Monday 4 March 2013

Bones - 'The Fact in the Fiction'

Not to be a big plot-spoiler or anything, but the episode begins with a guy on a big soil-turner on a farm of some kind, and I'm guessing he finds a body. Seriously, they're running out of ways for people to find corpses on this show!
Sure enough, while talking on Bluetooth to someone about how he's out of the stock-trading game, he unearths a body - and then somehow runs over it again. EW! Oh, and then he screams. I feel bad for whoever was on the other end of that phone call. "AHHH!!! I just killed a dead guy!!" (I don't think that's possible..)
Booth is talking to Bones about how they should invest in astroid mining. She's totally pissed and then Hodgins makes matters worse when he's all gung-ho about the idea. Apparently the victim was a hispanic male, and he was killed 5 days before, the body was ravaged by coyotes because of the shallow grave, and the head was missing.
Booth and Brennan are in the diner, when a guy covered in dirt and blood rushes in, asking for her, and says 'I have something for you' so when he reaches into his bag, Booth pulls his gun on him, and everyone in the diner freaks out. With all the times that place has been shot up, and all the cops in there, you'd think the patrons would know he's an FBI agent..
What the guy pulls out is the vicitm's head, and then he says "Hi. I'm your new intern." QUITE the entrance, my man!  
Welcome to the jungle, Dr. Oliver Wells.. Hope you can handle it!
Apparently he found the skull by tracking it to a coyote den 6 miles from the dump site, and Brennan didn't know about him because she didn't read any of the numerous emails Cam sent her about hiring a new intern. He has a BAZILION doctorates, and has also passed the bar. Damn impressive.
Hodgins starts talking about zombies, and Wells agrees that ghosts might exist, so Hodgins asks 'can we keep him?!' So cute!
Booth thinks Sweets can handle a pack of coyotes.
Sweets has a very girly comeback to this, saying "I'm sure you could just break their hearts, with your mean, mean words!" Ahahaha those two. Apparently there was glow-in-the-dark auto paint in the victim Benji's nose, which traced to his brother's auto shop. Apparently his truck is also missing, and the other guys at the auto shop think his ex-girlfriend killed him. Wells asks Hodgins if he'd rather have a beetle's brain in his body, or his brain in a beetle's body. Hodgins says the latter, which apparently 'reveals' a lot about him - we sure one of those doctorates isn't in psychology? They also determine that Benji was hit on the head with something, but that's not what killed him.
Booth and Sweets interview the girlfriend, who says that they only recently broke up. When asked if Benji dumped her, or had cheated on her, she repeatedly gestures to herself and says 'he couldn't find anything hotter than this' - causing Sweets to make an 'I'm trying very hard not to laugh right now' face and causing me to actually laugh. Out loud. Very hard. 
JFD is an even better actor than I thought, I wouldn't have been able
to get through that scene without cracking up.
The girlfriend, Courtney, says that Benji was obsessed with 2 things (other than her) - time travel, and his truck. She thought time travel was a good idea because it would make them tons of money, but she resented his love of his truck.
Dr. Wells uses string cheese to help him think, which doesn't impress Bones, even though he discovered that the victim had scoliosis. I like him! I don't know why she's so grumpy! It's not like she's having to replace Zack again! She throws out his string cheese, and he pulls out a second one from his pocket. I'm upgrading that 'like' sentence to LOVE HIM!
Hodgins, naturally, is impressed, with Benji's work with time-travel. Apparently Benji was trying to go back in time, and Hodgins says if he could pick a time to go back to, it'd be the day that he met Angela. AWWW!!! She says the same, but sort-of-hesitates, making me think she was lying. He was also working with a Professor Hunter at a different school, a theoretical physicist, that they're going to have to look into - and then Hodgins says 'those theoretical physicists can be pretty weird'.
Yes, yes they can be.
Sweets says exactly what I was thinking, that probably Benji wanted to go back in time to stop his father from walking out on his family when he was a kid. This makes me sad, and then Sweets makes me more sad when he says that he'd like to travel back in time to visit the family that adopted him, because they saved his life and he wants them to know how much it meant to him. 
Damnit Sweets!! Why are you always so heartbreaking!!
Booth uncovers that the professor was actually fired from a different university 2 years before, for electrocuting a student. Suspicious? I think so.
Back in the lab, Oliver asks Bones 'would you rather be run over by one steamroller, or a thousand mopeds', which is awesome for 2 reasons - 1) it's clear that this 'would you rather' thing is going to become his trademark, and 2) it caused Bones to use the word 'preposterous'. YES! But then she asks if it's the same moped 1000 times, or 1000 mopeds simultaneously. And he proceeds to analyse her and then makes her mad by inadvertantly calling her narrow-minded. They find evidence of cracked ribs, indicating the victim could have been electrocuted. Coincidence? I think not!
When she and Booth are in the car on their way to interview the professor, she tells him about what Wells said about her, and admit that he might be right about her being narrow-minded. This revelation causes Booth to make his own version of the 'I'm trying really hard not to laugh' face from before.
He's less successful.
The dynamic duo find exposed wiring in the professor's so-called 'laboratory', which is connected to a 240-V battery, more than enough to kill someone.
Hodgins and his 'brother from another mother' (his words) use the huge battery to electrocute a set of fake ribs in a cube of gel. This makes the gel explode and covers them both in goop. But it doesn't crack any ribs.
Cam and Angela are talking about the whole time-travel thing, and apparently Cam's number-one choice in her lifetime would be to go back and spend more time with Angela's ex-husband Birumbau (weird, I was just watching the episode with him last night!) and Angela says the same thing, and they giggle but clam up when Hodgins walks in. He said he has found soil in Benji's shoes that indicate a strawberry farm in line with the route Benji took travelling out of town (based on some ATMs he stopped at). Inconsistent, however, with this line, is the location where his body was found. Hodgins, Wells, and Cam do a second experiment where they shoot the gel, because the hydrostatic shock waves from this caused the cracks in the ribs.
When Booth and Bones get to the strawberry farm, they find the house is boarded up, but someone has broken into the barn - where they find Benji's truck, and a second body! When Brennan points out all the characteristics of the victim - Hispanic male, shot in the torso, hit on the forehead - Booth responds to each with "just like Benji". When they get it back to the lab, they find that he is older, and Wells theorizes that the second body is Benji from the future, and present Benji traveled forward in time and brought this Benji back, but when younger Benji was shot, older Benji then had to take a bullet to avoid changing reality. 
*Ahem* Both worked with crazy old professors, both had awesome cars...
Anyone else seeing a parallel here??
This is too complicated, I was just thinking that it was his father... Then he says that "Just because something is impossible, doesn't mean that it's not theoretically possible" and she responds with "I believe that's exactly what it means..."
Booth also thinks that Wells is a nut job, but Bones is now in agreement with the possibility. A call from Wells interrupts their lunch, and he says he's found that the older man also suffered from scoliosis, which is a hereditary condition. Cam comes in with the DNA findings - they are in fact father and son.
When they tell this to the brother, he's in shock, because neither of them knew about the father's whereabouts, and also he says that Benji was so young when the father left, that they told him the dad had died, to make it less hard on him than the truth of their father being a druggie and a deadbeat. Bones theorises that if the father was in trouble with a dealer, then he could have reached out to Benji for money, and therefore gotten them both killed.
Angela tells Wells that she thinks he's arrogant and, I quote, to "try being less of a douche". He responds super-charmingly, and then they figure out that the father and son were shot with one lying on top of the other, and their heads knocked together, causing the dents.
Booth says if he could, he would go back in time and save President Lincoln from being shot. Which is weird, because he's a relative of John Wilkes Booth. And if he did that, he might have never been born. Bones says that she wouldn't go anywhere in time, because she had everything she wanted right now. Aww!  
Which is cuter - Bones' mushiness, or these kitties??
They discover that there was a guy who worked at the car shop that sold heroin years before. He had a baton that matched the injuries on Felix (the father's) kneecaps, but this injury is weeks old. Then they find injuries on Benji's legs that happened from being his at a 45-degree angle - an angle they find on the doors of a DELORIAN in the brother's garage. He confesses to killing them, because his deadbeat father wanted to take Benji's college money to buy drugs. Benji was an accident, he just got in the way. How sad.
Bones tells Dr. Wells that he should go home, and then they talk about how there's no such thing as luck, and she somehow makes him feel stupid, then he asks 'are you saying I'm lacking?' When she asks him about the asteroid mining, he says it's a good idea, and she trusts him.
Back at home, Booth points out that she is smarter than Dr. Wells, and she is confused for a moment, but happy. Then he points out that she should have seen his asteroid-mining projects as a good idea from day one, and this therefore makes him the smarter one - a statement to which she has no comeback.
This episode was awesome. And I just have one thing to say -  
CAN WE PLEASE KEEP HIM???!!!!!


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