Tonight’s episode of Bones starts with a recap from the last episode of last season. Remember when Pelant framed Bones for the murder of her scientist friend Ethan Sawyer, and she goes on the run? Well, Fox didn’t think you would.
The new footage opens three months later with a blonde Bones is telling her baby Christine about Booth. Bones’ father Max tells her it’s about time to go.
Meanwhile at the Jeffersonian, Angelia is still trying to figure out how Pelant framed Bones. Hodgins tells her that she needs to take a break and maybe focus on another aspect of the case because there could be more than one key. Booth’s boss Agent Flynn (Reed Diamond) is interrogating Booth about Bones' disappearance and orders him to help the FBI find her. Booth says that he’ll find her with or without Flynn’s help. Flynn implores him not to do anything stupid.
Clark now has Brennan’s office and her position. He clashes heads with Angela over the his instated use of binders to keep track of the evidence. Cam assures Angela after breaking up the verbal fight that they all want to clear Brennan and tells her in no uncertain terms that if she wants access to the information the Jeffersonian has, Ang has to play nice with Clark.
A little while later, Brennan is telling her dad that she has to go back and see Booth (and her family at the Jeffersonian) while Booth is stalking Pelant. Cam tells Agent Flynn that Pelant is very close to filling a restraining order against Booth. The team gets a call to go look at a body found on a anonymous tip.
The team finds the body already exhumed which makes it easier for the forensic team to pinpoint time of death. It’s pointed out that Brennan could have done this for them then Cam counters that the bones could be Bones. Angela finds a flower that confirms to her that this was Brennan’s work. Agent Flynn instructs the team to fan out to find her. But our girl won’t be found so easily will she? At least not by Flynn.After a revamping of the Bones theme song (now entering their 8th season, this is the first remix for Bones), the Bones team comes back with Hodgins and Angela analyzing the flower. Angela tells them that the flower symbolizes hope. Cam instructs them to send Booth an e-mail about the case and Brennan’s potential involvement. The team asks why now since they were instructed not to send e-mail in the case of Pelant.
The remains are of 35-to-39-year-old female and they match high school guidance councilor Carol Morrissey, who has been missing for so long, she’s a cold case. Bones and her father are following the case on the news and Bones is glad to see that her team is just as astute as she hoped they would be. Pelant is also following the case from home and recognizes the flower.
It’s revealed Pelant was a student at Carol Morrissey’s high school. Booth calls Cam to inform her of this development before telling her that he’s headed to Atlantic City, he does not believe Pelant is behind this, and that his phone is going dead.
Booth is waiting inside Brennan’s motel room snooping around and then is deftly taken out by the blonde Brennan whom it takes him a second to recognize because let’s face it, Emily is not a good blonde. Or it’s a terrible wig. Let’s call it a little of both.Booth is playing catch up with Christine who is quite pleased to be reunited with her dad. Brennan tells Booth that Max thought it was unwise for her to uncover the body. She also tells Booth that they had done research before turning up the missing woman; she scoured the area for weeks before coming across the discolored patch of dirt.(Discolored dirt can signal the decomposition of remains, as noted by Booth.) Brennan informs Booth that she only has some photos to work with. About that time Max tells both of them that they have to move again so that they won't be found out.
Clark meanwhile, is bossing Cam back at the lab. Hodgins has found evidence that the rock, which is not possible to be the murder weapon, is the murder weapon. Angela tells Caroline that she had proof that the records of Brennan bribing her were faked, not who did the faking but that they were faked.
Caroline asks for a briefing for Sweets. Sweets tells her that years before Morrissey’s glowing college recommendation, Pelant had hacked into the system to change a grade. Sweets finds out that Pelant also wrote his own recommendation by comparing it with others written by the victim. And that Pelant’s recommendation was the last one written before she disappeared. Hodgins is just piecing together that Angela has been talking to Brennan. As opposed to being pissed, he actually sounda in awe of his wife as he asks if her requested favor is a code to Brennan.
As Hodgins is placing the flowers in the graveyard, Pelant walks up behind him. Hodgins informs him that if Pelant threatens any of his friends he will kill Pelant. Pelant tells him that he’s read his file and doesn’t think he will. Boy is he surprised when Hodgins reaches out to strangle him with both hands. TV Guide was right when they said we’d be seeing a new side of Hodgins this episode.
Hodgins is telling a room of the group, including Flynn, about Pelant’s being at the graveyard. Agent Flynn tries to force Angela into contacting Brennan. Hodgins tells him that she can’t do that because Max will never go to the next rendezvous now knowing that Pelant was there. Max at the graveyard tells an unseen Pelant the same thing and offers him the chance to see Mexico if he follows. Hodgins tells Sweets that he choked Pelant until he was unconscious and that he could tell Pelant wanted him to do it. Sweets notes that this tells him a lot about Pelant (and a little about Hodgins).
Clark is telling Cam that Pelant would have needed a bigger weapon then they have been estimating because he was smaller in high school. Cam apologizes for not getting that Clark was trying to clear Brennan’s name even if it put his job in jeopardy. She thanks him that doing a bad job never crossed his mind. Booth and Brennan are waiting for Max who is still missing after the graveyard. Pelant is saying to no one in particular that Booth should have stolen a car. Meanwhile Max is trying to steal Booth’s car so that Booth can use Max’s stolen car. Booth calls in his car as stolen by Bones and Agent Flynn tells him that that car has already been reported missing. Hodgins asks Cam to take Clarke and the security guards (Cam: “We’re going to drink so much we might be late in the morning.”) and leave so that he can “catch up on the white binders.” Once they leave, Hodgins and Angela turn the lights back on and Booth and Brennan with Christine walk into the Jeffersonian.
Booth is worrying that Brennan won’t be able to get thru all the data before people realize that they’re there. Brennan says that it will be easier for her because of Clark’s binders. Sweets also shows up because Booth needed someone that he could trust and has gun.Booth goes to Agent Flynn with evidence that Pelant had broken parole by hacking the secure servers of the FBI and Jeffersonian.
Brennan is examining the body and discovers that Morrissey was “hung, gutted and bled”. Brennan asks Hodgins about the rock findings. As Pelant was chasing Morrissey, she fell on the rock and the wound retracked when she was picked up and hung upside down.
Agent Flynn arrests Pelant for violating his parole and federal law. Cam asks if they’re closer to tying the murder to Pelant. Hodgins tells Cam to tell the security guards that he’ll look over the lab.
Brennan tells Cam that the murder weapon was not an axe because they had the wrong idea about Pelant. He wasn’t slight in high school, he was over 200 lbs. The photos they had been using from the yearbook were digital. (Pelant wasn't in the yearbook) Pelant used a Japanese sword brought back from WWII by his grandfather (information found out by Max).
Finding the sword they are able to finally arrest Pelant. Max still isn’t happy as Pelant isn’t dead. He informs Booth that Pelant “needs killing”. With this evidence, Brennan is able to come back to the Jeffersonian. But in all fairness, who really thought that Brennan would be gone long? Agent Flynn relinquishes control of the Major Crimes unit back to Booth and goes to Domestic Terrorism. Caroline announces that Brennan is no longer a suspect in the murder of Ethan Sawyer. Cam decides that the Jeffersonian needs two anthropologists (one for crime and the other for serious anthropological work). Booth thanks Angela for getting his family back. After the party, Brennan dies her hair back (or rather looses the dodgy wig on Deschanel’s part) and tries to explain to Booth why she went on the run. Booth tells her that it isn’t necessary and as they begin to make up they are interrupted by a ringing phone.
Pelant has been set free by setting up a fake official history as an Egyptian national. Agent Flynn informs him that there is nothing he can do and Brennan tells Booth not to do anything that might cost his job. Brennan takes a marigold (symbolizing pain and grief) from Pelant before slapping him. Booth throws the flower in the trash with a disgusted look and Agent Flynn picks it back out. Working with Pelant or the one to finally stop him?
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