Bones Episode Synopsis

Booth and Bones are called in when a garbage man collecting at a local park discovers a mummified body under his truck, with the neck and jaw crushed by the tire. Zack and Angela have to work together to reconstruct the face and identify the victim, which is made particularly difficult given Bones’ diagnosis of the clearly juvenile body with brittle bone disease (Osteogenesis imperfecta). This does limit the search field, and the mother of the missing boy is found. He and his father disappeared 3 years ago, causing his mother to believe her estranged husband abducted the son. Hodgins has no bugs to identify due to the mummified nature of the corpse, but he works on finding out what the unique type of melted substance on the clothes is from. He identifies it as rubber tire transfer, from a small type used in golf carts. There are also lead paint particles mixed in. Booth and Bones search for run down neighborhoods that still have lead paint in their houses, leading them to an area in Virginia where the groundskeeper of a Country Club has recently gone missing. They search his house, and discover blood. After searching the grounds, they also find his recently stabbed-to-death body. The basement also contains blood of the son and recently disturbed plaster walls. A nail discovered in the basement is a match to the mother. The reconstructed skull of the boy reveals the fatal injury was a blow to the head, caused by being dropped, and his Osteogenesis imperfecta made the fall deadly. The mother reveals she saw her former husband at her parents’ new Country Club, and found out their son was dead after confronting his father. Enraged, she killed him, buried him, and took her son’s body to the lake he most loved when he was alive.

 Meanwhile, Bones has gone on a date with the new curator of the Jeffersonian Institute’s Museum. He is young, handsome, and highly versed on topics Bones is most interested in. Yet she does not find herself liking him. Angela however knows exactly what Bones’ problem is—she like Booth.