Bones - catching up (Eps 20-23)

Hey y'all, I've been super-busy with exams and whatnot, so it's been really hard to catch up on EVERYTHING, so here's what I'm doing - a short recap of every episode I've missed, all in one post. Here goes!!

The Blood from the Stones (episode 20, aired March 25th)
They found a body in a car with a really freakishly decomposed face (I know they're all freakish, but this one is like his skin became plastic and then kind of melted and then hardened again). The guy had a balloon in his stomach but was not what you'd think, it was diamonds rather than drugs.
During this episode there was a special guest I was very happy to see - none other than Dave Thomas (or as I call him, the guy from Bob & Doug McKenzie who is NOT Rick Moranis), playing a documentary filmmaker who is doing a video on the crime-solving team to raise money for the Jeffersonian.

The guy on the right. He's aged a LOT...

Anywho, he doesn't think Brennan comes across well on camera, more kind of condescending, so they bring out Clark, who is apparently more likeable. You know, even though he works in a completely different part of the museum, they find a lot of reasons to drag him out. Good grief he's so boring. I was watching Season 4 recently, and I noticed they haven't had Fisher on in a while. Where is he?? Probably off filming Avatar 2. Ugh I only like 2 of the 5 interns they have on these days!! (Finn and Wendell, I hate Clark and Daisy, and Vasiri has gotten more interesting with the whole Cam thing, but I still find him boring.) AND I REALLY REALLY MISS VINCENT!!!!!
Anyway, turns out the dead guy was an undercover cop, so naturally Booth gets all pissed, and he (the cop) was on the trail of these two high-tech robbers who were stealing from ATMs.
They find the two robbers, who turn out to be college students, one of whom had her foot shot off by the undercover officer (Oh lord, it was gross!!) and shockingly they find her alive at her house - which is rundown, you'd think the money they stole would get them better housing? Anyway - and then after all of that and Booth stopped the DYING girl from going to the hospital in order to press her for information about her partner, and then after all of that, the cop's wife ends up being the one who killed him because she was jealous of his job. Which was disturbing because she was played by the woman who played Miss Tutweiler on Suite Life on Deck (don't judge, I used to watch it with my sisters) and now I will never be able to look at her the same way because she was evil!!
Oh, and then the filmmaker guy meets and falls for CAROLINE of all people haha (much to Cam's discomfort, as she was standing there when they were introduced) which I still found really adorable!! Good for her! She never gets a decent plotline!

So cute!! Old people love!!

Other than the fact that she was married to ERNIE FREAKING HUDSON!!!! Dang she gets awesome dudes. Love it. Sorry for the run-on sentences. Off to the next one.

The Maiden in the Mushrooms (episode 21, aired April 1st)
There's a body of a lady found in a patch of mushrooms. Which I have learned more than I care to about in biology class this past semester (mushrooms, not bodies). She is found to be the producer of a fake Judge Judy-type show (not very original, the title was Judge Trudy) and the people on this show, I feel, belonged more on Maury, but whatever.
Anywho, the suspects range from psycho people who'd been on the show (you gotta watch this episode just for the scene where Booth mimics a lady's crazy emphatic arm movements - it was hilarious!), to the judge's assistant (played by the same girl who was Mindy on Drake & Josh years ago), to the judge herself, and then lands on the baliff who had dated the victim, and then strangled her because she was neglectful and let their shared dog die. Lovely.

The courtroom might be fake, but the nutcases are real.

In an entertaining secondary plot, Bones goes utterly insane when her daughter Christine is accused of biting another kid at daycare, and even enlists the help of the forensics department, and suggests conspiracies and whatnot. She is super-pissed (and somewhat conceited) when people would think her progeny is 'average', even though it's completely normal behavior. I remember my sister doing a number on my cheek when she was 2...
And at the end, it is revealed that Christine bit Bones, so she's kind of going to shut up about that. For now.
The 'squint-plot', as I have come to call them, features my second-favourite living intern Finn, who gets all upset when Hodgins eats the last of his granny's hotsauce, and Hodgins adorably works really hard to replicate it (using the mass-spec, might he get in trouble for that??!) and then they end up selling it to a lady to market and produce, with them getting 80% of the profits, and the name 'Opie & Thurston's Hot Sauce'. Say it with me now - AWWW!!!!

The Party in the Pants (episode 22, aired April 15th)
This episode was hilarious. I just KNOW the writers have been thinking about a way to work male strippers into the show ever since Magic Mike came out, and they finally did it!
So first of all, the kid brother from Freaky Friday, all grown up, was in the opening part, where they found a body at a construction site, and then when they figure out it was a male stripper, Hodgins does a little striptease for Angela in her office - which Cam walks in on and makes her 'this is very awkward' face about, what's even funnier is that when she backed out slowly they didn't even notice! Poor Cam is always the awkward bystander lately!!
 At another point in the show, Booth's pants get pulled down by a bunch of excited, drunken sorority girls, when he's trying to interview one of the stripper's coworkers. Awkward! Although Bones was there and found the whole thing hilarious, so he's all good on that front.

Not that I blame them for mistaking him for a stripper at all hahaha...

 In addition, the dead stripper had a day job as a stockbroker, and his girlfriend (in case anyone cares) was in Fired Up. He ended up getting killed by that same coworker because he took all his money and lost it in some kind of insider trading where you rip off your clients because you're a jackass.
And Booth's mom showed up, which was absolutely touching, seeing her with Christine and talking about Booth as a kid - until she dropped the bomb on him that she's getting remarried and has been living with her new husband's kids for the past several years, being a mother to them even though she had left her own children. Which was really sad, they have a fight and she leaves. But then Booth, being Booth, and having Brennan to talk to him, decides to do the right thing and shows up at her wedding. What I want to know is - WHERE THE HELL IS JARED?? (Also someone we haven't really seen since Season 4! I miss that handsome devil!) Oh, and at the wedding, Brennan 'accidentally' catches the bouquet, which is some veeerrrryyy interesting foreshadowing, methinks.

The Pathos in the Pathogens (episode 23, aired April 22nd)
'We're talking about bio-terrorism here' which is why the lab is covered in a biohazard box and the CDC is bringing in a body with some sort of toxin in it. It's a woman blogger, and her fiance was really handsome and familiar-looking. So is the guy from the CDC. I swear, sometimes I am a walking IMDb. Also, Vasiri is back.
But there are no airborne pathogens so the tent is safe but it turns out she was writing an expose on people mutating pandemic diseases like Yellow Fever and SARS. The doctor she was interviewing doesn't like Sweets. How rude! And then Vasiri gets cut by a microneedle embedded in the humerus, so he's in danger! Damnit Arastoo, get your shit together!!  Cam is freaking out about saving him and then he gets all macho 'I could be the key, this is what needs to be done' etc. Good grief.
They think it's a mutated strain of some kind of African virus (I can't take the name seriously, it sounds like 'chickpea'), but they have a serum something to do with rabbits that might help Vasiri. This is reminding me so much of that episode of Criminal Minds with the anthrax...

Not going to lie, I cared a bit more about them saving my beloved Reid...

And then the rabbit serum doesn't help and makes his heart race out of control.
The victim was sleeping with a man whose racehorse farm she was trying to expose for illegal horse steroids. And she accidentally sent an email intended for him to her boyfriend, giving them both motive.
Hodgins concocts an herbal remedy that he thinks might somehow help Vasiri, and Brennan jumps on board but in the meantime, Cam is crying and the CDC doctor says he has about 4 hours to live and won't give them permission to use the herbal medicine. Cam puts her foot down and they inject him. It turns out that the creepy doctor lady Sweets spoke to earlier had been fired from a different lab for stealing vials of the same virus - but then Hodgins realises the virus was combined with bacteria, one that wouldn't have been at the lab when she worked there. So it was her boss.
Booth arrests the boss and drags him (literally) over to the lab to show him the body of his victim, and to show him what he was doing to Vasiri. Cam pleads with him to give them the anti-serum, because Vasiri is a good man, and she is in love with him. WELL that's news to us!! The bastard still won't tell them where it is, so Bones tells him that she's managed to recreate the virus from the victim, and has a syringe of it - AND THEN SHE STABS HIM IN THE NECK WITH IT!! I was shocked but laughing my head off, I must admit - only on Bones!!
And then they do one of those wrap-up things where everything is going to be fine, Vasiri is getting better, and the CDC doctor and Brennan are still friends after all their disagreements.Oh, and the syringe actually didn't have any virus in it. Bones is so clever.

Also, they can save Vasiri, but Vincent gets killed??? Not cool guys!!! (No I won't forget that!)