Bones is back, finally! Three weeks is far too long to miss our favorite evil-fighting team, but they are back with a vengeance. Also back is favorite intern Wendell Bray, and a reminder of Booth's recent brush with mental danger from a brain tumor. This episode also deals with the food industry and how they treat their livestock.
A bunch of Girl Scouts find a dead body in a river and the team is on the case. The victim is one of the workers at a local chicken factory, and he was in line to take over one day. The town nearby absolutely hates the factory because it smells horrible and negatively affects all of their business. It also causes health problems for the workers, and there are constant protesters outside unhappy with the way the chickens are being treated. Anyone with a weak stomach for animal cruelty will be moved instantly when they talk about cutting the baby chickens' beaks off and how the chickens barely can move an inch in the crowded meat farm.
Angela takes the animal cruelty very hard, as you would expect since she's a bleeding heart, and she gets obsessed with saving a piglet. It costs $1500 dollars but no one seems very interested in helping her out. Brennan especially takes the rational route that saving one pig hardly changes anything, and they have one of their first real fights as friends. Angela is also dealing with coming to the end of her celibacy, and she sorta-kinda-not-really propositions Hodgins. Before the fans can get excited, he turns her down (What? Why?!) and she seems a little down about that. After talking to Sweets he encourages her to break the celibacy because connecting to the pig could be a maternal thing. She ends up doing that with sweet Wendell, who has 40K in debt and still tries to give her all the money in his wallet to make her and the pig happy. They're actually adorable together, but you can hear the Angela/Hodgins fans screaming bloody murder everywhere.
The first suspect in the murder is one of the protesters who the security guard points out, and he admits to getting an anonymous video showing horrible things in the chicken house. It turns out he got it from the victim's wife, who didn't want to be a part of the company anymore and hoped it would be shut down. She got her wish, but lost her husband. A vocal bakery owner is another suspect, and he becomes a big one after we see a cigar clipper that can take off thumbs. It turns out that the victims body parts, fingers and toes, were found in chicken sandwiches not too long ago. Ew, ew, ew, ew...
Article comments
1 - NancyGail
Hodgins sleeping with Angela just to break her celibacy is pity sex, Neither wants that.
2 - EnoughWithAntiAgAlready!
Oh, come ON. Can we please knock off the animal rights-inspired plotlines in the series these days?? Makes me want to boycott buying the DVDs for sure!!
Inaccurate, poor science, on shows priding themselves on accuracy! For shame.
3 - Chelsea Doyle
at Nancy - That's a good point, I wish he would've explained that though. As it was it just seemed like a flat rejection and Angela was hurt, you could see it.
At Enough - It can be annoying when a show seems to have an agenda. It's not a hot issue for me so I didn't mind, but I can see where it would be frustrating.
4 - Amanda
When did this air? This isn't the one that was on in San Antonio on 11-12-09.
5 - Amanda
I meant, 11-9-09
6 - Chelsea Doyle
No, Amanda, this is the episode from last week. The one you saw on 11-9 is the dwarf episode, which is the most recent.