Bones (TV Series)

The Man with the Bone (2006)

Robert Foxworth: Branson Rose

Quotes 

• Branson Rose : It's simple. You have something that belongs to me, and I'm not leaving here without it.

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : [leaning against Goodman's desk, unimpressed with Rose's blustering]  A day ago, you couldn't wait to leave, pull out of the island, cut your losses. You remember that?

  Branson Rose : A lot can change in a day.

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : [acerbically]  Yeah. For Ted Macy, a lot changed.

  Branson Rose : Look, I'm sorry about Ted. But I'll be damned if the federal government swoops in here at the eleventh hour and steals what I've been trying to find for two years.

  Dr. Daniel Goodman : [calmly, from his seated place behind his desk]  I fail to see what this has to do with the Jeffersonian.

  Branson Rose : [firmly]  Those bones belong to me. They were uncovered at my site. I was granted a permit to dig there and keep what was found.

  [Goodman takes a measured breath but says nothing] 

  Branson Rose : My attorneys assure me you have no claim to those bones.

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : [laughter in his voice]  Oh sure, man, your attorney wants to go to court for the next twenty years and buy himself a nice vacation home in Tuscany.

  [turning serious] 

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : But the fact is when Ted Macy was murdered, your property became our evidence.

  Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : And it's going to stay that way until we find the killer.

  Branson Rose : [chuckles sardonically]  I was hoping to settle this amicably.

  [Rose turns to leave] 

  Branson Rose : [sarcastic]  Really. Because, you know, we haven't seen that yet