"The G.P.S. says it's right up here." "You don't even know how to use that thing." "The hell I don't." " We're here." " We just drove an hour through the woods... to find more woods that lookjust like the woods we drove through." " Eureka." " Ew!" " That's mud." " No." "This is, like, um" " Yeah, it's pretty much mud." " It smells like rotten egg." "Mmm." "Sulfur." "Very therapeutic." "And you expect me to believe you've never been here before." "A friend of mine told me about this place and swore me to secrecy... but this is my first time- in mud." "Come on in." "It's nice." "All right." "Mmm." "Something's poking me." "This mud is reputed to have amazing romantic properties." "Mmm." "I think I got it." "No, I think I'd notice ifyou got it." "Whoa." "Sheesh." "This hot spring averages a temperature of 105 degrees... but it can spike to near boiling, which is whywe discourage bathers... especially those who illegally drive 4x4 vehicles into a national park." " So someone was boiled to death?" " Or had a heart attack or passed out, et cetera, et cetera." "The remaining flesh will have to be macerated." " What's that?" " Uh, don't ask." "The flesh either has to be boiled off or eaten by dermestid beetles." "Bones, whycan'tyou justsay "cleaned'"?" "The sulfur encrusted the bone." "You see the staining?" " So it's been there a long time?" " Not necessarily." " So why do you have to even bring it up then?" " Signs ofblunt-force trauma." " What's that mean?" " That means he didn't pass out and boil to death on his own." " I'm going to need all ofthe mud." " Excuse me?" "Get a tanker truck out here and suck it up so we can filter it back at theJeffersonian." "Humerus is 36.5 centimeters." "Medium build." "Late 20s, early 30s." "He's broken this bone before." " Is she serious about the mud?" " Serious as a gas attack." ""Heart attack,"' Bones." "Serious as a heart attack." "The description's too general to get anything from a Missing Persons report." "Triangular depression in the calvarium, interior longitudinal 1 fracture... grazed cortical bone in C1." "There's a patterned impression in the bone." "Howmanytimes was he hit?" "Andbywhat?" "More than once- by a square pipe." "Does that exist?" "In my experience, people hit people with anything they can pick up and swing." " He was attacked from behind?" " Mmm" " What?" " There's a vertical impaction fracture... to his glabella and fronto-nasal suture." " Same weapon?" " It doesn't appear so." " I have seen this before." " Really?" "Great." "Where?" "From sharpened stone weapons in "Neandertal" skeletons." "I'm thinking not so relevant in this case." "The blow to the front ofthe head would cause a severe laceration." "There were no bloodstains around the mud bath." "Indicating the bodywas dumped there postmortem." " Jack, regarding the Neanderthals" " Neandertals." "What was the context ofthose killings?" "Accepted scenarios indicate a single individual attacked by two or more assailants." "Then we're looking for two or more murderers." "We're notsure about time ofdeathyet." " It was definitely a murder." " Definitely." "Probably by two assailants." "What a shock forthat couple, huh?" "They slide naked into the hot mud bath..." " and a skeleton hand pokes her in the, you know" " Anus." " Bones!" " What?" "It's a clinical term for that part ofthe body, Booth." "Dr. Brennan." "Agent Booth." "Would it be fair to say that you use work... to avoid confronting personal issues?" "Why?" "Because I don't want to talk about" " The anus." " You really like that word, don'tyou?" "Doyou two ever discuss anything that's not attached to work?" " Well, it's better than talking about, you know" " The anus?" " What is it with you two?" " Sweets could be right." "We talk a lot about work." " I talk about my kid." " Because he was almost kidnapped during a case." "Uh, my father." "We talk about him." "Because Agent Booth arrested him for murder." "Okay." "What areyou trying to get at here?" "Your inability to shareyour personal lives." "I thought that was obvious." "Okay, that was snotty." "I don't respond well to snotty." "After a case, sometimes... we have a drink or coffee." "Booth has pie." "I don't like pie." "You really should just give it a chance." " I find it too sweet." " Okay." "There." "We talked about pie." "Nothing to do with work." "It is betterwhen we discuss murder." "I'dlike to seeyou guys in a socialsituation." "A situation where work is a taboo subject." "Gonna send us to a restaurant and watch through a one-way mirror?" " I'm still not having pie." " No." "An evening out with my girlfriend and me." "They need someone to buy them beer." "You want us to go on a double date?" "Why don'tyou just go on the Internet like all the rest ofthe kids?" "Okay." "Ifit goes well, I'll withdraw my concern." "I'll releaseyou back intoyour environment." "What are we, brook trout?" "Fine." "Agent Booth?" "Unless you think that's too much to prove." "Fine." "I'll show him I have nothing to prove." "Bring it on, Sweets." "So far, I have three old beer cans... an Indian arrowhead... 73 cents in change... and a partially melted Sharpie." "The victim was braised like osso buco." "The flesh was falling offthe bone." "I'd put time of death between 10 days and two weeks." "I found stress fractures and degenerative changes in the facet joints." "Fits with the hypertrophy ofthe cervical muscles." "I found microscopic tearing, but he had to sustain this position..." " to cause that kind ofwear and tear." " Death byyoga?" "Is that skull ready for meyet?" "It should be ready." "You can take it out ofthe boiler anytime." "Oryou could do that for me because I will never, ever do that." "There are fractures ofthe pelvis, compression fractures ofthoracic and lumbarvertebrae... multiple metacarpal and metatarsal fractures." "What was he?" "Crash test dummy?" "The injuries to the vertebrae, tibia, femur... are consistent with landing on the feet after falling from 10 to 20 feet." "What?" "Like jumping out of a tree?" "The damage to the scapula andacromion resulted from a low fall... but forward movement from between 16 to 20 miles per hour." " Falling off a bicycle." " These injuries are more recent." "Fractured and scored patella and torn retinaculum." " Even I didn't get that one." " Whywould anyone want to kill him?" "Sounds like he was doing a good enough job on his own." "Yes." "Okay, Dr. Sweets." "I'llask him." "How's Wednesday night?" "Are you free?" "Oh, what?" "To have our big double date with our psychiatrist?" "J ust one more evening and then maybe we won't have to see him anymore." "Fine." "Wednesday's fine." "I can't wait." " Does he want me to getyou a corsage?" " Yeah, Wednesday is fine." "We'll meetyou there." "Yeah." "I'm looking forward to meeting her." "Okay." "Bye." "This might be fun." "His girlfriend works with tropical fish." " Tropical fish?" " Yeah." " This is just weird." "Where are we meeting?" " At their ceramics class." " What?" "No." "You're kidding." " Whywould I be kidding?" "He said itwas a good idea to have a common activity." "Ceramics?" "I thought the whole point oftherapy... was to give us peace ofmind, not drive us crazy." "Hey, it's Angela." " Hey, Angela." " Hey." "I did a rendering of our victim's face." " We're checking him against any reports of missing persons." " Wait a second." " That's Tripp Goddard." " Tripp Goddard?" "He's a motorcycle racer." "Oh, I forget sometimes I'm talking to girls." "That wouldexplain the wrist and neck injuries on Zack's report." "Have him confirm with dentals." "Yeah, I don't appreciate the "girls" comment." "Uh, Tripp won a huge motorcycle race about two weeks ago." " That fits time of death." " That would've been the Super Grand Prix, out in Virginia." "Tripp won in the final two laps after some kind of accident took out the front-runner." "Girls, huh?" "It's not about the machine." "It's about the man." "Sure, you need a great bike, but a great rider on a crap bike is still gonna win." "Riders say it's about the rider." "Mechanics say it's the machine." "You know what I say?" " It's about whoeversigns the paychecks." " Ah, yes." "And that would be you." " Yes, it would, and don't forget it." " Excuse me." "F.B.I. Special Agent Booth." "This here's Dr. Temperance Brennan from the Jeffersonian." "We're looking for someone who might be able to tell us a little bit about Tripp Goddard." "Uh, well, I'm Philippa Fitz, and Tripp rides for ourfamilyteam" "Slam Bolt." " What did Tripp do?" " Who areyou?" "Garth Jodrey." "I'm a journalist." " Motokneescrapers. com." " What does that mean?" "Racers, when they lean real low into the corners, their knees- they scrape the asphalt." "That would explain his knee injuries." " No one has seen Tripp since after the Super Grand Prix." " Where did he go?" "After a big win, he usually takes offing his truck and climbs mountains, swims oceans." "No one really knows for sure." "Can I helpyou?" "Mr. Goddard's dead." "What?" "What happened?" "We believe he was murdered." "Who would kill Tripp?" "I don't know." "Well, the fans loved him." " Everybody else hated him." " Get lost, Garth." " Daddy, please." " No." "I want him out ofhere, Philippa." "Garth doesn't seem to think Tripp was a good old boy, and you do." " He's got his reasons." " The wheelchair, for one." " Tripp put him in that wheelchair?" " It was an accident." "During a race a couple ofyears ago." "You can't honestly believe that Garth had anything to do with this." "How?" "He's in a wheelchair." " With help obviously." " When was the last timeyou saw Tripp?" "The victory party after the race." "I saw him get in his truck and leave around midnight." "Great." "I'm gonna need to know the make... the model, theyear, license plate ofthe truck." "Anything you need, we're here." "Just find the bastard who did this to him." "Yeah!" "Okay." "That's Danny Fitz." "I would've loved to have decked Tripp like that after our race." " Only I was in a coma for a few days." " Another Fitz?" "Yeah." "Lenny's son." "Philippa's twin brother." "All right." "Watch this." "Danny's got the race in the bag." "Final lap." "Tripp does that." "Classic inside-out block pass." " Is he allowed to do that?" " Only if it's an accident." "Slam Bolt would've taken first and second against Flame Spark... ifTripp hadn't have clipped Danny." "There's someone named Flame Spark?" "Yeah." "Flame Spark spark plugs." "It's Slam Bolt's rival team." "Isawa little daylight." "Lookedlike Danny was gonna go wide, so I went forit." "It is a bummerwhen somebody loses the front of their bike, but, um, what are you gonna do?" "Danny had that race in the bag." "Tripp did the same thing toyou, didn't he?" "Yeah." "Well, I guess Tripp didn't learn anything from the time he did it to me." "Danny Fitz-was he at thevictory party?" "Yeah, absolutely." "Brave face for the press." "Did Danny leave before or afterTripp?" "About the same time." " How about you?" " I took off right after." "You're good friends with Danny, aren't you?" "You mean are we good enough friends to kill Tripp together?" "You know, I'm pretty sure I don't have to say anything without a lawyer." " It's not going to work." " What?" "Dropping loud pieces of metal to hurry me up." "I need the skull so I can compare tool marks to potential murderweapons." "You're just gonna have to wait." "Titanium, magnesium and heat-treated boron particulates... are embedded in these skull fractures." " Hmm." " What?" "That's a unique and exotic combination of metals not found in any ofthese." "You know, it is possible that these particulates aren't from the tool." " I mean, not from the tool alone." " I don't understand." "Handmade racing motorcycles are made from these metals." "So the particles could have gone from the bicycles to the tools to the victim." "It's-It's not a bicycle." "It's a motorcycle." "Bicycle- two wheels." "The term applies." "Drop those." "Drop them." "I mean it, Zack." "Bombs away." " I don't know what that proves." " Proves I don't handle irritation as well as I'd like." " Can I pick these up now?" " No." "You can pick one up- the most likely culprit." "A narrow instrument, no more than an inch, caused the injuries." "Okay." "Strain- the crushing, tearing, shearing- equals the change in dimension divided bythe original dimension." "I do bugs and slime." "I don't do arithmetic." "An elongated rod with... this cross-section is the most likely culprit." "Good." "Good job, Zack." "Am I king ofthe lab?" "We both are." "Let's go tell Cam." "Ouch." "Okay." "Now that" " That's gotta hurt." "Wait." "Here it comes again." "I mean, look at that." "Oh." "Watch it." "Watch out." "Watch out." "Oh!" "Boom!" "Let the record show that Agent Booth is taunting my client... by repeatedly showing footage ofhis traumatic accident." "Don't say "accident,"' man." "Tripp did that to me on purpose." "How fast wereyou going at the time ofyour incident?" "I don't know exactly." "I was accelerating through 160." "Tripp was accelerating faster." "See there?" "Whoosh." " Again with taunting." " Whywas Tripp so much better than you?" " Taunting." " I'm not taunting, Mr. Smalls." "I'm restating an objective fact." "Tripp had a better bike." "He had maybe 20 horses on me." "Soyou get Tripp's bike now." "Right, Mr. Fitz?" " I didn't kill Tripp for his motorcycle." " Why did you kill him?" "Whoa." "Full stop there, cowboy." "Don't sweat it there, princess." "Any other reason whyyou'd want to get rid ofTripp?" " No." " Danny." "Certain things you hide make you look guilty." "Couple years back, Tripp was going out with my sister." " Cheated on herwith a groupie." " Came to blows." " Who won?" " I did, for once." " Knocked him on his ass." " And you defended her honor." "Dannyand Philippa are twins, Agent Booth." "They're very close." "Cheated on your sister, forced you to crash." "How would you exactly describe your relationship?" " We were the best of friends." " Asyourlawyer..." "I must caution you that sarcasm doesn't show up in the transcript." " Best be avoided." " Look." "I'm sorryTripp's dead, but I'm not exactly grieving." " You feel me?" " Bones, he's not afraid of me at all." "Well, it's hard to scare someone who rides around a track at 200 miles an hour." "Now her I like." "You want to go out sometime?" "Danny, restrainyourself." " No, she doesn't want to go out with you." " Let me speak for myself." "Murder suspect here, Bones." " The wound at the front of the head or the back?" " Back." " It couldn't be both?" " No." "The blow to the front of the head was from a sharp tool." " Sharper than round but blunter than sharp." " What?" "That actually made sense to me." "You two have been spending way too much time together." "Can you estimate the amount offorce?" "In the back ofthe head, length undetermined... a width of3.8 centimeters, approximatelya thousandpounds offorce." " So, a lot." " Half a ton." " Which is a lot." " That actually isn't very much." "All right." "Now I'm back in a physics class I want to ditch." "A boxer's fist can land with double that force." " A big, meaty fist in a glove." " Yeah." "With a force spread out... over a hell of a lot more than 3.8 centimeters." "Correct." "It wouldn't take all that much force to crush a skull with this." "So we haven't eliminated anyone from our list ofsuspects." "Plus we don't know what that's a cross-section of... and we don't know what caused the damage to the front of the face." "What exactly made you two come in here crowing, "king of the lab"?" "I'm gonna go back and look at very small things under myvery large microscope." "I can probably identify the type oftool offthis cross-section." "Do it and call Booth." "See ifit's any use to him." " Boys." " Wow." "I don't have the weapon, but..." "I microwaved the fabric samples and used gas sensors to analyze" "All right." "All right." "Let's just cut to the chase there, okay, Mr. Wizard?" "I have identified what was on the victim's clothing." " Fine." "I'll take anything at this moment." " What is it?" "It's toluene." "It's a clear liquid used to clean up oil." "How is that supposed to help us?" "Every mechanic in theworld uses that stuff." "I needa weapon." "Doyou hearme?" "A weapon." "You know, I'm feeling really underappreciated today." "You know what?" "You can suck it up, Buttercup." " Booth?" " Huh?" " Toluene." " It's also excellent for cleaning up blood." "So, ifyou killedsomeone here and they bled a lot" "The drain." "Hey." "Check this drain for blood." "Blood suspended in toluene might be testable for D.N.A." " Tell Hodgins he dida goodjob." " I'll tell Hodgins he did a good job if" "I'm waiting." "I hate when you do this." " Do what?" " You don't talk." "Sometimes you hate when I talk." "So it's a double-edged sword." " Bones doesn't mind sitting in silence, doyou?" " Mm-mmm." " I hate it." " Why doyou think that is?" " He gets bored." " You're right." "I get bored." "You should see him on stakeouts." "He talks and talks." "Well, it's very interesting." " Is it always about work?" " No." "You're lying." "Oh, come on." "How doyou know that?" "I have special training in how to tell when people are lying." " Is that true?" " See, ifyou were me, you'd know." "You're lying to protectyour partner." "I understand that." "But let's agree amongst ourselves that this is a truth zone." "Is something bothering you?" "It's this whole "going on a date'"thing." " No, it's not a date." " It's not a date." "It's a social outing... for the purpose of professional evaluation." "Come on." "Ceramics?" "I'm not that kind of a guy." "All right?" "What do we saywe go,you know, bowling, orto a firing range?" " Or climbing a wall." " Oh." "Right." "Something you're good at." "A movie." "Right?" "Or dinner." "Dinner and movie." "Somewhere that I don't have to make something." "Ooh." "What?" "What "ooh"?" "Well, what Sweets would do in this situation is he'd jump on word usage." "He's going to askyou whyyou're resistant to "making. "'" "I jump on the semantics?" "That's a really aggressive turn of phrase." "Thanks for pulling focus there, Bones." ""Pulling. '"Is that an aggressive word too?" "Okay, what?" "Did you two plan this?" "Paranoia." "That is paranoia." "Since this is a truth zone, I will tell you the truth." "We didn't plan anything." " You're telling the truth." " He's guessing, Bones." "We're going to a ceramics class, and we're all gonna make something." "Time's up." "Look." "Sweets can't really tell ifsomeone's lying." "I'm tel I i ng you." "He's playing with our minds." "There's an area of study called neurolinguistics which proposes... that subconscious eye movements and body language..." " tell a well-trained observer ifthe subject is lying." " Yeah, well, I don't believe it." "Huh." "I don't believe it." " Is that Tripp's bike?" " Yeah." "Looks like Danny's gonna finally get what he wants, huh?" "Do me a favor, Son." "Take it easy a couple times around before you blast off." " I know, Dad." "Ease into it." " Hey, can I get a picture?" "Let's get a picture." "Look at that." "Number one on the Slam Bolt racing team." " You gotta feel good about that." " I'm not talking to you without my lawyer present." "That goes for all of us." "Look, you-you I can replace." "Do not wreck my bike." "Well, Lenny, I'm thinking your boy isn't gonna relax into this." "Well, ifDannygets a chance to grab the brass ring, he's gonna take it." "Okay." "Watch this, Bones." "He's gonna decelerate right before the turn and just slingshot right through it." "I don't see the deceleration part." "No, no." "Danny's down!" " Come on." "Let's get in there!" " No!" "No!" "No!" " Get in there!" " Put that out!" "No, Danny." "Yes." "We're at the Belleville Practice Track on Highway 64." "Send an air ambulance now." "There's been a motorcycle accident." " Where's your father?" " He's at the house." "He's already had two heart attacks." "He doesn't need to be here for this." " Excuse me." " Seems like a crime to mess with such a sweet bike, huh?" " Yeah, a crime, like murder." " Right." "I-I-I just meant the bike itself." "It's" "No, I get it." "You like bikes." "These rotors are laser cut and honed." "Very exact." "Bend one just a little, and when this baby gets to speed, the rotor hits a brake pad." " Separates a little farther, and the next thing you know" " Yes." "We saw." " So it couldn't have been an accident." " You mean, "Oops..." "I accidentally stuck a piece of metal through this tiny hole and pushed it with all my might"?" " So anyone could have done this?" " Anyone who's familiarwith motorcycles- and was a killer." "Whywould anyone want to kill Danny?" "You can't be near the evidence." "I'm sorry." "See what else you can find, will you?" "Recovering ink traces on plastic and polymers is problematic." "So I am using a new technique." "A little ofthe reagent eugenol, and... voilà." " "EE S APERS DO CO."'" " Does that mean anything toyou?" " Korean restaurant?" " Unlikely." "There are obviously missing letters." "We need to place the consonants most likely to appearwith this configuration ofvowels... and vowels to consonants." "That is an enormous amount ofvariables, Zack." " Shh. "Lee Snappers Doll Company. "'" " Don't think so." ""Freenewspapers. com. "' "Keen snappers don't come. "'" " Definitely not." " "Kneescrapers. com. "'" "Oh, my God." "That's it." "Motokneescrapers. com." " How did you do that?" " Process of elimination." "You realize I have no idea what it means." "It's the Web site run by the journalist that Tripp put in a wheelchair." "So this man's pen was found on the murdervictim." "Or it fell in the mud when the bodywas dumped." "I'm enjoying this." "The last time I threwpots, I was in Colombia with the Arhuaco Indians." "Last time I did something like this, I was in nursery school." "Well, we love it." " Don't we, Lance?" " Yes." "Well, I love mywork." "But I'm not gonna talk about that right now... even though we think a paraplegic killed Tripp Goddard." " That sounds fascinating." " April." "Oopsie." " Dr. Sweets says that you work with tropical fish." " Yes." "I love fish." "They're just like people." "No." "No, they're not actually." "People can't breathe underwater." "She's funny." "I am?" "What?" " Whyis that funny?" " I don't think she meant that literally, Bones." " Oh." " It's their eyes." "You can tell so much from eyes." "I n humans, a retinal scan is as specific as a fingerprint." "No, no." "Their souls." "You can see their little souls." "I don't understand." "You believe that fish have souls?" "Yes." "You can see it in their coloring." "It's" " It's a reflection ofwho they are." "Their coloring has developed over millennia as a way to deal with predators." "April just means they're beautiful." "Don't tell me what I mean, Lance." " I mean they have souls." " Okay." "Hey." "Look what I'm making." "You've done this before." " No." " You have." "You really think that's good?" " Yes." "Very." " Yours is good too, April." "I'm not talking to you." "You think that's funny?" " Are they fighting?" " Just focus on your pot there." "I'm with patients, April." "Oh, no." "No patients tonight." "Just us people makingpots." "You can't apologize forme, Lance." "Can we please just move on?" "No." "I just" "I meant I believe that all creatures- people, fish, dogs- we're all connected." "We all share the same stuff that makes life so beautiful and precious." "On a quantum level, that's true." "Although the word "stuff"' is not accurate." "See?" "What?" "I have great respect foryour fish." "Admittedly, I might relate to other things more." "He kills about a thousand people a night." "Yeah." "In a video game, April." "They're not real." "Hey, Sweets." "Your, uh, thing there is droopy." "Wow." "Look at myhorse." " Wow." " That's amazing, Agent Booth." "Very impressive." "Yes, it is." "Ooh, Bones." "I'm sorry." "Oh!" "Geez." "Hey, Sweets, I apologize." "This whole ceramic thing is great." "Oh." "Yeah." "This is fun." "I'll tellyou one thing." "Sweets didn't get anylast night." "They're too young to be in a serious relationship." "I n agrarian societies, young couplings made sense." "The partnership was for survival." "But today" "You know, you can play the field and not plow it." " That was distasteful." " What?" " I like April though." " She talks to fish." "Okay?" "I'm with Sweets on this one." "Brennan." " Hey, it's Zack." " Hi, Zack." "The pry bar from the garage is not the murderweapon." "It's a pry bar like this one, but not this one." "The deep parallel grooves on the interior border..." " are not a match." " What about the blood?" "Apparently the toluene caused a false positive." "What about the vertical fracture on the frontal suture?" " That's the forehead." " Yeah." "I didanotherscraping ofthe fracture... and I found a sliver of glass with a mastic film on it." "The mass spec shows it as a nitrate of silver." "So, I thinkwe're looking for some kind of a mirror." "Good." "Thankyou." "Foundit earlythis morning." "No way ofknowing how long it's been here." "My guess is it was stolen, driven around some, then stripped for parts." " VI N number matches?" " Oh, it's the victim's truck, all right." "Hey." "I gotta tell you." "I love working this one." "I'm usually looking over some battered old heap for evidence... but the vehicles on this case- theyare sweet." " Got anything else for me?" " They're testing mud on the bottom of the vehicle... on the chance it might match where the victim was dumped." " Pry bar." " Huh?" " Pry bar." " Yep." "Covered in blood." "I blame the Stooges." " Excuse me?" " The Three Stooges." "Theywere always bashing each other in the heads... with hammers and bricks and stuff and never got hurt." " People think they can do it too." " Thanks." "All I'm saying is that killings like this are Stooge related." " Booth." " Yeah?" "The side mirror." "Long jagged edge." "He was standing by his truck." "Someone came up behind him and hit him with the pry bar." " Falls forward into the mirror." " Fracturing his fronto-nasal suture." " Huh?" " Forehead." "Booth, this suggests onlyone assailant." "Can we get some luminal, check the mirror for blood?" "Well, we're not hurting for blood around here." "Check this out." "Love these." "Whoa." "Oh." "Don't needanyluminal forthis." "So he was killed, loaded in the box, driven to the mud and dumped." "That's physically impossible for a paraplegic to do." "Ifit's only one murderer, it wasn't Garth." "Do we have any prints?" "Just the victim's." "But we did find some hair in the boxwhere the bodywas placed." "It's dyed." "We're checking for the exact brand and color." "The roots are gray and short." "Lenny Fitz dyes his hair." "Whywould Lenny kill his most valuable rider?" "I'd like the record to reflect that my client has been drinking." "That's an understatement." "And that he's rejecting my advice not to speak toyou at this time." " Drinking a lot there, Lenny?" "Maybe out of guilt?" " I lost a son, Agent Booth." "A son." "So excuse me for feeling bad about that, all right?" "Doyou mean your biological son orTripp Goddard?" "Lady, I loved Tripp Goddard like a son." "But Danny" " Dannywas my son." " There's a difference." " I'm confused." "Is my client a person of interest in this or an actual suspect?" " And in which death?" " That depends upon whether or not the same person... killed both Danny Fitz and Tripp Goddard." "You can't honestly think that I killed either one ofthem." " Well, we found Tripp's truck." " Where?" "Clearing in Jackson State Park." "Forensic evidence shows that Tripp was murdered in the mechanics' bay... and his bodywas transported in his own truck." "What's that got to do with my client?" "There's forensic evidence tying him to the body." "What you got?" "A nail clipping?" "A piece of dried snot?" "A hair?" "No." "We got forensic evidence." "Lenny, when was the last timeyou saw Tripp?" "I told you." "At the victory party." "You shook hands with him, sat next to him at the bar." "Did you make out a little?" "I hugged him." "Any other questions about how trace evidence from my client... mayhave wound up on Tripp's remains?" " Just hold him on suspicion." "That's all." " Look." "I didn't kill Tripp." "I can get a court order to release him in less than an hour." "Look." "Whywould I kill somebody I just signed a business deal with?" "Wait." "Y-You what?" "Mr. Fitz signed 10% of his company over to Tripp." " You mean the motorcycle team." " No." "Mr. Fitz means the beverage company." "Slam Bolt energy drinks?" " Why offer so much?" " 'Cause he was the best." "So I offeredhim a piece ofthe business... as an incentive to race exclusively for Slam Bolt." " And everybody's happy." " Who isn't happy?" "Every other motorcycle team." " Did Tripp Goddard sign?" " I only got him the contract that night." " And then hugged him." " Soyou signed it, but he didn't." "We don't know." "You haven't found the contract, haveyou?" "We'll be in touch." "Sexualjealousyas a motive didn't pan out." " Professional jealousy was looking pretty good." " Until Dannywas killed." " But money- that's always good." " How much money?" "Well, company like Slam Bolt?" "Millions is my guess." "Tripp Goddard could have been attacked by more than one person." " The skull shows that as a possibility." " No "changies,"' Bones." "Okay?" "Pry bar to the back ofthe skull, mirror to the face." "No take-backs." "One killer." "I'm just saying that maybe Philippa and Danny didn't like it... when their father signed over a chunk oftheir family companytoTripp Goddard." "Well, it's a good business decision." "Look." "Garth wants Tripp dead for putting him in a wheelchair." "Philippa wants Tripp dead for grabbing up a hunk ofherfather's company." "Two killers again?" "You said no changies and no take-backs." "Doesn't scan." "You know?" "I mean, whywould either Garth or Philippa want Danny dead?" " You're the motive guy." " Look." "We found Garth's Kneescrapers pen in the mud." " That doesn't prove anything." "He gave them out to everybody." "It's right here, Bones." "It's right in front of us, but I just- I can't get it." "That whole business with changies and take-backs- that's not real, right?" "No." "I have another question." "Is there anything more we can learn from the murderweapon?" "No, that's a you question." "My question is how did the murderer know about the secret mudhole?" "Look." "I know I was breaking the rules when I drove my truck on national park land." " But, I mean, this girl" " Didn'tyou see her?" " I really don't care about that." "Come on, man." "Have a heart." "Look." "I got it about the girl the minute I saw her, okay?" "We all do things for the girl." "What doyou need to talk to me for?" " I need to know howyou found out about that mudhole." " Oh." ""Oh,"' what?" " I don't want to be a rat." " Look, sport." "I don't care about the girl or the mud or the 4x4." "Hardly anyone knows about that place... and someone dumped the body there." "My friend told me about it." " I need a name." " He didn't do it." "He's in a wheelchair." "Your friend's name Garth Jodrey?" " How'd you know that?" " Special Agent Seeley Booth." "Special." "This is the shaft ofthe pry bar." "It's made oftempered steel with a shiny chrome covering." "The murderweapon we found on Tripp's truck." "Yes." "As you can see, the chrome is compromised." "Putting chrome on a pry bar is not a good example offunctionality." " Maybe it was decorative." " Those are blood flecks." " From the victim?" " There's no way ofknowing until a D.N.A. test is done." "The blood flecks begin approximately 25% ofthe way up the handle." " What does that indicate?" " I have absolutely no idea." "Come on." "Choke?" "Didn't anybody playsoftball orbaseball?" "Okay." "It's a choke up." "For somebody not strong enough to swing the entire length of the bat." "Of course." "It's a choke up." "To foreshorten the fulcrum." "Yes." "I see... because the murdererwas weaker than the full-grown male human... forwhom the pry barwas designed." "Right." "Like a girl." "Now, when I batted, I always had to choke up." "Then, of course, I kicked ass." " Sweet." " I'll have Cam check the D.N.A." " Excuse me." "Temperance?" " April, hi." "I, uh, wanted to talk toyou woman to woman, ifthat's possible." "It is possible because we are both women." "Seeing you the other night, it made me realize thatyou have a very objective eye." " Thankyou." " And you got to see Lance and me together." "And I wonder if- ifyou might tell me whatyou think." "Well" " Could you be more specific in the question?" "Um" "Fish." "Fish choose their mates based primarily on color gradations." "Two gouramis, for example, one male and one female... they'll mate if they're both vibrant blue." "Now, ifthe male becomes paler... which can happen over the course oftime... the female becomes nonreceptive to the male." "Even aggressive." "Doyou see where I'm going with this?" "Sweets is too pale?" "Yes." "But let's sayyoung instead of pale and go with that." "Is there an age difference?" "Yeah." "I'm almost 27... and Lance just turned 23." "What's the age difference between you and Booth?" "Uh, fi- fiveyears, but no." " We are not blue fish." " Oh." "But still, he's very firm once you get him out ofthat suit, but" " A pale blue." " Robin's egg really." "I'm a vibrant, vibrant cobalt." "Not literally." "I mean, we're both mostly pink in reality." "No, I understand." "Did we seem good together toyou?" "April, it was only one evening." "We got the D.N.A. results from the murderweapon." " Sex?" " Oh, so much more than adequate." "It was wonderful really." "I mean, he's a nighttime person, and I'm most enthusiastic in the morning... but that's not the problem." "Oh." "Sorry." "You were- You were talking about work." "D.N.A. says the murderer's female." "Excuse me." "We're here about a mud bath?" "No." "We got a sworn statement here from Garth Jodrey... that Philippa Fitz took him to the mudhole..." " three years ago." " To have sex." "Same mudhole that Tripp was dumped in." "I can giveyou a sworn statement that Garth took me to that mudhole." " Ooh, I slid that one right by her." " What?" "You just admitted thatyou had prior knowledge to the location of a mudhole." " No changies." " No take-backs." "Answer nothing without prior confirmation from me." "You killed Tripp becauseyour father was about to sign the company over to him." " What?" " Don't respond in anyway." "We have D.N.A. evidence that shows thatyou swung the pry bar into Tripp's head." "According to the forensic report... the sample was verysmall... and was totally used up during the course ofthe test." " It's an accurate test." " But it can't be repeated." "And my client has a twin brother." "Juries hate D.N.A. evidence and twins." "What's that sound?" "I believe that's reasonable doubt starting its engines." "We have evidence that the same pry bar was used to sabotage Tripp's motorcycle." "A common tool left in a semipublic area... in a situation that could have resulted from incompetence rather than sabotage." "You sabotaged the bike to kill Tripp... but he signed the contract before he could ride the bike... and die the way he was supposed to." "Soyou killed him with the prybar... loaded him onto his own truck and dumped him in the mud puddle." "Everything was great untilyourbrother... rode the bike that you sabotaged." " You don't ride someone else's bike." "Danny knew that." " Philippa." "You killed him accidentally, butyou did kill him." "I loved my brother." "Don't speak, please." "Are we free to go, orwould you like to waste more ofthe taxpayers' money?" " She did it." " You may get a prosecutor to lay a murder charge... but a jurywill never bring home this baby the wayyou want it to." "You're right." " Butyou know what?" "I'm still gonna make the arrest." " To what end?" " You can't win." " To let everybody know what Philippa did... including her father." "I'm okaywith whatyou did there." "Mm-hmm." "Yeah." "Thanks a million, Bones." "Don't get mad." "I'm just saying that..." "I just like it betterwhen we catch 'em and they go tojail." "Yeah, well, sometimes it can get messy, Bones." "But the point is it gets done." "This one started out in a pit of mud and ended in a pit of mud." "That's very damn poetic ofyou." "Oh, hey, guys." "I didn't know you'd be here." "What doyou think, Bones?" "He's lying." "You want to sit down?" "Not really." " Lying again." " Come on." "Sit down." "Okay." " April dump you?" " How do you know that?" "He's got the "dumpee" look on his face." "I'm a trained psychologist." "I mean, I saw this coming." "It's not like the signs eluded me." "So I prepared myself mentally for it." "Hey, Sweets." " Bones and I, we're going bowling tonight." " Yes." "Yes, bowling." "You know what?" "You want to come, to go bowling with us at the bowling rink?" " Alley." " Bowling alley." "The bowling alley." "You know, fish aren't actually sentient." "There's a reason people say "cold as a fish. "'" "Me, I'm a dog person." "I think that has meaning." " Don'tyou?" " Sure." "You thinkApril was pretty?" "Mmm, not at all." "You're lying, Dr. Brennan." " I appreciate the effort." "Thankyou." " Come on, Sweets." "What doyou saywe go bowling?" "I got him." "Come on." " Nah." "That's all right." " Come on." "What's that mean?"