- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Are Rangers afraid of SEALs?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: What? Come on, Bones. No.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Rangers aren't afraid of anybody. All right?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: SEALs are pretty good though.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [while questioning the security guard]
- [to Dr. Goodman]
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: You know, you need a better screening process down at the museum.
- Dr. Daniel Goodman: Ironic, given we contract that out to the FBI.
- Angela Montenegro: You think it's a pirate?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: It's a 300-year-old finger from the left-hand of a male. That's *all* I'm sure of so far.
- Angela Montenegro: Worth killing for?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I worked a case once where a woman was killed, dismembered and burned because her friend thought she'd taken her favorite pair of slippers.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [Walking along a hallway leading to the morgue] Welcome to the dungeon.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why the FBI always stick their morgues in the most depressing basement they can find?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Don't be such a snob Bones, ok? Not everyone gets to play in a multimillion dollar lab, you know... with skylights.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: It's because as a society we feel the need to hide death away. The people who deal with the death are viewed as freaks.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: [Looking at the bones, allegedly those of a pirate, on the computer screen] Maybe they're right. Maybe this man died burying a treasure. Ironic. Stealing all that and never enjoying the spoils.
- Angela Montenegro: So you believe there's treasure?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I believe there's greed. That's the real curse.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Archaeologists are scientists who use evidence on which to base their explorations ... not some pirate movie they saw when they were ten.
- 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