The Headless Witch in the Woods (2-10)

Originally aired: Wednesday November 29, 2006 on FOX

Writer: Stephen Nathan, Karine Rosenthal
Director: Tony Wharmby
Show Stars: Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille Saroyan (Season 2)), David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth), Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins)
Guest Stars: Kristoffer Polaha (Will Hastings) , Jake Richardson (Brian Andrews) , Michael Trevino (Graham Hastings) , Amanda Fuller (Lori Mueller) , Paul Terrell Clayton (Doug Edison (credited as Terrell Clayton)) , Joshua Leonard (Nate Gibbons) , Angel Oquendo (Nurse) , Kip Garwood (Young Man)
Production Code: 2AKY10

Scene opens in the woods on Booth, Brennan and an unknown cop. They talk about how thick the forest is. Brennan wanders off and finds an eye-shaped talisman hanging from a branch. Booth panics when she is lost. When talking to the cop about the eye they find out about Maggie Cinders – an accused witch who was beheaded and legend is she still haunts the woods looking for her severed head. Brennan is sceptic and Booth is a little freaked out and wants to keep moving.

When approaching the taped off area in the clearing we learn that the body was in a pit covered with branches and leaves but was discovered by a group of hikers. The cop thinks that it was Maggie Cinders as she said she would “kill anybody who dared to look for her”. Bones makes a sarcastic comment saying “it must have been difficult for her to talk considering she didn’t have a head”. Booth looks nervous.

We see the body in the pit and Brennan climbs in. We now learn that Maggie Cinders supposedly killed her victims by cutting of their heads. We learn that the victim is male aged between 18-23 and has a video camera. We also find out that he is killed by decapitation – surprise surprise – and his head is now missing. Could this be the work of Maggie Cinders?

Cuts to Brennan, Zach and Cam in lab – the team discuses ghosts – Brennan says she does not believe in ghosts and Cam shares that her mother appeared to her the day after she died. Zach and Brennan say nothing but look sceptical. Jack walks in and shares that the victim died last November – splinters that were found in the neck where the head was support to be date back from the 1800’s when Maggie Cinders was killed. Hodgin’s also shares that Maggie Cinders is rumoured to behead her victims with the same axe she was decapitated with. When Booth enters he reveals the victim to be Graham Hastings a film student who was making a documentary on the Maggie Cinders ledged. Angela calls everyone over as she has cleaned and repaired the remaining film in the camera – we see the woods at night and then a girl running and screaming, the screen is really static-y and the person filming is running behind the screaming girl. Cam grabs Booths hand and Brennan who is standing behind them sees. We then switch back to the computer screen to see a guy who looks scared witlessly filming himself whilst running, saying to the screen that the screaming girl (Lauren) has disappeared. The guy then starts screaming that ‘she’s here’ – there is now a copping sound in the background. We see Angela who looks like she is going to burst into tears. We then see the guy again and blood is thrown all over is face. The screen fades out and goes white.

The screen then cut to the Bones introduction.

We then cut to Hodgins, Brennan and Zach in the lab discussing the tape. Zach can’t get the screams out of his head. The subject then moves onto horror films and whether an axe was used in the decapitation. Cam enters with new evidence for Hodgins and says that the tox screens came back negative showing he was not on drugs. But they decide to re-do them once finding disturbing ramblings about Maggie Cinders in Graham’s (the victim) backpack. Brennan calls the rest of the team out on being irrational and teases them whilst leaving.

Brennan and Booth meet Grahams brother, Will and they find out that Graham and his Will’s parents died in a car crash when they were younger and Graham was then raised by Will. Brennan and Will form a bond over the loss of their parents. They flirt a little. Booth is uncomfortable and changes the topic to the night where they find out that Graham was out in the forest with another guy (Brian) and a girl (Laurie). They then talk about the search for Graham and we learn that the brother blames himself.

Screen switches to Zach and Cam discussing when Cams mother appeared to her and talk about how she felt – we learn that Zach wishes is was possible that it actually happened. Hodgins enters and Cam leaves and Hodgins and Zach practise using different weapons to find out which was used to behead Graham.

Scene then cuts to Booth and Brennan in car. We learn from Booth that Graham was at film school on a scholarship and once Graham went missing the scholarship was given to Brian, the other guy out in the woods with him that night. Brennan is distracted and contemplates what life would have been like if her brother had stayed and raised her. Booth and Brennan then share a ‘moment’. Brennan then says that she and Brian have a connection and are going for coffee. Brennan then tells Booth that she knows about him and Cam, Booth is defensive and self conscious.

Booth talks to Brian about Graham and the night in the woods and about the chopping sounds they heard. We find out that Laurie the girl in the forest freaked out and went running off and they all got separated. Brian found Laurie and got her out of the forest and they left. We find out that Laurie has been institutionalised.

Booth is talking to Laurie about the night and she doesn’t believe he is dead but simply lost in the woods. We find out that they were dating but they kept it a secret as other girls would get jealous. When Laurie finds out that Graham is dead she thinks Maggie Cinders murdered him and then she jumps up and starts screaming and having flashbacks and is then restrained.

The scene cuts to the lab, Booth is telling Brennan how she reacted they walk into the main lab where Zach is working and they find out Grahams shoulder was broken after he was murdered, so they might be able to find out where Graham was murdered from the particulates that collected in the neck wound while he was being dragged. Booth then advised Brennan not to go for coffee with Graham’s brother as they are working a case involving him but Brennan claims she can com-part metallise.

Brennan is out for coffee with Will – Graham’s brother. Brennan is nervous and starts blathering about the effects of coffee. They then discuss music and Brennan says she has limited social skills but Will reassures her that they are fine. They then talk about her brother leaving after her parents disappeared and him staying after his died. Will blames himself for Graham’s big head. They talk about Graham’s girlfriend Laurie and Brennan finds out that he was cheating on her with several other girls. Brennan then runs off as she thinks this may be a lead but rearranges a date for another time.

Scene cuts to Angela listening to loud music which muffles the screams while watching the tapes, Hodgins enters and scares her and reveals that Graham was murdered near a specific type of tree and that they need to watch all of the footage again. Hodgins and Angela start watching the footage again. Angela upset holds Hodgins hand and Hodgins puts his arm around her. We see blood running down a tree in the footage.

Scene cuts to Booth, Zach and Brennan in tab over bones of Graham, Brennan reveals to Booth about Grahams various girlfriends. Booth asks Brennan if she thinks that Laurie killed Graham because he was cheating on her. Brennan says that it is more his area of expertise. Booth misunderstands what she said and thinks that she is implying that he is cheating or cheated on someone. Brennan points out that she means the use of psychology. Brennan points out that Booth is being very touchy. Booth glares at Zach when he enquires what they are talking about and Zach withdraws his question. Booth starts hypothesising. Booth and Brennan argue about whether it is possible for Laurie to have attacked and beheaded Graham due to her small stature. Cam enters and reveals it is possible as she was on PCP drugs which can increase strength and it can also be the reason for her mental condition.

Booth confronts Brian and his and Grahams film teacher and they discuss Graham and the film which Brian is working on which is playing in the background which Brian is producing. Booth talks to Brian alone about the PCP drugs but Brian insists that they were not doing drugs that evening. Brain also insists that Laurie did not murder Graham and he insists that there was something else out there.

Scene cuts to Hodgins and Angela watching the footage, Angela closes her eyes and puts her head on Hodgins shoulder – scared by what she is watching as she knows what is about to happen. Angela begrudgingly opens her eyes and then spots the trees they were looking for and they discover where Graham was murdered. Hodgins says that he loves her eyes, Angela looks pleased. They then see a watch on screen enabling them to use the moon to pinpoint where they were. Hodgins and Angela share a moment and stare into each others eyes.

The scene cuts to day time in the woods, Booth and Brennan are out after having been called in after Graham’s skull and the axe were discovered however a second skull was discovered near by and there are no outstanding cases in the area.

The scene cuts to Angela, Zach, Hodgins, Cam and Brennan in the lab. One skull is identified as Grahams and the axe dates back to the 18th centaury and is confirmed to be the murder weapon. The second skull is revealed to be female and also from the 18th centaury. It is discovered that Graham was hit on the head before he was beheaded. However the second skull shows evidence of brain surgery, a typical test for witchcraft in the 18th centenary. The team hypothesize over whether the second skull could be that of Maggie Cinders.

Scene cuts to Booth and Brennan in her office talking about the ramblings found in Grahams backpack that where written on the back of a screen play – the same one which Brian is not producing and claims to have written. Brian stole Grahams screen play.

Scene cuts to Brennan and Booth interrogating Brian who confesses that he stole Grahams script after Graham was missing for a couple of months. Brian also tells them that when he found Laurie was covered with blood when he found her and he hid the clothing in the woods.

Cuts to Brennan and Booth in car, Booth teases guy on phone who is searching forest for the clothing and the murder place. Brennan accuses Booth of being edgy. Booth changes topic and says he does not know why he did not tell her about Cam. He says he has never had a relationship like this where they were like two guys but she’s a woman, Booth says essentially that she is a guy like him. Brennan then says that that would make him a woman, and she says she could see that, which makes Booth uncomfortable and awkward. The phone rings and they have found the clothes, Booth continues to tease the guy on the phone but is hung up upon.

Scene cuts out to Booth, Cam and Brennan in lab, Zach enters and reveals that the second skull has a serial number and was stolen from the medical teaching lab at the university.

Scene cuts to Booth, Brennan and Graham’s film teacher who took part in the stealing of his play along with Brian. It is revealed that his key card was used to enter the medical building at 2am three days before Graham was murdered. He then says that his key card was stolen. Brennan and Booth accuse him of murdering Graham and setting up the skull and axe to make it look like Maggie Cinders did it so that he could steal Graham’s screen play as Graham would not include him in the film. The teacher asks for a lawyer.

The scene cuts to Booth and Brennan wandering through the Jeffersonian’s hallways discussing the case and possible scenarios. Angela says she has found somebody else in the woods on the footage. Booth and Brennan follow Angela into where she and Hodgins were watching the film. Hodgins is watching the footage with his feet up and a bowl of popcorn. Booth asks him why he is there and Angela retorts because she wants him there. Using a mass recognition program Angela shows that there was a third man out in the woods that night at a height of 6.1. Booth and Brennan hypothesise about who it could be.

The scene cuts to Brennan out to dinner with Will – Graham’s older brother. Brennan says that they think that it could be the film teacher and tells Will about it. Will and Brennan are very sweet together and flirt and then kiss.

The scene cuts to Cam, Zach, Angela and Booth in the lab and we find out that there is some of the killer’s blood on the handle but the DNA is very similar. Hodgins enters and tells them that remains of flame retardant were found on the handle of the axe – and it is only used by professional fire fighters. Booth remembers that Will is a fire-fighter; he is about the height of the man Angela found on the tape and they are blood relatives which would explain why the DNA would be similar. Booth realises Will killed his brother and remembers Brennan is out on a date with him.

Scene cuts to the restaurant where Booth interrupts Will and Brennan’s date, Booth arrests Will for the murder of Graham and tells Brennan the information that supports it. He says he did it because he could not be responsible for raising a monster. He then claims that Maggie Cinders made him do it. Brennan tells Booth to take him away and she leaves the restaurant and she begins to cry.

Scene cuts to Hodgins and Angela, Angela is finishing up cataloguing the film footage and Hodgins is lying on the couch and they are chatting. The last piece of footage has finished rendering and they watch it and they see a ghost like figure hovering in the backgrounds in the wood, they try to rationalise it buy sound shaken. Angela asks to stay the night at Hodgins and he agrees.

The scene cuts to Brennan talking to Booth about her bad choice in men and how she cannot read people. She says it is a good job she likes being alone. Booth tells her she is not alone and gives her a hug.

The End

Quotes

add » Brennan: So you talked to Ms. Sinders? That must have been difficult since she doesn't have a head. (edit) Booth: (concerned) You want me to go down there with you?
Brennan: No, I don't want the remains compromised. (edit) Bones: I can read bones, not people.
Booth: You had no trouble seeing through me. (edit) Bones: (Walks in and sees Hodgins lounging in front of the video footage screen) Have you finished with the particulates from the ax handle?
Hodgins: I've determined that the assailant was wearing rough hewn leather gloves but I still have to check...
Booth: Then why are you in here?
Angela: Because I want him here. (edit) Booth: ...perfect cover, headless witch did it, not me. (edit)

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Joshua Leonard appears as Nate Gibbons. Leonard is famous for his role in The Blair Witch Project, which this episode is based on (parodied). (edit)

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When Booth says that he was going to talk to the girl about her "magical mystery tour" in the woods, he was talking about the Beatles' album "The Magical Mystery Tour". It's known that it was made under the influence of LSD. (edit) Booth: I'm just saying, you know, I see a lot of weird things. It was like, you know, Exorcist weird, Elm Street weird.

Booth is referring to classic horror movies:
Exorcist (1973), starring Ellen Burstyn and Max von Sydow, and
the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, with their legendary evil character Freddy Krueger. (edit) Brian: I've got it accepted in the Sundance. (about his Gilgamesh movie)

Sundance Film Festival is the largest independent cinema festival in the U.S. and ranks alongside the most prestigious film festivals worldwide (Venice, Toronto, Cannes, Berlin). (edit) When asked about favorite music, Will mentions Snow Patrol, an alternative rock band from Northern Ireland, and Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter. (edit) Graham's screenplay was based on the Epic of Gilgamesh, Babylonian poem from about 2000 BC. (edit)

Aliens in a Spaceship (2-9)

Originally aired: Wednesday November 15, 2006 on FOX

Writer: Janet Tamaro
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)

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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)

The Woman in the Sand (2-8)

When the skeletal remains of a federal prosecutor who disappeared five years earlier are found in the desert outside Las Vegas, the team suspects it to be tied to the mob. They then find the body of a woman a few yards away, who they suspect was killed by the same person.
The woman's injuries lead Brennan to believe she had a long history of domestic violence. When the husband denies having hurt his wife, they are led to a Vegas loan shark, where an anonymous lead takes them to the world of gambling and underground ultimate fighting, where Booth and Brennan go undercover as Vegas high-rollers. In an attempt to uncover the mystery, Booth risks his life.

Quotes

add » Booth: (to Agent Zhang) So, I dragged out one of the top forensic anthropologists across the country on the word of a prostitute?
Brennan: What difference does her profession make?
Booth: I'm backing you up.
Brennan: You're judging.
Booth: I wasn't judging, I had your back.
Brennan: Yeah, your voice was judging. (edit) Booth: You never told me the second reason why you bet on me.
Brennan: Yeah, it was...silly.
Booth: Well, come on, you know, try me.
Brennan: "Beginner's Luck." I haven't lost at anything since being here, so I figured if I bet on you, then--
Booth: I couldn't lose.
Brennan: It sounds silly, right?
Booth: It sounds familiar. Thanks. (edit) (Brennan is holding an icepack to Booth's head)
Agent Sugarman: Sorry Booth, I just couldn't have you blowing my cover.
Booth: Ahhhh...yeah, as they taught us in Quantico Walt, I wasn't about to.
Brennan: Do you know everyone in this town? (edit) Brennan: I suppose, from an anthropological standpoint, this taps into the nihilistic part of the human psyche fascinated by blood and gore. (edit) Cam: (to Marisol) Honey, I'm from the Bronx, don't think for a second you scare me. (edit)

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In TVGuide David Boreanaz was quoted of saying that Tony Scallion was named after his father-in-law, who's an italian cowboy in Utah. (edit) The fact that Booth has a gambling problem is very similar to an episode of Angel 4X3 entitled The House Always wins, where he can't stop playing the slots. (edit) Hemothorax
(medicine) Accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity. (edit) When the idea of Brennan and Booth investigating a murder in the world of underground boxing was created, the writers were not thrilled about it. But when they decided it would take place in Las Vegas and Brennan and Booth go undercover to crack the case, they all jumped at the chance to write the story. (edit) epicondylen.
A rounded projection at the end of a bone, located on or above a condyle and usually serving as a place of attachment for ligaments and tendons. (edit)

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Booth: That's why I brought you to Sin City Bones.

This is an allusion to another nickname for Las Vegas, Nevada. It is known as such partly due to the popularity of legalized gambling, availability of alcoholic beverages at any time (as is true throughout Nevada), and various forms and degrees of adult entertainment. Another tagline has come from Sin City lore; "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas"alluding to the many indiscretions that happen to occur there. (edit) Booth: This is America's Frying Pan.

This is an allusion to the heat of the desert around Las Vegas. In the summer, it reaches over one hundred degrees pretty much every day, and has since earned this nickname. (edit) Booth: No, Bones we are 15 miles off the strip.

"The Strip" is 4 mi (6.7 km) of Las Vegas Boulevard South partly in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, that has been designated an All-American Road. Many of the largest hotel, casino and resort properties in the world are located on The Strip. Over the years, Las Vegas Boulevard South has been called Arrowhead Highway, "Salt Lake Highway", U.S. Highway 91, and "Los Angeles Highway". The Strip was reportedly named by police officer Guy McAfee, after his hometown's Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles. (edit) Dr. Brennan: So this is America's Playground?

America's playground is a nickname for Las Vegas, in that it is like a big playground for adults, games and rides and casino's and entertainment galore! (edit) When praised by Booth for her performance as Roxanne, Brennan explains: "That's from when I used to watch old movies with my dad. He really liked Clara Bow."

It's an allusion to a real silent movies' star Clara Bow (who was also known as a person who prefer playing poker with her cook, maid, and chauffeur over attending her movie premieres). (edit)

The Girl with the Curl (2-7)

Originally aired: Wednesday November 1, 2006 on FOX

Writer: Karine Rosenthal
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Show Stars: Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille Saroyan (Season 2)), 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)
Guest Stars: Jim Hanna (Security Guard) , Jenny Stewart (Pageant Contestant) , Kali Rocha (Jackie Swanson) , Brent Jennings (Plant Supervisor) , Amanda Carlin (Donna Farrell) , Mary Gordon Murray (Charlotte Craft) , Madison Davenport (Megan) , Ariel Winter (Liza) , Grace Fulton (Hailey Farrell) , Lisa Thornhill (Kristen Mitchell) , Jason Matthew Smith (Dave Swanson) , Emerica Elan Rogers (Brianna Swanson) , Kyle Gallner (Jeremy Farrell)
Production Code: 2AKY07

Booth and Brennan are walking to the water treatment plant where human remains were found. Brennan doesn’t understand why so much of people’s tax dollars go to pay for on water treatment when billons of dollars are spent on bottled water.

They discover that the victim that they now know is a girl between the age of 8 and 10, had bleached hair, was wearing makeup, and had false teeth. Hodgins comments with “What is she a midget stripper?”

Angela brings up the topic of what childhood should be like. She says that childhood should be all about swings. Hodgins agrees with her and says that he misses that. Brennan adds that she misses organic chemistry class and Zack misses his first microscope. Booth misses normal people too.

Brennan and Booth talk to Brianna Swanson’s mother after they have confirmed the identity of the victim. Jackie Swanson believes that Brianna’s father David is responsible for her death and disappearance.

Hodgins, Cam, and Zack talk about the case and obtain important information. Cam says she will call Booth and inform him but not before Hodgins makes a sexual indo about her and Booth.

Booth and Brennan question David Swanson who believes that everything is his ex-wife Jackie’s fault because she wasted so much time accusing him for the disappearance of their daughter that the case went cold. He wants Brianna’s remains so that he can give her a proper burial because he thinks that his ex-wife would turn Brianna’s funeral into a sick show.

Back in Angela’s office Angela and Hodgins talk about the case. Hodgins asks Angela out on a date. Angela says no because they work together and Hodgins tells her that she is making a mistake. In reply Angela tells Hodgins that she will try and get details from the paper that he found in Brianna’s pocket.

Zack and Brennan compare the victim’s rib cage to that of a ten-year-old of the time period and then to a teenage girl from1872. They have learned that Brianna was wearing a corset while sleeping and suffering from malnourishment. Cam adds that it gets even better. Brianna’s tox- screen came back with traces of somatropin, tetracycline, and glycol-bromium bromide, which Zack translates as; human growth hormone, broad-spectrum antibiotic used to treat acne, and a chemical mixture to prevent perspiration. He also adds that all of these things have serious side effects.

After Zack has finished Angela walks in with news. Jackie and Brianna were fighting a half an hour before Brianna disappeared. Brennan and Booth go to talk with Jackie Swanson yet again after viewing the video that Angela had brought to their attention.

While discussing the case Cam and Zack learn the Brianna Swanson was dead before she was beaten.

Angela tells Brennan that Hodgins asked her out on a date and that she needs advise. Brennan tells Angela that Romance isn’t really her area of expertise. Cam walks into Brennan’s office in order to ask Angela if she has made any progress. Angela tells her that she hasn’t made any progress and Cam turns to leave but Angela calls her back. Since Brennan had nothing to offer her Angela wants to ask Cam her opinion on the matter. Cam agrees to help.

Cam: What’d you tell him?
Angela: No.
Cam: Why
Brennan: Because it would be a disaster!

Brennan continues to say that you should never become involved with someone you work with. Cam doesn’t believe that and suggests that Angela go on the date but tells her that it will be bad, but after a few days everything will go back to normal. Brennan surprisingly agrees with Cam. Brennan has to leave this conversation behind though because she must go meet Booth.

Booth and Brennan arrive at the dance studio. The dance teacher Charlotte Craft is also in charge of the Junior miss patriot pageant. Booth believes that because of this she may have important information. Booth and Brennan talk to one of the mothers at the dance studio. After the lesson is over Booth takes off to talk to Charlotte Craft while telling Bones to talk with the girls because she is a civilian.

Hodgins discovers that Brianna died within a one mile radius of the hotel she disappeared from. He tells Cam that he thinks Brianna was shoved into a storm culvert and washed to the treatment plant after some bad storms that hit the area a few weeks before. Cam leaves to call and update Booth on the information and Angela walks up to Hodgins. Angela has changed her mind about the date and takes Hodgins upon his offer.

Booth talks to Charlotte Craft. She shows Booth a picture that she took on her cell phone of Jeremy Farrell, a contestant’s older brother. Charlotte admits that she didn’t show that picture to law enforcement before, because she believes that Jeremy is harmless.

While Booth is talking to Charlotte, Brennan is talking to the girls about Brianna. The girls tell her that Brianna was mean and would steal things that belonged to them if she liked. They also tell her that they weren’t really friends with Brianna; they were forced to be her friend because she was the queen. Brennan goes on to give the girls an anthropological explanation for this.

Booth questions Jeremy about the day Brianna disappeared and if he had talked to her. Jeremy says that he did talk to her and they argued because Brianna was being mean to his little sister. Booth asks Jeremy if he can have his shoes because Hodgins found traces of steel and Jeremy’s shoes have a steel toe.

Hodgins confirms that Jeremy’s shoes were not made from the same material that killed Brianna.

Angela and Hodgins go out on their date. Hodgins decided to take Angela to the park to swing.

While Cam and Brennan are trying to figure out what the paper in Brianna’s jacket was Booth walks in. Booth realizes that the paper is the wrapper to a milk blast bar.

On Angela and Hodgins date Hodgins is twisting Angela around on the swings. They share a kiss.

Booth and Brennan decide to do a little investigating on their own while they wait for the FBI’s forensic team to find the culvert Brianna was hidden in. While they do their search they stumble onto the crime scene. They find a pageant medal at the crime scene.

Zack and Brennan examine at the culvert. Angela comes in and has found a news article with the pictures and names of the three winners of the 1976 competition.

Booth questions Kristen Mitchell because the pageant medal they found belonged to her. He believes that she killed Brianna Swanson so her daughter would win the competitions. Booth asks her if she reported the medal missing and her answer is that she wants a lawyer.

Zack and Brennan discover that the killer has scoliosis. Brennan calls Booth to have him see if Kristen Mitchell has even hips and Booth beams her footage of the interview so she can figure it out. Kristen Mitchell doesn’t have scoliosis so she is not the murderer.

Booth returns to the lab where Brennan tells him that she thinks they may have found the murder weapon. A parking lot curb from the convenient store. Brianna’s neck broke on the curb and then she was dragged to the culvert. Hodgins comes in to tell them that the steel he found wasn’t from work boots but from tap shoes. One of the contestants is the murderer.

Brennan and Booth go to the pageant to try and find out who there killer is. Brennan is trying to figure out which one of the girls has scoliosis and is accused of being a child molester.

Booth and Brennan watch the girls perform so Brennan can see which contestant has scoliosis.

The murderer is Hailey Farrell. She doesn’t deny it, but says that it was an accident. Brianna was making fun of her, she said that Hailey was ugly and never won anything.

Angela and Hodgins finally discuss their date. Angela tells him that it was perfect but that they can’t do it again because when it goes wrong it will go really wrong and everyone else will get pulled into it. Hodgins asks what if but Angela says friends.

Brennan and Booth have a conversation about the case. Booth says Brennan is well structured after stumbling for a few moments and Brennan says Booth is well structured too. Booth offers to help Bones with the paperwork from the case. Bones allows him to stay and help and they order Tai food.

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add » (Booth and Brennan are sitting in the lab's lounge, eating donuts, talking, when Booth sees Cam leaving the lab. He seems torn and exhales heavily)
Brennan: You ok?
Booth: (thoughtful and unsure) Yeah. I just, I remembered that I had an appointment. (He gets up preparing to leave)
Brennan: (disappointedly) Oh, so I'll see you tomorrow?
(Booth looks at Cam waiting downstairs and then looks at Brennan)
Booth: No. You know, you have all the paperwork from the case right?
Brennan: No, I was gonna stay, do it anyway, so -
Booth: Nah, no, you know, it's our case, I wanna help.
Brennan: You don't have to Booth.
Booth: Bones, just drop it, ok? (in a Basso profondo) I'm here to help.
Brennan: Well, what about your appointment?
Booth: It's, you know, it's no big deal. I'll tell you what. How about I (he rests his arms upon the table while standing and leans in really close to her) order some take out and ditch these donuts.
Brennan: (with a big smile) Sure.
Booth and Brennan: Thai food.
(They both smile at each other and share a moment)
Booth: This time I'm ordering extra crab because last time you ate it all.
Brennan: What? I thought you were done. (edit) Jack: We haven't had the chance to talk today
Angela: Yeah. I was avoiding you.
Jack: That whole swing thing wasn't good enough, right? 'Cause I can do better.
Angela:It was perfect. (edit) Angela: And what the great date tells us, is that when this goes wrong....
Jack: It'll go really, really wrong.
Angela So...we go back, right? Friends.
Jack: Sure. Friends. Just one more question. What if it doesn't end that way? What if it doesn't go wrong?
Angela: (tearfully) Friends. (edit) Brennan: I mean, look at this. Millions of tax dollars are spent to clean and treat tap water, and yet people spend billions on bottled water.
Booth: Well it's cleaner, look: It comes from a clean mountain stream.
Brennan: Yeah, which contains fecal matter from animals.
Booth: There's no...bones in it, though, is there? (mumbles) Don't want that in your water. (edit) Booth: (to Brennan about Milk Blast bars) Are you kidding me? These are God's food! (edit)

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When Angela makes a sketch of the girl, why does she change the hairstyle to approximate the missing person database photo? (edit) Goof: At the very end when Booth and Brennan are talking, and he says she is "structured well" her hair goes from sweeping across her forehead to tucked behind her ears in the next shot without her moving it. (This is caused by different takes of the same scene being cut together to obtain the best performance) (edit)

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Title: The Girl with the Curl

This is an allusion to the nursery rhyme:
"There was a little girl,
who had a little curl,
right in the middle of her forehead,
and when she was good,
she was very very good,
but when she was bad,
she was horrid."

This is a also refering to Briana, appearing to be a sweet little beauty queen, but really being a vicious competitor. (edit)

The Girl In Suite 2103 (2-6)

Originally aired: Wednesday October 4, 2006 on FOX

Writer: Christopher Ambrose
Director: Karen Gaviola
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: Cerina Vincent (Denise, the waitress) , Danny Woodburn (Alex Radziwell) , Bertila Damas (Judge Dolores Ramos) , Laura Leigh Hughes (Jill Winokur) , Andres Londono (Antonio Ramos) , Carlos Lacamara (Juan Ramos) , John Kassir (Lawrence Melvoy)
Production Code: 2AKY06

Brennan and Booth step out of a hotel elevator into a bombed out hospitality room. Bodies are scattered in the wreckage and firefighter sift through the debris for survivors. B&B are approached by Alex Radziwill, a little person and State Department Rep. He informs them that an ant-drug traffic conference was being held in the room when the bomb went off killing four people. One of the survivors was the keynote speaker Columbian Judicial Attaché, Dolores Ramos. Cam appears and explains that the blast came from the room next door and suspects that drug cartel members were behind the bombing. Brennan steps in to ID the bodies and finds scattered bone fragments from another body. Whoever it was, was in the room where the bomb went off, but they can’t find the rest of it. Brennan looks up and finds their dead bomber tangled in a chandelier.

Back at the lab, Booth has more information to share with the gang. Apparently, the room next door was unoccupied for renovations. Paint and chemicals made the explosion more deadly. Brennan and Cam have found the sex of the body, but are still trying to ID her. Hodgins has found fragments of glass, wood, plaster, and drywall. Zack adds hat the body is Caucasian, 5’4”, early 20’s, bleach blonde and ankylosis in the right trochlea and capitulum and scaphoid show that she was a waitress that carried a tray. Angela arrives with her composite of the bomber. Now they have a face.
B&B are at the FBI with Radziwill to question Judge Dolores Ramos, the keynote speaker from the conference. She doesn’t recognize the bomber from the composite that Angela created and Booth doesn’t get anything useful out of her.
At the lab, Hodgins brings Angela photos that he’d taken of the bombsite. From the way the explosion happened, it seems there was fire first which left a shadow imprint on the wall proving that someone else was in the room.
On the forensic platform Zack runs a check on the bombers dentals and fids a match. He tells Cam that the bomber’s name was Lisa Winokur. She runs to tell Booth.
Booth sits with Lisa Winokur’s mother, Jill. After telling her that Lisa is dead he question her about Lisa’s life Jill explains that Lisa was a waitress at the hotel bar, and had a lot of boyfriends. Her most recent boyfriend was nicknamed Senõr Hot Stuff and that he was rich.
Angela has Hodgins by her side at the lab. She done a little work with the pictures he took and found that the person the left the blast shadow was 6’ tall. Lisa Winokur was only 5’4”, so we might have a new bombing suspect.
B&B hit the hotel bar and talk with the other waitresses. They say that Jill was at the bar the night of the bombing, but wasn’t working. She was there to meet rich men and went upstairs with one of them. All the waitresses take guys up to that room from time to time. Then, the waitress spots the man that Lisa had gone upstairs with. Brennan and Booth confront him. He tries to run, but Booth gets him down. A gun is put to Booth’s head by another man and he quickly disarms him as Brennan keeps the suspect in place. With the situation under control the suspect tells B&B that he’s Antonio Ramos and that he has diplomatic immunity.

In the autopsy room Cam and Zack examine Lisa’s body thoroughly. Cam finds traces of semen, but she couldn’t find a cause of death. She decides to hand it off to Zack.
B&B sit with Antonio Ramos at the FBI and question him. He is Judge Ramos’ son and he refuses to say more. Brennan notices that his arm is hurt and asks him what happened. He ignores her and tells Booth about his night with Lisa Winokur after he shows him a picture. He met her at the bar and went upstairs for a roll in the hay. After Brennan reads his file she concludes that he fell off of his motorcycle while driving it through a mall. She’s right. Then Alex Radziwill arrives with Judge Ramos and they escort Antonio out as Brennan tells him the Lisa is dead. He stops, shocked. He tells them that he told Lisa who his parents were, but that’s all. He’s urged to leave by Mr. Radziwill as Brennan butts heads with the little person.
Hodgins and Zack are in their lab preparing an experiment for Cam and Angela. They explain that the explosion came from the fire igniting with paint turpentine and liquor. They conduct the test and find the mixture very explosive. This reveals that the bomber probably wasn’t a bomber, but a murderer that killed Lisa Winokur and set a fire to cover the evidence. Cam commends their work.
With this new info, Booth shakes down Radziwill to erase Antonio’s immunity and he won’t budge. He gets a call from Cam.
At the lab Cam explains that Lisa was strangled to death with some kind of fabric. There was also a split between two of her vertebrae. Hodgins found a necklace full of rare stones that Lisa Winokur could never afford. Booth suspects that maybe Antonio was lying about not knowing her and that he bought her the necklace.
Because the necklace was so rare Booth is able to find the jeweler that made it and he confirms that Lisa was the one that bought it. She paid for it through a bank routing number. Booth gets the number and plans to run a check on it.
While Booth searches the bank trails, Brennan reminds him that Antonio had an injured arm, which means he couldn’t have murdered Lisa. He was too weak. Booth finds the ID for the bank routing number, but it’s blocked.

Booth confronts Radziwill and asks if he blocked the routing number. He admits nothing.
With Angela, Hodgins watches her examine surveillance video taken from the elevator the night of the explosion. Antonio is seen wearing a silk tie that could have been used to strangle Lisa.
Zack shows Cam that Lisa was wearing an aluminum splint at the time of death. He asks Cam if she can get anything from that and she calls Booth with an idea.
At the FBI B&B sit with Mrs. Winokur and she gives them insurance records of Lisa. Booth exits to run a check on the records. Mrs. Winokur tells Brennan that she told Lisa to try and get pregnant by a wealthy man so that she could get out of the vicious cycle of the lower She’s not proud of it, but she was going to get dumped by Antonio and Mrs. Winokur didn’t want her daughter to lose out on all his wealth. After checking the records, Booth finds info that Lisa was taken to a hospital Judge Ramos’ husband, Juan Vasco. They conclude that Lisa was having an affair with the Judge’s husband, not the son, but when the husband tries to break up with her, she gets Antonio drunk and seduces him in an attempt to get pregnant. Perhaps in a jealous rage, Juan Vasco killed Lisa to prevent the pregnancy.
B&B wait at the FBI offices for Radziwill to bring in Juan Vasco for questioning. When Radziwill arrives solo and tells Booth that Juan Vasco is on a flight back to Columbia, Booth calls Hodgins and tells him to make a threatening call to the FAA to stall Juan Vasco’s flight.
It works like a charm and B&B arrive at the airport to find the Ramos family exiting their grounded private jet.

Mr. Radziwill is furious that the Ramos plane was grounded and he confronts Booth, Brennan, and Cam about it. He explains that the only channels they can go through are the Columbian government and they’ve got twenty-four hours before the Ramos leave U.S. soil, which is about the time it will take to go through the Colombian government.
Zack follows Cam and updates her on the type a split he found in Lisa’s vertebrae which explains a puncture that Cam had found in the lungs. This means she was stabbed with something, but Zack explains that it would have to be something soft because it left no markings on the bones. He suggest that Lisa was stomped on by Mr. Juan Vasco Romas with something like a golf tee.
Booth’s not buying the golf tee concept and suggest they search further. They look at surveillance footage from the elevator again in see that the Judge herself is wearing 3-inch stiletto heels. They conclude that the Judge must have found out about the affairs Lisa was having with her husband and son, strangled he with her silk scarf and then stomped her with a piercing heel. Booth is pleased with their work, but there’s no way they can arrest her because she’s got diplomatic immunity.
At the diner, B&B discuss with Cam on how they can get around the Ramos family diplomatic immunity. Cam suggest that they use the evidence to bluff and go after Antonio in hopes that the Judge will come forward and confess to save him. Booth isn’t game because he doesn’t want to diminish the value of diplomatic immunity for Americans across the globe.
They bring in Judge Ramos to the FBI office and she does not confess. She hides behind her immunity. Radziwill won’t budge either until he reveals that if the case goes through proper channels with the Attorney General in Columbia, the Judge will be put on trial and because the Columbian AG doesn’t favor the Judge she will most likely go to jail and be killed by the drug cartel soldiers she’s been fighting for years. He suggests she wave her immunity and go to trial in the U.S. where she faces better chances in prison. B&B like what Radziwill has to say for the first time. The Judge waves her immunity and B&B get the bad guy.

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Brennan: I'm not sure I can totally trust Dr. Saroyan after that.
Booth: You know, Bones, Cam is a cop at heart. She just wants to catch the bad guys. There are a lot of grey areas.
Brennan: Not for you. You did the right thing.
Booth: Yeah, it worked out is all.
Brennan: You did the right thing. (edit) Booth: Cam, has anyone said anything to you about, uhm, (whispers) you know?
Cam: Us sleeping together?
Booth: (slightly panicked) You gotta be way more careful about, you know, blurting that out like that, ok? Voices, they carry in a building like this.
Cam: There's no one around and you brought it up.
Booth: Well, I mean Angela is practically psychic about this kind of stuff, right? So, you can't be thinking about me when, you know, she's around, especially not naked.
Cam: I'll do my best. (Suddenly Hodgins appears right behind them wanting to give them specifics on the case. Booth and Cam both freeze on the spot.) (edit) Booth: How well do you know her?
Antonio Ramos: Very well and not so well, if you know what I mean.
(Booth smiles and nods, indicating he knows)
Brennan: I don't know what he means.
Booth: It means that he had sex with her and forgot to learn her name. (edit) Booth: (To Brennan) That was a nice moment, you know? Me translating for you. (edit) Hodgins: Hey, can you upload the pictures from this camera?
Angela: Am I going to regret it?
Hodgins: What kind of guy do you think I am?
Angela: It's just that men sometimes think things are funny that women merely find gross. (edit)

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Here are the forensic definitions for this episode:
trochlea - An anatomical structure that resembles a pulley, especially the part of the distal end of the humerus that articulates with the ulna.capitulum.
maxilla - A pair of bones of the human skull fusing in the midline and forming the upper jaw.
trachea - A thin-walled, cartilaginous tube descending from the larynx to the bronchi and carrying air to the lungs. Also called windpipe.
acromion - The outer end of the scapula to which the collarbone is attached.coracoid.
glenoid - A smooth, shallow, socketlike depression, particularly of the skeleton.
subcutaneous - Located or placed just beneath the skin. (edit) Goof: During the interrogation of Antonio Ramos, there is a discrepancy in the scene. When the camera is facing Ramos, the cap of his water bottle is screwed on the bottle. When the camera is facing Dr. Temperance Brennan and Special Agent Seeley Booth, the bottle cap is lying on the table

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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Allusions

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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)