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"Bones" The Verdict in the Story (2008)

Russ Brennan: What about that genius kid at your lab?
Max Keenan: With the oversized eyes and the toaster head, that guy?
Clark Edison: I'm sorry if my normal-sized head and eyes diminish your confidence.

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Dr. Lance Sweets: Dr. Brennan everyone you work with, including your therapist...
Special Agent Seeley Booth: *Former* therapist.
Dr. Lance Sweets: Is endevoring to imprison your father. That's wicked stressful.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Booth is right. It doesn't bother me.
Dr. Lance Sweets: No, Booth is wrong. *Yes*, it does.

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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I'm fine.
Dr. Lance Sweets: If you were fine, you'd be balled up in a corner, weeping or semi-catatonic.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [turning to Booth] Does that sound fine to you?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'm sorry, Bones, but I'm going to have to agree with Sweets on this one.
Dr. Lance Sweets: I think it's important for you to know that *we* know that the colder more objective you appear on the outside, the more pain you feel on the inside.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I'm fine!
Dr. Lance Sweets: No, you're not!

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Angela Montenegro: [watching the defense exam evidence] I hate this. I *hate* it!
Dr. Camille Saroyan: What? Strangers on our forensic platform?
Dr. Jack Hodgins: Ange doesn't like that we're on different sides.
Angela Montenegro: All of us together, and Brennan alone.

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Angela Montenegro: If Brennan understands that we aren't crazily competitive about it, then we'll all come through this with our friendships intact.
Dr. Zack Addy: Besides, Dr. Brennan must realize that we're going to destroy them!
[everyone looks at Zack. Putting his hands on Zack's shoulders]
Dr. Jack Hodgins: I will explain "crazily competitive" to Zack over and over again, until he gets it.

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AUSA Caroline Julian: Have you no control over these people?
Dr. Camille Saroyan: None what-so-ever.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Look, Caroline, it's Bones! It's different. Let's just admit it!
AUSA Caroline Julian: Here's what's not different.
[to Booth]
AUSA Caroline Julian: Lose the "Cocky" belt buckle.
[to Hodgins]
AUSA Caroline Julian: No badges saying "Resist Authority" or "The Truth is Out There."
[to Zack]
AUSA Caroline Julian: Do *not* cut your own hair the day before the trial.
[to Angela]
AUSA Caroline Julian: Ugly up a little. The plain women on the jury hate you.
[to Sweets]
AUSA Caroline Julian: Use your fully grown up words.
[to Cam]
AUSA Caroline Julian: Eat! Last time your stomach was growling louder than your testimony.

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Special Agent Seeley Booth: Okay, listen up people. Bones, she believes in the system. She finds out that Angela is not going to testify, she's not going to like it. Okay? She'd want us to do our jobs.

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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I didn't see Angela today.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Angela refuses to testify.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Probably because she's your best friend.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Well, you're my friend. And you don't mind.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: I mind! We *all* mind. Except for Zack.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Well, in that case, Zack is the only one thinking clearly. I had to give Hodgins permission. I don't know what's wrong with everyone.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: It's not what's wrong, Bones. It's what's *right*!

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Special Agent Seeley Booth: [rising up] Oh and remember. I'm the one... who gave you this
[pouring out his coffee]
Special Agent Seeley Booth: delicious coffee.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why? Because I'm the first prosecution witness against your father.
[enters the court room]

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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [as Angela's being escorted to prison for refusing to testify. Bones rises up] Angela please!
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Sit down!
Angela Montenegro: [Angela stops] Sweetie, this is one of those times when I know *I'm* right, and everyone else is *confused*!

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Max Keenan: A country full of unscrupulous lawyers, and you find the *one* guy with scruples!

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Angela Montenegro: Friends don't send friends’ fathers to the electric chair.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Maryland uses lethal injection.
Angela Montenegro: Well the principle still holds.

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Special Agent Seeley Booth: I just think he doesn't want to admit that he likes us.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Do you like us?
Dr. Lance Sweets: What?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: And he wants to spend time with us.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Is that true, Sweets? You like us?
Special Agent Seeley Booth, Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [singing] He really likes us.
Dr. Lance Sweets: All right, you know what? I'm sorry I made the offer. I take it back. Forget it!

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Special Agent Seeley Booth: Okay, you're not Dr. Brennan today. You're Temperance.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I don't know what that means.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: The scientist part of you got sidelined, temporarily.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [scoffs] I still don't know what that means.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Bones, just take the brain. Okay? And put it in neutral. Take the heart, and put it in overdrive.
[makes motor sounds]
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Sometimes I think you're from another planet.
[smiles]
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Sometimes I think you're nice

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Russ Brennan: You should have... you know, you should have run, Dad! You should have taken off!
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Dad stayed for me. He knew that if he ran, we'd never see each other again.
[turning to Max]
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You stayed for me.

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David Barron: [as he's cross-examining Booth] You had motive. He'd fired you that day, and threatened Ms. Julian. By the way, was she at all three locations?
AUSA Caroline Julian: [rising up] Objection! It's just *rude* to accuse me of murder!

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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [examining a skeleton that is curled in a circular shape] How could this happen?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Umm, maybe he was rolled up in a carpet?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Where's the carpet?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, it rotted away. You know, with the... meaty parts.
[Bones starts laughing]
AUSA Caroline Julian: [entering] Excuse me? What is so funny?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [forcing back her laughter] Nothing.
AUSA Caroline Julian: I should hope not, because there's a dead body deserving our respect right in front of you.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [Brennan can't contain herself any longer and bursts out laughing]
AUSA Caroline Julian: I did not know she could laugh.

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AUSA Caroline Julian: I'm gonna say to you what I always say to you before a trial, because this one is no different than any other trial.
Dr. Zack Addy: You never said that before.
AUSA Caroline Julian: What?
Dr. Jack Hodgins: You never told us that a trial is no different from any other trial.
Dr. Zack Addy: Which suggests that this one *is* different.
AUSA Caroline Julian: Have you no control over these people?
Dr. Camille Saroyan: None whatsoever.

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Max Keenan: I never killed anyone. I just poked them to keep them away.

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