- Brennan and Booth investigate the remains of a bodyguard of two children who attend a high security school for the children of important people. Also, Cam hires Brennan's father as a teacher which causes some conflicts for Bones.
- Poachers in a pelican reserve find a recently burned skeleton which is soon identified as USMC Special Ops Calvin Warren, discharged three years ago. Bones isn't pleased that her father, ex-science teacher Max, is employed in the museum to show kids around, although he does a great job. She gets him fired after he helps Hodgins and Bray with forensic experiments. Cal had a painkiller problem and was employed as a 'nanny'-bodyguard for CEO Richard King's kids, Royce and Alexa, at the exclusive Woodbury school. Upper class families prove interesting suspects. Booth worries if he's giving his boy Parker all possible advantages.—KGF Vissers
- Booth and Brennan: They go together like peanut butter and chocolate, whiskey and vermouth, bacon and more bacon. So when will they finally get together? Perhaps this week. But first: the Finding of the Body.
Two young men toting chainsaws have sneaked onto a protected nature reserve in search of valuable wood. But the tree poachers don't get far before seeing bones scattered throughout the branches. "Holy mother of God," one says. Nope. Just another murder.
Back at the Jeffersonian, Camille reveals that she has hired Brennan's father to teach. "I thought you would be pleased," Camille says. Says Brennan: "What would please me is if you would terminate him!" Brennan then runs directly into to dear 'ol dad, who is teaching a roomful of too-cute kids about refraction. Dad seems pleasant enough, but Brennan can't get out of the room fast enough.
Booth and Brennan arrive at the reserve to find that the Department of Fish and Wildlife trying to keep the team from doing their job (damn environmentalists!). A quick examination of the bones indicate that the man was strangled. "This man was murdered," Brennan says. "We'll need to search this entire area."
One opening credits sequence later, Camille and Brennan continue to argue over the recent employment of dad. "My father is bank robber and an accused murderer," Brennan says. Camille points out that Booth has killed more people than Max and still has a job. Camille then gets the results from a test on the victim's bone marrow. The dead man is none other than Calvin Warren, a special ops Marine who went "off the grid" three years prior.
Later, Camille shares more news: The victim, who suffered from a bad back, had a prescription for pain killers. Only one problem, the doctor supposedly doling them out is a dermatologist who has never even heard of a Calvin Warren. "So he probably stole her prescription pad," Angela theorizes. She then pulls up the victim's MySpace page, zooming in on a house number. Angela then pinpoints the architecture as belonging in one of two historical neighborhoods. Wow. Beautiful AND brilliant.
Moments later, B&B find the house in the picture. Inside, Brennan finds a key card. But to which door? Back at the lab, Angela answers the question: DuPont Circle. Faster than you can say "transition," Booth waves the key card at a scanner at DuPont Circle and enters the grounds of the super-exclusive Woodbury School. The headmaster explains that the secret to the school's success is its honor code. "Any violation results in immediate dismissal," he says. Hmm. Something tells us this might be important later (hence, we wrote it down).
Booth then reveals that he's not looking for an application, but has come to investigate a murder. The headmaster does a search of key-card carrying personel and discovers that Warren recently worked as a nanny for a high-powered family with two children at Woodbury. "A nanny?" asks Booth, probably more amused then he should be.
B&B drive to the King household (a castle, really) where Warren worked. Mrs. King said Warren was an "excellent nanny" before he disappeared. Booth and Brennan then interview the kids, a boy and a girl, who speak Mandarin Chinese. Of course, Brennan speaks a little Mandarin herself and interprets. Turns out the boy injured himself in a lacrosse match shortly before Warren went AWOL. The former Marine took the boy to the dermatologist to be stitched up. "The boy was stitched up by the same doctor who said she didn't know Calvin Warren," Brennan notes.
Booth brings in the dermatologist for questioning. She apologizes for misleading the team. She only knew the victim as "Cal" and didn't recognize the name Calvin Warren. She also admits that she once took Cal and the kids for a ride in her plane (she's not only a skin doctor, but a pilot) and that Warren stole her prescription pad when he brought in the King boy for stitches. Booth seems convinced -- a little convinced to convince us.
Sure enough, Hodgins has made a shocking discovery. "The victim's remains were incinerated by aviation gas," he says. Camille calls Booth. Best bring the dermatologist back.
Second later, the doctor is back in the interrogation room. She admits to lying earlier, saying she wrote Warren a prescription for pain killers for his back. Booth then presents flight logs proving that she took Warren on multiple flights -- alone. "I'll tell you what you want to know," she says. "No, my husband doesn't know I was having an affair with the King's nanny. Would I have killed Cal to prevent him from finding out? No."
The doc, however, points the finger at Richard King. Turns out that Warren had insider knowledge of the impending implosion of one of Kings businesses. He gave the tip to his secret gal and the doc made a few million on the deal. Unfortunately, Richard wasn't too happy when he found out Warren was tipping folks off.
Cut to the Jeffersonian where Max is helping Hodgins with an experiment. They've simulated the amount of wind it would take to blow the skull fragment into the tree: approximately 69 MPH. Turns out a wind storm occurred the week before with winds reaching up to 71 MPH. Brennan, however, is furious. "You're fired," she says. Why? Because dad took part in an investigation when he promised he wouldn't. Hodgins isn't detered, however. He and Angela use the wind information to pinpoint exactly where the body was originally dumped before the lighter pieces blew into the reserve. In theory, the heavier remains should still be at the original spot. "Don't thank me," Hodgins tells Camille. "Thank Max Brennan."
Speaking of, Max visits Booth, telling the agent about his recent firing-by-daughter. "Can I ask you a question?" Max says. "Are you sleeping with my daughter?" Booth gives an emphatic "no." "Are you gay?" Max asks. Booth nearly spits up his coffee. He promises to talk to Brennan about keeping Max on the team.
Sometime later, B&B visit the original dump site and discover the rest of the body. "This must be where the body was burned," Brennan says. Also: the remains contain buck shot, probably from a 12-gauge shotgun. But what about the strangulation theory? "He was," Brennan says. "Strangled, shot and set on fire." And wouldn't you know it? Right across the street is the King's ginormous country home. Interesting.
A few words from our sponsors later, B&B confront Richard King. It does not go well for our intrepid investigators. The man is cool as a cucumber left in the freezer overnight. Outside the house, B&B sneak around back and Booth slips his tie into the gas tank of Richard's Ferrari. Could the car be using aviation-grade fuel?
Lance, Brennan and Max meet for lunch. Lance theorizes that it is not the presence of Max that gives Brennan anxiety, but the memories of his long absence. Our beloved Bones just seems confused by head doctor. Dad then announces that he will be leaving the Jeffersonian, but not his daughter. He's going to stay in town, regardless. "I should get back to work," Brennan huffs.
In fact, the team is doing just fine without Brennan. Hodgins has discovered that the fuel in Richard's car matches the fuel used to burn Warren's body. "He could have siphoned it out of his own car to burn Cal Warrens remains," Hodgins says. The intern, meanwhile, has discovered that strangulation might not have been the case after all. Brennan agrees. "Cal wasn't strangled post mortem, he was dragged," she says. Dragged with a choke chain, in fact. The angle is too low for a man of King's size, however. All signs point to the 5-foot-5 Mrs. King.
One annoying but necessary (assuming you like free TV) break later, Mrs. King sits under the hot lights. Booth points out that the woman's country home was across the street from the site of the murder and that she had access to the fuel in her husband's car. But the main point: "Cal Warren was trying to destroy your husband's company." Booth theorizes that the lady just wanted to protect her way of life. "You don't understand," Mrs. King says. "It wasn't about the money. I needed to protect my family."
Lance doesn't buy it, however. "She didn't do it but she wants you to believe that she did," the doc opines. "She's protecting someone." Booth gets a call from Brennan, who has examined the trajectory of the buck shot. Whoever shot Cal was considerably shorter than Mrs. King. That pretty much narrows the field to little people and children. Hmm. Have we met any children this episode?
Moments later, B&B question 11-year-old Alexa King. Turns out she had a project due and paid another student to do it for her. When the nanny found out, he threatened to tell the school. Fearing that she would be kicked out for breaking the honor code -- ding! ding! -- the little girl "got the gun out of the garage and shot him." Mrs. King came home and saw the body, drove it to the country house and burned it in an effort to protect her spoiled daughter. Case closed.
Later, Booth notes that Alexa killed the best father she ever knew. Brennan points out that it's sometimes difficult to appreciate what you have. 'Ol Bones is a smart gal, but she doesn't seem to notice the irony in her statement -- especially considering Max is just a few feet away giving Parker a science lesson.
"Don't fire Max," Booth says. "A personal favor."
"Like a partner thing?" Brennan asks.
Yeah, sort of like that.
"OK, yes," Brennan says. The two smile at each other ... and the look lingers.
Maybe next week.
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