Stargazer Transcripts--Asking Zach To Be Best Man

Attempt Number 1

(Brennan and Angela exit)

Hodgins: Zack?

Zack: I really should’ve thought of that. A disease which prevents the sufferer from entering puberty, but simultaneously ages her otherwise.

Hodgins: I’d like to ask you to be my best man on Saturday.

Zack: Things aren’t always either-or. Sometimes they’re both.

Hodgins: At my wedding. Saturday. To Angela. My best man.

Zack: When do I have to decide?

Hodgins: You have to think about it?

Zack: Yes.

Hodgins: Fine. Let me know what you decide.

Attempt Number 2
Jeffersonian, Medico-Legal-Lab – Zack is working on a skull and Hodgins joins him.

Hodgins: Zack?

Zack: There’s a realclification around this hole. It healed.

Hodgins: Zack, I’m getting married Saturday. Two short days, man. I need to know if you’ll stand up with me.

(Zack hands him a letter)

Hodgins: I don’t need a formal response. A simple „yes“ would...(he sees it’s a request from the president) Iraq? You can’t go to Iraq.

Zack: The president is asking me personally.

Hodgins: No. Not personally. The president has a machine to sign for him. He’s probably talking to every forensic anthropologist in the country. You can’t go to Iraq. No. No way. You, you stay here and you be my best man. You let someone else go.

Zack: He’s says I’m at the forefront of my field, that my country needs me.

Hodgins: You can’t go to Iraq. Zack. Will you be my best man or not?

Zack: No.

Hodgins: Why?

Zack: Because, if I decide to do what the president wants, and go to Iraq and get killed, you won’t be able to remember your wedding with happiness.

Hodgins: Okay, big assumption there, buddy.

Zack: Rationally speaking, I’m not good at social ritual. You should ask Booth.

Hodgins: Everything isn’t rational.

Zack: It should be. I no longer believe this is a bullet hole. I believe this was created by a drill.