As everyone prepares to move on from the Jeffersonian, they are hung up by the appearance of a possible Pelant copycat that forces them to dig up their past confrontations with the original. Meanwhile, Angela second-guesses her Paris move and Brennan and Booth contemplate moving on from their respective jobs.
Tropes
- Break Out the Museum Piece: Hodgins uses an early mass-spectrometer from the Manhattan Project exhibit to analyze a pizza just because he's moving to Paris and thinks it'll be his only chance to use it. He and Angela change their minds about moving.
- Passing the Torch: Booth and Brennan leave Washington DC for the much safer environments of Kansas and Bones anoints Daisy, Edison, and Wendell (and possibly Arastoo) as her successors at the Jeffersonian.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Angela finds Hodgins' missing money — all four billion of it — and Hodgins doesn't want it back because it's been tainted by Pelant, not to mention the hacker who originally found it was murdered over it and displayed Pelant-style so who knows who else could be after it. He tells Angela to give it to "a hundred charities" instead.
- Season Finale: The show's tenth. Booth and Brennan decide to leave their jobs, but not before investigating a possible Pelant copycat. Also see Series Fauxnale below.
- Series Fauxnale: The episode was written as a possible series ender. The show was still on the bubble at the time of its writing, so the producers made the episode in a way that it could be a finale, while also not making it too hard to come back from if they got renewed at the last minute (which they did).
