Saturday 2 February 2013

Bones - 'The Corpse on the Canopy'

Remember that sick twisted bastard Pelant? The one who framed Brennan for murder, and killed a whole bunch of people, set Angela's computer on fire, tried to make Hodgins kill him, and then changed his identity via computer once he was arrested, so they couldn't prosecute him?
THIS creepy sonofabitch?!!
Yea, he's back. And the rundown of all the history with him at the beginning of the episode took over a minute.
Angela and Hodgins wake up because Michael is crying, then something drips onto his face and it's BLOOD AND THERE'S A FREAKING BLOOD-SOAKED BODY ABOVE THEIR BED!!! Angela rushes into Michael's room, and he's fine but screaming but there are flower petals in his bed. I have to say I don't think I've ever heard either of them scream before. It scared me.
Booth and Bones get there and the 4 think it was Pelant's work. Apparently they were drugged, there was a hole in the vent to their bedroom. The petals were from a crocus which are common in Egypt. The body was skinned and the mandible was removed. It's a man, who was dead less than 24 hours. Hodgins is reluctant to bring in an outside 'help' but they lock down their lab and don't use the computers, and make a giant shield which Caroline refers to as a giant high-tech equivalent of a tinfoil hat. 
Gotta love this woman. Sassy even in the scariest of situations.

Then we see a scene where Pelant is doing something involving lasers and an ID badge. Weird, usually Bones is one of the few shows that doesn't show the preparations their evil serial killers are making.
Booth, Sweets and Caroline are reviewing Pelant's old crimes, and they mention that he's eliminating his 'new identity' as well as his real one. I don't understand how that's possible, he has a paper trail! Good grief.
Brennan found shrapnel in the muscle of the victim, and evidence that means the victim was a war veteran.
Cam can't find any toxin in Hodgin's blood, which causes him to flip out, because he wants to protect his family, but he can't. I've never seen him so mad and upset at the same time - it's a little frightening, but mostly I feel bad for him!
Agent Flynn tracks Booth down and says 'hey, want my help?' and then opens a briefcase with classified documents in it, from the Pentagon, so Booth brings him onboard. Honestly, I don't trust him. Maybe it's because he took over the case when Bones was on the run, maybe it's because he's played by the same guy who is up to no good on The Mentalist, or maybe just because he gives off the same is-he-a-bad-guy-or-just-a-bureaucratic-asshole vibe that Granger did on NCIS:LA. I dunno. But I don't like him.
Evidently I'm not the only one who has considered this...

And remember his suspicious actions with that marigold in the season premiere?! That's weird!!
Anyway, he and Booth ID the victim as a Navy SEAL named Freeman. When Booth and Sweets check out his apartment, they find an open gun safe and very few personal belongings. This leads them to believe that he was working for a company named Serberus that trains and equips mmercenaries, such as Freeman. But when they talk to a guy from Serberus, he's less than cooperative, saying that if 'this guy' did kill their man, then they'd deal with him. Themselves. Which makes a small part of me hope that this big bad organisation will take Pelant out, but at the same time, I think he feels like he's too smart for guys who use brute force to get their way.
Bones and Cam find evidence that the SEAL was injected with something, possibly a neurotoxin, and the dosage was enough to kill him; Cam says "He literally died from pain." Which is typical of the sick freak Pelant, to torture people before killing them. Man, I hate that guy!!
Sweets goes to Hodgins and tries to reason with him, but Hodgins is very angry and muttering like a man possessed (he has papers and Post-Its all over the walls of his lab) and then when Sweets tells him to 'take a breath', he startles and rips a page out of a book and then walks out of the room, all the while repeating the phrase. I know I've thought he was crazy in a crazy-genius way before, but now I think he's gone off the deep end... 
Maybe he could share a padded cell with poor Zach...

Sweets then reccommends to Cam that she should take Hodgins off the case, and she refused to do so because she knows that Pelant is afraid of Hodgins, which is why he put the body in his room, because he wants him taken off the case. Wow. Cam should be the psychiatrist, that was a genius point! I never even thought of that!!
But wait, Hodgins is still crazy, because next Angela walks in on him preparing to snort Lidocaine so that he can biopsy his own lung. Yes, you read that right. Then Angela has the idea that she should biopsy her lung too. So they've both gone insane. Poor geniuses.
Bones' burn phone rings, and it's Pelant on the other end. And he says she's stupid, because she still hasn't figured out the clue he sent her from the first body. And so he mailed her a goddamn finger.
Hodgins has an Enigma machine! He's using it to send coded messages to Booth, which on the one hand is a good idea, because it doesn't involve the kind of technology that Pelant is good with, but on the other hand, he is very good with codes, and therefore could decode the messages if he found a way to intercept them... Nevermind.
The mass spec shoots out the results from the lung biopsies, and it says: C4H3F7O1 No, that's not a liscence plate, it's a chemical formula - and I don't know how to do subscript on Blogger, sooo.... It's a anesthetic gas, which is only produced by 2 companies - both of which are owned by the Cantilever Group, meaning Hodgins owns them. And he's off!
OK the finger was actually a monkey - which would explain the weird hair stuff on it. The finger is 'pointing' them to Vasalius, who was a 16th-century scientist who studied the human body by dissecting the same species of monkey that the finger came from. Angela matches the body to one of his drawings (because it was skinned, eviscerated, and had the jaw removed), but they can't figure out the significance.
Hodgins found the guy who bought the gas, his name is Justin Trimple, which they figure is a new alias. When Flynn wants to run the name through 'the database' (why do they always use such an incredibly vague term? What database? Google? Where is ALL information in the history of EVERYTHING stored?!), they stop him, but then Angela gets the idea to spam this Trimple because it might distract Pelant long enough for them to find him, rather than just looking for this person he created, because he'd be expecting them to do that.
Pelant is working at Serberus when his phone begins dinging. 
And he's wearing a shoulder bag. Don't trust
grown-ass men who wear shoulder bags!!!
Whoops. Nevermind. Well, he's not REALLY fully-grown, anyway.
Anyway, then he goes to the computer and blocks the spammer - which means Angela knows where he is. And that he somehow became a part o Serberus after stealing Freeman's security card. 
Caroline needs a reason to get a warrant for them to take Pelant down, and I an biting my nails at this point, because there are 15 minutes left in the episode so I know it won't be that easy. She asks Booth and Flynn, "You want to break into a building full of a private army - with an FBI tactical squad?" and they look at each other and go "Yeah." Then she sighs and goes "Fine, but if you come up empty, I will not be there to cover your sorry asses, on account of I'll be too busy covering my own. Understand?"
SHE'S SO SASSY!!!
And then her parting words are priceless - "Suit up!", Barney Stinson would be proud.
The huge FBI team goes ito the Serberus building and begins to lock it down - intitially they're met with startled cooperation, but then a bunch of guys pop out of the elevators with huge guns and they don't put their gons down when told, prompting Booth to go "Seriously?!" Also, why is Booth the only person not wearing a helmet?! Seriously?! Pelant obviously sees everyone coming for him on the security monitors, and he looks panicked.. Which I quite enjoy.
Apparently there are huge gattling guns at each of the entrances that they have to shut down as well (who the hell protects a buildling like that?) and I just KNOW those are going to come into play later. We are, after all, dealing with a crazy evil hacker.
Back at the lab, Angela, Hodgins, Cam and Bones notice that there are holes cut in the muscles of the victim that do not match the Visalius drawing (and I have no clue if I'm spelling that right, sorry). But then they realise that the holes match up with the letters labelling each muscle on the body. The holes match the letters E, M, Y, L, C, U and they all stare at each other, while I've already figured out that it spells 'MY CLUE'. And Hodgins is supposed to be so great at puzzles. Pfft.
Pelant is running around all panicked, with a tablet, and he's doing somethin in the server room where there are a bunch of wires and blinking lights. That's not good.
Then they see that he's somehow hacked the security cameras and placed himself on all the screens at once. And there's another way out of the building, through some secret tunnel in the basement, that only the head guy knew about, but decided not to tell THE FREAKING FBI!!! Damnit!! They chase him, and he gets out and they're right on his tail, but then he presses some stuff on his tablet, and then remember those guns that I mentioned? Yea he somehow activated them, and it takes out Flynn. Shit. Booth manages to crawl to safety and shoots the gun, but then he has to drag Flynn out and Pelant breaks into a car in the parking garage and steals it, but then when Booth shoots at him, the car swerves and we the viewers see blood hit the windshield. So Pelant got away, but Booth did hit him. And somehow Flynn is still alive. Gee, it's lucky none of those rounds hit his head, considering HE WASN'T WEARING A HELMET!!!
The team figures out that the letters spell LYCEUM, which is a Greek word meaning school. (I still think MY CLUE was better, and come on, how did none of them at least notice that?) Then the workstations on the 8th floor of Serberus go back online and there's a code running across the screen, which gives the location of something in Afghanistan, Angela figures out that it's a drone, which they can't control, but then when she enters LYCEUM as a password, she can access the video feed, which shows that he's sending it to a school full of young girls. Damnit.
Then there's other data running among the coordinates, which Hodgins recognises as all his personal banking data. Pelant is draining his bank accounts! Wow, going after the money now? Greedy asshole... Angela says she can shut it down, but if she does that she will lose contact with the drone, and that means they can't send the Serberus planes the drone's coordinates, so they can't stop it... GODDAMN PELANT I WANT TO KICK YOU IN THE SMUG FACE!! THESE ARE GOOD PEOPLE WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO THEM?!!!
The girls at the school see the drone and start freaking out, running, and all the team has grim faces as Angela tells the drone to self-destruct, and it does so, just as all the screens show a balance of 0$.
Angela and Hodgins have a touching conversation about what they're going to do now (which, let's be honest, he still owns the companies, he'll make more money fast, and they have a huge house.. They'll be fine) and she says "We don't need the money!" to which he replies "Yeah, but it was a loooooot of money." They have each other though, and let's be honest, that's all the 2 of them really need.. They're so sweet. 
Poor Hodgela... Thoughts on the couple name?

Then we see Bones and Booth in their house and they're talking about how Pelant is injured, so he's weakened, but Booth points out that he can still make the next move, which is a scary thought.
Then it cuts to a bunch of dogs barking, which at first I don't understand, but then I realise that Pelant has broken into a dog shelter, killed whoever was there, and is using the vet supplies to stitch up the GIANT wound in his face.
Normally this kind of thing would gross me out, but I'm almost glad it happened to someone so damn evil... 
Don't be a baby, you evil bastard, it's just a flesh wound!

This will teach you an important lesson: never go up against Seeley Booth. He and my old pal Horatio Caine have one important thing in common - they always make the shot when it matters most.

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