Director: Craig Ross Jr.
Show Stars: Eric Millegan (Zack Addy), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille Saroyan (Season 2)), Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth)
Guest Stars: Charles Mesure (Pete Sanders) , Benito Martinez (Thomas Vega) , James McDonnell (James Kent) , Rich McDonald (Pennsylvania State Trooper) , Julie Ann Emery (Janine O'Connell) , Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Assistant U.S. Attorney Kim Kurland)
Production Code: 2AKY09
Brennan awakes in a car not realizing where she is. When she rolls down the window, she realizes that the car had been buried underground. She turns to find Hodgins in the back seat with broken legs. She realizes that they’ve been caught by the Grave Digger.
FLASHBACK 48 hours before Brennan and Booth arrive to a crime scene in the woods where a sheriff claims local kids found a flying saucer with aliens onboard. When Brennan gets a look she discerns that they are two young boys and the “flying saucer” is a beer vat sealed shut. Judging by their decomposition, she knows they’ve been dead for years.
At the lab with both bodies out for examination, Zack explains that one of the bodies has multiple broken bones while the other body has none. Also with the amount of blood found in the vat, he thinks that the boy with the injuries bled to death, while the other boy would have later suffocated. He also adds that they were twins. Booth enters with a photo of the boys, Matthew and Ryan Kent. They were abducted in 2001.
Booth & Brennan sit with AUSA Kim Kurland and ex FBI agent Pete Sanders. They worked the Kent case in 2001. Since then Sanders has become a drunk, but Kurland has remained on the case. Sanders told the Kent parents not to pay the ransom, following FBI protocol, but the Grave Digger didn’t budge. The Grave Digger has consistently been cooperative when he is paid on time and has never revealed the location of the buried hostages without being paid. Kurland tells Booth & Brennan to talk to Thomas Vega, who wrote a book on the Grave Digger.
Booth & Brennan sit with Vega and question him. Vega is joined by a journalist, Janine O’ Connell, whom helped Vega write his books. They seem to admire and loath the Grave Digger all at once and it doesn’t sit well with Booth.
In the lab, Zack finds burn marks on the neck of one of the boys, most likely from a stun gun, but the other boy with the broken bones does not have the same markings. Hodgins arrives with info that concludes that the boys were most likely in an indoor parking lot before they were kidnapped. Brennan tells both Zack and Hodgins to compare their findings with the files on past victims.
Booth & Brennan sit with the father of the twins, James Kent. He’s not thrilled to be working with the FBI again after their advice led to his boys’ death. While cross referencing facts with Mr. Kent, Brennan gets a text message from Hodgins saying that the twins only had 12 hours of air while the Grave Digger gave Mr. Kent 24 hours to wire the money, which means the Grave Digger either was going to kill them anyway or he miscalculated his kidnapping and had to take both boys instead of one.
In the car Booth & Brennan discuss religion. Brennan says the Grave Digger is like God: giving a deadline, and a set of rules that are non-negotiable. Booth takes offense, and Brennan asks if she could go to church with him sometime. He says no, if she wants to conduct an anthropological study, to watch the religious channel on TV.
Back at the lab, Brennan and the squints examine the containers that the past victims were buried in and Hodgins inspects their clothes to find the same residue that would confirm that all of the victims were taken from indoor parking lots.
Around the Angelator, Angela shows Booth & Brennan a scenario proving that the injuries to the one twin happened before he was put into the vat, but Brennan adds that the amount of blood on the floor couldn’t have come from his skeletal injuries. Booth chimes in with his idea that the Grave Digger probably tried to kidnap just one of the twins and when the brother showed up and interfered, he was hit with a car a then kidnapped as well.
Brennan heads out to a martial arts class and while at her car is approached from behind and then falls unconscious. Hodgins comes out to find her, but is then hit by a car.
With Cam and Booth out to dinner, they talk about their relationship. Booth gets a call on his phone from the Grave Digger asking for 8 million dollars in exchange for Brennan and Hodgins location.
Booth is joined by AUSA Kurland, Vega, and O’Connell and they discuss a plan for getting their friends back. Vega suggests that they do as the Grave Digger asks and O’Connell wonders why he’s asking for so much money. Booth explains that Hodgins is the only living heir of the Cantilever Group.
Now back with Brennan and Hodgins in the buried car where we left them in the teaser, Brennan dresses his wounds from the car accident and they try and piece together what’s happened to them. Neither of them have memory what happened just before they woke up in the car. They calculate that they have only 10 hours of air left.
In the lab, Booth gathers the squints to fill them in. They head to the parking lot to scope out the area around Brennan’s car. Cam spots a puddle of blood and they call for FBI to inspect the scene.
In the buried car, Brennan takes inventory of what they have to survive: water, some pens, a laser pointer, two broken cell phone with no batteries, a camera with extra lithium batteries, and her latest novel. Hodgins also has a bottle of perfume that he purchased for Angela. Hodgins complains of leg pain and Brennan thinks he might have compartment syndrome and he could slip into shock and die.
In the lab, Cam presses Zack for info. Zack says that the stun gun search was a dead end, but he did find that the injured twin stabbed himself in the neck with a pen, killing himself. Zack doesn't know why he would do that, and says he doesn't do the "why" he only does the "how", Cam thinks he did it to give his brother more air. Zack doesn’t know why that matters and Cam tells him that it will matter when she tells their father that one of his sons sacrificed himself so the other could live (even if it was in vain).
In the buried car, Brennan has an idea of how Hodgins can avoid the compartment syndrome. She must make a long incision along his leg to relieve the pressure. The pain will be high and it could send him into shock, but he will surely go into shock if they don’t do something. Hodgins rips out a page from Dr. Brennan's Book and writes a note, and puts it in his pocket. Brennan asks if it is a note to Angela. Hodgins says yes, just in case, and then explains that he is over-the-moon stupid-in-love with Angela, and that's why he bought her the three-thousand dollar an ounce perfume, because that kind of gift says I love you, and now that he has said it out loud, he is ready for Brennan to perform the surgery. Before the incision, Brennan finds some kind of sticker in his leg, a clue, but says they will deal with it later, and stores it in the pages of her book for safety. She then cuts in.
In the lab, Cam meets with Booth to find out that the Cantilever Group has a policy of never paying for ransom without a proof of life and Hodgins is the one who created the rule. They think that they must have been close to finding something on the Kent boys' case and the Grave Digger wanted to take them off course.
In the buried car, Hodgins wakes up from a car horn blast to Brennan’s relief. She’s been working on hotwiring her cell phone to the wires of the car horn. If they hold down the horn they might be able to send one text message before frying her phone, but first they need to figure out what message to send. Brennan grabs some of the dirt that leaked in when she opened the window in the beginning, and gives it the “the dirt man” himself to find out where they are. He finds coal in the dirt, which means they’re in coal country, specifically Virginia. He uses the chemicals in the perfume and the laser pointer while looking through the lens of the camera to find out what kind of coal, to narrow down the destination, he tells Brennan he knows where they are.
Booth is in his office impatient, and Vega comes in and says that Booth should face facts, the Grave Digger is always consistent, and doesn't make mistakes, if he doesn't deliver the ransom, his partner will die. Booth throws him on the table in a choke hold and tells him that he has a close relationship with the Grave Digger, and that he better figure out a way to help, because if his partner (Brennan) dies, he will end Vega. Then lets him go and says that Vega has three hours, and he better hurry.
While Brennan readies the phone to send their message, Hodgins figures out that he was indeed hit by a car, because the sticker fragment that Brennan found in his leg is from a pre-paid toll road bumper sticker. Hodgins has also figured out an eight keystroke message to send, and she says they will only have 4 - 6 seconds to type n the message and hit speed-dial. She honks and Hodgins sends it. It sparks, and she asks if it was sent, and they both agree they think it sent.
Booth gets the encoded text message in his office. He runs to the lab to ask the squints if they can crack the code, but the 10 hours has passed and they assume that Brennan and Hodgins have run out of air. Booth won’t settle for this.
In the buried car, Brennan has cut through the back seat into the truck for more air. She also cuts into the spare tire, but it’s looking bleak. She says that Booth will find them, and he tells her that she has a lot of faith in him. She says that is not true, faith is irrational, and she has seen what he can do, and she knows. Hodgins says that they are buried underground, and no offense, but what she has is faith. Hodgins then realizes that if he leaks the batteries and mixes them with the powder and water that Brennan has, he can create oxygen, but not much. She has another idea, since they have more oxygen, but it may kill them. She will use the explosives from the airbags to blast the windshield. Hodgins says that will surely kill them, and she says that so will doing nothing.
At the lab, Booth is flying off the handle because the squints have given up, but he won’t let that happen. He orders them to keep thinking of ways to locate them. They go through with Cam leading them step by step, "jumping to conclusions" about the message. They decide that the message is numbers, so it is intended for Zack, and that it is about dirt, because Hodgins is all about dirt. Vega comes in with Janine O' Connell and says that he used all her contacts, but the Grave Digger won't call. Zack suddenly realizes the meaning of the text message, and narrows their location down to a specific place, and they head out to find Brennan and Hodgins along with Vega and O' Connell .
In the buried car, Brennan has rigged the explosive. If they are less then four feet below the surface this could get them to freedom, if not, the concussion will "turn their brains to jelly". Hodgins rips out a page from the book and hands it to Brennan, so she can write goodbye to who she wants, just-in-case.
Booth and the team arrive to where they think Brennan and Hodgins are buried. The area they need to search is a little greater than three football fields, but with help from the FBI they spread out.
Inside the car Hodgins and Brennan are ready for the blast, they are sitting in the back seat, as far away from the blast they can get. They hug, and touch the wires together.
Just when it starts to look bleak, Booth spots a puff of dust shooting through the ground; the explosion from the airbags. He bolts over, starts digging, and everyone follows. Brennan and Hodgins are pulled to the surface. Brennan and Booth share a knowing look, and Angela and Hodgins kiss.
Later, Angela walks up to Hodgins in the lab, asking him why he left the hospital without being discharged, and stole crutches that she had to pay for, and he says that he needs to find out who the Grave Digger is, and he can't go to sleep anyway. Angela thought they gave him sleeping pills, but Hodgins is afraid that if he goes to sleep, when he opens his eyes he will be back in the car, buried. Angela insists that he come home with her and when he opens his eyes, she will be there, and he agrees.
Flash to Booth kneeling, praying in church, with Brennan sitting in a pew next to him. She asks what Booth asked for, and he says he won't tell, except that he asked for help in finding the Grave Digger, and he gave thanks. Brennan explains that even though she still doesn't believe in God, she is glad that Both thanked God for Hodgins' and her being found. He says he thanked God not for her and Hodgins being rescued, but for saving all of them. They are all connected and if one of them goes, then they are all stuck down in that hole.
*this is the end of the aired version of the show, but the official website also adds this information to the ending:
Later, Brennan shows Booth the toll road sticker she found in Hodgins’ leg. They run it and it links them to Janine O’Connell. They arrest her and the case is closed.
Quotes
add » (Booth and Brennan sitting next to each other in a church)Brennan: I'm ok with you thanking God for saving me and Hodgins.
Booth: That's not what I thanked him for. I thanked him for saving...all of us. It was all of us, every single one. You take one of us away and you and Hodgins are in that hole forever. (Booth looks at Brennan whose eyes are glistening with tears) And I'm thankful for that.
Brennan: I knew you wouldn't give up.
Booth: I knew you wouldn't give up. (edit) Cam: How are we going to get our hands on eight million dollars?
Zack: Hodgins is rich.
Cam: He is?
Zack: "Rich squared to the power of ten times four" is how he puts it. (edit) Hodgins: (blurts) I'm nuts about Angela. Over the moon. Stupid in love with her. That's why I bought her that ... that crazy, expensive perfume. A man gives you a bottle of perfume like that, it says ... it says, "I love you". (Brennan nods) There. I said it out loud. (edit) Booth: I need you to be Dr. Brennan.
Zack: (quoting Brennan) I don't know what that means. (edit) Brennan: I knew you wouldn't give up.
Booth: I knew you wouldn't give up. (edit) In the lab, when Angela translates Hodge's code and says that they needn't investigate, but need millions of dollars to free Hodge and Brennan, there is a clock in the background. At the beginning it reads 5 hours and 33 minutes, and after not even a minute of conversation, it reads 5 hours and 8 minutes, leaving 22 and a half minutes unacounted for. (edit) Goof: The batteries in Nikon cameras are 7.4V, that would have been easier to step down with a resistor. (edit) Hodgins tells Brennan (and Cam gets told) that he is filthy rich. (edit) When the gang goes out to the parking garage and discover the blood, Zack is told to be Dr. Brennan, and he replies "I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS" referencing to what Dr. Brennan is always saying. (edit) Although it is suspected, we get to hear Hodgins voice his feelings for Angela that have been building up from the middle of last season. He finally admits that he loves Angela, to Dr. Brennan. (edit)
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