- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Nothing in this universe happens just once. Infinity goes in both directions. There is no unique event, no singular moment.
- [Brennan calls Booth on his cell phone]
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: How far are you from Dulles?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: As far as your office is from Dulles.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why are you in my office?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: I need your findings on the Richmond case. Listen, Zack won't tell me where they are unless you give him permission.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: There's a 9:15 flight to Denver, then there's an 11:35 flight to Santa Fe. You have to run to make the connection.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Forget it.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Booth, please. Angela's boyfriend is missing... maybe dead. It took all of my charm...
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: All of your charm? Oh boy...
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: ...just to get the sheriff to let me look at the skull. When I asked him to let me send the skull to the Jeffersonian, he told me I am not a cop and I don't have any jurisdiction.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Which is true. Okay, look, what do you want me to do?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I want you to get Federal on his ass.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [smiles smugly and proudly] Oh!
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Okay, no offense to Angela, but she doesn't really know this guy. She's only with him, what? Only three weeks out of the year?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Yeah, no offense to you, but you are a stodgy traditionalist when it comes to relationships, buddy.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Stodgy? Stodgy?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Yeah, stodgy.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Obviously you subconsciously sifted through the rational facts of the case and processed the most likely scenario.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'm sure that's it.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, what else could it be?
- Angela Montenegro: It's the only rational explanation.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Wait, are you guys making fun of me?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Let's go back home. You know, where there's water and shelter and living things? Come on.
- Angela Montenegro: [Brennan turns on the radio and is greeted with static] You won't get anything out here. We're about a hundred miles past where Jesus lost his sandals.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I assume that's a way of saying we're extremely isolated
- Angela Montenegro: Yeah. That's why we come out here every year. It's like you stand still, and the whole universe just comes at you
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Desert dwellers are very insular. Mongolians, Bedouins of the Sahara, the Himloa of Kanana. Good hosts, but extremely distrustful of outsiders.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: If a bunch of outsiders come in from Albuquerque, led by an outsider from D.C. I promise you, the people here will close ranks and shut up until we go away. Then they'll take care of it in their own way.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Peyote is only legal if you're a member of the Native American Church, which means you and Kirk bought it illegally. Buying illegal drugs involves drug dealers. I mean, you can follow my train of thought here, can't you?
- Angela Montenegro: Yeah, well, you can't trust you eyes out here. Not your eyes alone. You know, Kirk said that if you stood still long enough, that the desert would actually speak to you. Show you some kind of truth.
- Wayne Kellogg: No. I'm sorry. These people trust me. I understand the difficulty in finding the peyote plants miles out in the desert. Secret places passed on from generation to generation.
- Professor Inez: Mamas and the pups feed together. So, I'd expect rib cage and smaller bones to be in a concentrated area. But the males move away from each other with the larger pieces. No more than a half a mile.
- Professor Inez: [Scanning through photos of coyotes from the desert region] What we do here is process information from rangers, amateur naturalists, conservationists, even school groups. The desert coyote pack's range is not huge. Perhaps ten square miles. The pack is typically three to eight animals led by the alpha mating pair. Wow.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Every year for three weeks, Angela has a boyfriend and a vacation,
- Jack Hodgins: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Playing house in a post-boho rustic artist's cabin in the desert with her overpaid pseudo-celebrity photographer boyfriend-that is not a vacation_