All language subtitles for Bones.S03E12.2007.Disney+.WEB-DL.1080p.H264.DDP-HDCTV_track16_[eng]

What do you know
about the Cayman Islands?
Great diving.

Lots of sea turtles.
Why? Are you going?

My accountant wants me
to set up a tax shelter there.

Tax shelter?
Exactly how loaded are you?

That is an offensive way
to phrase the question.
But... quite loaded.

I'm getting
a seven-figure advance
for my next book.

[ Exhales ] Seven figures. Wow.

With-Without the decimal point?

The publishers make
considerably more.

What's the first
of those seven figures?
Prime number.

What do you do with your money?
I use it for food and rent.

- [ People Chattering ]
- [ Siren Blaring ]

[ Booth ]
Hey, what do we got here?

You Agent Booth?
Special Agent Booth.
How ya doing?

Sheriff Delpy.
This here is my partner--

I can introduce myself.
Dr. Temperance Brennan.

[ Booth ] Somebody ran the car
off the road?

Gravel makes it impossible
to get any traceable tire marks.

[ Sniffing ]

The victim was
doused with gasoline
and then set on fire.

Farmer three miles away
saw the smoke. Called it in.

Female.
Probably in her early 20s.

Preauricular sulcus
on the iliac.

She's given birth.

Ran off the side of the road,
set on fire--

- Somebody wanted her dead.
- That's why I need your help.

I only got six deputies
covering 400 square miles.

I'm stretched thinner
than plastic wrap.

Compound fractures
to the right tibia and fibula.

Crushed manubrium.
Massive skull trauma.

I'm not certain yet
whether she died...
[ Baby Cries ]

- in the accident or the fire.
- Shh.

- You hear that?
- [ Crying Continues ]

Everybody keep quiet.
Stop working.

Do you hear that?
Sounds like a cat.

- [ Crying Continues ]
- It's a baby.

[ Crying ]

- Holy crap.
- Get a ladder down here now!

[ Man ] All right, let's move!

[ Cooing ] There's not even
a scratch on the boy.

It's a miracle. Well, hardly.

Car seats are specifically
engineered to protect
the child from--

From what? Flying out
of the back of the car
and landing in a tree?

Look at him. He looks a little
fussy. Why don't you pick him
up and give him a cuddle?

Just because I have breasts
doesn't mean I have magical
powers over infants.

- You're the one with the son.
- All right, fine.
I'll take him.

Here you go. You have fun
with the diaper bag.
You look good.

Come on, little man. [ Groans ]
Hi.

Why don't you say hi
to your grumpy old Auntie Bones?

No, I'm not grumpy.

[ Cooing ] You know, the--
the vinyl seat melted...

and fused to the body,
so we need that brought
back to the Jeffersonian.

And the driver's door
for particulate evidence. Right.

[ Sniffs ]
Kid smells a little ripe.

Might want to take care of that.

Yeah. [ Exhales ]

Bones, I'm gonna
have to change him.
Just hold on to him.

Wh-Why-- Here you go.
Here you go.

[ Groans ] Got him? Okay.
All right, here you go.

We'll work together on this one.

Changing Diapers 101, Bones.
Here we go, little big man.

Okay, watch your-- Yeah.
Here. We'll put you
down right here.

Look at that. All right.

- Give me a diaper there, Bones.
- All right. Here you go.

Thanks. Baby powder.

No. You know, Booth,
I have better things
to do with my time.

- [ Baby Whimpers ]
- There's no powder.

No powder? Yeah. Hey.

Wait a minute.

- Where'd that come from?
- 'Cause there's a rip
in the lining of the bag.

Seems like someone
was trying to hide it.

I'll get an evidence bag,
and I'll ask E.M.T. if they
have any baby powder.

Just watch him. Wait. Wait.
Booth, there's a baby.

I don't feel comf--

[ Cooing ]

- Coochie-coo. Oh, no, no.
- [ Cries ]

No need to fuss.
Obviously something's
upsetting you.

Children have toys.
You must have some.

Let me see.

No. Elephants are not purple.
This is wrong.

Hey, look at that.
He flipped over.

Bones, that's because
you gotta watch him.
Geez. Okay. Whoa.

All right. Okay, look,
little big man, if you're
gonna be on my jacket,

we gotta get you
out of that dirty diaper. Ooh.

Whoa. Okay, where's the key?
I put it on your jacket.

Next to the baby? Yeah.

Are you crazy?
Do you know that babies
put everything in their mouth?

He could swallow the key.
It's so dangerous.

All right. Look--
Okay. Shh. Shh. Shh, shh, shh.

Oh, look. Okay, look.
Key, Bones. Look for the key.

It's not here. Oh, no.
He must have...

swallowed it. Swallowed it.

Okay. Here you go.
Get used to him.

What do you mean?
That key was evidence.

You know how
the chain of custody works.

- That kid stays with us
until we get the key back.
- [ Trickling ]

- Oh! Ha.
- Ooh.

Whoo-hoo. That's a stream.

I've never seen
anything so gorgeous
on this table before.

- [ Saroyan ] Or so alive.
- Why is Dr. Brennan
the official custodian?

[ Angela ] She's registered
as a foster parent.

Russ asked her to do it
after he began his prison term.

Russ wants to make sure
his stepdaughters...

are taken care of
if anything happens to Amy.

Prodigious saliva production.

Okay, now we can determine
if the little guy
really did swallow a key,

or if he has been
falsely accused. [ Beeping ]

[ Saroyan ] Well, unless he's
already had a hip replacement,
[ Laughs ]

sounds like there's a key
in there.

He liked it. Do it again.

[ Beeping ] [ Laughing ]

- What are you doing?
- We were just--

We verified that the baby
did indeed swallow the key.

Then you should x-ray him
to get a clear view of it.

He's not a plaything.
And you're supposed to be
examining the victim.

We thought it would be bad form
to examine the remains
in front of the baby.

You know, creepy
formative memory.

Then would you mind taking
him for a little while
so that we can work?

I'd love to.

[ Cooing ] [ Hodgins Laughs ]

Get used to it. I want, like,
a million of these.

- Cool.
- [ Laughs ]

What do you think she meant
by "a million"? Two?

Agent Booth.

Yeah? Got a hit
on your burned car.

It was registered to a dead guy.

Dead woman driving
a dead man's car.

Plates expired five years ago.

Dead guy's family said they
sold the car for scrap...

at a junkyard in
Seneca Rocks, West Virginia.

Let me guess. Junkyard guy
sells off the old heaps...

to people who want
to get off the grid. He used to.

Operation got
shut down two years ago.
No one's seen him since.

Let me know if Forensics finds
anything to help Bones
I.D. the remains.

[ Clears Throat ]
Is it true that Dr. Brennan's
taking care of the baby?

- Because that's something
I'd pay to see.
- Good-bye, Charlie.

The victim exhibits enlarged
hypertrophic lesions...

at multiple muscle attachments.

The result
of strenuous activity,
most likely occupational.

Ligamenta flava shows evidence
of whiplash.

All the perimortem injuries
are consistent with
vehicular trauma.

She was dead prior
to immolation.

Zack, grind some bones
so Hodgins can perform
an isotope analysis.

We might be able to figure out
where she lived.

Junior made us a little present.

- The key. Finally.
- Not yet. This is just
the usual present.

But with one major difference.

I assume pink isn't a normal
color for this type of thing.

- Does yours ever look pink?
- No, but I'm not an infant.

Where's the baby?
Asleep in your office.

I was gonna start the facial
reconstruction, so--

- He's my charge.
I'll sit with him.
- Let me run some tests.

See what I can find. Actually--

One time when I was
visiting my cousins
we ate a lot of beets.

And the next day--
Zack, really-- too much sharing.

You know, you look
very mom-like with
that baby bottle.

I have responsibilities
under state law
as a foster parent.

I already bought him toys
and clothes--

Oh, so you bought him
some clothes.

Well, I sent an intern
who apparently loves bears,

which in reality would
devour a small child.

I tested the ground bone
for strontium.

Strontium is an element
found in most rocks.

Human beings absorb it
through the consumption
of local vegetation and water.

Over time, the isotope collects
in the bones, meaning--

You can use it to figure out
where someone's from.

That is right, people.
I am a constant surprise.

- [ Baby Crying On Intercom ]
- I don't understand.

He's been fed. He's changed.

- I powdered him,
and now he's just complaining.
- He's acting like a real baby.

[ Hodgins ] The victim was
from northern West Virginia.

- Tucker County, to be precise.
- Are you sure she's
from Tucker County?

The crash was in Pendleton.
Very sure.

Particulate matter
collected from the salvage area
of the car contained guano...

- from a Corynorhinus
townsendii virginianis.
- [ Crying Continues ]

So we know where to look.

- [ Crying Continues ]
- Are you gonna get him?

-I figured you'd get him.
-Don't you have a responsibility
under state law?

- But you're the baby daddy.
- Baby daddy?

- You have prior experience
with preverbal infancy.
- You can be the daddy mommy.

Okay, you two better
get your act together,
or I'm suing for custody.

This is my rendering
of the victim.

There are numerous
genetic similarities.

Cam's running D.N.A. tests
to be sure,

but I'm comfortable
with the assessment that
this was the child's mother.

He misses his mother. He's sad.

We need to go to Tucker County.

[ Booth ] Last coal mine
closed about eight years ago.
This place is a ghost town.

The local economy is devastated.

That could be why our victim was
driving a junker.

She couldn't afford
registration, insurance--

You know, I don't want to
sound insensitive here, but
I'm telling you, real estate--

It's gotta be a steal.

I mean, you could build
yourself a beautiful
house on the river.

I could come out and fish.

You could put in
one of those media rooms.

I saw a 103-inch flat-screen TV
the other day--

I don't need
another residence, Booth.

Just, you know,

trying to give you
a little financial
advice, that's all.

[ Brennan ]
He seems so peaceful.

He has no idea
that he's all alone.
Maybe that wasn't his mom.

Maybe there's a dad.
No one filed a report, Booth.
No one's worried about him.

Yeah, well, you are.

There's someone.

- You people
are from the government?
- Yes, sir. With the F.B.I.

Uh, training them young, I see.

[ Chuckles ]
If you could just help us--
Right.

Just like the government
helped us--

when the bridge washed out,
when they closed the school.

Well, business and industry
have left the area.

The local tax base
is nonexistent.

The government can't be
expected to provide services...

without the fiscal
means to do so.

What's she saying?
Are you from France
or somewhere?

Economies live and die
just like any organism.

When they expire,
the logical thing to do
is to move.

This land is part of me.
I've lived here all my life.

My father before me.
His father!

Paul, who are you
hollering at now?
They're from the government.

- Oh, my God.
- [ Fussing ]

- You have no right!
No right at all!
- Hey, hey. Hey, hey, Hey.

Taking people's children away?
You should be ashamed.

That girl does the best she can
to provide for Andy.

Andy? Do you know this baby?

Yeah. Folks up the street--

Carol and Jimmy Grant--
they take care of him
when his mama works.

- Is that his mother?
- Looks like her.

But you should check
with the Grants.

What's going on?

Something happen?

Yeah, that's Meg.

Meg Taylor. We all went to
high school together--

Me and Jimmy and Meg,
and Meg's husband, Lou.

Back when we had a high school.

Meg's husband-- he still live
around here?

I, uh, haven't seen him lately.

Not that I'd want to.
He's in and out of jail.

Does anything for a drink.

Left Meg before Andy was born.

I'm not sure he's even
laid eyes on Andy
more than twice.

[ Jimmy ] Meg worked herself
to the bone for this boy.

We couldn't have one
of our own, so we were
real happy to help Meg out.

Meg would have to
pry her away from him
at the end of the day.

- Where did she work?
- Uh, Fallbrook Rubber.
They recycle tires.

They turn 'em into
ground coverings, you know,
for playgrounds and such.

It's one of the only places left
around here to work.

And how about the two of you?

You're both currently what?
Unemployed? No, I--

I work part-time looking
after some of the buildings
they shut down.

Jimmy used to teach high school,

and I did some
project management,
mostly for construction.

But now, uh, we do
what we can.

[ Jimmy ] This town used
to be something.

I mean, we were
on the scenic route.

You know, people
would come to visit.
It wasn't all coal.

What'll happen to Andy?
'Cause we can watch him.

He's gonna have to stay
with us for now.

Can you tell me where Meg lived?

[ Brennan ]
It looks like everything's
closed down around here.

Yeah. Probably lost
all its customers.

With no bridge, the highway
routes all the traffic
away from the town.

[ Cell Phone Rings ]

Brennan. [ Saroyan ]
Got the scoop on the poop.

It was pharmaceutical dye
used to color
the Phenobarbital...

that showed up
in his tox screen.

- [ Beeps ]
- [ Beeps ]

Andy had Phenobarbital
in his system?
Oh, his name's Andy?

Adorable.
I had a dog named Andy.
That came out wrong.

Why does he have Phenobarbital
in his system?

It's often prescribed
for seizures.

Perhaps the infant is epileptic.

Hey. Don't say that.
Andy's gonna be just fine.

Well, he was still
breast-feeding,

so there's a slight chance
he ingested the drug that way,

but the depth of color
makes it unlikely.

We're on our way to check out
his mother's home.

I'll see if I can find
the prescription bottle.
[ Beeps ]

Okay. No, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no.

What? No, no, no, no. Look.

- Front door is open.
You stay here.
- But--

Bones, there is a baby involved.
You hear gunfire, anything
like that, drive away.

I'm not leaving you, Booth.
Yes, you will,

because this is about
the baby, not me.

Promise me.

I promise.

[ Andy Cooing ]

[ Clattering ]

Ho! Easy.

Both hands to the ceiling.
Nice and easy.

Right there. Whoa! Yeah!

Easy! God!

You know, I asked you
very nicely.

We will find out what
happened to your mother.

I promise. [ Whimpers ]

You know, Booth is
an excellent investigator.

And I don't like to boast,
but I am the best in my field.

What do you want?

Uh, How--

How about some visual
and auditory stimulation?

Okay, let's see. Um--

I told you, I'm Meg's husband.
I live here.

If you live here, Lou,
then why did you break
the front lock?

I didn't do it.
Somebody else broke in.

When I saw it,
I thought I'd come in
and check on Meg.

You live here,
or you came by to check on Meg?
Which one is it?

[ Exhales ] All right, now you
got me all confused.

Yeah, I bet.

Look, Meg bails me out
sometimes-- if she can.

When I saw she wasn't here,
I just figured I'd,
you know, help myself.

How often do you steal
from your wife?
It's not stealing.

She likes to help me.

Yeah. Meg's dead.
She was killed.

How? Well, you seem shocked.

Well, of course I am.

Where were you last night?

Last night? [ Snorts ]

[ Exhales ] I don't remember.

[ Crying ]

What do we have?

Phalanges!

Phalanges, phalanges, phalanges.

Dancing phalanges.

Dancing phalanges. [ Laughing ]

[ Laughing ] Yeah.

Booth thinks that bones
are dry and boring, but--

Show me your phalanges.

Hey, Bones. Her husband.

Real genius.
Doesn't even remember
where he was last night.

We've got your son in here.
His mother's dead.

- And now you're the only--
- Oh, no, no, no.

See, I never wanted that kid.

She did it because
she thought it would
straighten me out.

But I told her
I couldn't handle a kid
because I'm a free spirit.

What you are is a drunk, Lou.

All right, Dispatch,
I need a forensics team
and a car...

for a burglary suspect
and a possible murderer.

Whoa! I didn't kill her.

Why would I? I--

Who else would feed me?

[ Angela ]
I've determined an approximate
size and shape for the key.

Did you reference it
against currently
registered key patents?

Yeah. The closest match
is an old design...

used for safe-deposit
boxes in banks.

I'm looking into banks
near Huntsville
that still use them.

Most safe-deposit keys
are numerically coded.

Well, we couldn't get
a clear enough picture...

without exposing Andy
to too much radiation.

Okay.

How many exactly?

- Excuse me?
- Kids. 'Cause a million
seems a little impractical.

I don't know.

I kind of have
a thing for chaos.

I guess I'll stop
when the Feds need
to airlift me in supplies.

[ Laughs ] You don't by chance
live in a shoe do you?

- You don't want kids?
- Mmm.

Screaming, crying, vomit--
other bodily fluids.

It's like a day around here.

Not worth giving up
this body for that.

Mmm.

Whoa, whoa.
Let's see what you got there.

Hey, Bones. Sweep's finished.
It's all yours. Come on.

The Phenobarbital
was prescribed to Andy...

at a clinic over 50 miles away.

Yeah. That's probably
the closest medical care
they've got.

It's an extremely harsh drug
to give to a child.

It's quite sweet--
These pictures.

She really loved him.
Check this out.

Somebody had
a doctor's appointment
in D.C. yesterday.

Maybe that's where
they were headed.

Okay. We'll need
this prescription
and Andy's medical records.

Okay. I'll have them
sent to the Jeffersonian
'cause that's what we do.

[ Ringing ] Brennan.

I've made some discoveries
regarding our victim.
Is this a good time?

- No, no, no, no, no, no.
- Okay.

- [ Beeps ]
- Zack?

Hello?

[ Ringing ] Dr. Addy.

- Uh, it's Dr. Brennan.
- Oh, is this a better time?

- No, no, no.
- Then why'd you call back?

- I wasn't speaking
with you, Zack.
- I believe you are.

I was saying no to Andy.
He was grabbing my necklace.

Here you go. You were saying?

Our victim had healed
compression fractures...

in her L1 and L2 vertebrae.

- From a traumatic injury?
- No. Malnourishment.

She also has
some minor deformities,

including a slight
bowing of the legs...

and bony outgrowths
at a number of
muscle attachments.

Do you know if Cam
found any painkillers
in Andy's tox screen?

- No. Just the Phenobarbital.
- [ Cooing ]

First the key, now jewelry.
What's next?

- You gonna let him play
with a bowling ball?
- I'm watching him.

Meg had a number
of bone conditions that
would've caused chronic pain,

but she wasn't taking
any pain medication.

Here. Probably because
she didn't want it
affecting her--

You know, her... supply.

You mean her breast milk?

You know, you can say
the word "breast," Booth.
Yeah, I know, Bones.

Well, didn't Rebecca
breast-feed Parker?

All right, you know--

I am not discussing
that with you.

Would "teat" make you
feel more comfortable?

- I'm not talking teats
with you!
- Why not?

Enough!

[ Exhales ]

So our victim wasn't
taking any painkillers? No.

But her occupational markers
in her lateral epicondyle
and lower discs...

suggest that her job
requires manual labor.

Her pain might have been
excruciating.

Probably had no choice.
I mean, jobs around here
are pretty scarce.

All right. What do you say
we go talk to her boss?

Wait. Were you breast-fed?
I was.

[ Stammers ]
Yesterday was her day off.

When she was late today,
I just--

God! I mean, who did it?
What happened?

We're not sure yet, Mr. Barnett.

How long have you been
the manager of this plant?
Three years now.

It's the only real
business left around here.

Since Meg's job involved
a lot of physical labor,

were you aware
of her spinal condition?
The pain, you mean?

Yeah, I saw.
I offered to put her
on disability.

She said she and the baby
couldn't get by on that.

She was tougher
than half the guys here.

Poor little bug.

I got five kids myself.
I can't imagine.

Any reason to think Meg
was in trouble?

No, I was her boss.
She didn't confide in me.

How about that husband of hers?

He was trash on a cracker
if I've ever seen it.

Yeah, they weren't even
living together anymore.

Doesn't mean he ain't jealous.
Maybe someone told him
about Shepard.

- Who's Shepard?
- Dave Shepard.

Some accountant from corporate
headquarters in D.C.

He was here for a week.
Left a few days ago.

Yeah. He was here to cut costs.
We've all heard that before.

[ Man ] Good-bye, jobs.
Was there anything
between Meg and Shepard?

The guy was kind of slimy.

You know, offering
to buy her sodas,
asking about her kid,

all the time looking at her--
You know.

- Breasts?
- [ Clattering ]

Meg return the attention?

He was from the city. Had money.

After her deadbeat of a husband,
you can't fault her...

for wanting a good meal.

The only guy Meg really
cared about is right there.

She would've done
anything for this kid.

[ Booth ] Just do a check
on all the employees.

And also give me
the contact information...

from this Dave Shepard
out of the D.C. area.

I'm telling you,
Lou Taylor didn't do it.
He was in jail.

They picked him up passed out
in another county.

Booth? Hold on.

Yeah, well, you know what?
If Lou didn't toss the place,
then somebody else did.

All right? So just keep checking
for prints.

I'm telling you, somebody else
is looking for that key.

Booth? Yeah?

Andy's making that face again.

I'm serious, Bones.
Next time, you're
changing the diaper.

All right. There are a series
of numbers on it.

These keys were coded
to indicate the specific bank.

So read me your numbers.
Thirty-six, 09,

- 20, 14.
- Okay. It's searching.

Got it.

It's from Green Hills Bank
in Petersburg, West Virginia.

- I'll send the directions
to your phone.
- Thanks, Angela.

No problem.
How's my little bruiser?

Well, he looks pleased
that a piece of metal...

is no longer passing
through his intestinal tract.
Yeah, no more metal.

No more metal.
His legs are bowed.

All babies' legs are bowed.
No. Not like this.

How could I have missed that?

Tell Zack to run
a "P" ratio test
on the victim's teeth.

He'll know what I mean.
Sure thing.

Take care of him, sweetie.
I will.

I've got the bank's address.
It's in Petersburg,
one town from Huntsville.

Great. I'll request a warrant.

That'll give us time
to go to Family Services
in Parsons, get you--

What? No. Not yet.
Bones, I know this is difficult,
but we both agreed...

that we keep Andy
to get the key.

Now that we have the key--
You can't leave him...

with Family Services
in the middle of nowhere.

Cam still needs to review
his medical records.

Well, I mean, Bones,
there are doctors there.

You have no idea what
that place will be like, Booth.

Med students, underfunded,
understaffed--

- Bones--
- His mother is dead,
and his father is a felon.

I've been
in his situation, Booth.

I'm not turning him over
until I'm satisfied
that he is somewhere safe...

where he'll get
the care he deserves.

Fine. He can stay with us.
For now.

Thank you.

Okay. I'll go lock the back up.

Okay.

[ Blowing ] [ Giggling ]

[ Laughing ]

Just let me know if
there's anything else you need.

[ Brennan ]
Do you like elephants? Huh?

The bank manager said
Meg was a new client.

Only got this box
a few days ago.

Ooh. Uh-oh.

Uh-oh is right.

Oh, Andy.

What kind of trouble
was Mama in?

There's a sticky residue
lining the trigger, and...

I see fragments
of a foreign object
inside the barrel.

We need to take this
back to the Jeffersonian.

Well, Meg Taylor
didn't own a firearm,
at least not legally.

We need to find out
where Mommy got the gun,
don't we?

Hey. Someone filed off
the serial numbers.

You think I didn't know that
before I handed it to you?

I mean, I am F.B.I.,
not just some guy who
changes your stinky diapers.

It's been fired recently.
I'm finding gunpowder residue.

Gunpowder's not gonna
get me the owner's name.

I need fingerprints, D.N.A.

Do you think there are
any public pools around here?

[ Jimmy ] It's a pretty
depressing job, you know,
keeping an eye on the ruins,

but I try to think positive,

like I'm keeping 'em safe
till they open up again.

Uh, chemicals are down here.

Thanks. Yeah. Whoa.

Can I hold him? Just for a bit?

Okay. Just for a little bit.

All right, Andy?

Hey. Did you know
of any medical conditions...

that Andy was being treated for?

Meg never liked
to share her problems.
She was pretty independent.

But I mean, Andy's always
seemed just fine.

- Is he sick?
- We're just checking.

- Must've been
a pretty nice pool.
- Yeah. Uh--

Coached the high school team
once back when I was teaching.

Perfect. Muriatic acid.

Bones, what are you doing?

Hey, I get it. Someone filed
the numbers off, didn't they?

How did you know that?

Well, she's using the acid
to react to the metal.

It restores
the original etchings.

I taught science. Really?

You must've been a good teacher.

- I got the numbers.
- Mr. Delancy--

You worked for Fallbrook Rubber
before you came to D.C.

Yeah. I got laid off
a couple of months ago.

Surprised that place
is still in business.

So you knew Meg Taylor?
Sure. Yeah.

Can't picture her
with a gun though.

She was sweet as they come.

[ Laughs ]
The gun was registered to you.

But I haven't seen it
in a couple of years.

I pawned it when things
first started getting tight.

It's illegal for pawn shops
to buy guns.

You seen Huntsville.

People do whatever it takes
to stay afloat.

It says here in your file that
you assaulted the plant manager
when he laid you off.

- Also took a swing
at Dave Shepard?
- That's right, yeah.

Look, that "sumbitch" drives up
from D.C. every few months.

And when he leaves,
five more of us
are out on our asses.

Sure I took a swing at him.
I'd do it again, too,
if I ever saw him.

Where's the pawn shop?

Corner of Elm and Wilson.

Went out of business though.

Too many people selling.

Not enough people buying.

This gun's covered
in a fine dust
of particulate matter.

It's gonna take a while to I.D.

The fragments inside
the gun's barrel are bone.
Really?

To get blowback like that,
somebody would have to
have been shot point-blank.

In the head. Brain tissue
on the fragments means
they're from a frontal bone.

Wow. Think maybe our victim
shot somebody?

If she did, then why
would she put the gun
in the safe-deposit box?

It's not logical.
Yeah, you're right.

Well, we'll soon know for sure.

- What do you mean?
- I identified the residue
that's on the gun's trigger.

It's burned skin. Finger must've
gotten caught and burned when
the shooter fired the gun.

Cam should be able
to get some D.N.A.

Hey, Bones. The pawn shop--
it closed last year.
No one has seen the owner.

I mean, this gun--
that could've been
floating around for months.

- ♪ [ Bland Pop ]
- Hey, little man! [ Laughs ]

- Yeah, Bones,
what's with the Muzak?
- I'm on hold.

There's an
anthropologically proven link
between poverty and violence.

- More people competing
for scarcer resources.
- Well, that's great, Bones.

The bottom line is, we're not
gonna know if the gun owner
is telling the truth.

[ Man ] Dr. Brennan? Uh--

- Yes, I'm still here.
- Oh, hey. Hey.

Well, then tell the congressman
I'd appreciate a call back.
Thank you.

Congressman?
Oh, what is Bones up to, huh?

Well, I'm just
putting in a few calls.

I've contributed
a great deal of money
to numerous campaigns.

- These politicians owe me.
- Bones, that's not how
it's supposed to work.

That is exactly
how it does work, Booth.

If the government
fixed that bridge
leading into Huntsville,

they'd be back
on the scenic route.

Okay, what about the lack
of fiscal resources
that you were talking about?

They found millions to build
a bridge to nowhere in Alaska.

- Do you need to burp?
- No.

- I was talking to Andy.
- I know you were talking
about Andy.

My man Andy. So what's up
with the little guy here?

How is his condition? Any news?

Cam's still looking
at his records, consulting
with some pediatricians.

Yeah, he's gonna be
just fine, isn't he?
He's a tiger.

Tiger, tiger, tiger, tiger.

Tiger, tiger, tiger, tiger.
Tiger, tiger, tiger, tiger.

Verbal development would be
heightened if you didn't
talk to him like a fool.

And what were you
just doing just then? What?

I wasn't doing anything.
You were going-- [ Babbles ]

What are you even talking about?
I never did that.

"Cute little baby."
That's what you sounded like.
Hey. Hello.

I have some info
about the skin Hodgins found
on the gun's trigger.

- Yeah?
- It was male.

Not Meg Taylor.

So Meg was either
an accomplice--

Or she witnessed the murder,
got her hands on the gun
then hid it.

[ Cell Phone Rings ] Whoa.

Excuse me. Booth.

- Yeah. Huntsville?
- Yeah!

Bones, we just found
our missing accountant.

He used his credit card
to check into a motel
near Huntsville.

Great. Thanks. Local police are
picking him up now.

Right here.

[ Chuckles ]
You're kidding me, right?

-This is not Dave Shepard.
You're not Dave Shepard.
-Tell me something I don't know.

- How did you end up
with his credit card?
- It was inside that bag.

I found it in a trash heap
near the old coal mine.

I thought my luck had changed.

- Was there blood on this bag
when you found it?
- I guess.

Hey, can I have the sweaters?
They're really soft.

I'll take the bag,
everything in it, back to D.C.
Cut this guy loose.

Cut me loose? Yeah.

I don't mind staying here.
You know, a couple
of nights maybe.

What do you say?
Couple of nights.

So this Dave Shepard guy
is an accountant?

That's usually not a profession
I associate with killers.

Booth thinks that our victim
may have seen Dave Shepard
shoot someone.

Since he's been
missing since her death,
he could've killed her too.

Yeah, well, tell Booth
I just found the guy.

Or parts of his skull anyway.

I ran the D.N.A. from the blood
on the duffel bag,

and the frontal bone fragments
from the gun through CODIS.

- Both his.
- So Shepard isn't our killer.
He's another victim.

He was shot in the head
by a male, with the gun
Meg Taylor was trying to hide.

- Hey, you wanted me?
- Yeah.

There was a flash drive
in Dave Shepard's duffel bag.

- It's crushed.
- That's where you come in.

We need to know if
Dave Shepard found something
that could've gotten him killed.

Okay. I'll get right on it.

[ Exhales ] Did you call
your pediatrician friend?

He's on his way. And you know
he's good, right?

Because we have to be certain.
Dr. Brennan, he's the chief
of Pediatrics...

at Children's
National Medical Center.

He's the best.

Hi, beautiful.
You coming to visit?

Yeah. I need some cotton swabs
and some bleach.

I'm cleaning dried blood off
that flash drive.

You do want kids, don't you?

What?

Kids. Small humans.

I'll admit, I only ever planned
on one or two, but--

If you want a million,
I want a million.

Really? Absolutely. I don't care
if you're mushy and shapeless.

Puffy from constant
hormonal fluctuations.

I'll still find you sexy.
Well, I'm not gonna look
like I'm--

It's okay. When you get wider,
there'll be more of you to love.

I think we should
start right now.
Why wait until we get married?

There's no telling how long
it's gonna take you
to get your divorce.

- Hodgins--
- [ Beeping ]

Your computer is-- It's beeping.

Oh.

[ Hodgins ] That's interesting.
What is it?

Particulates from the gun.

The dust was composed
of silica, sulfur compounds
and synthetic rubbers.

Sounds like tires.

The gun was used
at the tire recycling plant.

I'm not gonna get wider.

[ Booth ] Thanks.

- What exactly
are you looking for?
- We're not sure yet.

Anything that'll help us
figure out what happened
to Dave Shepard and Meg Taylor.

Okay, people, back to work!

You let them do their job,
they'll let us do ours.

Where you going? Bones!

Hey, pal. Here. Hold on to this.

Bones, where are you going? Hey!

Booth, look at this.

Turn off the machine.

If I were a dead body
and I needed to disappear--

This would be a pretty
thorough way to do it.

Hey, pal, how often
do you ship out a load
of this mulch?

We collect a week's worth
at a time, but we bag it up
every couple hours.

Dave disappeared four days ago.
He could still be here.

It's this lot right here.

Hey, Bones? Yeah?

This lot was collected
right after Dave's
disappearance.

Everything's washed, sanitized
and ready to be shipped.

- That means that all the
evidence has been washed away.
- Not necessarily.

Scoop up some of the mulch.

Put it in this water.

- Next bag.
- Aw, Bones, what exactly
are we doing here?

I'll explain in a minute.

Try the next bag. Next bag.

Next bag.

The rubber pieces float.
You see?

But bone--

Sinks.

We just found Dave.

Tell the manager
to shut this plant down now.
[ Cell Phone Rings ]

- Brennan.
- Brennan, it's me.
Turn on your video stream.

- Is Andy all right?
- The pediatrician
is examining him right now.

The baby is fine.

Take a look at this.

I recovered most of the memory
from that flash drive.

Dave Shepard's internal audit
showed a completely different
set of numbers...

than those reported
to corporate headquarters.

Somebody was doctoring
the profit reports.

[ Brennan ] Siphoning money
into a private account.

Dave figured it out
while he was in Huntsville.
That's what got him killed.

And if Meg knew about it,
then the killer would
want her dead too. Come on.

Hey, where's Barnett? [ Man ]
Chip left.

- Where'd he go?
- He said he had
an emergency at home.

[ Tires Screeching ]

- [ Siren Blaring ]
- Oh, damn!

[ Tires Screeching ]

[ Siren Continues ]

[ Grunting ] Come on!

Chip Barnett,
you're under arrest
for eluding a federal agent.

I'm sure we'll
be throwing in a few
murder charges as well.

You know your rights, yeah?
Yeah.

It's only a matter of time
before they close the plant.

You embezzled from the company.
A man does what he has to
for his family.

So that justifies killing
two innocent people?

Shepard was gonna turn me in.
So you shot him.

Meg witnessed it,
got a hold of the gun.
She wanted money to keep quiet.

Take her kid
to some doctor in D.C.

So you knew
where she was headed.
You followed her out of town...

so you could kill her
with no one around.

I didn't want to kill her.

I went to her trailer.
I looked for the gun first.

But you do what you have to--
There was a baby in that car.

You son of a bitch!

Hi. Hey.

One of the techs found this
in Meg's trailer.

- What is it?
- A letter that Meg wrote
to her friend, Carol Grant.

Hey. Andy has
a genetic condition.

- What is it?
- Vitamin "D"-resistant rickets.
Meg had a mild form.

Very few symptoms.
She probably didn't
even know she had it.

But males are prone
to more severe cases
than females,

so Andy would've exhibited
more extreme symptomatology.

Including the seizures.

The clinic probably prescribed
him the Phenobarbital without
searching for underlying causes.

Well, is Andy
gonna be all right?

Absolutely. Very treatable.

My friend can treat him
as an outpatient.

- Andy's gonna be fine.
- Thanks, Cam.

- Really.
- Mmm. Don't mention it.

Yeah! You're gonna be fine.

Looks like our little guy's
gonna be just fine.

The little guy.

Andy.

Andy's gonna be just fine.

You should read this.

[ Carol's Voice ] "Dear Carol.

"If anything happens to me,
take care of my Andy.

"I know you don't have much--

"none of us do--
but you have love,

and I know Andy would
be lucky to be part
of your family."

[ Cooing ]

[ Sniffles ]

[ Coos ] [ Laughs ]

[ Andy Laughing ]

[ Booth ] You know, I'm gonna
miss that little guy.

And so are you,
so don't deny it.

I'm not ashamed to say
that I've developed a certain...
affection for Andy.

It's a natural by-product
of caregiving.

Yeah. So--

What do you think? Huh?
Change your mind
about having kids?

- Booth.
- Okay. All right.

You got some time.

Not that much time.

Booth! Hey!

Oh! Now look what you did.

What I did?
You're the one who hit me.

Oh, what is all this stuff?
What--

It's information Carol gave me
from a structural engineer.

Ah. So you took
my financial advice,
didn't you? Hmm?

You're gonna build that home.

No. The congressman
couldn't help,

so I'm rebuilding the bridge
into Huntsville.

I've hired Carol Grant
as the project manager. Wow.

That is gonna cost a fortune.
To you it's a fortune.

But with my advance
and selling the movie rights--

Yeah, I get it.

You know, I thought you said
that towns lived and died
like organisms,

that sometimes we should
just let them go.

And sometimes all it takes
is one thing, like a bridge,
for a town to start recovering.

Back on the scenic route,
the gas stations could
reopen, restaurants--

Maybe a bed-and-breakfast
for people who wanted
to stay in the area.

Wow.

Listen to you. Good for you.

You know, it's, um--

It's a shame. What?

No kids. Who's gonna be
proud of you?

I don't do it for that.
Yeah, okay. I know. I know.

You know, with next year's book,
you should, uh--

You should get that second home
in the town you saved.

I mean, it only
makes sense, right?

Because every year,
the plasmas-- They go down.

They get cheaper and cheaper.
It happens all the time.

Forget it. What?

I'm just saying Andy's
gonna miss his Auntie Bones.
Gonna want to see you.

We could all go fishing.
Come back home.

Plop ourselves
in front of that big
103-inch plasma screen...

of heaven... and football.

And you can make
the five-layer dip!
Seven-layer dip.

Even better.
Seven layers. Perfect.

You can talk to Andy.
"Hello, Andy.

Little man.
Little baby, baby Andy"--

What's that mean?