Bones, Season 5

Brennan:
Angela'll come around.

Sweets:
You're certain that she will.

Brennan:
Eventually, Angela will see the rational nature of my argument.

Sweets:
She will come around.

Brennan:
I already said that.

Sweets:
[smiles] Hey, crazy thought. What if this time you were the one who came around?

Brennan:
Saving one pig isn't a rational act. Are you suggesting that I point that out to Angela more clearly? Because that would make this conversation very much like a professional consultation.

Sweets:
No, I'm suggesting, in a very friendly conversational way, that you help her save that one pig.

Brennan:
But we agreed that that's a meaningless act.

Sweets:
Meaningless by your definition, not by Angela's.

Brennan:
My definition is correct.

Sweets:
Yes, and if life were simply a debate, you would win hands down. But we know it isn't a debate. It's something much tougher. You know, our very work shows us that... that those people that call the world an abattoir, a slaughterhouse, they have a point. Now, you handle that knowledge by imposing this gossamer web of rationality over the ugliness. Angela has a very different way of handling it. Sometimes you don't save the world, Dr. Brennan. Sometimes you just make your friend happy.

Brennan:
Even when it's irrational? [Sweets nods]