- While attending a coworker's funeral, Brennan realizes that he was murdered rather than dying of natural causes and begins covertly investigating his death.
- While attending the wake of a coworker who reportedly died of natural causes, Bones notices something that causes her to believe he was actually murdered. But a judge will not allow her to confirm her suspicions. Now they must covertly investigate his death.—Jesse Sanchez
- Joining the wake of Dr. Hank Reilly, the team notices he didn't die from congenital heart failure but was murdered. They decide to sneak the corps out without a court order to prevent him being cremated. The young widow is making love with undertaker Franklin Tung, who admits that he stabbed Hank with an embalming instrument (Hank was officially dead) when he moved 'like a zombie'. However he was already poisoned fatally with a toxin for which there are several suspects with motives and opportunity.—KGF Vissers
- Booth (David Boreanaz), Brennan (Emily Deschanel), Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) and Cam (Tamara Taylor) head to the wake of Hank, a coworker at the Jeffersonian Institute. The man apparently died of cardiac failure, but we all know that might be something of a premature diagnosis. Cam, in the meantime, worries Michelle is smoking. "I've been her legal guardian for a month and I'm already a total failure," the new adopting mom says.
The team arrives at the wake, where they observe Hank's rich stepmother, stepbrother Barney and young, pretty assistant Amy. Brennan pays her respects and immediately notices something astray. "This man was murdered," she whispers to Booth. B&B step outside and Brennan explains the man's ribs are broken. Worse: He's scheduled to be cremated that very day! Brennan then proposes a daring plan: steal Hank's body. "You want me to take him out of here?" an incredulous Booth asks. Exactly. Booth does not want to use murder so 'translated' is now the code word for murder. She tells Booth to try and get an injunction so they can delay the cremation.
Inside, Hank's wife, Helen, swirls wine while drunkenly toasting her dead hubby. B&B, meanwhile, let Cam in on their suspicions. Apprantly, Bones moved Hank's clothes to the side to take a picture of his chest with her camera phone. Cam is quite shocked and Bones tells her they think he was 'translated'. Cam is confused until Booth explains their new code word. Cam says there is no record of bruising in the autopsy report. Brennan points out corpses don't bruise. "So Hank was alive after he was declared dead?" Booth asks. Exactly.
B&B go to see the undertaker and discover him making out with the widow. The undertaker denies foul play, saying the dead man received the bruises due to botched CPR. B&B aren't buying it -- and neither are we. Later, Hodgins is in the middle of toasting Hank when he notices B&B dragging the body across the lawn! This was actually one of the funniest scenes ever on Bones. Hodgins starts to stutter as he realizes what B&B are doing. He finishes his speech by throwing his glass on the ground saying we have not loved enough. The pair drags Hank into the back of their car Weekend-at-Bernie's style. Booth stays behind to make sure no one looks in the casket while Brennan and Cam take the body back to the lab. Conveniently, they take Angela's Toyota Matrix. Somehow Cam got the keys.
Back inside, Hodgins explains the situation to Angela (Michaela Conlin) -- and then interviews Amy, who appears smitten with our bearded lab man. Amy describes the last time she saw her boss alive. "He had a lunch meeting," Amy says. "Sushi." Unfortunately, Amy doesn't know who the good dead doctor lunched with on the afternoon of his death. Angela, meanwhile, is disgusted (and jealous) to see Amy paying such close attention to Hodgins.
Angela goes to the room where the body is being kept. Booth is there guarding the casket so no one tries to see the body. Angela asks what is going on when Hank's stepmother comes into the room. She wants to see Hank. Angela proceeds to explain the undertaker who took care of Hank's body did not graduate at the top of his class. Hank's nose has now moved to the side and his hair.... "His hair looks like Hitler's". =-) The stepmother freaks out, appalled. Hank's brother comes in but is shooed out by the stepmother saying Hank is looking like Hitler. Booth gets a call Brennan and Cam who are examining the body. "He was stabbed," Cam observes. But it gets even weirder. Hank apparently did suffer a heart attack -- and was declared dead before being sent to the undertaker. "Where he was stabbed to death?" Brennan asks. Exactly. Back at the home, Booth confronts the undertaker. The flustered man admits to stabbing the body. But why? Turns out Hank's eyes sprung open and the doctor freaked. "It was a reflex!" the undertaker, Franklin, says. "I was scared!" "Watching all of those zombie movies can really change you." So was Hank really dead? Or was it just a form of paralysis that mimicked death? Cam runs a test, which involves taking fluid from the dead man's eyeball. The results: the doctor wasn't dead when he was accidentally stabbed. But that's not all. "Someone else poisoned him first," Cam explains. "So, technically, Franklin committed manslaughter," Booth explains. "Somebody else committed attempted murder."
Brennan returns to the home. Outside, Angela uses the computer in Booth's car and discovers a substance that could have been used to poison Hank was ordered and delivered to the Jeffersonian just a few weeks ago. The name on the delivery list: Dr. Jonah. B&B confront Jonah. Not surprisingly, the doc denies all knowledge of the murder, explaining Hank was his "best friend." Hodgins then points out the Puffer Fish produces a similar toxin. And didn't Hank have sushi on the day of his death?
B&B head to the sushi joint. The female manager explains she doesn't have the license to serve such a fish. More helpfully, she says Hank ate lunch with a woman. "She told him something and he got very upset," the manger says. "She had a haircut like Cleopatra." B&B head back to the home. They ask Sweets (John Francis Daley) to find Hodgins, go to the lab, and then bring the body back before anyone notices. Our boy wonder agrees.
Inside, Booth slyly puts the moves on Erin Miller (Ryan Michelle Bathe), the estate lawyer ("I can be devastatingly charming when you're not around," Booth explains to Brennan). And wouldn't you know it? Ms. Miller sports a Cleopatra haircut! "It wasn't a very pleasant lunch," Miller says. She explains Hank's stepmother is very sick and Hank and his stepbrother Barney were the heirs to her fortune. Back at the lab, Cam has examined the contents of Hank's stomach and determined the man did NOT die from eating poison sushi. Hodgins says if lunch didn't kill the man, perhaps breakfast did. Interestingly, Hank's amorous wife mentioned earlier the deceased was served tea for breakfast. Hmm. Hodgins, Cam and Sweets then hustle the body back to the home. The only problem: the trio unwittingly leaves the dead man's glasses behind. Oops.
Cut to the home, where Brennan interviews stepbrother Barney. The man seems genuinely surprised to learn he will inherit all the money when mom passes -- as if he had completely forgotten. Just then, Helen begins mixing it up with Hank's assistant, calling the younger woman "Hank's skank." The two are about to start a full-blown cat fight when Booth steps between them. "He wouldn't want us to fight!" Booth says. "He'd want us to sing!" Booth then begins leading the assembled mourners in song.
The sing-along allows Cam and Sweets to sneak Hank back into the building. Meanwhile, Brennan and Hodgins are in the kitchen frantically looking for the substance which turned Hank into a zombie. Sure enough, the dynamic duo discovers just such a poison in the man's breakfast drink. "Hank Reilly was killed by a cup of tea," Brennan says. Cam, meanwhile, has to take quick action when she hears the body's glasses are missing. She slips on a pair of sunglasses -- and no one notices the difference. Nice.
B&B interrogate Helen at the kitchen table. She insists she never made tea for her husband, as the two weren't exactly on great terms. "Hank did it himself," Helen insists. "Hank was very particular about his tea." Later that night, B&B&C (Cam) drive back to the Jeffersonian. Cam once again expresses her concerns about Michelle smoking. Booth wisely suggests Cam should stop puffing and perhaps her adopted daughter will too. Good advice. Brennan, in the meantime, has hatched a plan: the team will offer tea to all the suspects and see who refuses to drink. "Genius," Booth says. Exactly.
The next morning, Brennan interrupts the graveside service. "Hank Reilly specialized in Egyptian embalming rituals," she explains. "Hank would appreciate nothing more than the most common of funerary practices: the raising of a glass." Booth and the team pass out glasses of steaming tea. Barney is about to drink when his mother slaps it out of his hands. "No!" she screams. It was the stepmother! Turns out the sick woman poisoned Hank so her true son Barney could have all her money. The woman is led away. Case closed.
FIVE DAYS LATER. Brennan, Booth and Barney stand over the stepmother's grave. She didn't last long after being arrested. Brennan explains the stepmother poisoned Hank with her own heart medicine. "Then she died because she ran out of her medicine killing him," Barney sighs. This is not how he wanted to obtain his mother's money -- as much as he could use a windfall.
Brennan and Booth walk away from the grave, sharing an umbrella. The latter makes the former promise she will visit his headstone once he has passed. "Just make sure when they put me in the ground, I'm dead," he quips. Exactly.
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