Bones - 'The Archeologist in the Coccoon' (Part 2)

I thought there was a connection to the 2 episodes they aired back-to-back. But I guess not.
There's a guy, in a tree, talking on his phone to his wife - appears that he was skydiving and ended up getting his parachute stuck in a tree.
Then he falls partway down the tree, and then SCREAMS for real, because he's face-to-face with a dead human body encased in some sort of web. EW.

Bones is trying to play peek-a-boo with Christine, who is NOT amused. Bones is disappointed, because apparently that means that Christine is not the genius baby Bones wanted her to be.

It just reminded me of this scene ^ hehe

Booth and Bones get called to deal with the cuccoon-person, and Booth says 'Uncle Sweets is gonna take you to daycare!' and Sweets goes wide-eyed and asks 'Uncle Sweets?' Personally, I think it's adorable!!

Hodgins thinks the victim was a victim of Mothman

And I think I'm going to have nightmares.

He doesn't want Bones to disturb the web, in case it is evidence of Mothman. She makes a tiny cut anyway, and a bunch of wormy-bug things (possibly larvae?) fall on her face. I might be sick.
There is a Jeep nearby, with a large pool of blood in the cushion under the passenger seat. Apparently the Jeep was pushed down an enbankment and hit a fence, which is what caused the victim to catapult out of the car and into the tree.
James Sutton was the victim, he was an 'explorer-type' who would write books about weird topics, like dinosaurs, Atlantis, the secret bride of Jesus.. And then he would sell artefacts related to those topics to the highest bidder.
Hodgins puts the body and its remaining bugs in a sealed container with a bunch of crows, to eat the
Sutton married a Russian woman named Marina and brought her back to America a few months before. Her brother had been living in the USA for a while and went to stay with Marina when Sutton disappeared. She is pregnant, and says that Sutton had brought some artefacts back to the US from Russia, about which he was very excited.
Booth and Bones go check out his storage locker, where they find tons of old bones, which are human (Bones verifies this by sticking her tongue to them) and he has notes which state that he found them that are probably thousands of years old. Which means they're Clark's responsibility, and Bones resents that. Cam is caught in the middle and Bones storms off, saying 'I just hope that I am available when Dr. Edison needs help.'
Clark texts Hodgins right afterward, saying he needs help, but Cam reminds Hodgins that he needs to analyse the particulates he found on the body, so it's a valid excuse for not getting in the middle of the competition.
Bones and Booth go to talk to Sutton's publisher, who says that Sutton would sell his artefacts to the same person - a guy names Wilson who doesn't even believe that the world is as old at it is.
Angela comes into the lab to help Clark with the sketches of the ancient bones. And when she asks Hodgins to help him, he balks at it, and then she asks him if he was more afraid of her or Brennan haha.
When they're assembling the bones from the dig site, they realise that there are 3 homo sapiens there - a man, a woman, and a girl approximately 3 years old, as well as a neanderthal male. Clark is excited to find evidence that the 2 species live together, and Bones is jealous becuase she wants to work on that case - and then she realises that the skull of the male homo sapien was fractured by blunt force, indicating that he was murdered, which should mean that Bones should take over, even though the murder was over 25 thousand years old. And then they have an intellectual argument, and it's actually pretty funny, because they're both being snarky but still way more polite than non-geniuses. Cam steps in and interrupts, tells them that Bones can consult on the case but it's still Clark's to deal with, and tells them to get back to work. So as much as Hodgins is afraid of Bones, she's still afraid of Cam. 

I have a feeling this is from the blooper reel, but it totally looks like Clark is gloating and Bones is unimpressed haha

Bones finds evidence that Sutton was whipped, and it turns out that it was by Marina's father, who didn't want her to marry him because it was a 'dishonour to the family'. Awkward...
Clark looks at Angela's drawings of the child, and realises that she was part Neanderthal - indicating that the Neanderthal man was her actual father, not the Homo Sapien. Brennan is now even more jealous because she was looking at the bones, and didn't realise that the child contained traits linked to both species. They are both shocked because it's a significant find to have an interspecies family.
Then Bones and Cam are examining Sutton's body and they find blows to his arm and scapula, which means he was trying to defend himself from whoever was stabbing or hitting him with a sharp object (side note: As often as people are stabbed on these shows, or have injuries caused by 'blunt-force trauma', I can only remember a handful of times they were killed by 'sharp-force trauma'. Hmm.) Also, when they figured this out, Bones and Cam high-fived, and it was adorable.
Booth suspects Marina's brother, because he had been in the Russian Special Forces, and therefore would know how to sever specific arteries to kill someone quickly. But he says he's innocent.
Then Hodgins discovers traces of book-binder's linen in the wounds and Bones rushes off because she knows how he was killed (and not with a book, because books aren't sharp!) and she won't tell him.
She and Booth confront the publisher, who has a book about how to commit the perfect murder on her bookshelf (Bones points out 'it was written by a man on Death Row, what would he know about committing the perfect murder?!') and there's blood on her floor (Bones says 'did they say to use bleach? Because that's wrong.') and her other bookend is missing, which would match the wounds. So she did it. Wow, I did not see that coming. Except then they mention that Sutton didn't want to publish his findings with her company, because he wanted to be taken seriously as an archeologist. He wanted to publish his finds in a respected journal, which meant she would not get any money from it. It would have been nice if the audience knew this sooner!!
They go to unveil the prehistoric family, and Clark asks for people to re-enact the situation, using Cam as the mother, Hodgins as the Neanderthal father, and Sweets as the Homo Sapien man (because Booth wouldn't do it haha) He begins with 'it was a warmish autumn morning' and Bones asks how they knew that, Hodgins jumps in and talks about spores (Bones looks annoyed) and then they continue, Hodgins jumping in again to say 'very warm autumn' and then when he 'returns' from 'hunting' he says 'Hark! I bring you meat! That we shall feast upon' and I was laughing so hard I almost missed Angela saying 'this isn't Shakespeare, sweetie' so he changes it to 'Grrrr. Caveman.' and I laughed even harder. Clark and Bones both glare at him and say 'don't say caveman!'
They re-enact how everyone died - apparently the family would have been outcasts, because of their interspecies-ness. So the Sweets-man threw a spear at the Neanderthal (Cam says Homo Sapiens were the first to throw weapons at their prey, Sweets says Homo Sapiens would go straight to hell, and everyone looks at him and goes 'we're all homo sapiens!'), then the Cam-mother hit him over the head with her grinding stone, and he hit her in the jaw, which broke her jaw and crushed her larynx. The Hodgins-Neanderthal father then got up and, while bleeding, hit the Sweets-man with his blunt stone axe, which killed him. Sweets won't lie down dead, he says 'I'm not dying' and Hodgins goes 'of course you are, I just split your skull wide open!' The mother died of suffocation, and the father because he'd been stabbed with the spear. And then the little girl was so young that she was unable to feed herself, and she eventually starved to death. Booth looks like he's about to tear up, and he says 'so the world's first hate crime ended with the death of a little girl?' and Angela says it didn't quite end in hate. Then they say that the father, before dying, laid himself down beside the mother. The little girl then crawled over and laid down beside her parents, which is how Sutton found their bones, all beside each other. 





Later back at home, Bones says she's giving up her partial authorship of Clark's paper, so that Sutton can be credited instead. 'That way' she says, 'his son will grow up knowing that he did something important.' And then she says she doesn't want to pass her failings on to Christine, but she's sure Christine won't inherit them - or Booth's. Which leads to him going 'wait, what failings?' and she dodges the question by taking Christine for a bath. Clever woman.