Bones (TV Series)

The Woman in the Car (2006)

Suzanne Cryer: Agent Pickering

Quotes 

• Agent Pickering : Didn't I see you on television this morning, Dr. Brennan?

  Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : How could I possibly know what you watched on television?

• Agent Pickering : When you were in Cuba, did you meet with a man named Juan Guzman?

  Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [pause. Bones picks up her phone and dials a number]  Hello. It's Dr. Brennan from the Jeffersonian. You told me to call you if anyone asked about... you know... him... Someone from the State Department named Samantha Pickering.

  [hands the phone to Pickering] 

  Agent Pickering : Pickering. Yes, sir! Yes... I'll wait... I'll wait here.

  [hands the phone back to Bones. Bones hangs up the receiver] 

  Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Any more questions?

  Agent Pickering : No. Uh, no. In fact, the entire review process is suspended. And I'm to wait here until someone comes to destroy my notes.

• Dr. Jack Hodgins : [as Pickering starts walking away from him]  What was the finding?

  [Pickering turns around] 

  Dr. Jack Hodgins : I still work here so...

  Agent Pickering : Harmless.

  Dr. Jack Hodgins : [sounding indignant]  Harmless? I'm harmless?

  Agent Pickering : Yes. You do not pose a viable threat.

  Dr. Jack Hodgins : Well, that's just - insulting.

• Agent Pickering : What I need to do here is establish that you are not a threat to the security of this country.

  Zack Addy : I'm getting a degree in forensic anthropology; I'm halfway through another in engineering. What're you afraid I'll do? Build a race of criminal robots that'll destroy the Earth?

• Agent Pickering : [to Hodgins]  As a possible embarrassment, you were thoroughly checked out.