- Dr. Temperance Brennan: [to murderer who is trying to put a voodoo curse on her, so she pokes him in the eye to shut him up] I've noticed that very few people are scary once they've been poked in the eye.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: How did I get away? Graham got killed, I got away. How did I do that?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: You know, Bones, all those things that Caroline mentioned - the martial arts, the shooting, the assaults - you're just the type of woman that fights. You know? Maybe they didn't expect it, maybe they thought some kind of magic could hold you.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: I don't believe in magic.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Exactly. You're a surprising woman, and that's sometimes enough to get away.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: [smiling at Booth] Why are you nice to me?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Because. Because they think they get away with it.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: What?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: They burn their victim. They blow him up. They toss him in the ocean. They bury them in the desert. They throw 'em into wood chippers. Sometimes, you know, years go by. They relax. Then they start living their lives like they didn't do anything wrong. Like they didn't spend somebody else's life in order to get what they got. They think they're safe from retribution. You make those bastards unsafe. That's why I'm nice to you.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: I couldn't do that without you, Booth.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah. So, um, you should be a little nicer to me, huh?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: I really should.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Voodoo! Who's gonna believe that stuff?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: It's a religion, no crazier than... well, what are you?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Catholic.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: They believe in the same saints you do... in prayer... what they call spells, you call miracles... they have priests...
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: We don't make zombies.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Jesus rose from the dead in three days...
- [Booth looks at her in shock. Brennan picks up her phone]
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Brennan...
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Jesus is not a zombie!
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Booth, objects have no intrinsic power. A person's future does not depend on some thing. Things are just things. They do not have magical meaning or powers.
- [Booth reveals the missing earring]
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Where'd you get that?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: What does it matter? It's just a thing. Right?
- [Booth hands her the earring]
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: My mother's earring.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: No, uh... magical power over your future.
- [Booth gets up and leaves]
- Angela Montenegro: Does that prove something?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: [looking at Earring] Yeah.
- [looking after Booth]
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: It proves something.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: [Holding up x-rays] Another present from the bayou.
- Angela Montenegro: I keep asking for a baby tee that says "The Big Easy."
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: We're all hoping for that. For you, I mean.
- [Angela smiles]
- [Booth and Brennan are looking for Dr. Legier at his house]
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Graham! Graham?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [under his breath] Cracker!
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Yeah, that's not funny.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: We don't make zombies.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: But Jesus rose from the dead after three days.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Jesus is not a zombie, alright. Man, I shouldn't have to tell you that.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Hey, Bones, hows about while you're a murder suspect you act more like a normal woman and less like Lily Munster, 'kay?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: God, I'm hungry.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, when was the last time you ate?
- [Brennan rolls her eyes]
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Oh, my bad. You have amnesia.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Brennan will be fine, Angela. She got bail and the murder charge won't stick.
- Angela Montenegro: What is going on with her?
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Angela. She started to change the day she met you.
- Angela Montenegro: What?
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: She sees how you do it. All fun and involvement and pizazz. Big, you know. Big life. Booth came along and gave her the opportunity, but she got the idea from you. Brennan wants a big life like yours. That's how it looks to me anyway, but what do I know? I'm a bug guy - bug and slime. And you know, dirt.
- Angela Montenegro: Yeah.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: So... Okay.
- Angela Montenegro: Or better still, you could forget the whole thing and come home.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: [over the phone] Don't worry. I made bail.
- Zack Addy: Bail?
- Angela Montenegro: Bail? For what?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: I told you, don't worry. The murder charge won't stick.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Murder charge?
- Angela Montenegro: Brennan? The next plane. The next plane, okay? Or I'm coming down there to get you myself.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Everything's fine. I'm healing up satisfactorily. Bye for now.
- [hangs up]
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Healing up?
- Caroline Julian: I am doing you a favor taking this case, Booth. But as the lady cop says, I'm a prosecutor. And as it stands now, I could try this case in my PJs and still get a conviction.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Well, shouldn't you get to know your clients before you make snap judgments?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [warningly] Bones...
- Caroline Julian: Fine. Stop me when I get something wrong. Trained in three types of martial arts, two assault charges, registered marksman with the NRA, hunting licenses in four states...
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: You hunt?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Only for food.
- Caroline Julian: Shot an unarmed man.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: He was trying to set me on fire.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: All right, just... just arrange bail for us, Caroline, so we can get out of here.
- Caroline Julian: Sure, sure. Don't want to get this one mad at me.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [whispers] You couldn't keep your mouth shut, could you?
- [Booth storms into the room where Brennan is being questioned without knocking]
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Bones, you okay?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Booth, I told you not to come.
- Detective Rose Harding: Who's this?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: It's... he's FBI. We're sort of partners.
- Detective Rose Harding: A guy flies down from D.C., you're more than "sort of."
- [Brennan is on the phone with the squints in D.C. and Angela overhears Booth]
- Angela Montenegro: Is that Booth?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Yes.
- Angela Montenegro: You're hopping the streetcar named Desire with Booth?
- [looks at Zack]
- Angela Montenegro: Oh, I love this.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Can I make a lifestyle suggestion?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Go ahead.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: You know, vacation - it's from the Latin 'vacatio' and means, you know, freedom and release - you might want to consider that next time
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Learning Latin?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: is the opposite of vacation. I mean, no wonder you snapped, went insane and totally lost your mind.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Oh, thanks for your understanding.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: That's because you've been inculcated by the mainstream culture's prevailing judeo-christian tradition into instinctive skepticism of alternative mores.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: What's that?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: What?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [gesturing at Dr. Brennan's pillow] THAT.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: [picking up gris-gris bag] Ew.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Another Voodoo dumpling?
- Dr. Ryan Halloway: Amnesia caused by any traumatic event, injury or drug, can erase memories before the event, not just after
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: This is a dark spell. Forbidden magic. Very strong. This is Secte Rouge. I certainly wouldn't make anything like this.
- Richard Benoit: But you have the ingredients here?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, the individual ingredients are not malignant. It is how they are combined and what intention they are used for that makes a spell good or bad.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: I'm sure he bought the black gum root to look into its medicinal qualities.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, because we all know how effective that is.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Voodoo healing is quite effective. No crazier than acupuncture or exorcism.
- Daniel Goodman: It's a gris-gris bag. It's a mojo. This one is meant to silence the dead so they can't speak.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, usually dead people are pretty much silent on their own.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Voodoo embraces the premise that spirits can speak to us from beyond the grave
- Daniel Goodman: Voodoo is all about the balance of the forces. That wind, the flood, this death - it's all out of balance now. Katrina was Armageddon for the ones who love balance. Some think it was Secte Rouge that brought it on.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: What's that? Some kind of a gang?
- Daniel Goodman: The ones who follow evil. Some believe that they purposely angered the sirens who sent the flood.
- [points to box]
- Daniel Goodman: This... this is Secte Rouge.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Okay, so that's literally bad voodoo.
- Richard Benoit: Most places like this, where a houngan, a priest, can get what he needs, they are all gone now.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Because of the hurricane and flood?
- Richard Benoit: Which occurred because of a lack of balance.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Mr. Benoit, are you suggesting that Secte Rouge somehow conjured up a hurricane?
- Eva Benoit: Secte Rouge voodoo is much more powerful than ours.
- Richard Benoit: No, Eva. Not more powerful. Destruction is easier than harmony but not more powerful.
- [to Booth and Brennan]
- Richard Benoit: There are a lot of misunderstandings about voodoo.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah. That whole zombie stuff puts a crimp in your public relations I bet.
- [uncomfortable laugh]
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: How do we know this is not the guy shoving mojo bags into dead people?
- Sam Potter: Those spells are the work of a sorcerer. Priests houngans can make healing mojos, but I'm not allowed.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: But snake shaking, that's fine?
- [Brennan looks at the snake and touches it]
- Sam Potter: The snake pulls the evil out of the soul freeing the spirit, the loua. I must do what small things I can. The floods washed away too much of what was good.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Okay, Bones, what the hell where you talking to her for?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: I was just trying to help.
- Caroline Julian: You sew those lips together, girl, because there is no such thing as "help" in the New Orleans Police. They just want to close the case as quickly and easily as they can. And you are making it Christmas time for them.
- Caroline Julian: I am doing you a favor taking this case, Booth. But as the lady cop says, I'm a prosecutor. And as it stands now, I could try this case in my p.j.'s and still get a conviction.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Well, shouldn't you get to know your clients before you make snap judgments.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Bones!
- Caroline Julian: Fine. Stop me when I get something wrong. Trained in three types of martial arts, two assault charges, registered marksman with the N.R.A., hunting licenses in four states...
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: You hunt?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Well, only for food.
- Caroline Julian: Shot an unarmed man.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Well, he was trying to set me on fire.