YMMV / Bones S 8 E 12 The Corpse On The Canopy

• Only the Author Can Save Them Now: A villain example: Pelant surviving Boom, Headshot!. Booth's bullet manages to miss his brain stem and all other vital bits, going out through his right cheek. The worst injury he suffers from this is a discolored and blinded (but otherwise intact) right eye and maybe some missing teeth, the rest being just scarring from where he stitched his face back together. It's clear the writers saved him for the sole purpose of dangling him over the team's heads for yet another season. They finally offed him early in Season 9, so it's likely he just lived to give them a reason to hold off the wedding.
• Squick: Booth's handiwork on Pelant's face hits the trifecta of Squick, Body Horror, and Eye Scream: the right side of his face got completely blown open from the inside, and the right eye looks like some sort of cheap glass eye, completely blind and useless. Pelant had to triangle-stitch the wound without any anesthetic, and even after healing, the scars are still VERY visible. It would've been nice if Booth had killed him with that shot, but seeing Pelant's Plot Armor finally crack was still impressive.