Brennan is catapulted into a coma after having been shot while working on a late night case following a domestic argument with Booth. However, Jeffersonian team is left dumbfounded by the lack of any bullets or an exit wound in Brennan. Meanwhile, while in surgery, Brennan hallucinates a conversation with her deceased mother.
Tropes
- Abnormal Ammo: The blood bullet that Brennan was shot with.
- Afterlife Antechamber: Arguably what looked like Brennan’s childhood home if she indeed wasn’t hallucinating as she insisted.
- Dead Person Conversation: Brennan and her mom. It’s ambiguous if she was seeing a ghost or hallucinating.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Was Brennan hallucinating like she insisted or really seeing her mom?
- Near-Death Experience: Brennan.
- Something Only They Would Say: Subverted. Max did not expect his wife to know that the first gift he ever gave her was stolen, as he never told anyone. Even still, his daughter wakes from a coma and tells him.
