Booth's "funeral" is revealed as part of a covert op just in time for him to get back on the case of the Gormogon, which has updated as a human jawbone has been mailed to the Jeffersonian. However, when Gormogon's skeleton disappears from the lab, Cam realizes it must have been an inside job and every Jeffersonian employee as well as Booth and Sweets become suspects.
Tropes
- 21-Gun Salute: Booth takes part in a volley at the funeral for Booth himself, which was staged in order to catch a perp who said that Booth would never see him again except at his (Booth's) funeral. Since Booth had gotten shot by a Stalker with a Crush at the end of the previous episode the FBI decided to use it.
- Actor Allusion: Booth is reading a ‘'Green Lantern’’ comic in the bathtub. Boreanaz did voice work in one of the franchise's animated series.
- Attending Your Own Funeral: Booth at the beginning of the episode. For some reason, we weren't crying....
- Bathtub Scene: After having faked his death Booth is taking a relaxing soak in a bathtub when Brennan suddenly busts in on him, outraged that she didn't know his death was faked. During the ensuing argument he stands up, not noticing he's fully exposing himself to her. When she points it out, he slowly sinks back into the bathtub in shame.
- Double-Meaning Title: Refers both to Booth’s gunshot wound and the emotional pain Brennan had when she thought he died and the pain everyone feels regarding Zack.
- Faking the Dead: Booth. He was shot by Pam Nunan in the previous episode, and a fake funeral used to draw out a perp criminal who promised to show up at Booth's funeral.
- Hypocrite: Bones gets Zack back to their side by pointing out that his action of instinctively protecting Hodgins shows he doesn't truly believe what he says about the human experience as a whole being more important than the individual's experience.
- One of Our Own: Every Jeffersonian employee becomes a suspect of being the Villain of the Week, and it ultimately turns out to be Zack.
- Season Finale: The show's third. Zack Addy is revealed to be the Gormogon's apprentice.
- Wham Episode: We learn that Zack was the Gormogon's most recent apprentice.
