"What I'm saying is, in this world there's the visceral and the ineffable." "Nobody's totally un-effable." "Ha!" "Virgins are." "I mean, you're like the total opposite ofun-effable." "Ineffable." "And it doesn't mean what you think." "It means that you can't describe it in words." " Describe what?" "Like sex?" " Ooh!" " You two have zero vocab skills." " You're bitter... 'cause you're the designated driver and we're not." "Dude!" "What's that even mean? "Degsinated. "" "What the hell is that?" "Male, mid-30s." "Attachment site suggests he was well-muscled... probably due to manual labor rather than weight training." "Okay." "What killed him?" "The sternal ribs are subluxated at both the spine... and the sternum." "Indicating that he was crushed?" "Not crushed." "Pinned." "Smothered." "Perhaps an uh, industrial accident?" "This the guy that Bones is checking out to replace Zack?" "Clark Edison, meet Special Agent Seeley Booth." "Hey, what's up?" "Bones." "That's funny." "That's what all my friends called me back in college." "Yeah, I like him." "You got a minute?" "One minute?" "Oh, are-areyou going to a crime scene?" "Doyou need me?" "I'll letyou know." " Did I get it right?" " Yes." " Construction worker, foundation collapse." " But I'm not impressing her?" "I'm still not completely certain what Dr. Brennan thinks of me." " Whyam I here?" " You used to like to come out into the field." " No car fires, no tanker trucks full of acid, no explosions." " You used to insist." " You were insistent." " Don't tell meyou brought me out here for a simple car accident." "Nowyou're so anxious to get back, I can barely getyou out ofyour lab coat." "Well, with Zack gone, I'm needed at theJeffersonian." "Well, that kid seemed pretty good with the "sublixiated sternicalum"... thing." " You used to correct me." " Why am I here, Booth?" "Hey, Foster, get a backboard." "We got one we gotta stabilize." " Whoa." " Mm-hmm." "So it's been, what..." " three months since Zack shipped off to I raq?" " Uh-huh." "How hard could it be to replace him?" " Male, Caucasian" " Yeah, I'm just saying" "I mean, you in the lab, me in the field-We are not working at our full symbiotic potential." "Late teens, early 20s, completely devoid offlesh or odor." "It just seems like maybeyou don't want to workwith me anymore." " I workwith you." " You know what I mean, Bones." " How did this skull get here?" " Ask our eyewitness." "Come on." " I can't" " Mymom's" " Come on." " Let's go, buddy." " I'm not high." "Neither am I. Why is he telling me that?" "Yeah, the car reeked of dope." "So, tell herwhat happened." "I was driving behind a dump truck, and that came flying offthe back." " You think the rest ofthe skeleton is still in the truck?" " No." " Why?" " Didn't come flying out." "It came flying off." " It" " It bounced." " Oh, bouncing skull." "Perhaps you thought that becauseyou're under the influence oftetrahydrocannabinol." " What?" " Weed." "I wasn't high." "I'm the designated driver!" " I-You "piss test" me ifyou want." " It's possible." " Yeah?" " Ifthe truckwere traveling at a certain rate of speed... a wind vortex or shear... could occur capable offlinging the skull like" " What?" " Give me a second, guys!" "What, Booth?" "Bones." " But whywould anyone throw a skull off an overpass?" "So your husband signed his name to the marriage license with an "X"?" " Yeah." " So you married a guy without knowing his name?" "It was Fiji." "Okay?" "I was on vacation." "I'm-I'm not being judgmental." "I'm just trying to ascertain the-the facts." "Um, did you consummate the marriage?" "Uh, full moon, tropics" "Yeah." "There was definite consummation activity." "We alreadylookedinto having the marriage annulled." "Annulment requires consent from both the husband and the wife." "Which is whywe need a private investigator... to find the "husband"... so we can get married." "Right." "I'm just gonna need any description thatyou can provide ofyour husband- details, dates, photographs, uh, who else was there." "Tall." "Yes." "Muscular." "Black." "That's all I've got." "You know what?" "I think his name had a "B" in it." "Actually, it could've been a "K."" "You know what?" "I could makeyou a sketch." "Well?" "There are scoring patterns here on the forehead, cheekbones, around the nose." " I meant Clark Edison." " Who's Clark Edison?" "The absolutely brilliant forensic anthropologist... who'd bite offhis own arm to beyour assistant." "I haven't decided yet." "Is that a problem?" " No." "I wantyou to be certain ofyour choice." " Thankyou." "It's just thatyou've turned down 17 applicants already." "It's a rarified discipline." "Aren't many more candidates to check out." "I'll cover the lab work until I find the right person." "This is good." "Mm-hmm." "Hey, the first timeyou've called me in weeks." " There's scoring on the skull." " Scoring?" " Yes, scrapes." " Yeah, I know what scoring means." "The scraping is uniform in spacing but not in depth, which suggests an ungual pattern." " What's an uncle pattern?" " No, ungual. "Guh. " "Guh. "" "Ungual." "How do I say this in a way that makes sense to Booth?" " Something chewed on the skull." " Oh, like a bear or a dog?" "Human, Booth." "Dr. Brennan is saying human." "In the vernacular, ourvictim's face was... chewed offby a cannibal." "Okay." "The ensuing accident was called in by a trucker who saw it in his rearview mirror." " The driver ofthe "reefermobile"" " Reefermobile?" "identifiedsaid truck as the one from which the skull rebounded... before said skull lodged in his windshield." "The truck dumped its contents at a municipal landfill near Salisbury." "We needa warrant to shut down the landfill and comb it forbodyparts." "You think a cannibal is making a habit... oftossing body parts off of overpasses into passing dump trucks?" "Well, we only got a head, so the rest has gotta be somewhere." "Okay." " What am I looking at?" " It's called an osteoma." "It's a type ofbone spur that grows from the skull down into the sinus cavity." "Clark found it when I gave him the X-rays to analyze." "An osteoma that size can cause headaches, infected sinuses, maybe worse." "Osteomas are every bit as distinctive as fingerprints or retinas." "We'll checkwith local ear, nose and throat surgeons." "See ifthe pain drove ourvictim to seek help." " Nice job." " Thankyou." "The F.B.I. forensics team just delivered, like, a million bone chips." " From the landfill?" " And Booth says there's more to come." " You are not gonna hire that one either." " I haven't made up my mind yet." "And when you don't hire him, it just prolongs this lame excuse..." " foryou not to go out into the field with Booth." " Whywould I do that?" "Because when Hodgins and I ran away from ourwedding... we leftyou and Booth standing at the altar." "And that iconic image totally freaked you out." " No, it didn't." " Sweetie, this is not one ofthose things... whereyou try to keep a secret and I ferret out the truth." "This is where I tell you something that's true soyou can catch up toyour own reality." "Ange, I have no idea whatyou're talking about." "Which actually proves my point." "I really loveyou to bits and pieces, sweetie." "I knowyou love me back." "We'll talk again when you catch up." "Well, most ofthese are animal remains." "Some are crockeryandplastic." " Oh, we got anything human?" " I'll have to go through it and see." " Well, I could do that, Dr. Brennan." " Yeah." "Clark could do that." " Mm-hmm." " There's too many." " This could take days, even with the two of us." " Aw, come on." " Is that true?" " Huh?" "Dude, you're kind of putting me in an awkward position there." "Well, Zackwould've told me." " Anotherglass ofwine?" " How hard can it be to replace one weirdo squint?" "I'd hire Clark, but it's not my call." "No, it is." "You've given Bones enough time." "Just hire the guy." "Usuallywhen you get all blustery, it's becauseyou think something's yourfault." "Yeah, well, you know, I did arrest herfatherfor murder." "She could be..." "having trouble with that." "Exposing a parent to the death penalty can have a chilling effect on the partnership, yeah." "Well, look, I mean, I asked Bones ifthat was a problem." "She said no." "Well, I gotta wonder if, deep down, anybody's that rational." "You're not reassuring me here, Camille." "Well, ifyou're looking for reassurance, find someone who's not such a good friend, Seeley." "Booth." "Yeah." "Okay, on myway." "We got an identity." "This is the skull in the windshield." "These are X-rays from an ear, nose and throat specialist on M Street." "Okay, we're sure this is Gavin Nichols?" "Well, the osteoma's a perfect match." "It's him." "Prodigyviolinist disappears and a month later, his skull ends up bouncing off a garbage truck?" "Well, obviouslywe are looking for someone who really, really hates classical music." "Look at this." "Final performance was at the Library ofCongress." "He met with well-wishers, arranged to meet... with his girlfriend for drinks at the Hay-Adams." " He never showed, and nobody ever saw him again." " And a violin worth $3 million." "A 22-year-old willowy kid walking around with three million bucks under his arm?" "I'm telling you, easy pickings." "A cannibalisticviolin thief who eats faces?" "Yeah, it's a stretch." "But, uh, see how this is?" "Us working together?" "Verysymbiotic." "You said that already." "What is it, the word of the day?" "I'd, uh, like you to be there... when I, uh, question the girlfriend." "Can't." "I found microscopic grit on the skull." "Microscopic grit?" "That's Hodgins's territory." " Yes, and Hodgins works for me." "So that makes it my territory." " Take Angela." "Let her do that thing where she looks at photographs and reads people's minds." "No, actually, what she does is read minute facial indi" "Joke, Dr. Brennan." "How did you meet Gavin Nichols, Miss Trattner?" "I'm a cellist with the National Symphony." "Gavin guested as first violinist threeyears ago." "Check out the photo ofthem kissing, huh?" "Mega tongue action." "How long did you know him this way?" "Within a couple ofweeks ofourmeeting." "He was barely shaving then." "What is she doing playing squeeze and squish with a 19-year-old?" " "Squeeze and squish"?" " I beg your pardon?" " With a 19-year-old." " Gavin pursued me." "His... tastes ran to olderwomen." "Miss Trattner, doyou think Gavin was killed for his violin?" "No." "No one does." "You can't sell it anywhere." "Andwe wouldknowbynow iftheywere trying to ransom it back." "Can you think of anyone who'd want him dead?" "Only everyviolinist in the world." " Why?" " No one had seen left-hand technique like Gavin's... since Franz Von Biber." " I mean, his little finger was insured for$10 million." " What?" "Great." "Thankyou, Miss Trattner." "Thankyou foryour cooperation." "You can leave now." " Wait a minute, Booth." " Uh, one- one moment." "Check out her face in the quartet photo." "Just one more, uh, question." "I'm sorry." "Uh" "What's goin' on here?" "It was impossible not to watch him when he played." "You don't look impressed." "You look sad." " Like she lost something." " Likeyou've lost him." "Because she knew he was gonna die." " Like there was someone else." " There was?" "There was someone else in his life." " Someone I need to know about." " Brilliant, Booth." " You are brilliant." "Okay, this time" " Shh!" " What?" " I'm sorry." "Nothing." "Just quietly, who was it, Amelia?" "Ask her." " Rona Sumner?" " Who's Rona Sumner?" "Wife of Leo Sumner..." "Deputy Director ofthe Secret Service." "The particles we found in the skull are pink syenite." "It's the Cadillac of granites." " How did it get on the skull?" " I don't know." "But pink syenite is relatively rare." " Well, how did it get there?" " I don't know." "At first, I thought it was a Brazilian stone called Sienite Balma." " But trace amounts of magnetite and this- this is crucial- chalcocite, led me to the Omineca tectonic belt... in British Columbia, Canada, and voilà." "There's no indication on the skull that he was struck." "So how did it get there?" "I don't know." "But not a lot of pink syenite quarried in British Columbia... has been shipped to D.C.- none at all in the last hundred years." "Perhaps the skull was dropped on a stone floor." "I don't know." "But I discovered half a dozen sources:" "a bridge, some garden walls on private estates and one entire bank building." " Send the details to Booth." " Yeah." "Hodgins, the reason that I'm not going out in the field with Booth... is that I haven't found a replacement forZack." "Well, there is no replacement forZack." "I mean, he is goodwith bones, excellent at math." "He's pretty brilliant at making contraptions." "And when our experiments blew up, it was easy to pin the blame on him." "My book- all that makes Zack irreplaceable." "Exactly." "Which is why I'm stuck in the lab." "Not... some other reason." "The only thing you can do is forget about replacing Zack... and find someone who can just- just help out around here." "Yes, I was intimately involved with Gavin Nichols." "And, Mr. Sumner, I have to ask, wereyou aware ofyourwife's infidelity?" "Whatyou reallywant to ask, Agent Booth, is ifl killed the boy for bedding mywife." "I have a far more interesting question." "Why didn'tyou come armed with the biggest, baddest lawyer in town?" "I'm more interested in the killing question." "I did not murder Rona's fiddle player." "Leo and I have no secrets from each other." "Whatyou'dlike forus to believe... is that because your husband knew about this dalliance... there's no motive forjealousy and murder." "Gavin wasn't my only" "I'll useyourword- dalliance." " And Mr. Sumner knew all about them?" " Like Rona said." "No secrets." "Would you like names..." "to see if Leo murdered them as well?" " That'd be peachy." " Just tell us about Gavin Nichols." " Every salacious detail?" " Hit the highlights, honey." "I get it." "That's thepartyou like, huh?" "The play-by-play." "I'm heavily involved in arts patronage." "After I put together the funding to get Gavin his violin, we slept together." "We met perhaps once ortwice a month afterthat- a total of 11 times." "When was the last time you saw him?" "The night he disappeared at the Library ofCongress." "Agent Booth meant sexually." "The night he disappeared at the Library ofCongress." "Nope." "Not buying it." "Sorry, I don't" "I don't feel them." "Don't feel them, see?" "Don't feel them." "What Agent Booth means is that unless you can prove... that Mr. Sumner knew about your affairwith Gavin Nichols... this couldall have been a story you cooked up afterkilling him." "We thought you might want proof." "Ah!" "Okay." "So the kid and the cougar are bumping the uglies." " He doesn't just enjoy hearing about his wife's sex life." " He gets off on watching." " Which explains why he didn't bring in a lawyer." "They didn't murder the kid." "Where's Bones?" "You arrested the deputy director ofthe Secret Service forvoyeurism?" " Yeah." "Bones in her office?" " That is awesome." "And really, really stupid." "You gotta love a self-destructive man with values." " Right." "Where's Bones?" " Right behind you." "Great!" "I got Charlie to check out all the places with that red rock." " Pink syenite." " Yeah." "There's only one place... that uses the pink rock in its foundation." "It's an old deserted bank on the Anacostia River." " Bingo, baby." " Why "Bingo, baby"?" " I checked into the ownership ofthe place." " Why "Bingo, baby"?" "Shell companies owning defective titles, blah, blah, blah." "I don't get the significance." " It's deserted, isolated." "It's a fortress." " Serial killer heaven." "Look, I wantyou to come with me." " I've got work to do here." " Uh, Dr. Brennan." "Ifthis building was used forsome sort ofritual cannibalistic killing... as indicated by a skull which has been gnawed upon... a trained anthropologist's eye could be crucial to the case." "Rationally speaking." "Bank's been closed foryears." "Doors always locked." "Never a light, nothin'." " No squatters?" " Made 'em sturdy back in the day." "Look at this place." "It is clean." "No dust, nothing." "D.C. Building Conservancy is fighting to keep the place a historical site." "Maybe ifyou told me whatyou were looking for, I could helpyou out." "Oh, you know, bloodstains, butcher instruments." "Anyplace where human remains would've come in contact with granite." " You're not gonna find nothing like that up here." " Up here?" "Up... here?" "Oldvault cut right into the foundation ofthe place." "Hermetically sealed, insect proof, constant humidity." " It's ideal." " Yeah, but we gotta get inside." "You want me to kick down the door?" "When I put your old man in jail, you said you understood." "Don't start again, Booth." "We'll be together as soon as I replace Zack." "Yeah." "How's that going, by the way?" " We're in." " Ah, they cracked it." "You got it?" " All right." "You got it?" " Mm-hmm." "A little bit more." "Okay." "Easy." "You know, maybe you're mad at me subconsciously." "What?" "I don't believe in that." "Ah, look, something has changed between us." "You could at least admit that so we could figure it out." "Yeah, I would,yes, ifl actually believed anything had changed." "Get down!" "Why are your eyes closed?" "I thought we were gonna get blown up." " It's just a transmitter." " Oh." "Now whoever owns this place knows we're here." "Come on." "I'm curious." "In an explosion, how would... shutting your eyes help?" "Huh?" "I" " It just" "It does, okay, Bones?" "It just does." "Now be careful." "We don't know what else is in here." "There's a phrase inAncient Greek burned into the back ofthe vault door." " Well, what's it say?" " I don't know." "It's in Ancient Greek." "Dead languages, Egyptian art..." "Pythagorean mathematics, Hebrew scriptures... gnosticism... kabalah, alchemy... druidism, astrology." "Angela can tell us for sure, but..." "I think these artifacts are museum quality." "Whoa." "Bingo, baby." "I found Gavin Nichols's violin." "Bones." "What, Booth?" "What did you find?" "I" " I don't know." "What is it?" "Silver?" "Not all these bones are silver." "I t's possible we just found more of Gavin Nichols." "That's Gavin's violin." "What else you got?" "This altaris made ofthe same pink syenite we found imbedded in Gavin Nichols's skull." " Where's the rest of him?" " Probably tossed into dump trucks from overpasses." "All of the bones found here show teeth marks." "Somebody kidnapped a fiddler and served him for dinner... in an old bankvault stuffed with museum pieces?" "I think this is high medieval." "Spanish, possiblyCalabrian in origin." "Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." "Twelfth-century Calabrian?" "You know what that means?" "The Order of Alcántara?" "You people have no idea ofthe reach ofthe Illuminati, doyou?" " No." " Mm-mmm." "Tellyou what else." "This old bank is an original vortex point... on the triangular grid designed by the infamous architect of D.C..." "Pierre-Charles L'Enfant." "Not to mention the way that the skeleton is displayed absolutely suggests" "Okay, okay, we get it." "This is the lair of a cannibalistic secret society." "Hey, you know what?" "You don't want my answers?" "Don't ask me the questions." "Someone is replacing the silver bones in this sculpture with human bones." "There's no way this manubrium and this sternum came from the same person." " We got a multiple murder?" " Is she pleased?" "Hell, you could goyourwhole career without catching something this juicy." " Who had access to the building?" " The building conservancy." "Run those people." "Look for priors." "Childhood cat skinning, all that." "I'd like permission to move the contents ofthis room to theJeffersonian." " It's a bankvault." " There's room in the basement." "I think this may be one ofthose "bring the mountain to Muhammad" situations." "You were married byJohn Kakala... whowas the headman ofa hamlet called "Nakavala" on the island of"Vatulolo"... during a feast in honor ofthe shark god Dakuwaka." " Uh, it doesn't sound wrong." " Can't this headman tell you who Angela married?" "He's dead." "Town was wiped out by a tsunami twoyears ago." "The island is deserted, and no one wants to talk... because the whole place is haunted and cursed." "Of course it is." "Now" "Well, doyou happen to remember any Australians?" "Okay." "Look, they have this local drink called kava... that is really" "Anyway, when it comes to memory" "No." "Not so much." "Which is probablywhy when I tried to sketch him..." "I only came up with this." "Handsome." "WhyAustralians?" "Well, on or around the date ofthe marriage license, the, uh- there was a tramp steamer out ofAdelaide." "The Innocent City may or may not have been docked in Vatulolo." "Let's, uh, track that steamer down." " It's gonna cost." " Not an issue." "Thanks." " You having second thoughts?" " You kidding?" "Hey, this is great." "Like we're on some epic adventure." "Adventure?" "These are the bones we found on the altar." "Can you confirm that any ofthese are Gavin Nichols's?" "To be 100% positive, we'd have to check D.N.A." "All right." "Let's get that going." " Bones, I mean, you see what's going on here, right?" " What are you talking about?" "You're-You're getting them all to helpyou now." "Booth, the vault is filled with priceless artifacts." "And probably materials stolen from othervictims." " It's gonna take months to sift through all that evidence." " No, this is enabling." "You're enabling somebody with a mental problem." " Zack." " No, you." "You, Bones." "You're the one with the mental problem." "Oh, it's Zack!" "It's Zack!" "Oh-ho-ho!" "What areyou doing here?" "Can I" " Can I move back into the place aboveyour garage?" "Areyou kidding?" "Of course." "Come here!" " You're banned?" " Welcome home, Zack." " Did you get wounded or something?" " No, theyjust sent me home." "When can you start work?" "Nice meetin' you, bub." "Well, ifyou didn't fill myjob, who's that guy?" "Nobody." "Man,you look like crap." "Well, Iraq's not a vacation." "I thinkyou lookvery rakish." "Areyou starving?" "Actually, what I'd like is to get into whatever it was you were talking about... before Dr. Brennan's mental problem." "It's hard to concentrate when you're all staring at me." "They're happyto seeyou." "The depth ofthe teeth scoring on this skull suggests that it was cooked." "Meaning the victim was dead when his face was eaten." "Which is good, I guess." " Given the alternative." " I'm seeing an interesting pattern in the scoring." " From the windshield?" " It appears so." "But ifyou kind of unfocus your eyes... andallowpatterns to arise from what looks like chaos- here, here, here." " I didn't notice that." " This scoring is different... from both the gnawing marks and the damage caused by crashing through the windshield." " What is that?" " I don't know." "Did you run it through the X-ray diffractrometer?" "And also X-ray microfluorescence." "Neither showed trace evidence of anything left in the bone bywhatever etched that groove." " Well, that's our answer then." " But the answerwas nothing." "So our, uh, cannibal has a diamond tooth?" "Well, not the entire tooth." "A diamond inset, left lateral incisor." "It left a distinct mark on the skull." "So ifsomeone in the building conservancy or cleaning crew has a diamond in his tooth... that's our guy." "You got him." "I'd like to be in on it when you interrogate him." " What?" " You would?" " Why areyou surprised?" " Wait, areyou serious?" "I've been trying to getyou out ofthe lab since Zack left." "Well, Zack's back, so here I am." " That simple?" " Why?" "Did Angela say something toyou?" "Nah." "Angela?" "Why?" "What?" "Well, I told you this isn't about psychology." "Fine, fine." "Hey, you know what I say, huh?" "Welcome home, Zack." "No, it's notjust because you have a diamond tooth." "You don't know whyyou're here,Jason?" "It seems like that part should be your responsibility." "Think about it." "You're a smart boy,Jason." "You went to private school." "Six of them." "Got kicked out of every one." "Yeah, for attacking people in their sleep." "I got counseling." "I'm cured." "So, you did your little community service... mopping floors for the historical-site people." "How the hell did you get in the vault?" " At the old bank?" " He just doesn't really strike me as the kind of guy... who would sit beside a vault all night listening to tumblers through his stethoscope." "He probably found the combination while hewas cleaning up somewhere." " Hmm." " Nobody can get in the vault." "It's whatyou call impregnable." "Not true." "This is the transmitter we found in thevault." "Normal guy comes across a treasure in a vault." "Starts-What?" "Sellin' it off?" "You went a whole different way." "Could you bite this, please?" " No." " Dr. Brennan was only being polite." "We have a warrant forthat too,Jason." "So, eitheryou bite, or I'll make you." "What do you need it for?" "The diamond in your incisor left a mark on the skull." "Yeah, the skull thatyou gnawed on." "It's not like chicken or pork, you know?" "People always say that." "It's more like beef." "The face is a little sweeter." "More tender." "The younger the person, the better." "Except for babies." "Babies taste kind oflike fish." " Have you been to bed yet?" " Iraq is from a different time zone." "I can't seem to sleep right now." "Fibula and tibia ofthe right leg are from the same person." "Left femur from a different person." "Three phalanges and one metacarpal, essentially an entire little finger... are from yet another person- probably the violinist." " How can you tell?" " Pressure indicators consistent with years of practice." "Manubrium and gladiolus originate from two additional separate people." "And this floating rib- an anatomically superfluous rib, by the way- is from yet another human being." " Ten bones from six separate victims." " Yes." "ObviouslyJason Harkness was collecting parts from different people to create" " What?" " I don't know." " There's potential for a lot ofvictims here." " But we caught him." "Yes!" "We did, Zack." "Dr. Brennan always says that catching the bad guy is only part ofit." "The rest is knowing absolutely everything about the evidence." "Why did they send you back from Iraq?" "I failed to assimilate." "Despite my accomplishments, I was detrimental to a military team approach." "You're very good for our team approach." "The armypsychiatrist told me that I should question... why the Jeffersonian is the only place I can fit in." "All due respect to the army psychiatrist... but that's a hell of a lot more than some people get." "Go home, Zackaroni." "Get some rest." "Do you, uh, recognize any ofthese men?" " How is this any better than Angela's sketch?" " That's him." "I mean, he- he fits the general silhouette." "You forgot to mention that he was a giant." "This may or may not be the crew of the Australian tramp steamer Innocent City." "It was scuttled six months afteryou were married." "His hands are like snow shovels." "The man thatyou're pointing to is known as Birimbau to his crewmates." "That's it." "His-His name is Birimbau." "Birimbau" " It's obviously a nickname." "It's a Brazilian flute." "Did he speak Portuguese by any chance?" "Yeah, he most definitely had an accent." "I mean, look-look at this man." "How hard can it be to find a guy like that?" "Probably see him from the space shuttle." "Did Birimbau die when his ship sank?" "Oh, that'd be great." "No." "No." "What I mean is we can have him declared dead." " He didn't die." " Too bad." "Last time I found him, he was signed on... to a Liberian oil tanker bound forTierra del Fuego." "Oh." "Okay." "That narrows it down." "He's a sailor, he's maybe Brazilian, and he's named after a flute." "You know what else narrows it down?" "He's a Titan- half man, half god." "I mean, I can see why- whyyou" " I mean, I totally" " I do." "I get it." " Hodgins, stop it." "Well, look, do I keep looking?" "Because ifyou just wait threeyears,you can declare him dead." "Do you want to wait three years?" "Do you?" "Definitely, absolutely not." " Me either." " Okay." "Keep searching, Mr. Doyley." " Zack!" "Zack!" " Well, what did he say?" " He said he needed to show us something immediately." " Show us what?" "I don't know." "He didn't say." "That's whywe're here." "Look out!" "Zack." "Zack?" "Zack!" "Hi." "Why areyou listening to my chest?" " Because I thought you were dead." " Why?" " You're lying on a stainless steel table for dead people." " I got tired." "New rules, okay?" "Sleeping is for couches and beds- stufflike that." "Oh, my God!" " What?" " I thoughtyou'd want to know." " What?" " You compared depth, apogee and dimension?" "Yes, three times." "And there's no way that it was a case of pre- and post-diamond inset?" "What?" "What?" "What?" "The newest bones, the phalanges and the skull... bear onlythe gnaw marks ofJason Harkness." "One bone, the femur, was gnawed upon byJason and a second person." "See the distinct second pattern?" "So Jason invited a guest over for dinner?" " Well, I don't know how to answer that." " No." "Jason was the one invited." " How doyou know?" " Well, the oldest bones were gnawed on by another person... with no diamond in his incisor." "Another person?" "NotJason." "There's someone else out there... probably someone older, who pulled Jason into this." "Good work, Zack." "See why he should never have left?" "Great." "Thanks." " Show them your badge again." " No." "They don't see whywe have to see Jason in the middle ofthe night." "The shift changes in two hours." "Can't tell." "They could make us wait till morning." "No." "You weren't upset because Zackwas gone." " Yes, I was." " Okay, yeah." "Butyou were more upset... over the fact that I didn't stop him from going in the first place." "I could've said to him, "Zack, Iraq is no place for a guylikeyou. "" "And he'd never have left." "You could've stopped him." "Why didn't you do that?" "Whatever Zack's deal is, okay, his weirdness, whateveryou want to call it" " I call it genius." " You know, he's a man." "He's a, um" " He's a strange man... but he's a man who wanted to serve a larger purpose." " This is some "alpha male" rite of passage?" " No." " You mean, go to war?" " Wrong." "No." "Zack needed to leave the nest, the same wayyou did... when you wanted to leave the lab and see the world for the first time." "And I helped you do that." "How could I stop Zack from doing the exact same thing in his own way?" "Agent Booth." " So we came in to wake him." "This is what we found." " Oh, my God." "We're going to full lockup." "Booth saysyou needme?" "I noticed thatJason Harkness arranged his suicide." "If it was a suicide, then someone provided him with the dagger." "His body is arranged in the same position as the silver skeleton." "So, Hodgins, you think that's a coincidence?" "So suddenlyyou think my insane conspiracy ravings are legitimate?" " Yes." " No!" "But obviously, there are other insane people out there... who have the same ravings, and we need your insight." "Mm-hmm." "All right." "All right." "Both the body and the silver skeleton... are in the attitude ofwhat the ancient Greeks called "pharmakos. "" "It means scapegoat or-or sacrifice." "So, what?" "Like he's being pulled into the sky against his will?" "You mean, aliens?" "One definite possibility, yes." "Also, the rapture." "Now, as I tried to tell you before... most secret societies have this figure deep in their origins." "For Freemasons, it's known as the Widow's Son." "Interesting." "Gavin Nichols lost his father when he was 12." "A widow's son." "All right, soJason Harkness killed himself to keep his secret society secret." "Orwas sacrificed." "Hey, all the signs point to it." "Strictly speaking, the evidence so far indicates only one other murderer." "This entire vault's filled with evidence." "Who knows where it'll take us?" "Deeperthanyou can imagine." "Probablyget us all killed." " Just so you know." " Thanks, man." "No, no, Hodgins." "Hodgins." "Really." "Thanks, man." "Yeah, man." "Be safe." "The Ancient Greek section translated the motto on the back ofthe vault door:" ""Will no one help the widow's son?"'" "Hodgins was right." "This killer's part ofsomething bigger." " Here's your coffee." " Gavin Nichols's violin was in there." "I bet there are belongings from other murdervictims too." " We have to catalog every item in that vault." " Hot coffee." "Afterwe do a visual and microscopic examination... of each human bone in the silver skeleton... we'll take samples and do an in-depth osteological breakdown." " We really have a lot to do." " Yeah, starting with coffee." "An isotope profile will allow us to narrow down possible geographical areas" "Hey!" "It's hot!" "You could've burned yourself, Bones." "Thankyou." "Listen, this whole serial killer- It's not gonna be our usual case." " Why?" " Why?" "Because it's big, and he's bad." " I don't see what difference that makes." " Becauseyou have to slow down." "Right?" "Take a breath." "You have to realize that this is not a sprint." "It's gonna be a marathon." ""Marathon," Bones, coming from the Greek, meaning really, really, really long run." "That's not how the word "marathon" originated." "Look, there's something else I gotta know, and it's important." " We solid?" " You and me?" " Yeah." " No." "Not justyou and me." "The squints too." "Zack is back for good." "Angela and Hodgins have their head back in the game." "Cam, she's locked in." " Why areyou asking me this?" " Because... you and me, we're the center." "And the center must hold." "Right." "So, are we gonna hold?" "Yeah." "We'll hold." "We're the center." "The center." "What's funny?" " I thoughtyou were gonna kiss my hand again." " I did not kiss your hand." "You put it over my coffee cup." " It felt likeyou kissed it." " No." " Felt like it." " No." "What's that mean?"