Bones s04e14 Episode Script

Dr.
Brennan, Dr.
Hodgins, Mr.
Vega, thank you for coming.
You get a notice to appear from a federal judge, you appear.
I assume this has something to do with the Gravedigger.
Only thing the three of us have in common is that kidnapper.
My name is Heather Taffet.
I'm the United States attorney assigned to the Gravedigger case last month.
- What happened to Miss Kurland? - She was killed in a car accident in Boston.
What, you think the Gravedigger had Kurland killed because she was getting close? She wasn't getting close.
She was barely conducting an investigation.
Nothing has moved in the Gravedigger case in months.
- It turns out something did move.
- Some evidence has gone missing.
You suspect that one of us stole Gravedigger evidence from the F.
B.
I? Mr.
Vega is a former F.
B.
I.
agent as well as a best-selling author on the Gravedigger.
You both contract out to the F.
B.
I.
Let me make this very clear.
If any of you has any evidence linked to the Gravedigger case I am ordering you, as a federal judge, to turn it over to Miss Taffet.
Turn it over to me today, and you get full immunity.
Yeah, that- Oh, that's gotta be Bones.
Guarantee you.
Yep.
I'm hurrying, Bones.
- Do you need directions? - No, I do not need directions because I am driving.
My G.
P.
S.
can provide perfect directions in several languages.
Well, get this, okay? Parker got me this new watch, and it does the same thing.
- In several languages? - No.
Well, then it's not the same thing.
I bet you are looking beautiful, huh? Because I am in the finest tux that money can rent.
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 a tribute video.
My G.
P.
S.
indicates that it's a 25-minute drive for you.
- This is my big night, Booth.
- All right, Bones, listen.
Don't worry.
I will be there when they crown you super scientist.
I will be the guy in the "cocky" belt buckle and the snazzy rented tux.
Someone's knocking at my door.
Well, how can there be a knock at your door if you're already driving? - You're late.
- I know.
It took me longer to get dressed than I thought.
- But don't worry.
My G.
P.
S.
will get us there on time.
It's not a time machine, sweetie.
- I call shotgun.
- No.
- No? - Brennan.
I have taken Seeley Booth.
He has been buried alive.
He has 21 hours to live.
Bring the evidence to the S.
W.
5 D.
C.
boundary stone in return for which you will receive G.
P.
S.
coordinates.
If you involve law enforcement, I will know and Seeley Booth will die.
This is my final communication.
What's going on? The Gravedigger has Booth.
Hey.
What-What is it? - Booth? - He's not here.
I told you.
- I was hoping it was, like, a prank call or something.
- The door was locked.
- What does that mean? - I doubt that the Gravedigger would take the time to - Give me the shoe.
Would take the time to lock the front door on his way out.
Yeah, especially lugging 190 pounds of unconscious Booth.
He was dragged to the window.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
All right.
Um, we need to call the authorities.
We're in way over our heads here.
No.
No, no, no.
I read up on this guy.
If we want Booth back, we need to pay the ransom.
The Gravedigger wanted evidence.
What evidence? It has to be the same evidence the state attorney and the F.
B.
I.
think I have.
- Which I don't.
- What? What are you doing? - They called in Hodgins too.
- You think he stole the evidence? I know you didn't.
God! God.
Okay.
That's good.
Okay.
Yeah.
Would you stop that, please? I was working off adrenaline.
How long ago did the Gravedigger get Booth? - What kind of time do we have? - I know you have what the Gravedigger wants.
The evidence that the judge told us about- the Gravedigger thinks that I have it.
But he's wrong.
It's you.
Give it to me.
Who's there? - Who's that? - It's me.
Who's me? Best buddy you ever had.
Your words.
Teddy? This isn't real.
I'm gonna go with real.
Nice monkey suit, by the way.
Never would've thought to go formal to a kidnapping.
Look.
No- No offense, but, you know, I've been- I've been drugged electrocuted, stuffed in a Beatles toy.
You're-You're an hallucination.
That's what you are.
You're - you're an hallucination.
That's nice.
I show up to help you and you toss me off as a hallucination.
You're dead, Corporal.
I felt your heart stop.
No use crying over spilt milk, Sarge.
You know what? You're not real.
This isn't real.
You know what? I am gonna focus on what is real.
Right? Real.
Like getting out of this place.
Okay.
- Yeah.
- Nah, Sarge.
It's too high.
How about that one? I already saw that.
Now you're getting competitive with a hallucination.
What? Oh, right.
No.
Still here.
Wow.
You really haven't changed, Sarge.
Once you knew what had to be done, nothing could stop you.
- Enough already.
- Yes, sir, Sergeant.
I got this.
Hey, look at that.
Making progress.
There.
That's everything.
The judge was after a specific piece, Hodgins.
Something that you stole from the F.
B.
I.
I remember that.
- That was embedded in your leg.
- Yeah.
Probably came off the bumper of the vehicle the Gravedigger used to run me over.
That would be shortly before he buried me alive.
With me.
Pretty close to discovering the manufacturer - which will help us narrow down the suspect pool.
Booth doesn't have that kind of time.
What is that? Evidence that the Gravedigger wants.
Sweets, you shouldn't be here.
The Gravedigger said no F.
B.
I.
involvement.
- I'm a psychologist, not an agent.
- An F.
B.
I.
psychologist.
Dr.
Sweets, get gone now.
You stole evidence? You don't know what it was like being buried in that car.
- I do.
I was there.
- I know.
And if we turn over that evidence, we will never catch the Gravedigger.
- Booth only has 19 hours.
- Okay.
Okay.
Then let's just take 10 of those hours and see if we can do both.
Brennan, I am telling you, the answer is there.
Ten hours.
Eight, and Dr.
Hodgins is never left alone.
- You don't trust him? - No, I don't.
I scanned the new recording.
Bring the evidence to the S.
W.
5 D.
C.
boundary stone in return for which you will receive G.
P.
S.
coordinates.
If you involve law enforcement, I will know and Seeley Booth will die.
This is my final communication.
Along with the recording that the Gravedigger gave when you and Hodgins were kidnapped.
You okay to hear that? Okay.
Temperance Brennan and Jack Hodgins have been buried alive.
Wire-transfer eight million dollars to the following Grand Cayman account or they will suffocate to death.
And Seeley Booth will die.
Or they will suffocate to death.
Now despite the voice scrambler, I was able to extract specific phonemes by running the waveform through a Fourier Transform.
Graphically, they're identical.
Can we hear the unscrambled voice? No.
The coding was too complicated.
But the voice scrambler was triggered to compress at a certain set level.
Now in this case, it was set to the volume of a human voice.
- So when the Gravedigger isn't speaking - - Right.
The background noise pops into the foreground uncompressed.
- What is that? - Um - I'm still working on that.
Sorry, I - We'll get Booth back.
You can't know that.
- Brennan, I just think that - - Just work, please.
Okay.
Let me try another algorithm.
Birds? Gulls.
Seagulls.
The Gravedigger was near the water.
- Damn.
- Fresh one? What? Oh, hallucinations can't help out a little? - Gimme that.
- You're welcome.
No, Sarge.
Pry with your legs.
Watch you don't hurt your back.
That can't be good.
Hang on, Teddy.
You're gonna make it.
Uh, might want to close that up, Sarge.
Aaah! Hey, guys, uh, there was no voice match but there was a point of origin on the call.
Seagulls? I talked to Booth an hour and 47 minutes before I got the ransom call.
That merry-go-round.
The boardwalk.
King's Beach boardwalk.
I got it.
Vega? Vega lives in a penthouse apartment just off the Boardwalk.
You think this is my fault? If you hadn't stolen the evidence, the Gravedigger would never have taken Booth.
Rationally speaking, it was inevitable.
It would've happened anytime we got close.
Is that Vega's car? Who is that? It's Vega.
He's dead.
Looks like he was killed somewhere else and then placed here.
We should take his body back to the lab.
Obviously, the Gravedigger killed him.
There's gotta be some evidence that we can use.
Remove a body from a crime scene? That would be a very bad idea.
Step away from the car, please.
Agent Perotta.
Look, the water rises up far enough, we'll be able to get to that door and open it.
The room isn't filling up quickly enough for you already? You were here for an interview? Mr.
Vega was writing Surviving the Gravedigger.
He wanted to talk to us.
- At 5:00 in the morning? - It was a breakfast meeting.
- Were you following us, Agent Perotta? - Yes, Dr.
Brennan, I was.
You two are both suspected of stealing evidence.
This doesn't exactly clear you of suspicion.
Well, was he under surveillance? Because a fat lot of good the F.
B.
I.
did him.
Well, it appears that he was the one who had the evidence.
- Are we free to go now? - Why not? They have us under surveillance.
I'll be in touch.
Tell you what.
You were always the guy to be with in a tough spot.
You never said anything like that, Sarge.
You mostly just grunted.
Made me get coffee.
So what makes you think what's behind that hatch is gonna be any better than the last thing we opened? I'll tell you what.
I'm either gonna drown fast or really, really slow.
Okay.
Comin' up pretty fast here, Sarge.
- Vega's dead.
- Oh, God.
Vega's dead.
Right.
Like murdered dead? We had no opportunity to examine the remains - Before the F.
B.
I.
interrupted us.
- Whoa.
What? F.
B.
I? Yep.
F.
B.
I.
Special Agent Perotta.
We're going to swing by, pick up the evidence - And deliver it to the Gravedigger.
- What? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Just do what he wants? - We have no other choice.
You spoke to the F.
B.
I.
We didn't talk to the F.
B.
I.
They talked to us.
Somehow I don't think the Gravedigger's gonna take that into consideration.
We still have time to catch the Gravedigger and to save Booth.
- The odds are not acceptable.
- Why? - Because we don't have Booth to help.
- Let's be clear here.
- What we intend to do next constitutes felony conspiracy.
- Not you.
- Me.
I can do it alone.
- No.
No.
Nobody does anything alone.
Vega was alone.
What the hell's that supposed to be for? It's a fulcrum, Sarge.
We, uh-We'll both work it together.
There.
Right there.
Ready? Oh, God.
God! There it is.
There we go.
- All right, get in.
- Hey, real people go first, Sarge.
Get in before I change my mind, will you? Okay.
Hey.
Hey.
Whoa.
Okay.
- Get a- Get a grip, Sarge.
- Hey.
- You're attacking your own hallucination.
- You are not an hallucination.
You helped me open that hatch.
I wouldn't have been able to open up that hatch without you.
Okay.
Okay.
So what does that make me? You are a ghost.
I'm a ghost? Hey, why aren't you scared? You being a ghost is not even on the list of things that scare me.
I kept telling you.
I said, "Learn to pick a lock.
" You remember your response, Sarge? Yeah.
"Any lock worth picking is worth kicking.
" - And I still stand by it.
- Well, hey, please, stand by it.
Advice like that, it's a miracle I lived as long as I did.
- You got a cuff link? - Yeah.
- Twenty.
- What's that? You were 20 years old when you died.
Still am.
You, Sarge- Gotta say you've, uh, put a couple years on.
Hey, is it true that the 30s is when your body really starts going south on you? - Hey, you got any kids, Sarge? - Yeah.
I got a boy.
What's his name? Aw, you're probably gonna take this wrong.
Why? What'd you do? You name him something stupid like- like Cutter? What, Tanner? Brady? Oh, God.
You didn't name him Sebastian? Parker.
I named him Parker.
That's my name.
It's your last name.
You know, and your lock-picking sucks.
You named your kid after me? - Yeah.
- What's he like? He's, uh- He's just like a kid, you know? But he's even better.
- Does he like you? - Of course he likes me.
He loves me.
I'm his dad, you know? He even got me this watch.
- What about his mom? - Yeah, she, uh- She likes me.
But, uh, she didn't love me.
- You loved her though.
- Of course I loved her.
I still do.
I just - I just don't like her too well.
Uh, you saw I picked the lock, right? We're on a ship.
- Uh, Sarge? - Yeah? This particular ship ain't gonna be floating much longer.
C-4 explosives.
There's a boundary stone through the clearing.
This is weird.
Something nearby is broadcasting a video signal.
There.
A camera up in that tree.
That's how the Gravedigger will see that we brought what he wants.
I might be able to hack into the camera's broadcast frequency.
I gotta say it doesn't seem to be the smartest move to just hand over this evidence.
We need to be rational.
We should maximize the chances to catch the Gravedigger, not minimize them.
Listen to me, Brennan.
Somebody you love is buried alive.
You're allowed to save them, no matter how irrational.
- I don't love Booth.
- Yes, you do.
So do I.
So do all of us.
Just take my advice and hand over the evidence and get Booth.
Let's do it.
Come on.
Let's do it.
Watch your monitor.
Tell me if anything changes, okay? - By anything, you mean - - Anything.
Okay, I'm in.
I've locked into the video feed.
I hate this guy.
I mean, I really, really hate him.
I will find you! Whoa.
- Did you do that? - No.
No.
Uh, that's the Gravedigger.
It's the vial he's after.
God, and his receiver's within a 500-yard radius.
- He's really close.
- Oh, uh, Angela this pointy bit here just got way pointier.
- At what frequency? - 2.
2 something.
- Oh, my God.
- What? That signal's not coming from the camera.
Get back! - Run.
Run.
- Go, go.
Go! What the hell is going on here? - You okay? - Yeah.
Come on.
We followed Dr.
Brennan's car to the boundary stone.
We arrived moments after the explosion.
- What the hell were you people doing? - We have nothing to say.
We found evidence at the crime scene believed to be related to the Gravedigger investigation.
I believe they returned evidence to the Gravedigger.
Agent Perotta, you will deny all of these people access to this case.
May I make a request, Your Honor? I'd like to see Thomas Vega's remains.
- I need to examine them immediately.
- You will examine nothing.
You people will stay away from anything to do with the Gravedigger.
We're on a ship stuffed with toys and explosives.
- And that makes some kind of sense to you? - Yeah.
What they do, Sarge, is they sink ships for reefs.
They get school kids to do all the decorating.
- Why? - The fish.
Why else? Fish love decorations.
There's a transponder.
We have six hours and 23 minutes here.
- What? No ideas? - According to you, I'm already a ghost.
- As a result, I got no sense of urgency.
- Hang on.
- Maybe we can use the transponder to send a signal.
- But that's the only fail-safe.
Once you disconnect the transponder, nothing can stop the ship from blowing to hell in six hours and 22 minutes.
Sense of urgency now? It's been almost two hours.
Why hasn't the Gravedigger sent us Booth's coordinates? I think we have to accept that the Gravedigger isn't gonna release Booth.
- He's cleaning up.
- Cleaning up? Yeah.
He destroyed the evidence.
Now he's trying to destroy everyone who had gotten close to him - Vega, Agent Booth, you and Hodgins.
It's over.
Booth's dead.
It's my fault.
We're out of options.
No.
No.
It's not over.
And I know exactly who to ask for help.
So what's so important you couldn't tell me on the phone? Your brother has been kidnapped by the Gravedigger.
Seeley's been kidnapped? When? Booth will be dead in six hours.
What I need you to do is hijack the remains of a murder victim and then bring them to me.
I'm in military intelligence.
We don't hijack dead bodies.
The victim's name is Thomas Vega.
- You want me to steal the remains of a murder victim from the F.
B.
I? - Yes.
- As soon as possible, please.
- I can make a few calls.
No.
This is not a situation where you make a few phone calls.
That's who I am, Tempe.
I am the guy who makes a few calls.
Booth has never turned his back on you.
You are a selfish coward, and you never deserved him.
We can feed the transponder's signal through the ship's antenna.
Well, you taught me sometimes you gotta stand and fight and sometimes you gotta run like hell for help.
Hang on, Teddy.
Stay with me.
Sarge? Sarge? We never should've gone on that last mission.
I mean - taking out another sniper, that was - That was way beyond your capabilities.
There was- You couldn't- That's why you're haunting me, right? You're - Can't an old army buddy just show up to lend a helping hand? Yeah.
- You got a partner now? - Yeah.
You two tight? Yeah.
I mean, we're, uh-You would have - - You'd like her.
She's - - Her? - Way to go, Sarge.
- Look, just focus here, all right? Corporal, all right, whoever is monitoring the - the sinking of the ship should be able to pick up the signal, right? Very cool, Sarge.
- No.
- You shorted it out.
It's useless now.
No.
Look, don't worry, Sarge.
Hey, at least we still got this flashlight.
What - - Vega's remains.
- Thank you.
So just to sum things up the ship's about to explode, and now there's no way to stop it.
Rub it in.
I got you killed twice.
- Where are we going? - We gotta get outta here.
Even if we get up out on the deck - We're gonna have to jump into the ocean.
- That's right.
Where, if the fall doesn't kill us, we'll get hypothermia and drown? Oh, no.
I get hypothermia and drown.
Who knows what'll happen to you? If you die, Sarge, I'm gone.
There's not a single person left on the planet who will remember me.
It'll be like I was never here.
- No.
- No? No.
There's that, uh- that girl.
- She won't forget you.
- You mean Claire? Yeah, Claire.
You know, every day on the anniversary of your death I go to your grave and I visit you and there's always flowers from her there.
- Did you ever see her? - From a distance, yeah.
- Why don't you talk to her? - Because she blames me for your death.
- That's crazy.
- No, it's not crazy.
I blame me too.
Here we go.
- Sarge? - Yeah? Tomorrow's the anniversary.
I need a favor.
I survive this, anything.
I need you to tell Claire I loved her.
- You never told her? - I was 20.
I didn't know how to say it.
Well, you say, "I love you.
" I mean, what's so hard about that? What, you've never loved somebody and didn't say it to 'em? See, maybe that's why I'm here.
- Get you to say I love you to somebody.
- We can get through here.
- Get through the solid metal wall? - No, the stairs.
Do you see? The thinnest interior bulkhead of a ship is gonna be along the stairs.
We're gonna blast our way through this.
Rigor indicates he's been dead less than 24 hours - about the same time Booth disappeared.
Vega must've been killed just after we were threatened by that judge.
Two full-thickness burns to the posterior triangle of the neck corresponding with a high-amperage stun gun.
- Stun gun.
- How'd you pull this off? It's masked as a military intelligence operation- national security.
Well, how long before they find out the truth? Not long if you keep talking so loud.
You're gonna get in trouble.
Definitely lose your job.
I'm aware.
These burn marks are not in the usual place.
On all of the other victims, they were equidistant from the inferior nuchal line.
This time, they're angled about four centimeters to the right.
This is deep.
The stun gun was held here, near his heart, for an extended time.
Caused fatal fibrillation.
That'd be cause of death.
Here's a hairline fracture to the olecranon process of the right ulna.
- What does that mean? - The victim damaged his right medial and lateral upper epicondyles, as well as his coronoid fossa.
Possibly consistent with a defensive response to a posterior assault.
Our victim got a piece of the bad guy.
He elbowed the assailant.
Striking someone that hard, there's going to be damage.
At least broken ribs.
- Got it.
- Good job, kid.
- What the hell's that supposed to be? - A well-shaped charge.
It's a mermaid.
Get it? It's not sexist, 'cause she's mostly fish.
Right.
Okay.
All we need now is a power source.
Right.
That's what the flashlight was for.
I have an injunction here reclaiming jurisdiction in this case.
On what grounds? - One missing F.
B.
I.
agent is not a case of national security.
Grab a coffee, you guys.
- Do you have the warrant? - Right here.
Signed by the judge.
I don't think there's any more reason for us to keep the truth from Ms.
Taffet.
No, wait.
The Gravedigger said that we- You've been in touch with the Gravedigger? The Gravedigger has Agent Booth? She can't seem to extend her arm.
What? - Oh.
- What do you think? - About what? - It's possible.
She had complete access to F.
B.
I.
files and evidence.
Nobody wanted the Gravedigger case.
It's a career killer.
But with Kurland out of the way- Have you injured yourself recently, Miss Taffet? What the hell does that have to do with anything? Oh! Don't let Dr.
Hodgins go.
Could I see the warrant, please? Broken ribs.
- She's the Gravedigger? - It's her.
- Can you prove it? - No, we can't.
- Is that a problem? - Not for me.
You got a place to lock her up? - Where's Booth? - She's not gonna say anything.
You haven't even asked.
Yeah, I've read extensively on the Gravedigger.
I'm acquainted with the profile.
Very intelligent, very calm.
- She won't speak.
- Then what do we do? - You have to do spring cleaning on her.
- What is that? - Is that some kind of torture or something? - Nothing.
- Doesn't exist.
- The government keeps secret, black illegal files on every U.
S.
citizen.
It's called spring cleaning because everything is brought out into the light and turned upside down.
Okay.
That is complete paranoia, right? - I'll need access to a secure terminal.
- Follow me.
And only conspiracy nuts call it spring cleaning.
- Uh, Sarge? - Corporal Parker.
Really need you to stifle yourself at this juncture, okay? Okay.
Yeah.
I get it.
I mean, if these two leads touch, that explodes - - you become Booth jam.
- That's correct.
- Or if a bead of sweat completes the circuit, then- boom! - Uh-huh.
- Can I ask you one more question? - What is it, Corporal? It's just, how are you gonna complete the circuit from a hundred yards away at which distance you might survive the blast? One thing at a time, okay? - Okay.
- First time I've ever heard of a cowardly ghost.
What a wuss.
I'd like to kill you.
I hate her.
I think I could murder her.
If any group of people could murder someone and get away with it it would be us.
I'm not gonna ask you any questions.
I'm just gonna tell you what's going on right now.
I went through your file.
- As Heather Taffet, you have led a very tiny, transparent life.
But in 1998, you married a man named William Burton for exactly one month before you had the marriage annulled.
Which was long enough to create an entire identity a whole untraceable identity which you used for one thing and one thing only- to rent a storage locker in Spring Hill.
I got you, bitch.
- I gotta get closer.
- You're too close now, Sarge.
Too close.
Look, I'll get it.
- No.
- I'll get it.
Teddy? You gotta get your hands on some truth-telling drugs.
- What? - Would you rather torture her? - I know a little bit about that.
- No.
What? We don't do that.
- Booth will die.
- Character is who you are under pressure.
Not who you are when everything's fine.
We're the good guys.
We don't-We don't torture people.
Evidence is being compiled against you as we speak.
Tell us where Agent Booth is.
You don't want another murder on your head.
Okay, see? That's not gonna work.
Her pathology necessitates controlling the game.
She's created her own morality.
She's not gonna relinquish control.
Hey, they brought in everything from her storage locker.
Okay, back to work, everybody.
- Teddy? - Yeah? I can't see very well.
I looked at the flash.
- You're okay? Huh? - Oh, I think I could use some help.
Is that light? - We find a way out? - You always find a way out, Sarge.
I'll be your legs.
You be my eyes.
Come on, Teddy.
Which way, Corporal? Towards the light.
Oh, that sounds bad, huh? "Move towards the light"? Hold up.
These boots were worn recently.
Hey, uh, Jared.
Can I see your black file of spring cleaning or whatever? - The contents are on my P.
D.
A.
- Talk to me while you analyze.
Aedes sollicitans.
It's a common marsh mosquito.
- Blood's still in its gut.
- Indicating it was worn how recently? At least in the last 24 hours for sure.
But wait a second.
- I got some paint chips here.
- Run it through the mass spec.
- See if there's anything special about that paint.
- I'm on it.
You still with me, Teddy? Yeah.
But I gotta tell ya, I feel like we've kinda been here before.
I'm sorry I got you killed.
I was so anxious to get off that shot - take out my target- that I forgot to tell you to get down.
You told me to get down twice.
- You gave the order.
I didn't listen.
- What? Sarge, stop.
I didn't come here to haunt you.
I came to tell you it wasn't your fault.
Active amine hydrogen, epoxy, hydroxyapatite and silica.
It's an obsolete composition of deck coating used by the Navy prior to 1961.
So she was on a Navy vessel with him in the last 24 hours? Yeah, an old one.
Most likely decommissioned.
Wait a minute.
A ship? Listen to this.
Taffet was a volunteer at the aquarium.
They were prepping some sort of old navy ship to be sunk.
- What? - They're making some sort of reef.
The navy's not afraid of explosions or sinking ships.
Plus, it'll really annoy my brother, the army Ranger, to be saved by a squid.
Brennan, they know where Booth is.
Jared is getting a helicopter to take you there.
He's on an old navy ship.
You can put me down, Sarge.
You don't have to carry me anymore.
Doesn't work that way, Teddy.
Temperance, can you hear me? - I'm patched through via cell phone.
- Jared? Wh - I don't understand.
Why aren't you here in the helicopter with me? Typical navy red tape.
Nothing to worry about.
But listen, they couldn't cancel the detonation.
- Something's wrong with the transponder.
- What do we do now? The ship blows in nine minutes.
The navy's only given you five to get there and get Seeley off.
No.
Jared, Booth could be anywhere on that ship.
Five minutes is not enough time.
These guys don't negotiate, Tempe.
They won't risk any more lives.
- Are you all right? - It's all worth it as long as you save my brother.
- Rangers lead the way, Sarge.
- That's right.
Rangers lead the way, Corporal.
There.
All right? Sarge, I knew what you did for me- how far you carried me.
Sarge? One more thing I gotta tell you.
No way you're getting the deposit back on that tux.
Booth! Hurry.
Come on.
Hurry, Booth.
Come on.
Booth, come on.
Hurry.
Thanks for coming to get me, Bones.
You should've stayed in the hospital another day.
No, I didn't mean getting me out of the hospital.
I meant coming out on the helicopter to the ship.
Thanks for saving my life.
I got you this.
"Cocky.
" How'd you find that? That's hard to find.
I read through your report.
Seems you would need two people to do most of what you did.
I had help.
It was a ghost.
You were injured drugged, disoriented, breathing bad air.
There are no such things as ghosts.
Whatever you have to tell yourself there, Bones.
Whose ghost? - He's buried over there.
- The ghost? Corporal Edward Parker.
He was slain while serving his country.
# It's a change # He was 20.
He was just a kid.
Was it, um, your fault that he died? No.
Fortunes of war.
It wasn't my fault.
You see that woman over there? Her name is Claire.
I have a message for her from Teddy.
What, a message from a ghost? You wait here, okay? But you're gonna deliver a message to that woman from a ghost? # It's a sign # # That lets you know there's a life awaiting # # The day # # You make your peace with the love in you that died # Beautiful day.
It makes you glad to be alive, doesn't it? Yes, it does.
# And the dam becomes a river # # And the fire burns out under the rain # # Can you feel it now # # It's gone from you forever # # When the pain dies down # What's that mean?