The team investigates the highly-classified death of a man and a CIA analyst, which revolves around the unknown contents of a briefcase he was carrying at the time he was killed. In addition, funding is cut back at the Jeffersonian, leaving Intern Wendell's (Michael Grant Terry) scholarship at risk, but "anonymous" donations are made, saving his internship. Meanwhile, Booth engages in some...creative plumbing adjustments to his sink as he tries to relearns skills lost during his coma.
Tropes
- Handcuffed Briefcase: The Victim of the Week is a diamond merchant who was transporting diamonds in a briefcase handcuffed to his hand. His murderer cut the hand off in order to get the briefcase.
- Hollywood Silencer: Averted, An very obviously silenced pistol was still pretty loud.
- No Badge? No Problem!: The Body of the Week was a data analyst for the CIA. When his superiors refuse to investigate a possible diamond smuggling operation he discovers, he investigates it himself despite having no field experience, training, or authority.
- Torture Is Ineffective: The Body of the Week is a Salary Man paper-pusher at the CIA who investigates a diamond smuggling operation on his own after his superiors didn't think there was anything to it. He is killed by torture but never gives up the info they were after. CIA agents point out that even most well-trained field agents would crack under what he was subjected to. After the crime is solved, he is given a star on the CIA "Killed in Action" wall even though his position didn't qualify for that honor.
