Two Bodies in the Lab [edit]
Dr. Brennan is chatting on her computer with an unknown person when Goodman interrupts her with a top priority case involving the mafia: a member of the Cugini family who was found in cement shoes. She makes a date with her chat buddy and gets to work. She is introduced to FBI agent Jamie Kenton who worked on the case undercover with the Ramano family for 2 years. Before she can get deep into the case however, Booth snags her away to another case deemed more important. I female body was found tied up and eaten by dogs.
Studying the second body, Brennan discovers that the eyes were gouged out and the throat was slashed, a fact obviously known by Booth first. Booth previously worked on a case involving another female found the same way (minus the dogs) and the case was unsolved because of insufficient evidence. The suspect was named Kevin Hollins. Brennan’s date with David, her Internet buddy, is moved up and she leaves the scene to meet him. While walking to the restaurant, she gets a call from him letting her know she is running last and she just misses several shots that are obviously aimed at her.
Brennan returns to the lab shook up, but she tries to compose herself and continue on with her work. She berates Zack but apologizes for doing so. Booth arrives at the lab, worried about Brennan’s safety and does not want her to work either of the two cases she was presented for fear that someone does not want her to solve them. Brennan disputes that theory stating that the best way to save her is to find out who is behind the murders. She and Booth talk about suspects and Booth wants to include her date, which Brennan dismisses. Booth puts his foot down however and brings her date in.
In the interrogation room, Booth questions get personal as he tries to discredit David. But he fails in his attempt making Brennan like him even more much to his chagrin. At the lab, Angela makes a positive identification of the dead woman: Penny Hamilton, a 19-year old college student. Brennan knows that the information is going to upset Booth who looks downtrodden when he sees the picture. Examining the body from the mob hit, Brennan thinks she might be able to reverse engineer an imprint of the bullet using the indentations left on the bone. And by doing that, Booth can track down the gun used in the killing. Zack reports that the blade used to slice the female victim’s throat and the blade used to gouge out her eyes are two different knives. He was only able to match up the first blade to a regular pocketknife.
Booth takes Brennan with him to the office to meet with Kenton to look over information he got while undercover with the Ramanos. But actually it is a ploy by Booth to scare Brennan off the case so she does not get hurt. She is unfazed and decides to continue with the investigation. Hodgins calls her to report that he found some liver with a parasite attached to it in the dog feces. Whoever starved the dogs lured them with the liver. And Zack found out that the pocketknife used on Penny has a nick in the blade.
Brennan and Booth visit the home of Kevin Hollins hoping to find the knife or the liver. He lets them in willingly and acts cooperative and curious. Brennan finds a knife lying in plain sight but it has no nicks. Hollins has a collection of keys in containers and Booth uses it to find some reason to bring him in. With his attorney present, Booth tries to scare Hollins into confessing, which includes showing him pictures of Penny’s remains. Booth is watching threw the one-way mirror and Kenton approaches her with more information of the Ramanos. She informs him that she is trying to make a sketch of the bullet.
Booth doesn’t have enough evidence to hold Hollins or the keys and consults Goodman’s archeology skills for any insight he can give. Goodman reviews several pictures and points Booth in the direction of two containers of keys to focus on. None of the saw blades that Zack has tried compare to the cuts in the eyes because the cuts are of an irregular pattern. Hodgins approaches Brennan and Zack with the information that a compound found in the concrete used to sink Cugini led him to a company formerly owned by Carlo Ramano.
While trying to dig up information to use again Carlo in the interrogation room, Booth is informed that he has to turn over all the keys back to Hollins. In his ranting about losing a lead, he pushes Brennan to realize that the irregular pattern on the eye sockets could match the groves of a key. She asks him to have the lab send an image of each key to Zack before turning them over to Hollins.
Booth accompanies Brennan to her home where he decides he will stay the night to keep her safe. With no television to watch, Booth raids her CD collection to find something likeable to listen to. Booth finds another side to Brennan as she has a diverse collection and finds a rock CD for them to dance to. A call from David interrupts their dancing session and Booths cuts the tension by going for a soda. While reaching for a cup, he opens the door to the refrigerator that explodes blowing back several feet. Reaching for the cup is the only thing that saves his life.
At the hospital, Brennan examines Booth’s x-rays and gets information about his past from the past scars on his bones. Booth assigns Kenton to protect her while he recovers from his injuries. At the lab, Angela is almost done making an imprint of the bullet; a process that Kenton is very interested in. Hodgins’ examination of the explosion from Brennan’s apartment shows a chemical isotope that leads straight to Hollins. An FBI raid of his apartment reveals a map and several more keys. Zack calls to tell Brennan that Hollins never picked up the keys and they found the one that removed Penny’s eye but their were no substances on the key to trace.
Hodgins informs Booth of the progress so far when he visits him in the hospital. Booth puts several pieces together and deduces (with Hodgins’ help) that the mob framed Hollins for the explosion in Temperance’s apartment to throw off the investigation. But they only way they could do that is if someone in the lab is working for the mob. Booth needs to leave the hospital to pursue leads.
While driving Brennan to the lab, she informs Kenton that she is ready to find out the bullet that killed the mafia member as she as she gets there. She then kidnaps her a gunpoint and takes her to a warehouse where he plans on killing her and passing it off as Hollins killed her. She manages to fight back some but he gets the upper hand and subdue her. Booth manages to track her building down and the FBI raid the building down searching for signs of her. Booth finds her and shoots Kenton before he can kill her thus rescuing Brennan. They share an embrace as Booth removes her from her hook. Afterwards in the hospital, Brennan is ready to go on her date with David but cancels it to spend time with Booth in his room watching TV.
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