The Priest in the Churchyard (2-17)

A water main bursts in the middle of a cemetery, leaving lots of coffins to litter the grounds. Brennan is called in to identify the remains so they can be reburied. When she finds the remains that have only been there for five years after being told no one was buried their in fifty years.

Booth decides to bring Brennan to see his shrink so that they can work on getting their relationship back on track.

Things get intense between Hodgins and Angela, when Hodgins makes a bold move.

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add » Angela: All right, listen up, Monty Python. You got it right with Hodgins and I, that's fine. But we both know that you are full of it on the other thing.
Gordon: (faking surprise) I have no idea to what you refer.
Angela: Brennan didn't run off with Sully because she cannot live a life without focus. She stayed because of Booth.
Gordon: Ah, now you're projecting Miss Montenegro. Agent Booth and Dr. Brennan are not you and Dr. Hodgings. I stand by my diagnosis.
Angela: You stand by the FBI. Your first priority is to get agents back into the field. Solving murders.
Gordon: (amused and guilty) Your romanticism is endearing, but as the bard says, "Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends".
Angela: He also says, "Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know." (edit) Angela: So, things are all right?
Brennan: According to the psychiatrist we were both concerned that Booth was the real reason that I didn't run off with Sully.
Angela: (incredulously) It wasn't?
Brennan: No. It's because I'm currently unable to live a life without tangible focus, so, you know, sailing around paradise with a man I adore.
Angela: (even more incredulously) Well, you believe that? (edit) Gordon: You're both afraid that the reason Dr. Brennan didn't sail off into the sunset with her boyfriend Sully might have been because of her ties to Agent Booth.
(Booth and Brennan look at each other guiltily proving Gordon is right)
Gordon: You are both quite wrong. (Both Booth and Brennan look very surprised)
Brennan: Why didn't I go with Sully?
Booth: How's he supposed to know?
Brennan: Sully is perfect. We communicated well, the sex was incredible. He invited me to sail around the South Seas in a beautiul yacht for a year. I mean, why would anyone turn that down?
Gordon: In my opinion, you are unable to lead a purposeless life at this stage of your psycho-social development, which by the way is an issue you should address, because a certain amount of purposelessness is necessary to lead a full life.
Brennan: I hate psychology.
Booth: You don't like it because he's saying that all this tension between me and you is your fault.
Gordon: On the contrary. If anything, yours is more pronounced given that your behaviour has been affected by what turns out to be a quite irrational fear of being responsible for somebody else's destiny.
Brennan: That makes sense.
Booth: Oh, now you like psychology.
Brennan: I think you'll both be able to work together just fine. (edit) Brennan: I have no intuition.
Booth: None. Zilch.
Brennan: You have no analytical skills. You're all about emotion and feeling. They say that means you have a well developed feminine side.
Booth: Who says that?
Brennan: Psychologists. What? You're the one who believes in them.
Booth: Let's just stick to the case. (edit) Brennan: (In the interrogation room) Booth kicked me out of here.
Gordon: For you to say "kicked out" means that you have acquiesceded the idea that this is his domain.
Brennan: Domain. Yes, he's good at questioning people, he can tell when they're lying.
Gordon: Can you?
Brennan: I've learned a lot from him about people.
Gordon: But.
Brennan: It's not that Booth has a sixth sense. There is demonstrably no sixth sense to have. Obviously he reads minutiae of body language, pupil dilation.
Gordon: Yes, you don't sound very satisfied with your own argument there.
Brennan: Booth likes to say that "There are more things in heaven and earth, Bones, than are dreamt of in your science". That's a bastardization of a writer named Shakespeare from a play called Hamlet.
Gordon: Yes, yes, I was, I was aware of that. So, if you're so uncomfortable here why come?
Brennan: Because something goes on in here. He does something.
Gordon: And you wanna find out what it is. Dissect it so that you can do it yourself.
Brennan: Yes.
Gordon: So that you can do it without Booth. So that you won't need him anymore.
Brennan: No!
Gordon: No?
Brennan: No. I just want to observe.
Gordon: Surely if you want to observe you can do that on the other side of the mirror there insetad of insisting on being in this room, with him, out of your element.
Brennan: Observation isn't just seeing Dr. Wyatt, it's experiencing. Ideally, I'd prefer being inside Booth's head. Seeing and feeling things the way he does. Then maybe I'd understand.
Gordon: Be one with him.
Brennan: In a scientific sense.
(Gordon nods incredulously) (edit)

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[b]Angela[/b]: All right, listen up, Monty Python.

[b]Monty Python[/b] is the name of a British comedy troupe that was popular in the late 1960s and 1970s for its irreverent, fast-paced television series. One of the most distinctive actors is John Cleese, who has a particular English accent, which is probably what Angela is reffering to. (edit) Angela: He also says, "Journeys end in lovers meeting, every wise man's son doth know."

This is from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or, What You Will, Act II, Scene III. (edit) Gordon: "Lovers and madmen have such seething brains... "

This is a line from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Act V, Scene I.

The Boneless Bride in the River (2-16)

The team investigates the death of an Asian woman without any bones left in her body. Sully proposes something to Brennan that she does not expect.

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add » (Booth and Brennan at a stakeout inside a car)
Booth: Sully is a nice guy.
Brennan: That sounded condescending.
Booth: I'm just trying to be nice, ok? I'm complimenting the fact that you got a good one this time.
Brennan: Thereby implying I'm incapable of making my own judgments.
Booth: The physicist who couldn't tie his shoes. Oh, the former professor who was jealous of your success. Should I stop?
Brennan: Yes.
Booth: Oh, the guy that you found on the Internet and then turned out to be some kind of recruiter for a cult. Oh, and this is my favorite: a guy who cut off his own brother's head because he thought he was possessed by a witch.
Brennan: You made your point.
Booth: I'm just saying, a guy who wants to take you away from all of this on a sailboat? That's a step up.
Brennan: Condescending. (edit) Brennan: You had a vacation and never left town.
Booth: It wasn't a vacation, it was a suspension.
Brennan: Plus compulsory therapy.
Booth: Hey, dude, don't knock therapy, ok? Dr. Wyatt has helped me realize that there are certain (looks pointedly in her direction) pressures that build up on the job and I need creative ways -
Brennan: We do everything together.
Booth: Of dealing with them.
Brennan: What, what exactly do you have to contend with on the job that I don't?
Booth: You Bones, you don't have to contend with you. (edit) Angela: You want me to take this face and build a skull for it???
Cam: Can you do it?
Angela: No.
Zack: You're always taking skulls and putting on faces - can't you simply reverse the process?
Angela: No.
Cam: Why not?
Angela: Because I am a human being! (edit) Brennan: Rationally...rationally thinking I want to go and I know, I should go but...I can't.
Sully: What you are doing, it's important. But it's not important enough to be your whole life. (edit) Bones: Sully bought that boat.
Booth: (Sarcastically) Yeah, hah, next thing you know he'll be shipwrecked on some island talking to a volleyball.
Bones: He's leaving for the Caribbean.
Booth: Really? (Sympathetic) Look, I'm-I'm sorry Bones, I know the two of you were kinda hittin' it off.
Bones: He wants me to go with him.
Booth: (Shocked and uncomfortable) Oh...um..yeah.
Bones: He says I should take a year off, a sabbatical, he says it would be fun.
Booth: (Rushes) Yeah, it would be.
Bones: (Confused) But you just said he'd be shipwrecked with a volleyball.
Booth: Well, he's got you he doesn't need the volleyball.
Bones: You think I should go?
Booth: (Takes a long pause and then looks at her) Yeah, yeah, you know, what's one year out of your life? You know, a person's gotta live wide, this is kinda narrow. (edit)

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The fact that Bones' boyfriend David never returned after the second season started is explained in this episode. When Booth says "The guy you met on the internet who turned out to be a recruiter for a cult." This is obviously David because Booth was going in order. (edit) When Sully sails away, we see that he has named his boat Temperance, after Dr. Brennan. (edit) Goof: Angela tells Dr. Brennan that she has worked every day since they have met, and that Dr. Brennan has never gone on vacation. This is untrue, because instead of going to Darfur, recently she went on vacation to North Carolina to reconnect with her brother. Dr. Brennan talks about it with Booth, on the car ride to the train wreck accident in the episode "The Titan on the Tracks". (edit) This is the first time that Temperance refers to herself as "Bones", previously showing no affection for the name, she now accepts her nickname from her partner Seeley Booth. (edit) Originally, the squints say that William Chang died 2 years ago, however they later say that he died 3 years ago. (edit)

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Booth: Whoa, what are you saying, she was killed by Wile E. Coyote?

This is an allusion to the Cartoon Character Wile E. Coyote, a coyote that tried various ways to kill the Roadrunner, with anvils, steamrollers, boulders and other various outrageous stunts, usually with a disastrous outcome. (edit) Angela: Oh, alright, leaving The Third Circle of Hell.

In the Third Circle of Hell, in Dante's Inferno, the Gluttonous must lie in mud and endure a rain of filth and excrement, much like where the victim was found. (edit) After the theme song when Brennan walks up to Sully on the boat, she responds to his greeting of "Hey Dr. Brennan" with "Agent Sullivan I presume".
This could be an allusion to the famous greeting "Dr. Livingstone I presume?". (edit) Brennan: I brought a bunch of chimpanzee bones and pulled the old a switch-a-ma-call-it.

This is an allusion to two terms. The first is switcheroo which is slang for a slight of hand switching of objects, and the second what-cha-ma-call-it is a slang term used when a person doesn't know what to call something. She blends the two terms also alluding to her misuse of slang and pop culture references from the beginning of the series that has recently been decreased. (edit) Booth: The physicist that couldn't tie his shoes. Oh, the former professor that was jealous of your success, should I stop?
Bones: Yes.
Booth: Oh, the, the guy that you found on the internet and him being some kind of recruiter for a cult. Oh and this is my favorite, the guy who cut off his own brother's head because he thought he was possessed by a witch.

This is an allusion to, Temperance's former boyfriends, in order of allusion:
First introduced in:
The Pilot Peter St. James
The Girl in the Fridge Michael Stires
Two Bodies in the Lab David Simmons
The Headless Witch in the Woods Will Hastings

The Bodies in the Book (2-15)

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add » (Booth and Brennan in her office after having solved the case)
Booth: Tell you something: the sales of your book are gonna skyrocket after this.
Brennan: The only problem is, our ending is a lot better than the one I wrote in the book.
Booth: What, are you kidding me? Huh? Kathy Reichs and the FBI guy in the back of the AMG?
Brennan: (smiles) The arrest.
Booth: Oh, yeah, there's that. (edit) (Brennan has just stormed out of Booth's office upset over the copycat murders)
Booth: She wasn't this emotional before you came in the picture.
Sully: Ah, I thought you weren't interested.
Booth: Ha! Right, look, I don't need that, ok? Believe me, ok? I'm gonna go and talk to Sadie Keller's husband and why don't you (pejoratively) go back to your office there and sort through the fan mail, right? Bye. (edit) (Booth and Brennan at the marina)
Booth: So, is it just me, or is this, you know, kinda weird?
Brennan: What?
Booth: In your new book, they found a body at the marina, right?
Brennan: You read my book?
Booth: Of course. A guy at the dock saw something floating in the water, thought it was a dead fish, ended up being a decomposed hand. A dive crew just located the rest of the body.
Brennan: I didn't think you would have the time to read my book.
Booth: You have time to write it, I have time to read it. Besides, you can't avoid the damn thing, your book's everywhere. (edit) Sully: (To Booth and Brennan) Congratulations! You guys make a great team.
Booth: That's true. (Looks at Brennan affectionately) So true. (edit) Booth: You're gonna come at me like you came at Sully?
Brennan: What is that supposed to mean?
Booth: Look, far be it from me to stick my nose into your bedroom but I've known Sully a long time and believe me, he's one of the good guys.
Brennan: I know Sully, Booth.
Booth: Yeah, and I know you. Somebody gets too close you just wanna push them away. (edit)

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Brennan now has three published books. They include (in order) Bred in the Bone, Cross Bones, and Red Tape, White Bones. Red Tape, White Bones is Brennan's newest book and is the book featured in this episode. (edit) Camille reminds Temperance that in the end of her books, Kathy Reichs always gets the murderer. Kathy Reichs is the real forensic anthropologist whose life the show is based on. In essence, she has become a character in a book written by a character in a story created by her. (edit)

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"Strangers On a Train"

The plot of this episode is similar to that of "Strangers On a Train". In the movie, two strangers meet on a train and make a deal to kill one guy's wife and the other's father. In this episode, three people make a deal to kill each other's targets. The plot of "Strangers On a Train" has also been used in many other TV series and movies including an episode of CSI ("A Night at the Movies" 3x19). (edit)