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Seeley Booth
Seeley Booth | |
Bones character | |
First appearance | "Pilot" |
Created by | Hart Hanson |
Portrayed by | David Boreanaz |
Information | |
Full name | Seeley Joseph Booth |
Nickname(s) | Booth Shrimp (by Pops) G-Man |
Aliases | Buck Moosejaw Tony Boris Bobby Kent |
Gender | Male |
Occupation | FBI Special Agent (FBI Liaison to the Jeffersonian Institute) Previous: Sergeant Major, US Army |
Family |
Brother: Jared Booth |
Spouse(s) | Temperance Brennan (Wife, 1 child) |
Children | Parker Matthew Booth (son, with Rebecca Stinson) Christine Angela Booth[1] (daughter, with Temperance Brennan) |
Religion | Roman Catholicism[2] |
Seeley Joseph Booth[3] is a fictional character in the US television series Bones (2005–present), portrayed by David Boreanaz. Agent Booth is a co-protagonist of the series with his wife Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel), whom he affectionately refers to as "Bones".
Character background and history[edit]
Booth is from Philadelphia[4] but was raised in Pittsburgh.[5] He is a fan of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team; pictures of the team hang on the back wall of his office and he has been seen wearing a Flyers T-shirt in several episodes.[6][7] During many episodes he is seen drinking from a Pittsburgh Steelers coffee mug, suggesting he is also a fan of that football team. 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[8] and in season 6, episode 16 "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 1980 World Series with his father, describing it as the "best day of [his] life".[9] A deeply religious man, he was raised and still is a practicing Catholic,[2] having served as an altar boy during his youth;[10] 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,[11] around his neck.[12] Little is known about his schooling years, though it has been implied that he went through the public school system.[13] He did attend five different schools by the time he was nine.[14] It is not mentioned where or when he attended college but he has stated that he attended on an athletic scholarship before a shoulder injury ended any dreams of going professional[15] and taught dance to help pay for tuition.[16] He has been an avid athlete[6][17] and sports fan since his high school days. His home and office walls are adorned with various sports memorabilia including a signed picture of Bruins player Bobby Orr and the jersey of Pittsburgh Penguins player Mario Lemieux.
Booth's age is never specified. However in Season 3 it is stated that he is 35 years old[18] and that Brennan is five years younger than him[19] and in Season 4 the "squints" celebrate his 36th birthday,[20] also in the episode Women in Limbo of season 1, it is stated that Brennan is born in 1976, which should put Booth's birthday in 1971.
Booth is the older of two boys and has a younger brother Jared (Brendan Fehr). Their father "flew Thuds and Phantoms in Vietnam"[21] and moved to Philadelphia where he worked as a barber and eventually started a family.[22] After his death, Booth found a Purple Heart medal among his possessions, indicating he was likely shot down and injured at some point during the war.[23] Their mother Marianne (Joanna Cassidy) was a dancer[16] and composed jingles for television advertisements.[21] Booth is a (fictional) member of the Anglo-American Booth family, best known for producing generations of actors, as well as John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln; because of the latter, Booth does not like to talk about the fact.[7]
For the first three seasons, details on Booth's family background were generally sketchy as he rarely mentioned his family members. He is still uncomfortable discussing his childhood and becomes especially defensive when asked about it.[17][24] Prior to Jared's appearance in the episode "The Con Man in the Meth Lab", Booth's long-time friend Dr. Camille Saroyan was the only one who knew about his childhood; in the same episode, Sweets observed the brothers and independently came to the conclusion himself that they were products of a physically abusive household. However, it is not until Season 5 when Booth's grandfather Hank is introduced that his abusive background is fully revealed.
In Season 8 Booth bluntly tells Bones that he "grew up in a household of violence and hatred", one of the few times the character has ever openly spoken of his past.[8] When his younger brother Jared is first introduced, it becomes apparent that Booth was estranged from his family. Their father was an abusive alcoholic;[20][25] this was reinforced by the fact that Booth is able to almost instantly recognize suspects with a drinking problem even when they are sober.[26] Booth used to shield Jared from their father during a beating and was extremely protective of him. The extent of their father's abuse was never fully revealed but based on Booth's vague admissions throughout the show and Hank and Marianne's own statements, it was likely that he was also emotionally neglectful of his ex-wife and sons. One of Booth's deepest fears and insecurities is that he would become like his father, which continues to trouble him to this day.[17][27] It is implied that their mother was also subjected to abuse by their father as she once mentioned to Bones that she was thrown down a flight of stairs by her ex-husband.[8][28] Eventually she left the family out of desperation. In the Season 8 episode "The Party in the Pants", she contacts Booth for the first time in over two decades to invite him to her wedding. The boys were essentially singlehandedly raised by their paternal grandfather Hank (Ralph Waite), whom Booth affectionately calls "Pops".[6] Hank had stumbled upon his son abusing Seeley and drove him out of the house. He calls Booth "Shrimp" as Seeley was a young child then. From then on, he raised his two grandsons as his own. Booth has admitted that he might have killed himself as a kid had it not been for his grandfather.[24]
Military Service and FBI[edit]
It is not stated when Booth enlisted in the United States Army. He is at least a third-generation military man; his grandfather Hank was in the military police and served in the Korean War[6] and his father was a Vietnam War veteran. It is mentioned that, prior to Jared's court-martial and dishonorable discharge in Season 4 for stealing evidence to save Booth, "no Booth has ever gotten a dishonorable discharge".[11] Based on facts subsequently revealed throughout the show, he would have served during the 1990s, prior to joining the FBI. He was a sniper[29] in the 101st Airborne Division, Special Forces[30] and 75th Ranger Regiment[31] and served in the Gulf War,[29] Somalia,[11] Guatemala[32] and Kosovo[33] and various places. He also stated that he has trained with Delta Force operatives and it has been indicated that he has experience in clandestine work.[34] For a time, he held the record for the longest shot ("over a kilometer") made in combat.[35] In the Season 5 finale, he is also shown wearing a 101st combat patch, Special Forces[36] and Ranger qualification tabs, and Combat Infantry, HALO, Air Assault and Parachutist badges.[37] Booth also has in his shadow box in his office is a set of pathfinder wings. While in the military he earned a Bronze Star, Purple Heart and the Army Good Conduct Medal.[38] His achievement and service medals can be seen in the shadow boxes mounted on the wall behind his desk in his office.[39] He left the Army with the rank of master sergeant.
In the episode "The Beginning in the End", Booth is approached by a Colonel Pelant and handed a letter from the Secretary of Defense requesting him to return to active duty to train Afghan soldiers in "tracking and apprehending insurgents". He is offered a promotion to sergeant major and a position as an adviser to the Afghan National Army. Although initially reluctant, Booth accepts and is deployed to Afghanistan during the time frame between Season 5 and 6 when he, Bones, Angela and Hodgins leave Washington for a year-long sabbatical.
Despite his distinguished service record, Booth is generally reticent about his military service and rarely speaks about it openly, even with Bones[40] Part of the reason is the classified nature of some his work history.[34] Bones subsequently discovers that he has been tortured while held as a POW in the Middle East, which Booth never elaborated on and has not been addressed since, after looking at his x-rays.[29] In Season 2 he was kidnapped and tortured with a heated screwdriver by a mobster for refusing to give information and later told Bones that he has been "tortured worse".[41] In Season 9, Bones mentions that he does not throw his socks into the hamper after coming home from work so that his feet stay warm, suggesting that he still suffers from the physical ramifications of the torture he endured.[42] He is still haunted by memories from his time in the Army, having lost friends in combat and watched his own buddy bleed to death in his arms;[43] he is noticeably affected when investigating cases involving veterans.[30][33][38][44] It is apparent that he suffers from survivor guilt, although the term is never used in the show, and his "kill count" is a major sore point and an extremely sensitive issue for him. Former priest and Army chaplain Aldo Clemens, whom Booth regularly confessed to while he was in the service, told Bones that Booth was the reason why he left the priesthood and decided that God was his "worst enemy" and a "bastard".[45] In the episode "Hero in the Hold" it is revealed that he has blamed himself for the death of his spotter Corporal Edward "Teddy" Parker, whom Booth named his son Parker after, on a sniper mission even though Teddy had unintentionally disobeyed orders to keep his head down and was fatally shot as a result. He sought out Sweets for counseling in Season 6 after he was confronted by his former mentor and ex-military sniper-turned-vigilante Jacob Broadsky.[46] Towards the end of Season 1 he confessed to Bones for the first time about the buried guilt, after much persuasion from a fellow veteran, telling her "It's never just the one person who dies, Bones. [...] With each shot we all die a little bit."[33] In Season 9, when Bones receives a $75,000 advanced check from her book sales and asks Booth what he wants to do with it, he opts to donate it to the Wounded Warrior Project, a charity for injured veterans.[47]
Booth had a gambling problem which developed as a coping mechanism[48] after leaving the military.[27][33][49] According to flashbacks in "The Parts in the Sum of the Whole", he only started to the kick the habit after meeting (and subsequently asking out) Bones for the first time while working a case together. As of the series pilot he has been clean after attending GA meetings[33] and has been able to resist the urge on several occasions when a case required him to be at a casino or a similar environment. In several episodes he can be seen twirling a poker chip[48] or playing with dice.
In Season 4, it is stated that Booth has been in the FBI for twelve years, which implies that he would have joined the Bureau around 1996.[4] However, this contradicts his statements in Season 6 about going AWOL to be present at the birth of his son Parker[50] (Parker was four when the show premiered in 2005) and in season 10 when he recounts to Wendell Bray of watching his men getting shot and killed by the Taliban during a mission in Ghazni, Afghanistan (American troops did not enter Afghanistan until after 9/11).[51] A possible realistic explanation would be that Booth remained in the Army as a reservist.
Awards and decorations[edit]
The following are the medals and service awards fictionally worn by Sergeant Major Booth.
John Kubicke of BuddyTV described Booth as "charming, funny, a tad brutish but ultimately warm and caring".[52] He is worldly wise, socially at ease with people, very athletic, and apparently sexually confident with women. He often refers to himself as a jock,[15] having played football and several other sports in high school and college.[53] Other characters have described him as an "alpha male"[20] and "a complex man".[54]
Booth is portrayed as a patriot and has a strong sense of duty to his country and job.[33][38] 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.[7] He takes his oath and position as a federal agent seriously[55] and holds himself to an equally high standard; he is especially disgusted whenever a corrupt law enforcement officer is involved[56][57] and refuses to participate in cover-ups.[20][34] Booth is also loyal to his colleagues and protective of his family to the point where he will not hesitate to physically threaten and intimidate anyone who attempts to harm them.
Booth is occasionally over-protective, often to Bones' annoyance, of his family and people he cares about. 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.[58] His former boss Sam Cullen called him a "paladin" – "Defender of the faith, protector".[31]
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, 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.[46] Booth once told Sweets that while he has killed (because he was following orders), he has never murdered.[17] 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 on his own volition.[46][59] Booth views justice in a similarly subjective way and believes that committing a crime is never justifiable regardless of the circumstances. This, coupled by his "follow 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 "Stargazer in a Puddle", although he does apologize to Bones before leading Max out in handcuffs.
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 remains is a sensitive topic for him.[2][44] 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.[44] 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.U.V.", after shooting and killing a terrorist about to detonate a bomb at a crowded convention center, he refused to accept credit and explains to Bones that he finds "no pleasure in taking someone's life".[59] 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.[60] In subsequent episodes Dr. Wyatt uncovers the guilt and anger Booth has been harboring for so long. In Season 6 Booth's FBI colleague Dr. 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.[46]
Despite his warm personality, Booth tends to shy away from the limelight when it comes to taking credit for solving a case. He often plays down his own intelligence to let Bones take the credit to make her feel good, although most of the team eventually saw through his ruse.[61]
When investigating a crime, Booth leans toward intuition and his ability to connect and read people, a quantity unknown to an empiricist like Bones. His interpersonal approach is especially effective in the interrogation room – "[his] domain".[62] Despite lacking the professional training of Bones and Sweets, he is able to read and detect behavioral cues[1][63] and accurately establish motive.[26][64] Initially Bones rebuffs Booth's intuition as she (at first) rejects anything that cannot be measured with numbers, research and scientific evidence but he soon earns hers and the team's respect for his ability to interpret evidence.[36] In Season 4 she tries to interrogate a suspect for the first time and concedes that the interpersonal aspects of the job and interrogations are still exclusively Booth's area of expertise.[61] In Season 9, while he and Bones were observing Sweets interrogating a highly intelligent suspect, he explains to her Sweets' techniques and the suspect's behavioral responses.[1] Angela observed that his ability to "[pretend] to be stupider than he actually is most of the time" to lure the suspect into a false sense of security was what made him such a skilled interrogator, as opposed to Bones, whose bluntness often gives a poor first impression and puts people off.[61] Booth is often frustrated by the scientific jargon Bones and the other scientists, and sometimes Sweets, tend to use, as shown when he abruptly cuts Bones and Hodgins off in the middle of a sentence and tells them to "translate" into layman's terms. Although lacking the squints' "book smarts", he compensates with his instincts honed from his experience in the FBI,[1] as shown by the fact that he is able to accurately guess Bones' top three password choices.[65]
Booth tends to keep his personal and professional life as separate as possible and is 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.[59][66] In later seasons, he has begun to open up to and confide in Bones.
Booth has temperament issues and, as shown in several episodes, it has gotten him in trouble on occasion. He shoots the clown head on an ice cream truck in season 2 episode "The Girl in the Gator" due to coulrophobia. As a result his service pistol is confiscated and he is ordered to see Dr Gordon Wyatt (Stephen Fry) for counseling sessions to be cleared for duty. In Season 4 he shoots a black metal band's guitar amplifier after the guitarist spits on his badge and was promptly reprimanded by Dr Wyatt.[24] There is a running gag in the show where Booth often sarcastically threatens to shoot a squint (especially Hodgins or a "squintern") in exasperation when they start "rambling" or occasionally an uncooperative suspect in the interrogation room. Despite his ability to emotionally detach himself from a case and compartmentalize, there were instances where he has "snapped", especially when a case touches a sensitive such as when he physically hit a suspect after the latter hit his wife while both were being questioned.[67] Having grown up in an abusive home, he has admitted to Sweets and Bones of his fears that he would become like his father.[8]
On the job, Booth is characterized as a "man of action"[36] and once claimed that he would "rot behind a desk".[68] 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".[68] He does not hesitate to get physical when a situation requires it, such as chasing down a suspect through a crowd on foot or leading a SWAT team himself during a hostage rescue or raid.
Booth is a fan of classic rock and arena rock music. He has expressed great affection for the group Foreigner (in fact, Foreigner's Hot Blooded is Booth's & Bones' song), and poked fun at Bones for her interest in world, rap, and hip hop music. He also likes the band Poco. In the season three finale, he listens to the hardcore punk/punkabilly band Social Distortion. 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".[69]
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"[70] and not actual coffee, only drinking his coffee black. He also dislikes reading news on a tablet, preferring to hold the newspaper in his hand,[71] and had a vintage fridge in his kitchen at his old apartment.[23] 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.
It is revealed in the season three episode "The Mummy in The Maze" that Booth suffers from coulrophobia. When traveling through a haunted house, Booth is frightened of an evil clown mannequin; Brennan is bewildered by his behavior and Booth feels ashamed when he purposely avoids walking by the mannequin. In season two when he shot a large plastic clown head on an ice cream truck, annoyed with the music.[60] Booth wears a "Cocky" belt buckle in episodes following "The Boneless Bride in the River", which is absent in the first episode of season five after recovery from surgery. However in the first two seasons he wears a stylized eagle buckle and for most of Season 9 he is seen wearing a heavy buckle with crossed muskets, the insignia of the US Army Infantry Branch. He also likes to wear colorful socks. In the episode "The Wannabe in the Weeds", it is revealed that he is allergic to grass.
Toward the end of season 4, Booth suffers from a brain tumor that leads him to hallucinate conversations with Stewie Griffin. The tumor is successfully removed, but it leaves him with residual memory loss and a lack of confidence in the field.
In the series pilot, Booth was introduced as an FBI special agent in the homicide department who seeks the professional opinion of Dr. Temperance Brennan at the (fictional) renowned Jeffersonian Institute. He was eventually made the liaison between the Jeffersonian and the FBI, much to his chagrin, but he soon develops a close working relationship with the Jeffersonian team of scientists, whom Booth and his fellow FBI agents call "squints", a nickname which has since become a term of endearment Bones and her team associate him with. Booth once referred to the Jeffersonian team of scientists, whom he affectionately calls the "squint squad", as "my people".[72] Caroline Julian, a federal prosecutor who frequently works with them, has commented that aside from him "there isn't a single normal law enforcement officer who could work with these people."[36] Bones herself often immediately objects when another agent (other than Booth) is assigned to work with her.[17] Although not as "book smart" as the other "squints", he is quick to link evidence with and often uses his "street smarts" and intuition to assist the case. He is characterized as a "hands on" agent and makes no secret of his distaste for paperwork and formal documentation.
Booth is based at the J. Edgar Hoover Building along with his colleague Dr. Lance Sweets but frequents the Jeffersonian, which he jokingly dubbed "Squint Central",[73] for updates on the evidence and has his own access card. The fact that he has his own office and is called "sir" by younger agents denotes some seniority or supervisory status. It has been implied through interactions with other characters that Booth is generally well regarded and respected within the Bureau for his skill,[7][55][74][75] even if his distaste for the politics that entails his job has put him at odds with his boss and other federal law enforcement agencies. Little is known about his work history in the FBI except for the fact that he spent a period of time in Japan as part of an exchange program with the Tokyo Police.[76] His call sign is 22705.
Because of his training as a FBI agent and military background, he adheres to protocol and the chain of command. As such, he often has to keep the "squints" in line when a case emotionally affects them so that they abide by the rules and not jeopardize the case.[5] However, he has no qualms about stretching the rules to its limit or using underhand tactics (without breaking protocol outright)[62] and will go through great lengths to obtain a confession, especially when the situation is urgent or desperate (e.g. a hostage situation).[46][61][64][77] His former military training and experience has proven useful to at times,[9] especially in cases involving firearms[35][78][79][80][81][82] or terrorists.[59][78] Other notable incidents include in Season 4 when he was kidnapped by "The Grave Digger" and had to find his way out of a decommissioned Navy ship rigged with explosives.;[43] in Season 6 when he was forced to pursue rogue vigilante sniper Jacob Broadsky through a container terminal without back-up; and in Season 9 when he tracks down tech-savvy serial killer Christopher Pelant undetected through an abandoned power plant alone and armed with only a knife, rifle and pistol.[54]
A skilled marksman,[55] Booth is well-known within the Bureau as a "legendary shot".[83] While in the Army he achieved the "Expert" Marksmanship Badge[38] and is still proficient with a sniper rifle.[7][46] It is indirectly stated in "Fire in the Ice" that he is equally capable of using his weapon with his "wrong hand" (his left hand). In the episode "Proof in the Pudding", he demonstrates the double tap technique with a replica World War II-era Carcano for one of Hodgins' experiments. He is also a skilled knife thrower[84] and is familiar with various types of explosives and weapons.[34]
Booth states in "The Girl in the Gator" that Howard Epps was his fiftieth kill. However, Booth is not technically responsible for Epps' death, so as of "The Man in the Cell" his official kill count is at 49. However, as of "The Mastodon in the Room", Booth's official kill count is at least 54, as he killed the serial killer dressed as a clown (50),[77] Gormogon[85] (51), a corrupt sheriff[20](52), a doctor[3] (53) and a terrorist[36] (54). He has also killed serial killer Christopher Pelant and two of the three Delta Force assassins sent to kill him in "The Recluse in the Recliner".
Booth generally tries to keep his personal and professional life separate. He dislikes bringing his work back home and tries to avoid discussing a case after hours. Despite this, there were several occasions where his past has caught up with him. During the sixth season, while dealing with his complicated relationship with Brennan and his new girlfriend Hannah Burley, Booth faces his former mentor Jacob Broadsky, a former Army sniper who has apparently gone rogue. Broadsky kills the Gravedigger,[35] a serial kidnapper and killer who threatened both Booth and Brennan, destroys identifying evidence, and escapes. Broadsky points out that Booth has no definite proof that would allow him to feel comfortable shooting his old teacher. Booth is comforted by the news that Brennan does not see him and Broadsky as identical and later successfully arrests him without having to kill him. At the end of Season 8 and the beginning of Season 9, serial killer and hacker Christopher Pelant murders several of Booth's fellow FBI agents and blackmails Booth into calling off his wedding to Bones. Booth later tracks down and kills Pelant with a single bullet to the head.
In the Season 9 episode "The Cold in the Case", the Deputy Director personally requests Booth to review other agents' case files and has Sweets analyze Booth's performance and military record. The FBI intends to open a field office in Germany, where the US has a major military command and, according to Booth, would be a prime location for counter-terrorism activities. Booth was being considered for a promotion to head the new field office on a 2-year assignment. After finding out that Sweets had been ordered to review his military record, Booth worried that the promotion was based on his military training as a sniper rather than his service record at the Bureau. Bones expressed her support even if meant having to uproot the family to a foreign country.[75] In the next episode, Booth reveals that the Deputy Director Victor Stark put in his recommendation and that he is to be confirmed by the congressional subcommittee before it is finalized. In the Season 9 finale, he was due to be confirmed by Congress as the new head of the Berlin office but his investigation into the Ghost Killer case and the murder of a conspiracy blogger harboring information of a mass blackmail involving cover-ups and corrupt government officials and businessmen led to him being targeted.[34] Booth presents a proposal entitled Hiding in sight: A blueprint for addressing potential terrorist activity at the hearing. However, he was placed on administrative leave when classified information from his service record is exposed by a congressman questioning him, sparking a media frenzy and leading Booth to speculate if he was intentionally nominated for the promotion to be made an example of. At the end of the episode, Booth was attacked by three Delta Force operatives sent to silence him in his and Bones' house and was seriously injured in the subsequent gunfight. Bones calls an ambulance in time but Booth is charged with killing three FBI agents supposedly sent to serve an arrest warrant and is handcuffed to his hospital bed. She is taken into custody for questioning on the orders of Deputy Director Stark after vehemently protesting that the "FBI agents" were in fact Delta Force assassins and that Booth was "defending himself". He was released from prison in the Season 10 premiere and reinstated despite concerns from Brennan and Sweets that he was coming back to work too soon.
Family members[edit]
Abused by his father and abandoned by his mother, Booth has a difficult and troubled relationship with most of his immediate family members. He and his brother Jared had a strained relationship, especially after Jared, a Navy lieutenant commander and intelligence officer based at the Pentagon, asked Bones out on a date while visiting the Jeffersonian with Seeley. Jared Booth is a recurring character in the series, and his arrivals are often met with tension by Booth.[20] Bones has commented that the two brothers "can barely be in a room together".[39] Booth tended to be "over-protective" of Jared, which the latter resented, when they were growing up and it added to the animosity. Jared once told Sweets that "having a big brother is like having an extra dad, only a dad who protects you from your real dad."[20] When they were young, Booth would protect Jared from their father by shielding him during a beating. In Season 4, Booth sacrificed credit for a major crime bust and potential promotion to keep Jared from getting arrested after he was caught drunk-driving as another DUI would cost him his Navy career.[20] Cam has said that Jared had a history of getting into trouble and Booth having to constantly bail him out. Their relationship improved dramatically after Jared steals critical evidence under pretex of a classified military intelligence operation to assist the Jeffersonian team to rescue Booth from "The Grave Digger", sacrificing his Navy career as a result.[43] In "The Dentist in the Ditch", he introduces his fiancée Padme to Seeley and asks him to be his best man at their wedding.
Booth is close to his grandfather Hank, whom is affectionately calls "Pops". Prior to the character's introduction, Hank was rarely mentioned, at least by name, but it is apparent that he is fond of Booth and Booth cares deeply for him. Hank once told Bones during a visit that he was "more proud of [Booth] than anybody in the world".[6]
For many years, Booth resented his parents and the mere mention of them, particularly his father, would elicit a hostile response from him.[17][23] He detested his father for physically abusing him and Jared when they were young and, by his own statements, had not seen him for twenty years.[23] In Season 7, when Booth learns of his father's death from Hank, he showed little emotion and repeatedly dismissed his colleagues' and the Jeffersonian team's concern throughout the day. After much persuasion from Bones, Booth reluctantly opens the box his father had left to him and sifts through the contents, which included a Purple Heart medal, the 1980 World Series tickets and old photos of father and son. It was one of the rare moments when Booth shed tears.[23]
In Season 8, when his mother Marianne reappears after 24 years to ask Booth to give her away at her wedding to her fiancee, he was reluctant to do so as he was still angry with her for abandoning the family.[8][28] After realizing that Marianne was genuinely trying to repair their relationship and seeing how well she got along with Bones and their daughter Christine, Booth decides to go to his mother's wedding. She, along with Hank and Parker, were present at Booth and Bones' wedding in Season 9.
Booth is characterized as a doting father to his two children, Parker and Christine. He has a son named Parker (Ty Panitz) with his ex-girlfriend, Rebecca, who refused to marry him. Rebecca is at first hostile, and denied him visitation out of spite, but relations between them later dramatically improve. Initially Booth had mistakenly thought that she turned him down because the precarious nature of his job and irregular work hours would prevent him from being a good father but she later confronts him and assures him that he was a "wonderful father" and that Parker was a "lucky kid".[81] Parker is named after a friend of Booth's from the Army Rangers, Corporal Edward "Teddy" Parker, who was fatally shot while spotting for Booth on a sniper mission. In the Season 1 episode "The Man in the Fallout Shelter", Parker is first introduced to show and it is revealed that prior to this, none of the "squints", including Bones, knew that Booth had a son. Booth is characterized as a doting and occasionally over-protective father.[86] He coached Parker's tee ball team.[81] When he and Bones move into their new house, Parker is given his own room. In Season 7 it is revealed that Parker is living in England with his mother but visits Booth during the holidays.
He and Brennan have their daughter Christine Angela in Season 7. She was named after Brennan's mother Christine Brennan and their co-worker and friend Angela Montenegro. When Parker returns for vacation and sees her for the first time, Booth worries about sibling jealousy but is relieved when Parker hand-makes a mobile for Christine and accepts her into the family. In many episodes, Booth is seen playing with Christine.[25][87] Of the other characters, Christine is particularly close to Sweets, whom she calls "Uncle Sweets", as he had babysat her since she was an infant.[88]
In "The Twisted Bones in the Melted Truck", Booth mentions an eccentric aunt of his, who "spent every last dime on old-fashioned cookie jars".
On multiple occasions in the series, characters have stated that Booth is a direct descendant of infamous assassin John Wilkes Booth. However, this is historically inaccurate, as the assassin died childless at the age of 26 just days after killing Abraham Lincoln.[89] More feasible is that he is in fact a descendant of the same family but not John Wilkes himself. In either case, this relation is a particular sore-spot for Booth who does not like having it brought up.[7]
Rebecca Stinson[edit]
Rebecca Stinson, portrayed by Jessica Capshaw, is Booth's ex-girlfriend. When she became pregnant, Booth proposed but Stinson did not accept. They named their son Parker Matthew Booth, the first name "Parker" after Booth's friend who died in the army. They occasionally engage in a liaison, but are mostly just friends. Booth resolves to end their liaisons after Rebecca assuages his doubts that he was a good father to Parker.
Hannah Burley[edit]
Hannah Burley, portrayed by Katheryn Winnick, is Booth's ex-girlfriend whom he met while training soldiers in Afghanistan. She was originally in Afghanistan as a journalist. She moved to Washington D.C. to be with Booth and they eventually moved in together in Booth's apartment. However, they soon break up when Hannah rejects Booth's half-heart proposal and she moves out of his apartment.[66]
With colleagues and the Jeffersonian team[edit]
Booth's appointment to the Jeffersonian was met with mixed reaction from Bones' team members. In the first few episodes, it was apparent that Booth did not fit in with the "squints" and was immediately put-off by the scientific jargon they use when discussing a case. He gradually develops a close working relationship and becomes friends with them outside of work. This was evidenced in the Season 2 episode "Judas on a Pole", when Booth was "suspended without pay" by the Deputy Director for pursuing a thirty-year-old cover-up in order to solve the more recent murder of a fellow FBI agent, Bones and the rest of the team, realizing that it meant that Booth can no longer work with them, all volunteer to continue the investigation so that Booth will be reinstated. At the end of the episode Booth was reinstated and Bones invites him to join the rest of the team in celebrating Zack Addy's appointment at the Jeffersonian, telling him that "we are, all of us, your squints". The rest of the team have since accepted Booth, as shown in several episodes where Booth's life was threatened and the "squints" all go the extra mile to ensure his safety.[41][43] Likewise he vows to protect them at all costs when they were threatened by rogue sniper Jacob Broadsky in Season 6 and serial killer Christopher Pelant in Season 8. Whenever one of them encounters a traumatic event (e.g. watching someone die) he shows concern and tries to help them deal with the trauma, such as when co-worker and intern Vincent Nigel-Murray was killed in their own lab.[82][90]
Early in Season 1 Jack Hodgins was particularly hostile to him due to his disdain for the government and bureaucracy in general. Booth's patriotism, position as a federal agent and military background and Hodgins' argumentative nature further added to the friction.[33] Booth soon earns his respect when he lets Hodgins accompany him to rescue Bones, who was being held captive by a rogue FBI agent, and Hodgins witnesses Booth shooting the perpetrator as the latter was about to kill Bones.[29] While they still maintain their respective opposing views, they are on friendly terms[65] and Booth often calls him "bug boy". At the end of the second season, he agrees to be Hodgin's best man in his wedding to Angela Montenegro (albeit as the second choice after Zack Addy turned the position down). Hodgins also asks for Booth's advice about proposing to Angela,[91] and later asks Booth to be his best man. Booth has the tendency to cut Hodgins off in the middle of a conversation whenever the latter starts using scientific jargon, although Hodgins generally tolerates it. In season 4, when Booth's FBI colleague Special Agent Perotta takes over an investigation in which Booth is a suspect, Hodgins and intern Wendell Bray immediately declare to Agent Perotta that they are "Booth's people" rather than Perotta's.[17] Booth also intentionally ignores Hodgins' "insane conspiracist ravings" and uses Hodgins' knowledge to his advantage, especially while investigating the Gormogon murders.
Of the "squints", Booth gets along best with Angela Montenegro due to her ability to relate to him in layman's terms and knowledge of pop culture. Angela was initially attracted to Booth. When she realizes that Booth and Bones were "meant for each other", she repeatedly attempts to match-make them. She often gave both of them tips on how to get along with and appease the other.
Booth had a difficult relationship with Brennan's assistant Zack Addy, as he finds Zack Addy's cold naïveté and social awkwardness disconcerting and, later, irritating. After failing to woo a colleague, "Naomi from paleontology", whom he was attracted to, Addy approached Booth for "advice" in the episode "A Boy in a Tree", much to Booth's annoyance and did so ever since. Booth has threatened to shoot Addy on several occasions out of exasperation.[13] Addy admires Booth as a man of experience, and repeatedly asks him for advice on various issues, including sexual relationships. Booth convinces Addy that ignoring one another is a form of male bonding in order to deter Addy from continuously asking him anymore awkward questions and so that he could avoid hurting Addy's feelings. In Season 2 Addy receives a letter from the White House requesting his services in Iraq and Addy asks Booth if "it hurt to get shot", as Booth was the only one of the group who had any first-hand combat experience in a war zone. When Booth asks him why, he shows Booth the letter, explaining that he chose to ask Booth as the latter "[knows] more about duty and honor than anyone else I know".[92] Before Addy goes to Iraq, Booth gives him a harmonica as a parting gift. Following the climax of the events at the end of season 3, Booth regrets that he had never talked much to Zack, feeling that if he had he would have caught onto Zack's affiliation with Gormogon sooner and could, perhaps, have done something about it.
When fellow FBI agent Dr. Lance Sweets first joined the team, Booth treated him in a condescending manner, due to his youth and boyish looks. Booth was one of the few who acknowledged the importance of psychological insight into an investigation and would bring Sweets along to investigations, albeit grudgingly — he disliked Sweets' habit of repeatedly questioning him when he was in a bad mood or confronting him with details of his private life when in the car en route to the crime scene despite Sweets' good intentions. Whenever Sweets made him feel uncomfortable in that manner, he would interrupt and cut him off with a sarcastic comment or directly tell him to be quiet. Booth became less sarcastic and more understanding with Sweets when he learns about the latter's own abusive childhood and subsequent yearning for a family after the death of his adoptive parents as he himself was abused as a child.[24] Despite his tendency to pull rank on Sweets by making him do undesirable tasks such as paperwork or frequently light-heartedly mock him, he cares deeply for the younger agent[82] and the two have an underlying mutual respect. Since then Sweets has been a close friend to Booth and his family outside of work. He also consults Sweets on a number of issues, including his feelings for Bones. When Booth was suspended from the field, he consulted with Dr. Gordon Wyatt instead of Sweets, who is the department's designated psychologist, in order to avoid having to put Sweets in a difficult position of having to choose between their friendship and his professional responsibility. In Season 8 he invites Sweets to stay at his and Bones' home while Sweets deals with second break-up with Daisy; Sweets helped with the chores and would babysit Christine. In the Season 10 premiere Sweets and Daisy are back together and ask Booth to be the godfather of their unborn son. The character is killed off later in the episode, leaving Booth visibly distraught.[88]
Booth is generally wary of most of the "squinterns" due to their eccentric personalities, especially Sweets' girlfriend Daisy Wick, whom he once brought with him to the field when Brennan, Hodgins and Cam were unavailable and eventually regretted it.[93] He is good friends with Wendell Bray, one of Brennan's favorite interns, and they play ice hockey together on the same amateur team. In Season 9, Booth is visibly distraught when Brennan tells him that she suspects Wendell has Ewing's sarcoma. When Cam was forced to fire Wendell for using medical marijuana due to Jeffersonian rules,[94] Booth, with Bones' and Caroline's help, find a loophole and Wendell is re-employed as an independent consultant reviewing case files and evidence reports, much to Cam's relief and delight.[55]
Camille Saroyan[edit]
Booth rekindles an old relationship with Dr. Camille Saroyan when she joins the Jeffersonian team.[95] However, Booth ends the relationship for the second time after an intense case nearly costs Saroyan her life. Booth asserts that on-the-job romantic relationships endanger the team in high-pressure situations. Booth has known Saroyan for some length of time; in Season 4, it is stated that she has known Booth and his brother Jared for some 15 years. She was one of the few characters who already knew about the brothers' abusive childhood and they call each other by their first names, at least in private; there is a running joke where Booth would counter with "Don't call me Seeley", to which Cam would reply "Don't call me Camille". Despite the breakup, Saroyan and Booth remain close friends, working together on cases and giving each other advice on numerous occasions.
Temperance Brennan[edit]
Temperance is Booth's wife and professional partner throughout the series. While Booth and Brennan maintain a professional relationship and friendship for six years, there is a deep emotional attachment and hints of romantic and sexual tension.[96] Minor characters constantly mistake Booth and Brennan for an already romantic couple,[82][97] an accusation which they consistently and vehemently deny, although they spend more and more time together outside of work and a sexual attraction between them develops. Although she refused to admit it at first, Brennan enjoyed working with him from the beginning, even after their falling out when Booth got her drunk and "fired" her, and, in Season 1, she cajoled him into launching an investigation after finding three bone fragments on a golf course so he could work with the Jeffersonian team on the case despite the fact that the FBI had no jurisdiction.[72] Booth has admitted to Brennan and her father that he finds her "well-structured" and "beautiful," and has once reassured her that she has "her looks and a whole lot more." In "Two Bodies in the Lab", in season 1, and in "The Rocker in the Rinse Cycle", in season 5, Brennan and Booth's mutual love for Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" is mentioned; Booth even refers to it as "their song" in "The Rocker in the Rinse Cycle", and it is the first song on the mix tape he makes for her in "The Ghost in the Machine".
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.[6][98] 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.
Throughout the show, Booth and Brennan's differences in worldviews are regularly addressed by various characters and was 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 it. In Season 2 Booth expelled her from the interrogation room after she repeatedly made insensitive remarks, despite her good intentions, during an interview with a parish priest.[10] 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 with 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.
Booth often takes Bones along to his investigations and interrogations, despite his superiors' and Caroline's initial reservations about a "squint" being in the field. Initially he was irritated by the scientific jargon she frequently used but over time comes to enjoy her company. He also taught her some investigative techniques and "black ops stuff", such as using a credit card to break open a locked door.[56] In Season 4, at Sweets' persuasion, he allows her to interrogate suspects[61] and since then, she has co-interrogated suspects with Booth in Sweets' absence. In the field, he sometimes takes advantage of her status as a civilian to obtain information which he, as a federal agent, would otherwise be unable to obtain without going through the time-consuming bureaucratic process. They often go undercover together as a couple whenever a case requires so.
Booth shows an apparent jealousy of Brennan's romantic relationships, particularly in the episodes "Two Bodies in the Lab", "The Woman in Limbo", "The Headless Witch in the Woods", "The Man in the Mansion", "The Boneless Bride in the River", "The Con Man in the Meth Lab", and "A Night at the Bones Museum". In Season 2 his FBI colleague Special Agent Tim "Sully" Sullivan asks him for "advice" on how to woo Bones, Booth tells him simply that he will not "help [him] get my partner into bed".[5] Booth has a habit of intimidating, confronting or competing with anyone he believes to have a sexual interest in Brennan. He is extremely protective of her, and is often defensive of her to the point of physically assaulting those who pose a threat to her safety. Likewise, Bones has defended him whenever his ability is called into question and repeatedly made known that Booth is the only FBI agent she (and the other "squints") tolerate working with. Booth has saved Brennan's life in several episodes, such as "Aliens in a Spaceship", "The Wannabe in the Weeds" and "The Woman in the Garden". In the third season, their relationship takes on a new component when they are forced to undergo partners therapy with Sweets, who observes that they are very close and there is emotional and sexual tension between them. Partners therapy is extended indefinitely. The partners share their first (in a flashback) and third kisses in "The Parts in the Sum of the Whole"; the second occurs in "The Santa in the Slush" when Booth and Brennan agree to kiss under mistletoe in front of Caroline Julian, an attorney Booth frequently works with. Nearly every episode after season three ends with a scene of Booth and Brennan bonding, which become increasingly romantic over time, reflecting the ever-growing affection Booth and Brennan have for each other. This comes to a head in "The Critic in the Cabernet,"[99] in which Brennan asks Booth to donate sperm to father her child. He is startled but eventually agrees. The two begin making plans for her insemination, but before she can go through with it, Booth is diagnosed with a brain tumor.
In Season five, Booth realizes his love for Brennan as he recovers from his tumor. However, he is cautioned by both Dr. Saroyan and Dr. 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. Afterwards, their relationship remains fraught with sexual tension. Although she shares his feelings, Brennan rejects his advance and states her uncertainty about the possible outcomes of such a relationship given their seemingly conflicting personalities. Booth agrees to respect her wishes and attempts to move on as they continue to work together. In the episode "The Boy with the Answer", Booth is confronted with the possibility that Brennan, claiming she is "tired of dealing with murders and victims and sadness and pain", might leave the Jeffersonian permanently. In the final scene of this episode, Booth watches as Brennan turns to face him while riding away in a taxi. Brennan departs for a year-long anthropological expedition to the Maluku Islands, while Booth agrees to spend a year in Afghanistan, training soldiers to apprehend terrorists.[40] They say goodbye at the airport, agreeing to meet one year later. Their relationship takes a downturn after their return to DC due to Booth's relationship with journalist Hannah Burley; Brennan is apparently disappointed after learning that Hannah gets along with Parker. When Brennan admits that she still has feelings for Booth, he turns her down and says that he loves Hannah. Hannah departs after she turns down Booth's rather half-hearted proposal. Brennan and Booth begin to rekindle their relationship.
In the episode "The Hole in the Heart", in which Vincent Nigel-Murray dies, Booth has Brennan stay at his apartment for her safety. Later that night, Brennan is still overcome with grief over Vincent's death and she turns to Booth for comfort. The two fall into his bed together in a seemingly intimate but non-sexual embrace. The next day, she tells Angela Montenegro that she "got into bed with Booth". In the following episode, she tells Booth that she is pregnant with his child. At the start of season seven, a very pregnant Brennan and Booth are in a relationship and going back and forth between apartments. Booth suggests that they should have their own place; Brennan wants Booth to move into her apartment. It causes a minor rift between them. At the end of the episode they are in bed looking at houses on the internet. Booth also tells Brennan he loves her and left it to her to decide when she wants to get married. After much discussion, Booth and Brennan agree to give up their apartments and move in together. In the episode "The Crack in the Code", they decide to buy a two-story home – which Booth jokingly called "The Mighty Hut" – in the suburbs and renovate it. In the following episode, Booth delivers their daughter in a small stable off the road when Brennan cannot make it to the hospital to give birth.[70] They name their baby Christine Angela, after Bones' mother and Angela Montenegro. Booth also tells Bones that she would be the one to ask him to marry her since he believed in marriage and she was the one who needed the make the decision. In the season finale Bones is framed by tech-savvy serial killer Christopher Pelant, who is released when the jury finds him "not guilty". Bones, with help from Max, is forced to go on the run with Christine in order to avoid being arrested and buy Booth and the team enough time to clear her. Prior to her departure, she and Booth had Christine christened into the Catholic church out of respect for his religious beliefs.
The family reunite in the Season 8 premiere and, by the second episode, Bones and Christine have returned home. However the couple have some difficulty readjusting after nearly three months apart with almost no contact with one another. Booth puts up a facade but was still resentful and bitter over the separation. They resolve their differences by the end of the episode.
At the end of Season 8, Brennan finally decides to marry Booth, who is overjoyed. However, their plans are ruined when a vengeful Christopher Pelant blackmails Booth, threatening to kill five random people if Booth marries Brennan. Booth calls off the wedding, but does not explain the real reason to Brennan. For the first several episodes of the season, despite their efforts to mask the frustration and resentment, there was much tension between the two of them and between Booth and the other squints, who accused Booth of being unfaithful and getting "cold feet" at the last minute.[100][101] In the Season 9 premiere, Booth confided in his friend Aldo Clemens, a former Army chaplain turned bartender, about Pelant's threat against him and he was having trouble mending his relationship with Brennan. At the end of the episode, Brennan decides to stay with Booth, much to his relief, and tell him that she is willing to trust him. In episode 4, "The Sense in the Sacrifice", Booth vows to take Pelant out once and for all, especially after Pelant murdered his colleague FBI Special Agent Flynn and manipulated evidence to frame Flynn. After killing Pelant, Booth reveals to Bones Pelant's threats and why he called the wedding off. He then reiterates his marriage proposal, which she happily accepts.
In the Season 9 episode "The Woman in White", Booth and Bones prepare for their wedding. Bones agreed to a church wedding after realizing the sacrifice Booth had made as the Catholic church does not condone co-habitation; Aldo had told her that Booth was willing to sacrifice his soul and "live in sin" if it meant being with her. She rationalized the decision, saying that she could see the "beauty" behind the ceremony and tradition associated with a Catholic wedding and added that she also knew Latin.[87] However, their plans are ruined by a cold case and a fire in the church they were to be married at. With Angela's help, they hold a last-minute simple garden ceremony outside the Jeffersonian. Aldo presided over the ceremony in the presence of Booth's mother Marianne, grandfather Hank and son Parker, Bones' father Max and their close friends from the Jeffersonian. They spent their honeymoon in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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John Kubicek of BuddyTV placed him on his list of the "15 Hottest TV Dads", describing the occasional moments he shares with his son as "tender and real".[52] He was included in TV Guide 's list of "TV's Sexiest Crime Fighters".[102] His relationship with Temperance Brennan was listed in Entertainment Weekly 's "30 Best 'Will They/Won't They?' TV Couples"[103] and TV Tango's "Top 10 Romantically Challenged TV Couples".[104]
Booth's background and personal tastes loosely mirrors that of actor David Boreanaz, who portrays the character. Boreanaz, though born in New York, is from the Philadelphia area, supports the Flyers and was an avid athlete in school.[105][106]
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Stocks climbed again this week with the S&P 500 and Dow closing out a sixth straight week of gains despite some volatility. For the week, the S&P 500 gained 1.56%, the Dow rose 1.27%, and the Nasdaq climbed 1.70%.[1]
All eyes were on the Senate confirmation hearings for Federal Reserve chair nominee Janet Yellen last week. The hearing didn't generate any bombshells but confirmed Wall Street's belief that the Fed will not be in any hurry to taper its bond-buying programs. Yellen also made it clear that under her leadership, the Fed will take on greater supervision of banks. Dodd-Frank regulations specifically task the Fed with protecting the financial system from risks that could spill into the broader economy – something called macroprudential regulation.[2] Hopefully a Fed with sharper teeth can prevent a repeat of the financial crisis. Though current chairman Ben Bernanke spoke at a town hall meeting last week, he appears to be working on a graceful exit, as he made no specific comments about tapering or pending monetary policy decisions.[3]
The bulk of earnings season is behind us, with results from 92.6% of S&P 500 companies already known. Overall, we'd say that Q3 earnings have been reasonably good, particularly as compared to previous quarters. Out of the 463 companies that have reported results so far, 65.4% beat earnings expectations and 43.4% beat revenue expectations, which is better than the same group did in Q2. Estimates for total earnings growth suggest that S&P companies were able to eke out 4.9% earnings growth on 3.0% higher revenues.[4] As we've seen in previous quarters, companies are deriving a lot of their profits through cost-cutting measures and productivity increases, which will hopefully benefit them when demand turns around.
Looking ahead, investors will be focusing their attention on a raft of economic data due to be released. Wednesday is particularly important as the meeting minutes from the most recent FOMC meeting will be released, hopefully giving analysts some insight into when the Fed may begin tapering. While a December taper is still possible, most Fed analysts expect the Fed to delay until the New Year.
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U.S. manufacturing output rises for third straight month. Manufacturing activity rose in October, even as automobile production fell, suggesting a broadening of activity in the sector. This is a sign of possible factory momentum after a slump earlier in 2013.[5]
China unveils bold new reforms. China unwrapped its boldest set of economic and social reforms in nearly three decades, relaxing its one-child social policy and further loosening markets. The sweeping changes strengthened hopes that the country's leadership is committed to the reforms needed to bolster economic growth.[6]
Industrial production falls in October. Falling output at power plants and mines caused industrial production to unexpectedly decline even though manufacturing output increased. Experts attribute the slide to the temporary shutdown of oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Storm Karen approached.[7]
U.S. consumer debt rises the most since 2008. While Americans have been on a deleveraging spree in the past few years, an increase in credit balances and loans suggests that the cycle may be over. While this is a sign that Americans feel comfortable spending again, a return to high debt burdens could cause financial distress.[8]
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I am a human geographer who gained his PhD from Liverpool University in 1993. My work concerns the politics of development, particularly the intermingling of territorial scales and transnational networks. I have taught at Liverpool University, the University of Central Lancashire, Portsmouth University and The Open University. I was a handling editor of the Review of African Political Economy and a member of the editorial boards of Political Geography, Antipode, Geography Compass, and the International Development Planning Review. I have also acted as consultant to recent Open University/BBC productions African School, Indian School, Comic Relief and the Reith Lectures.
My most recent work concerns role of China in African development. In 2007 I received an ESRC grant entitled The politics of Chinese engagement with African 'development': Case studies of Angola and Ghana. This was followed up in 2010 by a new ESRC grant on Chinese migrants as agents of development and another as part of a network under the ESRC's Rising Powers Programme.
Previously I worked on the developmental impacts of the diaspora, based on both theoretical work and case studies of the Ghanaian diaspora in the UK and its linkages to Ghana. With my recent study of Chinese migrants in Africa I am keen to develop these insights around new migration trajectories and Africa's development. This concern with the role of migrants in local development evolved out of my work on decentralised and participatory development, which is an on-going interest
I am currently co-chair for TU870 Capacities for Managing Development, a postgraduate course in the Masters programme on Development Management. I am coordinating a block on The Rising Powers for a new version of the level 2 undergraduate course in international development to be delivered for the first time in 2012.
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After decades of being regarded as 'basket cases' some African economies are experiencing growth rates that are among the fastest in the world. Much of this growth is based on the export of commodities, like oil, to China and other emerging economies. Driving this engagement are Chinese national oil companies (NOCs). While we hypothesise that the Chinese do t...
Attracting more than 60 participants, together with papers and presentations of an extremely high quality, we're pleased to announce that the Asia Rising Symposium, held on 26 June, was a huge success. We'd very much like the event to be the first of many, so please do let us know your suggestions for future events.
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Is China ripping off Africa, as some people claim? Giles Mohan, Professor of International Development at The Open University has researched the subject and gives an informed answer.
His most recent work concerns role of China in African development. In 2007 I received an ESRC grant entitled The politics of Chinese engagement with African 'development': Case studies of Angola and Ghana...
The burgeoning economies of some rapidly developing countries, notably China, India and Brazil, are shifting the global balance of power dramatically.
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Refinishing kitchen cabinets can be a simple, inexpensive project that's done over the course of a few weekends to create a whole new look that transforms your kitchen into a favorite gathering spot for the whole family.
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First you'll need to gather your supplies. Once you have your supplies, remove the cabinet doors, drawer faces, handles and other hardware. Make sure you label each in accordance with its location on the cabinet boxes, so you'll know where they go when it comes time to reassemble. Try placing a Post-it note on an inconspicuous back corner. Place the hardware in plastic baggies, then line the cabinet doors up in a work area so you can stain them last.
Next comes the sanding. Sanding off the existing finish thoroughly means the difference between a clean, beautiful, professional look versus a messy look full of drips and bubbles you'll have to do again later. Use an electric hand sander with a heavier grit sandpaper for the first sanding. Wipe all the dust particles off with a tack cloth or damp rag, and then sand again with a finer sandpaper, about 220 grit. This will prepare the wood for the stain.
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Refinishing is a great way to get a fresh, new, real-wood look to your kitchen cabinets that you just can't get with paint. It's easy and convenient and almost fool-proof as a DIY project. All it takes is a little elbow grease and you'll have a whole new look for your kitchen.
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Indonesia is unlikely to replace Thailand as Southeast Asia's main automotive production hub in the near future despite massive expansion carried out by the country's major car manufacturers, the Association of the Indonesian Automotive Manufacturers (Gaikindo) has said.
"Our annual output is only half of Thailand's total annual auto production. It is a big gap to close," Gaikindo deputy chairman Jongkie Sugiarto said on Wednesday during a seminar on the Indonesian auto market outlook.
According to the latest data from the Asean Automotive Federation (AAF), Thailand produced 2.3 million cars from January to November last year, or 200 per cent of Indonesia's production of 1.1 million units in the same period.
"Most automakers in Indonesia produce multi-purpose vehicles (MPVs) and low-cost green cars (LCGCs) to meet surging domestic demand, while Thailand produces sedans and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) for overseas markets," Jongkie said.
From 1.1 million of Indonesia's total car production, only 170,907 units or 15 per cent of the total output were exported, data from Gaikindo shows. Meanwhile, according to data from the Thailand Board of Investment, Thailand annually exports half of its total production.
Thailand exported around 1.2 million cars from its total output of 2.4 million in 2012, while it exported 735,627 units from its total output of 1.4 million in 2011, the data shows.
Vivek Vaidya, Frost & Sullivan deputy president for automotive and transportation practices said in the similar event that Indonesian infrastructure bottlenecks and regulation hurdles had become obstacles for certain automakers to produce their cars in Indonesia.
Jongkie said that most automakers opted to produce sedans and SUVs in Thailand because the sales tax for cars in Indonesia was expensive.
"The luxury sales tax for a sedan is 30 per cent of its sale price here in Indonesia, while for MPVs it is only 10 per cent," he said.
He said that PT Toyota Astra Motor, the local branch of Japanese Toyota Motor Co., produced sedan Soluna in Indonesia in 2006. However, they eventually chose to move to Thailand because of the tax, he added.
"Indonesia, however, is almost equal to Thailand in terms of domestic sales," Vidya said.
He said that the presence of LCGCs would help boost Indonesian auto sales by 6.5 per cent to 1.31 million units this year, while Thailand's domestic sales would remain flat amid political turmoil.
Indonesia's auto sales reached 1.23 million units last year, not far behind Thailand's auto sales of 1.3 million units, according to data from Frost & Sullivan.
"We expect LCGCs to drive Indonesian car sales. The segment will contribute nearly 150,000 units or 11 percent of this year's projected car sales," Vidya said, adding that LCGCs contributed over 51,000 units in its first four months in the market last year.
Jongkie said that the MPV segment would also have a major contribution to this year's auto sales, given that several automakers started producing their MPV cars here.
PT General Motors Indonesia built a new plant in 2012 in Bekasi, West Java, to produce its low MPV Chevrolet Spin. PT Honda Prospect Motor launched its second factory last month in Karawang, West Java, to produce its Honda Mobilio.