Fan Forum - Bones 3x03 - "Death in the Saddle" Episode Discussion (10/09/2007)

3x03 – Death in the Saddle – Oct 9th

Too funny, Brennan having a bit of difficulty being at the crime scene because of the flesh, no bone, factor. She had to ask, like three times, about the bone ….
Then Brennan asked Cam if the reason she was asked in was because Cam was coming up with reasons to have Booth and Brennan working together.
Brennan: We worked things out and we’re fine
Booth: Yeah 100%

Booth had some great lines in the opener, already:
Booth: <something about if Cam and Brennan pulled out a third foot he’d be impressed> :lol:
Booth: Coats manes and tails, oh my!

The joke about Mr. Ed and poor Brennan not getting it! :lmao: Too cute. “A horse is a horse of course of course.”

Booth: Hey
Brennan: Hay is for horses.
Booth: Hey, that's funny Bones.
Brennan: I found it on a website about horses.
Booth: Yeah?
Brennan: Where do horses stay in a hotel?
Booth: In the Bridle suite.
Brennan: That’s correct.
Booth: Mmm huh. So did you find out anything useful?
Brennan: The hooves of champion thoroughbreds are buried separately from the corpses. The hooves represent power and are given their own resting spot. Our victim’s feet were separated from his body.
Booth: But our victim’s wife said he was at a corporate retreat. His boss said he took time off to spend with his family.
Brennan: He lied.
Booth: Yeah, they could all be lying.
Brennan: How did you know the answer to the bridle suite joke?
Booth: I have a five year old son.

Too cute how Brennan was standing up for Booth “That is the third time he’s shown you his ID”

The look Booth gave when Lucky the owner made a reference to Pony Play …
And Booth assumed Pony Play was sex …
Brennan: How did you get there so quickly?
And the LOOK she gave him for that!

Booth: What’s going on here?
Brennan: It’s a fetish.
Booth: The idea is one of them’s the horse, the other’s the rider?
Brennan: This isn’t about the horses. It’s about dominant versus submissive balance of power, a variation of sado-masochism.
Booth: These people are eating from troughs. How is that sexy?
<I think I might have missed some of the exact phrasing here>
Brennan: Fetishism is a way of indulging in a sexual activity without actually connecting emotionally with the other person.
Booth: Sex is all about connecting. Okay? You're afraid to connect then just stay home and you know.....
<the LOOK Booth and Brennan shared when he said that last bit>

Brennan to pony play group: Excuse me! We need to speak to Mr. Ed’s groom! Whoever rode him last?
Booth, to Brennan: Okay there Bones, cutting to the quick. That’s good.
:lmao: and all those people, and Booth telling the one to turn so that his behind, was well, behind! This show was FREAKING hilarious!

Booth: Aristotle thought that the purpose of the human heart was to solve math problems.
Brennan: I’m surprised you know that.
Booth: Turns out I’m smarter than a 5th grader.

Brennan to Booth: We are all hardwired differently. If someone needs to shout, "giddy up", to heighten arousal, what's wrong with that?

At the FBI off ice, they were SO freaking cute! She was playing with his bat in his office, he made her put it down. She convinced him, while walking to the elevators, she convinced him the wife couldn’t have done it. Then they got to the elevator and both tried to beat each other to pushing the button. :lmao: Then in the elevator …
Brennan: Giddy up
Booth: Yeah, uh, don’t say that.

Booth: Okay, what is this … some sick-o rodeo?
Brennan: Stylized movement, the posturing is a kind of sexual signal.
Booth: Who are these people?
Brennan: In real life they tend to be very orthodoxed. You heard what Lucky said. They’re lawyers, judges, FBI guys … <The LOOK he gave her>
Booth: <laughs> This is NOT normal, its –
Brennan: It’s what, Booth?
Booth: You’re not interested in uh-
Brennan: Pony play? No, but I’m the first to admit that in sexual situations I have indulged in role playing.
Booth: You know what, it’s getting a little warm out here. What do you say we head –
Lucky: Hey there. Any uh leads?
Brennan: We’re wondering if any of the riders and ponies has an accent.
Lucky: Uh, Thor. He grew up in England.
Brennan: With Annie Oakley?
Lucky: Yeah, that’s right.
Booth: You know, I’m going to need Thor’s actual normal human name.
Lucky: Calvin Johnson.
Booth: Calvin Johnson? That’s great. <grabs Brennan> Come on. Thanks. <walks off, his hand on her arm>
Brennan: We all indulge in role playing in sexual situations.
Booth: Not me, completely normal here.
Brennan: Booth, any time you look at a woman and make the judgment that she is beautiful, you are objectifying her. And anytime that I put on lipstick and nice clothes, I’m objectifying myself. It’s more subtle than what these people are doing, but otherwise it’s the same dynamic.
Booth: Okay, you wearing lipstick, Bones, it’s not like this.

Brennan’s threat – they’ll charge him with public display of sexual paraphernalia. :lol:

Booth: What’s with all the lying? <gave example of voice tapes, sexual paraphernalia>
Brennan: I was being all hard ass and good cop. <walks off>
Booth: Hard ass and bad cop, Bones. It’s hard ass and bad cop.

Zach: It’s possible that my time in Iraq turned me into a man of action!

Brennan: I hate the smell of a butcher shop.
Booth: If maggots and rotting faces and burst guts don’t bother you, but the smell of a butcher shop does?
Brennan: It’s a very small step between selling dead meat and making meat dead. I’m considering becoming a vegetarian.
Booth: No me.
Brennan: Yeah that’s why I said I not we. Zach says the killer was adept at cutting through bone.
Booth: Like a butcher.
Brennan: <reading flyer> Horse meat. Sweet rich lean and soft.
Butcher Tom: Can I help
Booth: Yeah we’re looking to score some horse meat
Butcher Tom: Unfortunately right now there’s only two slaughter houses in the US and they don’t export to Virginia.
Booth: Ah that’s a shame. Tom <something>?
Butcher Tom: Why?
Booth: I’m Special Agent Seeley Booth, this is -
<Tom runs>
Booth: Go around, cut him off
Brennan to Tom: Stop or I'll kick you in the testicles.
<Tom stops, Booth slams him into wall>
Brennan: You are strong.
Booth: I try to stay in shape. Stop or I'll kick you in the testicles?
Brennan: It worked ….
Booth: Tell you what. You and me, we're gonna work on your cop-talk.

Booth: <after Tom talked about holy communion of horse meat> You know there’s crazy pony players and then there’s wacked out crazy pony players

Ah, Angela found out the name of her husband via the dream, not directly because of the hypnosis but because she wanted to. How cute.

Booth: Just so they could have crappy sex
Brennan: How do you know it’s crappy?
Booth: It’s gotta be Bones
Brennan: Why?
Booth: Why? I’ll tell you why. Here we are, all of us basically alone, separate creatures, just circling each other, all searching for the slightest hint of a real connection. Some look in the wrong places, some they give up hope because in their mind they’re thinking oh there’s just nobody out there for me. But all of us keep on trying over and over again. Why? Because every once in a while, every once in a while, two people met and there’s that spark. And, yes Bones he’s handsome and she’s beautiful and maybe that’s all they see at first. But making love? Making love … that’s when two people become one.
Brennan: It’s scientifically impossible for two objects to occupy the same space
Booth: Yeah, but what’s important is we try. And when we do it right … we get close.
Brennan: To what? Breaking the law of physics
Booth: Yeah, Bones. A miracle.
Booth: Those people, role playing fetishes, and their sex games. It’s crappy sex. Compared to the real thing.
Brennan: You’re right.
Booth: <assuming she just argued with him> Yeah but - wait a second, I just won that argument?
Brennan: Yeah.