- Dr. Temperance Brennan: X-rays, pictures, we're going to do this without touching the actual skeleton as much as possible.
- Zack Addy: Kid gloves?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Latex should be all right.
- [pauses, considers]
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Zack, were you being metaphoric?
- Zack Addy: I decided to give it a shot - which was also metaphoric.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: We're born unique. Our experiences mold and change us. We become someone, all of us, and to have that taken away by murder, to be erased from existence against our will, it's just...
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Evil?
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Unacceptable.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Every culture nurtures ideals of beauty toward which people strive - fine! But in the future people'll look back upon the surgical alterations of the nose or breasts or buttocks with the same horror that we regard the binding of feet or the use of bronze coils to extend the neck.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: You wanna speak up? 'Cause it's really hard to hear every word in this very, very quiet waiting room.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: It's barbaric! It's painful! It's wrong! This murder victim may never be identified because some glorified barber with a medical degree has the arrogance to think that he could do better than a millennium of evolution.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: You wanted to see me?
- Dr. Daniel Goodman: You are a very difficult and stubborn man, Dr. Hodgins. Right now I'd like nothing more than to fire you. In my position very few people tell me the truth anymore. I find I enjoy it, in some perverse way.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: You're willing to admit you bailed on the authentication?
- Dr. Daniel Goodman: Yes.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Seriously?
- Dr. Daniel Goodman: But not for the reasons you think. True, we might be able to authenticate the skeleton by taking him apart, destroying him. If he's a fake that will be fine, nothing lost. But I think he's the real thing.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: You do know he's been dead for fifteen hundred years, right?
- Dr. Daniel Goodman: I am an archaeologist. This is what we do. We step outside the facts and tell ourselves the story of an individual or a culture. And if the story I tell myself about this man who lived fifteen hundred years ago is true, if he was laid to rest by people who respected and loved him, don't I owe it to them not to let the pure scientists desecrate his remains?
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Or you could be totally rational and say you were waiting for imaging technology to improve to the point where it wasn't necessary to disassemble him.
- Dr. Daniel Goodman: Ah, yes. I suppose I could say that. It's less, uh...
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Sentimental - for the pure scientists.
- [they shake hands]
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: You know, I'd like to drive sometimes.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [changing the subject] Look, our contact out here is Special Agent Tricia Finn.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: I'm an excellent driver.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: OK, Rain Man.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: I don't know what that means.
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: You're billant Zack!
- Zack Addy: It was Hodgins... . Well Hodgins quoting you... So it was us, "Go Team!"
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: You have a boat?
- Dr. Anton Kostov: I do four boob jobs a day at twenty grand a pop. Of course I have a boat.
- Special Agent Tricia Finn: Agent Booth, can I have a moment, please? Um, have I done something to offend you?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Look, I'm not really into this whole "West Coast In Touch With Your Feelings" thing, okay? So...
- Special Agent Tricia Finn: Yeah. Um, I'm really good at my job, and I've been nothing but cooperative and helpful to you, but you just freeze me out.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Mmm-hmm.
- Special Agent Tricia Finn: And I know you have nothing against working with women because you're partners with Dr. Brennan, so your problem must be with me.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Look, I don't have anything against you, Agent Finn. I just don't like the way you view the FBI.
- Special Agent Tricia Finn: What do you mean?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: This is a proud and noble job but you're using it to get to something else. My advice? Write your script, get an agent, hell, have a little plastic surgery! But quit using my Federal Bureau of Investigation as a stepping stone into something that you think is better. Because in my book, there is nothing better.