"Bones" The Body in the Bag (TV Episode 2011) Poster

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7/10
Lots of Interpersonal Drama
briezey2 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This week's episode was pretty solid. The main case was interesting but the body was nasty, as it sat in a running shower for three full days. I really liked that who they originally thought the victim was turned out to be wrong. Booth and Bones end up in the middle of an anti-counterfeit investigation. Angela helps give the team some magical evidence by taking some blurry reflections off some video and making a perfect composite of our killer, the lead agent on the anti-counterfeit team. Overall, it was a pretty interesting case.

There was also a lot of interpersonal drama happening this episode. First of all, Booth decides that he has to tell Hannah that Bones confessed her feelings towards Booth. This doesn't cause any major issues for Hannah and Booth, but it does cause some awkward vibes between Bones and Hannah. I just really wish that the writers gave Bones a friend who didn't work at the Jeffersonian and who wasn't Hannah. They are really pushing this whole friendship between the two of them and I am just not sure if I buy it, especially because of the past between Booth and Bones. It's also confusing because in the earlier episodes of season 6 Bones was clearly jealous of the relationship between Booth and Hannah, so I guess I don't see how they are two close friends now. This episode ends with Bones and Hannah getting a drink after the case, rather than Bones and Booth. This was a bit said to see because it feels like just another way that Hannah is breaking up the close relationship between Bones and Booth, but maybe I am reading too much into it because of my love for Bones and Booth.

Another interesting interpersonal thing in this episode is that Clark is back, and he has dropped his need for the workplace to be strictly professional. In fact, Clark is sharing a lot of details about his personal life. Despite seeing the series a couple of times, I can't remember if this storyline goes anywhere. I really hope it does because it was a weird 180 from the Clark that we knew.

Finally, Hodgins and Angela decide to move. Angela brings up to Hodgins that she doesn't want to raise their kid in Hodgins's mansion. At the end of the episode, Hodgins gives Angela a key to a new house which is actually the same house that we found our murder victim in. Of course this is a super romantic moment at the end of the episode and Angela say it's like the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for her, but I feel like maybe they should have talked a little bit more before Hodgins fully bought a new house. I know Angela expressed interest in this house at the beginning of the episode, but I still feel like they should have had a deeper and more thorough conversation about this before Hodgins bought this house.

This was a pretty decent episode but it wasn't anything too special.

Best part: watching Bones confront Hannah about her white lies

Worst part: watching Cam, Bones, and Booth get covered in human slime.
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6/10
Should Be More About the Case
Hitchcoc12 February 2023
The death of a young Asian woman leads to her connections with a rich crowd and the producing of Knock Off luxury items (Prada, Gucci). First of all it is necessary to do a reconstruction. The woman was found in a shower, having been there for three days. It's not her shower so the squints look into details assuming the false identity of the body. The solving is interesting. The personal stuff is more of what this is about. Hodgins and Angela are again front and center, this time with the soon to be birth of their kid. This is very dull. Then we have Hannah and Bones circling around, each knowing that some kind of meeting is necessary after what Brennan told Booth in the last episode.
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10/10
"When it comes to plumbing, women just can't deal"
NancyPi31412 July 2023
If you easily become queasy, this is not the episode for you. We start out with a man slipping in his rich girlfriend's steamy, running shower, only to discover the Swiss cheese that was once a human being. Later, Bones realizes that fragments of bone have washed down the drain. Hodgins is outside and tasked with snaking the vents. Booth's bug boy tolerance is low that day, so he turns off the walkie talkie moments before Hodgins warns them to stay away from the drain. While absolutely foul, I crack up every time Booth gets a geyser of human slime directly to the face. Who can't deal now Booth? LoL (I do feel bad for Cam and Bones though).

This week's intern is not the tight-lipped Clark Edison we're used to. He is all up in everyone's business and I'm here for it.

Hodgins and Angela purchase the ritzy home where the murder took place. They will finally be free from Chester Putnam Hodgins' chandeliers.

Best part: watching Cam, Bones, and Booth get covered in human slime.

Worst part: the Prada policeman/murderer repeatedly mispronouncing Liu as "Loo" despite previously speaking to her in her native language.
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