Booth saying, "He does that doesn't her, he wants to be underestimated?"
B+B get the murderer to confess and during the investigation Brennan whispers in Booth's ear to explain the Milton reference GG gave.
At Booth's apartment as GG cooks for B+B he tells them Sweets wants a family and Brennan asks, "So Sweets has imprinted on us? Like a baby duck?" GG suggests, "You might just show the lad he's not the only one with scars on his back" and so Booth leads Brennan out to go "duck hunting." They enter Sweets office and Booth invites Sweets to dinner. When he tries to refuse saying he's busy Brennan immediately shocks both men:
Brennan: "My foster parents locked me in the trunk of a car for two days when I broke a dish. (Booth looks shocked) I was a very clumsy child. They warned me it would happen but the water was so hot and the soap was so slippery (she looks at Booth who is almost in tears watching her) I still don't think it was fair even though they give me fair warning. The water was so hot."
Sweets: "No, it wasn't fair at all. It wasn't your fault."
Booth: "Bones (whispering) What are you doing?" (Booth hands Brennan his handkerchief)
Brennan: "You said that scars on the back was a metaphor. Isn't that why we're here? To metaphorically compare scars?"
Booth: "I came to bring Sweets back to my place for dinner. That's all." (Brennan takes the handkerchief)
Sweets: "Scars on the back?"
Brennan: "I saw them, Sweets."
Sweets: "So, what, you decided to just share something from your past? That is so unlike you."
Brennan: "I still hate psychology. (she turns to Booth) Okay, your turn. Go."
Booth: "I came here to bring Sweets back to my place for dinner. That's all"
Brennan tilts he head and her eyes plead with Booth who submits and speaks looking Brennan in the eye throughout)
Booth: "Okay, if it wasn't for my grandfather I probably would have killed myself when I was kid" (he turns to Sweets) "But that's all I'm gonna say on the subject matter, you understand? (He turns back to Brennan who returns his look) "Are you okay, Bones?"
Brennan: "Yeah, I'm fine. Here."
She folds up Booth's handkerchief and places it back in his jacket pocket, holding it briefly in place with her hand. Just as she removes her hand Booth places his hand over the handkerchief and raises his eyes to look at Bones. They share a quiet moment and then both turn to find Sweets smiling at them.
Brennan: "Why are you nodding?"
Sweets: "Nothing. Just, Wyatt made an observation about you two and I think I just saw what he saw."
To avoid hearing anything further Booth suggests they leave and B+B lead Sweets from his office.
422. Double Death of the Dearly Departed
Booth drives Brennan, Cam and Hodgins to the funeral of a guy from the Jeff' and as B+B talk in the car, Cam and Hodgins grin in the back seat:
Brennan: ""They say cause of death was heart failure resulting from a congenital defect."
Booth: "You're not gonna talk like that when we get there right?"
Brennan: "Like what?"
Booth: "It's a wake Bones, it's not a crime scene. (removes his sunglasses) You know, I'm sorry for your loss. How are you holding up. Stuff like that."
Brennan: "I know."
Booth immediately has to whisper to remind her "I'm sorry for your loss" when the brother of the deceased says hello. Booth tells Brennan to pay her respects, shoving her towards the coffin but when she lingers too long he joins her to pull her away, "You really suck at this ... you are staring way too long at this guy." Brennan tells Booth the guy was murdered and he sends her outside following her with whisky suggesting, "Code word for murder, I want you to say translation." As they discuss the 'translation' Booth puts his arm around Brennan and walks with her asking, "Bones, is there any chance you just feel bad for not knowing this guy like the rest of us did so now you're just making it about you and saying he was translated instead of dying of natural causes." She says no and explains her evidence causing Booth to be disgusted when Brennan admits she touched the body. He tells her drink up will you ... cause I'm hoping you're going to pass out!" but eventually agrees to try for an injunction and send Bones inside telling her, "Put on a sad face." Booth then downs his drink and makes the call.
Booth finds Brennan messing with the body and tells her he didn't get the injunction. She tells him to guard the door and he tries to pull her away but Cam enters and they explain the guy was possibly murdered. B+B then find the funeral guy having sex with the widow and Brennan does her hand sex gesture to Booth. After questioning the guy Brennan obviously convinces Booth to steal the body because during Hodgins' speech they steal the body with Cam's help.
When Brennan returns and tells Booth, Jack and Angela about the murder she corrects Booth twice when he mis quotes a chemical component. They handcuff the embalmer to the coffin and Booth asks Brennan to suggest what he should say to people who want to see the (now absent body) telling her what she came up with is, "Perfect .. it's so gross!"
In order to speak with a suspect Booth asks Brennan, "Can you get lost? ... I can be devastatingly charming if you aren't watching me." He then suggests she be the one to question the victim's brother:
Brennan: "Is it because I'm an attractive and sexy young woman who will loosen his tongue?"
Booth: "Well, definitely, of course there's that. But also, he wants you to publish his book."
In the SUV when Brennan asks, "What about the lawyer" Booth smiles smugly saying, "She seemed very nice." and Brennan considers him for a moment before he changes the subject. Brennan is then surprised Booth knows Cam smokes. Bones also proves herself, "a genius Bones, an absolute genius" when she comes up with a way to catch the murderer.
At the graveyard Booth links arms with Brennan and as they walk together he tells her:
Booth: "Look if I die, I want you to do me a favour."
Brennan: "Well you will die Booth. It's inevitable."
Booth: "Alright. Whatever Bones. When I inevitably drop dead before you I'd like you to come out and, you know, spend some time and talk to me every once in a while."
Brennan: "I'll feel foolish knowing that you can't hear me."
Booth: "Promise me." (he stops walking and looks at her, eyes pleading and raises his eyebrows)
Brennan: "I promise."
Booth: "Hey, there you go huh. You agreed. I didn't think you would agree. Now, why did you agree?"
Brennan: "I believe that if I pretended you were still here I'd feel better for a moment. Also, speaking to you would require me to figuratively look at myself through your eyes, again temporarily, and I think that would make me live my life more successfully."
Booth: "Hmmm. You know Bones ... (he puts his arms around her her) ... that is the best thing, that anyone has ever said about me."
Brennan: "I'll say it at your wake"
Booth: "Oh, it's raining now come on (he opens the umbrella) get under the umbrella it's raining. Just make sure that when they put me in the ground I'm dead." (he puts his arm around her again)
Brennan: "Yeah, no problem."
423. The Girl in the Mask
At the diner Brennan seems to be considering which of her grad students to hire telling Booth, "I've decided to take your opinion into account as I make this decision." Booth smiles and seems happy she is considering his opinion, even though he tells her to hire Vincent because she thinks he is intelligent, "that's what you like, so you should hire him. I mean, this person's going to be your right-hand man."
Booth gets a call from his friend in Japan and he tells Brennan about Nak and his missing sister. She asks, "When were you in Japan?" and Booth explains "A few years ago on an exchange program with the Tokyo police." B+B drive to the crime scene and Brennan wades into the water causing Booth to get a little concerned, "Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, Bones, what we usually do here is wait for people in rubber boots ... Okay, Bones, come on, get out of there. Let's go."
At the Jeff' Booth introduces Brennan to Nak and asks Brennan to work the case with Dr Tanaka. Even though it "is against protocol" she agrees and as Tanaka watches the squints examine the body Booth asks "Bones could you just jump ahead and ID the victim?"
Brennan later learns more about Booth and his time in Japan from Nak, "Most of the FBI agents showed up and started telling us how to handle our organized crime problem. Booth said nothing. Two, three days, just listening." Brennan chuckles at this, "He was quiet? That that does not sound like Booth." Nak explains Booth was "respectful" and tells Brennan, "You are a lucky woman Dr Brennan." Brennan considers this and answers, "To work with Booth? Yes, I know." She smiles and Nak seems to qualify his meaning, "To work with Booth .. yes."
When B+B question James Sok, Booth tells him, "You're a pimp. I don't like pimps." Brennan warns Sok, "He really doesn't." and when Booth squares up to Sok Brennan steps in to takes Booth's arm and pull him away, "Booth, come on." They later question Vogler during a massage and Booth has to explain it's "Not that type of massage ... "
In her office Brennan shares her background with Nak and admits, "it would've been nice to have had a brother like you." She tells him the phone records indicate Nak and his sister talked often and suggests "objectively speaking, it would indicate a, an irrefutable desire to connect. A deep and abiding love ... I myself have no one in my life whom I talk to that much. Outside of work, I mean." Brennan then surprises Nak in saying, "Perhaps that is good ... I can see how much pain you're in ... " She then asks "Is it worth it? To have your own happiness so contingent upon another human being?" Nak explains simply, "If I was willing to give up my life for Sachi ... why would I not be willing to risk my happiness for her?"
Booth refuses to say water feature in the car, "I'll say pond or pool." When he tells Nak to stay at the Jeff' Brennan questions him and Booth explains:
Booth: "The man's in big pain, Bones. Makes it hard for him to hear ... "
Brennan: "I've never heard of grief affecting auditory acuteness."
Booth: "Medical fact. Look it up."
In interrogation Brennan watches as Booth gets very angry with the suspect. His confession leads to an arrest and after the case B+B discuss the case at Booth's apartment. Booth makes a banana split for Brennan and spoon feeds her making aeroplane noises. Brennan however asks for alcohol and Booth finally relents and opens beer. She asks Booth, "Will he recover? Your friend Ken? ... People die. There's a fault in the design if we can't recover from it." Booth explains "we aren't sent anything that we can't handle." and seemingly thinking back to her conversation with Nak Brennan continues to question love:
Brennan: "I'm not convinced that loving someone is worth it."
Booth: "I got a son, and it's worth it."
Brennan: "Even if he died?"
Booth: "Whoa. Bones, don't even say anything like that. Don't even put that out there. It is worth it, and everything around it is worth it. Every moment, everything ... is worth it."
424. The Beaver in the Otter
At the crime scene Booth proudly tells Brennan "You know, Bones, when I was in College, my fraternity, we stole a cadaver, dressed it up like Caesar and put it on a statue of a horse " She appears unimpressed.
Brennan calls Booth whilst he is with Jared and they agree to meet at the college campus where they question students. When questioning the frat boys Booth chooses to take Sweets instead of Brennan, reporting back in with her at her office where Booth tells her:
Booth: "Look, these kids, they go out into the world, they’re alone, they have no supervision, they have to be bad just in order to figure out what it is, you know. Scientific fact, their frontal lobes are the size of raisins"
Brennan: "No, that is not a scientific fact."
Booth: "What they gotta do is build their frontal lobes, with exercise, okay and that comes from doing the wrong thing."
Sweets: "Ok, so your theory is, you gotta be bad to be good?"
Booth: "Exactly, facts of life, my friend."
When Brennan decides they should collect DNA from the frat boys sheets Booth takes her and they walk in on a "toga memorial" When all the boys take off the sheets and stand naked Booth grins and leaves Brennan to it and goes to meet Jared. Back in Beaver's room Booth complains to Brennan about Jared and trying to be helpful she suggests, "I can provide you with several societies where younger brothers are required under pry of death to do what their older brothers tell them."
Booth cringes as Brennan questions the chemistry professor and asks Brennan if she approves when realising, "Professor Twardosh took revenge against unethical students who had no respects for knowledge." Booth admits, "Look, your college’s experience was with professors, with was with students and jocks."
When they discover Beaver was not having a relationship with the professor Booth states, "Okay, did anyone think that? Honestly? Because I did not." Brennan explains to Cam and Angela, "Booth believes that the cringe factor was too high, even though cringe factor is not a valid mathematical construct. " When the meeting ends Booth gets up to leave:
Brennan: "What are you going to do?"
Booth: "Uh, something personal."
Brennan: "What?"
Booth: "Personal! Personal means personal, you know, not for the public." (he leaves)
Brennan: "Uh ... (turns to Cam and Ang) ... I’m not the public!"
Jared asks Booth to join him on his trip to India and Booth tells Brennan in the SUV:
Brennan: "Are you going?"
Booth: "We don’t like each other. "
Brennan: "So ... not going?"
Booth: "I mean, he’s my brother, so I love him."
Brennan: "I’m confused, you are going?"
Booth: "I mean, Jared should not go to India alone, he’ll get in all kinds of trouble."
Brennan: "You said he’s never been alone."
Booth: "Exactly, you know what? He’ll get eaten alive"
Brennan: "If you go with him, then he won’t be alone, you won’t let him be bad and his frontal lobe will always be the size of a raison, that’s what you said. Makes no scientific sense."
Booth: "Yea, I said that (he nods) ... got it"
At the Jeff' Arastoo admits to Booth, "Dr. Brennan said to be especially polite with out when the science is difficult." causing Booth to get annoyed, "How stupid do you people think I am?""
Case over Booth meets Jared and, telling him to go alone to India, hands him a St Christopher medal (which may or may not be their grandfathers). He joins Brennan who asks, "So, uh, do you ... do you really think you have to be bad to be good? ... Well, I’ve never done anything bad ... I don’t want my frontal lobe to be a dried up raisin." Booth tells her "I believe you." and to help her do something bad suggests they "dine and dash" Squealing with delight Brennan runs from the bar and Booth chases after her, leaving the money on the bar. He grabs her arm and they jump in the car.
425. The Critic in the Cabernet
In therapy Sweets asks B+B to play a word game, to "respond with whatever word or phrase pops into your head". And so B+B play "Hunger ... sex ... woah ... horse ... cowboy ... child ... baby ... booth ... father ... mother ... birth ... happy ... sperm ... egg ...I want a baby!" Yup, just like that Brennan decides she wants a baby. Booth is surprised, so is Sweets, especially when she suggests to Booth, " You’d be a very good donor, potentially." They leave therapy without further discussion when they get a new case.
At the vineyard B+B discuss her decision:
Brennan: "You’re the one who’s always touting parenthood, implying that my life is incomplete because I don’t have a child."
Booth: "I know, but this is kind of sudden."
Brennan: "Hmm, perhaps you don’t want to help me."
Booth: "Of course I do."
Brennan: "So you’ll do it?"
Booth: " I’ll think about it."
Brennan: "What? I don’t understand. It’s a simple request. I’m sure you engage in masturba…"
Booth: "Whoa."
Brennan: "Horse."
Booth: "Enough. Okay, we’ll talk about it later."
Brennan: "Well, I’m not asking for you to be involved. All I want is your sperm."
Booth laughs this off as FBI guy Marcus hears their discussion and Booth obviously wants it kept private.
Back at the Jeff' Brennan announces over the bones that she plans to have a baby with Booth. The squints are shocked and Fisher offers his sperm in case Booth says no. A stunned Angela follows Brennan to her office to discuss her announcement:
Angela: "Brennan… this is crazy."
Brennan: "Why? I’m intellectually gifted, financially secure. Statistically I could expect to have an exceptional child."
Angela: "Fine. Yes. Absolutely. But you do know how this is supposed to work, right? You get naked together. You devour each other in a passionate frenzy."
Brennan: "Booth would think that would create an emotional bond between us."
Angela: "Of course that’s ridiculous."
Brennan: "I knew you’d understand."
Angela: "Then why use Booth at all? Why don’t you use Fisher and his discount sperm?"
Brennan: "No, Booth has a larger mandible and a more prominent zygomatic than Fisher, as well as a more pronounced ratio between the width of his clavicles and his ilia."
Angela: "So, it’s because Booth is hot. Now we’re getting somewhere."
Brennan: "Statistically, attractive people are more successful. I’m only thinking of the child, Angela."Then do this right, sweetie."
Brennan: "I am. Emotional ties are ephemeral and undependable. Look at you and Hodgins. You and Roxy. Booth and Rebecca. Booth and Cam."
Angela: "Brennan, I ..."
Brennan: "I appreciate your concern, but I have thought this through rationally."
As Angela talks to Brennan, Cam visits the FBI to talk to Booth:
Cam: "I know you, Seeley. You’re going to do it. You want to do it without really doing it. But it’s still doing it even if you’re not doing it the way it should be done."
Booth: "She wants a kid, okay? It’ll make her more personable with people."
Cam: "And what will it do for you?"
Booth: "She’ll get what she wanted."
Cam: " A piece of you?"
As B+B continue with the case they learn Holt’s wife was pregnant when he disappeared and this leads them to discuss single motherhood and brings them back to Brennan:
Booth: "Uh, you know, if we go, uh, through with this, and I’m around, and if you need help…"
Brennan: "Well, I’ll have a nanny."
Booth: (awkward) "I-I figured. But, you know, if it’s her day off."
Brennan: "You don’t have faith that I can do it?"
Booth: "What?"
Brennan: "You think I’d be a good mother, don’t you?"
Booth: "Yeah, of course."
Brennan: "I know sometimes you don’t think I’m empathetic. And it can be difficult for me sometimes. But I would love my child, Booth, I would."
Booth: "I know. I-I know that, Bones."
Brennan: "I know people disapprove. If you’re uncomfortable, Fisher sells his sperm monthly, he’s very intelligent and ..."
Booth: "Oh, Fisher? Fi-Oh, no, you are not having Fisher’s kids. You’d be giving birth to the spawn of Satan, okay? I’ll do it."
Brennan: "No obligation. I don’t want you to feel any obligation."
Booth: "I’ll do it. Don’t worry about it, okay? It’s your kid, it’s totally yours."
They question Jenny and Brennan helps with the baby, swinging her back and forth she says, "You like spatial disorientation, don’t you? Yes, you do." Back in the SUV Brennan continues the baby discussion with Booth:
Brennan: "Would you like legal protection?"
Booth: "No, I-I don’t need legal protection."
Brennan: "Okay. I’ve made an appointment for you at the fertility clinic. They will check your semen for motility, morphology, sperm count."
Booth: "Woah! My boys can swim, alright? I have a child, do you remember?"
Brennan: "This isn’t personal. I-I’d be remiss if I didn’t look at an analysis of your semen. It’s a very simple process. You just go to the clinic, give a sample. It takes five minutes. They have pornography, if you need stimulus."
Booth: (embarrassed) "I get it ... You really liked holding that kid, didn’t you?"
Brennan: "Yeah. I’ve been thinking about how exciting it will be to expose my own child to early pattern recognition."
Booth: "Yeah. I’ve been thinking about how exciting it will be to expose my own child to early pattern recognition."
Brennan: "Yeah, of course. I will make a diverse schedule."
When Booth's goes to the clinic he is somewhat nervous and he sees Stewie from Family Guy in the TV screen. Stewie asks Booth why he is doing this for Brennan and suggests, "You’ve got a hot doctor friend. Go to her and make a direct deposit like a man." Back in his FBI office Booth asks Sweets about what he saw - indirectly - and Sweets tells him, "Sometimes donors can feel an emotional attachment, even if they don’t know the recipient. But in this case, since you and Dr. Brennan are ...." Booth is extremely agitated and paces around his office.
Whilst questioning Kim Mortenson Brennan explains to Booth "Research shows that babies strongly resemble their fathers in the first year of life" and Booth is surprised realising, "does that mean that your kid will look like me, at least for the first year?"
It is in therapy that Brennan shares the news, "I have an appointment with a fertility specialist next week. I could be inseminated within a month." Booth is shocked and stays quiet allowing Sweets to ask Brennan some questions about how the baby will impact on their relationship. Sweets also tries to get Brennan to admit why she choose Booth:
Sweets: "I think you need to acknowledge that there are some emotional considerations that you might be denying. There are sperm banks that guarantee high IQs and exceptional physical prowess, yet you specifically chose Agent Booth. Why?"
Brennan: "He has traits like courage and compassion and empathy that would be tremendous assets to my child. Sperm banks don’t catalogue those traits."
Sweets ends up getting annoyed with his patients and asks, "How can you two not see what is going on here?" When he tells Brennan about Booth's anxiety at the clinic Booth's gets angry but Sweets holds firm stating, "In my position, I could make an evaluation that states that you two are not suited to work together because of interpersonal issues that are not being dealt with."
Angela makes another attempt to talk to Brennan, telling her friend, "Did you ever think, what if Booth is the perfect father for your child? Not just his stuff, but him. What if you’re throwing away the chance to have a family, a real family, because you’re scared? ... Listen, you just said you wanted to do this alone because feelings are ephemeral. So is life, Brennan. We’re here one minute, and then we’re gone the next. You should know that better than anybody. If you keep living trying to protect yourself, nothing is ever gonna touch you."
When Booth sees Stewie again in the interrogation room he confesses to Brennan, "I can’t do it. Listen, I have to be involved. If I’m the father, then I have to be a father." Brennan tells him to forget about having a baby and demands they go to the hospital. Once there she learns Booth has a brain tumour and tells the squints.
As Booth is prepared for surgery he looks for Brennan and when he finally sees her through the glass he breaks into a smile. She enters his room and he asks her, "Would you come in there with me, to the operating room? ... you’re a genius. That’s good enough for me. Plus, you’ll know if they’re screwing up." As Brennan walks alongside his bed towards theatre Booth asks for a moment with her and tells her, "Bones, if I don’t make it ... I want you to have my stuff. You know, for a kid ... I want you to. You’re gonna be a really good mom." He takes her hand and they enter the operating room.
426. The End in the Beginning
Brennan enters a bedroom and undresses before climbing into bed with Booth. Leaning over him and smiling she asks:
Brennan: "Do you love me?
Booth: "Yeah. Do you want me to prove it to you?"
Brennan: "Mmm, if you’re not too sleepy ... "
And they kiss and begin to make love.
But then it is morning and they are awakened by Cam and Jared (both cops) and told a body has been found at their nightclub. Cam suggests Brennan is having an affair and also suggests Jared wants a crack at Brennan. Brennan later tells Cam, "I had a very satisfying go-around with my husband at about 5 this morning, how about you?" After Cam calls Brennan "a cold fish" Booth makes her giggle saying, "what you are is Iceland. Cold to the touch, but underneath you’re all volcano." And when Booth uses logic on Brennan she calls him "sweet".
B+B have lunch with Max (a councillor) and Brennan says of Booth, "he wants me to be proud of him." and as the case progresses B+B discuss the murder:
Booth: "Why are all of our employees holding out on the cops?"
Brennan: "They love us. Especially you."
They discuss the fact everyone thinks Booth did it as they get dressed - Brennan fixing Booth's tie and kissing him. As B+B stand on the balcony they discuss the case again:
Brennan: "did the police try to convince you that I was having an affair with Arastoo?"
Booth: "It’s what they do, you know, drive wedges."
Brennan: "It wouldn’t be irrational to think that I was having an affair with him. He’s very handsome."
Booth: "Yeah, I’d feel if the energy was bad between the two us, I’d know. The same way that you would know that I couldn’t murder someone."
Brennan: "I do believe that you would murder someone for me. And I believe that you’d lie about it so I wouldn’t have to carry that burden."
Booth smiles and B+B walk towards their office where both admit they know who committed the murder:
Brennan: "You would kill for me, I know that, but whoever did this knocked him out, got my coat, before executing him. You would never do that. Jared is different."
Booth: "My brother killed a man to save my wife."
They head out back where Brennan convinces Jared to turn himself in.
Hodgins: "You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering; that’s the sad truth. Maybe they’ll break your heart; maybe you’ll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks " (this is also typed by Brennan)
"Hodgins: "You see two people and think they belong together, but nothing happens ..." (this is not in Brennan's typed words)
B+B relax in their office after the case is wrapped up and discuss how a lack of evidence may allow Jared to walk free. Brennan (Bren) sits down in Booth's (Mr B) lap and tells him:
Brennan: "Well, you know that glass of wine that we share every night? ... I have to stop that."
Booth: "Oh c’mon, Bren. Just because you have one glass of wine every night with your husband, doesn’t mean you’re an alcoholic."
Brennan: "That’s not why."
Booth: "No way!"
Brennan: "Yeah." (they kiss)
Booth: "You are pregnant! There’s a little baby boy, huh?" (he touches her belly)
Brennan: "Or girl…"
They lean toward one another, resting forehead against forehead and smile as they bring their arms around one another.
Hodgins "The thought of losing so much control over personal happiness is unbearable." (this is not typed by Brennan)
Brennan sits typing at Booth's bedside ...
Brennan and Hodgins: "That’s the burden. Like wings, they have weight, we feel that weight on out backs, but they are a burden that lifts us. Burdens that ... allow us to fly." Brennan hits the delete key and Booth awakens telling her he had a "weird dream ... it was so real." Looking at Brennan, Booth asks, "Who are you?"
414. Hero In The Hold
Brennan calls Booth to ensure he is on his way to her award ceremony. He isn't but tells her Don’t worry, I will be there when they crown you super scientist ..." and checks his reflection in the mirror whilst suggesting, "I bet you are looking beautiful ..."
Brennan looks distressed when she receives a call saying the gravedigger has Booth. She is angry when they realise Jack has stolen evidence putting Booth's life is in danger. And later, she tells Hodgins they can't try and solve the case because they don't have time and because, "We don't have Booth to help."
Brennan tells Angela "I don't love Booth" with Angela who tells her they all love Booth and Brennan silently agrees by placing the evidence on the boundary stone.
Teddy asks Booth about his partner, "Yeah ... Um ... we’re uh ... you would have ... you’d like her. She’s ..." Later they talking about not telling people you loved them and Teddy thinks, "So maybe that’s why I’m here. To get you to say “I love you” to somebody."
Brennan asks Jared to steal a body from FBI storage which the squints analyse to try and find out where Booth is being held, telling him, "You are a selfish coward and you never deserved him.". Her anger again boils over when they learn Booth's location and she whacks the gravedigger with a case before taking the helicopter to rescue Booth and giving him into a tight hug.
We learn from them talking that she collected him from the hospital. She also accompanies him to the cemetery the next day to visit the grave of his friend Teddy who he confesses helped him escape, Booth calls him a ghost. She hands Booth a new Cocky belt buckle and he smiles. Booth tells her, "Corporal Edward Parker. He was slain while serving his country. (pauses) He was 20. He was just a kid." Brennan seems to understand Booth feels guilt for this but asks gently, "Was it ... your fault that he died?" He tells her no and then leaves Brennan amazed that he is about to give a woman a message from a ghost.
415. Princess in the Pear
Brennan arrives at Booth's place - it appears he asked her to come over before they head to the crime scene - to find him in his shirt and boxer shorts and with back pain, "Look, I figured you fixed my back last time, really well, and I just thought that maybe you could fix it again, so use your little magic knuckles, and hit it up, and we're good to go." Brennan refuses telling him he should seek help for what seems to be a recurring injury. He pleads with his best charm smile, "I'm not asking you to perform surgery; just do what you did last time and fix it with your magic knuckles ... Look, there's no one I trust more to get my back and crack it, than *you*. " and she finally gives in telling him, "that was effective. Turn around." She further injures his back - telling Angela and Cam (as she enters the Jeff') that he has a suspected "herniated disc ... The vicodin seems to be working. He claims it makes the furniture feel friendly. But he'll be on bed rest for the remainder of the week." So Agent Perotta is to stand on on the case and Brennan compares and complains she is different to Booth a number of times starting with, "Booth usually waits for me to conduct my own examination of the scene." and then telling Angela "I like working with Booth. I'm nice to him."
When B+B talk on the phone Brennan asks how his back is doing. The calls ends up as a conference call when Booth accidentally adds Perotta and Perotta has to listen to B+B bicker over whether or not Booth should be allowed to come in and question a suspect.
When Brennan is asked by Agent Perotta to watch the video feed of the auction with her, rather than be happy to be involved in the case she asks, "Is there a special reason why you wanted me here, Agent Perotta?"
After the car crash B+B again talk on the phone this time Booth asking if Brennan is okay. Booth, still in pain, is determined to get back to work to protect Brennan and ends up asking to speak to Perotta telling her, "The only reason that I'm not coming in right now is because Bones told me not to. But she is your responsibility. Nothing can happen to her, okay? If anything happens to her, you know, that silky black hair and ... that soft skin..." True to her word Perotta tells Brennan, "Please don't go out in the field without me." to which Brennan replies, "I don't need a sitter. Booth gets needlessly protective sometimes. I have no idea why." Perotta, amused answers, "You really don't, do you?"
At Booth's apartment Brennan tells Booth about the case as she looks over his back x-rays. Brennan proclaims she is glad the age of chivalry and knights and maidens is past, but Booth confesses, "I gotta tell you, I think they had it pretty good idea with the whole chivalry thing, you know, open cart doors, kill dragons, small hearts ... " When Brennan tells him he has a simple misalignment which she can fix Booth is sceptical, "Let’s not make it about trust!" but lets her fix his back - which she does as Agent Perotta walks in and there is a seemingly awkward moment, where Booth has two women in his apartment taking care of him whilst he is off work - both of them leave.
416. The Bones That Foam
As B+B walk over the rocks Brennan almost falls and Booth, concerned says, "Watch yourself." Booth suggests seeing a dead body may "put a crimp in their wedding night ... coming face to face with death like that, kind of kills the desire don't you think." Brennan dismisses this notion saying, "I work with remains every day but if I'm sexually attracted to someone I'm perfectly capable of engaging in spirit ... " Booth interrupts her before she can finish her sentence. After deciding to take the remains to the Jeff' Booth goes to high five Brennan but she stops as she is wearing gloves.
Cam suggests to Brennan that she join Booth in the field as she gets impatient when the Bones are contained due to the foam. As they arrive to the car showroom to question the victim's brother Brennan tells Booth, "You need to stop using cartoons as a scientific reference." Once inside Brennan seems annoyed when Booth growls at the sales girl:
Booth: "What? She rawred me first."
Brennan: "Doesn't mean you have to rawr her back."
Speaking to the brother Brennan asks Booth "What's a sensitive way to murdered?"
B+B question several more suspects and at another car showroom Brennan tells Booth, "That makes no sense" after he and the two men agree people want to buy a car "from a guy whose vital, makes a man feel like you know he's on the winning team, makes a woman feel all protected and safe."
As Brennan watches Booth question a suspect and tells Sweets "I wanna do that ... connect to people, like Booth does ... you can teach me!"
B+B go to a strip club to question a dancer:
Booth: "You know what you didn't have to come inside with me."
Brennan: "I look forward to observing your behaviour."
[ ... Brennan tells Booth she wants to study his "technique" ... ]
Booth: "Alright Bones, you know it's a little weird that you're here watching why don't you just go outside?"
Strawberry Lust: "It's not weird baby, lots of people like to watch."
Brennan: "Thank you. I get tremendous satisfaction out of observing a whole variety of activities."
Booth: "I'd like to ask you a couple of questions." (Booth is pushed into a seat)
Strawberry Lust: (giggles) "You're boyfriend's shy isn't he. Sweet. That'll be sixty bucks."
Brennan: "Okay, I got that." (she hands over the cash and sits down to watch)
Booth: "Bones!"
Strawberry Lust: "Relax, she's going to be enjoying this too."
Booth looses his focus whilst Strawberry Lust dances in front if him provocatively. Brennan observes, "You have excellent control of your hips ... she's quite arousing which I imagine turns into excellent tips."
Booth questions Strawberry Lust as Brennan watches and they finally get a lead:
Brennan: "Then tell Miss Lust to get up."
Strawberry Lust: "I think that might be a little embarrassing right now. Huh baby!"
Booth: (to Miss Lust) "That's my gun." (to Brennan) "Give us a minute?"
Brennan: "Okay." (she sits down)
Booth: "Outside?" (pleading)
Brennan: "What's outside?"
Booth: "Can you go outside please?" (embarrassed)
Brennan: "Did we get our sixty dollars worth yet?"
Brennan asks if she can interrogate a suspect, "Please Booth, I'm ready ... really if you can do it I can." Booth asks, "Seriously, you think you can do anything I can?" and Brennan replies, "Not the big, strong, sheerly physical things but otherwise yes!" She is terrible and Booth blames Sweets, "It's all your fault you know!" But he is impressed she found out something important. Over dinner she is puzzled as to what she found out and Booth has to explain to her.
Brennan seems agitated when she tells Angela, "I have been to 74 interrogations with Booth, 42 in the room and 32 observing, I should be able to do it." Angela laughs and explains "What Booth has you can't learn from baby boy shrink ... Booth's brilliant at pretending to be stupider actually is, most of the time ... especially around you ... he knows that you like to be the smart one, so he lets you have that." Brennan asks, "Why would Booth do that?" and even though she states, "You know I am smarter than Booth" she fails to understand Booth's gift. Angela smiles at her friend and suggests, "Maybe you should just let him have the people skills part of the job to himself then?"
At the Founding Fathers B+B split the bill and Brennan seems upset:
Brennan: "You haven't said anything about my interrogation."
Booth: "Okay, you know what (gently) ... you did great. Better than I thought."
Brennan: "I was terrible." (laughs) "Everybody's right. I lack empathy."
Booth: "You got empathy. You're awkward. That's different."
Brennan: "My stuff in Bones. Yours is people."
Booth: "Right, so you're admitting that I'm better at something than you are?" (carefully)
Brennan: "No ... " (they share a look) "Yes. A lot better." (she smiles)
Booth: "Thanks Bones."
B+B go outside and Booth is excited to tell Brennan he has the sports car. Brennan wants to drive it but Booth is concerned:
Booth: "Driving a machine like this is like making love you have to go gently."
Brennan: "I go for passionate and uninhibited rather than gentle."
Booth: Bones, gently. Gentle Bones. Gentle!"
When Brennan drives the car too fast they immediately start to bicker and Booth tells her, "You know what do it without me." but Bones complains, "It's no fun without you."
417. The Salt in the Wounds
B+B find the body of a teenage girl and when speaking with the victims parents Brennan is a little direct> Booth doesn't say anything to her as he seems to sense she understands what she said was too harsh. At the chiropractor Brennan is surprised / impressed when Booth knows the knee damage is jumpers knee. Booth grins when the doctor tells Brennan, "You aren't a real medical doctor either."
B+B question the boys at the high school and Brennan whispers to Booth, "Pregnancy is unlikely without intercourse." Booth considers her for a moment, "Thanks for the tip Bones." They then question the girls and both B+B agree high school girls getting pregnant at a young age is a bad idea and both look shocked when Clinton is found to be the father of four of the children.
Brennan talks to Angela about living in the moment as opposed to looking to the future.
When Booth is unable to get a warrant for the chiropractor Brennan states, "If Booth and I hadn't questioned Dr Fitz we could mount one of our clever undercover operation." She grins at Booth who grins back.
At the bar B+B discuss the case and bicker over the girls choosing to raise their children together without men. Booth says, "Men do not like a world without responsibility." But Brennan reminds him Clinton was fine with that idea. Booth realises she is right and decides to call Clinton and arrange to meet him. Brennan understands "It's a guy guy thing." She watches him leave and later she stands across the street from the diner and watches Booth talking to Clinton and smiles.
418. Dr in the Den
B+B attend the crime scene and Booth tells Brennan he visited the Safari park with Parker and asks if they can visit the monkeys. Booth gives Brennan several facts from Parker's animal book, and when he tells her giraffe sleep only 2 hours a day he is victorious, "Yes! Pinky stumps the Brain."
B+B drive Cam to tell Michelle her father has been killed and Booth tells Brennan, "t’s best that you...stay in the lab a little bit more. Just this time around ... She needs this. Just trust me on this, Bones." Brennan looks unimpressed suggesting she should work in the lab "Because that’s where I’m most useful. I understand. You and Cam can rely on your statistically inaccurate guts to solve the case."
419. The Science in the Physicist
At the crime scene when Brennan tells Booth something is the size of an Australopithecus he reminds her, "Sports terms Bones, remember we talked about this ... soft ball ... good you're getting better." He whispers to Bones, "Would you even wanna guess what happened to this human being ... [NO] .. I knew you'd say that, I just had to ask."
When Hodgins and VNM blow up the lab protective!Booth throws Brennan against the wall. They look at one another and then they grab hands and run out just as the alarms go off the and doors shut.
At the Collar Institute for Physics Research Booth asks Brennan, "Are these people here smarter than you?" It is Dr Collar who answers Booth's question suggesting, "That would depend on how one defines intelligence." Booth realises Dr Collar and Brennan have met before and seems perturbed when Dr Collar touches and flirts with Brennan.
As B+B question students at the institute Booth finds he is somewhat out of his league and tells Brennan, "This one’s all yours." During the questioning Brennan tells Booth, "You wouldn’t understand, Booth." and Booth admits, "This place is making me cranky." As Brennan and Collar continue to be clever Booth tells them, "Oh come on. Don’t look at each other like that. I bet neither one of you know how to make your own beer."
B+B watch Sweets interrogate:
Booth: "In my opinion it's a good thing they didn’t accept you at that place."
Brennan: "Why?"
Booth: "It’s creepy. Everyone there is creepy."
Brennan: "Well if you think they’re creepy then you must think that I’m creepy."
Booth: "Well, you have a creepy mode, Bones."
Booth uses a lot of air quotes before heading in to question the suspect himself.
B+B wear hazmat suits and Booth freaks when Brennan explains why she was touching his spine, "Woah! You're testing me on the cancer chair!? ... No, no, no, no. You don’t just go around doing human testing on people, Bones. I got to go to the bathroom"
When B+B approach the lab door and hears moans from inside Booth pulls out his gun and asks Brennan to get the door. They walk in on a couple having sex and turn to leave as Booth says, "It’s like ClubMed Mensa around here." Booth sits on the floor leaning against the wall as Brennan comes to join him they talk:
Booth: "You know, most people you bust in on having sex with a gun, you know, (he whistles) it kinda disrupts the mood."
Brennan: "Perhaps they decided to start all over again from the beginning." (She leans against the wall and slides down into a sitting position next to Booth. She laughs and Booth looks away, embarrassed) "It’s just sex Booth."
Booth: "It’s not that. Look, I’m not a prude."
Brennan: "Well ... you have what they would call hang ups."
Booth: (looks around to make sure no one is around.) "You know that guy Landis?"
Brennan: "Yes."
Booth: "He’s about to make a move on you."
Brennan: (she shakes her head) "How do you know?"
BOOTH: "Because it is the rational and smart thing to do and he is all about that. I see how he looks at you."
Brennan: "How he looks at me? He’s blind."
Booth: "It’s too literal, Bones. His fiancé was just murdered and he’s already moving on."
Brennan: "Well she’s gone. He has accepted it."
Booth: "Look, good people. They leave marks on each other. The least we could do is let them fade away naturally, not you know, scrape them off, or paint over them with new marks."
Brennan: "So you’re not a prude?"
Booth: (laughs) "Moi? Hey, I am a very fun and (he stands and does a little dance) very sexy guy." (Brennan laughs) "That’s right."
Brennan: (standing) "So you just think that if two people care about each other they leave metaphorical marks which should be allowed to fade naturally?"
Booth: "You heard me but you just didn’t understand me."
Brennan: "Yeah, I wonder that about you call the time." (Booth looks at her quizzically)
In Booth's car he again impresses Brennan with his understanding from the institute and he admits, "Yeah, well I’ve learned a lot from you. And a lot from watching the Discovery Channel with Parker." When B+B get trapped inside the high pressure chamber Brennan tells Booth, "We have to get out of here. (scared) Booth, what we have to do here is we have to try to counter ... counteract the wavelengths." They begin making high pitched squeeling noises but both collapse to the floor. Brennan passes out but Booth manages to shoot the glass. As he passes out alongside Brennan we see his hand is on Brennan's thigh underneath her hand. After they are found by Dr Collar both shout at one another as Brennan tries to rouse Booth.
In the interrogation room Booth is proven right when Dr Collar asks Brennan for her phone number. She refuses his offer. And when Dr Collar accidentally punches Agent Booth, Brennan is concerned and touches Booth's face asking, "Are you okay>" Booth tells her he's alright and admits, "You know you’re the only smart person I really like."
At the Founding Fathers B+B talk about the case:
Booth: "I didn’t mean to call you creepy."
Brennan: "You said I have a creepy mode."
Booth: "I apologize. Okay, look, I wasn’t in my element."
Brennan: "What? Every element is your element."
Booth: "No, that is not true. Okay, listen. (he pauses) We just got to stop hanging out with geniuses because you’re going to figure out that I’m really stupid. "
Brennan: "What? Don’t worry about that. I figured out a long time ago how stupid you are."
Booth: (thinks about that for a sec) "Hmmm."
Brennan: "What I just said is true and yet it really sounded wrong. What I should say is I don’t care how stupid you are." (Booth doesn’t say anything) "It’s not any better?"
Booth: "No. No. Not at all." (squints arrives)
Brennan: "..... But then there’s another quality which is the ability to use intelligence. That is what you have."
Booth: (he thinks about that and then smiles) "Thanks, Bones."
They have a moment where they just look at one another.
420. Cinderella in the Cardboard
Booth tells Brennan, "Miracles do happen." at the crime scene but Brennan proves it is a murder and not the Virgin Mary.
B+B bicker in front of the plastic surgeon in Booth's office and he assumes they are seeing each other:
Brennan: "Self mutilation for an antiquated ritual .. it's barbaric."
Booth: "Well come on, marriage is very important to a lot of people Bones."
Brennan: "It's ridiculous. No-one can guarantee how they're going to feel about some one for life. We're not a monogamous species."
Booth: "Marriage has been around since the beginning of time."
Brennan: "Women from Amazonian tribes express their love by spitting in their partners faces I hope we've progressed past that."
Booth: "Okay well, you know what, sometimes love trumps logic." (Booth gets up and leans towards Brennan)
Brennan: "Love ..." (she leaves forward towards Booth) "... is a chemical process which causes delusion. An intellectually rigorous person would never get married."
Booth: "Never say never."
Brennan: "That's a paradox it makes no sense!"
Doctor: "Am I still needed here?" (both turn towards the man) "Because if you two are having relationship issues I can .... "
Brennan: "We're not a couple."
Booth: "We just, work together, that's all." (Both move apart glancing at one another)
When B+B visit the bridal shop Booth has his hand on Brennan's back as they enter and as they walk through the shop his arm is almost around her. The manager tells them, "You two are obviously meant for each other." B+B look at one another and Brennan laughs and says, "No." After questioning the manager Booth picks up a dress and says, "Oh come on Bones. You must have dreamt about being a bride before your heart turned to stone." But Brennan is offended, telling Booth, "Just because I don't wanna take part in a meaningless ritual doesn't mean I'm not a warm and affectionate person. There are even children who have taken to me." She tilts her head and looks at Booth who raises his eye brows. When Booth notices Daisy trying on a dress he does put his arm around Bones and turns her away from Daisy so they are not seen. One arm over her shoulder he places his other hand on the shoulder closet to him so he is holding her. When offered a veil Brennan embarrasses Booth by saying, "Well it's a symbol of virginity and I've been sexually active since I was ... "
At the FBI B+B discuss their new found knowledge that Daisy is (they assume) cheating on her fiancée with Sweets. Brennan wants to tell Sweets but Booth disagrees:
Brennan: "A woman buys a wedding dress to get married Booth, you know if you're such a strict adherer to monogamy then shouldn't you tell Sweets that he's being cuckolded?"
Booth: "No, listen Bones, there are complicated emotions that are involved here and it's definitely not your thing."
Brennan: "It's a matter of honesty."
Booth: "Bones, just trust me on this one alright, it's none of our business. It's none of our business."
Sweets enters asking what's none of their business and Booth pushes Brennan away and takes her coffee cup handing it to Sweets.
At lunch B+B talk about the case and Booth brings up the fact Brennan said she won't ever get married:
Brennan: "You're usually quite certain."
Booth: "No Bones, that would be you. (repeats her words) I'm never getting married."
Brennan: "You've never been married."
Booth: "Well I will."
Brennan: "That's impossible to know."
Booth: "You know what, obviously you have issues with this so next time when we see Sweets you should bring it up."
Brennan: "Sweets is having an affair with a women whose engaged. He's hardly one to give advice."
Booth: "You know what, you're scared. That's what it is! You are scared of love."
Sweets and Daisy enter and when Booth fears Brennan will reveal something regarding Daisy's affair he lifts her from her seat by her shoulders and pushes her from the bar - leaving without lunch.
Back at the lab Brennan tells Angela Booth won't let her tell Sweets about Daisy and Angela agrees with Booth.
When B+B enter the club it is Brennan who grabs onto Booth's arm as they walk through the crowd. As they search the back alley Brennan calls Booth over and places the orange safety glasses on Booth so he can see the blood.
Brennan goes to Booth's office to confess she has told Sweets about Daisy and Booth screws up his face and asks, "Why d'ya have to tell Sweets? He's gonna come in here, he's gonna cry and stuff." He does - asking Brennan to leave and Booth doesn't offer a guy hug to Sweets, "They don't hug things out .. they just, you know slug on the arm. It's the more manly thing to do." Guy hug?
At the FBI B+B discuss the case. Brennan turns the topic back to Sweets telling Booth that Cam agreed with him that she should have kept quiet:
Brennan: "I don't understand. Our lives are devoted to pursuit of truth."
Booth: "Look Bones you can't go around telling everyone what's on your mind even though it's the truth, okay? Look what if you and I were going out? Okay." (Brennan considers him briefly) "And you were taking forever to get ready and you came out in this dress and I told you I didn't like it. What are you going to do?"
Brennan: "I'd re-evaluate, change or ignore you."
Booth: "Of course you would Bones. Good answer."
Brennan arrives unexpectedly at Booth's apartment, knocking and calling to him:
Brennan: "I should have called."
Booth: "What .. no, are you kidding me?"
Brennan: "I saw Sweets and Daisy and I was wrong she wasn't cheating on him."
Booth: "That's a good thing right."
Brennan: "Well, I wanted to spare him pain but all I did was cause it." (she sits down on Booth's sofa)
Booth: "You meant well."
Brennan: "I made him so jealous I almost ruined their relationship. I should have listened to you."
Booth: "Maybe next time you will. Hey, I was just gonna go out and grab a bite to eat, some Chinese maybe some .. "
Brennan: "I'd rather drink. Do you want one?" (She gets up and walks to the sideboard returning with a bottle and a glass)
Booth: "Yes. We could do that. My ... good bottle of Scotch. Bottoms up Bones." (She pours Booth a glass and sits back down with the bottle)
Brennan: "You know intellectually I know that jealousy is absurd. But I see that its real for people." (pauses) "I even experience it myself." (She looks to Booth who walks over to her and settles next to her)
Booth: "So, erm, (softly) who are you jealous of?"
Brennan: "Angela ... Hodgins ... Cam ... you?"
Booth: "Why?"
Brennan: "Because you all want to loose yourself in another person. You believe that love is transcendent and eternal." (pauses and looks at Booth) "I wanna believe that too."
Booth: "Hey, you will (he sits next to her) I promise, some day, you will. You will. Some day. Okay." (they toast) "You will"
421. Mayhem on the Cross
Gordon Gordon visits Booth at the FBI and tells him Sweets is writing a book about B+B. When GG and Sweets meet GG says that in reading Sweets' books it appears they realise they have differing opinions on B+B:
Sweets: "Okay, now I'm hearing a caveat."
GG: "It's a small one. It's just that, Brennan and Booth, aren't in any way opposites."
Sweets: "Wow. Small. What is that? British understatement?"
GG: "Well, yes. He's a man and she's a woman. He's instinctual, she's empirical."
Sweets: "Opposites."
GG: "Superficial ephemera, Dr Sweets."
Sweets: "Ok, what about the sexual component in their relationship?"
GG: "Ah!"
Sweets: "Would you agree that they have both sublimated their attraction to each other out of fear of endangering their working relationship because their working relationship is paramount to both of them?"
GG: "Alas, I'm afraid I wouldn't agree with that no."
Sweets: "Wow. Which part?"
GG: "Well everything you just said. Yes, one of them is acutely aware of that attraction and struggles with it daily as a matter of fact."
Sweets: "Wow. I'm sorry to keep saying that. Which one?"
GG: "It's your book Dr Sweets. I would never tell you what to write."
During lunch at the diner Sweets tells B+B he asked GG to write the introduction to the book he has written about them but that he refused and is retiring. When Booth takes a call from Cam he tells Brennan, "Just figure out cause of death for me okay?"
B+B take GG to see the death metal band and when the band won't stop playing Booth fires his gun causing GG to remind him, "If you recall it was shooting inanimate objects that had you brought to me for therapy in the first place." B+B agree it was a justifiable shooting. Booth gets Brennan to wear an ear plug for the following interrogation he can't attend (desk duty!) and he secretly watches on a laptop and gives Brennan advice and interrogation tips.
When Brennan goes alone to a gig Booth tells her, Listen Bones, I don't want you there alone okay." When she asks Booth to call an ambulance he refuses to hang up and she has to hang up on him.
Booth again coaches Brennan in her interrogation form his desk and this time she acts all tough guy. Booth loves it, "Atta girl! Give it to him!"
B+B have lunch at the diner with GG and he gives Booth his gun back causing Brennan to ask, "So Booth is back?" They discuss the case but the topic turns to Sweets and his book about B+B. GG suggests that it reveals more about Sweets than about B+B causing Brennan to share with Booth and GG that she saw scars on Sweets' back:
GG: "He finds it extremely frustrating, your lack of willingness to discuss your childhood experiences with him."
Brennan: "What does that tell you?"
Booth: "No, don't ask him that. He's going to think we both had traumatic childhood."
Brennan: "We did. Your father was a violent drunk and mine abandoned me."
Booth: "Great (clapping) Just tell everyone at the diner won;t you Bones."
In Brennan's office B+B talk with both shrinks and GG points at Booth saying, "He does that doesn't her, he wants to be underestimated?"
B+B get the murderer to confess and during the investigation Brennan whispers in Booth's ear to explain the Milton reference GG gave.
At Booth's apartment as GG cooks for B+B he tells them Sweets wants a family and Brennan asks, "So Sweets has imprinted on us? Like a baby duck?" GG suggests, "You might just show the lad he's not the only one with scars on his back" and so Booth leads Brennan out to go "duck hunting." They enter Sweets office and Booth invites Sweets to dinner. When he tries to refuse saying he's busy Brennan immediately shocks both men:
Brennan: "My foster parents locked me in the trunk of a car for two days when I broke a dish. (Booth looks shocked) I was a very clumsy child. They warned me it would happen but the water was so hot and the soap was so slippery (she looks at Booth who is almost in tears watching her) I still don't think it was fair even though they give me fair warning. The water was so hot."
Sweets: "No, it wasn't fair at all. It wasn't your fault."
Booth: "Bones (whispering) What are you doing?" (Booth hands Brennan his handkerchief)
Brennan: "You said that scars on the back was a metaphor. Isn't that why we're here? To metaphorically compare scars?"
Booth: "I came to bring Sweets back to my place for dinner. That's all." (Brennan takes the handkerchief)
Sweets: "Scars on the back?"
Brennan: "I saw them, Sweets."
Sweets: "So, what, you decided to just share something from your past? That is so unlike you."
Brennan: "I still hate psychology. (she turns to Booth) Okay, your turn. Go."
Booth: "I came here to bring Sweets back to my place for dinner. That's all"
Brennan tilts he head and her eyes plead with Booth who submits and speaks looking Brennan in the eye throughout)
Booth: "Okay, if it wasn't for my grandfather I probably would have killed myself when I was kid" (he turns to Sweets) "But that's all I'm gonna say on the subject matter, you understand? (He turns back to Brennan who returns his look) "Are you okay, Bones?"
Brennan: "Yeah, I'm fine. Here."
She folds up Booth's handkerchief and places it back in his jacket pocket, holding it briefly in place with her hand. Just as she removes her hand Booth places his hand over the handkerchief and raises his eyes to look at Bones. They share a quiet moment and then both turn to find Sweets smiling at them.
Brennan: "Why are you nodding?"
Sweets: "Nothing. Just, Wyatt made an observation about you two and I think I just saw what he saw."
To avoid hearing anything further Booth suggests they leave and B+B lead Sweets from his office.
422. Double Death of the Dearly Departed
Booth drives Brennan, Cam and Hodgins to the funeral of a guy from the Jeff' and as B+B talk in the car, Cam and Hodgins grin in the back seat:
Brennan: ""They say cause of death was heart failure resulting from a congenital defect."
Booth: "You're not gonna talk like that when we get there right?"
Brennan: "Like what?"
Booth: "It's a wake Bones, it's not a crime scene. (removes his sunglasses) You know, I'm sorry for your loss. How are you holding up. Stuff like that."
Brennan: "I know."
Booth immediately has to whisper to remind her "I'm sorry for your loss" when the brother of the deceased says hello. Booth tells Brennan to pay her respects, shoving her towards the coffin but when she lingers too long he joins her to pull her away, "You really suck at this ... you are staring way too long at this guy." Brennan tells Booth the guy was murdered and he sends her outside following her with whisky suggesting, "Code word for murder, I want you to say translation." As they discuss the 'translation' Booth puts his arm around Brennan and walks with her asking, "Bones, is there any chance you just feel bad for not knowing this guy like the rest of us did so now you're just making it about you and saying he was translated instead of dying of natural causes." She says no and explains her evidence causing Booth to be disgusted when Brennan admits she touched the body. He tells her drink up will you ... cause I'm hoping you're going to pass out!" but eventually agrees to try for an injunction and send Bones inside telling her, "Put on a sad face." Booth then downs his drink and makes the call.
Booth finds Brennan messing with the body and tells her he didn't get the injunction. She tells him to guard the door and he tries to pull her away but Cam enters and they explain the guy was possibly murdered. B+B then find the funeral guy having sex with the widow and Brennan does her hand sex gesture to Booth. After questioning the guy Brennan obviously convinces Booth to steal the body because during Hodgins' speech they steal the body with Cam's help.
When Brennan returns and tells Booth, Jack and Angela about the murder she corrects Booth twice when he mis quotes a chemical component. They handcuff the embalmer to the coffin and Booth asks Brennan to suggest what he should say to people who want to see the (now absent body) telling her what she came up with is, "Perfect .. it's so gross!"
In order to speak with a suspect Booth asks Brennan, "Can you get lost? ... I can be devastatingly charming if you aren't watching me." He then suggests she be the one to question the victim's brother:
Brennan: "Is it because I'm an attractive and sexy young woman who will loosen his tongue?"
Booth: "Well, definitely, of course there's that. But also, he wants you to publish his book."
In the SUV when Brennan asks, "What about the lawyer" Booth smiles smugly saying, "She seemed very nice." and Brennan considers him for a moment before he changes the subject. Brennan is then surprised Booth knows Cam smokes. Bones also proves herself, "a genius Bones, an absolute genius" when she comes up with a way to catch the murderer.
At the graveyard Booth links arms with Brennan and as they walk together he tells her:
Booth: "Look if I die, I want you to do me a favour."
Brennan: "Well you will die Booth. It's inevitable."
Booth: "Alright. Whatever Bones. When I inevitably drop dead before you I'd like you to come out and, you know, spend some time and talk to me every once in a while."
Brennan: "I'll feel foolish knowing that you can't hear me."
Booth: "Promise me." (he stops walking and looks at her, eyes pleading and raises his eyebrows)
Brennan: "I promise."
Booth: "Hey, there you go huh. You agreed. I didn't think you would agree. Now, why did you agree?"
Brennan: "I believe that if I pretended you were still here I'd feel better for a moment. Also, speaking to you would require me to figuratively look at myself through your eyes, again temporarily, and I think that would make me live my life more successfully."
Booth: "Hmmm. You know Bones ... (he puts his arms around her her) ... that is the best thing, that anyone has ever said about me."
Brennan: "I'll say it at your wake"
Booth: "Oh, it's raining now come on (he opens the umbrella) get under the umbrella it's raining. Just make sure that when they put me in the ground I'm dead." (he puts his arm around her again)
Brennan: "Yeah, no problem."
423. The Girl in the Mask
At the diner Brennan seems to be considering which of her grad students to hire telling Booth, "I've decided to take your opinion into account as I make this decision." Booth smiles and seems happy she is considering his opinion, even though he tells her to hire Vincent because she thinks he is intelligent, "that's what you like, so you should hire him. I mean, this person's going to be your right-hand man."
Booth gets a call from his friend in Japan and he tells Brennan about Nak and his missing sister. She asks, "When were you in Japan?" and Booth explains "A few years ago on an exchange program with the Tokyo police." B+B drive to the crime scene and Brennan wades into the water causing Booth to get a little concerned, "Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, Bones, what we usually do here is wait for people in rubber boots ... Okay, Bones, come on, get out of there. Let's go."
At the Jeff' Booth introduces Brennan to Nak and asks Brennan to work the case with Dr Tanaka. Even though it "is against protocol" she agrees and as Tanaka watches the squints examine the body Booth asks "Bones could you just jump ahead and ID the victim?"
Brennan later learns more about Booth and his time in Japan from Nak, "Most of the FBI agents showed up and started telling us how to handle our organized crime problem. Booth said nothing. Two, three days, just listening." Brennan chuckles at this, "He was quiet? That that does not sound like Booth." Nak explains Booth was "respectful" and tells Brennan, "You are a lucky woman Dr Brennan." Brennan considers this and answers, "To work with Booth? Yes, I know." She smiles and Nak seems to qualify his meaning, "To work with Booth .. yes."
When B+B question James Sok, Booth tells him, "You're a pimp. I don't like pimps." Brennan warns Sok, "He really doesn't." and when Booth squares up to Sok Brennan steps in to takes Booth's arm and pull him away, "Booth, come on." They later question Vogler during a massage and Booth has to explain it's "Not that type of massage ... "
In her office Brennan shares her background with Nak and admits, "it would've been nice to have had a brother like you." She tells him the phone records indicate Nak and his sister talked often and suggests "objectively speaking, it would indicate a, an irrefutable desire to connect. A deep and abiding love ... I myself have no one in my life whom I talk to that much. Outside of work, I mean." Brennan then surprises Nak in saying, "Perhaps that is good ... I can see how much pain you're in ... " She then asks "Is it worth it? To have your own happiness so contingent upon another human being?" Nak explains simply, "If I was willing to give up my life for Sachi ... why would I not be willing to risk my happiness for her?"
Booth refuses to say water feature in the car, "I'll say pond or pool." When he tells Nak to stay at the Jeff' Brennan questions him and Booth explains:
Booth: "The man's in big pain, Bones. Makes it hard for him to hear ... "
Brennan: "I've never heard of grief affecting auditory acuteness."
Booth: "Medical fact. Look it up."
In interrogation Brennan watches as Booth gets very angry with the suspect. His confession leads to an arrest and after the case B+B discuss the case at Booth's apartment. Booth makes a banana split for Brennan and spoon feeds her making aeroplane noises. Brennan however asks for alcohol and Booth finally relents and opens beer. She asks Booth, "Will he recover? Your friend Ken? ... People die. There's a fault in the design if we can't recover from it." Booth explains "we aren't sent anything that we can't handle." and seemingly thinking back to her conversation with Nak Brennan continues to question love:
Brennan: "I'm not convinced that loving someone is worth it."
Booth: "I got a son, and it's worth it."
Brennan: "Even if he died?"
Booth: "Whoa. Bones, don't even say anything like that. Don't even put that out there. It is worth it, and everything around it is worth it. Every moment, everything ... is worth it."
424. The Beaver in the Otter
At the crime scene Booth proudly tells Brennan "You know, Bones, when I was in College, my fraternity, we stole a cadaver, dressed it up like Caesar and put it on a statue of a horse " She appears unimpressed.
Brennan calls Booth whilst he is with Jared and they agree to meet at the college campus where they question students. When questioning the frat boys Booth chooses to take Sweets instead of Brennan, reporting back in with her at her office where Booth tells her:
Booth: "Look, these kids, they go out into the world, they’re alone, they have no supervision, they have to be bad just in order to figure out what it is, you know. Scientific fact, their frontal lobes are the size of raisins"
Brennan: "No, that is not a scientific fact."
Booth: "What they gotta do is build their frontal lobes, with exercise, okay and that comes from doing the wrong thing."
Sweets: "Ok, so your theory is, you gotta be bad to be good?"
Booth: "Exactly, facts of life, my friend."
When Brennan decides they should collect DNA from the frat boys sheets Booth takes her and they walk in on a "toga memorial" When all the boys take off the sheets and stand naked Booth grins and leaves Brennan to it and goes to meet Jared. Back in Beaver's room Booth complains to Brennan about Jared and trying to be helpful she suggests, "I can provide you with several societies where younger brothers are required under pry of death to do what their older brothers tell them."
Booth cringes as Brennan questions the chemistry professor and asks Brennan if she approves when realising, "Professor Twardosh took revenge against unethical students who had no respects for knowledge." Booth admits, "Look, your college’s experience was with professors, with was with students and jocks."
When they discover Beaver was not having a relationship with the professor Booth states, "Okay, did anyone think that? Honestly? Because I did not." Brennan explains to Cam and Angela, "Booth believes that the cringe factor was too high, even though cringe factor is not a valid mathematical construct. " When the meeting ends Booth gets up to leave:
Brennan: "What are you going to do?"
Booth: "Uh, something personal."
Brennan: "What?"
Booth: "Personal! Personal means personal, you know, not for the public." (he leaves)
Brennan: "Uh ... (turns to Cam and Ang) ... I’m not the public!"
Jared asks Booth to join him on his trip to India and Booth tells Brennan in the SUV:
Brennan: "Are you going?"
Booth: "We don’t like each other. "
Brennan: "So ... not going?"
Booth: "I mean, he’s my brother, so I love him."
Brennan: "I’m confused, you are going?"
Booth: "I mean, Jared should not go to India alone, he’ll get in all kinds of trouble."
Brennan: "You said he’s never been alone."
Booth: "Exactly, you know what? He’ll get eaten alive"
Brennan: "If you go with him, then he won’t be alone, you won’t let him be bad and his frontal lobe will always be the size of a raison, that’s what you said. Makes no scientific sense."
Booth: "Yea, I said that (he nods) ... got it"
At the Jeff' Arastoo admits to Booth, "Dr. Brennan said to be especially polite with out when the science is difficult." causing Booth to get annoyed, "How stupid do you people think I am?""
Case over Booth meets Jared and, telling him to go alone to India, hands him a St Christopher medal (which may or may not be their grandfathers). He joins Brennan who asks, "So, uh, do you ... do you really think you have to be bad to be good? ... Well, I’ve never done anything bad ... I don’t want my frontal lobe to be a dried up raisin." Booth tells her "I believe you." and to help her do something bad suggests they "dine and dash" Squealing with delight Brennan runs from the bar and Booth chases after her, leaving the money on the bar. He grabs her arm and they jump in the car.
425. The Critic in the Cabernet
In therapy Sweets asks B+B to play a word game, to "respond with whatever word or phrase pops into your head". And so B+B play "Hunger ... sex ... woah ... horse ... cowboy ... child ... baby ... booth ... father ... mother ... birth ... happy ... sperm ... egg ...I want a baby!" Yup, just like that Brennan decides she wants a baby. Booth is surprised, so is Sweets, especially when she suggests to Booth, " You’d be a very good donor, potentially." They leave therapy without further discussion when they get a new case.
At the vineyard B+B discuss her decision:
Brennan: "You’re the one who’s always touting parenthood, implying that my life is incomplete because I don’t have a child."
Booth: "I know, but this is kind of sudden."
Brennan: "Hmm, perhaps you don’t want to help me."
Booth: "Of course I do."
Brennan: "So you’ll do it?"
Booth: " I’ll think about it."
Brennan: "What? I don’t understand. It’s a simple request. I’m sure you engage in masturba…"
Booth: "Whoa."
Brennan: "Horse."
Booth: "Enough. Okay, we’ll talk about it later."
Brennan: "Well, I’m not asking for you to be involved. All I want is your sperm."
Booth laughs this off as FBI guy Marcus hears their discussion and Booth obviously wants it kept private.
Back at the Jeff' Brennan announces over the bones that she plans to have a baby with Booth. The squints are shocked and Fisher offers his sperm in case Booth says no. A stunned Angela follows Brennan to her office to discuss her announcement:
Angela: "Brennan… this is crazy."
Brennan: "Why? I’m intellectually gifted, financially secure. Statistically I could expect to have an exceptional child."
Angela: "Fine. Yes. Absolutely. But you do know how this is supposed to work, right? You get naked together. You devour each other in a passionate frenzy."
Brennan: "Booth would think that would create an emotional bond between us."
Angela: "Of course that’s ridiculous."
Brennan: "I knew you’d understand."
Angela: "Then why use Booth at all? Why don’t you use Fisher and his discount sperm?"
Brennan: "No, Booth has a larger mandible and a more prominent zygomatic than Fisher, as well as a more pronounced ratio between the width of his clavicles and his ilia."
Angela: "So, it’s because Booth is hot. Now we’re getting somewhere."
Brennan: "Statistically, attractive people are more successful. I’m only thinking of the child, Angela."Then do this right, sweetie."
Brennan: "I am. Emotional ties are ephemeral and undependable. Look at you and Hodgins. You and Roxy. Booth and Rebecca. Booth and Cam."
Angela: "Brennan, I ..."
Brennan: "I appreciate your concern, but I have thought this through rationally."
As Angela talks to Brennan, Cam visits the FBI to talk to Booth:
Cam: "I know you, Seeley. You’re going to do it. You want to do it without really doing it. But it’s still doing it even if you’re not doing it the way it should be done."
Booth: "She wants a kid, okay? It’ll make her more personable with people."
Cam: "And what will it do for you?"
Booth: "She’ll get what she wanted."
Cam: " A piece of you?"
As B+B continue with the case they learn Holt’s wife was pregnant when he disappeared and this leads them to discuss single motherhood and brings them back to Brennan:
Booth: "Uh, you know, if we go, uh, through with this, and I’m around, and if you need help…"
Brennan: "Well, I’ll have a nanny."
Booth: (awkward) "I-I figured. But, you know, if it’s her day off."
Brennan: "You don’t have faith that I can do it?"
Booth: "What?"
Brennan: "You think I’d be a good mother, don’t you?"
Booth: "Yeah, of course."
Brennan: "I know sometimes you don’t think I’m empathetic. And it can be difficult for me sometimes. But I would love my child, Booth, I would."
Booth: "I know. I-I know that, Bones."
Brennan: "I know people disapprove. If you’re uncomfortable, Fisher sells his sperm monthly, he’s very intelligent and ..."
Booth: "Oh, Fisher? Fi-Oh, no, you are not having Fisher’s kids. You’d be giving birth to the spawn of Satan, okay? I’ll do it."
Brennan: "No obligation. I don’t want you to feel any obligation."
Booth: "I’ll do it. Don’t worry about it, okay? It’s your kid, it’s totally yours."
They question Jenny and Brennan helps with the baby, swinging her back and forth she says, "You like spatial disorientation, don’t you? Yes, you do." Back in the SUV Brennan continues the baby discussion with Booth:
Brennan: "Would you like legal protection?"
Booth: "No, I-I don’t need legal protection."
Brennan: "Okay. I’ve made an appointment for you at the fertility clinic. They will check your semen for motility, morphology, sperm count."
Booth: "Woah! My boys can swim, alright? I have a child, do you remember?"
Brennan: "This isn’t personal. I-I’d be remiss if I didn’t look at an analysis of your semen. It’s a very simple process. You just go to the clinic, give a sample. It takes five minutes. They have pornography, if you need stimulus."
Booth: (embarrassed) "I get it ... You really liked holding that kid, didn’t you?"
Brennan: "Yeah. I’ve been thinking about how exciting it will be to expose my own child to early pattern recognition."
Booth: "Yeah. I’ve been thinking about how exciting it will be to expose my own child to early pattern recognition."
Brennan: "Yeah, of course. I will make a diverse schedule."
When Booth's goes to the clinic he is somewhat nervous and he sees Stewie from Family Guy in the TV screen. Stewie asks Booth why he is doing this for Brennan and suggests, "You’ve got a hot doctor friend. Go to her and make a direct deposit like a man." Back in his FBI office Booth asks Sweets about what he saw - indirectly - and Sweets tells him, "Sometimes donors can feel an emotional attachment, even if they don’t know the recipient. But in this case, since you and Dr. Brennan are ...." Booth is extremely agitated and paces around his office.
Whilst questioning Kim Mortenson Brennan explains to Booth "Research shows that babies strongly resemble their fathers in the first year of life" and Booth is surprised realising, "does that mean that your kid will look like me, at least for the first year?"
It is in therapy that Brennan shares the news, "I have an appointment with a fertility specialist next week. I could be inseminated within a month." Booth is shocked and stays quiet allowing Sweets to ask Brennan some questions about how the baby will impact on their relationship. Sweets also tries to get Brennan to admit why she choose Booth:
Sweets: "I think you need to acknowledge that there are some emotional considerations that you might be denying. There are sperm banks that guarantee high IQs and exceptional physical prowess, yet you specifically chose Agent Booth. Why?"
Brennan: "He has traits like courage and compassion and empathy that would be tremendous assets to my child. Sperm banks don’t catalogue those traits."
Sweets ends up getting annoyed with his patients and asks, "How can you two not see what is going on here?" When he tells Brennan about Booth's anxiety at the clinic Booth's gets angry but Sweets holds firm stating, "In my position, I could make an evaluation that states that you two are not suited to work together because of interpersonal issues that are not being dealt with."
Angela makes another attempt to talk to Brennan, telling her friend, "Did you ever think, what if Booth is the perfect father for your child? Not just his stuff, but him. What if you’re throwing away the chance to have a family, a real family, because you’re scared? ... Listen, you just said you wanted to do this alone because feelings are ephemeral. So is life, Brennan. We’re here one minute, and then we’re gone the next. You should know that better than anybody. If you keep living trying to protect yourself, nothing is ever gonna touch you."
When Booth sees Stewie again in the interrogation room he confesses to Brennan, "I can’t do it. Listen, I have to be involved. If I’m the father, then I have to be a father." Brennan tells him to forget about having a baby and demands they go to the hospital. Once there she learns Booth has a brain tumour and tells the squints.
As Booth is prepared for surgery he looks for Brennan and when he finally sees her through the glass he breaks into a smile. She enters his room and he asks her, "Would you come in there with me, to the operating room? ... you’re a genius. That’s good enough for me. Plus, you’ll know if they’re screwing up." As Brennan walks alongside his bed towards theatre Booth asks for a moment with her and tells her, "Bones, if I don’t make it ... I want you to have my stuff. You know, for a kid ... I want you to. You’re gonna be a really good mom." He takes her hand and they enter the operating room.
426. The End in the Beginning
Brennan enters a bedroom and undresses before climbing into bed with Booth. Leaning over him and smiling she asks:
Brennan: "Do you love me?
Booth: "Yeah. Do you want me to prove it to you?"
Brennan: "Mmm, if you’re not too sleepy ... "
And they kiss and begin to make love.
But then it is morning and they are awakened by Cam and Jared (both cops) and told a body has been found at their nightclub. Cam suggests Brennan is having an affair and also suggests Jared wants a crack at Brennan. Brennan later tells Cam, "I had a very satisfying go-around with my husband at about 5 this morning, how about you?" After Cam calls Brennan "a cold fish" Booth makes her giggle saying, "what you are is Iceland. Cold to the touch, but underneath you’re all volcano." And when Booth uses logic on Brennan she calls him "sweet".
B+B have lunch with Max (a councillor) and Brennan says of Booth, "he wants me to be proud of him." and as the case progresses B+B discuss the murder:
Booth: "Why are all of our employees holding out on the cops?"
Brennan: "They love us. Especially you."
They discuss the fact everyone thinks Booth did it as they get dressed - Brennan fixing Booth's tie and kissing him. As B+B stand on the balcony they discuss the case again:
Brennan: "did the police try to convince you that I was having an affair with Arastoo?"
Booth: "It’s what they do, you know, drive wedges."
Brennan: "It wouldn’t be irrational to think that I was having an affair with him. He’s very handsome."
Booth: "Yeah, I’d feel if the energy was bad between the two us, I’d know. The same way that you would know that I couldn’t murder someone."
Brennan: "I do believe that you would murder someone for me. And I believe that you’d lie about it so I wouldn’t have to carry that burden."
Booth smiles and B+B walk towards their office where both admit they know who committed the murder:
Brennan: "You would kill for me, I know that, but whoever did this knocked him out, got my coat, before executing him. You would never do that. Jared is different."
Booth: "My brother killed a man to save my wife."
They head out back where Brennan convinces Jared to turn himself in.
Hodgins: "You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering; that’s the sad truth. Maybe they’ll break your heart; maybe you’ll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks " (this is also typed by Brennan)
"Hodgins: "You see two people and think they belong together, but nothing happens ..." (this is not in Brennan's typed words)
B+B relax in their office after the case is wrapped up and discuss how a lack of evidence may allow Jared to walk free. Brennan (Bren) sits down in Booth's (Mr B) lap and tells him:
Brennan: "Well, you know that glass of wine that we share every night? ... I have to stop that."
Booth: "Oh c’mon, Bren. Just because you have one glass of wine every night with your husband, doesn’t mean you’re an alcoholic."
Brennan: "That’s not why."
Booth: "No way!"
Brennan: "Yeah." (they kiss)
Booth: "You are pregnant! There’s a little baby boy, huh?" (he touches her belly)
Brennan: "Or girl…"
They lean toward one another, resting forehead against forehead and smile as they bring their arms around one another.
Hodgins "The thought of losing so much control over personal happiness is unbearable." (this is not typed by Brennan)
Brennan sits typing at Booth's bedside ...
Brennan and Hodgins: "That’s the burden. Like wings, they have weight, we feel that weight on out backs, but they are a burden that lifts us. Burdens that ... allow us to fly." Brennan hits the delete key and Booth awakens telling her he had a "weird dream ... it was so real." Looking at Brennan, Booth asks, "Who are you?"