This one opens with Brennan being interviewed about her book. HAHAHA I laugh how Brennan takes things so very literally. How does she handle balancing being an anthropologist, helping the FBI and writing books? She does one thing then another.
I like Brennan more than the goofy woman interviewing her, of course working with dead bodies isn’t pleasant, why would anyone think it is? Brennan isn’t going to have children. She lied! And then how to write a book, you need a writing instrument and an idea. Gotcha. Wow, the woman is really burned. I bet in real life that would stink, which makes me think of TJ talking about working with the bodies and how they don’t smell. Good to know, though wouldn’t it be funny if they started adding smells to them to freak out the actors.
Oh boy! Pickering is doing a security review. Hodgins is funny about that, and his eyes look really really blue in that scene! (Yes I know I keep mentioning this but sometimes they are more noticeable than other times) “Didn’t I see you on television this morning Dr. Brennan?” “How could I possibly know what you watched on television Miss Pickering?” HAHAHAHA I love people that answer exactly what they are asked, I like doing that to people because they will get the funniest faces.
But Booth asks if that was Brennan’s first television interview and she says yes, but it isn’t really, she was interviewed in The Woman at the Airport. Maybe that wasn’t a TV interview but it was being filmed.
So Angela talks about the “mysterious government chick.” I don’t think she is that mysterious. She’s from the State Department, surely they’ve been through those sorts of security checks before, because they work in the Jeffersonian and have been working with the FBI for 10 episodes already!
So they’d have security clearances. I do like when Angela says she has the best kind of secrets and calls Booth “bucko” As Sherry mentioned when we were watching it, this episode definitely highlights Booth and kids. He doesn’t like that Cullen tells him that Decker doesn’t need to know that his son has been kidnapped and his wife is dead. Brennan says Decker should be able to decide whether to testify or not, and Booth doesn’t say anything but you know he doesn’t like it just by the way he says he needs access to Decker. I find it interesting that in this scene Cullen came to Booth’s office. Also, when Cullen leaves and Brennan asks about Cullen not liking her, Booth says “I don’t know.” I think he does know, based on all the things Cullen has said before. I feel like Booth said this because he doesn’t want to upset Brennan about it when he’s more worried about finding Decker’s son.
I also like when Booth says he has to assume the kid is still alive, and Brennan actually doesn’t say something to make him feel worse about the boy. She sees that there is no reason to dread something that they have no proof has happened yet. Booth is supposed to be good at reading people but Brennan sees more in the video than he does. She sees the father is nervous and the boy is not, but Booth doesn’t seem to believe her, saying she’s using psychology. But when when they go back to the video the boy is telling the father to let go, proving Brennan was right.
As I told Sherry, I don’t get why it is weird that Angela has traveled a lot. I mean a lot of people when they are young and single, some people manage to travel a lot. Plus Angela is an artist; the desire to go and see things, to be inspired and learn is definitely a normal thing in an artist you would think. Angela using Pickering as a therapist is great!! But no I don’t think that woman has anything close to any experiences that Angela has had! But Sherry and I did discuss how Angela tries to marry Hodgins when she was TOLD she was married in this episode. What is up with that??
The scene where Booth goes to visit the company that is being investigated by the government, Sherry and I had a conversation about the actor in charge of KBC Systems, he was in Gilmore Girls and was pretty nasty, and he’s nasty in this one too! Then the guy tries to bond with Booth by saying he was in the military and Booth is also one so they must think alike. I don’t really think that works with Booth. Booth calls Brennan out for being snippy with him, yay! I like it when they tell Brennan when she’s doing things that are not acceptable.
That Pickering really has no manners. They are working, doing something important and she just walks up and asks to talk to Zack. I love Brennan telling her that she interrupted so that should tell her something. HAHA Brennan wants Pickering to interview Hodgins but he demands a lawyer, then Zack asks if he can and Brennan says they all will, hinting that Pickering is really annoying all of them. But of course this leads to a great Hodgins scene later because Pickering doesn’t need to talk to Hodgins, even though early in the episode she hinted she would!
Hodgins says “No one from the State Department has interviewed me in two years.” And Pickering says “No one from the State Department has ever interviewed you,” which is really funny. I wonder who Hodgins DID talk to if she claims he didn’t talk to State Department? I don’t think he is just making up talking to someone do you? Or is he being his paranoid self, knowing he talked to someone and deciding they were State Department no matter where they told him they were actually from? HAHAHA I love TJ’s faces in the scene where he talks about his “toe chewing moron cousin” he looks amused and like he’s about to laugh. Then he’s insulted and his eyes get really huge. Cracks me up every time!! Then the lab assistant or whoever that is walks by and says “Excuse me” and Hodgins says he’s dangerous. Yes, I’m sure you are… we are all scared!
Pickering really hasn’t studied up on Zack it seems, she thinks she needs his full attention. I like that Zack actually stands up to her a bit, telling her that she doesn’t really need his full attention but he’ll give it to her anyway. Then he walks over and stares at her. GO ZACK. “What do you think I’ll do, build a race of criminal robots that’ll destroy the earth?” And when asked if he has those sorts of fantasies he says Very often. Well I wish I were smart enough to build a race of criminal robots! Zack is definitely telling the truth when he says he’d ask Dr. Brennan or Angela first. Pickering is writing that down. HAHAHA Why? Doesn’t she get that he really doesn’t do things like that on his own? Which one of many reasons why I feel they really failed when they made him the Gormogon apprentice. He mostly only asks Hodgins about women.
But Zack, Hodgins doesn't want to talk to you about that! You have to find someone more...earthy!! The Assistant US Attorney is weird. Booth was hoping he was gay or had one ear. HAHAHA Have to admit the response about the one ear thing being unique to Booth makes me laugh. Even though I really don’t like this guy, and he lost his big witness! And I agree, that company is pretty nasty, to send soldiers into battle knowing the armor is not great, which of course was taken straight from some of the news of the time about some of the armor used in Iraq/Afghanistan not being up to the job.
Hey, Booth actually engages Zack in a conversation, in a way, trying to figure out what Decker would do, and Zack has an IQ higher than 163. Sheesh!!!
Decker has taken the KBC guy and is holding a gun to his head. Decker says they can shoot him after the guy makes the call to free his son. He isn’t thinking so straight because the kid already lost his mother; he really doesn’t want him to lose both parents does he?
Pickering doesn’t believe Dr. Goodman can just talk to a woman? Seriously? Pickering is more of out of touch weirdo than any of the squints!
Booth watches Decker and understands him wanting to save his son, I'm sure Booth is thinking he'd do exactly what Decker is doing if it were his own son. Donovan and Decker have the code word Paladin. It’s a good thing Booth thought to ask that!
Hodgins thinks he’s funny but Brennan doesn’t when he mentions weeping love is found worldwide.
Eww they sent Booth a finger. So, so, GROSS!! Horrible evil people! Get them Booth! Booth sees a terrified boy with his finger cut off. And then they switch to a scene of him talking to Parker. Nice touch.I absolutely love the scene where Pickering asks Brennan about Juan Guzman and she calls someone and it shuts Pickering down completely. FUNNY!! Brennan's eyes getting bigger and then just silently picking up the phone.
Especially since she has sort of an attitude when she is handed the phone until she finds out who is on the other end. They found where Donovan is and now Booth is the hero to go in and save him! BOOTH TO THE RESCUE. Booth has bullet proof vests but he doesn’t wear a helmet. I guess they can’t cover up the head of the star of the show but he really should have one and he should know better! Then this scene makes you wonder, where did the FBI get THEIR body bullet proof vests and helmets? Apparently not from KBC Systems, or at least I hope not. The scene with Booth finding Donovan and trying to calm him and finally telling him the word “Paladin” made Sherry and me both cry a bit. That kid is really, really scared, and it is heartbreaking.
Booth tells Brennan every time she catches a murderer she saves another victim, which I guess in some cases is true, and since these guys were mercenaries it was definitely true, but it assumes that all murderers will kill again, and that isn’t always the case. Still, it’s a nice ending, and a really great episode. Your turn Sherry!!
(And on a self-serving but hopefully amusing side note, I used some of Angela's backstory from this episode in a piece of Bones fan fiction. Because I think "the best kind" and some of the other stuff Angela reveals in this episode says so much about her as a character. It's all very good stuff.)