Season 4, Episode 13
The Hero in the Hold
BOOTH: (walking over to a mirror to adjust his tie) I bet you are looking beautiful, huh? Because I am in the finest tux that money can rent.
(Brennan’s Car)
BRENNAN: Well, I’m on my way home to get dressed. But you need to be there an hour and a half before me to watch the tribute video. My GPS indicates that it’s a…25 minute drive for you.
(Booth’s Apartment)
BRENNAN: (on phone) This is my big night Booth.
BOOTH: Alright Bones, listen. Don’t worry, I will be there when they crown you super scientist…
(Brennan’s Car)
BOOTH: (on phone) …I will be the guy in the cocky belt buckle…
(Booth’s Apartment)
BOOTH: …and the snazzy rented tux.
The look on her face when he’s going on about “super scientist” and how awesome he looks, etc., is so awesome. Half mocking, rolling her eyes and whatnot, but the other half amused and… dare I say… fond, even if only slightly, or only subconsciously, of Booth’s silliness in this instance.
(Angela faces Brennan. Brennan doesn’t say anything. Angela swings her around to the side of the car)
ANGELA: Listen to me, Brennan. Somebody you love is buried alive. (Brennan looks at her defensively) You’re allowed to save them no matter how irrational.
BRENNAN: (with her mouth open for a sec before words come out) I don’t love Booth.
ANGELA: Yes you do. So do I. So do all of us (references Sweets and Hodgins) Just take my advice and hand over the evidence and get Booth.
BRENNAN: (thinks for a moment then turns quickly around) Let’s do its. Come on. Let’s do it.
Oh, this part. Even in such a dire situation, she is unable to admit feelings for him at this point. Even when she thought he was dead, she hadn’t admitted it (although it can be debated that she might have had she thought he was dead for a longer amount of time than she had), in any form. She certainly can’t admit it now, even to Angela, even in a non-romantic sense, when there’s still a chance, however slight, that he’ll live to see her again.
However, this is one of those cases when “actions speak louder than words” is ever-so-true. Her choosing to have a better chance to save Booth, even if it means lowering the chance of catching the gravedigger, her not so much choosing to do the irrational thing, but choosing not to do the most rational thing, is a huge deal. HUGE.
And why does she make this choice? Why does she go against her basic instincts, her basic values?
Because she loves Booth.
JARED: So you want me to steal the remains of a murder victim from the FBI?
BRENNAN: Yes! As soon as possible, please.
JARED: I can make a few calls…
BRENNAN: (getting angry) No. This is not a situation where you make a few phone calls.
JARED: That’s who I am, Tempe. I am the guy who makes a few calls.
BRENNAN: (visibly angry) Booth has never turned his back on you. You are a selfish coward and you never deserved him.
I love when things Bones does and says reveals more than one thing. This is one of those times. For one, she’s reveals, as she does time and time again, how highly she thinks of Booth. And for another (this is less concrete but still legitimate), part of her anger with Jared can definitely be seen as leftover anger at both him and herself for when he made her think Booth was a loser, and when she let herself be manipulated into thinking he was a loser. That was a big deal. It was the first real angst we got with them. And it was slightly devastating, on a microcosmic level. Knowing Bones, she probably feels majorly responsible for it, for allowing herself to be tricked into thinking that, and if being tricked isn’t bad enough for her, she was tricked into near the worst thing possibility – lowering her opinion, her admireation, of Booth, someone she respects on a high level consciously and eons more subconsciously. I’d even go so far as to say it was (again, on a microcosmic level) traumatic, in a sense, for her.
So, she’s still pissed, at both Jared and herself. So she takes it all out on Jared the asshole.
BOOTH: Thanks for coming to get me, Bones.
BRENNAN: You should have stayed in the hospital another day.
BOOTH: No, I didn’t mean…get me out of the hospital. I meant…coming out on the helicopter…and the ship. Thanks for saving my life.
(She nods her head and looks at the ground but doesn’t say anything)
It’s interesting that she doesn’t say anything. No “of course”, no “you would do the same for me”, no anything. Her nerves have been all shook up. We don't see her be all emotional and whatnot while it's happening, while Booth is stuck inside the ship (or whatever the hell it is), because she's on pure adrenaline. Booth is in danger. He might die. She has to do everything she possibly can to save him. Her mind is going through something she's felt before... when just a few months ago (in TV time), when he was lying on the floor, bleeding, and all she could do was press his wound and tell him to stay awake. This time, there's actually something she can do, and you can damn well bet she's going to do it, because she knows she simply cannot go through Booth dying again. Despite what we saw of her behavior when he “died” the first time, we don't know what was or wasn't going on in her mind, we don't know what was or wasn't going on in her unconscious. And when it was happening, her unconscious was freaking the fuck out, because Booth dying once was bad enough, but twice, and this time for real... there would be so many feelings she'd have to address, so much she'd have to admit (someday, at some point)... she can't, at this point, go through something like that without Booth. She can't have him die when she's not even halfway through realizing and processing and accepting and dealing with her feelings for him.
She was saving herself as much as she was saving him.
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