Cam, Vaziri, and Bones stand over Hodgins and inform him he was under for less than a minute. He was knocked out by the fermented body but luckily no one else was affected. They find what looks like wood splinters with the remains. The skull is missing some of its teeth which Sweets posits might be because they wanted to make identification difficult.
Hodgins is roasting turkeys to test his theory that the pod was just made out of expanded plastic that the body was wrapped in. Cam came in to thank Vaziri for the book of poetry he gave her and wrote. There’s ink on the wood splinters. Hodgins asks why, if Vaziri is so modest, he gave Cam his book and Cam replies because she gave him time off to meet with his publisher. They go to talk to the company that made the stamp – a wood supplier—and end up meeting “Lucky”’s mistress. Lucky, by the way, used to work as a crime scene fixer.
Booth brings the wife in to talk to her about their marriage. She’s more shocked that he’s ended up like the type of people he cleaned up than that he’s dead. The wife is angry that Lucky is dead because he was good provider for her. She was his fourth wife whom he met when he was still married to his second. The son was apparently close to Lucky to the point Lucky was going to make the kid a partner in his company. The wife didn’t notice the disappearance because apparently Lucky was wont to go off and not return for days.
Angela has created a 3d image of the skull and is comparing the tools to the injury on the back. She’s matched it to the claw hammer. Angela is surprised that Arastoo is a poet but Bones has known for a while ever since he left a poem on the back of a lab report. Arastoo has had to leave his country in college because of the poems he published.
The killer had hastened decomp with the chemicals he used to break down the biological material left at crime scenes. Sweets is talking to the fourth wife’s kid. Sweets accuses the kid of killing Lucky because he cheated on his mother but the kid suggests a rival cleaning agency. Sweets is breaking the not-talking-about-the-case-at-home rule by saying he likes the mother/kid team for the murder.
Sweets then talks to the rival guy. The guy already knows about Lucky’s death but didn’t do it because they were going to merge companies. He accuses the step son. Hodgins has found the pod was made from Lucky’s sheeting.
Cam realizes that Arastoo has written a poem in Farsi for her. Cam notes this is the first time that a lack of blood might be more suspicious than buckets of blood. Bones thinks it’s the rival. Hodgins figured out that Arastoo wrote a love poem to Cam because they were dating.
Bones and Brennan go to a former crime scene because of the wood that was used with the kid and argue over whether he or Melville killed the vic. The kid offers another possible murderer in the mistress. Booth brings her in and she accuses the kid. This is the most circuitous episode yet.
Angela and Hodgins accidentally spy on Cam and Arastoo on their date. Angela is shocked that she wasn’t informed of their relationship from Hodgins. He says he didn’t tell her because he knows she hates keeping secrets.
Booth and Brennan bring the competitor to the crime scene and Bones is being a very bad almost winner. The guy says something that tips Booth off that he might have done it and after going over the whole house, they have no evidence.
Booth brings the baby monitor into Sweet’s room at three in the morning while they go look for more evidence that Brennan had just thought of. Sweets asks who dreams of murder at three am. And then the monitor starts crying. Brennan tells a story about how a shaman used to pour blood onto the concrete and used the feet of dancing women to bring it to the surface like magic. Brennan uses a hair dryer to bring the blood to the surface which she is certain is Lucky’s. Angela measures the space between some spots in the blood which Brennan is certain are the knees and toes of killer; Melville. They bring him in so that Brennan can say “Gotcha” to his face. (three times)
So at the end Arastoo and Cam wonder if they have long until everyone on the team knows. It can’t be long now…
