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David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel in Bones (2005)

David Boreanaz: Seeley Booth

The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

Bones

David Boreanaz credited as playing...

Seeley Booth

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Quotes21

  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'm the gambler. I believe in giving this a chance. Look, I want to give this a shot.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You mean us? No. The FBI won't let us work together.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Don't do that! That is no reason.
  • [They kiss]
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No. No.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why?
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [Crying] You - you thought you were protecting me. But you're the one who needs protecting.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Protection from what?
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: From me. I don't have your kind of open heart.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [Quietly] If we don't work together any more, we could have sex.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'll call a cab!
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: I just feel like um, this is going somewhere.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why did you feel this is going somewhere?
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Oh I just... I feel like I want to kiss you.
  • Dr. Lance Sweets: You kissed?
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yes.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: There was tongue contact.
  • Dr. Lance Sweets: My book is crap!
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Well, anthropologically speaking, paramilitaristic organizations tend to constrain individuality.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: That's for sure.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: But in any group, no matter how restrictive, the free thinkers, the mavericks, the rebels with leadership qualities find a way to declare their distinctiveness.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'd ask you out if I could.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why can't you?
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well FBI rules again. No fraternizing with other agents, or consultants.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: That's too bad.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Glad you think so.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [after Bones hits Judge Haley] Is this very bad?
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: I have been wanting to do that for years. You are so hot!
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: We are not spending the night together.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Of course we aren't. Why?
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Tequila.
  • [Bones enters the cab]
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Hey!
  • [Booth runs to the cab]
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Hold - hold that cab. Hold that cab! Hey, so you afraid that when I look at you in the morning I'll have regrets?
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: That would never happen.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Can we still work together?
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Thank you.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: But I gotta move on. You know, I gotta find someone who's- who's going to love me in 30 years, or 40 or 50.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I know
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [First meeting] Are you a student here?
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Special Agent Seely Booth from the FBI.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I'm Dr. Temperance Brennan of the Jeffersonian Institute.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Do you believe in fate?
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Absolutely not. Ludicrous.
  • [Jump to the present]
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I still don't.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: And I still do.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I find that I'm annoyed with you.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why, because I fired and hired you back? It's the Federal Government.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No. Because you got me drunk to fire me and then have sex with me.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Oh no, I got myself drunk so I could fire you. And you decided not to have sex with me which I accepted, gracefully. So you regretting that decision?
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No. I'm not. It was a very good decision. I stand by it.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: We're not in love with each other. It took a year after we kissed to be in the same room together.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Oh absolutely right. No more kissing or anything.
  • Dr. Lance Sweets: You called evidence crap. And she basically called you stupid.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: We were feeling each other up. Like a honeymoon period.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Out. We were feeling each other out.
  • Zack Addy: It was immensely stupid of you to fire us.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'm sorry, but did you just call me stupid?
  • Zack Addy: I can only conclude that you are immensely stupid.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I'm Dr. Temperance Brennan from the Jeffersonian.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Uh, don't bother. You know, never remember Squints.
  • Caroline Julian: That's correct. And you know why?
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why?
  • Caroline Julian: Because they get all wishy washy, and flip floppy on the witness stand. So it's better I *don't* remember the last time they let me down when I need 'em again.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Even though my time and expertise are extremely valuable, I accept your decision to test my abilities. Obviously, I passed with a lot of color.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Pardon me?
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: It means I did very well.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Oh, right. You, um... Flying colors. You passed with flying colors.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Yes. I know.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Can I come in and watch you broil the suspect?
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, I could broil. But, I think you mean grill.
  • Zack Addy: Are you Special Agent Booth?
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: What are you? Oh. The Jeffersonian. You must be one of the squints.
  • Zack Addy: I'm not familiar with that term.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Squint. You know, you guys... you squint when you look at things?
  • [pointing at Zack's face]
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Just like that.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: What is that? Is that a monkey?
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No. This is an Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba. The earliest known...
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: Okay. Abracadabra can wait.
  • Special Agent Seeley Booth: [after Dr. Sweets summarizes his conclusion about Brennan and Booth being in love] I just told you it's not what you think and you immediately say what you think.
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: That's your interpretation. We recognize your right to interpret.
  • Dr. Lance Sweets: You do?
  • Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: That's your right as a psychologist to get everything wrong.

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