Bones (TV Series)

A Boy in a Bush (2005)

Paul Butcher: Shawn Cook

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• Dr. Temperance Brennan : Do you remember me Shawn?

  Shawn Cook : The museum lady, the one who's so smart.

  Dr. Temperance Brennan : Yeah, I'm pretty smart. Smart enough to know that you didn't kill Charlie. You don't have to say anything Shawn, just listen. They give you a garbage bag to carry all your stuff, like they're telling you that everything you own is garbage, and then you have to go to a new school in clothes that smell like garbage bags.

  Shawn Cook : All the regular kids know you're a foster kid. How do you know what it's like?

  Dr. Temperance Brennan : They bounce you from place to place and it's never home. Some times the foster parents are nice.

  Shawn Cook : Like Margaret?

  Dr. Temperance Brennan : Yeah, and sometimes they separate you from your brother. Must have been nice with Margaret, staying with David.

  Shawn Cook : [crying]  We got bunk beds. At night I knew David was there, like he was guarding me. Margaret's nice.

  Dr. Temperance Brennan : You'd do almost anything to stay with Margaret, right?

  [he nods] 

  Dr. Temperance Brennan : The man you took Charlie to, the man who hurt him, he knows that. You didn't know that he'd hurt Charlie but he did, and then he told you that Margaret would blame you, that she'd hate you. But this man is lying to you, Shawn. I can make sure that you go back to Margaret.

  Shawn Cook : How? You work at a museum.

  Dr. Temperance Brennan : I have a friend at the FBI, if I ask him to, he'll make sure that you and David get to live with Margaret again. You have to tell me who hurt Charlie.

  Shawn Cook : What if Margaret doesn't want me anymore? Charlie was her real son.

  Dr. Temperance Brennan : Charlie wasn't her biological son either. Charlie was just like you. Someone that Margaret chose to love. I don't think we should let that man take you and David and Charlie away from Margaret, do you?

  [Shawn shakes his head 'no'] 

  Dr. Temperance Brennan : We should stop him. You and I should stop him.

  [he cries and hugs her, she hugs him too and rubs his back to comfort him] 

  Shawn Cook : [whispers a name in her ear] 

• Special Agent Seeley Booth : Shawn, do you know what this is?

  Shawn Cook : A scar?

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : Yeah. I got it when I was playing soldier with my brother Jared.

  Shawn Cook : Did it hurt?

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : Yeah, it hurt, but it was an accident. You got any scars?

  Shawn Cook : [rolls down a sleeve to reveal circular scars]  My dad did it with a cigarette.

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : He shouldn't have done that.

  Shawn Cook : Margaret didn't do anything like that. I love Margaret.

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : What I need to know is if Charlie had some kind of accident, Shawn?

  Sara Johnston : [Shawn turns his back to Booth]  He's not being aggressive enough.

  Dr. Temperance Brennan : Foster kids are powerless, they're treated like garbage! You're in a position to do something about it and all you have to say is "He's not being aggressive enough"?

  Sara Johnston : Dr. Brennan, you know this boy may very well have beaten a child to death with a rock.

• Special Agent Seeley Booth : Where were you taking Charlie, Shawn?

  Shawn Cook : [Shawn moving water on the table with his finger]  I brought him to the mall to see David.

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : I know you brought him to the mall but we got a picture of you leading him out of the mall.

  Dr. Temperance Brennan : [in the observation room, watching Booth interrogate Shawn]  Have you seen much of this kind of thing?

  Sara Johnston : I'm a juvenile prosecutor. I wish I could say kids killing kids was rare.

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : Where were you taking him, Shawn?

  Shawn Cook : When can I talk to Margaret?

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : After you answer my questions.

  Dr. Temperance Brennan : Can he do that, lie to the kid?

  Sara Johnston : We are after a child killer, Dr. Brennan. If the child advocate doesn't complain, I sure as hell won't.

  Dr. Temperance Brennan : What's the point of having a child advocate if he doesn't advocate for the child?

  Sara Johnston : I get the impression you're a little confused to what side you're on, Dr. Brennan.