- Remains are discovered by a newly wed couple after they literally take the plunge. The squints soon determine the identity of the victim, but discovering the cause of death presents interesting dilemmas as a mysterious corrosive foam secreting from the bones is destroying the remains and causing the Jeffersonian's alarms go off with each test they try. Also, Bones tries to work on her interpersonal skills.—Jesse Sanchez
- An body is stumbled upon and identified as slick car salesman Alex Newcomb. Alas the body in chemically compromised, so it's a desperate race to establish the exact cause of death cause before further damage to the body. After some basic emotional coaching from Sweets, Bones insists on having a go at grilling suspects, with pitiful results. Luckily Booth does a great job establishing possible motives and suspects from Alex's career change, office rivalry, nightlife and problems concerning his brother Chet.—KGF Vissers
- A cute couple gets married in hot-air balloon. We soon realize they're tethered to the balloon by their ankles. They're bungee jumping! Could this be an early end for the happy couple? No! The couple jumps from the balloon only to come face-to-face with a nasty dead body resting on the rocks below. They scream ... and then continue bouncing. Mazel Tov kiddos!
Booth and Brennan are on the scene. The former wonders whether the discovery ruined the couple's wedding night. The latter, naturally, doesn't understand why it would. "This was no bungee accident," Brennan says while looking over the disgusting remains. "Someone threw him off the cliff after he was already dead." Ouch. Or maybe not so much because he was already dead. Anyway, we return to the lab and Brennan reveals more news: the victim was undergoing a dental procedure. Vincent then notices something rather disturbing. "Is his skin moving?" the man-boy asks. Indeed, it is. Camille cuts the skin and a green, foamy substance oozes out. "Everyone away from the body!" Camille yells. "We're in lockdown!"
One too-long commercial break later, Brennan begs to examine the oozing corpse, but Camille says no. It could be a toxin -- and contagious at that. The body will stay sealed up in a giant plastic tube. Angela, meanwhile, has some good news: the victim's dentist has identified the body and passed along his emergency contact info. So Brennan and Booth head out to meet the dead man's brother, used-car salesman Chet Newcomb, and his lovely wife, Vanessa. Chet, who appears to be very sickly, is heartbroken to hear the news of his brother. He also points the finger at Jungle Jim, the owner of the lot. Turns out the victim left to work at a rival auto business and "got into" it with J.J.
Did we mention that Jungle Jim owns a pet monkey? No? Well, he does. And it's sitting complacently on his shoulder when Booth and Brennan pay the man a visit. It gets weirder, too. Jungle Jim claims he fired the victim, Alex Newcomb, when his sales record slipped. HOWEVER, Jim might have hired the man back if Alex hadn't shoved Bananas, the pet monkey, right off Jim's shoulder! "I think it shows a basic lack of humanity to push a monkey," Jungle Jim says. You know what? We kind of agree.
Booth and Brennan then visit Alex's last place of employment, Criterion, a much nicer car dealership across the street. "Did Alex have any enemies?" Booth asks two salesmen. They both respond with the same name: "Lemon Guy," an angry customer who took a golf club to Alex's windshield. Back at the lab, no toxins can be found in the body so Camille calls "all clear." "But we proceed with extreme caution," she warns. Vincent then touches a bone with a metal rod and it immediately begins to dissolve. "It's disintegrating," he explains. Asks Hodgins: "We're losing our evidence?" Yes, as a matter fact. The team is going to have to hurry before the body degenerates into a steaming pile of gross, green ooze.
Booth brings in Lemon Guy, who admits to busting up Alex's windshield -- but denies having anything do with the murder. Hodgins, in the meantime, has found strawberry body glitter on the victim's clothing. The very same kind of glitter that "might be utilized by a lap dancer." Hmm. How does Hodgins know so much about the subject? But never mind that for now. Seconds later, Booth and Brennan enter a strip joint and meet Strawberry Lust (probably a stage name). She recognizes the victim as a "regular" but denies any knowledge of his death. After giving Booth a lapper we find out Ms. Lust does have some interesting info, though. Alex got in a fight the last time he was at the club. With whom? We're glad you asked. One of the salesmen from Criterion!
Back at the lab, Vincent and Hodgins are examining the body. The former turns on a magnifier lamp when -- POW! -- the body suddenly bursts into blue flames! "These remains were emitting Hydrogen gas," Camille says. But why? No time for that now. Booth goes to visit the Criterion salesman, Buddy. The two take a test drive in a very fast car and Booth puts the pedal to the metal in an effort to scare the man. It works. "He stole a client from me and I punched him in the nose!" a terrified Buddy screams. Buddy then tells Booth a drunken Alex hailed a cab and headed to Jungle Jim's on the night of his death.
Hodgins, in the meantime, has figured out a way to stop the victims body from melting -- or at least slow it down. He sprinkles antacid on the green ooze. Why didn't we think of that? Then again, maybe it wasn't such a great move. The body petrifies almost instantly. Back to square one.
CUT TO the interrogation room. Brennan, who has taken a sudden interest in becoming an expert at "manipulating" people, decides she wants to question Maureen, a perky gal who works alongside Jungle Jim. It doesn't go well. Brennan doesn't realize when the woman is joking and when she is being serious. Still, Maureen admits Alex frequently stole her sales. Also: "He punted sales to his brother," she says. Interesting. Maybe Brennan has a future, after all.
Good news back at the lab: Hodgins has discovered monkey feces on the body. Bananas! Booth and Brennan head to Jungle Jim's lot, where an FBI tech finds evidence of blood. Someone, probably the victim, bled in the Jungle Jim garage. Also: a highly-corrosive tire cleaner on hand would explain the odd, oozing state of the corpse (as well as its flammable state). The murderer tried to dispose of the body by soaking it in tire cleaner! "Everyone who works here is now a suspect," Brennan says.
Back from break, Camille decides to crack the body open -- until Angela interrupts with a better suggestion. She will attempt to "virtually re-grow the bone." Can such a futuristic, technologically dense procedure actually work? Of course, it can! And does within seconds! Angela and Brennan examine the computer recreation of the skeleton -- and notice an odd gash. "I think youll find that the murder weapon was a pair of tailor shears," Angela says. Genius! Booth and Brennan head back to Jungle Jim's to arrest none other than Vanessa Newcomb, a seamstress. Turns out she stabbed her husband's brother. Why? Because Alex caught Vanessa with another man -- Jungle Jim, in fact. "It was just one time," she cries. "I told Jungle Jim I'd have sex with him just once if he didn't fire Chet!" Alex, who loved his brother so much he was stealing sales and passing them along to his sibling, found out. Vanessa then killed Alex to save her marriage. She is led away in cuffs.
Case closed.
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