- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [after telling her about a mission] It's never just one person who dies, Bones. Never. Never.
- [pause. Bones puts her hand on his forearm. Booth sniffles. Puts his hand over hers]
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: You know, we all die a little bit, Bones. With each shot, we all die a little bit.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why do you have to be so cynical?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: I'm not cynical. It's a necessary part of the psychology of warfare - heroes and villains. Without clear distinctions like that, we'd never be able to fight.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, well, I always found being shot at is a motivating factor.
- Angela Montenegro: You have to think before you speak.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Why? I can say anything to you without thinking about it first.
- Angela Montenegro: Yeah, men aren't like us. They're much more fragile and needy. The fact that they think we're the needy ones is a testament to our superiority.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Yeah. I guess I forgot.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: You're a mind reader?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Maybe. You want me to guess your weight?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: You do that, and you might lose a tooth.
- Jack Hodgins: Were you really mad before?
- Angela Montenegro: Why? Because of your strident, paranoid ramblings?
- Jack Hodgins: I'm guessing mad. Fair enough. Can I at least give you some material to read?
- Angela Montenegro: You could try, but you'd walk funny for a week.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: All societies build monuments to their dead, to convince future combatants that it's an honor to die in battle.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: I know it's his sister, but it seems odd...
- [Camera cuts to BOOTH and BRENNAN walking side to side down a hallway. A man using a cane walks by.]
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: ... for a grown man to be spending so much time with a 13-year-old.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: You come back from combat, it's still all over you. You know, you wanna be around something pure, something innocent. Adults, they want you to relive it all. They, they want war stories like they're entertainment.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: It makes 'em feel better. If they hear you survived, then maybe war isn't so bad. John Wayne syndrome
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: It's always the young. Anthropologists have theorized that wars break out when there's an increase in the population of unmarried men under the age of 25.
- Angela Montenegro: Yeah. Men aren't like us. They're much more fragile and needy. The fact that they think "we're" the needy ones is a testament to our superiority.
- Captain William Fuller: Yes. A National Guard unit can be difficult to lead. Nothing against the Guard, but usually they're inexperienced, shortchanged on equipment.