- Mr. Taylor: Some iniquity killed my boy. You know that word, Agent Booth? It's from the Bible.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
- Mr. Taylor: You know your Psalms.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: [after describing rap music as tribal] African-Americans aren't the only ones with tribal heritage.
- Female Dancer #1: You sayin' we're natives of some tribe?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Anthropologically speaking we're all members of tribes.
- Female Dancer #2: You better shut your mouth.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Hip-hop mirrors the direct visceral connection you see in tribal communication.
- Male Dancer: What?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: After the Cartesians split in the 17th century we separated out mind from our bodies, the numinous from the animalistic.
- Female Dancer #1: Are you callin' me an animal, fool?
- Female Dancer #3: No, fool. She's using Descartes's philosophy to say she's down with the music.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: How many times do you want me to poke Zack?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Just once, but as hard as you can.
- Zack Addy: As hard as he *can*? Why don't I hit him as hard as *I* can?
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Because you have arms like noodles, while I'm vigorous and burly.
- [pokes Zack with the cane]
- Zack Addy: That all you got, burly boy?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: How does my costume look?
- Angela Montenegro: Sweetie, that's not a costume, that's an outfit, and you look hot!
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [about Brennan being stoned on the methamphetamine from the wall] Let's just say, your boss inhaled.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: You never dance?
- Zack Addy: I'm told I look like a marionette in a windstorm.
- Angela Montenegro: [to Brennan] You dig dead bodies out of mass graves, and yanking out a bellybutton ring makes you sick?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Arrest him and confiscate the cane as evidence. I need the cane.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Arrest him for what? He's the guy who pointed a gun at a federal agent.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Uttering threats or smelling bad or anything.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: I *like* going on vacations by myself.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [Skeptical] Really.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Sure. Nothing wrong with being alone.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [Small smile] No, I mean, you like to go on vacation.
- Tessa Jankow: [about Brennan being stoned on the methamphetamine from the wall] Your pupils are the size of saucers.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [sounding disgusted] Oh God! What are you doing?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: [sliding her own hand into the skin of a victim's hand] The Aztecs would flay people and then wear their skin as a body suit.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [sounding as though trying not to be sick] I guess you won't be needing mittens for Christmas, huh?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: When was the last time you got away?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Got away from what?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [sighs] Well Bones, you know... because what usually happens to me... I think about not coming back
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Seriously?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [stands to leave] yeah, you know... You go with someone, you joke about not going back to your real life, the two of you laugh.
- [walking to leave]
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: But when you're alone... the world is full of possibilities...
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: See you next week
- Mr. Taylor: I have some information you need.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: About your son's death?
- Mr. Taylor: No, sir. About his *life*. I've been reading in the newspaper how my son was part of the meth scene. How he was killed by drugs behind a wall like a rat. What my son did was graduate 3rd in his class from high school. He would have graduated 1st except he... he worked a full time job. Track and field medals. Baseball. Roy never drank. And he never did drugs. You understand me, sir?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Mr. Taylor...
- Mr. Taylor: How they are portraying my boy in the newspapers is wrong. If his mother was alive, it would kill her! I taught him a relationship with Jesus. Do you understand, sir? A *personal* relationship with Jesus.