The Truth in the Lye (2-5)

Originally aired: Wednesday September 27, 2006 on FOX

Writer: Scott Williams
Director: Stephen DePaul
Show Stars: T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy)
Guest Stars: Bruce Nozick (Pete Valera) , Keri Lynn Pratt (Chloe) , Bridger Palmer (Ray Seever) , Susan Santiago (Lila Turner) , Nathan Dean (Agent Charlie) , Melinda McGraw (Gail Seever) , Jessica Capshaw (Rebecca Stinson) , Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille Saroyan)
Production Code: 2AKY05

BOOTH lies in bed with his ex-girlfriend REBECCA STINSON after they just finished what they both agree was a mistake. Booth’s phone rings and Rebecca answers to BRENNAN on the other line. Booth takes the call and is out the door before you can say “awkward.”
Booth meets Brennan at a construction site and she apologizes for interrupting him with her early morning call. Booth denies that he was doing anything scandalous with his ex. They enter one of the condominiums under construction and step into a crime scene. In the bathtub of an unfinished bathroom lays a deteriorated corpse floating in a chemical combination of household cleaning products. Brennan notes that the body has been submerged for two to three days and she decides to take the whole tub back to the lab.

At the lab with ZACK, HODGINS, CAM and ANGELA, Brennan reminds them that time is of the essence because the chemicals are literally eating their evidence. Cam demands that the identity of this body is the priority and Brennan believes that the priority should be solving why and how this person died. She reminds Cam that the ID of the body won’t change, but the clues to what happened to it are vanishing fast. Cam stands down and confirms that the person weighed 165 pounds. She scoops the fat that has risen to the surface to measure its volume to determine body type. Hodgins begins to separate the chemical from the organic and Zack pulls out a pitchfork to begin sifting through the tub. He fishes out a brittle femur bone connected to a hip replacement, the serial number chemically defaced. This suggests that the victim was elderly. In Cam’s lab Booth arrives to find that Cam’s determined that the victim was an ectomorph; thin, linear, narrow features. As Zack enters with a liquefied wallet, Cam asks Booth if he’s back with his ex. Booth, caught off guard, denies it.
On the forensic platform, Booth confronts Brennan about spreading rumors about he and his ex. Brennan mostly ignores him as she studies the victim’s bones under a microscope. She discovers that the victim was not elderly, but actually suffered from Osteogenesis Imperfecta, AKA Brittle Bone Disease.
Brennan takes this info to Angela and has her run a search on BBD cases in the area. She doesn’t find any adult cases, but they’re some children and the disease is hereditary. Brennan suggests they go talk to these kids and Booth suggests they do it separately. He didn’t appreciate her gossiping behind his back.
Brennan arrives at the Seaver house to meet GAYLE SEAVER who tells Brennan that her husband, LARRY, has been on a work trip and out of contact for three days. Brennan thinks she’s got a match and takes a picture from Gayle.
Returning to the lab, Booth boasts that he’s found their victim. When he shows his picture to a confused Brennan, she holds up her picture for Booth. They both found the same man, but he’s the father of two different families.

At the FBI offices, Brennan and Booth sit with LILA TURNER, the victim’s other wife. She talks about how her husband was always going out of town on business, but she didn’t mind because they couldn’t get by on just her science teacher salary. Booth excuses Lila and sends her into an interrogation room set up to look like a waiting room. Then he sends in Gayle Seaver from Larry’s other family. While Brennan and Booth observe the two women, Booth explains that he once loved his ex-girlfriend and that he has since moved on and that there is nothing going on. It appears as if they women in the waiting room have never met.
At the lab, Cam and Zack examine the victim’s bones with Angela in the wings. Cam’s found evidence of blunt force trauma to the skull and Zack confirms adding that it looks like a v-shaped weapon was used. He also found tiny copper shards at the bottom of the tub.
Back at the construction site, Booth informs the developer that Larry Seaver was the man they found in the tub. The secretary, CHLOE DANIELS, overhears this and is shocked, but the contractor, PETE VALERO, is furious because Larry owed him a lot of money through the development. He admits, he’d want him dead, but he didn’t kill him.
At the lab Zack brings Cam a small stick of ivory that he found in the tub. He doesn’t know what to make of it. She takes the ivory and tells Zack to head to the crime scene and look for weapon to match the blunt force mark found on the skull. As Zack exits Hodgins presents the finger of a rubber glove that he found under the stopper of the tub.
In Brennan’s office, Booth shares that Larry had a $500,000 life insurance policy for the Seaver family and everything in his will was to be left to the Turner family. This gives the wives motive for murder. Cam enters and tells them about the glove finger. When she pulls a print off it, they’ll have their killer.

At the FBI, Booth gets prints from both of Larry’s wives and then reveals to them that they shared a husband. When it gets heated Booth gets a call from the FBI labs to inform him that the print from the glove doesn’t match either wife. Booth escorts the women out of the office.
Just then, Rebecca, Booth’s ex, arrives to find him, but she meets Brennan. Brennan asks what happened between them, but after Rebecca explains, Brennan tells her that Booth still has feelings for her.
Brennan joins Hodgins at the lab with an almost emptied tub. Booth hangs up his cell and tells the gang that the prints they pulled off the glove don’t match anyone in the FBI database, which means it was a first time offender. Just as Hodgins begins to give Booth relationship advice, Zack enters with a junction box from the crime scene. The box had a hair embedded on it making either a weapon that was used or it was struck on a fall. Zack asks if they’ve found out where the copper bits he found came from and when Booth sees it he knows that it’s birdshot, like shot gun pellets used on small game. Brennan concluded that perhaps Larry was shoot, blown back, and when he hit his head on the junction box his skull cracked because of the BBD.
Across the lab, Angela has confirmed that the stick of ivory is a chopstick used for styling hair. It must have fallen out of a women’s hair when she was putting the body in the tub.
With Brennan and Booth en route, Booth explains that he remembered the contractor’s secretary, Chloe, used chopsticks to keep her hair up. They head to a burger joint to find her and question her.
When they approach Chloe, with a tray a food that, Brennan sizes her up. Chloe thinks they’re there for burgers and explains she’s been eating burgers a lot lately for someone that considers herself a vegetarian. Brennan asks how long she’s been pregnant, which takes Chloe by surprise. Brennan noticed by the way she was walking. Then, from around the corner appear Lila and Gayle with their children. Looks like somebody wasn’t telling the truth earlier. Brennan takes a wild guess that Larry is the father of Chloe’s baby. Chloe’s face shows that she’s right.

At the FBI, Brennan and Booth question the wives and Chloe. The wives explain that they met at a playground for special needs children because both of their kids had BBD and as they kept talking they put two and two together. To confirm their suspicions they followed Larry to work one day where he led them to a hotel where they discovered that Larry was cheating on both of them with Chloe, who says she didn’t know he was married. Booth tells Chloe that they pulled her prints from the glove at the murder scene. When B&B say that the women must have been angry and confronted him together and killed him they explain that Larry was dead when they arrived, gun still in his mouth. They had told him why they were coming to meet him and he must have lost it. B&B exit. Booth’s not buying it. There’s no way that a man can shoot himself in the mouth and not drop the gun.
Rebecca arrives at the FBI to talk to Booth. She reminds him that he is a wonderful father and that they are better off not married. Booth agrees.
At the lab, Brennan has the gun used on Larry that she dug up from Gayle’s backyard and confirms that it was in his mouth at one point, but then she asks Booth, what if he was shot after he was dead? This confuses Booth, so Brennan explains that the pits in his skull are void of blood, which means the birdshot hit after the blood stopped pumping. Cam arrives with new evidence. She’s counted all the teeth found in the tub and came up with one extra, that is actually a crown and Booth remembers that the contractor had just been at the dentist getting a “root canal.”
Booth and Brennan head to the construction site and cuff the contractor after Brennan confirms that he’s got a matching molar crown. He admits inflicting the head wound and shooting him, but he still doesn’t know how Larry got into the tub of lye.
At the lab, Hodgins and Angela share a moment discussing the case and the mental stability of the wives and Chloe. Sparks fly.
Brennan and Booth discuss Booth’s love life and Booth explains that things between he and his ex are over and Brennan assures him that her gossiping days are over. Angela enters to stir the pot and tell Booth that Cam told her that Booth is back with his ex. Booth heatedly exits to Cam’s office.
Later that night in Booth’s apartment, we find him back in bed and the springs are squeaking. We find Booth, all smiles and by his side lay Cam. They both agree that this was a mistake, but a good one.

Quotes

add » Booth: You know what Bones, it might be all anthropology to you, but there are certain people you just can't sleep with. I mean, you can pretend that it's just sex, you can lie to yourself and you can say that it's all good but there are too many strings, too much at stake, you know? Too much to lose.
Brennan: Yeah, I can see that. (edit) Angela: (facing away) Thing is, I cannot think of a single woman who would want three husbands.
Hodgins: (off-camera) Good thing. Guy would never be stupid enough to let it happen.
Angela: Excuse me. These women were not stupid (turns around and sees Hodgins sitting in the now-clean tub)...and that is completely gross.
Hodgins: But comfy. (Angela smiles.) Welcome back, by the way.
Angela: What?
Hodgins: Well, after two days of inappropriate comments, you're back to judging me for gross behavior.
Angela: When am I ever appropriate?
Hodgins: Good point. Maybe it was just the judging me I missed. Ah, the woman I know and love (sits up quickly)...in a purely non-romantic, happy-to-be-judged way.
Angela: Well...(nods). Anyway.
Hodgins: These women.
Angela: Right. Not stupid. And, frankly, that they allowed themselves to be duped is a sad statement on how lean the market is out there.
Hodgins: I resent that. I'm out there.
Angela: You certainly are. (edit) Angela: First of all, how does anyone juggle two spouses?
Hodgins: I can think of ways. Of course by juggle I mean quite literally...
Cam: (motions to Hodgins) I have a scalpel.
Angela: Maybe he dissolved himself so there'd be more of him to go around. (Sees Cam giving her a look.) I'm going to hell, aren't I?
Hodgins: I'll save you a seat. (edit) Angela: So he was dead before he was doused with lye. Oh happy day. (edit) Brennan: Well this is not a tooth. It’s a crown.
Cam: Exactly. Any of your women missing one?
Booth: Not that I could see.
Brennan: Well it wouldn’t be theirs anyway. It’s sized for a man.
Cam: I knew that. (edit)

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The characters on the Chinese hair chopstick they recovered are "”ül", or "Mei Ren". "Mei" stands for beauty, or beautiful; and "Ren" stands for person. The phrase means "beautiful person", or in terms of what it was engraved on, "beautiful woman". Only one character, "Mei" (beauty) was defined on the show.

Note: "Mei Ren" is the Han-Yu PinYin version of the English spelling for the two characters. They are multiple ways to spell them. Han-Yu PinYin is the spelling with the most accurate pronounciation. (edit) There is a slight continuity GOOF in this episode. Rebecca, when she goes to tell Booth that he is a great father, and Dr. Brennan walks away, asks Booth: "Was that Dr. Brennan?" trying to seem as though they did not have their conversation earlier in the episode. This would be fine, but they met at the end of the episode "Mother and Child in the Bay" at the end in the diner. In that episode Rebecca used Brennan's name in greeting here the first time she went in to talk to Booth. (edit) Here are the forensic definitions for this episode:
Civitas - Lat: in the Roman Law, a group of people living under the same laws; citizenship, state, commonwealth, community.
Compazine A trademark for the drug prochlorperazine. It is used to control nausea and vomiting, especially after chemotherapy.
osteogenesis imperfecta - A hereditary disease marked by abnormal fragility and plasticity of bone, with deformity of long bones, a bluish discoloration of the sclerae, recurring fractures resulting from minimal trauma, and often otosclerosis. Also called brittle bones.
sclera - The white of the eye.
Frangible - A frangible bullet is one that is designed to disintegrate into tiny particles upon impact to minimize their penetration for reasons of range safety, to limit environmental impact, or to limit the danger behind the intended target. An example is the Glaser Safety Slug. (edit) In this episode Booth sleeps with both of his exes - Rebecca and Cam. He says both times, "That was a huge mistake", and at the beginning when Dr. Brennan calls after Rebecca and Booth have sex, it seems like he feels a bit guilty. (edit) Jack: Oh the woman I know and love.

In this episode Hodgins reveals his feelings, but quickly covers it up with another remark. (edit)

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Booth: Great. So now what am I? World’s largest ball of string?

There are several balls of string or twine claimed to be the world's largest - one of them is found in Cawker City, Kansas. (edit) Dr. Hodgins makes a reference to Vice-President Cheney accidentally shooting Texas attorney Harry Whittington back in February 2006. (edit) (talking about lying wives/mistress)
Booth: (...) They should have a dozen Oscars.
Brennan: I know what those are.

apart from the reference to the Movie Academy Awards, this is an obvious reference to Brennan's common answer to any kind of cultural reference: "I don't know what that means." (edit) Angela: One metal for each desperate housewife!

Desperate Housewives is a popular dark comedic tv-series set in a suburban residential about a handful of women, whose lives are affected when one housewife commits suicide. (edit) Angela:It's so Jerry Springer!

Jerry Springer had a long-running daytime talk show, 'The Jerry Springer Show' where people would share their problems and most of time end up beating each on each other on stage with chairs and other props! (edit)

The Blonde in the Game (2-4)

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Writer: Noah Hawley
Director: Bryan Spicer
Show Stars: T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy), Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth)
Recurring Role: Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille Saroyan)
Guest Stars: Christie Lynn Smith (Caroline Epps) , Heath Freeman (Howard Epps) , Jim Jansen (Grant Hathaway) , Gregory Scott Cummins (Henry Gerber) , Tarah Paige (Helen Majors) , Rodney Lane Holland (Gil Lappin) , Dohn Norwood (Ranger) , Irene Roseen (Sister Karen Dunne)
Production Code: 2AKY04

Brennan and Booth walk through the woods with a policeman who explains that a jogger and his dog have discovered human remains, but there’s one problem... They arrive at the scene to find the aggressive Doberman guarding the remains. After Booth fails to get the dog to cooperate, Brennan tricks it into scampering off and letting them get to work.
At the lab the squints examine the remains. Brennan notes that the victim was a teenage female. Cam chimes in with blunt trauma to the back of the skull as cause of death and Zack adds that she was buried face down. Hodgins arrives and from his work with the bugs found with the body, he concludes that she was buried seven to ten years prior. Brennan suggests that the placement of the victim’s wrist and ankles tells that she was bound. Zack finds wear on the victim’s rotator cuff and lumbar vertebrae, which means she was a golfer. To Hodgins’ delight, Angela joins the crew with the composite she was able to mock up and Booth arrives asking if they’ve ID’d the victim. Hodgins explains to Booth that they found flecks of black paint in the wound and the shape of the damage suggests the use of a tire iron. Booth says what everyone else is thinking. These are the telltale signs off murderer Howard Epps, the death row prisoner that toyed with our crew a year ago. They fill Cam in and Booth heads to prison to question Epps.
Booth arrives at the prison and sits with Epps only to find that Epps has been waiting for this day. He smiles eagerly and asks about Brennan.

Booth shows Epps the composite of the victim and asks whom it is. Epps won’t say, but he does tell Booth that everything he and Brennan will need to “win the game” lies with that victim. Booth doesn’t want to play any games, but Epps has already set it in motion and the only person he’ll talk to about it is Brennan.
On the forensic platform at the lab Brennan and Zack sit with Booth and discuss what Epps’ game might entail. They ask Booth what Epps talked about and he explains that Epps was mostly tightlipped except when he mentioned how angry he was about Brennan breaking his wrist last time they met. Brennan looks at the wrist of the victim and finds that one of the wrist bones does not match the rest of the remains, which means that there might be another victim out there with a missing hamate bone.
Brennan and Booth head to the prison and arrive to find Epps already meeting with Caroline Epps, his wife of four months. As creepy as she is, Booth befriends her incase they need to talk with her later. She exits and they sit down with Epps. He speaks in riddles mentioning that his wife is a hairdresser and that his mother would wash his hands in antiseptic as a boy and Brennan pulls Booth out. She knows that he’s given her what she needs to solve the case.
At the lab Brennan scrutinizes the remains to find nothing, but does suggest to Zack that he check the junior golf leagues to see if any players have gone missing. Hodgins enters after examining the odd wrist bone and finding it coated in a liquid laxative. Brennan reminds Hodgins that Epps mentioned the ammonia smell of antiseptic and it hits Hodgins.
Hodgins and Zack head into Hodgins’ ookey room to spray the wrist bone with ammonia, which will cause the laxative coating to illuminate. Perhaps there’s a hidden clue. Just as they are about to start the test Cam enter and forbids them from tainting the evidence, but Hodgins explains that this is the only thing they have to go on and she allows them to continue. When the bone is exposed to the ammonia a small shape appears on the bone. At magnification they see that it’s the symbol for mining, which Cam translates to mean that the next body is in a mineshaft containing gypsum and selenium, which greatly narrows their search.
Arriving at the only abandoned gypsum/selenium mine in the area, Brennan and Booth head into the mine and find the new victim, but this victim has only been dead a week, which means Epps must have an accomplice killing people on the outside.

At the lab Cam examines the new victim. She’s a definite match for the hamate wrist bone. Brennan observes and takes notation on the victim being a female in her mid teens. She sees that her spine is elongated and her ankles show evidence that they were bound, meaning she was hung upside-down. Cam also finds a cigarette burn on the victim’s chest and a necklace in her shoe. Angela enters with an ID on the mine victim. From her dental records Angela found the name Sarah Koskoff.
Later, after Booth has done a little footwork, he calls to Brennan to let her know that Sarah Koskoff worked at the same hair salon as Epps’ wife. Booth heads to the salon to question Caroline Epps.
At the salon Caroline cooperates and tells Booth that the last time she saw Sarah was three weeks ago. Booth tells her she’s dead and Caroline is dumbfounded. She lets Booth search her salon and home.
After finding nothing, Booth lounges with Brennan as they pick each other’s brains about the case. Brennan shows Booth the necklace Cam found and tells her that it’s a religious medal of St. Agnes, which is also a catholic school in the area. Booth exits.
In Booth’s FBI office he sits with Sister Karen Dunne who is head mistress of the St. Agnes School. Booth shows her the necklace and Sister Karen knows exactly whom it belongs to. One of their students, Helen Majors, won the medal. She went missing three days prior.
Brennan and Booth are en route to an address that Epps has sent letters to from prison. When they arrive guns drawn they discover that the address is a vacant lot. So why is Epps sending letters to an address that doesn’t exist?

At prison they sit with Epps and Booth is ready to lose it. They question him to no avail as he continues to speak in riddles about the possibility of him being a father, being dyslexic, and something in German that catches Brennan off guard.
At the lab Brennan recites the German phrase Epps used, which translates to “An old friend with similar tastes.” Hodgins joins them to say that he’s found chemicals on the mine victim that are found on heavy-duty plastic gloves used by people who handle toxic substances. Zack arrives with a file on Lauren Hathaway as the positive ID on the first victim. Her father is in Brennan’s office.
Booth and Angela console the victim’s father and they question him. Angela pulls out some composites of Epps and show’s him. He recognizes Epps as a worker from their country club.
Booth wants to question Caroline Epps again, but he wants to send Angela in his stead. Cam wonders why and Booth explains that Angela is better with living people than she or Brennan ever will be. Cam approves.
Angela meets Caroline at a diner to try and get more information from her. Angela tugs at her heartstrings with drawings of Epps’ victims and finally she admits that she wrote a message from Epps to a man named Henry Gerber that read, “Don’t you miss them?” She delivered it five days ago.
Booth kicks in Henry Gerber’s door with Brennan behind him. They rush in to find Gerber watching adult movies from his wheelchair.

At the lab Brennan, Booth, Zack and Hodgins sit in frustration. There’s no way that Gerber could have killed these girls from a wheel chair. Booth reveals that it was Epps that paralyzed him while they were in prison together, hence, “Don’t you miss them?” The go back the German phrase which Zack has scrambled the letters to make other phrases, one being “Neither Rain.” It hits Booth. He’s been sending the letters to a postal worker and postal workers wear the special gloves, which Hodgins mentioned earlier. They call the post office and find out who works the route that the vacant lot is on. When they get his route they see that the salon and St. Agnes are also on his route. Then they receive his profile and both Brennan and Booth recognize him. He’s Gil Lappin, the dog owner that found the first body in the woods.
Booth charges into the suspects house and he and Brennan find his walls covered in picture of blonde girls, including the two victims and the still missing girl. They call Hodgins for an update and he’s still hung up on two odd substances, but he can’t come up with any rational reason they would be together. With pressure from Booth and support from Angela he racks his brain to remember that after the anthrax scares a few years ago they shut down some of the USPS sorting centers, so there is a chance that these girls were held captive at an abandoned sorting center.
Booth and Brennan find the abandoned sorting center and enter. Inside they hear Gil Lappin’s voice and his exit. They continue on to find Helen Majors the missing St. Agnes girl hanging by her feet. They bring her down and Booth exits to track Lappin. Creeping through the warehouse Booth is suddenly jumped by Lappin and overpowered until Brennan arrives and shoots Lappin in the chest, killing him. This troubles Brennan who’s never killed before.
In Brennan’s office Cam joins Brennan who’s still hung up on shooting Lappin. Cam tries to console her, but Brennan brushes it off to go talk to Epps with Booth.
In with Epps, Brennan and Booth ask him what this game was all about. He tells them that it was simply for his amusement and the fact that Brennan was the one who killed Lappin really gets him off.
At the diner, everyone is together exhaling. They’re all drained from jumping through Epps’ hoops.
Back at the Jeffersonian, Brennan sits with a drink; Booth enters and thinks she's drinking gin --She corrects him saying it's just water. Brennan looks at the photo of the girl that was killed, a tear from her eye hits the paper and she says it has ruined the photo, Booth says it doesn't matter. He brings the chair closer to her and sits down. Her face shows pain and when Booth puts his face close to hers, out of his pocket he pulls a small plastic pig. His name is Jasper, the name she would have given a pig if she had had one; they are the cleanest animals, Brennan mentioned earlier. The expression on Brennan's face lightens and she begins to smile. She takes the toy pig from Booth's outstretched hand and looks at it then smiles at him. They have a moment and then the episode is over.

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add » Brennan: I'm fine, Booth. I'm sitting here thinking about it and I'm fine.
Booth: Ok. What I'm getting here from you Bones is that you're fine.
Brennan: (takes the photograph of Sarah and looks at it) He murdered Sarah. He was about to murder Helen. Why should I feel upset about shooting him? You know, if I was going to be upset, which I'm not, it would be because Epps thinks he beat us, so -
Booth: He didn't.
Brennan: I know.
Booth: You're upset because you think he beat us. And you know what? He did.
Brennan: Beat us?
Booth: Yeah.
Brennan: You just said that he didn't.
Booth: Well, I changed my mind.
Brennan: What, in the last three seconds?
Booth: You know, you're afraid that Epps turns you into him. Into a killer. You have to come to grips with the fact that you killed another human being. Because when you kill someone, you know, there is a cost. A steep cost. I know. I've done it.
Brennan: I did the right thing.
Booth: I know. (Brennan's eyes are glistening) I was there. (edit) Mrs Epps: Extending Howard's life has given him time to come to grips with what he's done, to ask God for forgiveness.
Booth: Then we did the right thing by having his execution stayed.
Dr. Brennan: Are you on some kind of medication?
Booth:(Warningly) Bones!
Mrs Epps: Dr. Brennan, I am not one of those crazy women who falls in love with death row killers.
Dr. Brennan: Obviously that's exactly what you are. (edit) Booth: I got something for you.
Brennan: A bottle of hard liquor?
Booth: Next best thing.
(Booth takes a small pig figurine out of his pocket and sits it in the palm of his hand and moves close to Brennan)
Booth: Meet Jasper.
(They both smile. Brennan takes Jasper from Booth's hand and looks at it)
Booth: You're gonna be ok.
Brennan: (lifts her eyes to Booth and speaks with much vulnerability in her voice) Yeah?
Booth: Definitely. (edit) Epps: Those hack doctors at the prison infirmary did a miserable job setting my wrist. It aches all the time, and I don't have a full range of movement. And let me tell you, when you're stuck in a prison cell for 23 hours a day, there's really only one thing you can do to pass the time, and I need my wrist. (edit) Brennan: You said you've dealt with manipulative men before.
Angela: Sweetie, this is a psycho killer... Not some loser who wants you to co-sign a loan for his jet-ski. (edit)

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Angela gives Dr. Hodgins a nickname as a sign of her growing affection for him in this episode, she calls him "Hodgy". (edit) When Booth and Brennan save the girl from the factory, Booth runs off to find the bad guy. It shows Brennan and the girl and there is clearly a hand holding a black object moving closer to Brennan's head right before the scene switches to show Booth again. (edit) Goof: After finding the second body, Booth tells Mrs Epps that it was found face down like the rest of Howard's victims. But When Booth and Brennan found the body in the mine it was clearly face up. (edit)

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Hodgins: This proves Epps is working for the top level of the Illuminati.

In the realm of conspiracy theory and contemporary folk mythology Illuminati refers to a shadowy conspiratorial organisation which is reputed to secretly control world affairs. In this conspiratorial context, the Illuminati is often believed to be the masterminds behind the events that will lead to a New World Order. (edit) Zack: Classic Game Theory.

Game theory is often described as a branch of applied mathematics and economics that studies situations where players choose different actions in an attempt to maximise their returns. The essential feature, however, is that it provides a formal modelling approach to social situations in which decision makers interact with other minds. (edit)

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The Boy in the Shroud (2-3)

Originally aired: Wednesday September 13, 2006 on FOX

Writer: Gary Glasberg
Director: Sanford Bookstaver
Show Stars: T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth)
Recurring Role: Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille Saroyan)
Guest Stars: Scott Leavenworth (Carter) , Kim Staunton (Suzanne Lawler) , Tara Karsian (Dianne Child) , Dylan McLaughlin (Alex Morris) , Tom Choi (FBI Agent) , Brandon Smith (Kid #1) , Pamala Tyson (Fran Duncan) , Kathleen Gati (Mrs. Krane) , Jon Sklaroff (Kevin Duncan) , William Bumiller (Mr. Krane) , Leah Pipes (Kelly Morris)
Production Code: 2AKY03

Dr. Brennan and Hodgins arrive at the site of an overturned garbage truck to meet Booth and Cam. Amongst the trash from the truck, wrapped in a shroud, is the body of a young male that bares the injuries of a high fall. In his fist Brennan finds something organic and bags it for further examination.

Brennan joins Zack and Cam at the lab to examine the body. Angela is looking at the shroud that wrapped the body and Hodgins is sifting through the entire load of trash from the truck. Cam finds shards of glass embedded in the body and Brennan notes impact marks across the spine that were damaging, but not likely fatal.

Angela pulls the gang into her office to show them what she’s found off the shroud. Similar to the famous Shroud of Turin, which supposedly bared the impression of the face of Christ, this shroud left a facial imprint as well and Angela was able to create a composite from it. She concludes that the boy was Caucasian with recently cut brown hair and good dental work which conflicts with Cam and Booth’s assumption that he was probably a street kid.

Angela searches the missing persons database with Brennan, Booth and Cam over her shoulder. Cam suggests they focus the search on runaways and kids from the foster system because statistically this boy will most likely fall into those categories. This pains Brennan who comes from the foster system herself. Angela finds a match, Dylan Krane, not a foster child. A runaway from a wealthy family, but he went missing with his girlfriend, Kelly Morris, who is from the foster system.

The parents of Dylan Krane are brought to the Jeffersonian to be informed of their son’s death. They confirm that it is he and Brennan tells them that he died from a fall of approximately 50 feet. The parents know that their boy would not commit suicide. They show a picture of Kelly Morris whom they think took their boy down the wrong path because she was a foster child. Brennan doesn’t appreciate their bias.

On the way to the FBI offices to meet Kelly Morris’s foster mother Brennan expresses how hurt she is by the prejudice of everyone around her towards foster children. Booth tries to make people’s judgments seem reasonable, but doesn’t want to distance himself from Brennan.

In Booth’s office he and Brennan sit with Suzanne Lawler, Kelly Morris’s foster mother. She explains how kind and positively influential Dylan Krane was with Kelly. She goes on to say that the two kids were sexually involved and that she told them that couldn’t be together in her house. She also cares for Kelly’s little brother who is 12 and didn’t think that kind of activity should be happening around him. Kelly’s younger brother Alex enters the office to ask if Kelly is OK and Booth assures him that she will be OK.

At the Jeffersonian Booth and Brennan meet with Cam who’s found female tissue under Dylan’s fingernails and scratches on him with traces of rust and nail polish. The same rust was found on his back wounds. Booth and Cam conclude that Dylan tried to break up with Kelly and she hit him with a rusty pipe and then pushed him through a window. Brennan doesn’t like the fact that they jumped to such sudden conclusions and exits to find out what really happened before go arrest Kelly Morris just because she’s a foster kid.

With Zack, Brennan looks over Dylan’s remains. They establish that his arms were not outstretched to brace the impact of the fall so he must have been unconscious when he fell. Zack also confirms that Dylan was hit with something rusty and cylindrical such as a pipe. Brennan hates that his findings match that of Cam’s, but she accepts them. Hodgins arrives to share that the organic matter found in Dylan’s grasp is a rosebud. He also examined the garbage found with the body and found left over food from what is most likely a Russian restaurant. He tells them to have Booth check the route of the garbage truck for a Russian restaurant to find the scene of the crime.

Booth and Brennan are in the neighborhood of the Russian restaurant and it ain’t Beverly Hills. Street kids are everywhere. Brennan goes against Booth’s advice and tries to question them about Kelly and Dylan. She attempts to buy info from them and they just take her money as Booth stands in the wings laughing. Then they see an exchange between some street kids and someone in a van. Booth rushes in screaming FBI and the kids scatter. Brennan inspects the van to find Kevin and Fran Duncan, soap, condoms, and sandwiches. They’re volunteer workers trying to help the homeless teens. Booth questions them about Dylan and Kelly and they know exactly who they are, but they are surprised to hear that Dylan is dead. They want to help.

Booth and Brennan follow Kevin and Fran to a warehouse where a lot of the street kids live. It used to be a plumbing supply factory, so it’s full of pipes. Outside the building they find a shrine built in Dylan’s memory. Then a street kid suspiciously bolts past them and they chase him down.

The crew arrives at the warehouse for inspection while Booth questions Carter, the street boy they just caught. He’s wearing Dylan Krane’s sweatshirt, but doesn’t say where he got it. He tells them that if they want to know what happened to Dylan and Kelly, ask Kevin and Fran Duncan.

At the FBI Booth ran Kevin and Fran Duncan through the system and found dirt on Kevin. He’s been arrested three times for soliciting minors. Booth and Brennan think that he might have gone after Kelly, fought with Dylan, hit him with the pipe and thrown him out the window.

Hodgins is in the lab going over the pipe samples he took from the warehouse and Angela stops by to see how he’s doing. He’s found the window that Dylan was thrown through because the glass matches the shards found embedded in his body, but the pipe search continues. They have an awkward exchange and try to overlook the obvious sexual tension between the two of them.

At the FBI Booth questions Kevin Duncan. Booth shows him photos of three girls that claim Duncan solicited sex from them. Duncan denies it, calling them liars, but Booth isn’t buying it.

At the lab Cam confirms to Brennan that the nail polish found in scratch marks on Dylan’s body matches polish taken from Kelly’s room. Cam wants Hodgins to continue looking for the pipe that may have been used, but Brennan would rather he do further testing on the rosebud. Cam overrides Brennan’s decision and when Brennan threatens to quit Angela threatens to go with her. Cam backs down, but not willingly.

Booth is in his office when Kelly’s little brother Alex shows up to tell him that Kelly called him to say that she was OK. He breaks down, scared that Kelly will never come home. Booth takes him home.

Booth then heads to the lab to meet Cam who has Kevin Duncan, dead, on an autopsy table. He was shot in the chest. They suspect Kelly might have killed him for revenge. Cam then asks Booth about where he would stand if Brennan left the Jeffersonian and tells her that he would stand with Brennan. Cam is disappointed that she hasn’t made a connection with Brennan yet. Hodgins comes in with info on the rosebud. It was the same type of rose mentioned in the pages of “Romeo and Juliet.” The only place to find one in the area is at the United States Botanic Gardens. After Hodgins exits Booth reveals to Cam that Brennan was a foster child. Cam feels horrible and realizes that she might have to be a little more sensitive on this case.

Booth goes with Hodgins to the Botanic Gardens to see if anyone recognizes Kelly and they actually find Kelly. They corner her and ask her if she was there when Dylan was killed and she confesses that she was the killer.

Booth interrogates Kelly with Brennan. She says she killed Dylan while he was still conscious by throwing him out a window and then fled the scene. Brennan knows that she’s lying though and when she tells Kelly that Kevin Duncan is dead Kelly admits to killing him as well.

Brennan and Booth head to the diner to think things through. They wonder if she just wants to get off the streets or if she’s protecting someone else. They get a surprise visit from Fran Duncan who pulls out a gun and confesses that she shot Kevin Duncan after she discovered that he had been using the food truck as a place to meet street girls. Fran didn’t want Kelly to pay for the crime that she committed. Booth arrests her and they exit.

At the lab Cam confirms through ballistics that the gun Fran turned in and bullet from Kevin’s chest are a match. Hodgins enters with the pipe that was used in the beating of Dylan before his fall. Brennan wants to see how the pipe was used.

Angela strikes up a roll-playing scenario using everyone as if they were people at the scene of the crime. They figure out that if Dylan and Kelly were arguing face to face than someone must have hit Dylan from behind. As he fall toward the window unconscious, Kelly must have tried to grab him leaving the scratch marks, but she couldn’t hold on and he fell out the window. Now they’re wondering whom Kelly is covering for. Booth can think of only two people she would cover for and one of them was Dylan Krane.

They bring Kelly in for questioning and they push her to admit that her little brother was the one who hit Dylan with the pipe because he thought he was taking Kelly away from him. She didn’t want Alex to kill Dylan. Alex was just confused. Kelly breaks down because she doesn’t want her little brother to suffer for his crime. She loves him too much, but it’s over and she can’t protect him anymore. Kelly and Alex have words before he’s taken away and it breaks Brennan’s heart.

At the lab Hodgins gives Angela a rose, which she happily accepts. At the diner Brennan finds Cam and joins her for a meal. They both apologize for being too stubborn toward each other. They mend their hearts and find common ground talking about Booth.

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add » Booth: Do you have a list like Carter?
Brennan: Of foster families that didn't work out? Yeah, we all did. I wrote mine on the bottom of a shoe.
Booth: Oh. You know, they say foster kids, they're really hard on themselves.
Brennan: They?
Booth: Yeah, experts, psychologists. Apparently foster kids feel so alone in this mean world, they lose that knack of trusting other people.
Brennan: You mean at work?
Booth: Ah, everywhere, you know? The weight of the world, it's profound. They say they have a hard time letting themselves off the hook, they grow up with control issues.
Brennan: Are you telling me something, Booth?
Booth: (nonchalantly) No. Just, you know, something to keep under consideration when we catch up with Kelly Morris.
Brennan: Ok.
Booth: If you decide to take some other wisdom out of it, none of my business.
Brennan: How Cam and I get along is none of your business.
Booth: Yeah, right, which I just said, said just then, none of my business.
(Brennan remains thoughtful, pondering his words) (edit) Brennan: You have a read on Dylan Krane?
Booth: Oh, yeah. He had that whole adolescent savior complex thing going on big time.
Brennan: Savior complex?
Booth: Yeah, teenage boys love nothing more than the idea of saving the damsel in distress.
Brennan: How do you know?
Booth: Well, cause, I was, you know, I was a teenage boy. (edit) (Booth and Brennan in his car. Brennan is looking out the window, thoughtful)
Booth: You ok, Bones?
Brennan: I was a foster child.
Booth: Yeah, I know.
Brennan: Do people always assume the worst of me?
Booth: You know, I know that you hate psychology, but those people, they just lost their son. They need to blame someone. (edit) Brennan: Booth told you I was a foster kid, didn't he?
Cam: Ok. Yes, he did. But he did it with a good heart and I'd really appreciate it if you didn't let him know, please.
Brennan: He's gonna know that you told me the second he sees us together.
Cam: It's true. He's awful like that.
Brennan: He reads people the way you read pathology reports or I read bones. (edit) (Looking at the contents of the overturned garbage truck)
Cam: How much of this are you going to need?
Hodgins (with a big smile): The whole disgusting shebang. (edit)

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Here are the definitions for the forensic terms used in this episode:
scaphoid-adj. Shaped like a boat.
coptic-adj. Of or relating to the Copts, the Coptic Church, or the Coptic language.
sphenoid-n. The sphenoid bone. adj. Wedge-shaped. Of or relating to the sphenoid bone.
phalanx-n., pl. phalanxes or phalanges Anatomy. A bone of a finger or toe. Also called phalange.
Rosea Calyx-n. a type of rosebud. (edit) Goof: After the talk with Kelly's foster mother, Bones and Booth went back to her office. When Bones put her jacket on the back of her chair before she sat down, it fell on the chair. Camera angle changed and the jacket was up on the chair again even though it fell in the previous frame. (edit) Goof: In the first scene shortly after they uncover the body, a fly can be seen crawling directly on the camera lens. (edit)

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Suzanne Lawler:To feed into their Romeo and Juliet fantasy.

Romeo and Juliet are the famous star-crossed lovers of the eponymous play by Shakespeare, forced by their families to separate Juliet conceives of a plan to escape so that they can be together, but the plan ends in death and tragedy.

There are, in fact, seven additional references to Romeo & Juliet in this episode. Hodgins quotes it, and Zack identifies the quote, an inscribed copy of the play is at Dylan's shrine, Booth uses it to indicate Kelly & Dylan, Hodgins reveals the fact that the English Alba is suspected by historians of being the 'Rose by any other name', and both Booth and Brennan use it when speaking of the rose. (edit) Angela: I call it the "Shroud of Montenegro".

"Shroud of Montenegro" is an allusion to The Shroud of Turin, which is a centuries old linen cloth that bears the image of a crucified man. A man that millions believe to be Jesus of Nazareth. (edit) Agent Booth: The squints would flee the Jeffersonian like the French army.

This is an allusion to the French Revolutionary Army who was the military of France during the period between the fall of the ancient regime under Louis XVI in 1792 and the formation of the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804. In one battle, the French Army struck first, but the invasion soon turned into a debacle when it was found that the revolutionary forces were next to useless in combat. Many troops fleed the field at the first sign of battle, and even in one case murdered their general to avoid a battle. Thus, they were ridiculed for "fleeing" from battle, much like the squints would without Dr. Brennan at their healm. (edit)

Mother and Child in the Bay (2-2)

Originally aired: Wednesday September 6, 2006 on FOX

Writer: Stephen Nathan
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Show Stars: Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy), David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth)
Recurring Role: Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille Saroyan)
Guest Stars: Ty Panitz (Parker) , Tangie Ambrose (Faith Davis) , Shane Johnson (Kyle Richardson) , Sean McGowan (Drew) , Kirsten Potter (Mary Corbis) , Kate Norby (Karen Tyler) , Jessica Capshaw (Rebecca Stinson) , Jessica Wright (Tina Holmes) , Jeff Austin (Michael Jules) , Chris Conrad (Agent) , Caryn West (Patricia Campbell) , Bruce French (Dennis Campbell) , Adam Lieberman (FBI Agent Sanders)
Production Code: 2AKY02

Booth enters Brennan’s office to inform her that police think they’ve discovered the body of Carlie Richardson in the Delaware Bay. She was a pregnant woman who went missing a year prior. Although the case got a lot of press Brennan still has no idea who she is, which spurs an argument between her and Booth about how she needs to get out more. Booth moves on to explain that the story of Richardson. She was a newly wed with a husband that was cheating on her. Evidence on her case says that they had a fight the day she went missing, the husband had scratch marks, and a witness says that they saw him down by the marina.

On the way out of the lab to the bay Booth gets a call from his ex-girlfriend concerning whom their son will spend the weekend with. Booth doesn’t like the idea of his ex’s new boyfriend moving in on his time with his son. Brennan is losing Zack herself. It seems that Cam has stolen Zack and taken him under her wing. They both head out determined to gets their relationships back.

In the car Booth and Brennan both vent about their issues, Brennan about Cam taking over the Jeffersonian and Booth about the livelihood of his son.

At the scene of the crime Brennan ID’s the body as a Caucasian female that has been in the bay for approximately one year. Then she uncovers the fetus, still intact with the female’s body. Marks on the bone indicate that the victim was stabbed violently, multiple times. The victim is wearing the same clothes that Carlie was last seen in so Booth exits to go bring in her ex-husband for questioning.

Booth kicks the door down at Kyle Richardson’s house to find Karen Tyler, frightened with a bloody nose. She tells Booth that Kyle saw the news about finding Carlie’s body, fought with her, hit her in the face, and then left.

Booth arrives back at the lab with a box of evidence from Richardson’s house for the squints to examine. The box includes rope, plastic sheeting, and a knife set with one knife missing. The rope is a match. Evidence from the crime seen includes a fish that had been trapped in the plastic wrap with Carlie’s body. Zack gives it to a giddy Hodgins who can’t wait to examine it. Booth isn’t as excited. As he stands over the tattered corpse with the fetal skeleton exposed, Brennan clearly sees that it’s affecting him. He storms out, all business, ready to crack this case.

In the FBI interrogation room Booth sits with Karen Tyler who says she was there to comfort Kyle Richardson after the trial. Booth reveals some photos to show that she wasn’t the only one comforting him. She already knew about the other women, but swears that he is not the type to murder. She tells Booth that he was planning on divorcing her, but he would never kill her.

At the lab Brennan examines Carlie’s bones as Angela stands by. Brennan talks about how she thinks marriage is a fading tradition of the past and is better left there, while Angela assures her that some day Brennan will meet someone that will make everything she just argued sound ridiculous. Zack enters with the skull in fragments and says that the debris in the water has caused a lot of damage. After Brennan asks him to reevaluate the stab markings on the ribs Zack says that Cam has him doing something else. Brennan has to remind Zack that he is studying under her and it’s at this time that Cam enters to remind Brennan who’s really in charge. She’s also found organic tissue underneath Carlie’s nails that should match Richardson and has something else to show Brennan in her office.

In Cam’s lab she shows Brennan a locket that has melted into the lung during putrefaction. When looked at closely they see that inside the locket an engraving reads, “I love you Kenny.” This throws them of the scent because they don’t know who Kenny is.

Booth sits at the bar of the diner talking to his son on the phone as Brennan enters to join him. Brennan tries to talk to Booth about his son, but he’d rather discuss the case. Brennan fills him in on locket and Booth can’t remember any Kenny in the case file. Booth suggests that they question Carlie’s old friends and ask who Kenny might be.

At the park Brennan and Booth talk to Carlie’s old friends, Mary Corbis, Faith Davis and Tina Holmes. Booth asks about Kenny only to find out that Kenny was the name of the dog Kyle bought her. The dog has since died. Mary took care of it after Carlie’s disappearance. Kyle brought it to her after he “accidentally” hit it with his car because Mary is a vet.

Back at the lab Hodgins show Brennan, Booth, and Cam new discoveries on the trapped fish that Zack gave him. Although Blue Fish is common in the Delaware Bay, he found particles that show that the body was in fresh water for at least six months prior to its time in the bay. Booth chimes in that the witness they have saw Kyle at the bay and with no fresh water around for miles that means that Kyle might not be the murderer.

After discussing the fact that they might have to look for a new suspect Booth follows Hodgins and Brennan to the closest fresh water source that matches the results Hodgins found on the victim. As Brennan dives to the bottom of the lake, Hodgins sifts through sediment and talks to Booth about a woman he once dated that had a child and how hard it was for him. Booth notes that Hodgins is reaching out, but dodges the deeper issue by relying on small talk. Hodgins finds some things that are worth comparing at the lab and Brennan surfaces with bones that might match the fetus.

At the lab Brennan and Zack add the bones of the fetus to the bones found at the lake. All together the fetus would have seven fingers on its left hand and two right hands. When looked at closer she finds that it’s a raccoon hand, not a baby’s hand. Hodgins enters with the data he’s complied and everything he’s compared between the body and the lake do not match.

At the FBI offices Booth is briefed on Richardson by another agent. They’ve found Richardson’s plates and car in two different places. Then Carlie’s parents come into the room. They have a picture of Carlie and Kyle and in the background is Karen Tyler who said that she met Kyle after Carlie disappeared.

At the lab the squints have recreated Carlie’s height, weight, and density in a life size model. The purpose of the model is to see how different sizes of people would stab her. This way they can ID the killer’s body type. Kyle Richardson was 200 pounds so Brennan calls Booth.

At the FBI offices Booth agrees to take a stab at taking a stab when his ex-girlfriend comes out of nowhere with a scowl. She begins to chew Booth out for running a background check on her new boyfriend. She threatens to not let Booth see his kid anymore and this puts Booth in check.

Booth arrives at the lab to help conduct the stabbing test. Everyone has a go at it and the matching body type is Angela. Karen Tyler is the same body type as Angela. Angela wonders why Kyle ran if Karen is the killer, to which Cam points out, maybe Karen killed him too and he’s yet to be found.

On the bone table Brennan and Hodgins look at Carlie’s remains again. Booth stands by. Hodgins notices that there is sediment embedded in the bone from when the knife passed through the body and into the ground. From this he might be able to find the location of the murder. Cam enters to inform the crew that it was Kyle’s DNA under Carlie’s nails, but he had admitted to fighting with her that day. She also found the DNA of a woman, perhaps Karen Tyler.

Booth brings Karen in for a talk and Brennan takes a swab from her to get her DNA. Tyler denies that she or Kyle would kill Carlie, but neither Brennan nor Booth buys her story.

At the lab Hodgins has uncovered the precise location as to where Carlie was murdered; Gloucester City, New Jersey. No one ever moved the body. The body was dumped in a creek and when heavy rains came six months ago she must have washed out into the bay.

They go to Gloucester, New Jersey to the scene of the crime and uncover an overnight bag that belonged to Carlie. This shows that she wasn’t there out of force.

Brennan and Booth go back to the friends of Carlie’s and ask them if they know whom Karen Tyler was and Mary the vet says that she saw them together at a Starbucks around the time Carlie went missing. After the visit with the friends and their kids Brennan and Booth have an argument about the worth of having kids.

Brennan and Booth arrive at the lab to find out that the DNA from under Carlie’s nails doesn’t match Karen Tyler. Also tissue from the fetus showed traces of an anti-depression drug that Carlie was not taking. They reexamine the fetus’s skull bones only to find that it’s not a fetus at all. This is the skull of a baby that lived at least two weeks. Carlie’s fetus was removed and replaced with this baby.

Still in the lab the squints examine the baby’s bones to find that it was dead when it replaced the other baby. There is evidence to show that it suffered shaken baby syndrome. Odds are that the mother was on the anti-depression for post partum depression, got upset at the baby, and shook it too hard. The stab wounds on Carlie were all high enough not to harm the child and the marks on the lower ribs must have been from a surgical instrument used when removing the fetus. Booth gets a call; they’ve found Kyle Richardson.

At the FBI offices Brennan and Booth question Kyle who denies knowing who killed his wife with child. He says that he did want to leave them, but he didn’t kill them. They tell him that his child might still be alive.

Booth meets up with Hodgins at the lab where Hodgins explains that he found betadine on Carlie’s remains. It’s used to keep wounds from infecting during surgeries. Angela has made an aging composite of the baby’s skull to help pinpoint who the mother might be. When the Angelator displays the composite Brennan knows exactly who it is.

At the park where Carlie’s old friends were questioned Booth and Brennan look for Mary the vet who would have the knowledge and access of equipment to carry out such an act. They find her and confront her and she finally admits to the murder. The baby is taken from her and she’s put under arrest.

Back at the FBI offices they present Kyle Richardson with his son. It’s hard for him to think of himself as a father, but something almost changes in him instantly that makes you think he might be OK after all.

Brennan and Booth grab a bite to eat at the diner, where they get a visit from Booth’s son, his ex and her boyfriend. Booth confronts the new man and as nice as he is Booth can’t handle the idea of Parker with a new father figure, but when his ex suggests that maybe they should just leave Booth buckles and realizes that if he’s gonna be able to see his kid, then he’s gonna have to deal with things the way they are.

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add » Brennan: You think Richardson can rise to the occasion? Be a decent father?
Booth: He's got Carlie's parents to help him and I like to think that people can change.
Brennan: Faith and hope, right?
Booth: Right.
Brennan: Angela threw in love, too.
Booth: Love is good. (edit) Brennan: (about Richardson) He didn't kill her.
Booth: No, but he ran. How do you just cut your family out of your life like that?
Brennan: What about Abraham?
Booth: You're gonna throw religion in my face right now?
Brennan: I thought you find answers in what you believe.
Booth: Well, that's the one Bible story that I just don't like. I mean, God commands Abraham to kill his own son and he does.
Brennan: Abraham does not kill Isaac.
Booth: But old Ab, he had the intention.
Brennan: I thought what he had was faith.
Booth: Look, I have faith. But if God himself came down, pointed at Parker and said I want you to, you know, that ain't gonna happen.
Brennan: God's messenger stopped Abraham?
Booth: Yeah. You know, grabbed his hand the last second right before the knife was about to go in.
Brennan: Ok, then the lesson I would learn from this myth -
Booth: Myth?
Brennan: Fits the definition.
Booth: Ok, fine.
Brennan: That when it comes to your children your love has to be absolute. The messenger represents goodness, what you know to be right, ergo you have to remain open to what you know is true.
Booth: (smiles) Are you sure you're not religious?
Brennan: Science all the way.
Booth: Science all the way.
Brennan: Hey, even an empiricist can have a heart, Booth. (edit) Brennan: I understand killers, I just don't know how mothers can do it. I mean, dogs can be trained in a couple of weeks. Kids, mothers have to give up their lives for years.
Booth: No, no. When you're looking at your kid, you don't feel like you're giving up anything.
Brennan: So, you'd do it again?
Booth: What?
Brennan: You'd have Parker, even with everything you're going through?
Booth: What kind of question is that?
Brennan: Wouldn't it be easier if Parker wasn't caught in this drama of yours, with Rebecca, new boyfriend?
Booth: God, no, no, Bones! He's my son. Whatever we're going through, it's not about that and he knows that.
Brennan: That's what parents say when they want to justify themselves.
Booth: You know, I haven't walked out on Parker, alright? I would never have done what your parents did.
Brennan: I didn't say you would, I just - I don't know. You're the father, I don't know anything about raising kids.
Booth: Parker's fine. (edit) (Booth and Brennan talking on the phone)
Booth: You want me to what?
Brennan: Stab the body for me. We need to match force with the injuries recorded on the remains.
Booth: Ok, I'm stabbing the body.
Brennan: It's a replica. We're all going to do it, you're just the closest to Kyle Richardson.
Booth: Ok, you know what? That's great, I'll be there in twenty. But in the future, you just got to ask me differently Bones, because you know what? Come over to your place to stab a body? That is just freaky. (edit) (Booth and Brennan in the diner. Booth just finished talking to Parker on the phone)
Brennan: New boyfriend spending a lot of time with your son?
Booth: Yeah. So, you got any new information for me Bones?
Brennan: (referring to Parker) I'm sorry.
Booth: Yeah, there's no need.
Brennan: It must be hard, not being able to see him when you want to.
Booth: See, this is information that I already know, Bones. Why don't you, let's say we just discuss the case, hm?
Brennan: (sees that he's upset) Sure.
Booth: You know, I'm his father. Parker knows that. I mean, that's, that's what's important, not some stupid trip to the zoo.
Brennan: No, absolutely.
Booth: Right.
Brennan: Yeah.
Booth: Done.
Brennan: Of course.
Booth: Boom. (edit)

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When Bones and Booth are on the way to see Richardson, at the end of their conversation Bones says to Booth "Hey even an empiricist can have a heart Booth" but the camera changes to the side of Bones and she doesn't actually mouth the words "heart Booth" even though you can still hear her saying it. (edit) Booth, as a lawman, isn't wearing his seat belt when he and Dr. Brennan are driving to the crime scene.
He has NOT been wearing his seat belt in car drives during season 1 either. (edit) Here are definitions for the forensic terms used in this episode:
manubrium-n. A body part or process shaped like a handle. Also called presternum. The broad upper division of the sternum with which the clavicle and first two ribs articulate. The long tapering process of the malleus attached to the central portion of the eardrum.
adipocere-n. A brown, fatty, wax-like substance that forms on dead animal tissues in response to moisture.
calcaneus also calcaneum-n. The quadrangular bone at the back of the tarsus. Also called heel bone.
escitalopram- Escitalopram (the generic name for Lexapro) is an oral drug that is used for treating depression and generalized anxiety disorder.
Betadine-a consumer-available antiseptic used to treat minor cuts on mammals. Betadine is also used to prepare the skin prior to surgery.
hamate Anatomy: Hooked at the tip. This is one of the carpal bones of the wrist, along with the triquetal. (edit) In the beginning of the episode, Booth calls his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend Stu, when his real name was Drew. (edit) The fact that Gloucester City is beautiful and mentioning vacation homes there is pretty funny. Gloucester city is that town you see looking off the right side of the Walt Whitman when you come in to Jersey. (edit)

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This case is based on the story of Scott and Laci Peterson. Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Laci and their unborn son on Christmas Eve, 2002. The underlying theory is that he killed his wife so that he could pursue a life with his mistress, Amber Frey. (edit)