Bones Recap
Sep. 22nd, 2006 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weaktwosWe open with a dog holding the skeletal remains of someone's arm. And the pooch does not wish to share. Booth tries the direct approach, and nearly gets chomped on. Bones goes long with a pine cone and the dog runs to catch the pass.
Cut to the office, skeletal remains are on the table. The team is gathered for discussion. Angela walks up late. Jack and Angela are still putting the serious flirt on each other, and now Angela has a nickname for Jack. Haji, was it? Hubba hubba. After some banter over the remains, they find out that the victim likes golf, was bound and killed by a tire iron. The method of death matches the M.O. of a serial killer Bones and Booth encountered last year. Bones doesn't get to go. Why? She busted his wrist when he touched her with his creepy serial killer hands. Yes, she's elbow-deep in to the bowels of decomposing goo, and she'll lose her cool when a serial killer touches her. It's good to have priorities.
Booth visits the serial killer. He's playing a game. He suggests he knows the victim, but will not reveal the name until Bones and Booth come and see him.
Back to the Office. Zack and Bones discuss the fundamental components of the game. Sicko McSickerson is using one victim to point to another victim, and he planted clues. The cast is on a treasure hunt. There's a wrist bone on the victim that does not belong to the victim. One more visit to Sicko McSickerson gets a few more clues that leads Bones and Booth to a mine. Also, in the process, we get a reference from Jack about the Masons, perfect for any treasure hunt.
The body they find in the mine is fresh. Sicko McS has been in prison far longer than the body has been warmed over. He's got Manson-like powers! Someone else is killing for him!
Examination of the new body shows a different method of murder that is not fully consistent with Sicko McManson's M.O. The new murder victim is a teenager.
By the way, Sicko McManson got married recently to a woman who apparently worked with the victim. She's mousy, generous to a fault, and purveys her new man all the blond porno he wants. Why should deranged whackjobs be so lucky to be loved by trusting, dedicated women? There is no justice here.
But there's more. A religious medal leads Booth to a Catholic School. The Medal doesn't belong to Victim #2. It belongs to another teen who is missing. Potential Victim #3.
A few other clues leads us to a postal worker...a character we saw at the beginning of the show. Victim 3# is saved, and Bones gets to pop a cap into the less talented murderer's body. She kills him soundly.
So, the murderer is dead, the accomplice, Epps, aka Sicko McSickerson, aka Charles Manson, Jr., is still on death row. The case seems closed, but Bones and Booth want to talk to the psycho. This is a bad call for smart individuals who spent so much of the first half of the show analyzing the finer points of game theory. This guy wants them to show up so he can crawl in their dome. Once you solve the crime, you don't go back to give them an opportunity to gloat. Booth was right at the end, Sicky McSickerpants won the game.
Booth gives Bones a small pig at the end in an effort to cheer her up, because she is feeling the emotional fallout of being used as a pawn by Epps. I wonder if this is related to the marzipan pig concept, which is often a gesture of good luck?
So far I'm enjoying the new series. Next week, it looks like we'll be seeing David Boreanaz in boxers. Hellooooo.
Cut to the office, skeletal remains are on the table. The team is gathered for discussion. Angela walks up late. Jack and Angela are still putting the serious flirt on each other, and now Angela has a nickname for Jack. Haji, was it? Hubba hubba. After some banter over the remains, they find out that the victim likes golf, was bound and killed by a tire iron. The method of death matches the M.O. of a serial killer Bones and Booth encountered last year. Bones doesn't get to go. Why? She busted his wrist when he touched her with his creepy serial killer hands. Yes, she's elbow-deep in to the bowels of decomposing goo, and she'll lose her cool when a serial killer touches her. It's good to have priorities.
Booth visits the serial killer. He's playing a game. He suggests he knows the victim, but will not reveal the name until Bones and Booth come and see him.
Back to the Office. Zack and Bones discuss the fundamental components of the game. Sicko McSickerson is using one victim to point to another victim, and he planted clues. The cast is on a treasure hunt. There's a wrist bone on the victim that does not belong to the victim. One more visit to Sicko McSickerson gets a few more clues that leads Bones and Booth to a mine. Also, in the process, we get a reference from Jack about the Masons, perfect for any treasure hunt.
The body they find in the mine is fresh. Sicko McS has been in prison far longer than the body has been warmed over. He's got Manson-like powers! Someone else is killing for him!
Examination of the new body shows a different method of murder that is not fully consistent with Sicko McManson's M.O. The new murder victim is a teenager.
By the way, Sicko McManson got married recently to a woman who apparently worked with the victim. She's mousy, generous to a fault, and purveys her new man all the blond porno he wants. Why should deranged whackjobs be so lucky to be loved by trusting, dedicated women? There is no justice here.
But there's more. A religious medal leads Booth to a Catholic School. The Medal doesn't belong to Victim #2. It belongs to another teen who is missing. Potential Victim #3.
A few other clues leads us to a postal worker...a character we saw at the beginning of the show. Victim 3# is saved, and Bones gets to pop a cap into the less talented murderer's body. She kills him soundly.
So, the murderer is dead, the accomplice, Epps, aka Sicko McSickerson, aka Charles Manson, Jr., is still on death row. The case seems closed, but Bones and Booth want to talk to the psycho. This is a bad call for smart individuals who spent so much of the first half of the show analyzing the finer points of game theory. This guy wants them to show up so he can crawl in their dome. Once you solve the crime, you don't go back to give them an opportunity to gloat. Booth was right at the end, Sicky McSickerpants won the game.
Booth gives Bones a small pig at the end in an effort to cheer her up, because she is feeling the emotional fallout of being used as a pawn by Epps. I wonder if this is related to the marzipan pig concept, which is often a gesture of good luck?
So far I'm enjoying the new series. Next week, it looks like we'll be seeing David Boreanaz in boxers. Hellooooo.
