In Which Bones Is An Anthropologist With Super Powers

Season 1, Episode 12

The Superhero in the Alley

Bones: (looks up at him and smiles) Don’t use your charm smile on me.

Booth: What? (laughs) It’s a mark of respect. That’s all.

Oh, what's that there? Bones is starting to recognize Booth's little mechanisms to get people to do what he wants? She's noticing things she does and remembering them? Yep, that's it.

Bones: You said before that Warren reminded you of me. You think I’m just like him, that he hid from life by immersing himself in a fantasy world where he fought crime and I do the same thing only I don’t have super powers. I... have science.

Booth: C’mon Bones, you do fight crime.  It’s not a fantasy.  As far as any normal person is concerned you do have super powers.

Bones: (shaves the bone) You’re just saying that to me.

Booth: No, I don’t do that.

Bones: Yes you do. You lied to Warren Granger’s mother to make her feel better.  That seems to be your super power.

(Bones grabs the slice of bone out of the machine with some tweezers and places it on a glass slide.)

Booth: Look this piece of bone you’re analyzing.  How did it get lodged in Warren Granger’s neck?

Bones: It was deposited by the same weapon that severed his spinal cord.

Booth: Doesn’t make it the killer’s bone.

Bones: You’re thinking a separate murder victim?

Booth: Opalescence uh, the woman he loved.

Bones: I don’t think she’s dead.

Booth: Why?

Bones: This is an arm bone. Has anyone we have seen on this case been favoring her arm?

Booth: Not that I noticed.

Bones: That’s because you’re not an Anthropologist with super powers.

Booth: Ha. That’s good.

And there she goes, noticing even more. She's learning about him, as he's learning about her.

We should pause, though, to consider the implications. Booth really does, at this point, think she's like Warren. No, not that she lives in a fantasy, but that she hides from the world through her science. We start to see more of a picture coming together that will serve as the basis of Booth trying to get Bones to believe in love as more than a biological reaction.

Booth: Bones! Talk about multiple hypotheses.

(They stop walking near the door and talk.)

Bones: It’s a leap, yes but it was bound to happen, me spending so much time with you.  I mean that as a compliment.

And again, as in the last episode, we start to see them starting, even if just slightly, influence each other in how they work (which will eventually progress into them influencing each other in how they live in later seasons), except this time it's Booth influencing Bones.

And as she says herself, it's a good thing.