- 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?
- [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.
- 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.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: [as Pickering starts walking away from him] What was the finding?
- [Pickering turns around]
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: I still work here so...
- Agent Pickering: Harmless.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: [sounding indignant] Harmless? I'm harmless?
- Agent Pickering: Yes. You do not pose a viable threat.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Well, that's just - insulting.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: We're looking for an abandoned gas station or mechanic shop, off the grid.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: You know, you guys are geniuses. Mm!
- Zack Addy: How do we find that?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Work for the F.B.I., you idiot.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Way to go, Zack. We went from geniuses to idiots in three seconds.
- 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.
- 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."
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: [to State Department agent who's running a security review on the squints] I know things that would curdle your blood, including a formula that literally curdles blood.
- Agent Pickering: What I need to do here is establish that you are not a threat to the security of this country.
- Zack Addy: I'm getting a degree in forensic anthropology; I'm halfway through another in engineering. What're you afraid I'll do? Build a race of criminal robots that'll destroy the Earth?
- FBI Deputy Director Sam Cullen: [to Booth and Brennan after their encounter with U.S. marshals] Well, at least no one got shot. Probably because *she* didn't have a gun.
- 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?
- 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?