BONES SEEBONES EPISODE GUIDE

SEASON ONE
1x21 The Soldier on the Grave

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BOOTH: Are we gonna get into something here, Bones?
BRENNAN: I don't see why. I think we both wish this place were a lot smaller.

BOOTH: Y'know, I'm just gonna be asking his mother a few questions. You could've just stayed back there and played with your bones.
BRENNAN (offscreen): I know. Just wanted to keep you company, that's all.
BOOTH: Company?
BRENNAN: Yeah. I'm trying to be more sociable. You know?
BOOTH: Lousy liar.
BRENNAN: I just think inside, you're still military, Booth. You might be too close to this one. I just wanna make sure you stay objective.
BOOTH (offscreen): I know how to do my job.
BOOTH: I was doing it just fine long before I met you.
BRENNAN: You're angry.

BRENNAN: It makes 'em feel better. If they hear you survived, then maybe war isn't so bad.
BRENNAN: John Wayne syndrome.
BOOTH: Don't tell me you're gonna trash the Duke?
BRENNAN: Wh- are you kidding? I love the Duke.
BOOTH: [Imitating] I wouldn't have guessed that one, little lady.
BRENNAN: Remember "Stagecoach?"
BRENNAN: [Imitating] "Listen, cowboy. Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."
BOOTH: What was that? The Duke? That was horrible.
BOOTH: That was like, Jerry Lewis.
BRENNAN: Was not.

BOOTH: Right. If you got what you need, then why are you giving me such grief?
BRENNAN: Because I thought you could've been a little tougher in there.
BOOTH: I'm tough.
BRENNAN: Most of the time.
BOOTH: [Chuckles] Do you always have to get the last word in?
BRENNAN: I like to, yeah.

BRENNAN: [Sighs] I tell Booth we're on the same side. [Flips the page] I'm not the one who's disillusioning him. It's my findings. But when I look at him, I-- [Sighs] I don't know what else I can do.
ANGELA: I do.
BRENNAN: Ange.
ANGELA: [Huffs] As a friend, Brennan.
BRENNAN: Yeah, that whole "friends with benefits" thing, that's-- that's not happening.
ANGELA: I'm not talking about that. I'm-- I'm talking about being there for him. Knowing when a simple touch is enough.

BOOTH: I've done some things.
BRENNAN: I know.
BOOTH: No, no, you don't.
BRENNAN: But it's okay.
BOOTH: Well, not-- not as a secret... [Booth sits] it's not. I have to be uh, honest about myself. [Brennan sits next to him] I-- I have to be able to tell someone.
BRENNAN: You will in time, Booth. You will.
BOOTH: [Haltingly] I was sent to Kosovo. There was this Serb, General Raddick, who led a unit who would go into villages and, you know, destroy 'em. Women, children, all-- all killed because he wanted to ethnically purify his country. He'd done this twice before. I mean, we had facts, proof. 232 people just erased.
BOOTH: I was the sniper sent in to stop him. He was set to leave in a couple hours. It was his son's-- son's birthday. A little boy maybe about six or seven. I can still hear the music from the party, you know? That song just playing in my head. Nobody knew where the shot came from, but, you know, they knew why it came.
BOOTH: They said I saved over a hundred people. But, you know, that little boy who didn't know who his father was, who-- who just loved him... he saw him die, fall to the ground right in front of him. That little boy all covered in his daddy's blood was changed forever. [Sighs] It's never just-- It's never just the one person who dies, Bones. Never. Never.
[BRENNAN places a hand on his forearm, silent. BOOTH sniffles, and places his hand atop hers, grateful.]
BOOTH: You know, we all die a little bit, Bones. With each shot, we all die a little bit.

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