Who is seeley booth

While he finds the information Dr. Brennan and her team uncover to be valuable clues, he often finds their means overly convoluted and restrictive and prefers to add his own intuition and knowledge of people to it — something which clashes with Dr. Brennan's scientific, objective, and analytical approach, which has its very own limitations. Booth described as "charming, funny, a tad brutish but ultimately warm and caring". He is worldly-wise, socially at ease with people, very athletic, and apparently sexually confident with women a contrast to the humorous social bumbling sometimes exhibited by some of Dr.

Brennan's team. Other characters have described him as an "alpha male" and "a complex man". Booth often refers to himself as a jock, having played basketball and several other sports in high school and college.

Despite his "jock" status, he is a fan of comic books. Generally, Booth has a cheerful, happy-go-lucky personality. He frequently smiles, makes jokes, and occasionally acts in a silly, almost childish manner.

On the job, he tends to adopt a more serious, professional attitude, although his cheerful side occasionally slips through. However, he also has issues with his temperament and, as shown in several episodes, it has gotten him in trouble on occasion. When it comes to solving crimes, Booth has a very different approach from his wife Dr. Brennan, and her team, preferring a more human, interpersonal, and intuitive set of methods.

Brennan and her team uncover valuable evidence, he often finds their means overly convoluted and restrictive and adds his intuition and knowledge of people on top of it — something that clashes with Dr. Brennan's hard, objective and analytical approach which is mindful of its own limits. Booth is a patriot and has a strong sense of duty to his country and job.

In "Soldier on the Grave", Angela described him as "someone who wants to keep honor and responsibility alive". For much of Season 1, this often led to friction between him and Jack Hodgins, who held anti-government views. According to Cam, Booth relies on his faith in the government to keep his sanity intact having killed nearly fifty people on government orders as an Army sniper.

He takes his oath and position as a federal agent seriously and holds himself to an equally high standard; he is especially disgusted whenever a corrupt law enforcement officer is involved and refuses to participate in cover-ups.

Booth is also fiercely loyal and protective towards his friends and family to the point where he will not hesitate to physically threaten and intimidate anyone who attempts to harm them. Sweets theorized that his protective instincts — which he labeled "white knight syndrome" — stems from his abusive childhood and his having to frequently protect his younger brother Jared from their alcoholic father.

His former boss Sam Cullen called him a "paladin" — "Defender of the faith, protector". Booth is characterized as a doting father to his three children, Parker, Christine, and Hank Jr. He is a religious man by nature and a practicing Roman Catholic, seeking to atone for the lives he took as a sniper through his time in Army. Due in part to his Catholic upbringing, Booth sees the world and morality in black and white, which contrasts Bones' objective view of such abstract concepts.

This conflicting view is often a source of friction and, later, the banter between them. Booth draws the line between the "good guys" and "bad guys" and stated that "life is about taking sides" when asked about how he is able to reconcile his past as a sniper while hunting down his former mentor-turned-vigilante Jacob Broadsky.

Booth once told Sweets that while he has killed because he was following orders , he has never been murdered. It is stated that Booth will not pull the trigger unless he is absolutely certain of the identity and guilt of the "target" he is about to kill and that it is sanctioned by a higher authority and not of his own volition. Booth views the law in a similarly subjective way and believes that committing a crime is never justifiable regardless of the circumstances.

This, coupled with his "by the book" approach, is apparent when he arrests Bones' father Max, for killing the Deputy Director of the FBI who was revealed to be part of a cover-up , in her own office without hesitation in the Season 2 finale " The Stargazer in a Puddle ", although he does apologize to Bones before leading Max out in handcuffs. Booth has been shown to be somewhat arrogant, for example when someone he suspected said he was not ready to be a parent, Booth told him it was not his decision, even though it clearly was his choice.

One of Booth's noted characteristics is his respect for life. Despite spending most of his working life around firearms, it is a known fact that he dislikes having to kill another human being and it remains a sensitive topic for him. His past as a sniper still haunts him emotionally and Bones surmised that his choice to become an FBI agent and his dedication for seeking justice for victims was his way of paying penance.

In the pilot, he tells Bones that he hopes to catch as many criminals as people he has killed. In the episode "The Man in the S. When he shot a mechanical clown on an ice cream truck for seemingly no reason, he was ordered to see Dr. Gordon Wyatt for counseling in order to get his badge and gun back. In subsequent episodes, Dr. Wyatt uncovers the guilt and anger Booth has been harboring for so long.

Lance Sweets noted that the reason why Booth was able to live through the guilt was his ability to channel it into his career in the FBI and responsibility to his son and those he cared about. On the job, Booth is characterized as a "man of action" and once claimed that he would "rot behind a desk". Early in season 8, he was given an opportunity to earn a promotion to an administrative position but passed up the chance in order to help Sweets and rookie agent Olivia Sparling with an emergency situation involving an assassin armed with an explosive.

Bones herself commented that Booth being assigned to a desk job was akin to "caging an animal" and that he was "meant to run free". Booth tends to shy away from the limelight when it comes to taking credit for solving a case. He tends to be a kinesthetic person who favors the physical aspects of his job, such as chasing down suspects or leading a SWAT team, and would throw around a ball or putt a golf ball into a cup in his office while thinking through his cases.

Booth tends to keep his personal and professional life as separate as possible and is quite territorial, especially in regards to his personal life and what he considers his personal space. This is exhibited by the fact that he displays his military medals and memorabilia in his office rather than in his home. He is also extremely guarded and taciturn about most aspects of his personal life, namely his abusive father, troubled childhood, "love life" and traumatic experiences in the military.

For example, in the episode "A Night at the Bones Museum", he becomes offended when Bones talks about him while on a date with his "boss's boss" Andrew Hacker, and curtly tells her that "what goes on between us is ours". When asked more personal questions, such as about his emotional problems, especially by Sweets or Bones, his first reaction is to change the subject, deflect them with jokes or become defensive. Even when confronted privately "out of office", he usually refuses to talk outright, choosing instead to downplay his emotions and brood over a drink at the bar.

In later seasons, he has begun to open up to and confide in Bones. The "squints" soon began their habit of interfering or be simply being very interested, in his personal life. Angela asked personal questions about and directly to Tessa, and even advised them on island trips. When he was dating Camille, Angela and Hodgins soon found out from what they had seen in the lab. But what really interests them is his relationship with Brennan; They all hint at it, and Angela always asks them questions.

Camille herself becomes interested, asking questions as well, such as an instance when she was undercover, she asked if there was only one bed where they were seeing them so close Booth sat on Brennan's clothes.

He became Hodgins' adviser when proposing to Angela. Booth shows a preference for the old school. He despises new-age innovations, feeling that technology dehumanizes everything. He hates cappuccinos, referring to it as "foamy crap" and not actual coffee, only drinking his coffee black. He hates tea as well: when working on a case in England, he remarks that his drink is "the weakest coffee I've ever had". When Brennan informs him that it isn't coffee, but actually tea, Booth immediately discards it by throwing it in the river.

He also dislikes reading news on a tablet, preferring to hold the newspaper in his hands, and had a vintage fridge in his kitchen at his old apartment. Bones told Hannah that Booth has always wanted an old-fashioned rotary telephone, as he believes that it is what a phone should be: sturdy and heavy enough to knock someone out.

He also believes that the mechanics of it make it human. Booth is a fan of classic rock and arena rock music. He also likes the band Poco. In the Season 4 episode "Mayhem on the Cross" he mentions that his father thought that Black Flag and the Dead Kennedys sounded the same.

Given the relatively underground nature of the California hardcore punk scene, of which Social Distortion, Black Flag, and the Dead Kennedys were all seminal members, it is most likely that Booth's father would have heard these bands only if Booth himself had played their records. He is also familiar with country music as his grandfather "raised [him] on Grand Ole Opry". He is a fan of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team; pictures of the team hang on the back wall of his office, as well as he has been seen wearing a Flyers T-shirt in several episodes he also proceeded to watch a Flyers game at a funeral.

During many episodes he is seen drinking from a Pittsburgh Steelers coffee mug, suggesting he is also a fan of that football team. In his apartment, Booth has a Pittsburgh Penguins hockey jersey of Mario Lemieux, which implies he is a fan of the Penguins.

He is implied to be a Philadelphia Phillies supporter as well; in season 8, his mother brings his childhood toy — a miniature Phillie Phanatic stuffed toy — to give to Christine and in "The Blackout in the Blizzard" he acquires a row of seats from the former Veterans Stadium and recounts for Dr.

Brennan how he attended game 6 of the World Series with his father, describing it as the "best day of [his] life". A deeply religious man, he was raised and still is a practicing Catholic, having served as an altar boy during his youth; throughout the series, he is often seen wearing a St. Christopher medal, which was given to him by his grandfather before being deployed to Somalia, around his neck. His home and office walls are adorned with various sports memorabilia including a signed picture of Bruins player Bobby Orr and the jerseys of NHL legends Mario Lemieux and Bobby Clarke.

A signed picture of Bruins player Cam Neely can be seen in the background behind his desk. Temperance Brennan is Seeley's professional partner and later, his wife.

She is also one of his closest friends. What began as a consultation with Brennan, a forensic anthropologist with the Jeffersonian Institute , turned into a meaningful partnership and later on marriage and family.

While Booth and Bones maintained a professional relationship and friendship for nearly six years, there was obviously a level of deep emotional attachment evident on both their parts, as well as a hint of romantic and sexual tension within their relationship. This romantic tension between them was crucial to the plot of the series, with fleeting minor characters constantly mistaking Booth and Brennan for a romantic couple, which they consistently and vehemently denied.

Booth's grandfather Hank and Bones' father Max expressed approval of their relationship early on, even before Booth and Bones openly admitted that they were more than just professional partners, and Hank and Max incredulously asked Booth if he was gay when he denied that he was romantically involved with Bones.

Max, in particular, strongly believed that Booth was the right man for his daughter despite the fact that Booth has had to arrest him a number of times for trying to take the law into his hands to protect Bones. He has shown a tendency throughout the television series of intimidating, confronting, or competing with anyone he believes to have a sexual interest in Brennan, including his own brother, Jared. He is also extremely protective of her in general and is often defensive of her to the point of physically assaulting those who pose a threat to her safety.

He has saved Temperance's life in several episodes, digging her out by hand when she is buried alive, jumping in front of a gun pointed at her, violently threatening a gang member into calling off a hit put out on her, shooting a crazed and corrupt doctor who had just stabbed her, and shooting a crooked FBI agent-turned-hit man just as he is about to bash in the back of her skull with a gun.

In other instances where he believes Brennan's life to be endangered, Booth often to Brennan's annoyance refuses to leave her side, once offering to sleep on the couch at her apartment and flying immediately from Washington D. Throughout the show, Booth and Brennan's differences in worldviews are regularly addressed by various characters and were the source of friction early on in their partnership.

She was dismissive of his religious beliefs and organized religion in general and would take the opportunity to downplay them.

Booth also has several heated arguments over various issues, especially religion. She gradually comes to respect and admire his faith when she realizes that it was his way of coping with the trauma and violence he witnesses on a regular basis at work. In numerous episodes, she is shown trying to be supportive of Booth in spite of her social awkwardness, which Booth admits he finds endearing.

When Sweets was observing them and writing a book on their relationship, Dr. Gordon Wyatt noted that Booth and Brennan are actually more similar despite appearing to be polar opposites — both experienced traumatic childhoods, are highly competent in their respective fields, and extremely guarded about their personal lives.

In " The Santa in the Slush " Brennan's father wants to spend Christmas with their family, so Brennan asks prosecution attorney Caroline Julian to "pull some strings", though Seeley cautions Temperance that Caroline will want something in return.

Caroline jokingly blackmails Brennan; amused by Booth and Brennan's longstanding insistence they do not view each other in a sexual light, she demands Brennan kiss Seeley on the lips for 5 "steamboats" seconds , using mistletoe as an excuse.

He became freaked out hearing about the deal and wanted to know why, but Caroline was only feeling "Puckish". The two kiss, and to the shock of Caroline and themselves the kiss lasts for 12 in the extended scene on the DVD, 16 , not 5, "steamboats", during which Brennan's chewing gum ends up in Booth's mouth for a humorous effect. Brennan's favorite things very well, naming her favorite flowers and planet and effectively guessing her choices for computer passwords.

In several episodes, he presents her with small, quirky personal gifts and favors, including a toy pig named Jasper, a 'Brainy Smurf' action figure, and a Christmas tree for her family. He often comforts and hugs Brennan after severe emotional distress associated with her personal life and their jobs. Throughout the series, despite their bickering and teasing, Booth has made it clear to Brennan as a person.

The emotionally unstable woman is suspected of murder because she had previously stalked the victim. She subsequently begins stalking Booth, stating she feels a special connection with him, inspired by his reassuring touch as she grieved over the victim's death.

At the end of the episode, Pam tries to shoot Brennan out of jealousy of her close relationship with Booth and sensing his attraction to Brennan.

Seeley, however, steps in front of Brennan as she pulls the trigger and takes the bullet. Brennan then picks up Seeley's gun and shoots Pam in the throat without hesitation. In the next episode, it is revealed he survived but Brennan was unaware of his survival, so the two had an argument about the trust factor in their relationship.

Otherwise, Booth can be seen throughout the series talking with Brennan about his top-secret missions some even in which she shouldn't even know about. In season 4, he accompanied her on her trip to England for a conference. He hated the country and shouted it out loud while trying to navigate London's streets behind the wheel " Yanks in the U. He also came with her on her trip to China " The Passenger in the Oven ". He was also there to comfort her when she reveals her abuse as a child from her foster parents and is willing to share some of his past in order to help her.

They also bond with Sweets on this occasion, forming, in the words of doctor Gordon Wyatt Stephen Fry , something of a family. In the season four episode " The Critic in the Cabernet ", Brennan asks Seeley to become the father of her child, to which he responds with great stress. Over the course of the episode, he begins to hallucinate Stewie Griffin to a point where he converses with the character in front of Brennan and a suspect they were questioning.

If it were not for Brennan's insistence to go to a doctor, the benign tumor causing the hallucinations might not have been found or possibly found too late to save Booth. Before going into surgery, Booth donates his semen to Brennan so she can have a child. He found out earlier in the episode his count was After the surgery is successful and Seeley awakes from a four-day coma, he began murmuring about how the dream was so real.

Brennan does not understand what he is mumbling and becomes scared and upset when he asks her, 'Who are you? In an interview with Hart Hanson, he states that Booth remembers Brennan but he is not sure if she is the Brennan from the alternate reality episode " The End in the Beginning " or if she is his partner 'Bones'. In Season five, Booth realizes his love for Brennan as he recovers from his tumor. However, he is cautioned by both Cam and Sweets to be sure of his feelings before confessing his love to Brennan.

Afraid that his feelings for her are related solely to his tumor and coma, Booth is conflicted about whether or not to tell Brennan. After this case, Booth broke up with Cam when he asserted workplace relationships put everyone in danger when high-pressure situations arise. Booth decides that he wants to propose to Hannah and he and Sweets go ring shopping.

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Sign Up Log In. Character Analysis Avoiding Spoilers Living Recommendations Fans of him also like:. That, of course, means it's impossible for Agent Seeley Booth to be a direct descendant of the infamous John Wilkes Booth. This was likely an oversight on the part of the Bones writers, rather than a co-signing of one of the "John Wilkes Booth lived" theories.

On the other hand, they were also not entirely wrong in stating that Booth could be a relative of the murderous actor. John Wilkes Booth doesn't have any confirmed direct descendants, but he does still have some living relatives. John Wilkes Booth was not the only actor in the family. His brother, Edwin Booth, was famous for his interpretations of Shakespeare, and for not murdering any US government officials.

The older Booth brother lived to be 59 years old and had one daughter, Edwina Booth, to whom many modern ancestors of the Booth family trace their lineage.

According to The Columbus Dispatch , ancestors of Edwin Booth even attempted to have his body exhumed so that DNA tests could be done to try and officially determine whether or not his brother, John, actually escaped justice and lived a longer life than stated by the accepted historic record.