Bones (TV Series)
The Parts in the Sum of the Whole (2010)
Emily Deschanel: Temperance Brennan
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Quotes
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Special Agent Seeley Booth : I'm the gambler. I believe in giving this a chance. Look, I want to give this a shot.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : You mean us? No. The FBI won't let us work together.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Don't do that! That is no reason.
[They kiss]
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : No. No.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Why?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [Crying] You - you thought you were protecting me. But you're the one who needs protecting.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Protection from what?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : From me. I don't have your kind of open heart.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [Quietly] If we don't work together any more, we could have sex.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : I'll call a cab!
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Special Agent Seeley Booth : I just feel like um, this is going somewhere.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Why did you feel this is going somewhere?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Oh I just... I feel like I want to kiss you.
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Dr. Lance Sweets : You kissed?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Yes.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : There was tongue contact.
Dr. Lance Sweets : My book is crap!
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Well, anthropologically speaking, paramilitaristic organizations tend to constrain individuality.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : That's for sure.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : But in any group, no matter how restrictive, the free thinkers, the mavericks, the rebels with leadership qualities find a way to declare their distinctiveness.
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Special Agent Seeley Booth : I'd ask you out if I could.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Why can't you?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Well FBI rules again. No fraternizing with other agents, or consultants.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : That's too bad.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Glad you think so.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [after Bones hits Judge Haley] Is this very bad?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : I have been wanting to do that for years. You are so hot!
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : We are not spending the night together.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Of course we aren't. Why?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Tequila.
[Bones enters the cab]
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Hey!
[Booth runs to the cab]
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Hold - hold that cab. Hold that cab! Hey, so you afraid that when I look at you in the morning I'll have regrets?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : That would never happen.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [First meeting] Are you a student here?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Special Agent Seely Booth from the FBI.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I'm Dr. Temperance Brennan of the Jeffersonian Institute.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Do you believe in fate?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Absolutely not. Ludicrous.
[Jump to the present]
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I still don't.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : And I still do.
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Zack Addy : You can take the clothing and leave now.
Dr. Jack Hodgins : Yeah. You can take that femur and shove it...
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Dr. Hodgins!
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Perhaps the two of you could design an experiment.
Dr. Jack Hodgins : What? Whoa. No. Wait, work together?
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Have you tried striking Zack in the soft tissue or in the liver?
Zack Addy : What?
Dr. Jack Hodgins : Yeah, anatomy's really not my thing.
[Bones grabs the bat and hits Zack]
Zack Addy : Ow!
Dr. Jack Hodgins : Oh ho ho! That one had some pepper!
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I find that I'm annoyed with you.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Why, because I fired and hired you back? It's the Federal Government.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : No. Because you got me drunk to fire me and then have sex with me.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Oh no, I got myself drunk so I could fire you. And you decided not to have sex with me which I accepted, gracefully. So you regretting that decision?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : No. I'm not. It was a very good decision. I stand by it.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : We're not in love with each other. It took a year after we kissed to be in the same room together.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Oh absolutely right. No more kissing or anything.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I am not a gambler. I'm a scientist. I can't change. I don't know how... I don't know how.
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Dr. Lance Sweets : You called evidence crap. And she basically called you stupid.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : We were feeling each other up. Like a honeymoon period.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Out. We were feeling each other out.
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Dr. Jack Hodgins : So, your murder victim? Most likely struck with something made out of maple.
Zack Addy : Still an observation so vague as to approach meaninglessness.
Dr. Jack Hodgins : Is he *trying* to piss me off?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : You are always angry. I've been told you have an anger management problem.
Dr. Jack Hodgins : I'm... in a program. I'm supposed to snap this every time I get angry.
[He snaps a rubber band around his wrist]
Zack Addy : I'd be happy to do that for you.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Can we still work together?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Yeah.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Thank you.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : But I gotta move on. You know, I gotta find someone who's- who's going to love me in 30 years, or 40 or 50.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I know
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I'm Dr. Temperance Brennan from the Jeffersonian.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Uh, don't bother. You know, never remember Squints.
Caroline Julian : That's correct. And you know why?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Why?
Caroline Julian : Because they get all wishy washy, and flip floppy on the witness stand. So it's better I *don't* remember the last time they let me down when I need 'em again.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : You *will* be paid.
Angela Montenegro : I'm in. I'm saving to go back to Paris.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : How much do you have saved up so far?
Angela Montenegro : Whatever you're gonna pay me for that... skull, facial, murder, barf making monstrosity.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Even though my time and expertise are extremely valuable, I accept your decision to test my abilities. Obviously, I passed with a lot of color.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Pardon me?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : It means I did very well.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Oh, right. You, um... Flying colors. You passed with flying colors.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Yes. I know.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Can I come in and watch you broil the suspect?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Yeah, I could broil. But, I think you mean grill.
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Special Agent Seeley Booth : What is that? Is that a monkey?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : No. This is an Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba. The earliest known...
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Okay. Abracadabra can wait.
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Special Agent Seeley Booth : [after Dr. Sweets summarizes his conclusion about Brennan and Booth being in love] I just told you it's not what you think and you immediately say what you think.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : That's your interpretation. We recognize your right to interpret.
Dr. Lance Sweets : You do?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : That's your right as a psychologist to get everything wrong.
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Special Agent Seeley Booth : Okay, excuse me, you know what, you really need to learn how to speak to human beings.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I speak six languages, two of which you've never heard of.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : You know what? You're a cold fish.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : You're a superstitious moron.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Get a soul!
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Get a brain!
FBI Forensics Tech : Agent Booth?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan , Special Agent Seeley Booth : What?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : [to Bones] *I'm* Agent Booth.
[to the Tech]
Special Agent Seeley Booth : What?