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"The Gunk in the Garage" - 'Bones'

Guess we were wrong last week about Booth and Brennan’s fighting days not being behind them. Everything seems 100 per cent okay. Like, they’re acting like they’ve never fought a day in their lives! Which is great, ‘cause I hated seeing them fight. But still. Wasn’t expecting this to get glossed over so quickly.

Not important.

Case of the week: guy in hotel car park gets blown up by bomb in Ultra Gulp cup.

Squintern of the week: there is none!

As always, we’d like to remind our readers that we will not be pulling our punches – this is a spoiler-filled post! DO NOT READ if you don’t want to know.

Booth and Brennan are back to their classic argument (but not fight) about equal spending. Booth wants to pay half of everything, but Brennan wants to spend some of those book-sale millions on stuff for the house and for Christine. Booth says he’s in line for a promotion and clearly wants to get it so that he can have more money to spend on Christine and Parker. (Sometimes I forget Booth already had a kid.)

On the way to the scene of the explosion, Booth gets a call from Caroline saying he can’t go to the scene but has to go back to his office to meet with her. She tells him his department spends more than all the others. He has to put together a budget presentation to explain why they need as much as they do. If he does well, he gets a promotion at the end of it. To a desk job. He seems enthusiastic, but somehow I think that’s all about the money. There’s no way Seeley Booth would be happy with a desk job. As Brennan puts it later in the episode, it would be like “caging an animal. You’re meant to run free, Booth.”

Sparling is a very aggressive agent. She arrests Franklin the hotel security guy when he hesitates to provide security tapes.

Booth is clearly in some way feeling pressured into taking this promotion, even if all the pressure is coming from himself. You can tell because he’s trying to be enthusiastic about dry-erase markers. And he pretty much jumps on Sweets when he gets back with Sparling, desperate for any detail from the case. He’s basically cracking up, and hates having to leave it all to Sweets and Sparling.

The hotel caved and provided the security tapes as soon as they found out Franklin was a suspect, so I guess Sparling’s aggression paid off.

Sweets and Sparling go to deliver the bad news to the wife of the victim. Just as Sweets tells her her husband is dead, the husband walks up the driveway. TWIST!

Brennan and Angela realise that the reason they made a mistake with IDing the victim is that he has a twin!

The (very much alive) husband, Robert Carlson, was adopted as a baby. He never knew he had siblings. Kind of a kicker to only find out after the sibling dies, huh?

Sweets wants to look like less of a bumbling idiot in front of Sparling. He wants to make her respect him – which would be an impressive feat after the incorrect death notification. So, on the advice of Booth, he decides to use psychology and twin science to impress her. *ahem* I mean to catch the killer. He says that studies have shown that twins separated at birth live remarkably similar lives in adulthood. He thinks that by getting some information about Carlson’s life – that his wife is controlling, for instance – he’ll be able to find out who the brother was.

Examining the skeleton, Brennan notices some old injuries which Cam attributes to a bookie or loan shark.

Sweet’s twin science works – yes, Sparling is impressed – and they find Jerry Langella. And yes, his wife is also a controlling woman. She doesn’t seem too upset, either, that her husband is dead. Apparently he was a dead-beat with a gambling problem. Basically lost everything they had to bookies.

Booth has the thought that if they were all twin-like with their lives and were both drawn to the same kind of woman, maybe they were both drawn to the hotel by the same thing. Carlson said he wasn’t at the hotel, but Booth isn’t so sure.

Angela traces the explosives to a demolition company. The foreman, Steve Kennealy, says there was a break-in a few weeks back, and everything was handled all legit and above board. He even reported it to the cops. But he goes to get a sample of the explosives they use at the demo sites to show to Brennan and Hodgins and, with my amateur medical degree that I just made up in my head, he’s exhibiting signs of injury and left-side numbness consistent with a bomb-blast. So HOW DID BRENNAN NOT NOTICE???!?! Mmm-mmm gurl. You’re slipping.

After analyzing the hotel’s CCTV footage, Angela determines that Langella and Carlson were at the hotel. They begin to wonder if maybe Carlson was the real target and someone just got the wrong brother.

When they speak to Carlson again they find out that he was attending a self-actualisation seminar. It’s pretty much a cult though. He was going to give them everything he owned and move to their commune in Colorado.

The team figures that if the wife knew that’d give her motive.

They also realise that someone else was there. They find someone else’s hair in bits of Langella. Eww. Also, IT’S STEVE KENNEALY, guys! How has this still not twigged? Yeesh.

Booth is drowning in budgets so asks Cam to help him with the presentation. Great timing because, moments later, he hears what the team has just found out – Mrs Carlson took a hit out on her husband because she did know about the cult. The hitman knows he got the wrong brother and she tells them that the hit is still out on Carlson. Carlson is at Dupont Plaza and the other teams are too far away and Booth can’t let Sweets and Sparling handle it by themselves, so he has to go. Bye-bye promotion! Does anyone think he cares? I’ve never seen him happier to be called to a potential shoot-out.

Brennan FINALLY figures out it’s Kennealy just after the team arrives at Dupont. He’s carrying explosives (in another Ultra Gulp).

In a moment of bravery, Sweets grabs the bomb from Kennealy. And he only gets shot a little bit for his trouble. By Sparling.

The day is saved, though, and Sweets is fine. He tells Sparling he’s attracted to her but that he has a girlfriend. But she kisses him anyway and he looks delighted with himself. I wonder if this will become a major plot point this season... Maybe he and Daisy will be on the rocks. Maybe they’ll even break up! God, I hope so. I really, really don’t like her.

Booth finally concedes the argument. Promotion-free he still won’t let Brennan buy him things, but he’s happy to let her splurge on Christine. Especially when “Christine would love a new grill...” Yaay! Happy ending! – K

Quoteworthy:

“You gotta be kidding me. Eight-hundred bucks for a stroller?”

“I have done extensive research, Booth. This is the best stroller on the market. Plus the design is beautiful and it’s cerise.”

“It has a name?” – Booth, Brennan

“You were never able to do this look before the baby. What did the baby do to you?” – Booth, talking about Brennan’s (super effective) sad eyes

“No, I’ve loved combustion variables ever since I blew up the multi-purpose room for my middle school science fair project. Heh-heh. First time I made it onto a watch list.” – Hodgins

“Sorry, cherie, but there is no one burlier or cuter than you.” – Caroline, to Booth

“I’ll deputise you. [Blesses Cam] How’s that?”

“Why did that not feel official?” – Booth, Cam

“You shot me, I’m not even mad.” – Sweets to Sparling

“As far as the world is concerned, you’re a horrible person, cherie.” – Booth, to Caroline

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