Hopefully, a quick round up
I want to finish off Seeley in Season 4 (with added alliteration) by rushing through the rest of the season just hitting on the new stuff while acknowledging the consistency of stuff we have already established.
A BOOTH FOR ALL SEASONS
BRENNAN: I believe that if I pretended you were still here, I'd feel better for a moment. Also, speaking to you would require me to figuratively look at myself through your eyes - again temporarily - and I think that would make me live my life more successfully.
BOOTH: Hmm, you know what, Bones? That is the best thing that anyone has ever said about me.
BRENNAN: I'll say it at your wake.
BOOTH: Oh, it's raining now. Come on. Get under the umbrella. It's raining. Just make sure when they put me in the ground, I'm dead.
BRENNAN: Yeah, no problem.
BOOTH: All right? Maybe, ah, you know, leave my body out for a few hours and check on me every once in a while.
BRENNAN: No. I'd rather refrigerate you, or else you'd start to smell.
Booth in Season 4 - Picking up the pieces.
Cinderella in the Cardboard features a rather unpleasant victim and not much else about Booth we don't already know. At the start we see the typical Booth reaction to a religious incident. However, when duty calls, just like in The Priest in the Churchyard, he can put his sensibilities aside and get down to cases.
BOOTH: Whoa. (makes a sign of the cross)Oh, my God. It's the Virgin Mary.
CAM: Have you googled the grilled cheese Jesus? 'Cause that was just a faulty griddle.
BRENNAN: We're here because someone suspected a crime, Booth.
BOOTH: Oh, I'm just saying, life is a lot more than what you can cook up in your chemistry sets. Miracles do happen.
BRENNAN: Well, religious visions are nothing but pareidolia, random stimulus being perceived as significant.
BOOTH: Oh yeah, did you ever hear of the Shroud of Turin, Dr. Burn-In-Hell?
CAM: Sorry, big guy. That was debunked 20 years ago. Carbon dating doesn't lie.
BRENNAN: Neither does phenolphthalein. (holds up pink cotton pad) This was not a miracle. It's dried blood.
BOOTH: Oh, all right. Let's get this bale of hay down. Come on.
Yes the eyes cannot be deceived once there's actual blood to clear the doubt. The rest of the episode is basically about when it's right to lie to spare someone's feelings and when to be brutally honest. Needless to say, Booth and Brennan are on opposite sides of the fence with Sweets in the middle. Booth is evasive and Brennan cuts to the quick. However, once the purported cat is out of the bag, Booth comes into his own and once again shows he is not as stupid as Brennan knows him to be. For one thing, he uses Sweets' own tactics to help him. He also knows where to draw the line in friendship.
SWEETS: Well, I'll get right to it. Uh, Dr. Brennan told me that Daisy is engaged to another man.
BOOTH:I'm sorry, Sweets. I…
SWEETS: It's okay, it's okay. Dr. Brennan was being honest. I appreciate it.
BOOTH: (sighs) No, you don't. (getting up) Come on.
SWEETS: I don't! I don't! I feel like an idiot!
BOOTH: Have a seat. Come on.
SWEETS: Daisy, she's been canceling on me all the time lately. Like yoga the other day, and, you know, recently, at night, when she's over, the frequency of our (gesticulating) our intimate relations… she says that she's been tired because of her dissertation.
BOOTH: I get it.
SWEETS: It was right in front of me, right in front of me all along. (sighs) I'm a failure, as a lover and a psychologist.
BOOTH: No, no, it's not true. Sweets, these things, they happen.
SWEETS: Okay, what should I do? I don't have many manly-man friends like you that I can talk to. What would a guy-guy do in this situation?
BOOTH: Are you asking me if you should fight for her?
SWEETS: Do you think I should?
BOOTH: If you were your own patient, what kind of advice would you give yourself?
SWEETS: Impressive. Turn the question back on me. It's a classic therapeutic technique. (beat) It's really, really annoying.
BOOTH: Did it work?
SWEETS: Yeah, I should confront her. I should be candid. You're right. You're right. It's the only way. Thank you.
BOOTH: Any time.
SWEETS: It was very helpful.
BOOTH: The session's over.
SWEETS: (chuckles) Um, hey, you think maybe we could… hug? Like men, of course. It'd be comforting for me-
BOOTH: No.
SWEETS: -under the… No?
BOOTH: No. I don't hug things out. You know, we just kind of (punching SWEETS on the arm) good slug on the arm. It's more of a manly thing to do.
SWEETS: Okay.
BOOTH: Okay.
SWEETS: Sure.
BOOTH: Okay?
SWEETS: Could you do it again?
BOOTH: Sure. (punches SWEETS on the arm, laughs) Want more?
SWEETS: No.
BOOTH: Oh. See ya.
SWEETS: Thank you.
[Exit SWEETS, grimacing in pain.]
Now if only Sweets would learn from this kind of encounter. He clearly has few 'manly' man friends as he calls them and looks up to Booth here as an experienced manly man. He is guided by Booth, who knows how to get through to him on his own terms, and the advice turns out to be good and useful. Sweets rarely understands how Booth's mind works and so fails to reciprocate on occasions when it really matters. Oh well.
The final point is the theme of the episode: the ritual of marriage. Brennan of course has no time for such foolishness, but Booth does. He expects to get married at some point while Brennan scoffs at such an idea being predictable. By the end of the episode though she has found emotions do play into her life, because of Booth.
BRENNAN: I saw Sweets and Daisy, and I was wrong. She wasn't cheating on him.
BOOTH: Well, that's a good thing, right?
BRENNAN: Well, I wanted to spare him pain, but all I did was cause it. (sits down on the couch)
BOOTH: You meant well.
BRENNAN: I made him so jealous, I almost ruined their relationship. I should've listened to you.
BOOTH: Maybe next time you will. (pause) Hey, I was just gonna go out and grab a bite to eat, some Chinese, maybe some-
BRENNAN: (getting up) I'd rather drink. Do you want one?
BOOTH: Yeah, we could do that. My good bottle of scotch. Bottoms up, Bones.
BRENNAN: You know, intellectually I know that jealousy is absurd. But I see that it's real for people. (looking down) I even experience it myself.
BOOTH: So… (taking a seat) who are you jealous of?
BRENNAN: Angela. Hodgins. Cam. You.
BOOTH: Why?
BRENNAN: Because you all want to lose yourself in another person. You believe that love is transcendent and eternal. I want to believe that, too.
BOOTH: Hey, you will. I promise. Someday you will. You will someday, okay? You will.
Again, the next outing has others as major movers, but one little fact is revealed and then instantly dropped because the focus is elsewhere.
Mayhem on a Cross reintroduces Gordon Gordon and allows him to meet Sweets. More importantly, he is revealed to be a member of a glam rock group that Booth loved when he was younger. It's a surprise to me that Booth liked a group with a guitarist called Noddy Comet. So that's one revelation.
We also have an example of Booth proving his detective skills and for once, someone calls him on his supposed stupidity.
WYATT: Yeah, it’s a totem, a signifier of some kind that can only be discerned by the cognoscenti.
BOOTH: Okay, now how are we going to figure this out? None of us speak Italian.
WYATT: (Pointing at Booth.) He does that, doesn’t he? He wants to be underestimated. But um, you, you’re one of the cognoscenti, Dr. Sweets.
SWEETS: Oh, no. I’ve outgrown that. Mostly. Okay, maybe sometimes I’ll listen to a few bootleg tapes when I’ve had a bad day…
BOOTH: That’s good, because this music sucks and the people who listen to it are defective!
SWEETS: Thank you, so much.
WYATT: I have no doubt that your parents said the same thing to you when you were listening to my music, Agent Booth.
BOOTH: Mmm-hmm. And according to one of your squint reports, a bullet was gouged out of the victim’s ass?
BRENNAN: You read Clark’s report?
BOOTH: Well, only because I was on desk duty. (Clears throat.) Now, that bullet could be a good totem pole.
BRENNAN: A totem, Booth. A totem pole is much larger.
WYATT: Yes, but nonetheless, it would be a good totem, pole or otherwise.
BOOTH: So, someone murdered the kid for leaving the fold…
BRENNAN: Then uses a knife to gouge out the bullet.
BOOTH: Buries the body under the bridge.
WYATT: Knowing the cognoscenti will see the bullet and assume he’s the murderer.
SWEETS: But Murderbreath finds the body, puts it on display.
BOOTH: Mm-hmm. Stealing credit.
BRENNAN: So, we’re looking for a bullet then?
BOOTH: Mm-hmm. And lookit here. Our good, happy friend Pinworm wears a smashed bullet around his neck inside of a cross.
Yes, he pretends he just read the report because he has nothing better to do, but he has an eye for details and he has spotted the key one here.
The new information, however, come about because of Sweets' traumatic childhood being recognised by Gordon Gordon as the reason why he is so eager to hear about Booth and Brennan's own trauma. When they settle down to dinner in Booth's apartment, Booth is guilted into inviting Sweets to join them as a baby duck in the Land of Misfit Toys. In the process of trying to convince him to come, Brennan insists on sharing a horrible experience to show Sweets he is not alone. Booth doen't want to.
BOOTH: (Takes a handkerchief out of his pocket and holds it out to her. Whispers.) Bones, what are you doin’?
BRENNAN: You said that scars on the back was a metaphor. Isn’t that why we’re here? To metaphorically compare scars?
BOOTH: (Whispering.) I came to bring Sweets back to my place for dinner, that’s all. (She takes the handkerchief.)
SWEETS: Scars on the back?
BRENNAN: I saw them, Sweets.
SWEETS: So.. (sighs) what? You decided to just share something from your past? (Brennan nods.) That is so unlike you.
BRENNAN: I still hate psychology. (Turns to Booth.) Okay. Your turn. Go.
BOOTH: (Shrugs.)I came here to bring Sweets back to my place for dinner, that’s all. (Brennan gives him a look.) Okay, if it wasn’t for my grandfather, I probably would’ve killed myself when I was a kid. That’s all I’m going to say on the subject matter. Understand? Are you okay, Bones?
And he immediately deflects. The others let him. Now this is a dramatic statement to hear from Booth, probably the only personally revealing statement he has ever made. As is usual for Booth, he refuses to go into detail as Brennan did with her broken dish reveal. Yet this is far more traumatic. I was really disappointed that the matter, as Booth says, is closed. No one asks any questions here, or later. I would have thought Sweets would jump on this or even say something later to Gordon Gordon. After all, when they first met, Booth told Wyatt he had never contemplated suicide. Of course, he barely knew Wyatt then, and we know how difficult it is for Booth to trust people. Still, that is a momentous statement and, when we bear in mind Booth's strong Catholic beliefs, a very serious one.
It's easy to guess why Booth might want to commit suicide when he was a kid, but it would have been interesting to hear more at this point rather than Brennan and the hot water and the slippy plate. Anyway, that is all we get and may go some way to explain Booth's own views on parenting and the importance of trying to set his cosmic balance sheet straight.
Double Death of the Dearly Departed gives us three things.
1. Booth enjoys Fantasy Football.
2. He is very aware of his effect on women: I can be devastatingly charming if you aren't watching me.
3. He really can't sing.
Open at your own risk.
With The Girl in the Mask we actually meet a friend of Booth. Admittedly he lives in Japan, but he meets Booth's criterion for friendship: Nak's a great guy, man. He and his sister, you know, they made me feel like family.
This may also be when Booth got his tattoos. Although they would be more likely to be something that he would get as a soldier they are Japanese Kanji and there was a situation incited by a gallon of sake, a police boat, and Uraga Harbor at dawn. . No proof though.
Booth earned Nakamura's friendship through his behaviour,
NAKAMURA: Yes. Are you aware how we met?
BRENNAN: Um, some kind of exchange programme?
NAKAMURA: Hai. Most of the FBI agents showed up and started telling us how to handle our organized crime problem. Booth said nothing. Two, three days, just listening.
BRENNAN: He was quiet? That (chuckles) that does not sound like Booth.
NAKAMURA: Then he asked a question. (approaching BRENNAN's desk) He asked, "How would you gentlemen handle our organized crime problem?" He was respectful.
BRENNAN: That is the basis of your friendship?
In addition to this respect he also picked up some Japanese culture. He has some basic Japanese phrases, knows about the, uh, "amaloli" girls? I never expected to see the, uh, "Sweet Lolitas" here in the States. and does his best to keep Nakamura on the right side of the law while helping him deal with his sister's murder.
He also reveals a dislike for pimps we haven't seen before and leaves this one in no doubt about his feelings.
JAMES SOK: Do you mind? (opens the hood of the car, which belongs to him)
BOOTH: Yeah, actually, I do. James Sok, right? Elegant Escorts? (flashes his badge)
SOK: Yeah. So? I run a legitimate business.
BOOTH: (slams down on the hood of SOK's car, shutting it) You're a pimp. I don't like pimps.
BRENNAN: He really doesn't.
BOOTH: No.
BRENNAN: Your record says that you assaulted Bruce Takedo.
SOK: Those charges were dropped. Because the guy attacked me (lifting his shirt to show a long scar) with a knife. All I did was protect myself.
BOOTH: Really? Probably because you were recruiting at his place.
SOK: Middle-aged guy, surrounds himself with schoolgirls, maybe he's the guy you want to look at.
BOOTH: Nozomi Sato. (holds out a picture of NOZOMI) You recognize her?
SOK: Yeah. I like Nozomi.
BRENNAN: Well, she's missing.
SOK: Well, most of my models come from Asia. They-they're young, flaky. Sometimes they take off.
BOOTH: You know, you got a sweet life, Jimmy. You got a houseboat down at the marina. You got cash rolling in. If you want to live your life as my prime suspect in the murder of Sachi Nakamura, that's just fine. But just know, as of right now, your business is done. (taps the top of SOK's car)
SOK: (unfazed) Or?
BOOTH: Or you give me something shiny to distract me.
SOK: I don't know anything about Sachi Nakamura. But, uh, Nozomi booked a client last Friday, and I haven't seen her since.
BRENNAN: (to BOOTH) That's the day that Sachi Nakamura disappeared.
BOOTH: What's the client's name?
SOK: Banker named Vogler. Got hurt bad in the Big Crunch. Made him mean. And Nozomi didn't mind a little of the rough stuff.
BOOTH: Let's go, Bones.
SOK: That shiny enough for ya?
BOOTH: (steps up close to SOK, threateningly) Excuse me?
BRENNAN: Booth? (pulling BOOTH away) Okay, come on.
Bit of threat!Booth there and more later when he pins him to the wall, frustrated that he knows the guy will be able to cut a deal.
So that leaves us with three episodes and another post I guess. Until next time.
Change in the weather today and a bit of rain. Plus, twilight at 6 o'clock. Now that's what I call Autumn.
A BOOTH FOR ALL SEASONS
BRENNAN: I believe that if I pretended you were still here, I'd feel better for a moment. Also, speaking to you would require me to figuratively look at myself through your eyes - again temporarily - and I think that would make me live my life more successfully.
BOOTH: Hmm, you know what, Bones? That is the best thing that anyone has ever said about me.
BRENNAN: I'll say it at your wake.
BOOTH: Oh, it's raining now. Come on. Get under the umbrella. It's raining. Just make sure when they put me in the ground, I'm dead.
BRENNAN: Yeah, no problem.
BOOTH: All right? Maybe, ah, you know, leave my body out for a few hours and check on me every once in a while.
BRENNAN: No. I'd rather refrigerate you, or else you'd start to smell.
Booth in Season 4 - Picking up the pieces.
Cinderella in the Cardboard features a rather unpleasant victim and not much else about Booth we don't already know. At the start we see the typical Booth reaction to a religious incident. However, when duty calls, just like in The Priest in the Churchyard, he can put his sensibilities aside and get down to cases.
BOOTH: Whoa. (makes a sign of the cross)Oh, my God. It's the Virgin Mary.
CAM: Have you googled the grilled cheese Jesus? 'Cause that was just a faulty griddle.
BRENNAN: We're here because someone suspected a crime, Booth.
BOOTH: Oh, I'm just saying, life is a lot more than what you can cook up in your chemistry sets. Miracles do happen.
BRENNAN: Well, religious visions are nothing but pareidolia, random stimulus being perceived as significant.
BOOTH: Oh yeah, did you ever hear of the Shroud of Turin, Dr. Burn-In-Hell?
CAM: Sorry, big guy. That was debunked 20 years ago. Carbon dating doesn't lie.
BRENNAN: Neither does phenolphthalein. (holds up pink cotton pad) This was not a miracle. It's dried blood.
BOOTH: Oh, all right. Let's get this bale of hay down. Come on.
Yes the eyes cannot be deceived once there's actual blood to clear the doubt. The rest of the episode is basically about when it's right to lie to spare someone's feelings and when to be brutally honest. Needless to say, Booth and Brennan are on opposite sides of the fence with Sweets in the middle. Booth is evasive and Brennan cuts to the quick. However, once the purported cat is out of the bag, Booth comes into his own and once again shows he is not as stupid as Brennan knows him to be. For one thing, he uses Sweets' own tactics to help him. He also knows where to draw the line in friendship.
SWEETS: Well, I'll get right to it. Uh, Dr. Brennan told me that Daisy is engaged to another man.
BOOTH:I'm sorry, Sweets. I…
SWEETS: It's okay, it's okay. Dr. Brennan was being honest. I appreciate it.
BOOTH: (sighs) No, you don't. (getting up) Come on.
SWEETS: I don't! I don't! I feel like an idiot!
BOOTH: Have a seat. Come on.
SWEETS: Daisy, she's been canceling on me all the time lately. Like yoga the other day, and, you know, recently, at night, when she's over, the frequency of our (gesticulating) our intimate relations… she says that she's been tired because of her dissertation.
BOOTH: I get it.
SWEETS: It was right in front of me, right in front of me all along. (sighs) I'm a failure, as a lover and a psychologist.
BOOTH: No, no, it's not true. Sweets, these things, they happen.
SWEETS: Okay, what should I do? I don't have many manly-man friends like you that I can talk to. What would a guy-guy do in this situation?
BOOTH: Are you asking me if you should fight for her?
SWEETS: Do you think I should?
BOOTH: If you were your own patient, what kind of advice would you give yourself?
SWEETS: Impressive. Turn the question back on me. It's a classic therapeutic technique. (beat) It's really, really annoying.
BOOTH: Did it work?
SWEETS: Yeah, I should confront her. I should be candid. You're right. You're right. It's the only way. Thank you.
BOOTH: Any time.
SWEETS: It was very helpful.
BOOTH: The session's over.
SWEETS: (chuckles) Um, hey, you think maybe we could… hug? Like men, of course. It'd be comforting for me-
BOOTH: No.
SWEETS: -under the… No?
BOOTH: No. I don't hug things out. You know, we just kind of (punching SWEETS on the arm) good slug on the arm. It's more of a manly thing to do.
SWEETS: Okay.
BOOTH: Okay.
SWEETS: Sure.
BOOTH: Okay?
SWEETS: Could you do it again?
BOOTH: Sure. (punches SWEETS on the arm, laughs) Want more?
SWEETS: No.
BOOTH: Oh. See ya.
SWEETS: Thank you.
[Exit SWEETS, grimacing in pain.]
Now if only Sweets would learn from this kind of encounter. He clearly has few 'manly' man friends as he calls them and looks up to Booth here as an experienced manly man. He is guided by Booth, who knows how to get through to him on his own terms, and the advice turns out to be good and useful. Sweets rarely understands how Booth's mind works and so fails to reciprocate on occasions when it really matters. Oh well.
The final point is the theme of the episode: the ritual of marriage. Brennan of course has no time for such foolishness, but Booth does. He expects to get married at some point while Brennan scoffs at such an idea being predictable. By the end of the episode though she has found emotions do play into her life, because of Booth.
BRENNAN: I saw Sweets and Daisy, and I was wrong. She wasn't cheating on him.
BOOTH: Well, that's a good thing, right?
BRENNAN: Well, I wanted to spare him pain, but all I did was cause it. (sits down on the couch)
BOOTH: You meant well.
BRENNAN: I made him so jealous, I almost ruined their relationship. I should've listened to you.
BOOTH: Maybe next time you will. (pause) Hey, I was just gonna go out and grab a bite to eat, some Chinese, maybe some-
BRENNAN: (getting up) I'd rather drink. Do you want one?
BOOTH: Yeah, we could do that. My good bottle of scotch. Bottoms up, Bones.
BRENNAN: You know, intellectually I know that jealousy is absurd. But I see that it's real for people. (looking down) I even experience it myself.
BOOTH: So… (taking a seat) who are you jealous of?
BRENNAN: Angela. Hodgins. Cam. You.
BOOTH: Why?
BRENNAN: Because you all want to lose yourself in another person. You believe that love is transcendent and eternal. I want to believe that, too.
BOOTH: Hey, you will. I promise. Someday you will. You will someday, okay? You will.
Again, the next outing has others as major movers, but one little fact is revealed and then instantly dropped because the focus is elsewhere.
Mayhem on a Cross reintroduces Gordon Gordon and allows him to meet Sweets. More importantly, he is revealed to be a member of a glam rock group that Booth loved when he was younger. It's a surprise to me that Booth liked a group with a guitarist called Noddy Comet. So that's one revelation.
We also have an example of Booth proving his detective skills and for once, someone calls him on his supposed stupidity.
WYATT: Yeah, it’s a totem, a signifier of some kind that can only be discerned by the cognoscenti.
BOOTH: Okay, now how are we going to figure this out? None of us speak Italian.
WYATT: (Pointing at Booth.) He does that, doesn’t he? He wants to be underestimated. But um, you, you’re one of the cognoscenti, Dr. Sweets.
SWEETS: Oh, no. I’ve outgrown that. Mostly. Okay, maybe sometimes I’ll listen to a few bootleg tapes when I’ve had a bad day…
BOOTH: That’s good, because this music sucks and the people who listen to it are defective!
SWEETS: Thank you, so much.
WYATT: I have no doubt that your parents said the same thing to you when you were listening to my music, Agent Booth.
BOOTH: Mmm-hmm. And according to one of your squint reports, a bullet was gouged out of the victim’s ass?
BRENNAN: You read Clark’s report?
BOOTH: Well, only because I was on desk duty. (Clears throat.) Now, that bullet could be a good totem pole.
BRENNAN: A totem, Booth. A totem pole is much larger.
WYATT: Yes, but nonetheless, it would be a good totem, pole or otherwise.
BOOTH: So, someone murdered the kid for leaving the fold…
BRENNAN: Then uses a knife to gouge out the bullet.
BOOTH: Buries the body under the bridge.
WYATT: Knowing the cognoscenti will see the bullet and assume he’s the murderer.
SWEETS: But Murderbreath finds the body, puts it on display.
BOOTH: Mm-hmm. Stealing credit.
BRENNAN: So, we’re looking for a bullet then?
BOOTH: Mm-hmm. And lookit here. Our good, happy friend Pinworm wears a smashed bullet around his neck inside of a cross.
Yes, he pretends he just read the report because he has nothing better to do, but he has an eye for details and he has spotted the key one here.
The new information, however, come about because of Sweets' traumatic childhood being recognised by Gordon Gordon as the reason why he is so eager to hear about Booth and Brennan's own trauma. When they settle down to dinner in Booth's apartment, Booth is guilted into inviting Sweets to join them as a baby duck in the Land of Misfit Toys. In the process of trying to convince him to come, Brennan insists on sharing a horrible experience to show Sweets he is not alone. Booth doen't want to.
BOOTH: (Takes a handkerchief out of his pocket and holds it out to her. Whispers.) Bones, what are you doin’?
BRENNAN: You said that scars on the back was a metaphor. Isn’t that why we’re here? To metaphorically compare scars?
BOOTH: (Whispering.) I came to bring Sweets back to my place for dinner, that’s all. (She takes the handkerchief.)
SWEETS: Scars on the back?
BRENNAN: I saw them, Sweets.
SWEETS: So.. (sighs) what? You decided to just share something from your past? (Brennan nods.) That is so unlike you.
BRENNAN: I still hate psychology. (Turns to Booth.) Okay. Your turn. Go.
BOOTH: (Shrugs.)I came here to bring Sweets back to my place for dinner, that’s all. (Brennan gives him a look.) Okay, if it wasn’t for my grandfather, I probably would’ve killed myself when I was a kid. That’s all I’m going to say on the subject matter. Understand? Are you okay, Bones?
And he immediately deflects. The others let him. Now this is a dramatic statement to hear from Booth, probably the only personally revealing statement he has ever made. As is usual for Booth, he refuses to go into detail as Brennan did with her broken dish reveal. Yet this is far more traumatic. I was really disappointed that the matter, as Booth says, is closed. No one asks any questions here, or later. I would have thought Sweets would jump on this or even say something later to Gordon Gordon. After all, when they first met, Booth told Wyatt he had never contemplated suicide. Of course, he barely knew Wyatt then, and we know how difficult it is for Booth to trust people. Still, that is a momentous statement and, when we bear in mind Booth's strong Catholic beliefs, a very serious one.
It's easy to guess why Booth might want to commit suicide when he was a kid, but it would have been interesting to hear more at this point rather than Brennan and the hot water and the slippy plate. Anyway, that is all we get and may go some way to explain Booth's own views on parenting and the importance of trying to set his cosmic balance sheet straight.
Double Death of the Dearly Departed gives us three things.
1. Booth enjoys Fantasy Football.
2. He is very aware of his effect on women: I can be devastatingly charming if you aren't watching me.
3. He really can't sing.
Click to viewOpen at your own risk.
With The Girl in the Mask we actually meet a friend of Booth. Admittedly he lives in Japan, but he meets Booth's criterion for friendship: Nak's a great guy, man. He and his sister, you know, they made me feel like family.
This may also be when Booth got his tattoos. Although they would be more likely to be something that he would get as a soldier they are Japanese Kanji and there was a situation incited by a gallon of sake, a police boat, and Uraga Harbor at dawn. . No proof though.
Booth earned Nakamura's friendship through his behaviour,
NAKAMURA: Yes. Are you aware how we met?
BRENNAN: Um, some kind of exchange programme?
NAKAMURA: Hai. Most of the FBI agents showed up and started telling us how to handle our organized crime problem. Booth said nothing. Two, three days, just listening.
BRENNAN: He was quiet? That (chuckles) that does not sound like Booth.
NAKAMURA: Then he asked a question. (approaching BRENNAN's desk) He asked, "How would you gentlemen handle our organized crime problem?" He was respectful.
BRENNAN: That is the basis of your friendship?
In addition to this respect he also picked up some Japanese culture. He has some basic Japanese phrases, knows about the, uh, "amaloli" girls? I never expected to see the, uh, "Sweet Lolitas" here in the States. and does his best to keep Nakamura on the right side of the law while helping him deal with his sister's murder.
He also reveals a dislike for pimps we haven't seen before and leaves this one in no doubt about his feelings.
JAMES SOK: Do you mind? (opens the hood of the car, which belongs to him)
BOOTH: Yeah, actually, I do. James Sok, right? Elegant Escorts? (flashes his badge)
SOK: Yeah. So? I run a legitimate business.
BOOTH: (slams down on the hood of SOK's car, shutting it) You're a pimp. I don't like pimps.
BRENNAN: He really doesn't.
BOOTH: No.
BRENNAN: Your record says that you assaulted Bruce Takedo.
SOK: Those charges were dropped. Because the guy attacked me (lifting his shirt to show a long scar) with a knife. All I did was protect myself.
BOOTH: Really? Probably because you were recruiting at his place.
SOK: Middle-aged guy, surrounds himself with schoolgirls, maybe he's the guy you want to look at.
BOOTH: Nozomi Sato. (holds out a picture of NOZOMI) You recognize her?
SOK: Yeah. I like Nozomi.
BRENNAN: Well, she's missing.
SOK: Well, most of my models come from Asia. They-they're young, flaky. Sometimes they take off.
BOOTH: You know, you got a sweet life, Jimmy. You got a houseboat down at the marina. You got cash rolling in. If you want to live your life as my prime suspect in the murder of Sachi Nakamura, that's just fine. But just know, as of right now, your business is done. (taps the top of SOK's car)
SOK: (unfazed) Or?
BOOTH: Or you give me something shiny to distract me.
SOK: I don't know anything about Sachi Nakamura. But, uh, Nozomi booked a client last Friday, and I haven't seen her since.
BRENNAN: (to BOOTH) That's the day that Sachi Nakamura disappeared.
BOOTH: What's the client's name?
SOK: Banker named Vogler. Got hurt bad in the Big Crunch. Made him mean. And Nozomi didn't mind a little of the rough stuff.
BOOTH: Let's go, Bones.
SOK: That shiny enough for ya?
BOOTH: (steps up close to SOK, threateningly) Excuse me?
BRENNAN: Booth? (pulling BOOTH away) Okay, come on.
Bit of threat!Booth there and more later when he pins him to the wall, frustrated that he knows the guy will be able to cut a deal.
So that leaves us with three episodes and another post I guess. Until next time.
Change in the weather today and a bit of rain. Plus, twilight at 6 o'clock. Now that's what I call Autumn.