Bones: The Bones on the Blue Line
April 12th 2010 01:37
Sweets is riding the Metro when the young man sitting next to him gets a text that clearly effects him emotionally. When Sweets asks him if he’s okay, the young man says that he’s great. He’s been fighting cancer for half his life, and he just found out he’s cancer free! Sweets congratulates him, and the kid gets very excited about his future. He’s going to do all the things he’s been putting off this whole time now that he’s finally healthy. Smiling, Sweets agrees that that’s a great idea and goes back to his earbuds.
Meanwhile, Booth and Bones are being accompanied by a Japanese journalist who is interviewing Bones about her new book. The restaurant starts to shake, and Booth is confused. This is Washington DC, they don’t have earthquakes!
The railcar is jostled around by the shaking, and suddenly a massive amount of water comes crashing down into in. The water main has broken, knocking the car off the tracks, and throwing what looks like a dead body up against the glass window. Sweets grabs the edge of his seat as the young man beside him is shocked by the dead body and thrown into a vertical handrail. The ground calms, the car stops, and the young man is dead.
Booth and Bones arrive at the crime scene, and while Bones and the Japanese journalist go to investigate one set of human remains, Booth goes over to make sure Sweets is okay with another. Sweets is visibly shaken by seeing the young man killed right in front of him. The poor kid pretty much died in his arms. Booth tells Sweets he’s got to go check on Bones, but he’ll be right back to drive him to the office. Sweets assures him that he’s fine.
As the team finds out the identity of the dead man (thanks to a tooth in his scapula via a blind sight restoration surgery), and they find out he was a scribe (as in he wrote letters for a living) who was shot with blue bullets, Bones is continually interrupted in her book interview with Riku Iwanaga. Miss Iwanaga seems to be fascinated with the relationships between Bones’s characters, which Bones just doesn’t get. To her, the characters are only there to further the forensics. Why would anybody care about the rest, it means nothing? Miss Iwanaga argues that the relationship stuff means everything.
While on the lookout for rat poop, Daisy and Hodgins (well, mostly Daisy) discuss Bones’s new book, and according to her, what’s on page 187 is “H.O.T.” Hodgins tries to get her back on track, and they find a huge rats’ nest which will help them try and determine the time of death. Even so, when he’s back at the lab, Hodgins curiously pulls out Bones’s new book which he’s not that far into yet, and flips to page 187. He takes one look at it and drops everything, bypassing Cam on the way and heading straight to Angela. He holds out the book and asks her to read page 187. She smirks at him and answers, “I am not reading the sparky bits to you. You can get somebody else to do that, sicko.” Okay then, he asks her to read it to herself. When she takes the book, he confronts her. “That's that thing that I do. Nobody else does that thing. It's my thing that I do. Right. It's not a well-known thing. It's, you know, my thing that I do.” She remembers, she was there. Hodgins asks her if he gave him credit when she told Bones about it, and Angela says she didn’t. “Good,” he answers. “’cause I don't need her looking at me thinking about.. .that thing I do.” Angela grins and Hodgins suggests she no longer date men who read, otherwise she’ll never be rid of him. They both grin and he heads out.
Concerned that all people are interested about in her books are the characters, Bones asks Booth about it, and he lets her know that that’s what makes the story real for the readers. Bones argue that the forensics make it real, and when Bones asks her about the other stuff, Bones says that Angela helps her with those scenes. Booth is surprised. He asks about page 187, and Bones answers, “Angela. Though, I'm anxious to try it.” This is news to Booth, who watches her walk away and asks, “Really?”
While analyzing love letters the victim wrote for another man to give to another woman, Sweets concludes that the victim was writing to a woman he loved, but couldn’t tell. As he and Angela continue to study them, Daisy enters, and asks him if he’s okay. They’ve all been trying to get him to go home, but Sweets just wants to work. Angela starts to leave, but Sweets stops her, telling Daisy that he’ll call her later. Disappointed and a little confused, Daisy leaves. Angela asks Sweets what’s going on with him, and he answers, “You know, I only have one life, Angela and I don't want to play it safe, so now I'd really like to work.” Okay then. They get back to work and find out the victim was writing letters for the manager of the subway station.
As Booth interrogates the subway manager, who hired the victim to write love letters to the transit cop who just so happened to be there when Booth and Bones showed up to take the body, Cam asks Angela to get Daisy out of the lab because she’s been sighing and moaning sadly all day. Not realizing she was doing that out loud, Daisy asks Angela if Sweets is going to break up with her. Angela assures her that based on the way he’s acting, he’s not going to. Daisy, who has never been dumped, isn’t so sure. She also wonders why Angela drives a minivan. Angela’s answer? “I'm artist, Daisy and the Sienna has plenty of room. Plus, I stink at parallel parking and the back up camera thing is like the invention of the century.”
While driving, Booth calls Angela to ask her about what Bones said, that Angela helps her with those scenes, and Angela tells him that after she’s done writing her book, Bones invites her over. Angela lays on the couch with a glass of wine while Bones reads her the book, and every once in a while she’ll make suggestions. When Booth prompts her onward, with, “Suggestions…?” Angela answers, “Well, yeah. Yeah. And I say..."You know what would be great here? If they were naked. Or um, "What if he says this to her and then they laugh and then they kiss?" You know, that kind of stuff.”
“So the good stuff, you mean,” he answers, but she assures him that, “No, do not do that, Booth. She writes the book. I just drink wine and make suggestions. Like her editor. And editors do not get credit.” When Booth grins and asks about page 187, Angela breaks off the conversation to get back to work, wondering, “What is it with you guys and page 187?”
When Booth and Bones call in the officer working the case, the one who the victim wrote the letters for another man to give to her, Officer Grant confesses. “Eddie was a good guy. I just wanted a little romance but those letters were a lie. I should have been happy with Eddie. I should have been happy with what I had.”
Sweets takes the love letters written by the victim to his writing partner, Sophia, who never knew how the victim felt about her. He couldn’t tell her of course, because she was married with kids. Sweets thought she would want to know.
Thanking Bones for letting her follow her around and interview her, Miss Iwanaga says that she’s learned very much. “Yes,” Bones agrees. “You learned that rat excrement can provide not only the time line, but also, very important non-circumstantial evidence.”
“I also learned that people should not take credit for what other people write,” the young Japanese woman politely answers.
Bones stares at her. “ What is that supposed to mean?”
“ Uh, I mean the man who was murdered, of course.”
“Oh…”
They say goodbye, but Bones is still thinking about her comments. Later on, she approaches Angela with a check. Angela is confused, what’s this for? Bones tells her that she’s come to realize that Angela deserves something for her amount of the book work, and therefore, it’s only fair that she get paid. Angela didn’t expect this, but accepts, and is shocked when she opens the check to see the amount. Even more so that the amount is only 25% of what Bones makes on a book!
Meanwhile, back at the lab, Sweets finds Daisy. He needs to talk. She asks him if this is because of the boy who didn’t die of Leukemia, and he says that it is. He’s decided something, hasn’t he? Yes. He doesn’t want to spend any more time away from her than he has to. Confused, Daisy asks, “What?”, and Sweets starts over: “I'm doing this wrong. Um, when my mom died, she left me something and my mom and dad were together for almost 60 years.” Daisy agrees that they were really old. He’s still not quite getting through to her.
“Yeah, they were really old when they adopted me,” he mutters, taking out a ring box from his coat pocket. He opens it. “Um... It's just a modest ring, but it represents 60 years of love…” Sweets gets down on one knee right there in the lab. “Daisy, will you be my wife?”
Overwhelmed, Daisy joins him on her knees, wrapping her arms around him. “It would make me incredibly happy if you would be my husband,” she answers, kissing him. “I'm sorry about everyone else, all the bad things…but that earthquake was the luckiest thing in the world for me.”
They kiss.
Booth shows up at Bones’s apartment to tell her that Eddie ended up getting Officer Grant a the best defense attorney in town. They both find that hard to believe, but hey, “He heard what she did for him,” Booth tells her, “and he fell in love with her all over again.” Bones argues that, “That is not rational.”
Booth tells her that he’s still continually surprised by people, but he doesn’t know if that’s a good or bad thing. “Bad? I think. Uh…I don’t know.” Bones points out that even with good behavior, Officer Grant will be in prison for the next 15 years, but Booth says that even so, “He said that they’re soul mates and he’ll wait for however long it takes for her to get out.”
“Soul mates,” she answers, not convinced.
“Soul mates, yeah.”
Bones points out that the idea of soul mates actually originated with Plato (to which Booth jokes, “Yeah, you mean the clay that kids play with”), and she explains to them Plato’s theory that, “humans originally consisted of four arms, four legs and two faces. Zeus was threatened by their power and split them all in half, condemning us all to spend our lives trying to complete ourselves.”
Booth doesn’t believe that’s true. For once, Bones agrees with him.
“Right?” he answers. “Four arms. Four heads…”
“Two faces,” she corrects.
“Come on.”
BOOTH: So her book is big in Japan, too?
RIKU IWANAGA: Yes, very popular. Spine-tingling.
BOOTH: Spine-tingling is good, Bones.
BONES: Well - well, except when it indicates a dangers nerve disorder.
~*~*~
BONES: This is a male. Early 30s. Dead at least a week. Probably washed out in the tunnel when the main broke.
RIKU IWANAGA: This could be quite a thrilling opening for your next book.
BOOTH: Yeah. (to Bones) What did she say?
BONES: Never mind.
~*~*~
RIKU IWANAGA: In her books, you must be Amanda.
ANGELA: Oh, well, I have a lot more fun than Amanda.
~*~*~
SWEETS: I just don't... I don't want to disappear without living the life that I want to live.
~*~*~
RIKU IWANAGA: Excellent. Dr.Reichs' relationship with Agent Andy is based on you and Booth. The quite notorious sex life they share and...
BONES: What? No, we are not them. They're fiction. (Riku writes something down) Wha-what are you writing? Uh, you stard writing before I answered.
ANGELA: She loves to write.
RIKU IWANAGA: Your readers feel the passion...
BONES: My readers appreciate the intricate plots and the unique forensics. Why aren't you writing that down? That was interesting; what I just said.
~*~*~
HODGINS: I identified the blue substance on his bones as a polymer: paint or rubber, maybe dye. That's why I'd like to go searching for rat poop.
CAM: Of course you'd like that.
~*~*~
DAISY: I think it's Dr.Brennan's best book. People think that scientists aren't romantic but Dr.Brennan has a knack for the steamy.
HODGINS: Yeah, still waters run deep.
DAISY: Wait until you get to page 187. It is H.O.T! She describes this move that Agent Andy makes. Lance and I tried it a few times, and oh my god. The neighbors complained.
HODGINS: Rat poop, Miss Wick. Rat poop.
~*~*~
RIKU IWANAGA: Dr.Brennan, why doesn't Agent Andy wear a "cocky" belt buckle?
BONES:: Because Andy isn't Booth but why does everyone think that?
RIKU IWANAGA: Agent Booth thinks he is. He says they are both brave and attractive.
BONES: Well, he's wrong.
RIKU IWANAGA: You do not think he's attractive?
BONES: Uh, I think his symmetry is pleasing, yes but Ms. Iwanaga, the characters in my books are really only there to further the forensics.
RIKU IWANAGA: I do not agree. The sex is very involving.
BONES: Why does everyone think that? It's just sex.
RIKU IWANAGA: Imaginative sex.
BONES: Okay, I only include that, and the personal interactions, to denote the passage of time. Wh-what are you writing? (trying to see notebook) I only took conversational Japanese.
~*~*~
ANGELA: How's your rat poop?
HODGINS: Page 187. Mind reading it aloud?
ANGELA: Page 187? I am not reading the sparky bits to you. You can get somebody else to do that, sicko.
HODGINS: Okay, fine. Read it to yourself then. (she starts to read) That's that thing that I do. Nobody else does that thing. It's my thing that I do. Right. It's not a well-known thing. It's, you know, my thing that I do.
ANGELA: Right, I remember. I was there.
HODGINS: You told Brennan about that thing I do.
ANGELA: It's a very good thing.
HODGINS: It's my thing. That I do. Did you tell her that it was my thing?
ANGELA: You mean, did I give you credit?
HODGINS: Yes. Did you?
ANGELA: No.
HODGINS: Good, 'cause I don't need her looking at me thinking about.. that thing I do.
ANGELA: Well, that's good then.
~*~*~
BONES: I believe my books are popular because they introduce the reader to the world of forensic anthropology. Why aren't you writing? You uslly write down everything.
RIKU IWANAGA: Why did it take so long for Dr.Reichs to have sex with Agent Andy?
BONES: For the same reason that she used stable isotos to determine that the victim spent her childhood in East Timor. The oxygen isotopes we ingest through food and water are incorporated into the hydroxyl carbonic apatite of bone. You-you should be writing this down.
RIKU IWANAGA: Will she ever tell Andy about her affair with Ryan?
BONES: That was inconsequential fluff, Ms. Iwanaga.
RIKU IWANAGA: It's why they fight in chapter six.
BONES: Well, they identify the lotus tooth in chapter six.
RIKU IWANAGA: That is when their passion is released: page 187.
BONES: Why are you only asking about things that mean nothing?
RIKU IWANAGA: Those are the things that mean everything.
~*~*~
BONES: All anyone cares about are the characters.
BOOTH: Well, it's what they relate too, you know, makes the story real.
BONES: No. The facts make it real. They're indisputable.
BOOTH: Okay, well, if you believed that, you wouldn't write it as well as you do.
BONES: Angela helps me with those scenes.
BOOTH: What?
BONES: Angela helps me.
BOOTH: Page 187?
BONES: Angela. Though, I'm anxious to try it.
(whe enters Founding Fathers, Booth stares after her)
BOOTH: Really?
~*~*~
DAISY: Where are we going?
ANGELA: Uh, Cam asked me get you out of the lab.
DAISY: Why?
ANGELA: Because you keep sighing and moaning.
DAISY: Oh, I thought I was keeping that to myself.
ANGELA: No, no. You were sharing with everyone.
DAISY: Why do you drive a minivan? Do you have kids that we don't know about.
ANGELA: I'm artist, Daisy and the Sienna has plenty of room. Plus, I stink at parallel parking and the back up camera thing is like the invention of the century. So why are you sighing and moaning, Daisy?
DAISY: Because... Have you ever been dumped?
ANGELA: Of course. Hasn't everybody?
DAISY: Not me.
ANGELA: Never?
DAISY: Never. I'm smart, I'm extremely attractive plus I'm a sexual dynamo.
ANGELA: So, you think that Sweets is going to break up with you?
DAISY: I don't know because it's never happened before. He's pushing me away. He's been avoiding me.
ANGELA: Oh, you don't have anything to worry about.
DAISY: Why?
ANGELA: Because before they break up with you guys usually get really affectionate and sweet.
DAISY: Does it always happen like that?
ANGELA: No. No, not always.
DAISY: So you can't get me any real help at all, even though you've been dumped a lot.
ANGELA: Not a lot.
DAISY: Why would Lance break up with me? I'm awesome.
~*~*~
ANGELA: I feel uncomfortable talking about this. Is this because of something that that Japanese journalist said?
BOOTH: No, no, no, no. It's just...Riku asked Bones about some of the character stuff in the book and when were alone, Bones, she told me you helped her.
ANGELA: Yeah. I mean, I might have given her a few suggestions. That's all.
BOOTH: Suggestions? Like, um..?
ANGELA: Okay, look, Brennan types up her book and then I go to her place and I lie on the couch, I mean, with a glass of wine, and she reads me the book. I make suggestions.
BOOTH: Um, she reads you the whole book?
ANGELA: Well, yeah. Yeah. And I say..."You know what would be great here? If they were naked. Or um, "What if he says this to her and then they laugh and then they kiss?" You know, that kind of stuff.
BOOTH: The good stuff, you mean.
ANGELA: No, do not do that, Booth. She writes the book. I just drink wine and make suggestions. Like her editor. And editors do not get credit.
BOOTH: How 'bout page 187?
ANGELA: What is it with you guys and page 187? I have to go. I'm busy.
~*~*~
RIKU IWANAGA: This is pawnshop...like the one in your first book when Doctor Reichs and Agent Andy removed their clothes in the two-man submarine.
BONES: The pulverized acromion is the important part of that book.
BOOTH: Yeah, well, you know what, I like the sub.
~*~*~
BOOTH: Uh-uh--Real easy there. Don't want any sudden movements. No mistakes. That's it.
RIKU IWANAGA: That is very sexy. Big Andy, with a gun, protecting Kathy.
BONES: No, no, no. He's not Andy and I'm not Kathy. Plus, it's even more exciting when he shoots someone with it.
BOOTH: Bones.
BONES: Well, it is, Booth. And very impressive. He never misses.
RIKU IWANAGA: Andy sometimes misses…
BONES: Yes. See?
~*~*~
RIKU IWANAGA: Thank you very much. I have a big article to write.
BONES: Well, I hope you would stress important things in my novels.
RIKU IWANAGA: I have learned very much.
BONES: Yes, you learned that rat excrement can provide not only the time line, but also, very important non-circumstantial evidence.
RIKU IWANAGA: I also learned that people should not take credit for what other people write.
BONES: What is that supposed to mean?
RIKU IWANAGA: Uh, I mean the man who was murdered, of course.
BONES: oh.
~*~*~
ANGELA: What is this?
BONES: It's your share.
ANGELA: My share of what?
BONES: My advance, plus an estimation of what you deserve for the other two books.
ANGELA: Okay, would you stop talking as though I know what you're talking about?
BONES: I've come to realize, over the past couple days, that you deserve twenty-five percent of what I get for my books.
ANGELA: Does this have to do with Hodgins and the whole sex thing on page 187?
BONES: Among other things.
ANGELA: So, is this Booth's idea?
BONES: Uh, no. I did my own math. Booth is terrible at math.
ANGELA: Well, I meant the whole "share" thing.
BONES: Booth's surprise at your involvement caused me to reevaluate our arrangement.
(Bones starts to leave and Angela opens the envelope, nearly fainting at the number written on it)
ANGELA: Oh—ho—
BONES: Is my math incorrect?
ANGELA: Wow..um, this is... this is twenty-five percent?
BONES: Yes. I figure if my agent gets ten percent - you deserve more.
~*~*~
DAISY: Lancelot, there you are. Don't touch the bones.
SWEETS: Oh, did it look like I was going to? I wasn't.
DAISY: I've been trying to call you. You've been avoiding me, haven't you?
SWEETS: Yeah. I, uh, I just... I needed to think about some things. About you and-and me and-and what I want my life to be.
DAISY: Is this because of the boy who didn't die of leukemia?
SWEETS: Yeah.
DAISY: And you're here because you decided something?
SWEETS: Yeah.
DAISY: Am I going to like what you decided?
SWEETS: I don't know. I just want to say that I don't want to spend any more time away from you than I have to.
DAISY: What?
SWEETS: I'm doing this wrong. Um, when my mom died, she left me something and my mom and dad were together for almost 60 years.
DAISY: They were really old.
SWEETS: Yeah, they were really old when they adopted me. (takes a ring box out of his pocket, opens it) Um... It's just a modest ring, but it represents 60 years of love. (he gets on one knee) Daisy, will you be my wife?
DAISY: (after a long moment, she gets on her knees and wraps her arms around him) It would make me incredibly happy if you would be my husband. (she kisses him) I'm sorry about everyone else, all the bad thing….but that earthquake was the luckiest thing in the world for me.
(They kiss again)
~*~*~
BONES: Well, if she's convicted, even with good behavior, she'll be in prison for the next 15 years.
BOOTH: Yeah, but he said that they're soul mates and he'll it for however long it takes for her to get out.
BONES: Soul mates.
BOOTH: Soul mates. Yeah.
BONES: The idea of soul mates actually originated with Plato.
BOOTH: Yeah, you mean the-the clay that kids play with.
BONES: No, the...Oooh. (she laughs)
BOOTH: What?
BONES: You're joking.
BOOTH: Me, joke? No.
BONES: No, the ancient Greek philosopher. His theory was that humans originally consisted of four arms, four legs and two faces. Zeus was threatened by their power and split them all in half, condemning us all to spend our lives trying to complete ourselves.
BOOTH: I don't believe that's true.
BONES: I agree. It's ridiculous.
BOOTH: Right? Four arms. Four heads.
BRENNAN: Two faces.
BOOTH: Come on.
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Comment by Anonymous
ANGELA: So why are you sighing and moaning, Daisy?
DAISY: Because... Have you ever been dumped?
ANGELA: Of course. Hasn't everybody?
DAISY: Not me.
ANGELA: Never?
DAISY: Never. I'm smart, I'm extremely attractive, plus I'm a sexual dynamo!
ANGELA: So, you think that Sweets is going to break up with you?
DAISY: Why would Lance break up with me? I'm AWESOME !!!!
Well, that's it, it's official now............I'm in love with the character of "Daisy", and think she's the CUTEST thing, EVER !!!!!!!
Guess I know what I'll be watching on Thursday nights from now on..........
Comment by Meggie
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