What goes on between us is ours.
BONES: Season Five
The Night at the Bones Museum
Instant classic Booth line. It had been awhile since we’d had one!
The CASE:
We also get two bodies in this case. One bloodied legit mummy on a fence, and one innocent doctor in a mummy case (insert your own sounds and words of horror here). The mysterious mummy has been on loan from Egypt to the Jeffersonian, which begins a series of events of historic proportions. I wasn’t sure who the murderer was going to be until it was revealed, so that was nice. Mozhan Marno was fantastic as Azita Jabbari. I would not complain if we saw her again, maybe with Brennan in Egypt.
The SQUINTS:
- Cam: Poor Cam. If she wants to stop getting asked for advice at work, I guess she should just stop giving good advice. Something tells me Dr. Goodman would not be so accommodating.
- Angela and Hodgins: I guess they are BFFs now? That’s cool. I loved their shared looks throughout the episode.
- Sweets: Ugh…I hate it when Sweets is annoying like he was in this episode. Seriously, I could not care less about his relationship with Daisy and I really don’t need to see them have makeup sex at the Jeffersonian. At least Booth was slightly annoyed at how needy Sweets was being at the crime scene.
- Daisy: (insert your own sounds and words of horror here)
BOOTH & BRENNAN:
Okay, let’s get right to it. Do you think Brennan was wrong to go out with Andrew?
I have to say…I am torn, and both of my ‘sides’ revolve around Booth (surprise…so does the sun! Haha, kidding).
First of all, “I love you, in a professional, you know, atta-girl kind of way”. I mean, I think we’ve all been there. It’s like, “You’re like a sister to me.” “I don’t want to lose your friendship.” “We’re just partners.” I mean…I think a lot of us have heard those words (or some sort of variation), and…that’s the end of it. If there was a question as to the other person’s feelings, well…that’s the answer. If Brennan had been harboring any sort of interest in Booth, she has to take his words at face value, and believe him. So I see her basically…moving on. She’s not going to read into Booth’s words to find deeper meaning; that’s not her style. She literally knocked on his door and told him she wanted to believe in love. She sat across from him at his dinner table and said she wasn’t sure love was worth it. I think she put out plenty of feelers, and Booth hasn’t really taken the bait. I think she believed him when he said there was someone for everyone, and yet so far, Booth hasn’t really indicated that he’s interested in her. So, I really don’t have a problem with her pursuing other men. I think she also is feeling stressed about being celibate and THAT’S not going to change on the Booth front, so she’s…moving on, I guess.
On the other hand…
Booth specifically asks her not to go out with him. As a personal, partnerly, friend favor. So in that way, I would have preferred her not date Hacker. Not because Booth may or may not be jealous, but just because it would be awkward for him.
What is interesting to me is that even when Booth brings the egg to her office (and oh, darlings…amazing scene. That Booth is wearing his gray suit is like a gift to me!), she isn’t convinced.
She makes excuses, but Booth has heard enough. I love when he’s like “Stop. Stop right there.” I also think it’s interesting that Brennan confesses that she didn’t mean to talk about him, it just happened. To me, that means that Booth is just so ingrained in her life that for almost every experience she has, there is a Booth-reference that is applicable. She wasn’t trying to be sneaky and talk about Booth, she was just applying her current knowledge to a present situation. And that involved Booth. I love that he called her out on it, though. Booth in the past might have just forgiven her. And I’m not saying he didn’t, but at least he showed her that she needed to feel bad!
Interestingly enough, even after he says the “what goes on between us is ours” line, she still isn’t convinced. When she chides him and suggests that he’s told plenty of people that story…
Ah! Oh my gosh! AHHHH!! That Hodgins kind of interrupts and Booth pulls the egg into his hand, keeping it away from anyone else is one of my favorite moments of season five.
Booth just totally rocks my world in this episode. Unlike in Judas on a Pole (where I came to the conclusion that he was NOT about to kiss her), I think he was going to kiss her this time. Brennan looked so pretty! And Booth of course looked great. What kills me about that end scene is that Brennan is so empathetic toward Booth (and she was earlier, too, about the Egyptian mother (not the mummy…the mother **rimshot!**) when she was basically presenting an emotional case for her son’s innocence)…but she still failed to see that dating Booth’s boss (boss’s boss) was a slightly ill advised move.
Brennan also pretty much rocked my world in this episode too. I LOVED her excitement over the case and her finds. I think that there is a real need for Brennan’s love of anthropology to be re-established back into this show. While that will probably mean a certain tension with Booth, I am fine with that. I am not saying she’s unhappy with her career choice…I just think we need to see more of it.
I also love how amazed she is when Booth kicks down that door! Booth!
YES!
What do you think about Brennan admitting to Booth that she hates speaking in public? I didn’t buy that. I get that they were trying to have her reveal some sort of vulnerability, but…I just don’t see it. She gives lectures a lot and is always pretty confident at them. Thoughts?
I’ll be honest…there are some moments where I think maybe Booth DOESN’T want to be with her. Maybe he really does just love her as a partner and a very special friend. That’s not a bad thing, I guess. I just am not sure. And then sometimes…
Well, sometimes, let’s just say I’m glad that what goes on between them…is ours, too!
Peace, Love & Bones
~S
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April 5, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Brennan was not wrong to date Andrew….it just doesn’t sit right because there’s an expectation of Booth and Brennan getting together with each other…… nobody wants to see another person in the mix.
I loved how people loved to get on Brennan about something but not Booth!!!
Booth dated Cam….Brennan’s boss… Brennan reported directly to Cam! I don’t care that they kept it a secret because Booth did date Brennan’s boss.
Brennan decides to date Andrew… Booth’s boss’s boss…. all hell breaks loose. How dare Brennan go there?! If Booth dating Cam didn’t cause problems, why would Brennan dating Andrew cause problems? (I would think this is Brennan’s logic)
Overall good episode. The egg scene and near-kiss scene has been added to my collection that I watch over and over and over….because it makes me feel happy and angst-filled at the same time.
April 5, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Yes, exactly, Nicole! And Booth hasn’t exactly made a move. And of course, people blame CAM for dating Booth and not him, as if he was being blackmailed or something, haha.
April 5, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Omg, when? When are the times that you think maybe Booth DOESN’T want to be with her? haha, I’m slightly horrified, but also curious!!
April 5, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Ha! I don’t know…maybe not that he doesn’t want her. Just more that over the first couple of years, he pushed and prodded her to feel, and (in honor of opening day) while she is now lobbing him some fat ones over the plate, he steps back. I mean, if you tell someone there is someone for everyone, and that you want that someone to know that you are HER someone, and she believes you and later knocks on your door and says she wants to believe that, why wait? Ha
April 5, 2010 at 10:24 pm
To clarify, I don’t mean that he told her he wanted to be her someone, I just think that. My point was that I was glad that in this episode we got to see him kick down a door AND show Brennan his feelings about at the very least their partnership. However, that Bren even looks at Hacker with a smile in Pudding is beyond me.
April 6, 2010 at 12:41 am
To answer your question, I don’t think she meant she hated talking in public, I think she meant she hated “these things” Big fancy to-do where she has to make a speech and she’s the center of attention. It’s a different kind of attention than being a prof. doing a lecture. It’s a party where people are celebrating something about you…
Anyway, love Brennan’s (Emily’s) faces and reactions in this ep from the surprise at the door kicking in, the way she says “popped out” and the immediate deflation in her expression with just a look from Booth, then the end of course with the look up, look down “and I guess what goes on between us…”. That’s good acting.
April 23, 2010 at 9:45 am
I really loved the egg scene. There’s something about the fact that he’s angry, but still manages to play it out in a very cute way.
I think Brennan may really not like public speaking. She might do it well, but that’s different from liking it.
The end scene…..let’s just say if they pull more of these scenes again I’ll have to go buy myself a portable defibrillator soon.
September 20, 2010 at 7:55 am
“I think she put out plenty of feelers, and Booth hasn’t really taken the bait. I think she believed him when he said there was someone for everyone, and yet so far, Booth hasn’t really indicated that he’s interested in her.” — Oh these lines hurt me, but only because you are right. Surely it is Booth just being scared, but even so . . . it is so hard to watch two people who are supposed to be together mess things up and, as much as I love Booth, I blame him for that. He’s the one who’s supposed to know how to finesse it all, right?
And so, maybe it will be Brennan that will tip everything into order. There would be a beautiful irony in that, don’t you think? Perhaps that is part of what you think will be behind Brennan saving Booth.
The egg scene – one of my all time favorites, as well. I love this demonstration that Booth gives up himself ONLY to Brennan. Even Cam, who seems to know Booth best next to Brennan, did not seem to know Booth’s full childhood past.
It makes my heart go all gooey. They WILL figure it out. I know they will.
September 26, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Warning: an art history major that has taken mostly Ancient Egyptian Art classes is about to nerd.
I love this episode. I really, really do. Brennan’s nerding with Daisy? Favorite part about the whole episode (aside from that last scene).
I don’t like Hacker, he just bugs me. Don’t know why, but he does. I’m usually OK with SO plotlines, but he just comes off wrong.
Don’t like the sarcophagus where the second body was found. Really, really don’t like it. I’ve taken way too many art history courses.
And your right about Daisy and Sweets. Ew. Did not need to see that at all. They both bugged me (minus Daisy’s nerding moment with Brennan).
Other than that… MUMMY! So as a kid I used to nerd about mummies. A lot. And you know what? Brennan’s excitement was really familiar. Goodness, I love that character. We don’t see her get excited about things enough. We need more mummies.
September 27, 2010 at 9:42 am
I liked Brennan “nerding out” with Daisy, too. I mean, I like how they remember that this is what Brennan is into, not just the crime-solving stuff. It is unrealistic to think that Brennan doesn’t still do the ancient remains work because surely there isn’t murder constantly?
May 9, 2011 at 10:39 pm
This is one of my favorite episodes. Of course, I too am an art history geek, and studied Egyptology. So while my education should have me turning my nose up at the incorrect usage in Bones, in the Mummy, etc, I can’t help but love it all, despite all the chronology and historical mishaps.
That’s only one part of why I loved this episode… the biggest part is the ending. I think this the closest we’ve come to them actually kissing (Santa in the Slush doesn’t count, since that was “coercion” via Caroline). I loved the quality of the lighting, the great eye contact between Booth and Brennan, and even the way she adjusted his bowtie after the eyesexus interruptus, was a very sweet way come out of the heightened sexual tension. And I loved the way Booth shyly mirrored her actions by brushing away a curl of her hair. I really liked the dialogue at the end. “You and I – this is our case. What goes on between us, that should just be ours. Isn’t that what you said?” That’s intimacy. They are just steps away from a kiss. Swoon~
January 27, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Why can’t they just lock those squints up somewhere? Annoying bunch of people. Who cares if the ambassador is about to give his speech? They all have cell phones and could have recorded it. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!