Bones Season 5 Episode 11: "The X in the File" Quotes
I'm not gonna take the heat when people scream I sent an alien off to Washington for secret testing! (chuckles then turns serious) I've been through that before.
Sheriff Bonds
Booth: Come on Bones, you don't believe that there are other real life forms out there?
Bones: Well the ... probability is very high, but any alien visiting this planet would have sufficient intelligence not to die in the middle of the desert.
Booth: Hey, FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth. This here is Dr. Temperance Brennan from the Jeffersonian.
Sheriff Bonds: Sheriff Jerry Bonds. But you probably got that from my shiny badge, my imposing gun, and my big hat.
Booth: Yeah, right.
Blaine Miller: Oh. Oh you're here about that body they found up at Vinton's place.
Brennan: We never mentioned a body, Mr. Miller.
Blaine Miller: Nothing travels faster than the speed of light than gossip in a small town.
Brennan: It's not a spaceship.
Booth: Well, if it smells like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck ...
Brennan: But then it would be a duck, not a spaceship, so your point escapes me.
Booth: It's just a metaphor.
Sweets: I don't think you're jealous. I think that you're grieving ... what you've lost.
Hodgins: Grieving? As in grief?
Sweets: Yes.
Hodgins: Man, the only thing that cures grief is time. Unless you're recommending a lot of alcohol.
Sweets: I can't really recommend alcohol.
Hodgins: Man, it would be great if you could though, right? (laughs)
Sweets: I recommend time.
Hodgins: So just ... smile and act like a good guy?
Sweets: You are a good guy.
Hodgins: You know, there was a time that I thought that Angela and I would be together forever.
No probing! No probing!
Booth
It's very satisfying to use an insulting colloquialism, even when it isn't accurate.
Brennan
Important blogger? Talk about an oxymoron.
Booth
Angela: Okay, let's do it your way.
Wendell: You mean talk to Hodgins or...?
