Director: Patrick Norris
Show Stars: Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy), Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth), Jonathan Adams (Dr. Daniel Goodman (Season 1))
Guest Stars: Kristin Carey (Mrs. Pattison) , Kayla Mae Maloney (Camden Destry) , Mark Totty (Leo Sanders) , Chris DerGregorian (Tovar Comara) , Bryan Fox (Guard) , Patrice Pitman Quinn (Sheriff Roach) , Marlene Forte (Ambassador Olivos) , Tom Dugan (Headmaster Ronson) , Mandy June Turpin (Dawn St. James) , Nicholas Hormann (Unknown) , Chris Conner (Oliver Laurier) , Kavita Patil (Dr. Teresa Petty) , Toby Hemingway (Tucker Pattison) , Tom Schmid (Mr. Pattison) , Avis Wrentmore (Melodee Destry) , Jose Zuniga (Santana) , Heavy D (Shapiro) , Carlos Cervantes (Oraldo) , Samual Carman (Nestor)
Production Code: 1AKY01
At the Jeffersonian Medico-Legal Lab, Angela and Jack discuss what they are currently working on as they watch Zack talking to a woman with whom he broke up recently. They interrupt Zack’s conversation to hurry him out the door of the Jeffersonian to the car where Temperance and Seeley are waiting for him.
In the car, Seeley tries to discuss the case as Temperance and Zack try to discuss personal issues. Seeley manages to keep the conversation on a professional level and informs them of the situation regarding the case they are going to investigate. He explains that it’s not only a case but is a political situation and he asks them to follow his lead once they arrive at the Hanover Preparatory School.
At Hanover Preparatory Academy in Prince George’s County, Maryland, a security guard at the gate asks them for identification. The guard insists on escorting them to see the head of security (Sanders) even though Seeley objects.
Sanders and Sheriff Roach lead them to the crime scene. Temperance tells Zack to shoot video first so as not to disturb the crows feeding on the body and then shoot stills. Seeley orders the headmaster (Ronson) to step back after Ronson makes an insistent request that they remove the body from the tree. The head falls from the body and Temperance catches it. Just after that, the body falls to the ground.
At the Jeffersonian, the team analyzes the remains. Temperance finds a cochlear implant, which will help them identify the body.
At Hanover, Seeley pressures Ronson and Sanders to find out if any students are missing. Seeley receives a cell phone call from Temperance and she updates him with regard to the team’s findings. He is reluctant to discuss the case in detail in front of the two men and hangs up on her. Ronson insists that it is a suicide and implies that he expects Seeley to agree. Seeley requests a complete list of staff and students to which Sanders protests since the information is highly confidential. Seeley insists.
Seeley arrives at the lab to discuss the results of the team’s analysis. Jack informs him that they have traced the cochlear implant to Nestor Olivos and Seeley checks the list to find Nestor’s name there. They tell Seeley the hyoid was broken which is common in adults who are strangled, but not so in teenagers.
In the FBI Major Crime Unit Washington Field Office, Mickey Santana urges Temperance to make a definitive declaration as to the cause of death. He informs her that there can be no official investigation unless the death is ruled a homicide. Temperance makes an official declaration that Nestor Olivos is a homicide victim.
In the car on the drive to inform Nestor’s parents of his death, Seeley tells Temperance that the school officials implied that he should rule the death a suicide. He advises her of what to say to Nestor’s parents.
At the Ambassador’s Residence at the Venezuelan Embassy, Seeley informs Nestor’s parents of their son’s death. Temperance hands the medallion they found around Nestor’s neck to the Ambassador (Nestor’s mother) after she informs the father that they do not need to identify him. The parents indicate that they received an e-mail from Nestor saying he was with his roommate and Seeley requests a copy of it.
At the lab, Zack discusses his relationship issues with Jack while they analyze Nestor’s remains.
Temperance and Seeley meet with the school psychiatrist who tells them that Nestor was a high suicide risk. Ronson insists this indicates that it was a suicide and Seeley informs them that he will question Nestor’s roommate in the morning.
Temperance and Seeley enter Wong Fu’s restaurant and Sid seats them. Sid tells them he’ll bring their food and Temperance comments that they didn’t order. Seeley explains that Sid knows what people want better than they do. The rest of the team arrives and sits at the table. They discuss the case and spread photographs of the body on the table. Jack orders the 7-organ soup but the others don’t order anything. Sid brings the food and is extremely upset over the pictures on the table. He gathers them and puts them back in the manila folder as he insists that they not view them in his restaurant. The team tells Seeley that Nestor died 10 to 14 days ago and Seeley produces the copy of the e-mail that Nestor’s parents received from him 7 days ago.
At the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building, Seeley interrogates Nestor’s roommate, Tucker. Tucker admits to sending the message so Nestor could be with a girl but claims he does not know the girl’s identity.
Temperance is watching the video Zack made of the body when Dr. Goodman escorts Ambassador Olivos into her office. She shuts off the video and gets up from her desk to greet them. Dr. Goodman leaves and the ambassador hands Temperance a framed photograph of Nestor. She hands Temperance a DVD and asks her to watch it. They watch the DVD of Nestor receiving his implant and experiencing the ability to hear for the first time. The ambassador states that she does not believe it was suicide and that she fears the school will try to convince Temperance to rule it as one in order to protect itself. Temperance promises the ambassador that she will find the truth.
At the Imagining Unit Medico-Legal Lab, Angela runs holographic simulations to illustrate that an extra 90 kilos would be required to break Nestor’s hyoid.
As Temperance and Seeley approach the interior stairs at the school, they encounter a man descending them. Temperance pushes past Seeley and they both sprint up the stairs in pursuit.
Temperance enters Nestor’s room and the man closes the door and approaches her. She kicks him and knocks him into the closed door. Seeley opens the door and she trips the man, which causes him to stumble. Seeley punches him in the face several times rendering him unconscious. They check his identification and discover that he is security at the Venezuelan Embassy.
At the Venezuelan Embassy, Temperance and Seeley inform the ambassador that her son’s death has been declared a homicide after she tells them that she sent her security guard to the school to prove that her son could have been murdered.
Temperance and Seeley search Nestor’s room at the school and find a DVD hidden in a CD case.
At the lab, they watch the DVD and discover that it’s a copy of a film of Nestor having sex with a female student. Jack is becoming ill from the soup.
Temperance and Seeley show stills taken from the tape to Ronson and Sanders. They discover that the men are already aware that the students are making sex tapes. Seeley demands that they hand over all confiscated tapes. Ronson refuses and Sanders explains that Sheriff Roach already has them. Seeley wants the girl’s name and threatens to take Ronson to FBI headquarters in handcuffs when he refuses to provide it. Ronson acquiesces and tells him her name is Camden Destry.
Seeley interrogates Camden at the FBI headquarters. She claims that she was not involved with Nestor. Seeley shows the sex video and she becomes upset and admits that they were involved and that she loved him.
Temperance and Seeley get the tapes from Sheriff Roach.
While watching the tapes, Temperance recognizes Melody Destry (Camden’s mother) having sex with Tucker.
Seeley interrogates Tucker at FBI headquarters. Tucker admits that he, Camden, and Nestor blackmailed Melody.
Jack explains that Nestor had a high dosage of ketamine in his system, which would have prevented him from struggling while he was being hung in the tree. Jack belches and Seeley tells him to return to Wong Fu’s and allow Sid to bring him something for the heartburn. The comment leads Temperance to realize that Nestor’s gastric fluids weakened the hyoid. This would cause it to break when the rope strangled him.
Temperance has Angela enter the new figures into the system and run simulations with them. Angela determines that it would take approximately 8 days for the hyoid to crack. Temperance concludes that the new findings are congruent with suicide and Seeley accuses her of helping the school to cover up a murder.
Temperance is looking at the framed photograph of Nestor as Angela enters and tries to convince her that Nestor didn’t commit suicide. Temperance tells Angela that she can’t be sure it’s not a suicide without evidence and Angela tells her she can get the necessary evidence.
Angela shows them a snippet from which the sex tape was made that was recovered from Nestor’s hard drive. Temperance notices that Camden rolled her eyes for the camera, which proves she knew it was there.
Seeley interrogates Camden while Tucker is being interrogated in another room. Camden wants to know what Tucker is saying. She gets nervous and tells them that Tucker decided they should make the tape and blackmail Nestor. Instead of paying them, Nestor got upset when they showed him the tape and he killed himself. Seeley places her under arrest for Nestor’s murder and she decides to cooperate if they will make a deal with her.
In Temperance’s office, Seeley tells the ambassador that Ronson and Sanders will lose their jobs and that the two children who murdered her son are in custody. As she begins to leave, Temperance stops her and hands her the framed photograph of Nestor. She tells the ambassador that her son was a good man and that “he died because he was trying to do the right thing.”
At Wong Fu’s, Jack is sitting at the bar eating while Angela and Zack are sitting at a table in a booth discussing Zack’s relationship issues. Temperance and Seeley arrive and Seeley’s upset that the team have invaded the restaurant. He indicates that the bar is his territory and they can have the booth. Temperance comes up to the bar and puts an access pass to the lab on it as she says “absit invidia.” She returns to the table and Seeley picks up the pass and smiles.
Quotes
add » (Brennan talks to the Ambassador while Booth stands further away, listening)Brennan: Ambassador Olivos, you told me that all a mother wants is to know that she’s raised her child well. That your biggest regret is that you will never know if Nestor would have grown up to be a good man, but he was a good man. He died because he was trying to do the right thing.
(The Ambassador looks thankful and leaves while Booth walks over to Brennan)
Booth: Very impressive Temperance. You got that one right. (He smiles and she smiles back) (edit) Booth: Thank you.
Brennan: For what?
Booth: For going with my instincts in there.
Brennan: I did not back up your instincts. I bought time to find the facts I need to tell me what happened to Nester Olivos. What’s with you and the private school?
Booth: I thought we understood each other.
Brennan: Oh, that's bad, understanding each other?
Booth: I don’t like people who think they’re better than other people.
Brennan: Some people are better than other people.
Booth: You know, what you said right there, that is so Un-American. All men are created equal, either you believe that or you don’t.
Brennan: Some people are smarter than others, there’s no use being offended by the fact. (pause) What are we going to tell Nester’s parents?
Booth: We tell them that their son was found dead. We’re looking into it. Sorry for your loss. And we are.
Brennan: What?
Booth: Sorry for their loss. It’s sad. Try to remember that.
Brennan: Uh, I’m not a sociopath.
Booth: You’re bad with people, okay. No use being offended by the fact. (edit) (Booth, Brennan and Zack in the car on their way to the crime scene)
Booth: We’ve got a dead body in a prep school out in the sticks.
Brennan: Good morning to you, too.
Zack: (to Booth) You're successful with women, right? I mean they like you?
Booth: Okay, look, it's a very prestigious prep school with a lot of rich kids.
Brennan: I thought that it was good to start with a Good Morning.
Zack: If a woman said to you take a hint, what would it mean?
Booth: Could we just concentrate on the job? Thank you. Now, I know the sheriff out there. She’s mostly okay but the school got a lot of pull with the county and she's probably trying to scrape the whole case off on us. Look, what I'm trying to say is it's not just a crime scene but it's a political situation so when we get out there, you follow my lead and you pay attention.
Zack: You call after every sexual encounter, right? Cause that's the good thing to do.
Booth: (growing impatient) Look, this is a work mode. This is a work zone. We do not talk sex at work.
Brennan: (frustratedly) First, you tell me I'm too task oriented. Then, when I say Good morning you say that I should concentrate on the job.
Booth: Okay look, we've got about a forty-five minute drive. What do you say we pass it in quiet meditation?! (edit) Booth: The kid doesn't give a gift because, you know, he's in love. He does it cause he wants a little lovin'.
Angela: That cynicism you affect Booth, it's your way of hiding a deeply romantic nature. (edit) Brennan: You are the least objective person I have ever met.
Booth: Thank you!
Brennan: It's not a compliment.
Booth: Oh, come on Bones, you know something's wrong here, right? The school, the tapes, now Sheriff Roach.
Brennan: All this mess you're uncovering, it smells, yes, but it doesn't add up to murder, not logically.
Booth: Maybe if you look for more than the facts you'd be able to see the big picture.
Brennan: (interrupting him) Maybe if you opened your mind we could find out the actual truth. (edit)
Tabanid Maggots - The larvae of horse flies.
Crematogaster Ants – Ants that live in trees.
Hyoid Bone – A U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the muscles of the tongue. It is the only floating bone in the body.
Ketamine - was originally created for use as a human anesthetic. (edit)
The "Stacey's Mom" reference is attributed to a Fountains of Wayne song, which sings about a person who is attracted to a friend's mother. (edit)
