Bones - 'The Doll in the Derby'

How many shows have done an episode around this?! Psych, CSIs New York AND Miami - in fact, I was pretty sure Bones had done one already, but I guess not.  

Remember this, anyone? Of course not. I don't know anyone who watches Psych. Jules is such a badass.

Oh yea, and then there was that movie Whip It a few years back. For such a 'fringe' sport, it sure is getting a lot of attention from Hollywood. Weird.
Some rookie cops are in an abandoned slaughterhouse that apparently someone broke into, and they're messing around with dispatch, because they think it's a bogus call, and then one of them trips over a tub containing a body!! And the one guy runs out, but the flashlight beam remains on the other one's face!! Continuity!!
The body was doused with acid, so the tissue is dissolving, and they decide to use a pressure hose to stop the acid - an idea Bones is not happy about.
Booth has an appointment at the hospital that he won't specify, but Bones wants to help him with it and he won't let her.
Also, they kind of changed the title music again. Or was this them changing it almost-back to the way it was before? I'm confused. I was watching Season 1 the other day.
Yay Wendell!!! Apparently it's his birthday 'tomorrow' and he's turning 29 and Hodgins is making him feel like he hasn't accomplished much with his life. Poor Wendell. The female victim was missing her front teeth, like a hockey player. And Sweets says the killing is not 'weird enough' to be a serial killer, causing Booth to use his 'are you serious?' face haha

That one. That one there.

Then he tells Sweets he has to go, because he has a 'thing' and takes off without telling Sweets what it is.
The victim's false teeth give her name - Melinda.
Angela did some fancy stuff with the victim's fancy watch, and due to the heart-rate moniter on it, they can tell that apparently she was either scared or running right before her death. Then Bones' phone rings and it's Booth, and she won't even tell Angela what it was about. Which makes me think he might be dying O.o Or someone he knows is dying.
AHA! I knew this would happen eventually on this show after it being on for so long, it always happens on the various CSIs - they're recycled an actor to play completely different roles in different episodes. 

This guy!!!

The actor's name is Larry Poindexter, he was actually on the pilot episode of Bones, played a senator. Now he's the ex-husband of the victim. Taken quite the step down in the world there, eh Larry? He's also played 2 different characters on CSI, been on both of the CSI spinoffs, How I Met Your Mother, The Mentalist, Crossing Jordan, and was in 17 Again. Mr. Poindexter, we salute you.
They find the roller derby rink, Bones is very amused by all the stage names, thinks she should give nicknames to her interns.
They find drugs in Melinda's system. Apparently she also slept with a guy on the front lawn of her ex-husband's house, but he has an alibi.
Hodgins keeps making fun of Wendell for turning 30, asks if he's done everything on his before-30 bucket list, one of which apparently should be 'pose naked for a hot art student'. Wendell says he has done that, but 'not a student'. And I realised it a full minute before Hodgins did, it was Angela he was talking about. Then they have an awkward stare-down, and Wendell asks him to forget about it, 'as my birthday present'. Haahaha talk about awkward!
Angela decides to go undercover as a derby girl, to look for blood on the girls' skating gear.


She's pretty good but then she kind of gets her butt kicked - well, shoved - off the side of the rink. That safety fence should really be higher. She bonds with some of the girls, and one mentions that someone had been stealing stuff from the locker room.
Apparently the victim was beaten to death and also stabbed, based on the blood spatter on her clothing. And then Cam asks Bones what's going on with Booth, Bones says "There's nothing wrong with Booth - But I can't tell you." And Cam points out that those statements contradict one another.
Angela goes drinking with one of the other girls from the team, and she's drunk, basically repeating everything the other girl says hahah.. She made Booth come get her and pretend to be her boyfriend. Which is hilarious. Apparently the team manager-guy was skimming money off the team, and Melinda confronted him about it. But he says there was no animosity between them, they were actually sleeping together.
Cam goes to the hospital and talks to a doctor, who knows Booth but won't tell her what's wrong. The doctor is a specialist in a disease that causes tumors to grow on nerves. And Cam thinks it might be about Christine, which was my first thought too, but then I realised this is only a big deal to Booth, which wouldn't be the case if it was Christine, Bones would care too.
Wendell says that his brother bet him that he would still be a loser when he's 29, which he's not, but he wants to be a
Bones realises that the cuts made on Melinda's body were strategically placed to major arteries, which drained the blood out of the body so there wouldn't be any arterial spray during dismemberment. Then she mentions that Melinda's ex-husband (our pal Larry from earlier) is a surgeon, making him suspect numero uno again.
Oh wait, it was actually a key that stabbed her - in the eye, no less, and it was the blonde lady whose name I don't remember. Because she thought that Melinda had been stealing from their lockers. The end.
Wendell, angela and Hodgins have a drink for Wendell's birthday, and Wendell gives Hodgins the painting Angela made of him - complete with the addition of heart-patterend boxers. Man, I love this show!!
It turns out that where Booth has been going is to volunteer with the charity that the doctor-lady runs. And he was secretive about it, because he thinks 'charity' should not be about showing off. And Bones takes her to see Booth volunteering with the kids, prompting Cam to ask "Why are we spying on children at a carnival??" Then Bones explains, and they both agree that Booth is a good man. I was also wondering if he was doing charity work!! I'm turning into my dad - guessing plot points before they happen!!