‘Bones’: The Eye in the Sky Won’t Stop Booth From Relapsing

Everyone was right. You wouldn’t give an alcoholic a glass of wine, why let a gambling addict gamble?

It was just another case. Remains were found in an industrial shredder, which seems very typical of ‘Bones’. Then Angela found poker apps on the victim’s cell phone. That might not seem odd, but he was a member of many sites. Then they spoke with a co-worker the victim had a fight with and found out Jeff was in deep.

All the players on the underground poker game were suspects, which meant, Booth had to go undercover. Brennan wasn’t happy about this and neither was Aubrey. They both pleaded with him not to do it. But he didn’t want a killer to go free.

He wanted to see all of the players tells and the way to do that was to play with them. He told Brennan he was strong and wouldn’t relapse. He would be fine.

It looked liked he was a little nervous when he sat down, but he quickly got into the game. Then he noticed a camera. He went to the bathroom and called Angela to see if she could hack into it. She could, but she needed his phone to be close to the security system.

Booth claimed another player had string bet, which was an illegal bet. Can there really be an illegal bet in illegal gambling? Booth asked to see the tape. This got him close enough for Angela to do her magic.

Breaking into the security system didn’t lead to much though, just who was there on the night of Jeff’s murder.

Booth got home at 4a.m. and Brennan was waiting. She was very worried about him. She asked if he called his sponsor and he said that was between him and his sponsor. When Brennan said he didn’t, he said he called him on the way home. Brennan read something Sweets said that even a good, big emotional change can trigger a relapse. Booth got very mad at this. He thought Brennan didn’t believe he was strong enough because they were having a baby. He said they should go to bed because she was sleeping for two.

Aubrey tried to talk to Booth. His father lost everything in the stock market and then started a Ponzi scheme. Aubrey said he thought him and his mother would be enough. Booth told Aubrey it wasn’t them, it was his father. It was him. Aubrey said Booth could call him if he couldn’t get a hold of his sponsor.

Another ‘Bones’ baby!

All the players seemed like regular people and they couldn’t get the financials of the suspects because they didn’t have cause for a warrant. Booth said he was frustrated.

Booth said he had to go back in. Brennan and Aubrey pleaded with Booth to give them time. Booth came up with every excuse, don’t want them to get away, don’t want the killer to see they are on to him. He had to go in and mention the murder. Then he could see who did it. Aubrey said you catch the guy and you’re out, right? Booth hesitated before saying yes. Aubrey and Brennan were not reassured.

Booth was in the game a long time and winning big. Angela was looking at financials online. She said you don’t need a warrant online if you know where to look. Aubrey said whatever gets Booth out faster.

Even Miss Warren was trying hard to end the case quickly. She stayed at the lab all night looking at the bones.

Hodgins’ found evidence from particulates that showed Thai food. There was a Thai food place close to the poker game. They investigated the alley and found the victim’s throat had been ripped out. There was also wood in the throat.

Hodgins examined the wood and it came from a bat. Angela also found that Nate Crow had financial problems. He was about to lose his house after his divorce. He just made a big payment. They looked at the suspect’s Facebook page and found a baseball bat with the same make as the particulates Hodgins’ found. They had enough evidence to take Nate in.

Brennan texted Booth, but he had a good hand and could stand to make a killing. He hesitated for a while. Everyone at the lab looked on worried about what he was going to do. He finally brought out his badge and arrested the guy. Brennan looked so happy. Everyone was so relieved.

If only that was that. Booth lies to Brennan at the end of the episode and tells her his sponsor is calling. It wasn’t his sponsor, it was his bookie. He wanted to put 200 down on the Cardinals. His gambling problem is back.

On two happier notes. Booth and Brennan are pregnant! And Hodgins just invented something that will bring back his money, well probably not all of it, but still. Cam told him to play with his inventions home and he did, so the Jeffersonian can’t take credit for this one. He created a mat that stops beakers from breaking. Miss Warren helped him with this idea. He was breaking beaker after beaker, and test tubes. She said to make an unbreakable beaker. So he went with the idea.

Next week a celebrity food critic is found dead. Take a look at the promo:

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‘Bones’: The Mini Golfer and the Tiki Hut

Brennan found mini golf fascinating.

Max seemed to be up to his old tricks again. He was lying to Brennan and wouldn’t tell her where he was going.

She was so concerned about what he was up to, Booth put a tracking device on him. Then the Ohio police picked him up for grave robbing. He dug up Marvin Barlow, who was on the F.B.I.’s 10 most wanted list. They didn’t even know he was dead.

He still wouldn’t explain everything to Brennan. It wasn’t until he went back to Ohio and retrieved a ring from the evidence bag that he finally told the truth.

The ring was Brennan’s when she was a child. She thought she lost it, but Barlow had stolen it. He showed Max the ring that next day to show he could kill Brennan whenever he wanted. This is why Brennan parents left.

Even when Max does bad things, it’s always out of love for his family.

That was kind of the tone for the case too. The episode started out with a man calling his wife and the going to jump off a building, until he saw a dead body.

Hodgins was able to use a new toy to retrieve the body and then tried to use the toy and go down to retrieve more evidence, which was totally unnecessary and he ended up stuck hanging over the side.

The body was hard to examine. It was covered in bird poop and destroying the remains. With the first evidence it appeared their victim was a contract killer. The screws couldn’t give identity, but they led to the surgery and that led to the identity. Troy Carter. His brother Jake said he was a mini golfer and a good one at that. He was about to win the mini golf masters.

Mini golf is apparently a very competitive sport. The competitors hardly batted an eye when they were informed Troy was dead. It’s also appears to be a sport parents get really involved in too. 18-year-old Darla’s dad was really into it. Darla was also sleeping with the victim. Which led them to suspect her father, seeing as Troy was much older.

Darla informed them about the altercation Troy had gotten into with a man. Her description led them back to the brother. Jake was losing a lot of business since his brother was leaving their landscaping company.

There were so many motives floating around. Sammy, the owner of the golf course and hosting the Mini Masters, was funding Troy. Booth discovered Troy was heading to Africa for the World Mini Golf Championships and thought Troy was leaving Sammy, but Sammy was going with.

It was actually one piece of evidence that Wendell misread that led them to the killer. He assumed the red etched in the bone was blood. But when Hodgins analyzed it, it was red nail polish. Cam also analyzed part of it and found it was a nail.

That led them to Sammy’s wife. She confessed pretty easily, but she thought it was self defense. She was saving her marriage. Troy was taking Sammy away from her, so she killed him. She really believed it was self defense.

Wendell was a little distracted on this case and that might be why he misread the evidence. He thought he broke his girlfriend’s grandmother’s clock at the beginning of the episode, turns out it was already broken. Wendell and Hodgins spent the episode trying to fix the clock. Hodgins used another clock’s parts to fix it.

Next week they have to dig remains out of an industrial shredder. Take a look at the promo:

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‘Bones’: The Baker Blown to Bits

The 3 new victims provided evidence the first victim couldn’t.

Most cases on ‘Bones’ start with someone finding the remains, but this time we got to see how the victim died. Connor was running from a man with a knife and ended up in a blast zone, where he got blown up.

It was certainly a crazy way to start an episode. The remains were hardly recognizable, but they could discern that there was only one victim and male. Then Cam made a discovery of a tattoo. They could barely make it out. Cam said she would rehydrate the skin and then Angela could see if she could reconstruct the image.

Arastoo was asked to reconstruct the flattened skull and at first he thought it was a joke, but Brennan never jokes.

Hodgins discovered the tattoo was made with the same recipe that’s common with prison tattoos. This made it easy for Angela to identify the victim. She searched his tattoo in a database of convict tattoos and identified the man.

Aubrey checked out the victim’s apartment and found his girlfriend taking a shower.  She want not happy with Aubrey’s entrance. Sabrina couldn’t believe that Connor was dead. When asked about why she didn’t report him missing she said so his parol officer wouldn’t find out.

Apparently the guy worked at a bakery that turned his life around. Brennan and Booth took a trip to the bakery and found all the employees were ex-cons. The owner, Roger, said his father was an ex-con and it was hard on his family, so he helps them out so they can support their families.

Connor was in prison for attempted murder. He was the driver in a robbery of a connivence store. A clerk got shot and her brother, Pemberton, had came into the bakery and threatened Connor.

When Pemberton was questioned he confessed to following Connor with a camera so he could catch him screwing up, but he didn’t kill the victim.

Cam discovered that the victim was so exhausted his muscles were about to give out and said he was running for 30 minutes. This gave Angela an estimate of the area Connor could have traveled. Cam also found opiates in the victim’s system. The victim was drugged to be subdued, but he was able to run at top speeds for 30 minutes and break his restrains.

It turns out the victim had been taking drugs, this brought them back around to the girlfriend. Sabrina first claimed she didn’t know he was on drugs, but came clean. He was going through their money and she told him she wanted nothing to do with the drugs.

Booth questioned one of the employees at the bakery and found out Connor was about to do a robbery. The guy wanted nothing to do with it because he didn’t want to get fired. Though he also noted that Roger “invented rose colored glasses”. Roger’s belief in his employees kept showing through in the episode. The employee also mentioned Connor had an inside man.

Angela went through the victim’s bank records and found mostly payments to parking meters and for food. He spent an average of two and half hours in front of a checking cash place. The assistant manager of the places was his girlfriend.

Further questioning of the girlfriend proved that she was asked to leave the door open, but said no. She didn’t report him missing because they got in a fight over it and he left. She didn’t think it mattered to tell the police, but she didn’t want his accomplice to think she was a snitch. It was another guy from the bakery.

Roger was questioned again, but was willing to go to jail for impeding an investigation. He didn’t believe that any of his workers could have done this.

Arastoo has decided to go back to Iran to help his brother through cancer. He never let Cam have a say on his decision. It’s also dangerous for Arastoo to go back. He turned his back on the regime when he became an American citizen. He doesn’t know what the future holds for him or Cam, but he can’t leave his brother alone to die.

All of the particulates and Angela’s border of where the victim could have run, led them to a warehouse. Aubrey and Booth checked the building out. They found blood and three other bodies with their tattoos removed.

All the victims were burned at different amounts of time and months apart. Angela identified one as a priest and another as a convict that was in the same prison as Connor.

Then Aubrey found that the Priest worked at a parish that Alex, the assistant manger at the bakery, was an alter boy as a kid. The second victim was cells mates with Alex.

The weapon is identified as a Northern Indian Ritualistic knife that can be found in Afghanistan and Alex was stationed there.

Booth questioned Roger again and he still didn’t want to give them anything, until he heard the new evidence. He then told them that Alex hadn’t come into work and wasn’t answering his calls.

Roger set a meet with Alex and let Booth and Aubrey know. Roger confessed to Alex that the police wanted to question him, still believing he was innocent. Alex gets angry and pushed Roger up against the car as Aubrey and Booth are closing in.

Booth takes the shot to demobilize Alex. Aubrey pulls the knife out of the car and it’s the knife in question.

Next week Brennan plays mini-golf! Take a look at the promo:

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‘Bones’: Brennan Gets a Lesson in Twitter

Ms. Warren was teaching Brennan everything from hashtags to selfies.

Brennan entered the world of social media this week and gained almost 3,000 followers. It was a rocky start when she had only 10 followers. She was posting long articles about things people don’t understand. When Brennan asked Ms. Warren for help, that’s when her twitter followers started soaring and she really got the hang of selfies and hashtags. ‘Bones’ has entered a whole new world now that Brennan has joined social media.

This week the squints were on a case very close to Caroline’s heart. When a United Teaching Fellow teacher is killed, Caroline jumps into action. She doesn’t want this murder to ruin the reputation of the program. They do so much to help underprivileged students. Caroline is on the board for the program and she also started with nothing like so many of the students.

The evidence took them in many directions. Cam discovered that the the victim, Mia, had been standing for four to eight hours after her death and Hodgins found that she had been doused in disinfectant. The assumption was she was killed in a semi-public space. Brennan than noticed the skull had marks consistent with hooks from a locker. She was sure of it because she had been stuffed in a locker several times at school.

When Booth and Brennan went to look at the school their deputy dog found the locker she was stuffed in, but it wasn’t registered to any students. The dog also pinned the janitor, but even with his criminal past, he was not the murderer.

At one point they thought the boyfriend had killed Mia. And for those ‘The Vampire Diaries’ and ‘The Originals’ fans, I’m sure they would have been very happy to see Nathaniel Buzolic guest starring, even though he didn’t get much screen time. 

The boyfriend was cheating on Mia and lied about his coffee tour, but he still wasn’t the murderer.

Next the evidence led back around to Keith. He had charges of assault with a knife and Mia had been cut by a knife, his knife in fact. Everything wasn’t as it appeared though. She cut herself with the knife to make sure Marcellus was back in school. He had missed several days because he got a job and Mia assumed that was Keith’s doing. It wasn’t, but she was determined. She threatened to say he attacked her if Marcellus wasn’t back in school.

Keith was adamant that he didn’t kill her, but wouldn’t tell them where he was the day of her murder.

Aubrey spoke with Marcellus and was able to persuade the boy to tell him. Keith was at the grocery store steeling food so Marcellus could eat. Keith already had two strikes and another one would mean Marcellus would go into foster care. Aubrey didn’t press any charges. This unfortunately led to another dead end.

Then new evidence led the way to the killer. The knee caps and back had been intentionally hit after Mia was killed, so why? The body had been in the locker so long it would have been stiff, striking the knees and back would have made it easier to move and fold into position, but not in a trunk of a car, in the passenger seat. So who had a small car with no drunk? Then Hodgins founds particulars of a really good eraser, just like you have for taking a test. This led them around to the teacher, Shane Gentry.

He had changed the answers on the test with his eraser, so his students could get higher test scores. He was up for a job at the Department of Education and wanted to make himself look good. Mia had caught him cheating. He didn’t mean to kill her, but she wouldn’t give him the tests back and she started screaming, so he strangled her to shut her up. He didn’t believe anyone really wanted to work at that school.

Mia did. She cared about her students. She had charts on her personal computer about her student’s progress. She really cared.

Caroline took a personal interest in Keith and Marcellus. She was going to be Marcellus’ tutor and was making Keith get his G.E.D., plus she took them out for a meal at the diner.

Next week they find four victims in the same location and it looks to be a dangerous killer. Take a look at the promo:

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