Bones | Season Two | Episode Twenty-one

Episode 21: “Stargazer in a Puddle”

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Brennan and Booth work their way through a partially flooded foundation. A DC cop at the crime scene informs them that there was a foot pursuit the night before, and the suspect tossed a knife into the muck. The cops have been draining the sludge to try to recover the weapon, and in the process found a small highly decomposed skeleton hanging out of a grocery cart. Brennan identifies it as a female, and, based on the pelvic girdle and skull, probably pre-adolescent. It appears to have been dead for several months. There’s a gunshot wound to the back of the head, approximately a .22 caliber. And the victim’s hand is wrapped around a small stone with a message on it reading, “I LOVE YOU.” A small pencil-type case with a shooting star design is found near the body. Booth orders an FBI forensics team to search for bullet fragments.

Back at the lab, Hodgins and Angela discuss their upcoming wedding, as Hodgins works on analyzing crime scene evidence: the “I love you” stone, some scraps of clothing, some filthy water, a collection of marble-sized “moon and stars” which were found in the pencil case, and a bunch of dead fairy shrimp that were found in the mud beneath the remains. Brennan finds a stress mark on the victim’s vertebrae. She was looking up at something.

Brennan’s father, Max Keenan shows up. Booth arrests Max, a fugitive who was charged with killing the Deputy Director of the FBI.

Bones | Season Two | Episode Twenty

Episode 20: “The Glowing Bones in the Old Stone House”

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Bones and Booth arrive at a crime scene in a wooded area where authorities discovered glowing bones they believe to be radioactive. The pair pop a couple of potassium iodide pills to block the radiation then don some biohazard suits to check out the scene. The local authorities take Brennan and Booth into an old stone house to see a glowing decomposed body festooned with rats and weasels. The Geiger counter shows no elevated radiation levels, so Booth and Brennan take off their masks. Now there is no explanation for the glowing body.

Back at the lab the Jeffersonian team discovers multiple stab wounds on the body that would have come from a very angry aggressive attacker. Agent Booth and Dr. Saroyan arrive and start peppering Hodgins with questions. The conversation shifts to Hodgins’ failed marriage proposal, which he tries to play off like nothing though he is obviously bothered.

Agent Booth and Dr. Saroyan are alone in the autopsy room for a moment and their past relationship comes up as Camille tries to pull a fingerprint from the victim. Using a special technique involving fabric softener Dr. Saroyan pulls a print and ID’s the glowing victim as Carly Victor, a promising young chef. The team reassembles and Angela locates Carly’s Myspace profile. It turns out Angela and Temperance both ate at Carly’s uber-popular restaurant.

Bones | Season Two | Episode Nineteen

Episode 19: “Spaceman in the Crater”

Agent Booth and Dr. Brennan are called out to the desert to investigate a strange crater. They find the remains of a human that must have fallen from a considerable height. The only thing they found in tact is a pair of brown men’s loafers.

Back at the Jeffersonian lab the Bones and squints take some careful looks at the pile of clothed flesh and venture a few ideas as to the cause of death all the while skewering Hodgins about all his conspiracy theories. Dr. Brennan makes a final observation noting a significant amount of bone density loss congruent with someone 130 years old. Zach and Hodgins take a closer look at the evidence and conclude that lack of bone density is characteristic of an astronaut who spent a significant time in space. This is just enough info for Booth to get moving. He does a cursory investigation that lands on Colonel Cal Howard, who happens to match Angela’s initial skull reconstruction. Since astronauts are evidently difficult to get a hold of, as they are potential terror targets, Booth tracks down Howard’s wife for an interview.

Booth and Bones go to talk to Mrs. Howard. They learn Colonel Howard just left the previous day on a self-piloted flight and has yet return as scheduled. The Colonel was evidently training another astronaut to do his job since he was being decommissioned for medical reasons.

Bones | Season Two | Episode Eighteen

Episode 18: “The Killer in the Concrete”

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In Baltimore, Brennan and Booth arrive at concrete expanse. Booth has his mind on his toothache. They are told that a cadaver dog discovered a skull. Brennan has them cut out a large chunk of the concrete around the skeleton and ship it to the Jeffersonian.

At the Jeffersonian lab, Cam addresses Hodgins and Zack who’ve have the skeleton partly excavated. They confirm that it’s a male, around 6ft tall. They also discover old gunshot and stabbing wounds that had healed. On the victims skull they find a hole and Cam tells Zack to excavate the entire skull first.

At a cemetery, Angela helps Brennan commemorate her mother’s proper burial. It’s been one year. Her father Max Keenan arrives. She calls the police on him and Max vanishes.

Bones | Season Two | Episode Seventeen

Episode 17: “The Priest in the Churchyard”

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On the St. Agatha church grounds, Brennan and Booth are led to an old cemetery where a water main had burst and coffin have surfaced spilling out corpses. The bodies simply need to be ID’d and put back their proper place, but they find one skeleton that is out of place. Father Donlan, whom runs the church, says that all these bodies had been buried for at least 50 years and yet Brennan believes on of them was buried five years ago with no coffin. Father Sands, who works under father Donlan insists they look into it. Father Donlan is on edge. On site, Zack finds evidence of trauma to the frontal bone of the skull. At the lab, Zack finds blood-pooling stains on the inside of the skull and Booth and Brennan argue about the validity of religion.

After combing the crime scene, Hodgins is back at the lab with Cam explaining that someone broke the water main with a shovel, while trying to bury something or dig something up. He also finds that the victim had been buried for 3 years. Angela arrives with a composite of the victim.

Bones | Season Two | Episode Thirteen

Episode 13: “The Girl in the Gator”

Brennan and Booth exit a diner while Booth’s on the phone getting information on their next case. Although, Booth can’t hear about their new case because of the ice-cream truck that is trailing them, playing its melody. Booth asks the ice-cream man to turn it off, but he refuses so Booth pops three rounds off into the clown-shaped speaker on top of the truck. The music stops, so does Brennan. She can’t believe what Booth just did, but he got his information. Their next case is in the Florida Everglades.

Brennan drives through the Everglades with Booth on speakerphone, back in DC waiting to see his FBI appointed psychologist. He needs the psychologist to sign a release saying that he’s fit for duty before he gets his gun and badge back. Brennan arrives at the scene of the crime to meet her new partner, Agent Sullivan, AKA Sully.

Sully explains that they had to shoot a well-known local alligator because it had eaten someone. Brennan reaches inside the alligator’s mouth to find a gold locket.

Bones | Season Two | Episode Sixteen

Episode 16: “The Boneless Bride in the River”

Brennan and Booth arrive at the crime scene. They stand beside a river where police wade around a steel chest. Inside the chest is a flatten dead woman. Brennan has it wrapped up and taken back to the lab.

At the lab, Cam looks over the victim and finds that her skeleton has been removed after incisions were made down the sides of the body and after it was boiled. Cam asks Angela if she can create a skull from the skin and she isn’t up to it, but she can tell that the victim is Asian. Brennan enters to say that if there’s no bones that she doesn’t need to be there.

Hodgins and Zack bring Cam into their lab to show how they might be able to find out what the victim looked like. They put a balloon inside the skin of the head and inflated it. Cam tells them to shut it down. It does them no good, it’s just gross.

Bones | Season Two | Episode Fifteen

Episode 15: “Bodies in the Book”

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We find Dr. Brennan in bed with FBI Agent Sullivan (Sully) as the phone rings, interrupting them. Brennan’s publicist is on the line with questions about her schedule. Brennan has other things on her mind at the moment. She hangs up.

At the lab, Brennan meets her publicist, Ellen Laskow, and her assistant, Hank Beldin. Ellen wonders why Brennan still works at the Jeffersonian when she’s making so much money off her books. Brennan reminds Ellen that this is what she loves to do. Hank admires that, along with her novels. Booth arrives and steals Brennan off to a crime scene.

At the marina, cops swarm. Brennan and Booth are told that pieces of human were found floating in the water and divers found the rest of the body strapped with red tape to the anchor of a boat. This chills Brennan and Booth because this is a scenario straight from the pages of Brennan’s latest novel.

Bones | Season Two | Episode Fourteen

Episode 14: “The Man in the Mansion”

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Brennan and Booth arrive at a mansion where they’re told a dead body was found. Brennan asks Booth how therapy’s going and he’d rather not talk about it. Inside Cam greets them and leads them to the victim that’s been decomposing for three weeks. She says that it’s probably the owner of the house because the wife ID’d his watching and wedding band. Brennan wonders why she’s there if the body still has flesh on it and Cam explains that the dead man, Mr. Terry Bancroft, is responsible for the Bancroft wing of the Jeffersonian. They asked for Brennan and team by name.

Booth sits in the kitchen talking with Mrs. Clarrisa Bancroft. She claims that she’s been away at their vineyard and that he was supposed to be at their fishing lodge. She tells Booth that she heard it might have been a break in, and she goes on to say that Terry was involved in a youth center for inner city kids and they might want to look for the killer there.

At the lab, Cam, Zack, and Hodgins discuss evidence they’ve already found. Cam says that Terry was stabbed in the chest after he was dead and that a slash in his jugular killed him. Zack runs the dental records and gets a positive match to Terry Bancroft. Hodgins seems tense.

On the forensic platform Hodgins goes through some photos found on the victim’s desk as Angela approaches to tell him that she’s got more evidence for him in his lab. Angela exits and Hodgins goes back to a photo a four boys which on the back says, “Me, Hodgins, Stoner, and Tripp before our first gig. August ‘95.” Hodgins pockets the photo.

Bones | Season Two | Episode Twelve

Episode 12: “The Man in the Cell”

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Brennan and Booth walk the halls of a prison lead by Warden Everett to the cell where a major fire began. Inside the cell, Brennan inspects the body that was locked in. She’s a little drowsy because the workman renovating the next-door apartment left a radio on all night, but she wakes up when the warden tells her that it is Howard Epps’ cell. Brennan inspects Epps’ burned body and finds that someone must have tossed accelerant on the body before they set it on fire, but when Brennan inspects Epps’ wrist to check for the break that she had given him a year prior, she notes that this body has a freshly broken wrist. It’s not Howard Epps. The Warden says that all prisoners have been accounted for, but Brennan cuts him off when she finds a DCFD tattoo and realizes that Epps must have killed a firefighter, stolen his clothes and mask, and walked out the front door.

At the lab, Zack, Angela, and Hodgins read an article about themselves that was published in the newspaper. It gives detailed bios on each of them and talks about the strong relationships they have in the workplace. Cam arrives and tells them to put the paper away and get her up to speed on what they found on the dead firefighters body. Hodgins says the accelerant was distilled alcohol and Zack confirms that the wrist was a fresh break.

In Brennan’s office B&B sits with Epps’ ex-wife Caroline Epps. She explains that she is no longer in contact with Howard. She explains that she’s moved on and wants nothing to do with Howard or this investigation. She leaves and Brennan worries about her safety, meanwhile Booth is worried about Brennan’s security. He doubles up security at the lab incase Epps comes after anyone. Then Brennan gets a phone call from Epps himself. He tells her that everything he does from this point on is her fault. He also tells her to “use her head.” Brennan takes this as a clue. Booth has traced the call and they go to the pay phone he was using to find a small vile of bone dust.

Bones | Season Two | Episode Eleven

Episode 11: “Judas on a Pole”

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A man is shot dead on the rooftop of a hotel. The shooter, in a hood, straps the victim to a cross, guts him, and then lights him on fire. The shooter leaves him to burn. Meanwhile, at the Jeffersonian, Zack sits before the school board defending his dissertation. Brennan seems to help him along as one of the board members herself. Then Booth enters to take Brennan to the crucifixion crime scene.

B&B arrive to inspect the victim and right off the bat Booth knows that the guy was a rat. His guts were spilled because he “spilled his guts” and it’s no coincidence that the hotel they stand on is used to house witnesses. This murder was a warning. Brennan notices something jammed in the victim’s trachea.

At the lab, Cam, Hodgins, and Zack look at the body. From the trachea Cam removes a slip of paper the says, “My name is Garrett Delaney.” She also removes a Christopher Columbus commemorative coin.

Bones | Season Two | Episode Ten

Episode 10: “The Headless Witch in the Woods”

Brennan and Booth trek through the George Washington National Forest with a forest ranger that has roped off a crime scene. En route, Brennan notices small, spooky, hand-made ornaments hanging in the trees. The ranger tells the legend of Maggie Cinders, a supposed witch of the 1780’s that was beheaded and now locals believe that her ghost is hanging the ornaments in the trees and wanders the woods looking for her severed head. Any live person that went looking for the head would be killed by Maggie’s ghost. The ranger shows them to a ditch where a headless body lies. Brennan ID’s it as a male between 18-25. She also finds a video camera.

At the lab with Zack and Cam, Brennan helps them examine the body. Brennan explains that she doesn’t believe in ghost and Cam reveals that her mother came to her the day after she died and told her where to find a necklace. Hodgins enters with time of death being one year prior. Booth joins them with info on a local film student, Graham Hastings, that went missing a year ago while filming a documentary on Maggie Cinders. Angela has cleaned the tape in the camera found with the victim and she plays footage of a frightened guy and girl in the woods shouting for Graham. They split up and the young man holding the camera is spray with blood.