Bones (TV Series)
The Santa in the Slush (2007)
Emily Deschanel: Temperance Brennan
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Quotes
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [after kissing Booth] It was like kissing my brother.
Caroline Julian : You sure must like your brother.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : She does.
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Special Agent Seeley Booth : [Bones is hanging mistletoe in her office] What is with the mistletoe?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I was going to talk to you about this. Caroline wants us to kiss under the mistletoe.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : What?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : It's the only way she'll make Christmas for my family.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : What, by having us kiss?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Yes.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Why?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Because she's feeling puckish.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Puckish? What's that mean?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Listen, Booth, she's gonna be here any second. Do you want some gum?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : No, my breath is just fine. Alright, look, I'll have a talk with Caroline.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : No!
Special Agent Seeley Booth : [surprised] No?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I'm only telling you out of professional courtesy.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : What?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : So that you won't be surprised.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Yeah, when you say kiss, you mean like kiss-kiss, like on both cheeks?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : No, the lips.
[Booth gives a little apprehensive smile]
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Like brother and sister. Colleagues. French people meeting on the street.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Caroline's feeling puckish, huh?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : It means playful and impish.
Caroline Julian : [Caroline walks in] Congratulations. I hear you have a suspect in the Santa slaying.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Yeah. Well, it looks like the Easter Bunny has nothing to worry about.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Did you talk to the judge about the trailer?
Caroline Julian : Yes, I did. What about your end?
[Bones points to the mistletoe]
Caroline Julian : Well! Look at that. Mistletoe. You take a step to your right, you'll be right under the cute little sprig.
[She shoves Booth so he's standing under the mistletoe with Bones. He stammers a slight protest, gives up, and he and Bones kiss]
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Was that enough steamboats?
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [She and Booth have just kissed under the mistletoe] Was that enough steamboats?
Caroline Julian : Plenty. A whole flotilla.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : I don't know what that means, but, um, Merry Christmas.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Booth, who is a very honest person, says that at this time of year deception is necessary for the happiness of little children.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : No, I'm being misquoted.
Dr. Lance Sweets : Booth is absolutely right.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : She got the gist...
Dr. Lance Sweets : Yeah, there's a fictional element to Christmas.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : You mean the whole 'Birth of a Savior' rigamarole.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : It is *not* rigamarole.
Dr. Lance Sweets : No, no. Dr. Brennan, it's the feeling of Christmas. What people call the Christmas spirit. It's a kind of dream or hope we carry with us from childhood. But as adults...
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Are you including you in that?
Dr. Lance Sweets : As adults we're imbued by the pragmatic ruitines of life, which makes it difficult for us to regard anything with childlike wonder. But, you know, it's alright for us to try. We put on silly hats, and drape trees with sparkly lights, and wrap gifts in garish paper, and that's good for us. It's not only alright for us to allow children the transient experience of innocence and joy, it's our responsibility.
[Bones and Booth contemplate that for a bit]
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Okay.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Okay?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I found that very helpful.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : [Scoffs] It's what I've been saying for the past four days.
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[about the victim's many, many Christmas decorations]
Special Agent Seeley Booth : This guy was committed!
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Should have been.
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Dr. Lance Sweets : I don't understand, has there been some kind of crisis?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Yes, I have a crisis.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Bones, it was just mistletoe.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Not the kiss, that was nothing.
Dr. Lance Sweets : You kissed?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : *Mistletoe.*
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : That's not the crisis.
Dr. Lance Sweets : Was there tongue?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Alright, you know what, get your own sex life.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [Scoffs] That has nothing to do with sex.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Nothing.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : No.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : There was no... it was... mistletoe.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : It was totally sexless.
Dr. Lance Sweets : I'm all ears.
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Special Agent Seeley Booth : [to Bones over the phone. She is celebrating Christmas with Max, her brother and his family in a trailer at prison] Listen, Bones, uh... I got a little something for you.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Oh, I got you something, too, Booth. We can exchange gifts in a couple days.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Go to the window and open up the blinds now.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : What?
[She opens the blinds and sees Booth and Parker outside the perimeter fence. The car's hood is up and the lights are on. Booth attaches a cord to the battery, and he lights up a Christmas tree he's set up next to the car. Booth and Parker wave at her]
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Hey, everybody, it looks like we got our tree after all.
[They all join her at the window, looking at the tree, the kids laughing and excited]
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I love my gift, Booth.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Merry Christmas, Bones.
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Special Agent Seeley Booth : [to Bones while questioning a roomful of men working as Santa for the holiday] Any ideas?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : No.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : C'mon, think, Bones. Paint a picture. It's gotta be one of these guys. I mean, half of these guys owe Kringle money.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : One of them's a pick pocket.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Ah, gets money from the Egyptian...
Santa Larry : Look... Could we go?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Cool your jets, Santa! Go have a cookie and some... eggnog.
[to Bones]
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Kringle gets suspicious, catches the pick pocketer dumping the wallet in the dumpster, confronts him.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : We have to sniff their behinds.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : We have to sniff- You lost me there.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [to the Santas] Alright, everybody up against the wall! Or, okay, put your hands on the table.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : First of all, that's my job. And second... why?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : They fought. They rolled around through the bird's nest soup goop.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Right. Good thinking. That's good. Except for the sniffing their butts thing.