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BOY: Come on, boy! Let's go!

WOMAN: All of this property ends about right there.

WOMAN 2: Yeah.

Good job! Let's go throw the ball.

This would be such a great place to raise a family.

Oh, and the school district is fantastic.

I wish I could go to first grade again. (laughs)

I don't know, Peter. It looks like a swamp.

That's what those lots looked like, too. And now, voila!

And it's only a half an hour from work.

Come on, boy, get it!

I don't want to twist your arm,

but these lots are going fast.

We were hoping to find something to move into soon.

That's the beauty of Homegrove Estates.

The contractor assures me they can have your house

up and running within the year.

Hey, boy. We can get a dog.

You always wanted a puppy.

Come here, boy. A year? Really?

Come here.

And we can customize everything?

Everything.

This could be our own slice of heaven, Care-Bear.

No smog,

no crime...

Oh! Oh, my God!

Let's get out of here. Let's get out of here!

Wait! No! I have other available lots!

Okay, we have to get up.

I don't want to have to fire you

for being late.

I'll appeal and tell them why.

SAROYAN: Mm-mm, up, up...

(groans)

(groans) Not sure I told you...

my parents are coming to town.

No, you didn't.

That's good.

I mean, you haven't seen them in a while. Yeah.

They want to meet you.

Okay, uh, the way you said that sounds horrifying.

No, no, no.

It'll be fun. They're gonna love you.

We've been dating long enough

for me to know when you're lying.

It's just, they're a little... traditional,

old school, and they still think of me as their crazy son.

Okay, this is getting worse and worse.

No, no, no. Yes. You're saying that, to them,

I'm gonna be another one of your mistakes?

Why exactly?

Because I'm your non-Iranian, non-Muslim, black girlfriend?

This came out all wrong. (text alert sounds)

No, I think it came out exactly right.

I got a body in a swamp.

We can talk about this later.

(indistinct radio transmission)

(siren wails briefly)

Based on the vertical nature of the frontal bone as well

as the mental eminence of the mandible,

the victim appears to be female, in her mid-30s.

The prominent nature of the maxilla suggests Caucasian.

The organs show no sign

of decomposition despite the amount of predation

on the rest of the body.

HODGINS: Someone's getting marked tardy today.

I called you, and you never picked up your phone.

Hey, look, there's nothing I could do, okay?

The assistant director-- he just kept me at the office.

Is everything okay?

Yeah, yeah, just, you know,

reviewing some case files, that's all.

Case file? Your case files? Did you make a mistake?

No, not my mistakes, okay?

I was just reviewing some other reports

for some other agents, that's all.

Wow, sounds like you're teacher's pet.

Ha-ha! Okay, enough with the school references, okay?

What's up with swamp thing? Not sure.

Animals have eaten the hands and feet.

Normally, they'd eat the meaty parts first.

I have a question. So why is it that, um,

the animals didn't eat the meaty parts?

BRENNAN: We have no explanation. It's very frustrating.

Okay. Well, there any clothes or personal effects?

No. It appears to be a body dump.

In addition to predation,

there's extensive fracturing on the bone.

Beaten to death?

I don't have an explanation for the fracturing

at this point, but it doesn't appear to be blunt force.

So, do we at least have time of death?

HODGINS: Well, that's where it starts to really get weird.

Insect activity is all over the place.

We've got colonization and development of Piophilidae

in the skull and extremities.

That puts time of death between 72 and 96 hours.

So three or four days. What's so weird about that?

Because in the body cavity, there's

Calliphoridae larvae, which indicates

time of death in the last three hours.

Whoa! The body was found long before that. Exactly.

Which accounts for the Chrysomya rufifacies in the feet,

which puts time of death in the last 14 days.

Three hours, three days, two weeks, right? What is it?

Well, evidence says all three.

That's not possible.

So you have no idea when she was killed?

None at all. We're looking for clues

that can narrow it down.

There's something lodged

between the left maxillary lateral incisor and the canine.

I'm not sure how much I'm gonna find.

The swamp could have swallowed up a lot of stuff.

How long will it take you

to clean and reassemble the skull, Mr. Vaziri?

We need Angela to do the reconstruction

as soon as possible.

You're still picking tissue off the parietal.

Don't you want to finish that first?

Oh, it's all yours, Mr. Vaziri.

Is it me, or did it just get totally awkward in here?

It's probably the perplexing nature of the remains.

Uh, no. Actually, I think it was the "Mr. Vaziri."

What's going on here? A murder case.

So if we could focus on the task at hand...

The skull is all yours, Mister...

Arastoo.

Thank you.

Is something happening that I don't understand?

Yes.

This is very odd.

This tissue isn't from the victim.

It must have mixed in with hers during decomposition.

It could be evidence of the assailant.

Or a second victim.

I'll run DNA and a tox screen and see what I can find.

Oh, Mr. Vaziri, bring up the X rays of this area

and tell me what you see.

There appears to be a remodeled injury

to the right posterior superior iliac crest.

From a large-bore needle? Yes.

We can identify the victim without a reconstruction.

The victim had a bone marrow aspiration

approximately one year ago.

Then I'll call the National Bone Marrow Registry.

Whew! So, the victim's name is Madeline Papadelis.

She'd been off the grid for four months;

no credit card information, no cell phone information.

No missing persons report filed,

no immediate family. Do you have anything on her?

Angela's sending over more stuff.

Whoa! Wait a second. That more?

Yes, sir. SWEETS: This all about the victim?

No, all of that is from the assistant director.

It's different. He said no rush. If you could review 'em

by the end of the week, it should be fine. No rush?

There's over 50 cases here!

I'm in the middle of a murder investigation here.

This has nothing to do with me, sir.

Oh, please, you gotta be kidding me.

I'm just delivering what I was told.

Right, okay. So, the assistant director's having you review

other agents' files? That's-that's a big deal, Booth.

It won't be if the person who killed Madeline gets away.

They don't ask just anyone to do that. You know what?

They're probably short-staffed. They just want me

to do double duty. Uh, they could be

looking at you for a promotion. I tell you what.

Why don't you just help me with Madeline's case, all right?

You have noticed I'm up to my ears here in stuff.

Sure. Right, okay.

So this is everything that Angela

has uncovered so far about the case.

She divorced, so any contact with the ex-husband?

Haven't located him yet. Look at this. Hmm?

What is this, a tribute site to her kid?

Yeah, her kid had cystic fibrosis.

She was only six years old. She died 13 months ago.

A lot of people give up after something like that.

They turn to drugs,

anything to help them forget about the pain.

It's interesting that she didn't have any clothes on.

You're thinking sexual assault?

Or a sexual situation that got out of hand.

You know, sex can be used as a way

to numb yourself from the pain, so... (phone chiming)

I got a text here. Oh. What?

Madeline took out a restraining order on her ex-husband

a year and a half ago. He threatened to kill her.

Hey, have you found a way to determine time of death?

No. It still technically appears as if different parts

of the body died at different times.

You? Insect activity's telling me

the same thing. I moved on so I wouldn't feel stupid.

So the fiber Dr. Brennan found lodged

in the victim's teeth turned out to be chloroform.

If the killer drugged

Madeline before he killed her,

maybe we're dealing with a kidnapping.

Could be. There were some fibers found on her back

made from silk and cuprammonium rayon.

The blend is used in WorldCore sleeping bags.

Drugged and zipped up

in a sleeping bag. It would explain

being missing for four months.

Hey, I hear Arastoo's parents are coming for a visit.

Yeah. He hasn't seen them in a long time.

You gonna meet them?

Haven't decided yet. I don't want to intrude.

He hasn't asked?

No, he's asked.

Oh, it's too loaded: conflicting loyalties,

you're not sure how

that will play out. I get it.

It's not that big a deal, really. That's what I said

until Angela's father knocked me out and tattooed me.

Is that supposed to be helping me?

(computer trills)

What's that?

The DNA results from the foreign tissue

I found on the victim.

It's part of a tongue.

A tongue? That is creepy.

A fox tongue, apparently. And these samples appear

to be from other small scavengers.

All somehow stuck to the victim.

Maybe it was a ritualistic killing.

So, the ex-husband, he lives in a cabin outside the city.

Another agent's bringing him in.

Because you're still working on other agents' cases?

Look, every time I say no,

the assistant director says he can't get along without me.

I feel the same way.

What if they promote you to a desk job?

Are they gonna give me another partner?

Look, I am not gonna be promoted to a desk job, okay?

Plus, you're not gonna get a new partner.

They're not gonna promote you

and leave you in the same position.

Look, everyone is just getting way ahead

of themselves right now, all right?

I'm just doing this guy a favor.

(phone rings) Just figuring out, looking at ex-cases. Booth.

Yeah, great. On our way.

Bringing in the ex-husband. You coming with me?

Why? Why?

Because you're my partner. (clicks tongue)

I can't believe Madeline's dead.

Oy, save the tears, okay?

You haven't contacted your ex in over, what, four months?

Because she had a restraining order against me.

Because you tried to kill her.

No, that is not true. We fought,

I was cleaning my rifle and I waved it around.

What were you fighting about?

Same thing we always fought about--

our little girl, Karine.

Madeline wanted to put her through

all these god-awful treatments.

And since she had full custody, I couldn't do anything about it.

Must've been angry, huh?

Yeah, wouldn't you be?

She was torturing my daughter,

even-even after the doctors said

she'd never get any better.

You're a hunter, aren't you, Mr. Papadelis?

That illegal? We found the tongues

and snouts of small animals on your ex-wife's remains.

So you think...?

You're crazy!

Maybe you tortured your ex

the way you thought she tortured your daughter.

No. If you're innocent,

I'm sure you'd be happy to let us examine

your camping equipment and guns.

I'm a member of the NRA.

I know my rights.

You need a warrant. Oh, right.

That's right, a warrant. Like this one here?

Here you go. Look at that.

That okay for you, Mr. Huntsman?

Hey. Okay, initially I thought

the damage to the organs was caused by predation,

animals tearing them apart.

But these are actually fractures.

All right, I'm not Dr. B, but organs don't fracture.

Only bones do.

Unless the organs were frozen.

I also found urine in the bladder,

which a normal body would expel.

Unless it was frozen very soon after death.

Freezing.

Freezing would account for the various insect

and larval stages I found.

And would explain why the animals didn't feed

on the torso and organs first.

Yeah, they were the last to thaw.

Which also explains the tongues

and tissue from the scavengers.

If they tried to feed

on the organs when they were frozen,

their tongues would stick. Yeah.

And would tear off as they were pulling away.

Wow, so what?

Someone had her locked in a freezer

for the past four months?

Well, that would be the easy answer.

I've worked a lot of Mob hits, and they love to freeze.

But I've never seen a freezer

cold enough to fracture a liver.

BOOTH: Frozen?

It appears that way, although I haven't found any evidence Whoa.

of microstructural changes caused by liquid expansion.

That usually accompanies freezing,

which is why I'm doing a histological study of the bones.

Well, psych profiles

of killers that freeze their victims

kind of go all over the place.

I mean, the killer could have frozen the victim

to obscure time of death.

So, that's what happened here, isn't it?

Or the killer

could've put the body on ice until they found

a more convenient time to dispose of it.

Or both. That's a very good point.

That's why the assistant director asked

for your advice. And mine.

If Sweets is going over cases, too,

perhaps it's not about a promotion.

I'm gonna pretend that wasn't insulting.

So, the assistant director asked me to review

your test results

and your latest psych profile. What?

He wants me to make an analysis

of your performance and capabilities.

And you're allowed to tell me that?

Nobody said it was confidential.

Well, what else do you know?

Um, nothing official yet.

But I heard that they're staffing

a new field office in Germany.

They need someone to run it. Germany?

The FBI is a domestic agency.

BOOTH: Well, not exclusively.

I mean, when there are suspected terrorists or attacks

against embassies or consulates, the FBI always responds.

That's more

than a regular promotion, Booth.

That sounds like a big honor.

Well, how long would the tour be?

I heard two years. I'm not leaving you

and Christine, so it's not gonna happen.

You've clearly excelled at your job, Booth.

You should allow yourself to be recognized in that way.

Oh, I-I have to get back to the lab.

Uh, we can talk about this later.

There's nothing to talk about.

You sound defensive, Booth. I'm not defensive.

I'm starting to get annoyed, okay?

People are way ahead of themselves here.

Okay.

Booth got Madeline's credit card records.

She spent practically nothing.

The one consistent charge were her bus passes from the MTA.

She got the last one five months ago.

Just before she disappeared.

The first purchase was made just after her daughter died.

She only used them on Saturdays when she took

the round trip to Vienna, Virginia.

Looks like her last trip was four months ago

when she disappeared.

Yeah, and there was no return ride for that trip.

Huh. Well...

we still haven't ruled out sexual assault, you know.

I mean, Sweets says some grieving victims

turn to sex to dull the pain.

So, you think she was going up there to meet someone?

Maybe, and maybe that person got a little too kinky,

and chloroformed and abducted her.

How's the skull coming along?

More slowly than I

or Dr. Brennan would want.

The missing pieces aren't helping, either.

Well, I'm sure you'll do a fine job.

That was oddly polite.

Yeah.

Sorry. I...

This may not be the time or the place,

but I think it's better if I didn't go to dinner

with you and your parents.

How would that be better? I love you.

I want them to meet you.

Well, you love your parents, too.

And what they think means a lot to you.

Cam... You told me what happened when

your brother introduced

his girlfriend. They broke up, right?

That was different. You hope.

But I don't want to be there when you're forced

to choose between them or me.

Have a little faith in me.

Unless you're too scared.

What's that supposed to mean?

BRENNAN: I have the results of the histological.

What do you notice about the findings, Mr. Vaziri?

There's no crystallization.

Precisely. What exactly

does that mean? Well, normally when a body

is frozen, ice crystals form from the water

in the body, rupturing the cells.

The histological shows there is no rupturing.

But if the body wasn't frozen,

then none of our findings make sense.

That is not my conclusion.

The victim was frozen,

but also vitrified.

The water in the body is replaced

by cryoprotective chemicals,

which is why there were no ice crystals.

She was cryogenically frozen?

At temperatures well below negative 100 degrees Celsius.

Which explains why the organs fractured.

It actually explains everything we've seen.

Except who killed her and how.

BOOTH: Look, there's a cryo-whatever-you-call-it place

in Vienna, Virginia, just a block from where

she took her bus trips.

And it's called cryonics.

It's the low-temperature preservation of humans

(whistles) with the hope that resuscitation

may be possible in the future.

It's nuts, okay? When you die,

it's ashes to ashes, not ashes to ice.

We all search for immortality in our own way.

(scoffs) It's what binds tribes and religions.

Just please tell me that you're not gonna want me

to freeze you.

No, but...

one day you might be able to download

my accumulated consciousness onto a memory chip.

Listen.

Let's just, you know, keep each other in here.

That's worked just fine for a long time.

You know, Christine and I

could come to Germany, too.

But you know I wouldn't ask you to do that.

Your work is here.

So, you'd stand in the way

of us having a new and possibly life-changing experience?

That seems selfish, Booth.

What, you'd really uproot everything?

Wouldn't you?

BOOTH: I kind of figured this place

would be more hospitally, right?

A little bit more, I don't know, sterile?

Cryonics operations have very little funding.

Most of their funding comes

from member donations.

Member donations?

I don't know if they have a lot of members.

Actually, we have over 700

full- and part-time members. Right. And you are...?

I am Dr. Noah Summers. This is my wife, Michelle.

We own CryoNova.

Your turn.

FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth.

This here is my partner, Dr. Temperance Brennan.

Dr. Brennan.

I'm thrilled that you're interested in our services.

It would be my honor to preserve your brain.

BRENNAN: I'm sure it would.

But at this point, cryonics is

nothing more than a fantasy.

MICHELLE: As is often the case

before great discoveries.

So if you're not interested in being preserved,

how can we help you?

Do you know a woman by the name of Madeline Papadelis?

Of course.

She used to visit all the time.

Her daughter is one of our patients.

BOOTH: Her daughter is dead.

Technically she's in a state of suspended animation.

Well, not her mother. Technically, she is dead dead.

She was found in a swamp outside Alexandria.

What? BRENNAN: And all the evidence indicates

that she was cryogenically frozen.

Here.

We haven't seen Madeline in months.

She used to come here every Saturday

to visit her daughter.

Her daughter who is dead who isn't dead.

Yes, Madeline was dedicated to our cause.

She and I were working on a proposal for a funding grant.

And then she just disappeared.

We tried to contact her, but she never answered

her voice mails or texts.

We waived the storage fees for her daughter

until we could locate her.

Man, these tanks are huge.

I mean, why do you need so much space for one body?

Well, we can store up to five

whole body preservations

in one dewar.

Or a couple dozen neuros.

Neuros? Heads.

They remove and freeze the head.

Don't need to know that. Okay.

You know what? You guys are in the business

of freezing people. The victim was frozen.

So therefore, I need to shut you down. No.

God, no.

We have patients to care for.

We have others contracted to come in. So?

Why aren't you talking to Warshaw?

We've already lodged

a complaint with the police, and so has Madeline.

Who is Warshaw? Tripp Warshaw.

He's another cryonicist in Maryland.

He stored patients in his garage.

Garage?

Wait a second, wait.

Who licensed you guys, Frankenstein?

They're licensed as cemeteries,

which have very little oversight.

Warshaw went out of business.

Blamed us for taking his patients.

Including Madeline's daughter.

He shot out our lock and tried to break in

and sabotage the facility.

I can show you.

All right, look, was he arrested?

No, they said

there wasn't enough proof.

But now, with Madeline's death...

You should talk to him.

Hmm.

SAROYAN: I'm gonna need you both to go to CryoNova.

Angela, I'm gonna need you to access their digital records.

And, Hodgins, I need you to catalog

any drugs and chemicals they used.

Wait, drugs?

They're dead when they're frozen, aren't they?

Yes, but they keep oxygen circulating

while putting in the cryoprotectants

to save the cellular integrity of the remains.

And they use propofol to keep the remains

from animating during the process.

Animating?

You-you mean like the walking dead?

Yeah, it's actually...

If you say cool, you won't have sex

for, like, a year.

Revolting.

It's totally revolting.

Are you ready?

One second.

Well, the dinner is on, huh?

Does everyone know about this? Absolutely.

It's all we can talk about. So I'm not the only one who's

a little sensitive around their parents?

Okay, then.

You can cut me a little slack.

This is gonna be fine, right?

Right, 'cause you didn't make

this seem awful at all.

You're not going to make this easy on me, are you?

MONTENEGRO: Okay, you guys should probably go.

Parents don't like when the kids are late.

Right. Right.

It's gonna be fine.

Right.

(quiet laugh)

BRENNAN: Madeline Papadelis

was going to place her daughter in your care originally,

wasn't she, Mr. Warshaw?

Before CryoNova poached her, yeah.

So, you blame them for your business going under.

All they care about is the bottom line.

I'm all about the science, and not just cryonics,

but biological immortality.

I'm currently studying the tardigrades,

which are extremophiles.

You-you believe there's a connection

between them and cellular senescence

as a function of chronological age?

We're all made out of the same stuff.

Ah, hold it there, pal, okay?

I am definitely not made out of the same stuff as you, trust me.

Actually we're all carbon-based organisms.

Really? Do we have to discuss that right now?

It's not the time. So, we looked at your credit report, Tripp.

It turns out that

every business that you bought equipment from

is suing you. I owed money.

Because CryoNova poached all my clients.

Because Madeline backed out.

Her daughter was your last hope.

Wasn't she?

You got angry. Wouldn't you be angry?

I was working with new methods,

better methods

of cryonic stabilization.

Is that why you shot your way into CryoNova?

I didn't!

The police never arrested me for that.

I understand someone standing

in the way of new discoveries.

Researchers and professors often assault one another.

Murder is not unheard of.

Murder?

BOOTH: Madeline.

Four months ago. Then she was frozen.

BRENNAN: And then discarded

four days ago, when you were finally

supposed to have your equipment repossessed.

Arastoo has told Armin and myself

a great deal about you.

All good, I hope, Khanome Vaziri.

Don't call me that...

Mamaan.

I meant, call me Azita.

ARMIN: You are a surgeon,

Dr. Saroyan? Oh, please, call me Cam.

I told you, she's a coroner,

which is a very respected profession, Baba.

SAROYAN: I can speak

for myself, Arastoo.

So you handle dead bodies, as our son does.

SAROYAN: Yes.

Although he focuses more on bones.

I deal more with tissue and organs and stuff.

I-It's probably not dinner conversation.

We're here to get to know each other, aren't we?

I've told my son

I can't imagine

being consumed with death all the time.

SAROYAN: Oh, there's so much more to our lives than death.

We go to concerts and museums,

and we laugh...

I know that look.

Do you plan on having children?

Oh...

None of you are getting any younger.

Mamaan. You should apologize.

Now biology is your mother's fault?

SAROYAN: I actually already

have a daughter. She's in college.

ARMIN: Oh.

You were married before.

SAROYAN: No, she's the, um...

child of a man

that I lived with for a few years.

He passed away...

It's, uh, complicated. I love her

very much,

and your son is wonderful with her.

Funny that he didn't mention

that he had a child in his life.

Perhaps I didn't want the questions and judgments.

So you keeping secrets-- this is also our fault.

Can I take your order? Yes, please. Um...

I haven't even looked at the menu yet.

Do you have someplace else to go?

I'll give you another minute.

I imagine Persian food is quite foreign to you.

SAROYAN: Arastoo is actually

quite a good cook.

His, uh, Ghalieh Mahi is my favorite.

ARMIN: Mamaan taught him.

I'm surprised you like it.

Cultural differences can sometimes be difficult to...

Fine. We get it.

We're too different from each other. She-she has a child,

our professions are repulsive, it'll never work.

Well, I love her. And that's all that matters to me.

(speaking Farsi): I won't let you two destroy my relationship

with my girlfriend

with your old-fashioned thoughts, the way you did

with Hamid. You aren't ashamed when you talk

to me like this? No, I am not ashamed. Why should I?

No, he didn't destroy; you guys did it.

Who? We destroyed Hamid's relationship or Hamid did it

with himself? Who did it, then?

Arastoo, don't do this! No, you guys destroyed

his life. You make me embarrassed

in front of other people. Let's go.

Just go, be ashamed.

Go. Go. Um, wow, it was nice to meet you.

Have you been here all night, Mr. Vaziri?

Most of the night, yeah.

Cam is pretty upset, so...

Because of your parents?

Yes.

I believe on some level

our parents are supposed to disappoint us

so we can

surpass them and improve the species.

So put your dinner in perspective.

It was an evolutionary necessity.

I understand

you found something? I did.

There's an excessive amount of exfoliation

on this tibia. Huh.

There does appear to be

significantly more flaking

on the cortical bone than I would expect to see.

Did you find it anywhere else?

The metatarsals and tarsals of the same leg.

The excessive

yet isolated exfoliation

indicates a lack of equilibrium

in the vitrification process.

The perfusion of the cryoprotectant

at the time of freezing wasn't completed? Precisely.

The killer either used equipment

that hadn't been serviced properly,

or he was in a rush.

And the skull?

Dr. Hodgins is still picking things out of the muck.

If he doesn't find any more bone fragments,

this is all we'll have.

SWEETS: So it turns out

Tripp Warshaw was in Phoenix

when the victim disappeared.

He was working at some longevity institute.

Well, that makes sense, because ballistics says

the bullet wasn't his.

It was from a gun owned by the ex-husband?

Yeah. I'm gonna go talk to him now.

Booth. Uh...

so the deputy director's office

asked me to take a look at your military record,

factor that into my analysis.

The deputy director? Yeah.

So it is moving up.

Mm-hmm. You don't seem

too happy about that. Look, all the reports

that they have me looking at

are from other shootings, from other agents.

They want to know how I would have handled them.

Because of your past.

That's probably why they had me

take a look at your military record.

I'm sure there aren't a lot of candidates

with your skill set.

Exactly.

Sit down, Ethan.

Look, you lied to us.

Why didn't you tell us that your daughter was frozen?

That is nobody's business but mine. It is my business

when you shoot up the facility that she was stored in.

She shouldn't be in there.

She should be buried the way God intended.

Why did you lie to me? Because I've got two strikes,

felony assault, against me.

One more and I'm going away for real time.

What do you think you're going to be facing

when I charge you with the murder of your ex-wife?

I went in there to get Karine.

To bury her proper.

But have you seen that place?

All those metal things? I couldn't figure out

how to get my baby out of there. And when that didn't work out for you,

the only thing left for you to do was get revenge.

If I couldn't think how to get Karine

out of one of those things,

how the hell could I have put Madeline into one?

You wanted to see me?

I reviewed the security footage from CryoNova.

Let me pull it up.

I heard dinner wasn't so good.

Ugh. Dinner would imply food.

We didn't get that far.

But we're trying to put it all behind us,

so I'd rather not talk about it at work.

Sure.

Okay, so...

look who Madeline was arguing with

the Saturday before she was killed.

SAROYAN: What are they arguing about?

MONTENEGRO: There's no sound.

But look at this.

SAROYAN: Holy... Okay, what is happening?

Your guess is as good as mine.

Madeline was a true believer.

If she caught Noah messing around

with the patients in his charge...

He looks like a monster.

God only knows what he would do.

Madeline caught you sawing into patients

and threatened to turn you in. Do you know how much

a full body preservation costs? $200,000.

When that patient's wife died,

payments stopped. BOOTH: Okay, great.

So what were you doing? Just sawing up patients

to make room for a new popsicle?

I needed the space,

but I was preserving his brain,

which is really all that matters.

Because by the time we're able to reanimate people,

we'll be giving them new bodies.

Better bodies.

You were harvesting his organs.

To sell them. Yes.

They have done successful

cryo transplants of kidneys.

That's how I got the funds to keep his brain stored.

Selling body parts, that's not in your contract.

If Madeline exposed you,

that could destroy your business. Madeline

was committed to the work.

She understood the necessity

of keeping the facility solvent.

Look at the last grant proposal

that we worked on together.

It mentions organ sales. BOOTH: Right. Okay.

So, uh, cutting up people and selling their parts,

all of a sudden that's a good thing now?

BRENNAN: Well, it could save people's lives,

if the organs are frozen properly.

You're on his side now? Agent Booth,

everything that I do,

my life's work,

is dedicated to preventing death.

I would never kill anyone.

Especially someone as close to me as Madeline was.

HODGINS: So it has to be either Tripp Warshaw

or the guys from CryoNova.

SAROYAN: Seems reasonable.

Well, the ex-husband's not out.

He studied pre-med in college, so he's not as dumb

about this whole process as he wants us to believe.

How does someone go from pre-med

to having two strikes against them?

Drugs.

Although he's been in recovery for the past two years.

Well, so he says.

People are not always who they seem to be.

Are we talking about the case now

or are we talking about dinner last night? Wow.

You do not give up, do you? You really have to ask her that?

You know, I felt bad for Arastoo.

He had this notion that when I met the folks,

it was gonna be all rainbows and unicorns.

That never sounded good to me.

I mean, unicorns, they seem dangerous,

with the horn and everything...

Not really the point. Sorry.

Continue.

So they didn't approve of you?

Arastoo wouldn't let it get that far, I guess.

That's why we left. You would have stayed?

He knows them. I don't.

I just, I feel terrible

being the source of all of this hostility.

Isn't this a little sexy, though?

I mean, him defending your love

at any cost?

Wait a minute.

If the husband did freeze Madeline,

he could have put her in a dewar

and the Summers might not have known.

Until new clients needed to be frozen.

Yeah, they'd have to get rid of Madeline

before they were arrested for murder.

HODGINS: Those were the last four bone fragments buried in the muck.

Nothing more? Anything else probably sunk into the swamp

or was carried off by predators.

I did find this, though.

It's synthetic multi-filament thread.

Tied.

Stitches. The victim had to

have been injured before she was killed.

There's no record of her

visiting a hospital or a doctor.

Dr. Brennan, feel this.

I see what you mean, Mr. Vaziri.

You do?

The hole has curved, smooth edges.

That injury was not caused by trauma during the body dump.

That part of the skull was removed surgically.

Yes. This is a cranial

perforation with the express purpose

of placing a microphone inside the victim's skull.

Wait... what? To listen for cracking as she froze,

to protect the brain. They're actually referred to

as crackphones.

This is an excellent find,

Mr. Vaziri. Wow. Focusing on your work

to avoid personal issues has its rewards.

Yes, I often use work to avoid my personal life.

Implanting a crackphone

would require great skill.

I doubt the ex-husband could accomplish this,

even with some medical training.

CryoNova must have audio records from their crackphones.

Well, doesn't that mean

the other cryo guy, Tripp Warshaw,

would have audio records, too?

BOOTH: All of Warshaw's equipment was repossessed

and all the bodies that were there,

they were sent to another company in New York.

And the audio from the crackphones?

Ah, it was all erased when the equipment was returned.

You're missing a good, old-fashioned murder, aren't you?

Oh, come on. Aren't you?

We're all sitting around here, hoping that

someone recorded a confession

into some frozen lady's head.

And that's only if CryoNova kept their audio files.

The records at CryoNova show that a family of four came in

seven days ago for processing. There was a car accident.

So they had to make room for them.

Exactly. One of the dewars had to be cleaned and prepped.

Well, the crackphones at CryoNova exist in a sleep mode.

They only get activated when noise is made.

So the audio files still exist.

Yeah. And I don't think CryoNova's gonna be very happy about it.

I enhanced the audio.

WOMAN: I knew what was going on with you, bitch.

(wheeled cart rolling)

Sound's like someone's removing the victim's body

from one of the dewars.

To dispose of it because new bodies were coming in.

Who is it?

I think this next part will make that pretty clear.

WOMAN: Noah is mine, not yours. It's time we finally end this.

Michelle Summers.

Madeline must've been having an affair

with her husband. Yeah. I think

Mrs. Frankenstein is your killer.

I knew what was going on with you, bitch.

Noah is mine, not yours. It's time we finally end this.

Hey, look, that was time-stamped a week ago

when Madeline Papadelis' body was dumped in the swamp.

That proves nothing.

I believe I was talking to another employee

as I was prepping one of the dewars.

She was flirting with my husband.

If your job was prepping the dewars,

that means that you knew that Madeline was being stored there.

Our patients are stored in bags and suspended upside down.

One of those fibers from the bags was found on her body.

Your husband and Madeline spent

a lot of time together, didn't they?

We've been through this.

They wrote grant proposals together.

She was helping him raise money.

You know, on our warrant, we were able to look

not only at your husband's personal e-mails on his computer

but also CryoNova's.

Yeah, there are eight e-mails here

where your husband asked Madeline if they could meet privately.

My husband and I are very much in love.

Really? Because on these two here,

he asked to meet her at a motel.

And they're all dated four months ago.

When Madeline disappeared,

they worked together closely, they were falling in love.

You saw an opportunity

and you took it.

Tell you what. If you help us out,

the prosecutor is going to be much more

understanding on you.

I will not be manipulated like this.

I want a lawyer.

Michelle Summers will be released

if we don't find evidence

that links her directly to the murder.

She can be held for the disposal of the remains.

But our job is to arrest a murderer.

The lack of perimortem injuries suggests the murderer

was not violent.

The killer took care not to cause her pain.

That doesn't sound like a jealous wife. I agree,

especially considering she was anesthetized

with chloroform first.

But Michelle Summers was

a professional; she'd know how

to kill someone without leaving

evidence of a violent assault.

That doesn't explain

why she took care

to cryogenically preserve the victim.

And why insert the crackphone?

She wouldn't want to reanimate a woman she hated.

Look at the hole in the temporal

where the crackphone was inserted.

Feel the beveling.

The angle of the incision.

It had to have been made by a left-handed person.

Michelle Summers is right-handed.

I don't understand.

Her husband must be left-handed.

No one else would take such care after a murder.

Because, to him, this wasn't a murder.

We know it was you who froze her.

Absurd.

We rewatched the video

of you removing the frozen kidney,

and we noticed something.

In order to vitrify a patient,

you have to perform a median sternotomy, isn't that correct?

So? Closing that

incision requires stitches.

Like these.

So you used a distinctive,

unnecessarily complicated style of suturing:

the Interrupted Vertical Mattress Suture.

I'm not the only doctor who does interrupted sutures.

No, but being left-handed,

you're the only one at CryoNova who knots each suture

on the left side as opposed to the right

as well as using a surgical knot instead of a simple reef.

Quite distinctive. Like I said, you killed her.

She wasn't dead.

I would never kill her.

Right, you just wanted to keep her really cold.

Your wife found out when those new clients came in.

She dumped her in that swamp. Michelle killed her.

I loved Maddie.

She understood my work,

we spent every day together writing grants.

But she didn't love you, did she?

I-I could have revived her.

And her daughter.

Maybe it would have taken ten years or so,

but...

...when she came back,

she would've grown to love me.

She just needed time.

* I'm sitting on a gold mine

* And all I gotta do is dig

* But I'm waiting on

* A landslide.

(doorbell rings)

Ooh.

Azita, Armin.

We were going to call you,

but didn't know whether you'd hang up or not.

Oh, of-of course not.

Uh, come in. I'm actually,

I'm just making some tea.

Oh. Thank you.

Who was at the...?

Oh.

Are you going to have a fit and walk out again

because I'm staying for tea?

We know how you feel. Did you forget an insult or two?

Why don't we all sit?

You don't know how we feel, Arastoo,

'cause you never stop judging us to notice.

You've always been a hothead.

Ah, here we go. Yes, here we go.

Growing up, you were always making the wrong decisions,

getting into trouble.

But you've grown into such a wonderful man...

...so successful, so fine.

Whatever made you think

we didn't notice you'd grown up?

You're making Cam cry, Azita. Apologize.

It's okay.

But the other night, with all the questions...

Questions?

Interest.

Clearly, you're with a wonderful woman,

so brave to raise a child on her own,

so accomplished.

You have good judgment, Arastoo.

And excellent taste.

You're not a teenager anymore.

Let us be proud of you. Let us be happy for you.

I'm sorry.

You should be.

You look very comfortable in those clothes.

I imagine you spend a lot of time here.

Azita, it's none of our business.

And she's wearing Arastoo's shirt.

I cannot accept everything, Armin. Can we at least have

our tea before you start talking about marriage?

Marriage?

Usually when a man introduces

a woman to his parents...

You didn't think that was an important fact?

That's not how I feel.

Someplace inside, you knew.

Why don't you grab the tea?

I'm-I'm gonna go grab a Scotch.

Good idea.

Yeah. Yeah.

BRENNAN: Sweets said that now the deputy director is reviewing you

for the promotion.

Yeah, that's what he told me, too.

Why wouldn't you mention that?

Because nothing's definite yet, Bones, that's why.

Booth, you don't have to worry about me. We can do this.

There are many places

I could work over there.

In two years, Christine could be bilingual. Wait a second.

Now you're just, you're getting way ahead of yourself here.

You always tell me that I'm too rational,

that dreaming is good.

I'm not sure this is such a good dream.

I mean, from the military angle,

them having me review all these shootings

and they've been looking at my skill sets...

Your gut is telling you something, isn't it?

Yeah.

The base over there...

it's a staging ground for counterterrorism activity

and covert operations.

You think they might be asking you to be a sniper again?

I won't do it.

I have a new life. I have a family.

They can't make me do that again.

You don't have to do anything you don't want to, Booth.

Right.

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