Mummified remains are discovered in a haybale maze. Another is discovered in a haunted house at a carnival. The same guy works both places as the Grim Reaper, and his girlfriend likes to watch him with other girls so she can slap them around. The real culprit turns out to be a clown.
Hodgins and Angela hire a new private investigator to find Angela's accidentally estranged husband whom she accidentally married.
Tropes
- As the Good Book Says...: Invoked. Booth is surprised that Bones would respect a Pastor's conviction that God speaks to him through an old book.
- Buried Alive: One Victim of the Week was scared to death via such method.
- Chekhov's Gun: A literal example is Bones' hand-cannon. The subject of much Freudian dialogue throughout the episode, it comes in handy when Booth has to shoot a serial killer through a metal door.Geller: You're carrying the 50-caliber 500. Well, that's five shots. (cocks his shotgun) And by my count... (snaps the shotgun) ...you only got one shot left. That's one dumbass gun to bring to a shootout!Booth: One shot. (BLAM!) One hell of a shot.
- Contrived Coincidence:
- First, the bodies of both of the killer's victims, killed a year apart, being found separately, in different locations by random innocent bystanders within 24 hours of each other.
- Second, a suspect who knew both victims having been near where both bodies were dumped but not being guilty, although this could be justified by the killer having made a conscious attempt to frame him by dumping bodies in places he visited.
- Cutting the Knot: The corpse is hidden inside a Halloween maze made out of hay-bales. After spending some time trying to make their way through the maze normally, Booth gets frustrated, asks the policeman standing next to the corpse to toss his flashlight in the air, and then barrels his way through walls until he reaches it.
- Fanservice:
- Bones' Wonder Woman costume.
- Angela as Cher.
- Brennan points out that Cam's Catwoman is this, as well.
- Don't Explain the Joke: When he sees Brennan dressed as Wonder Woman, he says she looks wonder-ful. He points it out in case she didn't get it.
- Foreshadowing: The paramedic who turns out to be the killer downplays the nurse's claims she saw a real corpse and pushes her to put the oxygen mask back on when she insists, she's right.
- Halloween Episode: The episode takes place on Halloween. Booth has to explain to an officer that he and Brennan will be arriving in costume.
- Monster Clown: There's one in the theme park's haunted house, which freaks out poor Booth. Geller also dresses as one for the final confrontation, with increased theatricality to boot.
- Nerdy Nasalness: When agent Booth dresses as a lab tech for Halloween, he purposely starts talking in a nasal voice. Nobody in the lab actually talks like that, he just thought it made him sound less like the aging jock he actually is.
- Redundant Department of Redundancy: When she says she'll quote Angela's husband verbatim word-for-word, Hodgins points out to the PI that verbatim means word-for-word. She replies that she will literally repeat it to the letter.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: Averted, When Brennan finally does get to use the Hand Cannon she picked up in an earlier season... it's way too large to be practically used, and a ricochet injures Booth. The villain of the week even mocks the gun because it only has five shots.
- Shout-Out:
- Cam's Catwoman costume appears to be a combination of the Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry incarnations.
- Brennan thinks Booth's squint costume makes him look like Clark Kent, which goes well with her Wonder Woman.
- Brennan gives spinning in place a go, which is how Christopher Reeves's Superman and Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman got into costume.
- Take That!: Zack relates that he played the back end of a cow in a school play. Hodgins guesses he didn't need to wear a costume.
