Brennan's family has played a prominent role in Bones over the years, and it's about time we get more background for Booth and his personal life. His brother provided some insight into the abusive household Booth grew up in, but now we meet Hank, Booth's grandfather, who has a secret he's holding — a very emotional one that hopefully will come out to the FBI agent in upcoming episodes.
The murder of the week involves two people burned to ashes on a bed. The house is being sold by the owner, who recently lost his wife, and one of the victims turns out to be someone who was checking the house out to buy. Or maybe just to find a place to get a little something-something. At first the gang is given very little, just a pile of ashes and some bone fragments and a single foot. Yuck.
The real story is that Booth's grandfather Hank is staying with him for a little while, and he's a breath of fresh air. Booth is clearly very attached to him, and Hank calls him Shrimp and loves Brennan at first sight. He also teases Sweets about his youth, something that Booth does all the time. Trouble starts to come up, however, when Hank starts to exhibit some memory problems. He is talented at customer service when they go to a Wal-Mart type store, and likes big-bottomed girls. He thinks his grandson is stupid for not being with Brennan, and tells them both this. The fans clearly love him, because he's a B&B shipper from the get-go.
Booth and Brennan investigate the murder and find out that one of the victims was a young woman named Meg who recently lost a great deal of weight. Her sexual appetites reflected her former weight problem since she was a "feeder" — she liked to feed her partners food while they were together. Booth doesn't get all over this slight kink like he usually does with sexual issues, so maybe he's loosening up. They go to a club and bring Pops because he's been forgetting to take his heart meds. Uh-oh. The club is for "big-boned" individuals and the people who love them. Brennan is instantly accosted for being skinny, of course, but they get an identification for Meg and her probable sexual partner, Hugo. She stopped coming when she lost the weight, but Hugo was a big man.
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