Directed by Tony Wharmby
Written by Hart Hanson & Noah Hawley
Bones and Booth are called out to the site of a train wreck involving a senator and high-powered businessman, the latter of whom appears to have committed suicide until evidence reveals that particular body belongs to someone else. Meanwhile, Dr. Camille Saroyan takes over for Goodman while he is on sabbatical, making her head of forensics at the Jeffersonian, and more importantly, Brennan's boss.
Tropes
- All Are Equal in Death: A rich industrialist faked his death, then was beaten severely by his accomplice in order to cover his (the accomplice's) participation. The following takes place in his hospital room:Brennan: When can we talk to him?Doctor: Any time you want, as long as you don't expect a response. This man has severe brain damage. Off the record, he's not going to wake up. Best case scenario, he spends the rest of his life hooked up to feeding tubes.Brennan: This is one of the richest men in the country.Doctor: Most of the time, that might mean something. Not now.
- Anti-Intellectualism: Spam and artificial bone to determine exact circumstances of death by incineration make perfect sense to Hodgins, Zack and the viewer, but Cam threatens to fire them on the spot for acting without her permission.
- Booth: Defense lawyer hears "Spam", he makes a joke, and the jury laughs, and everything we get from the Jeffersonian is framed as 'goofy science', you know, from a bunch of squints with no connection to the real world.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: Exploited. The man who killed Brennan's mother's murderer lets Brennan know it was a hit ordered by her father by letting her know he knows his name without her having told him.
- Metaphorgotten: Booth asks why Cam would want a job that is "basically herding cats" when she is a dog person. Cam replies that dogs herd cats. Or chase them up trees or whatever.
- Noodle Incident:Booth: "That time you dropped a dead monkey down the elevator shaft."
- Something Only They Would Say: Exploited by Booth and Brennan, who get Lynch's assistant to talk by telling him Lynch woke up from his coma and started describing the sound of cramming a corpse into a jacket, one of the last things they assume the two did together.
