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Special Agent Seeley Booth Bones

Special Agent Seeley Booth

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David was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the young age of seven ...

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Special Agent Seeley Booth Quotes

05x17 - The Death of the Queen Bee Season 5 / Episode 17: - The Death of the Queen Bee

Special Agent Seeley Booth: Bones, you're tearing up.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: This is the prom I never got to go to.
05x17 - The Death of the Queen Bee Season 5 / Episode 17: - The Death of the Queen Bee

Special Agent Seeley Booth: [to Bones] Are you saying High School is like KGB?
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Clandestine meetings, secret pacts murder. Sounds like her High School.
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

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] I still don't.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: And I still do.
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

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.
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

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 fratenizing with other agents, or consultants.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: That's too bad.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Glad you think so.
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

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.
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

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!
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

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!
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

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.
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

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!
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

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.


Special Agent Seeley Booth: Hey!


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.
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

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.
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

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.
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

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.
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

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
05x16 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

Special Agent Seeley Booth: Hey, excuse me, you know what, you really need to learn how to speak to human beings.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I speak 6 languages, two of which you've never even heard of.
05x15 - The Bones on the Blue Line Season 5 / Episode 15: - The Bones on the Blue Line

Dr. Lance Sweets: You're gonna think I'm stopid for saying this but the - whole thing... felt like a message.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Right. Believe in messages.
Dr. Lance Sweets: Yeah, it's like a message. "Go ye forth and live life to the fullest." Something like that.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: "Live life to the fullest." People should do that more often: moment-to-moment, day-to-day, but they don't.
05x15 - The Bones on the Blue Line Season 5 / Episode 15: - The Bones on the Blue Line

Dr. Temperance Brennan: [Speaking of her books] Angela helps me with those scenes.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: What?
Dr. Temperance Brennan: Angela helps me.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Page 187?
Dr. Temperance Brennan: Angela... Though I'm anxious to try it.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Really?
05x15 - The Bones on the Blue Line Season 5 / Episode 15: - The Bones on the Blue Line

Riku Inagawa: [after Booth draws his weapons] That is very sexy. Big Andy with a gun protecting Kathy.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: No, no, no, no. He is not Andy, and I'm not Kathy... Plus it's more exciting when he shoots someone with it.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Bones.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: Well it is, Booth. And impressive, he never misses.
Riku Inagawa: Andy sometimes misses.
05x14 - The Devil in the Details Season 5 / Episode 14: - The Devil in the Details

Lloyd Robertson: You believe I didn't kill Neal, right?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Doesn't matter what I believe. Matters what I can prove.
05x14 - The Devil in the Details Season 5 / Episode 14: - The Devil in the Details

Special Agent Seeley Booth: You know what if feels like to get your faith back?
Dr. Temperance Brennan: When I see effects and I'm unable to discern the cause, my faith in reason and consequence is shaken.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: And then what happens?
Dr. Temperance Brennan: ...Two plus two equals four; I put sugar in my coffee and it tastes sweet; the sun comes up because the world turns. These things are beautiful to me. There are mysteries I will never understand... But, everywhere I look, I see proof that for every effect, there is a corresponding cause, even if I can't see it. I find that reassuring.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: And life is good again.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: [laughs] Life is very good.
05x14 - The Devil in the Details Season 5 / Episode 14: - The Devil in the Details

Special Agent Seeley Booth: I brought Sweets along so he can sift through all the crazy asses at the loony bin, see if any of them are homicidal.
Dr. Lance Sweets: I'm an excellent loony bin crazy ass sifter.
05x14 - The Devil in the Details Season 5 / Episode 14: - The Devil in the Details

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Notice how I'm not tailgating? Adaptive cruise control.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Hmm-hmm. Ah, well, right now I'm more worried about a safe distance between you and me.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why? Because we're going to a church and you tend to get blasphemous in churches.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: What, you're afraid that if God smites me with lightning, you could get hit?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, I'm usually standing right beside you.
05x14 - The Devil in the Details Season 5 / Episode 14: - The Devil in the Details

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [Observing how the suspect is following her movement from the interrogation room] I have to admit, it's eerie the way when I move, she follows me as though she knows exactly where I am.
Dr. Adam Copeland: Thet's because she can see you.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: It's a window, Bones. It's not a two way mirror,
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Oh.
05x13 - The Dentist in the Ditch Season 5 / Episode 13: - The Dentist in the Ditch

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You ran a background check on Jared's girlfriend?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, yeah, you do things like that for people you care about.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Do you do that when I go out with someone?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Look Bones, you're the one who says not to jump to any conclusions without all the facts.
05x13 - The Dentist in the Ditch Season 5 / Episode 13: - The Dentist in the Ditch

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: They are unlike mountain rams that butt heads in an attempt to attract a mate. It's hard to believe that brain damage isn't a result.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: It's amazing. You even make football sound bad, Bones.
05x13 - The Dentist in the Ditch Season 5 / Episode 13: - The Dentist in the Ditch

Special Agent Seeley Booth: Excuse me. Coach. [Shows his badge] FBI Special Agent Seely Booth. This is my partner Dr. Temperance Brennan. We'd like to ask you a few questions about Dan Pinard.
Coach Jason Hendler: Yeah, well, he better be in prison. That's the only excuse I'll accept for how long he's been gone.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: We found his body.
05x13 - The Dentist in the Ditch Season 5 / Episode 13: - The Dentist in the Ditch

Jared Booth: You just can't stand to see me happy, can you?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: No! That's not true. If I were in your shoes I'd want to know if my girlfriend was hiding something.
Jared Booth: No! You wouldn't! Okay, I have watched you. I learned. You would make your own judgement. You wouldn't care about what other people said. You'd say exactly what I'm going to say: Go to Hell!
05x13 - The Dentist in the Ditch Season 5 / Episode 13: - The Dentist in the Ditch

Dr. Lance Sweets: Oh, did you run a background check on Jared's girlfriend?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Okay. Why is everyone saying that to me like it's some kind of terrible thing.
Dr. Lance Sweets: Because it's kind of a terrible thing.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'm just looking out for my brother. That's all. So can we just, you know, focus on the case.
05x13 - The Dentist in the Ditch Season 5 / Episode 13: - The Dentist in the Ditch

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You told me that my father's criminal past didn't matter. That the love between us was real. And that's all that mattered. Because I believed you, my father and I have relationship today.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Okay, I'm glad I could help out.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I'm anxious because I can't see any meaningful difference between my father and your brother's girlfriend... Can you explain that to me?... It's a question of logic, so I'm just going to be quiet while you work your way through.

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