Originally aired: Wednesday February 1, 2006 on FOX Writer:
Noah Hawley Director:
Dwight Little Show Stars:
Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro),
T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins),
Eric Millegan (Zack Addy),
David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth),
Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan),
Jonathan Adams (Dr. Daniel Goodman (Season 1))
Recurring Role:
John M. Jackson (Sam Cullen)
Guest Stars:
Marc Jablon (Asst. U.S. Attorney Weeks) ,
Jake Cherry (Donovan Decker) ,
Zeljko Ivanek (Carl Decker) ,
Benjamin Parrillo (Special Agent Stone) ,
Lawrence Pressman (Trent Seward) ,
Alexa Fischer (Sharon Pomeroy) ,
Jaime Ray Newman (Stacy Goodyear) ,
Sarah Ann Schultz (Maria Semov) ,
Suzanne Cryer (Agent Pickering)
Production Code: 1AKY09
Bones is at a TV station making an interview for the morning show “Wake Up, DC”. She is being interviewed about her new book. She seems awkward trying to be polite and smiling. She is being asked some questions but neither of her answers is what the host, or anyone for that matters, could expect. Booth arrives just in time for the end of it, he makes her signs trying to get her see happier and to elaborate on the answers, but he failed. Finally, the interview is over after she says that she doesn’t wants to have kids. The show host takes off with a not too happy face. Bones ask him how was her and he takes her to the new crime scene.
They arrive between fire trucks there is a car that seems burned and inside a skeleton in the driver’s seat all burned. It’s a case for the FBI because there’s “one burned backpack, child sized sneaker plus the right side rear seatbelt went missing, sliced away”. It seems like a kidnap and the first 48 hours are critical so Booth needs her to identify the body to know what child they are talking about.
In the Jeffersonian, Bones and Zack are working on the remains. They had identified a woman who gave birth about 5 to 8 years ago and with some features in her molars that are consistent with some eastern European cultures. Zack also found something in her larynx.
Dr. Goodman enters with Agent Samantha Pickering who will perform a security review for the State Department. From the first moment, Hodgins doesn’t looks pleased with the idea.
Booth arrive wondering if she had some progress, she gave him the information she had and he goes to see the facial reconstruction that Angela is working on. Bones ask again how she was in the morning (he never answered the question) and he just end saying “It was fine, you know, for your first interview”. She doesn’t feel pleased with the answer and keep questioning him upon he finally says: “next time tell a funny story, oh and never say you don’t like children”.
Angela had done the reconstruction of the victim’s face and uses the data with the immigration database until Brennan picks a good match. It turns to be an immigrant named Polina who arrived to the US in 1994 with her sister and that later got married to a guy named Carl Decker. They have an 8 years old son named Donovan.
Booth and Bones get in the car to pay a visit to Carl Decker. In the SUV there’s a child car seat, he had Parker for the weekend. They begin to discuss about bringing kids to “this world knowing what you know” and she in a very inappropriate way tells him “I’ll bet Parker was an accident, right?, because his mother wouldn’t marry you”. He is upset and answer “I’m better for Parker being in the world, someday you will see that”.
They arrive at Carl’s Decker house (he separated from his wife 3 months ago so they live apart) only to see that there’s no one there. Booth sees a blue truck parked almost in front of the house and he runs there, Bones follows him. They get into a fight with the two guys that where inside. When Booth calls “FBI”, they answer “US MARSHALS”. Bones just says “Forensic Anthropologist! That’s why no gun”.
In the FBI building Booth and Brennan are on Cullen’s office and they learn that Carl Decker is a Federal witness in a case against a company named KBC Systems that, according to him (Decker), made defective body armor (knowing it) and sent them to Iraq where it cost the lives of several militaries. The justice department doesn’t want him to know what happened with his wife and son and both Booth and Bones don’t seem happy with that.
Back to the Lab, Zack informs that the thing that he found in the larynx was actually an ear, probably one of her attackers and they decided to give Hodgins the wax so he could see what is on it. Then Brennan and Booth see a video tape of Carl teaching his son to ride a bike and a discussion about psychology begins.
At the FBI building again, Booth and Brennan interrogate Polina’s sister who tells them that the reason of the break up was that Carl was having an affair: she found several credit card receipts from a motel and when she confronted him, he got furious and didn’t tell anything to her.
Next, on the Jeffersonian, Zack is analyzing the victim’s X-Rays and remains with Brennan. There are a lot of fractures that could be because of multiple spasms.
Angela gets her interview with Agent Pickering who is asking her about her multiple addresses and about her HUSBAND, it turns out that Angela was on Fiji, a fire dance and she didn’t think that it was for real. She asks Angela if she likes working at the Jeffersonian and she start rambling while Pickering is writing really fast.
Meanwhile Booth is at the office of the head of KBC Systems, Trent Seward. Seward and his lawyer try to make seem like Carl Decker was a “disgruntled employee” then he said to Booth that he was a soldier himself and that he wont do anything to put them in danger.
When Booth returns to the Lab Bones, after a discussion about where he had been, Bones tells him that it was an ear what they found in the mouth. Booth had bring the security videos of the motel and they are going to uses Angela’s mass recognition program he goes to talk to her while Bones is with Zack, he tells her that it turns out that the victim was already dead when she was burned. Because of the fractures and some other findings in the lung, Bones the cause of death was electrocution, she was tortured. Hodgins informed that the DNA results of the ear point to a man.
In the meantime Hodgins is discussing with Pickering, although he says he doesn’t want to be interviewed, he is asking her why she had say that she doesn’t need him. She explains that not long ago his cousin was appointed to a high job in the government so he was investigated and their conclusion was that he is not a security problem. Hodgins didn’t like what he heard.
At Angela’s office, Booth, Brennan and Angela herself are looking at the monitor of the computer and get the picture of a man who enters the motel room with Decker. Booth goes to put run his picture along the FBI databases and put him on the “hot” list.
Pickering is interviewing Zack he is answering her questions while viewing the victims X-Ray’s on the table then he realized something and just run out the room living Pickering there.
Booth enters Cullen’s office just to see that there is the man he saw on the security videos of the motel. He turns to be Ken Weeks, assistant US attorney, Carl Decker’s justice department handler and, yes, he has both ears. Cullen informs Booth that the justice department lost Decker and Weeks explains that when Carl couldn’t speak with his son in the morning he just freaked out and leaved.
Seely Booth arrives to the Jeffersonian and he’s discussing the last events with Bones when Zack arrive muttering something: the number of amperes and voltage that will take to cause the spasms necessary for the fractures on the bones. Because it’s not household Booth tell them “they used a generator”. Because Decker has an IQ of a genius, Booth asks Zack what he would to in Decker’s situation. Between Bones and Zack explain to Booth that intelligence just determine how effectively you will do things, not what you will do and that’s it to him (Booth) to think about that because he is a father too.
Booth takes his SUV (along with Bones) and they go to KBC Systems just to see the lawyer on the floor with blood running out her nose and mouth. They enter Seward office and there is Carl Decker holding a gun pointing to Seward’s head trying to make him call the kidnappers to release his son. Bones convince him to drop the gun. They go to the FBI building where Cullen and Weeks join them to talk to Decker. Decker explains that he knows that KBC Systems is after his son disappearing and explain to them how he was the one that calculated the penetration tolerance of the combat jackets and the company didn’t listen to him. Weeks and Decker leaves the office not before the latest told Booth that the only way that he will testify is if he sees his son with him. “Paladin” Decker says to Booth, is a word that will tell Donovan that he was the one who sent Booth.
Back on the Jeffersonian Hodgins is telling Brennan that he found on the ear wax some traces of a grass that it’s only found on South Africa and asbestos of automobiles brakes. Bones calls Booth, who is at his office, to fill him with the last finding and she is doing that when someone arrive at Booth’s office and hand him an envelope, he opens it to find a note that reads “BACK OFF” along with a jewelry box, he opens it and sees a finger. He takes off to the Jeffersonian and asks Bones to take a look on the finger; the boy was alive when it was cut. Booth looks worried and he tries to makes Bones work faster.
Booth is talking at the phone with Parker when Hodgins and Zack arrived, they found particles in the finger that along with the fact that the mother was electrocuted by current of a generator makes Booth come to the conclusion that they are looking for an abandoned gas station or mechanic shop.
Brennan is at her office, Pickering is seated across the desk and she is asking questions about a visit of Brennan to Cuba. When the agent ask something about a man named Juan Guzman, Temperance pick the phone and starts dialing a number, she explain to the person across the phone that someone is asking her about “you know, him”. Brennan hands the phone to Pickering who says “yes sir, yes I’ll wait, I’ll wait here”. The review was suspended and she has to wait until someone comes to destroy her notes, she told Brennan. Booth enters and takes Brennan with him to seek the kid.
They are both on his SUV, Booth explaining that when Polina’s phone wasn’t turned off in the kidnap the cell was assigned to a routing tower as she left the coverage area. With that information they locate an area of about 75 square miles where six abandoned gas stations are just one of them are actually on a rural area and he thinks that’s the one they should be. “Why?” Bones ask leading to Booth answer “caused I used to do this kind of work”. “Rescuing people” she questions him again and he finally answers “or being the person they needed to be rescued from”. From his experience he will pick the rural area, a truck repair depot. Swat it going to be there too, he explains.
They arrive at the depot Booth is talking with a member of the Swat team, they are 3 adults on the site according to the heats images. According to Booth, they maybe hadn’t pickup the sign of the boy because “he is small, hypothermic”. Bones ask “what about me” and Booth tells her to wail outside, they are dealing with really dangerous people, none like she have seen before, so he doesn’t let her go with him. She stays there with not such a happy look in her face.
Swat team and Booth enters the site and the firing starts, they kill all the men inside and Booth sees Donovan in the floor below a desk crying and with his both hands up in his face, his left hand is some kind of bandage all filled in blood. Booth runs to him and start trying to make him look at him and not the guy death in front of him. Donovan is afraid and tells Booth to get away; he doesn’t want him to grab him. Finally Booth says “Paladin, Okay, Paladin” gaining his trust. Booth grabs him and he runs outside.
The ambulance is there, a paramedic is finishing wrapping his left hand in clean dressing; Booth and Brennan are with him. A car arrives and Carl Decker gets out of it. Donovan sees his father and gave him a wave with his right hand. Carl Decker answer it but stays there for a minute seen his son and starts to cry. “Is my dad crying”, Donovan ask. Booth answers “I think your dad is crying because he’s happy, he’s happy to have you back”. Carl runs to his son and embrace him.
Booth walks toward Weeks and says “I hope you are really good at your job Mr. Weeks…. Cause otherwise you got nothing going for you”.
Bones walks after Booth asking if he thinks that KBC System where behind all these. “We’ll let the grand jury figure that out, we did our job” is his answer.
They are leaving the depot when:
Bones: It’s not often I get to help save someone before they die.
Booth: Yeah, well… hell… Bones every time you catch a murderer you save his next victim.
Bones: This is different.
Booth: Yeah…
You still glad you don’t have any kids?
Bones: Yeah. Why?
Booth: You looking at that boy and his dad, I just thought you would change your mind.
Bones: No. Still glad you do have a kid?
Booth: Gladder today then yesterday.
Bones: Doesn’t make any sense.
Booth: Yeah, it’s complicated
Quotes
add » Brennan:
(to Booth) You know what? You tough guys are all very sentimental.
(edit) Brennan: It’s not often I get to help save someone before they die.
Booth: Oh hell, Bones, every time you catch a murderer you save his next victim.
Brennan: No, this is different.
Booth: Yeah. Still glad you don’t have any kids?
Brennan: Yeah. Why?
Booth: You looking at that boy and his dad, I just thought you changed your mind.
Brennan: No. Still glad that you have a kid?
Booth: Gladder today than yesterday.
Brennan: That doesn’t make any sense.
Booth: Yeah, it’s complicated.
(edit) Brennan: Who does this? Cuts the finger of an eight-year-old boy?
Booth: Mercenaries, professionals. They don't feel a thing.
Brennan: I feel things, Booth.
Booth: I never said you didn't, Bones.
Brennan: I'm a professional, too. I do better work if I only see the finger, not the child. That doesn't mean I'm like them.
Booth: I know that Bones.
(edit) Booth: Mr. Decker, you and Donavon, do you have a code word? Something to let him know that you sent me?
Decker: Paladin. Tell Donavon paladin.
Cullen: Paladin, defender of the faith, protector. Suits you Booth.
(edit) (Booth and Brennan entering the building Decker might be in)Booth: Usually I enjoy your company Bones, but you know, it's at times like this that you give me just a little something extra to worry about.
Brennan: You enjoy my company?
(edit) When Pickering interviews Bones about some man named Juan Gusman that she met in Cuba, she is refrained from continuing the interview due to a calling from Bones to some mysterious man in the state department.
This mystery has yet to be alluded..
(edit) Here is the forensic term for this episode:
Mass recognition - is still under development, but biometric technology designed to identify a person using distinguishing facial traits has become one of the most promising and powerful technological developments for law enforcement.
(edit) Booth says that SWAT will meet them at the scene. However, when they arrive at the abandoned gas station all the people have "HRT" emblazoned on the back of their flak jackets. "HRT" Stands for "Hostage Rescue Team". The HRT is a branch of the FBI.
(edit) Brennan said that this was her first TV interview. This episode was supposed to air before last week's, when she was on "Fox and Friends" with Penny Marshall but it was aired out of sequence.
(edit) Agent Booth: Is there a codeword I can tell Donovan so he will know that you sent me?
Carl Decker: Tell Donovan, "Paladin".
A Paladin is the prototypical "knight in shining armor," a hero of sterling character and courage, who rights wrongs and defends the weak and oppressed. The word comes from the Latin word palatinus ("attached to the palace"). (Perfect to describe Booth)
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