"Traffic?" "Dr. Brennan looked a little hurt... when I told heryou asked me to come out here instead of her." "No." "Bones's feelings, they don't get hurt." "She's not likeyou." " Like me?" " Yeah, a girl." "The word you're looking for would be "woman"... who incidentally makes more money than you." " Touchy." " What can I say?" "I'm just a girl with feelings." "All right, listen." "Construction crew, they found a body this afternoon." "Keyword here is body, as in "still meaty. "'" "Oh!" "Male, middle-aged." "Bones, she usually kneels next to the remains." "These are designer pants, and my bodies are always so much gushier than Dr. Brennan's." "I'm just saying." "Looks like a stab wound to the middle ofthe chest." "Naked, wrappedin plastic." "Bite marks to the face and extremities." "Looks like rats." " Rats?" " Mm-hmm." "Looks like he might've been kneecapped." "Mob thing maybe?" "What's that?" "Some kind of gemstone." "This blow through the sternum would've been fatal... dealt by a double-edged blade." "So we know our killer is strong." "Based on the rate of decomp, I'd say he's been dead three days." "Probably dumped Friday night." "The gemstone is jade." "Narrowing down the exact type now." "Grit from the wounds." "Hey, grit toyou." "Open book to me." "The injuries to the knees aren't from baseball bats or bullets." "Zack is right." "The victim's patellas were removed surgically." "King of the lab." " Dr. Brennan?" " Yes?" "Amy Hollister." " I'm your brother's girlfriend." " Of course." " Please, come in." " Thanks." " Would you like something to drink?" " No, no." "I'm sorry." "I" " I don't have a lot oftime." " Doyou know where Russ is?" " Amy, I haven't seen Russ in months." "Oh." "Uh" " Um" "I have two little girls." "Well, you know." "And, um, theyoungest one, that's Hayley, she's not doing too good." "Cystic fibrosis." "Russ mentioned that she had lung problems." "Well, her breathing's real bad, and... now her liver, and, um... she keeps asking for Russ." "Um" "I'm going to giveyou the..." "phone number of..." "Dr. Leo Goetz." "He's the premiere authority on cystic fibrosis in the country." "I can't afford that." "Oh, no, Amy." "Um, Leo and I are friends." "He'd do it for me as a favor." "No charge." "I'm going to give him a call, tell him to expect you." "Oh, uh, I don't know what to say." "Thankyou." "And as for Russ, I think you're better offtalking to Dad." "I understand." "Um, thankyou foryour time." "The knees." "Somebody sent you human kneecaps in the mail?" " That is like" " Zack says they match ourvictim." "We're dusting the envelope for prints." "It was sent somewhere from the D.C. area." " These patellas are unusuallyworn." " Worn from what?" "It's hard to say definitively, but I'd say the man did a lot ofkneeling." "Wait a minute." "I've seen that before." "That symbol looks familiar, like it's from some kind ofseal." "Hey, Bones, you are gonna, you know, stay with a friend?" "Check into a hotel, right?" " She can stay with me." " Great." " Thank you, no." "Why?" " Mr. Kneecaps has your home address?" " I can't freak out every time somebody googles me." " Cam, she goes nowhere alone." " Don't listen to him." " Who areyou more afraid of, me or her?" " Booth" " Whoa!" "So this is what it's like to be a kindergarten teacher." "It's fascinating interpersonal interaction." " Dr. Sweets." " I, uh" "Oh, my" " That is gross." "Yeah, it's an autopsyroom." "It's no place for therapists." "What doyou want?" "Um, you and Dr. Brennan missed our session this morning." "Maybe because somebody sent body parts to Bones in the mail." "Oh, my God!" " I've identified the murderweapon." " Oh, that was quick." "Tapered, inch and a halfwide with both a hilt and a quillon." "The cannelure is also quite distinctive." " That's the Gormogon knife." " The serial killer?" "Which is whythe symbol looks so familiar." "I've seen it on a tapestry in the vault." "So this is the famous bank vault where the violinist was murdered and eaten?" "We transported everything from the bank here to the Jeffersonian." "So ifyou touch anything, Sweets, you put it back exactly the way it was." "Oh, awesome." "The Widow's Son sculpture?" "It's a complete silver skeleton which is replaced piece by piece with bones from murdervictims." "Andall ofthe relics, including that skeleton, can be traced to the Gormogons." "A 17th-century anti-Masonic group." "Supposed to be extinct." "How many victi ms?" "This statue contains the bones ofat least five unidentified victims, plus the violinist." "That is the actual violinist's pinkie." "Well, obviously Gormogon sent you his kneecaps to continue his work." "We are not fitting those kneecaps onto this skeleton." "Mark my words, you'll find something special about those kneecaps." "Okay, this tapestryhere is..." "offsomehow." " Off?" " Well, don't look at me." "My idea of art is a half-naked woman on the side of a van." "That's interesting." "No, it's not interesting, Sweets, because it was a joke." "Okay, what's the matter?" "Russ's girlfriend, Amy, came to see me." "Her daughter's sick." "She's looking for Russ, so I told her that my dad might know where he is." "Your brother's a wanted fugitive who's a material witness in your dad's murder trial." " Amy knows that." " He's not gonna come backjust becauseyour niece has a cough." "Well, technically, she's not my niece." "And it's not a cough." "It's cystic fibrosis." "Dr. Brennan, Missing Persons sent over dental records from middle-aged men." " I checked them against the victim." " Get a hit?" "Father Douglas Cooper, vicar general to the archbishop ofWashington, D.C." "Okay, Sweets was right about the kneecaps." "This guywould've been a world class kneeler." "Saying that someone is a whiz at psychology is like saying they're good at mind reading." " It's a series oflucky guesses." " I'm bringing Sweets in on the case." " You make fun ofhim." " Onlywhen he messes with our heads." "Hewas right about the knees." "Shouldn'tyou be figuring out whatwas used to excise the kneecaps?" "Yes, Dr. Brennan." " What?" " You just dismissed Zack." "No, I didn't." "Oh, don't get me wrong." "I liked it." "Thankyou for coming in, Archbishop Wallace." "You've found myvicar general?" "Yes, Your Holiness." "Monsignor- or Steve." " So how did Doug die?" " Well, Steve" " Bones." " He said to call him Steve." "Monsignor." "Father Cooper was stabbed to death... as a part of a series of cannibalistic murders." ""A series..." "of cannibalistic murders"?" " We're still trying to find out what they had in common." "Doug Cooperwas a- a quiet man." "He'd been on sabbatical for the past six months." " He was writing a book." " About?" "A history of early Christianity." "Its ties to paganism." "Esoteric stuff." " Somebody ate Doug?" " Just a part ofhim." "A lovely, decent man." "Humble, dedicated to serving others" "Unfortunate choice ofwords given that someone ate him." " Just a part ofhim." " Just a part ofhim." "There's too much evil in the world." "God forgive me, but sometimes I wonder... ifI'm little more than a Band-Aid." " Amen, Monsignor." "Amen." " Thanks, Steve." "These ligature marks suggest the victim's wrists and ankles were bound with wire." "There are indications of dislocation in both shoulders." " He was hung by his arms for a long period oftime." " Probable." " In the same position as the Widow's Son sculpture?" " Possible." "Angela identified the red-haired figure on the tapestry." "Barabbas- a murdererand rapist... who was condemned to death in New Testament Jerusalem." "The Gormogons believed that the descendants of Barabbas started the first secret societies." "To the Gormogons, Barabbas is an enduring symbol... of all that is backwards, upside down or inside out." "So, ifyou find his figure on a Gormogon relic" "It's a sign to interpret it backwards or in a mirror..." " or upside down." " The numbers on the tapestry are a simple alphanumeric code." "Each number corresponds with a letter." " "Civitas capitolium. "'" " Which means "capitol city. "'" "D.C. was laid out according to Masonic symbols." "Now, notice the pentagram here over the White House?" "And you see the compass and the square." "The point of the compass is over the U.S. Capitol building." "But here's where Angela's Barabbas thing really kicks in." "The presence of Barabbas on this means backwards and upside down." "So when the compass is inverted, itpoints to some veryinteresting landmarks." "The bank where we found the vault." "The place where Father Cooper's body was dumped." "The highway overpass off ofwhich Gavin Nichols's head was thrown." " What's there?" " It's an old mansion." "It's now a nursing home." "And this falls very precisely." " What's that?" " Mausoleum at Silver Hill Cemetery." " You want to look inside?" " Hell, yeah, I do." "This mausoleum's been here since the 1800s." "It's paid for by a trust." "As far as the director ofthe cemetery knows, no one's been out here for a century." " This better be good." " Look." " "Patermortuus. "'" " It means "dead father. "'" " You know Latin?" " Dude!" "Altar boy." " You got a key?" " Yeah." "Brought my own." " Wait, wait, wait, wait." " What?" " Can I do it?" " No." "You don't let me playwith your bugs." "Ahh, great." "Another one." "Booth, this one's completelymade ofbone." " Hi." " Hi." "How's Hayley doing?" "Dr. Goetz is a godsend." "I don't know how to thankyou." "Oh, Hayley, sweetie, that's Dr. Brennan." " Temperance." " Another doctor?" " Oh, not that kind." " Temperance is Russ's sister." "Couldn't you call him and tell him to come home?" "It's complicated." "Here, eatyourJell-O, sweetie." "I tried to get into the jail to seeyourfather." "Theywouldn't let me in." "They said I'm not a relative." "Amy, Russ is a fugitive." "The minute he comes back to D.C., they'll toss him in jail." " Well, how would anyone know?" " Well, I workwith the F.B.I." "You don't have to be in this." "All you have to do is askyour father to get a message to Russ." "You look my baby in the face and tell her she can't see her father... becauseyou're mad atyours." " What have we got?" " So far, I've identified 18 different victims... and I'm not done." "All bones show cannibalism indicators." "This tibia appears to be over 50 years old." "You mean, the victim's over 50?" "What I mean is thevictim was killed over 50 years ago." "Well, that would suggest that Gormogon's-What?" "A minimum of70 years old?" "The teeth marks on this bone do not match Gormogon's teeth." "My God." "We have another cannibal out there?" "An old one?" "The gemstone you found in Father Cooper's chest is violet jade." " The dirt contains sepiolite." " And we're happy about this because" "Both violet jade and sepiolite are found only in a certain region ofTurkey- the Anatolia region to be exact... legendary site ofthe Garden of Eden." "And this comes from the vault." "Guess what." "It's the same stuff." "Run the new dentals against the N.C.I.C. database." " What doyou want me to do?" " Uhh" "Be on the lookout for a face-eating cannibal who uses a walker?" "There's my girl." "I, um" " I brought you a coffee cake, but they took it from me." " I'm not into coffee cake." "These days, all mymeals are prepared bymen in hairnets." "I'm glad you came." "While I was waiting, I was thinking about all the places... that I've been that are worse than prison" "El Salvador, for example, and that two weeks I spent in a shipping container." "Disney World." "You hated Disney World." " I thought I was always able to keep that from you kids." "No." "I was six." "Russ was 10." "It was pouring rain." "Mickey sneezed so hard, his head popped off." "I think I like prison better." " Dad, I'm here about Russ." " Oh, he's fine." "You don't have to worry about Russ." "The woman he lived with, the kids he was raising- they need him home." "Russ sends Amy and the girls money every month." "Theyounger child, Hayley, is really sick." " She's asking forhim." " How sick?" "I'm here, Dad." "I'm asking you to tell Russ." "Let him make up his own mind what to do." "Ifhe comes back to D.C., Russ is gonna end up in here with me." "He won't do that." "He's scared to death of jail." "He'll come ifyou ask him to." "You look more like your mother every day." "I've gotta go." "Well, come back soon." "And thanks for the coffee cake." "Wait right here." "I'll buzzyou in." "I found the same symbol that was mailed to Dr. Brennan on this tapestry." " It looks like a bunch oftarot cards." " Okay." "The architect, the martyr, the orator... the musician, the bishop, the corruptor" " Whoa!" "That's it." " What?" " Gavin Nichols- the musician." " Father Cooperwas a bishop." "He's doing it in order." " What's next?" " The corruptor." "So the next victim is a corruptor." "So, let's call up every porn kingpin and drug dealer in the country." "Tell 'em to look out for a lunatic with a napkin in his collarholding a knife and fork." "Dude, you're being way too literal." "These icons extend from the 1600s." "A corruptor would mean a heretic- like, say, a pretender to the throne." " What are you doing here?" " You left a message that you wanted to see me." "Not see." "Talk... on the telephone." "Interesting what people say unwittingly." "I'm totally into the Gormogon file, and it's my opinion you're looking for a duo." " How did you get the file?" " Booth." "You gave him the case file?" "Time out, okay?" "He came up with the whole duo thing." "We found another Widow's Son skeleton." "This one's complete." "The teeth marks suggest two cannibals." "Really?" "It's awesome!" "It's like the Sith lords, man." "There's always only two ofthem." "Did you just Star Wars us?" "In the parlance ofthe 17th century, it's a master-and-apprentice situation." "Each master must create one ofthese sculptures while training an apprentice." "When it's complete, the master retires... the apprentice becomes a master, starts his own project." " So Gormogon used to be the apprentice." " Now he's the master." "How does me saying no translate to bringing Sweets in?" "All right, get this." "Both victims lost their fathers at a young age-widows' sons." " Coincidence?" "I think not." " Also, two months ago, we arrested Gormogon's apprentice." "Yeah." "He killed himself." " Point ofinvestigation:" "How do masters find their apprentices?" " Not on Craigslist." "I checked." " Booth." "I bet you two free sessions that the master has access to at-risk children." " Kid's got chops." " Eh" " Anything else?" "Yeah." "It must be killing him thatyou have this." "This is, like, his whole reason for living." " You might be able to find somewayto use that." " Wait till you hearthis." " Father Coopertook a trip toTurkey lastyear." " The Anatolian region?" "Mm-hmm." "Gavin Nichols was on the same trip." " The bishop and the musician." " What about a corruptor?" "The tripwas arranged by a lobbyist." "Is that too literal?" "A lobbyist?" "Oh, that's a total pretender to the throne." "This is how we roll." "Right, guys?" "Bones, you got time to talk to a lobbyist?" "You think my life is in danger because I went to Turkey?" " Two ofthe men you traveled with are dead." " Their faces were eaten off." "This is Washington, D.C. People have their faces eaten off all the time." "Mr. Porter, areyou a member of any fraternal order?" "Masons, Odd Fellows" "Ku Klux Klan?" "You see these cufflinks, Agent Booth?" "Each one costs more than you make in a year." "I own a hundred-footyacht, two mansions and a ski chalet in Switzerland." "I have these things because my associates trust me to do what they ask." " And to keep my mouth shut." " I'll take that as a yes." "We know you're a member ofthe Knights ofColumbus." "Says so right here in your résumé." "I showed you my cufflinks." "Next I'm gonna showyou mywatch." "My Uncle Stan is a member ofthe Knights ofColumbus." "It's like being a Shriner." "What is the big deal?" "We knowyou went to Turkey with the Knights... to visit the mythical site ofthe Garden of Eden." "And you think there's a cannibal out there who has something against... a group of civic-minded men who do good works in their community?" "The guywe're after, he thinks that the Knights ofColumbus is an evil, secret society." " That's crazy." " I think he's finally catching on." " Your life is in danger." " Why me?" "There were 40 guys on that trip." "How old wereyou when your father died?" "Six." "What does that have to do with anything?" " You lostyour father, and you're a corruptor." " Okay." "You want to talk to me?" "You do it through my lawyer." "All right, listen." "Mr. Porter, we are just trying to help here." "The F.B.I. is investigating influence peddling." "I am one ofyour targets." "Somebody eating the faces off the Knights ofColumbus?" "How stupid doyou think I am?" "Right now?" "Very, very stupid." " Okay." "Bones,you didn't have to call him corrupt." " Why?" "Why?" "Because, obviously, he is." " Agent Booth?" " Yeah?" "There's someone here to see you." " Where's Hayley?" " Russ!" "You came to the F.B.I." " Yeah, that was the deal." " Wow." "This just keeps getting better." "All right." "Russ Brennan, you're under arrest." "Come on." "You know the drill." " You lied?" "You told Dad Booth wouldn't arrest me!" " No." "I never said that." " I should've known better than to trust anyone in this family." " Russ, I swear." "I want to see mystep-daughter." " Hi, honey." " Russ, I knewyou'd come." "Hey." "Here, come here." "Look who's here." " You making funny faces?" " Uh-huh." "Huh?" "Mmm!" "Thank you for coming, Russ." "Thank you, Booth." "Oh, this never happened." "Don't thank me." "As far as the Bureau's concerned, I caught him here 15 minutes from now." "Thankyou, Booth." "Just don't tell anyone." "You told Russ I said Booth wouldn't arrest him." "I couldn't turn him over toyou." "That just puts you in a quandarywith Booth." " I did it this way foryou." " Dad!" "What?" "Booth busted him, that hard-ass?" " Brennan." " Dr. Brennan, it's me, Zack." "I found something in the Gormogon vault I thinkyou should see." "What areyou being such a hard-ass on my kid for, Booth?" " Who's that?" " Nobody." "It's not Booth." " You know, it's bad enough that nobody can trust you." "But now you're making it so Russ and I can't trust each other either." "He came back." "He hugged his little girl, okay?" "So far, things are working out great." "I'm here foryou, and a lot of dads aren't." "All the wayto the line." "Face the wall." "That's true, Dad." " What's going on, Zack?" " Why don't you turn the lights on?" "I was down here helping Angela decode when I noticed the mirrors." " What mirrors?" " Put these on so you can see whereyou're going." " This betterbe good." " I'm surprised no one noticed the mirrors before." "They're everywhere- different kinds, different sizes- placed seemingly at random around the vault." "But I have an overdeveloped sense of spatial reasoning." "As a result, things that appear random to some people appear deliberate to me." "Zack,just get on with it." "Watch this." "Oh." " Wanna see where it ends?" " Yes." "Ow!" "From that spot, you'd be able to see every corner ofthe vault." " Shh." " I don't get it." "What does it mean?" "Gormogon has been watching us this whole time." "Bones." "Tech guys, they did a sensor sweep." "That eye is broadcasting a signal both audio and video." "It's white light-activated, so itprobablywasn't triggered byZack's laser." " What do we do?" " Exactly what Sweets said." "Use it against Gormogon." " How?" " Haven't got a clue." "Well, ifwe fool him into thinking that we're transferring the sculpture..." " he might tryto grab it." " No." "Ifhewants it as much as Sweets says, he'll try to steal it." " No." " Why not?" "Because I didn't think ofit." "Look, it's a great idea." "But ifyou're gonna sell it, you're gonna have to put..." "Father Cooper's kneecaps in the silver skeleton." "I do this under extreme protest." "The truckwill be here any minute." " Who knows about this?" " Just you and me, Bones." "Not even the driverknows what we're transporting." "The M.R.I. at Bethesda will tell us if Gormogon hid anything within the bones." " Like what?" " I don't know!" "That's whywe need the M.R.I. at Bethesda." " Shh." " What?" " You don't have to scream." "I'm right here." " Right." "Okay." "Areyou done?" "We're kinda on a schedule." "Yes!" "I'm done." "Now we can load it onto a truck and take it to Bethesda." "Everybody keep their distance." "I don't want to spook this guy." "I have a question." "No, you can't drive." "We're undercover, and I'm the taxi driver." " Passengers don't sit in the front seat." " You're not a passenger, okay?" "You're a trainee, and I'm training you how to drive a taxicab." "Okay, all units be advised." "I got a motorcycle with no plates." " Whoa." " Easy." " Get down!" " What?" "Why?" "Bones?" "Bones?" "Don't move." "Bones." "Okay, put your arm underneath my shoulder." "Come on." "You ready?" "On three." "One, two, three." "Move with me." " I'm okay." "I'm okay." " Okay, okay." "Get over here." "Come on." " Paramedics are on theirway." " He knew who we were because I was sitting up front." " No, it was because ofyour bad acting." " What?" "Back at the vault?" " I was good." " No, you were loud." "That's what they call overacting." " You shouldn't have shushed me." "That's how he knew." " Who's got the motorcycle?" " Nobody." "We lost the follow car." " Damn it!" "What about the truck?" "It's fine." "Yeah?" "He knew the truckwas a decoy." "He wasn't trying to get the skeleton back." " He was trying to kill us." " Booth?" "What?" "Oh, all right, easy." "I got it." "What is that?" "Oh, it's- it's a human tooth." "He put human teeth in his bomb for shrapnel." "Bones, he was trying to kill us because we know his next target." " The corruptor- that lobbyist!" " Hey!" "Wait!" "I want to come!" "Stay right there!" "Put it in the back ofthe truck." "Go on in back now." "It's gonna be okay, ma'am." " I'm fine." "Fine." "J ust a flesh wound." " We got you right now." "Booth!" " You believe me now?" " He ran downstairs." "He had a knife." "He had a knife." " Mom!" " Hey!" " It's over." "Drop him!" " No!" "No!" " Put the kid down." " Put me down!" " Put him down!" " Mom!" "All right." "It's okay." "It's all right." "It's all right." "It's over." "Okay?" "Okay." "All right, buddy." "Okay." "The Gormogons started out as goodguys,you know." "I n the 1600s, the malignant manipulations of secret societies... like the Illuminati, the carbonari... the Masons, the tong, were starting to be felt." "The Gormogons championed the ideal... that humanity should be free ofthese pernicious influences." " Goodguys." " Soyou feel sympathy for Gormogon?" "There are secret societies working today." "It's naive to think otherwise." "You think I'm paranoid." "Yeah." "The question is, how paranoid?" "Zack says that there are over 30 victims represented... by the skeleton created by Gormogon... andhis master, who has gotta be in his 80s." "And we know that there are seven in the one created by Gormogon... and his dead apprentice, including... the violinist and the priest." "Now, my point ofview?" "He's going after the Knights of Columbus." "Gormogon is nuts." "Dr. Sweets?" "Dead apprentice." "Gormogon needs a new apprentice." "He may have already found one." "We're looking for a kid in his teens." " Tempe, what happened toyou?" " I got blown up." "Russ, I never told Dad thatyou should turnyourself in to Booth." "I f I'd come to you, you would've told Booth anyway." " What do you mean, "blown up"?" " It's a case, Russ." "It's my job." "We're trying to put a bad guy away." "You mean, in here?" "With other bad guys like me and Dad?" "There are levels ofbad guy, Russ, and you're not even on the first level." "Why do I feel like you just called me a sissy?" "I wanted you to hear it from me, Russ." "Dad lied." " I nevertold him it was safe to come back." " I had to come back, Tempe!" " For Hayley." " Yes." "But they are gonna put me away after my parole hearing." "It's not just that you violated parole." " They thinkyou know something about Dad's murder case." " I don't!" "Nobody believes anybody in this family." "Maybe I'm just like him, right?" " A liar?" "Not worthyoftrust?" " No." "Don't say that." "I am just like him." "I am." " I had a family." "I left 'em." " You haven't killed anyone." "That's the most reassuring thatyou can be?" ""Hey, Russ, congratulations on never killing anyone. "'" "Being reassuring has never been my strong suit." "Levels ofbad, right?" "And I'm a sissy." "It's a good thing, Russ." "Thanks for helping Hayley." "I love that little girl like she was myown." "You believe that, don't you?" "Yeah, Russ." "I believe that." "Normal person gets blown to hell, they go home, pour a glass ofwine, watch TV." "Caroline, I think it should be worth something that Russ turned himselfin." "Bumping into Booth at the hospital is not the same as turning himselfin." " That's notwhat happened." " It's what Booth says happened." "No, Russ turned himselfin, but I convinced Booth to let him go see Hayley at the hospital." " I did not hear that." " Russ turned himselfin." "But I convinced Booth to let him go see Hayley at the hospital." "Do I have this straight?" "You're a genius?" " An honest-to-goodness, dyed-in-the-wool genius?" " Yes." "Dr. Brennan, I like you- on and off." "Butyour brother is a material witness in my murder case." "I cannot recommend that he be set free." " Please?" " Oh, well." " Now thatyou've said please" " Areyou being sarcastic?" " Yes!" " Oh." "Best I can do is arrange foryou to speak atyour brother's parole hearing." "Looking the wayyou do, maybe the judge will feel sorry and let him go." "These are the marks left by Gormogon's teeth." "I've reverse-engineered a dental set." "So, this is what the front plate ofGormogon's teeth looks like." "Top and bottom, from incisor to incisor." " Okay." " These are the teeth from the bomb." "It's a match." "That was Gormogon's tooth lodged in my shoulder." "The tooth found in your shoulderwas chipped." "In fact, all ofthe teeth we found, almost a full set, were chipped." " Due to the explosion?" " No." "These marks here were made by common, hardware store pliers." " He pulled out his own teeth?" " I don't know." "Certainly theywere removed with pliers." "That's what happened, Zack." "Gormogon pulled out all his teeth one by one with pliers and put them in a bomb." "Booth was right." "He meant to kill us." "He's a cannibal." "Symbolically, he wanted to biteyou." "Symbolically?" "He literally bit me." "I've come to believe that the Widow's Son sculpture is an effort to re-create Adam." " Oh!" "Adam and Eve." "Okay." "How did you come up with that one?" " The Garden ofEden." "Plus the notion when Adam was cast out of the Garden of Eden, he was disowned by God." "He became, in essence, the ultimate rejected son- fatherless." " Why re-create Adam?" " Obviously, these people are wacko." "No, no." "Sweets, you see, it's like- answers like that is exactly why Bones hates psychology." "Right." "Use what's useful." "Reject the rest." "Yeah." "Okay." "Thanks, Sweets." "$200,000 in student loans and the kid comes up with "wacko. "'" " Maybe Sweets is right." " What?" "These boys, theseyoung men- They have no fathers." "Oh, what?" "So they become apprentices to a serial-killing cannibal?" "Or they become serial-killing cannibals." "Oh, yeah, right." " I see what's going on insideyour head." " What?" "You know, my dad wasn't so great, but I came out okay." "You've killed a lot of people, probablywill kill more in the future." " Unbelievable!" " What?" " Did you hearwhatyou just said?" " It's the truth." "The truth?" "How about a little kindness, huh?" "Some consideration here?" "I'm sorry." "You're a good man." "You're being sarcastic." "I don't do sarcasm." "Look, the point is Russ is gonna be fine." "Who said anything about Russ?" "Listen, Bones, your father- he's not the normal guy, but he loves you." "He loves both ofyou, and that right there is 90% ofwhat a son needs to hear from his father." " Really?" " Well, maybe about 95%." "Where are you getting this data?" "Look, the point is Russ is gonna be okay." "I know he will." " Will you say something on his behalf at the hearing?" " Nope." " Why not?" " He broke parole, and I'm not his dad." "He's got to stand up and own his mistakes." "I was photographing the skeleton in preparation for taking it apart... when I noticed this on a rib." ""1026."' What is it?" " It's a number." " No, Zack." "Cam meant, what does it mean?" " Is it code?" " It could be an ordinal index automata." "I could start a solution, but it would extend into infinity." " And how long would that take?" " Forever... obviously." "How's about that alphanumeric business?" " Uh, "J.B.F '."" " Meaningless." " No, wait a minute." "I got it." " What?" " He's an artist." "He's finished something, and it's terrible." "But to him, this is a piece ofart." "It's his signature." "1026 is a number, not a name." "No, I'm telling you." "This is a signature." "Thevault is like a museum ofthe Gormogons, right?" " An archive." " Then why don'twejust look in safe-deposit box 1026?" " 'Cause they're all rigged to blow upwhen you open them." " I solved that one in my head..." " while having my Cup-a-Soup." " Wow." "What I'm doing is smothering the phosphorous with argon... thus giving Booth time to reach in with tongs..." " to remove whatever's inside the box before it ignites." " Why me?" " Obviously becauseyou have the fastest reflexes." " Fine." "You can pull the tray." " Fine." " Exactly how far back should I be standing?" "Ready?" "Door, tray, lid, tongs." "Whoa!" " Did Booth get it?" " Yes." "Can't you see?" "Not for another three to five minutes." "It's a keywith a bar code on it." "You called me to the F.B.I. because you found a key to my office?" "We accessed the information contained in the bar code." "It came up as the keytoyour office in the Social Services building." " That's not the key to my office." " Room 1026, Municipal Department of Social Services." "Nobody's used a key like that since the '70s." "It was before my time." "Wait a second." "Has that office always belonged to Social Services?" "Yes." "Back then, it was dealing with foster care and group homes." "Booth, Sweets was right." "That would be a great place to recruit disturbed boys." "Recruit forwhat?" "It's just that that man that was in that office is a bit of a legend." "He helped a lot ofkids find theirway." " What was his name?" " Arthur Graves." "Well, he's retired now." "He wouldn't happen to live in a nursing home that used to be a mansion, would he?" "Mr. Graves has been here forfiveyears- in a wheelchairforthe last four." "Sweet guy." "A little particular about what he eats." " You have no idea." " Beg your pardon?" " Uh, what's wrong with Mr. Graves?" " Alzheimer's." " The last few months he's gotten pretty bad." " Is he lucid?" "He comes and goes." "Hey, Arthur?" "Some nice people here to see you." "Hey, Mr. Graves." "F.B.I. Special Agent Seeley Booth." "Listen, we got a court order here to get a dental imprint from you." "Mr. Graves, I'm not gonna hurt you." "I just need you to bite down on this for me." "Oh!" "Hey, hey!" "Sorry." "He's not like that usually." "I thinkyou mayhave frightened him." " How did he lose his teeth?" " They'd all been pulled when he got here." " Does he have any regular visitors?" " There used to be a man." "He drove a motorcycle." " I believe he mayhave been a nephew." " We know who you are." " We know what you did." " All right, Bones." "It's okay." "Let's go." "We'll check out his case files, see what kids he could've recruited." "Come on." "Let's go." "While I'm here, I'm gonna get a court order to monitor Arthur Graves's visitors... just in case Gorgonzola decides to come back and visit his old master." "You're doing that "Gorgonzola" thing on purpose, aren'tyou?" " Hi." "Temperance." " Hi." "If that's who I think it is, I can't really be friendly." "I understand." "I'll just wait over here." "Here." "Uh, that's foryou." "Hayley's feeling better." "She even wanted to come." "Please tell her thankyou." " Agent Booth?" " Yeah." " The judge will seeyou now... in chambers." " Great." "Why in chambers?" "Judge Watkins, Russ Brennan has alreadyproven himselfa flight risk." " He's attached to his family." " The same family he abandoned." " Temporarily." " When his little girl needed him... he returned without anyregard for himself." "You're his parole officer." "We're all here because you're the one who violated him." "Only because it's the law, Miss Julian." "I have a lot offaith in Russ Brennan." "Judge Watkins, Russ Brennan not only broke his parole by fleeing the region... he is a material witness in an upcoming murder trial." "That is a totally different issue that has nothing to do with this hearing." "This isn't a hearing." "It's an informal meeting to decide whether there will be a hearing." " Can I say something?" " That is a slippery slope,Judge Watkins." " Can I?" " No." " Butyou said this was informal." "I'm still thejudge, and I get to make those decisions." "Agent Booth, what areyourthoughts?" " I got nothing to say,Judge." " Booth, please!" "I got a phone call from the archbishop of D.C. 15 minutes ago." "He promises to take a personal interest in Mr. Brennan's rehabilitation." " For God's sake, why?" " Also a psychiatrist, Dr. Lance Sweets... who says he believes Mr. Brennan will not flee thejurisdiction again." "Plus a parole officer who is recommending against... revoking parole." "Why should I ignore all that?" "Because Ms. Davis will simply send Russ Brennan home." " That is not my intention." " It's not?" " Mr. Brennan should be punished." " Punished how?" "Thirty days in countyjail." " What?" " That's nothing!" "Seems pretty harsh from where I sit." "Eighteen months should be added to his parole... and he should be forced to wear electronic monitoring." "That is slightly more than nothing- but only slightly." "I will registeryour opinion, Miss Julian, but that's my ruling." "Ifl hadagavel, I'dbang it." "But how about the last one out just slams the door?" " Whew!" "Ouch!" " I wantyou to considerwhat sideyou're on." "Bishops and psychiatrists and bleeding-heart parole officers." "That's what's wrong with the justice system in this country." "Russ, you gotta go with the marshals." " Thankyou again." " I didn't do anything again." " You should thank him too." " Why?" " He saved Russ." " I didn't do anything." "Okay." "Uh, Russ?" "Eh, time to go." "Okay, here's the thing, Russ." "You run again, you disappoint that woman and her kids..." " and you breakyour sister's heart, I will" " Do something terrible." " I got it." " Yeah, I hope you do." "All yours, boys." "Hey, Booth." " Thanks." " Yeah." "Clean nose, buddy." "Clean nose, clean heart." ""Whywas I forgotten?" "' Mary said, stamping herfoot." ""'Why does nobody come?"" ""A young man whose name was Barney looked at her very sadly." ""Mary even thought she saw him... blink his eyes as if to wink tears away. "'" "Ohh!" "What's that mean?"