Bones (TV Series)

The Woman at the Airport (2006)

T.J. Thyne: Jack Hodgins

Quotes 

• Dr. Jack Hodgins : You wanted to see me?

  Dr. Daniel Goodman : You are a very difficult and stubborn man, Dr. Hodgins. Right now I'd like nothing more than to fire you. In my position very few people tell me the truth anymore. I find I enjoy it, in some perverse way.

  Dr. Jack Hodgins : You're willing to admit you bailed on the authentication?

  Dr. Daniel Goodman : Yes.

  Dr. Jack Hodgins : Seriously?

  Dr. Daniel Goodman : But not for the reasons you think. True, we might be able to authenticate the skeleton by taking him apart, destroying him. If he's a fake that will be fine, nothing lost. But I think he's the real thing.

  Dr. Jack Hodgins : You do know he's been dead for fifteen hundred years, right?

  Dr. Daniel Goodman : I am an archaeologist. This is what we do. We step outside the facts and tell ourselves the story of an individual or a culture. And if the story I tell myself about this man who lived fifteen hundred years ago is true, if he was laid to rest by people who respected and loved him, don't I owe it to them not to let the pure scientists desecrate his remains?

  Dr. Jack Hodgins : Or you could be totally rational and say you were waiting for imaging technology to improve to the point where it wasn't necessary to disassemble him.

  Dr. Daniel Goodman : Ah, yes. I suppose I could say that. It's less, uh...

  Dr. Jack Hodgins : Sentimental - for the pure scientists.

  [they shake hands]