- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, Dr. Brennan just wonders how someone of that importance could disappear.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: So - so quietly?
- Dr. Adit Gadh: "I will show you fear in a hand full of dust." T.S. Elliot. We don't actually fear death. We fear that - no one will notice our absense. That we will disappear without a trace.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I got the signal, Booth. I don't want to have any regrets.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [Long pause. Booth realizes what Bones means] Um, I'm with someone, Bones. And Hannah - she's not a consolation prize. I love her.
- [Bones cries]
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but those are the facts.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: ...I understand. I missed my chance. My whole world turned upside down. I can adjust.
- Micah Leggat: [after listening to a recording of the victim] It's like a voice from beyond the grave.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Like my voice.
- Micah Leggat: Very similar, yeah.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: It sounds exactly like my voice. She is me.
- Micah Leggat: She isn't you. She's her, and you're you. You're alive and she's dead. Ergo. Ipso-facto. Colombo. Oreo.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: What I see is that you're over identifying with the victim. Brilliant scientist, unmarried, without children, consumed by her work. You can't help but draw parallels to your own life.
- Micah Leggat: Musing out loud? In the nine years that we've known each other, I've never heard you do that before.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Actually, Micah, I was having a conversation with the victim... I ask her questions... and she answers.
- Micah Leggat: Tell you what, Doc, don't be mentioning that to anybody else but me.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why?
- Micah Leggat: Cause, uh, they'll think you've gone nuts.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: The victim. Does she remind you of anyone?
- Angela Montenegro: Sweetie, when you describe people in generalities like age and size, it fits a lot of people.
- [Bones hands Angela a ring]
- Angela Montenegro: Your dolphin ring. So what?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: It's not mine. It's the victim's.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: How did the opiates get into the tree?
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: Dr. Brennan?... It's good to get an insight into the victim, but I'm not certain that this line of inquiry leads directly to her murderer.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I... I feel like it will.
- Angela Montenegro: Okay. It's a little weird that you said that, Sweetie. But it's good.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: [Quietly to Angela] Good? If I said something like that she'd rip my head off.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: DC Metro Missing Persons investigated. Case went cold. Didn't go anywhere.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: How can that be? The woman was a surgeon.
- Hannah Burley: Single. No kids. Outside of people at work, there was no one to miss her.
- Micah Leggat: By the power invested in me by the Jeffersonian Institution, I declare you sleep deprived. There's a cab waiting to take you home to bed.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Do you really have that power?
- Micah Leggat: I saw a lecture with this New Age Guru type. Said the only power people exert on us is the power we allow them to exert.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Well, it's incredibly stupid.
- Micah Leggat: I agree. You wave a gun in my face, you've got power whether I like it or not.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: How - how come I understand every word you say? Always. I don't have that with anybody else. Sometimes I just hear... noise.
- Micah Leggat: Well, guess I've been here so long, I speak the secret language of the Jeffersonian.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Bones, why are you taking this so personally? I mean you're acting as though you're the one who's being accused of taking drugs.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I have nothing left for me to discover from the hard evidence.
- Micah Leggat: Well, that's the whole problem with being an Empirist.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: What is?
- Micah Leggat: Eventually you run out of things to measure, smell and count.
- Hannah Burley: [after Bones describes how their turkey dinner was killed] Retch.
- Angela Montenegro: Thank you for waiting until after we ate to show us that trick, Booth.