In Which We Have TWO White Knights

Season 2, Episode 15

The Bodies in the Book

BOOTH: Yeah, I mean, why are you asking, Sully? I'm in charge of this investigation.

SULLY: Well, Booth, I was a profiler for two years. I have a lot of experience with these cases. This could be someone showing what big fan he is or someone trying to get close to her. Too close.

BRENNAN: I don't need to be protected...

BOOTH & SULLY: (in unison) Yes. You do.

Uh-oh, looks like we've got two White Knights on the premises. Haha.

Let's discuss Booth in this whole Sully/Brennan business, shall we?

See, Booth is all normal and collected when it's just Sully and Bones being normal. Add joke-y to it when they're arguing with each other – when that's happening, he's Mr. Goof-off.

But then, we get to the last scene. When Sully comes into her office after the case has been solved. And real, emotional things start happening.

Booth takes his cue to leave, says something, and looks at Bones, looking to see if wants him to stay, looking for any visual communication from her, looking for even an acknowledgment that he's leaving.

But she just stays staring at Sully. And Booth starts to realize, this isn't just a thing. This is a thing.

So he leaves, and Bones and Sully talk. And Booth sees them kiss.

And see, it's a difficult situation for him, because even under normal circumstances, Brennan is a million times less aware of her feelings than Booth is. Under circumstances in which she's with someone else? Forget about it. Any feelings in any way, shape or form about someone else cease to exist, even in what little, microscopic, nonrecoverable way they existed to begin with, because they're irrelevant. Emotionally, she can hardly handle being with a person, let alone be aware (again, even in the slightest way she was to begin with) of any feelings about anything (or anyone) else.

Which leaves Booth alone in this, hence his dejected tossing the file on the table and walking away.