Monday 4 March 2013

Bones - 'The Survivor in the Soap'

I'm eating dinner with one hand, and typing with the other. Pardon the short sentences.
Brennan and Booth are trying to figure out a place to go on vacation, but can't agree, because she wants an educational destination, and he wants a fun one. Christine is no help.
A dude is found in a barrell, encased in soap, because apparently the body was covered with potassium hydroxide, which would turn the body's fat into soap. The victim is identified as a teenage refugee, who was reported missing by a suspicious voice from a gas station payphone.
Vasiri is back, and this is funny because it's the first episode he's been in since his relationship with Cam was revealed.
Angela feels awkward about knowing about it, and Hodgins BEGS her not to let on that she knows.
Vasiri uses an industrial dishwasher to clean off the bones, which causes a lot of bubbles, and while that's happening, he and Cam have an adorable conversation about their relationship, and how 'loving her is the easiest thing ever'.
STOP STOP STOP IT!!! I CAN'T HANDLE ALL THE CUTENESS!!!!
Booth and Bones go to interview an immigration lawyer who is volunteering with the Sierra Leonean refugee children such as the victim. Also, the 'little man' Alex from the State Department is back. The lawyer guy says that the victim, Symchay, had a friend who had been deported back to Sierra Leone, but was back in the US illegally, and crashing on Symchay's couch. He was probably the one who had called and reported Symchay missing.
Vasiri and Brennan discover that Symchay was a child soldier. He came to the US to escape that life, and graduated from culinary school a few months before his death. Then they find a cheque that was deposited into his bank account from an art gallery. When they talk to the owner, she says that she had hired him, as a chef, to cater the opening of the new photo exhibit about the war in Sierra Leone. She says she only met him a few days before he disappeared, to take him around the gallery and plan for the event. When he saw the photos, she said, he broke down and began crying, and then ran off.
Brennan sees one photo in particular, of a child soldier holding a semiautomatic weapon, standing with a man over the body of another dead child. Booth and the photographer are shocked when she recognises the boy in the photo as Symchay. 
Of course I'd heard of this kind of thing before, but when Bones
 brings up such issues, it makes it very visible and sad.
The photographer had a large amount of Potassium hyroxide she used to develop her photos, but it wasn't enough to dissolve the body. She also suffered from PTSD after seeing the conditions in Sierra Leone.
The team finds the illegal immigrant friend, he was in fact the one who made the 911 call, and he is now working as a taxi driver at the company whose garage the phone call was made from.
He's also missing his left hand, ecause when he was younger, a group of rebels came to his school, and when he refused to hill his teacher, they made him watch while they did it, and then they cut off his hand. Oh god, this is just horrible. He swears that he didn't kill Symchay, because they were friends, and that he didn't start the fight that led to his deportation, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. For once, Alex is on the same side as Booth and Bones, because he says he hopes "the kid is telling the truth - I don't wan't to be the one to send him back to his death".
Hodgins finds something demonstrating how Symchay was killed, but it doesn't make sense, he thinks that he was stabbed with an AK-47. For some reason, this causes Vasiri to FLIP out... He screams at Hodgins, and belittles the 'hard' childhood of an American kid. Then he keeps going on about how it was 'hell'. Cam interrupts and asks him what's wrong, but he puts on a straight face and tells her he'll apologize to Hodgins and stay professional.
Bones and Booth take the friend to the gallery to look at the photos and try to figure out what Symchay saw that upset him so much. Then he sees a photo of a man and starts freaking out, then Booth joins him in freaking out, because he recognises the guy. The photographer says that he's Joseph Mbarga, a monster responsible for training and killing thousands of child soldiers. Booth says he's the janitor at Symchay's building. There are dozens of war-crime warrants out for Mbarga, but he went into hiding.
Remind you of anyone? I wish they'd found the bastard...
When they take him in, his fingerprints are a match, and Booth posits that Symchay recognised him and threatened to turn him in to the authorities. Angela matches his voice print as well, to a radio broadcast from years earlier. They find that Symchay was stabbed with a 2-pronged something symbolically made out of an AK-47. And Bones realises she saw it, a horned mask hanging in the office of the lawyer from earlier. They go and confront him (naturally he denies it) but they realise that he'd helped smuggle Mbarga into the country under a fake name, in return for lots of money. When they take the lawyer away in handcuffs (Bones and Alex tell him they hope he dies in prison), the refugees at the community center look really sad, so Bones explains to them in their language that Alex had helped take away the bad men, and that he was going to help them and the others hoping to flee from their country. So they all become happy and run over to hug him and shake his hand. Awwe...
Vasiri finally tells Cam what's going on, and apparently when he was a child, during the Persian Gulf War, there were 96, 000 child soldiers in the war, and his cousin was one of them, and got killed. She hugs him, and Bones, Angela and Hodgins all see. So they admit that they are dating, which causes Bones to be surprised (Angela actually had to whisper to her what was going on) and Hodgins to applaud, even though no one else will, because he's 'a romantic'. I love these people.

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