The Hope in the Horror [12.1]

The Brain in the Bot [12.2]

Hodgins: If I've learned anything from being in this chair it's that happiness comes from accepting what you have.

Brennan: That is one of the many benefits of growing older, we grow wiser in the process.

The New Tricks in the Old Dogs [12.3]

Booth: What is with the breath coming through the back right now? It smells like death warmed over almost like a toxic blast of camel butt.

Aubrey: [looks offended] Wow. This is a black kale chia smoothie.

Booth: Why? Why are you drinking that? Did you lose a bet or something?

Brennan: Do you have an infected lesion?

Booth: What? Why would you even ask that?

Brennan: Well, black kale is high in vitamin K and antioxidants, both of which promote healing.

Aubrey: Jessica just thought maybe it'd be a good idea if I went on a junk food cleanse.

Booth: Go back to the donuts because that just smells like monkey ass.

Booth: I'm a sniper, you hear me, and snipers, they do not fire blanks.

Brennan: And in that analogy, my ovaries are what, target practice?

Brennan: Booth, I found something.

Booth: She found something.

Francis: Oh, my Is this where he died?

Booth: No, this is where he went to heaven.

Brennan: My husband is euphemistically referring to sex. By the sheer quantity––

Booth: [interrupts] You're gonna need a new cleaning service. So who was Mr. Felbeck seeing?

Brennan: By seeing, he means in-intercourse.

Brennan: Angela, is this one of the computers from the retirement home?

Angela: Yeah. And you won't believe what I'm finding.

Brennan: I assume you're referring to pornographic material?

Angela: Enough to make a teenage boy blush. You'd think at a certain age enough would be enough.

Brennan: Not for the male of the species. They are biologically programmed to keep wanting sexual gratification. Which is why I told Booth he needs to get a vasectomy.

Aubrey: Unlike Booth, I am an equal opportunity accuser. See, I don't care about sex, age...just motive and opportunity.

The Price for the Past [12.4]

Caroline: I hear Aldo was in rough shape. What was going on with him?

Booth: I don't know, Caroline. I hadn't spoken to him for over a year.

Caroline: If I know you, you tried.

Booth: You know what? I'm not gonna let myself off the hook on this one, all right? Anytime I needed anything, anything, Aldo was always there for me.

Caroline: I'm sure that goes for the other men in your unit, too.

Booth: What does that mean?

Caroline: He took on all their troubles.

Brennan: Moving forward, there is only one thing you can do for Aldo.

Booth: Look, if you're gonna tell me to forgive myself, please don't.

Brennan: Forgiveness would be ineffective.

Booth: Okay then, what? I mean, what works?

Brennan: Revenge.

Booth: That's not me. I mean, there are rules.

Brennan: You will follow those rules. The act of bringing a murderer to justice is, anthropologically speaking, a form of revenge. You have suffered a loss. Making the killer suffer for that loss will help.

Booth: Yeah, well, I hope so, Bones. Because right now I couldn't feel much worse.

Brennan: It didn't go well with the men?

Booth: These guys saw hell. You know, most of them are still paying the price.

Brennan: You feel the effects of war, too, Booth.

Booth: Yeah. Yeah, but I got lucky. I got a great family and great life. Got all this.

Brennan: You're an addict, just like Aldo.

Booth: Yeah.

Brennan: Unlike him, you got help.

Booth: Yeah. But you're in my corner. That's the difference. Aldo had no one.

Aubrey: Look, there's something else that I've been thinking about. I want you to know that I'm not him [his father].

Jessica: Uh, I know that, Aubrey.

Aubrey: [chuckles nervously] He left his wife, he left me. You know, I would-- I would never ever do that.

Jessica: What are you saying?

Aubrey: I'm saying that when I commit to something, it's real. That I'm serious about us. [looks at Jessica staring at him] Did I say the wrong thing?

Jessica: No. Of course not, Aubrey...but there's a lot going on...

Aubrey: I know. And when it's all taken care of, I'm gonna feel the same way.

The Tutor in the Tussle [12.5]

Fisher: Cartoons upset me as a child.

Hodgins: More of an Addams Family kid?

Fisher: Twilight Zone reruns actually.

Cam: Everything about you makes more sense now.

Booth: You know, my old man, he was a piece of work.

Aubrey: Yeah, he drank, right?

Booth: Yeah. He drank, and he beat the crap out of me and my brother, till Pops took us in.

Aubrey: I guess neither one of us drew very well in the fatherhood lottery.

Booth: Well, you know, with my dad, he died a while back. I never got a chance to really confront him. Tell him how I really feel, you know, man-to-man.

Aubrey: [to his father] Don't ever take credit for how I turned out, okay? Any good in me was despite having you as a father.

The Flaw in the Saw [12.6]

The Scare in the Score [12.7]

The Grief and the Girl [12.8]

The Steal in the Wheels [12.9]

[Dr. Gordon Wyatt visits Booth's office with a plate of petit fours and notices Aubrey looking at it.]

Dr. Wyatt: Agent Aubrey, if you were to yield to your desire, rather than fight it, I think you might be able to return to the matter in hand.

Aubrey: Is it that obvious?

Booth: You're drooling like a Great Dane. I'll take that. [Aubrey reaches out to the plate to take a petit four] They're for me.

Dr. Wyatt: Please, gentlemen, don't fight over them. There are plenty to go 'round.

Aubrey: [looks defiantly at Booth] Plenty.

Dr. Wyatt: Share. Good children share, don't they?

Dr. Wyatt: [while helping Angela profile a suspect] I haven't had this much excitement since my last baked Alaska fiasco.

Angela: Well, it looks like a junker, like it's just a bunch of mismatched parts.

Cam: Like Frankenstein's monster, but the car version.

The Radioactive Panthers in the Party [12.10]

Aubrey: [after Booth makes him lead on the case] Wow, thank you, Booth. So does this mean that, like, I'm your boss now?

Booth: Listen, Aubrey, if you have to ask if you're my boss, you're not my boss.

Linda Martin: Ronny is a creative guy, full of all these wild ideas. And after directing all the Snoozeland commercials, he decided he was ready for the real thing.

Aubrey: A real commercial?

Linda: Movie. Said he was gonna be the next Gordon Welles.

Aubrey: Orson Welles?

Linda: Sure. Whatever, I don't know about any of that stuff. All I know is: Ronny wrote himself a story, took a leave of absence from work and went off to make his movie.

Aubrey: Huh.

Linda: This movie was all Ronny could think about. It was going to be his Citizen Crane.

Cam: Geez, Hodgins. You cannot just roll up on me like that.

Hodgins: I'm in a wheelchair, Cam. I have no choice but to roll up on you.

[Booth and Aubrey visit a set where a commercial is being filmed]

Booth: The one thing I learned about these guys, these creative types, they're definitely a breed of their own.

[...]

Aubrey: Oh, dear God, this is like spring break on bath salts.

Kirby: You guys are with "F.B.I"? I haven't heard of them. Are they new?

Booth: [deadpan] You haven't heard of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Kirby: Oh, that FBI. (laughs) Bummer. I thought you guys were, like, Hollywood agents. Real agents.

Aubrey: We are real agents. Investigating a real murder.

Aubrey: I thought that I was supposed to be lead on the case, here.

Booth: I'm just trying to help.

Aubrey: Appreciate that, but you keep telling me where to go, what leads to follow, wouldn't even let me drive to the movie location.

Booth: You're like a turtle behind the wheel. You're like−−

Aubrey: What?

Booth: [grits his teeth in frustration] A turtle. We would've still been in the parking lot if you were driving, Aubrey.

Aubrey: We would've got there. That's my point. You know, you got to let me work my own pace, here.

Booth: Fine.

Brennan: How important do you think it is for us to love what we do?

Angela: Uh, well, it, it's important, but it's not everything. Most people don't love their jobs. They don't even like them. They do them because they have to.

Brennan: What if they didn't have to?

Angela: If you can afford to leave an unfulfilling job, why wouldn't you?

The Day in the Life [12.11]

Hodgins: What can I get you, lovely lady? What do you have? We've got the Saroyan Sling, the Arast-ini, the Pookie Noodlin'...

Angela: You did not name a drink the Pookie Noodlin'.

Hodgins: All right, it's not on the menu, but I'll whip you up one special.

Hodgins: Zack, you sure you want to represent yourself? I mean, we can request a continuance.

Zack: No, I've had many years to study courtroom procedure. I am ready.

Brennan: Zack will be fine. Besides, the opposing lawyer is––

[Caroline suddenly appears in front of them.]

Caroline: Is a fierce vision by the name of Caroline Julian? Is that what you were going to say, Cher? [glares at Brennan]

Brennan: No.

The End in the End [12.12]

Aubrey: I just got word from the team that went after Kovac.

Caroline: Please tell me that son of a bitch is either dead or in custody. And if I have a choice, I choose dead.

Angela: New equipment? Whoa. Seriously? What exhibit did you guys steal this from?

Cam: No. Actually, it was all donated from the biochem department at Georgetown. They came calling almost immediately after the bomb went off.

Hodgins: [grins] Squints of the world unite, baby.

Caroline: You almost went and got yourself killed, again. When are you ever gonna stop doing that?

Booth: Probably never.

Caroline: You and your damn sense of duty. Do you have any idea how stressful it is for me to have such a brave friend?

Aubrey: Well, you know the saying. Once a Ranger, always a Ranger.

Booth: That's not the Ranger slogan, Aubrey.

Aubrey: Oh. I'm thinking of Power Rangers.

Hodgins: [after learning that Cam made him interim director while she is on sabbatical] Wait a minute, I'm the king of the lab? I'm the king of the lab!!!