A woman tries to get pregnant by the husband and then the son of a foreign diplomat. Understandably, this pisses the diplomat off, and she kills the woman, only for an attempt on her life to cover up the evidence.
Tropes
- Conspiracy Theorist: Booth weaponizes Hodgins' tendency towards paranoid theories by instructing him to call the airport in the most hyper-paranoid mode he can manage and say whatever is necessary to keep the Ramos family's plane grounded. He relishes the opportunity to go no-holds-barred.
- Diplomatic Impunity: Diplomat and Columbian Judge Dolores Ramos is threatened with being returned home to be prosecuted, in which case she'll be put in prison and killed by other inmates. To avoid this, she waives immunity.
- Hollywood Law: Dolores Ramos is threatened with being returned home to be prosecuted, in which case she'll be put in prison and killed by other inmates. To avoid this, she waives immunity. Too bad for her, immunity belongs to the state, not the individual, so she can't actually waive her own immunity (one could possibly square the circle by suggesting that she could use her significant influence to get her immunity withdrawn, in the process sparing the Columbian government the headache of dealing with the case and possibly avoiding a diplomatic incident with the US, since an foreign ambassador killing an American citizen is unlikely to go down well).
- Honor Before Reason: In the episode the team find evidence a South American official with Diplomatic Immunity was involved with a murder. Getting through the red tape would be nearly impossible, and Cam suggested manipulating evidence to implicate the son, trying to get the official to confess and waive immunity. Booth listened but quickly rejected the proposal on the grounds that trying to cheat around DI would cause international problems, even though such manipulation is used all the time in local law enforcement. They got her to waive immunity based on what the political situation would be back home-if they did try to go through the normal channels, she would be killed by her enemies. As mentioned above, this is Hollywood Law though.
