- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: My foster parents locked me in the trunk of a car for 2 days when I broke a dish. I was a very clumsy child. They warned me it would happen, but the water was so hot and the soap was so slippery. I still don't think it was fair, even though they gave me fair warning. The water was so hot.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: Okay, what about the sexual component in their relationship?
- Dr. Gordon Wyatt: Ah.
- Dr. Lance 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.
- Dr. Gordon Wyatt: Alas, I'm afraid I wouldn't agree with that.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: Wow... Which part?
- Dr. Gordon Wyatt: With everything you just said. Yes, one of them is acutely aware of that attraction, struggles daily with it, in fact.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Where are we going?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Duck hunting.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Not really, right?
- [Booth quacks]
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [after sharing her own metaphorical scars, to Booth] Okay. Your turn. Go.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: I came here to bring Sweets back to my place for dinner, that's all.
- [Brennan gives him a look]
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Okay, if it wasn't for my grandfather, I probably would've killed myself when I was a kid. That's all I'm going to say on the subject matter. Understand? Are you okay, Bones?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Yeah, I'm fine. Here.
- [She folds up Booth's handkerchief and puts it in the front pocket of his suit over his heart, pressing her hand to it. She withdraws her hand and he presses his own hand to the handkerchief, holding his hand over his heart for a moment]
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [to Sweets] Why are you nodding?
- Dr. Lance Sweets: Nothing. Just... Wyatt made an observation about you two, and I think I just saw what he saw.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: You're gonna be a chef?
- Dr. Gordon Wyatt: That is correct, yes. I'm going to put good things into people instead of taking out things that are bad. I know it's a little Freudian, but Sigmund's been largely discredited, so to Hell with him.
- Dr. Gordon Wyatt: [to Sweets] So now you're mostly alone in the world. But they had time to save you. They gave you a good life, and that's why you believe that people can be saved by other people with good hearts. That's the gift your parents left you. That, and a truly good heart. That gives you a deeper calling that I do not share.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: What's black metal?
- Clark Edison: I don't know. It's Norwegian. Whole different kind of black.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: "Scars on the back?"
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I saw them, Sweets.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: So... what? You just decided to share something from your past? That is so unlike you.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I still hate psychology.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Gordon-Gordon is making cassoulet.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: It's stew. It's bean stew.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Cassoulet is better than regular stew.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Just because it's French doesn't mean it's better.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: Sounds better than stew.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: See? It sounds better.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: It's stew
- Dr. Gordon Wyatt: Show him he's not the only one with scars on his back.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: But he is.
- [Gordon-Gordon gives her a look]
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Too literal?
- Clark Edison: The annual murder rate in Norway is 0.7.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Less than one murder a year?
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: In that case, they should solve the ones they have, or they'll never get any practice.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [Watching from his office and speaking to Bones with an earbud] Okay listen, Bones, you just tell him you don't care if he did it or not, you'll just throw his ass in jail.
- [Bones scoffs]
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: It's all right to lie during an interrogation, it's a technique.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: The evidence is inconclusive regarding your guilt,
- [rising up and starts yelling]
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: But I will damn well make sure it's conclusive!
- Dr. Lance Sweets: Whoa. What?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Atta girl, give it to him.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I will perjure myself if I have to because you... make... me... sick, punk!
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Sweets... has scars on his back. Old one.
- Dr. Gordon Wyatt: Really?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: What kind of scars?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Like he'd been whipped.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Whipped?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I saw them.
- Dr. Gordon Wyatt: That explains his near obsession with your childhood trauma.
- Dr. Gordon Wyatt: [Discussing a photo from his youth when he was a glam rocker] Well, yeah, my alter ego, I suppose you might say. A bisexual spaceman with a taste for six-inch platform shoes, spandex, glitter, and an exhibitionists disdain for underclothing.
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: This is definitely murder.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: There are other possibilities.
- Clark Edison: Uh, I have to admit none spring to mind.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: One possibility: drunken death obsessed satan worshipping drug abusing teens rob a grave and re-enact an ancient torture.
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: Ah, just another Saturday night.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Norway?
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: We don't have enough crucified of our own, now the Vikings are sending them?
- Dr. Gordon Wyatt: [after Booth shoots some amplifiers] Yes, now if you recall, it was shooting at inanimate objects that had brought you to me for therapy in the first place.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: I thought it was a justifiable shooting.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I agree.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: She agrees. See?