- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I'd posit that the chipped teeth suggest that a tube or funnel was forced down the victim's throat.
- Colin Fisher: To fill him up with alcohol. Bastard.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I beg your pardon?
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Fisher's just starting to realize that murderers are bad.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: There are no ligature marks, which means that two of the men held him down while the third assailant... I'm sorry, the third bastard tortured him.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Anthropologically, when a society feels threatened by an individual, that society tries to eliminate the threat. The collective fear becomes so severe that murder becomes acceptable. It happened in Rome, the Haps...
- Seeley Booth: Bones, Bones. Just boil it down for me.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: They get desperate. That's always their undoing.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Sweets would say that since this may be your last case before being promoted, you need to prove that you're still the best.
- Seeley Booth: And what would you say?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I say you just can't stand to let someone get away with murder.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: What, you kept C-4 in our garage?
- Seeley Booth: It's stable until you detonate it.
- Deputy Director Victor Stark: Take Dr. Brennan into custody for questioning.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No. No, I need to stay with him. Booth!
- Deputy Director Victor Stark: Get her out!
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Let go of me. Booth!
- Deputy Director Victor Stark: Get her out!
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Booth! Booth! Let go of me! Booth! Booth! Booth! Stop it. Help! Help!
- Seeley Booth: Oh, wow! Oh! That's our victim?
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Yeah, well, what's left of him.
- Seeley Booth: He exploded.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: I mean, I got to say that's not a good way to lose weight.
- Seeley Booth: Save it for Squint Nite at the Improv, okay, bug boy?
- Colin Fisher: I just can't believe that this much ugliness can exist in this world.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: You're just realizing that now?
- Colin Fisher: No, I always expect the worst, but my new therapist, she showed me how wonderful life could be. That makes this even more horrible!
- Colin Fisher: What the hell is this?
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: It's a nipple.
- Colin Fisher: No, I know a nipple when I see one, but there's something fused into it.
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: Oh, it's a nipple ring.
- Seeley Booth: Splash the Deutsch. Okay, you know what? All I really need to know is "where is the bathroom."
- Seeley Booth: The circuit breakers melted in the off position. I find it very hard to believe that this guy was just sitting in the dark waiting to explode.
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: No one cuts the power to their own home.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: If this was the man who you were supposed to meet, someone wanted to make sure that he wouldn't talk.
- Seeley Booth: Everything we know so far indicates that we are dealing with a harmless crank.
- Deputy Director Victor Stark: A dead harmless crank.
- Deputy Director Victor Stark: It was difficult to pry Booth out of the field. Which is why he is the nominee. I can't tell you the number of positions that are filled by bureaucrats who have no real experience on the ground.
- Seeley Booth: Oh, the military taught me that you can't make the right decision without seeing the situation up close.
- Congressman Efran Hadley: I am surprised that you're letting this one get away, Victor.
- Seeley Booth: We're not gonna go public with any of this. A lot of people, they just got caught with their pants down, all right? They don't deserve to have their lives ruined.
- Caroline Julian: We have to do something, cher.
- Seeley Booth: This is what we're gonna do, okay? We're gonna act like we've never seen any of this stuff before until we know who's behind this operation.
- Seeley Booth: I want you to issue your report on Foster's death, and say that it was an accident.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: But it wasn't. You want me to say that I'm wrong? I'm never wrong.
- Seeley Booth: Which is why they're gonna believe it. That gives us... time with no eyes on us. Pretty rational, right? Look, I want to act like we put this one to bed, all right? And we pretend to move forward. All right? I go to my hearing, you continue to play with your bones, and we keep digging.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: And we're in control again.
- Seeley Booth: And we're in control again.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No, he has not lied about anything. He is a decorated veteran who served his country with honor Come on, let's go. and an agent at the FBI who has one of the best conviction rates of any... Let's get out of here.
- Deputy Director Victor Stark: Look, Booth, I still believe in you. Whatever happened over there... But you have to withdraw my nomination. And put you on administrative leave.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: He's the best agent you have and you're firing him?
- Deputy Director Victor Stark: He's not being fired.
- Seeley Booth: Yes, I am, sir. We both know how this plays out.
- Deputy Director Victor Stark: My hands are tied, Booth.
- Congressman Efran Hadley: Just let it go, Agent Booth.
- Seeley Booth: Is that why you became a Congressman, to let criminals run this country?
- Seeley Booth: This is my fight, okay, Bones? I know that's not what you want, but that's just the way it played out.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You know we're better together, Booth.
- Seeley Booth: No. Look, I'm not gonna argue about this right now, do you understand? They're 40 minutes out, tops.
- Seeley Booth: We have a daughter to think about now. You get Christine you and go to Max. Now. I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. Now.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I hate you for telling me to walk away.
- Seeley Booth: Bones... I love you.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Don't you die. Okay?
- Seeley Booth: All right. Go.
- Caroline Julian: That cowboy actually thinks he can take on three Delta Force operatives by himself?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Don't you die. Oh, God. Oh, God. Don't you die. Don't you die. Booth.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why are you here? Is someone still after Booth?
- Seeley Booth: Bones.
- Deputy Director Victor Stark: Dr. Brennan, wait! You can't be here, Dr. Brennan.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why did you handcuff him?
- Deputy Director Victor Stark: Booth killed three FBI agents who were coming to serve a warrant on him.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: FBI agents? Those men tried to kill him. He was defending himself.