Bones (TV Series)
The Woman in the Car (2006)
Emily Deschanel: Temperance Brennan
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Quotes
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Agent Pickering : Didn't I see you on television this morning, Dr. Brennan?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : How could I possibly know what you watched on television?
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[Bones and Booth visit a suspect's home, and take on two men that Booth spots watching the building]
Special Agent Seeley Booth : [covers first man with gun] FBI!
First man : [aims his gun back at Booth while the second man covers Bones] U.S. Marshals!
Special Agent Seeley Booth : [puzzled] U.S. Marshals?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [holds up hands] Forensic anthropologist! That's why no gun.
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Agent Pickering : When you were in Cuba, did you meet with a man named Juan Guzman?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [pause. Bones picks up her phone and dials a number] Hello. It's Dr. Brennan from the Jeffersonian. You told me to call you if anyone asked about... you know... him... Someone from the State Department named Samantha Pickering.
[hands the phone to Pickering]
Agent Pickering : Pickering. Yes, sir! Yes... I'll wait... I'll wait here.
[hands the phone back to Bones. Bones hangs up the receiver]
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Any more questions?
Agent Pickering : No. Uh, no. In fact, the entire review process is suspended. And I'm to wait here until someone comes to destroy my notes.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [heading to where they think the kidnappers are] Why don't we ever take my car?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Do you have bulletproof vests in the trunk?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : No.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : That's why.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : You never told me how I was this morning. I asked you, "How did I do?" You said, "We'll talk in the car," but we didn't.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : This was your first TV interview?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Yes.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Then it was fine, you know, for your first interview.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : That wasn't a qualified response.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : What? Then it was lively.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Lively? What kind of word is that?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : It's an adjective, though ironically most words that end in a "Y" are adverbs, like "ironically."
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Stacy Goodyear : I'm Stacie Goodyear and joining me on Wake Up, D.C. is Dr. Temperance Brennan. She is the author of the best-selling mystery novel "Bred in the Bone" and she's also - now tell me if I get this wrong - an anthropologist who works with the F.B.I. to solve crimes?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Yes, that's correct. I use the bones of people who have been murdered, or burned, or blown up, or eaten by animals or insects, or just decomposed.
Stacy Goodyear : Well, that's exciting. Uh, Dr. Brennan, your book has sold over 300,000 copies. How do you juggle twin careers as a best-selling author and a crime-fighting scientist?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Well, I do one, then the other.
Stacy Goodyear : And is the work enjoyable? I mean, the part involving rotten bodies?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Enjoyable? Well, satisfying, yes. Like cracking a code. But in general, when you're looking at someone who's been brutally murdered... it's complicated.
Stacy Goodyear : 'Cause I just thought, you know, yuck!
[she laughs, but Brennan doesn't]
Stacy Goodyear : Doesn't leave you much time for a personal life, does it?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : It's true I'm more focused on my career right now.
Stacy Goodyear : Most of our viewers are parents at home with their pre-school-aged children. What will you tell your kids about the horrors that you see everyday?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I'm not going to have any children.
Stacy Goodyear : Really?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Yes, really.
Stacy Goodyear : Do you have any advice for budding authors out there?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Well, the first thing you should have is an idea and then... Well, first you need something to write with. They... they know that. Well, obviously you need a writing instrument and you need an idea. I'm just not sure which should come first.
Stacy Goodyear : The book is "Bred in the Bone" by Dr. Temperance Brennan. Next up after the break: wicker, the new leather. But is it safe for your children?
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : That makes sense. If K.B.C. Systems is behind the kidnapping, then Seward would be the person to call it off.
Carl Decker : A rational human being? How'd you find yourself amongst these people?