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That must be them there
near that big piece
of nothing.

[ Brennan ]
According to my G.P.S.,

it's about where Texas
turns into Oklahoma.

Oh, great. Right in the middle
of a jurisdictional
pissing contest.

Look, I'm out of water.
Give me yours.

Hey!

[ Texas Ranger ]
Hey! Are y'all F.B.I.?

F.B.I. Special Agent
Seeley Booth.

This here is
Dr. Temperance Brennan
from the Jeffersonian.

- [ Trooper ]
Welcome to Oklahoma, ma'am.
- Welcome to Texas,ma'am.

Guys, welcome to
the United States
of America.

Where are
the remains, please?Oh!

Right here.

[ Brennan ]
Hardly any flesh left.

It's very dry here,

so I'm guessing
that time of death
was some months ago.

How do you think they died?They left Oklahoma, hit Texas,
then died of despair.

Nope. They're
definitely Oklahomans.

If they were from Texas,
they'd have had sense enough
to carry water.

That wouldn't show up
in the bones.

- No clothing.
- [ Brennan ]
Might've blown away.

Maybe a young couple,
some kind of suicide pact?

Sub-pubic angle
suggests two females.

- Oh! Lesbian suicide pact.
- Definitely Texans then.

The victims were pygopagus
or, some would say,
illeopagus.

- What's that?
- Greek?
- Conjoined twins.

- What's that?
- Siamese twins.

The point of attachment
is posterior.

- Ah, joined at the ass.
- [ Chuckles ]
Definitely Texans.

So what
do we got here, Doc?

Well, it's
a federal case, boys.
F.B.I. will take jurisdiction.

[ Vincent ]
Conjoined twin births occur
once every 85,000 births,

the same frequency
as hermaphroditic births.

Oh, Mr. Nigel-Murray,
we've so missed
your insights.

- Thank you.
- Why weren't the remains
dispersed by scavengers?

Well, the depression
in the earth suggested...

that they were buried
in an extremely
shallow grave.

The remains were spotted
by an oil survey team
from a helicopter.

Begging the question,
what exposed the bones?

Well, there was a sandstorm
in that area eight days ago.

Sustained winds
of 60 miles an hour,
gusts of about 80.

Third molars have not
completely emerged, and root
development is incomplete.

Indicating
that the victims were
between 19 and 21 years of age.

Guys, hello.
I.D.'ing them is not
going to be a problem.

How many sets
of conjoined twins
can there be?

Um, over the last 500 years,
approximately 600 sets,

over 70 percent women.

I did not expect him
to know that.

Well, all facts are useful.
It's just the context
that shifts.

I bet I could
just go search for
missing Siamese twins...

and find them
in, like, 10 minutes.

- By all means, give it a shot.
- The victims have
two separate spinal columns...

fused distally
at the lower sacral level,
extending to the pelvis.

No other vertebral anomalies.

Neither one of them
could've survived
the death of the other.

So murder/suicide,
suicide/murder or vice versa.

That was vice versa.

[ Device Beeps ]Soil beneath the skeletons
was full of weirdness.

Quite a bit
of decomposed cotton.

- We didn't see any fabric.
- Wow. It was decomposed.

It was fairly cheap stuff too.
I think they were wrapped
in a sheet.

Naked,
wrapped in a sheet.

Sweets will have something
to say about that.

Also, I found soil-dwelling
mites-- genusAmeronothrus.

Nearest place they could've
picked up soil mites was
hundreds of miles away.

And decomposed popcorn.

They were killed
at the movies?

I have a theory--The circus.

Kind of stole
my thunder there.

But yeah. Yeah.
The traveling circus.

I found them.[ Saroyan ]
Already?

♪♪ [ Fanfare ]

- [ Angela ] Huh? The circus.
- [ Saroyan ] The circus.

The circus.The circus.

"Abracadabra"
was first uttered
to cure hay fever.

Conjoined twins
wrapped in a sheet?

Yep.According
to Hodgins.

It would help to know
how they were wrapped.

All the evidence
is gone with the wind.

- No other clothing?
- According to Hodgins.

The murderer didn't want
anyone to identify them
from their clothes.

They're conjoined twins.

You might as well have
buried them with their driver's
licenses in their hands.

Wrapped naked bodies often
indicate a careful burial
or, of course, sexual assault.

Okay, you know what?
That's, uh-- That's creepy.
We gotta get going, Sweets.

Where?Texas. That's
where the circus is.

Uh, circus folk are extremely
tight-lipped and close-knit.

They won't tell you anything.

- How do you know?
- I-- You know,
I've read articles.

You're the worst liar
I have ever met.
You read articles?

- Even I know he's lying.
- Okay. I'm adopted.

You know-- You know what?
My story isn't important here.

No, it's very important.
Go ahead.

I-- [ Splutters ]
When I reached
the age of majority,

I tried to find
my birth mother--

a psychic who worked
the circus-and-carnival
circuit in Florida.

- Bio mom was a carny.
- You know what?
Let's stay on track.

The point is,
no one would talk to me.

- Were you wearing a suit?
- You'll be wearing a suit.

And they won't open up
to you either. I'm just
trying to be helpful here.

I suspect Sweets is right.

I studied a carnival
for six weeks...

as research for my cultural
anthropology dissertation.

No one would
tell me anything,

even though I became
quite adept on the high wire.

Fine. If they're gonna
talk to their own,
we will go undercover.

- What?
- If we're joining a circus,
we'll need an act.

- I'm quite adept
on the high wire.
- No, no, no. You know what?

- We'll have
a knife-throwing act.
- Well, I can't throw knives.

I can. I had thebest
knife skills in the Rangers.

Are we going
to join the circus?

We are gonna join
the circus.

We're gonna talk to the twins'
mother here in Fort Worth,
then pick up our mobile home.

And we'll join the circus
right outside Waco.Uh, our mobile home?

Yeah. We're circus folks,
Bones.

We crisscross the country
in a mobile home.

I had the field office here
paint up something special
for us.

Is that all you need
to get a job at the circus--
a mobile home?

You know what?
It's gonna help. It's showy.
And we're show people.

It's always possible that we'll
talk to the girls' mother...

and solve this whole case
tonight.

Right?I hope not.

What? Huh?Hmm?

[ Woman ] I should've never let
those girls leave this home.

Worst thing that can happen
to a mother, isn't it?

Finding out that you
outlived your child.
Unnatural.

Except for societies
with high infant
mortality rates.

My understanding is you
tried to sue the circus
several times, Mrs. Van Owen.

- It's Mrs. Hicks.
- Dell Hicks here is
my husband and my lawyer.

Dell helped me sue
the circus for--

Loss of income,
alienation of affection,

civil rights abuses,
animal abuses,
improper hiring,

emotional distress,
mental anguish.

- Any of these go to court?
- It's just a matter of time,
Agent Booth.

Hmm. You really hated
that circus.

They stole my daughters.
I'll do anything
to get back at them for that.

- When did you last see
your daughters?
- Four months ago.

- They told us to butt out
of their lives.
- Jenny did.

If one of the girls
wanted something,

it was the same
as both of 'em wanting it.

If Jenny wanted something,
then they both wanted it.

Didn't matter
what Julie wanted.

I took a look
at the remains,

and I had to wonder if you
ever considered having them
surgically separated.

It was too dangerous.

- I disagree.
- So did Jenny and Dr. Muir.

Well, Julie and I thought
it was too dangerous.

Your daughters disagreed
on whether or not they
should be separated?

Dr. Muir's office--
here in Fort Worth?

I'm sure you understand that
my responses to your questions
about the Van Owen sisters...

is somewhat tempered
by patient privilege.

They're murder victims,
right?

Patient privilege no longer
applies.

Well, yes, of course.
[ Chuckles ]

I've never-- I've never had
a patient murdered before.

You thought that the twins
could safely be separated?

- Yes.
- I agree.

As did Jenny. But Julie
and her mother disagreed.

She and her... ambulance-chaser
husband tried to sue me.

- So how did you leave things?
- Well, in the end,

it didn't matter
what the rest of us thought.

Julie and Jenny were gonna
have to come to an agreement.

I wonder if they thought
they could continue...

to work in the circus
if they were separated.

Well, they both loved
the circus.

Yeah, Jenny told me once...

that they had some ideas
on how to expand their act.

Sounds like Jenny
was the bossy one
and Julie was a little nicer?

Well, they were like
any other sisters.

They had distinct
personalities and strengths.

If there's anything else
I can do to help the F.B.I.--

Yeah. Tell you what.

Send the records
to the F.B.I.
in Washington.

- Why can't you simply
take them with you?
- We have another appointment.

Thank you
for your cooperation.[ Booth ] Mm-hmm.

[ Brennan, Affecting Accent ]
The F.B.I. did a wonderful job
with this trailer.

[ Booth ]
Okay. Just lose the
Katharine Hepburn voice.

I'm just trying
to find my character.
You know, acting.

Well, don't.
It sounds ridiculous.
Okay, Bones?

[ Door Squeaks ] [ Booth ]
What's my name there, Wanda?

It's written right there
on the side of the truck,

which "high wire" is not.

It's just sometimes
you get irritated...

and you say "Booth"
without thinking.

[ Hepburn Voice ]
I don't do anything
without thinking-- ever, Buck.

[ Chattering ]

[ Man ] Buck and Wanda
and Their Knives of Death, huh?

Never heard of ya.

We've worked the Pacific
Northwest, Canada, Alaska.

I guess that makes you
the beautiful assistant then?

Wanda. Yes.
I'm also quite adept
on the high wire.

Well, I gotta admit
it would be nice to have
a knife-throwing act around.

Yeah, well, folks,
they love a little danger.

- So what's your thing?
- Our thing?

Yeah. Your gimmick. You know,
a cowboy and Indian princess.

A pirate
and kidnapped princess.

A Jack the Ripper and...
princess.

- We're Russian.
- Or the "cowboy and Indian
princess" thing.

No, no, no.
The Russian thing sounds good.

It does?Yeah.

Yeah. Okay, yeah.
We are "Ruska."All right.

Well, you do
the first show for free,

and, if I like you,
then we talk payment.

Wow.

Uh, you-you ain't
seen nothin' yet.

- Lavalle!
- [ Exhales ]

You two ain't
the first of May, are you?

- No.
In fact, we are not--
- We are no first of May.

This is Lavalle.
He's our 24-hour man.

Lavalle, meet Buck
and Wanda Moosejaw.
They do a barber act.

- Moosejaw?
What are you-- Indian?
- Canadian.

Lavalle will show you
where to park your digs.
You can get ready for the show.

- They any good?
- How about that?

Hell, being able
to splinter a post
don't make you a showman.

We're show people, all right.
You will be amazed.

Ha!

[ Door Squeaks ][ Brennan Laughs ]

Russian?
You had to pick Russian?

[ Cell Phone Beeping ]Brilliant, right?
It just popped into my head.

Well, you know what?
Don't pop things, Bones.

Sweets, what the hell is
"the first of May?"[ Sweets On Speaker ] A newbie.

A rookie.

Why would a little person
be referred to
as a 24-hour man?

Oh. Having a little trouble
with the lingo, huh?

He is the advance person.

He goes to town
ahead of the circus
and sets everything up.

If you like,
I could e-mail you a lexicon.

- Uh, I would certainly
appreciate that.
- Sure.

Um, can I offer
a piece of advice?

[ Booth ]
Well, that's why
we called you, Sweets.

Don't try too hard
to be their friends.

Act like you're more
interested in each other
than any of them.

- All right?
They will come to you.
- Okay. Thanks, Sweets.

- [ Beeps ]
- So, uh, sex, right?

Oh. Good idea.Okay.

Okay, well, I think
what we need to do is get
a syncopated rhythm going...

that takes advantage
of the natural frequency
of the springs.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Are you this spontaneous
during real sex?

Yes, I am.

[ Squeaking ]

[ Lavalle ]
What do you think?

Let's just hope
they're as good outside
the trailer as they are in.

I'll give 'em good marks
for staying power.

[ Squeaking ]

I don't know what this is.I can try to balance it.

- Getting settled in,
Moosejaw?
- Yep.

- Nice tent. Very--
- It's a piece of crap.

- Right.
- Let's just pray
there's no wind or rain.

I'd hate for it to collapse
on paying customers.

- [ Metal Clinks ]
- There something
we can help you with?

- Aim me
at the Van Owen sisters.
- The Van Owen sisters?

Yeah. Sisters. Jugglers.
Julie and Jenny,
joined at the hip, literally.

[ Chuckles ]
Yeah, funny.
How do you know 'em?

They worked a carny up in Alaska
last year. Nice kids.

Said they were coming down here
to work at Bingham's.I'm afraid you missed 'em.

Uh, Julie and Jenny,
they-they moved on.
Well, when was it, Lavalle?

Uh-- After Petersburg,
wasn't it?

- [ Brennan ] Buck!
- Wanda.

Julie and Jenny
don't work here anymore.

- Where'd they go?
- Well, you know what?

I think I got
a note in here somewhere
from 'em that they left.

"Thanks for everything.
We loved working here.
And we love all of you.

"But we've decided to take
another direction in our lives.

You'll always be family.
Love, Julie and Jenny."

- That doesn't sound like them.
- Well, it sounds like Julie.

- Not Jenny?
- Well, maybe they were forced
to leave under duress.

Listen to the five-dollar words
the target can use.

She likes to read
the dictionary.

-Tough girl, Jenny.
-Yeah. The rubes sure loved 'em.

Them quitting probably
hurt your box office.

Sweetheart,
I got nothing but trouble
at the box office.

Yeah, I'm sure
we'll run into the girls
somewhere or another.

- I mean, there's not many
circuses anymore, right?
- [ Triangle Ringing ]

Food's ready
in the mess tent.

If you two
can drag yourselves
out of your trailer,

I'll, um, introduce you
to the rest of the gang.

"Duress"? Real smart.
Don't use those kind of words.

What? Why? Just because
I'm in a carnival--Oh, forget it.

doesn't mean
I can't read books
and have a good vocabular--

♪♪ [ Circus ]

Is it more impressive that they
can do that joined at the hip,
or less?

Twins die an average
of 10 years apart,

even when they are
genetically identical.

Not helpful. Ah. X-rays from the twins'
doctor in Dallas.

Okay, notice
the antemortem bone lesion
in the carpal capitate,

suggesting a stab wound
on the hand.

[ Device Beeps ]Did you see the video?
They were juggling machetes.

I found particulates
of magnesium carbonate
on both girls.

Do you have any fascinating
trivia on that subject?

- One man's trivia
is another man's wisdom.
- [ Hodgins ] Mm-hmm.

It's a chalk-- used in flooring,
fireproofing, cosmetics,
toothpaste and laxatives.

Obviously, we are
on the lookout
for a clean-toothed,

eye shadow-wearing,
constipated contractor.

[ Device Beeps ]Wow.

[ Angela ] Brennan sent
a photograph of the note
the twins left at the circus.

How long will it take you
to analyze it?

I found something
pretty interesting
just by looking at it.

- You said Jenny was
the left-handed twin.
- Yes.

Correct.
The smudges and the slants
on the letter indicate...

that the note was written
by the left-handed twin.

On a standard keyboard,
there are over 3,000 words...

that can be touch-typed
with the left hand alone.

It's not typed.
It's handwritten.

How many can be typed
with the right hand?

450. Thank you ever so much
for asking me.

- Please don't encourage him.
- [ Angela ] Uh-huh.

The point is,
"Jenny" was signed
with the right hand...

while "Julie" signed
the note with the left.

This note was obviously
not written by them, guys.

It's fake.

[ Laughing, Chattering ]

Oh! Look at them, huh?
Clowns.

Well, the psychiatric term
for fear of clowns
is coulrophobia.

It's not fear. It's hate.
Okay? Big difference.

- You mind?
- Sure. Have a seat.
- [ Knife Sticks In Table ]

Buck, Wanda, this is
Magnum the Strongman,
and this is Madam Nina.

- Oh, are those
your legal names?
- Is Wanda yours?

Buck and Wanda,
they knew Jenny and Julie.

- I miss those girls.
- We all do.

- Ah, not the clowns.
- Why is that?

The girls were trying a new act.
Borrowed some of the clowns'
equipment without asking.

They should've stuck
to juggling.

[ Nina ]
They were just trying
to help save the circus.

Well, they wanted more time
in front of the audience.

Not Julie. She wanted
to spend more time
with her boyfriend.

- Julie had a boyfriend?
- But her sister was literally
right beside her all the time.

People can't help
who they fall in love with.

When you fall
in love with an outsider,
that's the end of circus life.

- Who was it?
- He was a gillie.

[ Quietly ]
What's a gillie?A gillie's an outsider.

So one of the girls
had a boyfriend-- Booth,
you're sitting on my clothes.

I'm sorry, but it's
kind of tight in here.

Which is why you shouldn't throw
your underwear on the floor. They fell.

No. Don't blame gravity
for lack of tidiness.

Is there only one bed there?Wait. Can we please
hit "Rewind"?

[ Hodgins ] Oneof the girls
had a boyfriend?Yes.

Only one of them?
[ Chuckles ]

I mean, how do they--

You know, when they're--
I just don't see physically
how they--

Okay, look,
that's not the issue.

Just take that image
out of your mind...

and pretend that they
are separate individuals
and ask yourself...

if you found anything
that suggested a relationship.

- Hodgins.
- Huh?

Yeah. Sorry. Still working
on the "mind picture
eradication" thing.

Did you find anything
on one of the sisters...

that you didn't
find present on the other?

Uh, yeah.
Actually, yeah, I did.

Uh, residue of polyelectrolyte
polymers under the fingernails
of Julie and not Jenny.

- It's polyvinylpyrrolidone.
- What is that? Makeup?

It's not makeup.
It's hair gel.

Seems that Julie
was running her fingers
through someone's hair.

- Julie was the one
with the boyfriend?
- Can you identify a brand?

No. But it would smell
a lot like sandalwood.

Oh. Smooth Sure Powerhold.

Uh, yeah, that's
definitely on the list
of possible products. Yeah.

Dr. Muir was wearing
a ton of hair gel. It
smelled just like sandalwood.

What? Son of a barber, okay?
I know my traditional
hair products.

So Julie was having
an affair with Dr. Muir?

If we leave now,
we can question them and be
back in a couple of hours.

No. Not in this thing.
And we have a show.
We can't be late.

You know, we're not
circus performers, okay?
We solve murders.

Yeah. We're
undercover murder-solvers.

- If we don't make it back
in time, we'll blow our cover.
- Tell you what.

I will search
for a faster vehicle, all right?

Oh, but first,
I gotta go scavenge
some Russian costumes...

because somebody said
we did a Russian act.

- It was a great idea.
- [ Door Clatters ]

Dr. Brennan,
if you do have to perform,

any chance that you could set up
a webcam so we could watch?

You know, to see
if we might be of any help
with the case, I mean.

Yeah. Absolutely.
Anything to help.

[ Whispers ]
Yes!

Did you bring
our real clothes?Yes. They're in the bag.

Where did you learn
to drive this thing?

You're kidding me,
right? I'm a cop.

We should really talk
about our act.

[ Vincent ]
Two complementary fractures on
each of the victims' craniums.

Like their heads
were cracked together?Interesting fact.

- Yes. But is it pertinent?
- Indeed.

In the fraternity
of forensic anthropologists,

these are known
as "kissing fractures."

So heads knocked together
is the cause of death?

Little known fact:
there were actually six men
known as the Three Stooges.

So we're going
with the Three Stooges
as the cause of death?

Such would be my inclination.

I'll let you
pass that nugget on
to Dr. Brennan...

when you tell her
about the fractures.

I already sent off
the girls' medical records.

I'm not sure how else
I can help you.

I want to run my fingers
through your hair.

Why?

To prove you were
in a sexual relationship
with Julie Van Owen.

And running your fingers
through my hair
will prove that?

Yeah.Look Dr. Brennan up
on the Internet.

She's getting very famous
for this kind of stuff.

You're not gonna
understand this.

- You had a threesome.
- Absolutely not.

I dated Jenny first,
and then I fell
in love with Julie.

Jenny didn't really like that.

That's why he recommended
separating the twins.

Well, that's not true.
My recommendation
was totally objective.

Maybe the mother found out
and sued his whole life away.

Which is the only reason we kept
the relationship a secret.[ Brennan ] Relationship?

- Sexual relationship?
- How?

Well, when you were--
I'm trying to understand.

When, uh, you and Julie--The girls had
separate genitalia.

A fair amount of privacy
could be achieved...

by an eye mask
and an MP3 player
turned up very loud.

Julie liked
the Kings of Leon.
Jenny liked Maroon 5.

The American Medical Association
is going to take away
your license.

- Yeah. That's a motive
for murder.
- We should arrest him.

Wait. On what charges?

Definitely positive for
the "suspicion of murder" thing.

But you know, the, uh--

The other thing is just, uh--
It's, well, confusing.

Can you go faster?
We'll miss the show.

No. We're making
great time, Bones.
All right? Relax.

- [ Cell Phone Ringing ]
- All right, a little help
there. The phone's ringing.

I'm kind of busy.Oh, okay.
Should we talk about our act?

We need costumes.We don't need the Russian
costumes, all right?

We're dropping the act.What? You could throw knives,
I thought.

Yeah, I know we can.
But we caught the bad guy,
all right?

We don't need to go undercover.
What are you doing--
digging for loose change?

Oh! Got it.

[ Beeps ]Special Agent
Seeley Booth's phone.

Dr. Temperance Brennan
speaking.

Dallas field office.
It's for you.

Yeah, of course it is.
It's my phone.

Well, then ask them
what they want.What is this about, please?

They say that all of Dr. Muir's
alibis checked out,

and they can't hold him
for murder.

Whoa. He didn't
kill the twins?

He couldn't have driven all
the way to the Texas-Oklahoma
border during that time.

Now could we talk about our act?
I do know a few words
in Russian.

Oh, no.

Vincent provided me
with the approximate forces
it would take...

to cause
the kissing fractures
to the twins' skulls.

Approximately
300 pounds
per square inch.

Which is,
by the way, the same
as a pit bull's bite.

Were they attacked
by a pit bull?Not a likely scenario, no.

See how this works,
Mr. Nigel-Murray?

A kind of mental
winnowing process.

Okay, scenario number one.

Whiplash.

- [ Vincent ] No.
- No?

There'd
be evidence of trauma
in the vertebrae as well.

Excellent mental winnowing.Okay,
scenario number two.

A fall.

No. The rest of the skeleton
would've showed evidence
of the fall.

Scenario number three.

They're assaulted
separately by a weapon.

That's possible.

- Oh, no. Actually, it's not.
- Why not?

Well, because the wounds are
absolutely symmetrical here.

The possibility of an assailant
striking them separately...

at the exact same angle,
with the exact same force--
it ain't gonna happen.

Okay. Well,
the heads could've
been conked together.

There'd be evidence on
the soft tissue of the face.

There was
no soft tissue left.

What if the blunt instrument
was soft?

What, like a pillow?

Oh, wait a second.[ Typing ]

Clown props.

I'll call Booth
and Dr. Brennan.Nice.

When Cortez
conquered the Aztecs,

clowns were among
the many treasures...

he carried back
to Clement VII.

Thank you. That's--

[ Murmurs ]

[ Booth ]
Ah!

You ready?[ Affecting Russian Accent ]
Yes.

Ready to throw knives
at beautiful woman.

- Not "at," I hope.
- Right. No, of course.

Ha-ha. Around.

Wow! Wanda.
You-- You look--

- Wow.
- You too, uh, Boris.

- You make beautiful Natasha.
- [ Chuckles ]

Man, you act like
this is the first time
you've done this.

- Yeah, well, we like
to keep things fresh.
- So I've seen.

Okay. So, um--
[ Clears Throat ]

I stand against a board, right,
with balloons all around me,

and then you pop them
with your razor-sharp knives?

Right.
Unless we do our actual job
and find the murder weapon.

What's with the mustache?I thought it would add
a nice Russian flair.

It looks like
a small animal.[ Man ] Too short.

There's a giant
plastic ice-cream cone,
a giant plastic shoe,

a giant plastic phone,
a giant plastic--

Whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa!

Mind telling me
what you're doing here?

Oh, what,
you gonna play tough?
You're clowns, right?

- I throw knives.
- [ Chuckles ]
Let's kick his ass.

Yeah, bring it on, Bozo.Uh, we're just looking
for a prop. That's all.

Buck here is going to knock
this nose off my face
with a knife.

Why does everyone
think the clown stuff
is there for everyone?

- This is ourstuff.
- Let's kick his ass,
you guys.

Traditionally, clowns are
fun loving and anarchistic.

- You are rigid and humorless.
- Let's kick both their asses!

You better have your biggest
ass-kicking shoes on.

Stop!

If y'all want
to have a Clem,
that's your business.

But after the show.

- Tumbles, I'm serious.
- [ Clown ] Your call.

- All right. Let's go, guys.
- Not so funny now,
eh, Tumbles?

That's enough,
Moosejaw.

We're lining up.
You two damn well
better be ready.

- [ Clown, Muttering ]
Thinks he's so big.
- I'm ready. How about you?

Yeah, I'm ready.
Oh, God. Bones.Oh! My eye.

You okay?I'm okay.

Well, we can't do
the show now.

What? No.
The show must go on.

Says who?

♪♪ [ Drumroll ]Ladies and gentlemen
and children of all ages,

welcome to Bingham's
Circus of Wonders,

the most sensational,
death-defying,[ Laughing ]

one-ring spectacular on earth!

♪♪ [ Orchestra: Circus ]

[ Man ]
Here they come! Yea!

♪♪ [ Continues ][ Clowns Laughing, Chattering ]

Hoo, hoo-hoo-hoo!

[ Crowd Chattering ]

[ Man ]
Hello, hello!

Hey, hey!

[ Chattering Continues ]

Good day! Good day! [ Wolf Whistle ]

They're clapping for us.

Smile, Boris, and wave.

Show them your knives.
Come on.

Where's the Buck Moosejaw
I married?

[ Crowd Cheering, Laughing ]

[ Knives Clang ]

[ Woman ]
Bonjour, mes amis!

[ Ringmaster Continues,
Indistinct ]Hey.

- Hey. I got props.
- Props? For what?

Props. Objects for you
to throw knives at.

No, no. You are going to stand
against the board-- still.

I am gonna throw knives
around you, but not too close.

That does not sound
like a very good act.

I'm sure the crowd
is expecting
a lot more than that.

There is no act, remember?
There's just me trying
not to kill you.

You said you were very good--
trained in knife skills
by the military.

Oh, I am very good,
but it's you I am concerned for.

Well, if you say
you're skilled, then I have
no reason to doubt you, do I?

[ Chuckles ] You know,
it's not good for the barbers
to fight before a show.

Those things are sharp.

Let's just get through this,
all right, Mrs. Moosejaw?

Okay.

Look at that.

The clowns are using
those fake barbells.

[ Nose Honks ] [ Clown Shouts ]

One of them could've
clocked the twins...

and smashed
their heads together.

The bar joining
the foam weights together,
it's too short.

The fulcrum wouldn't give
any of them sufficient force
to cause a kissing fracture.

They're clowns.
They have their ways.

[ Ringmaster ]
Folks, thanks a lot.
See you later on.

- You're up.
- [ Ringmaster ]
And now,

direct from their
triumphant tour
of Europe and the Far East,

Bingham's Circus of Wonders
is proud to present
the razor-sharp skills...

of the most thrilling,
the most breathtaking,

the most dangerous
knife-throwing act
in the world.

Boris and Natasha and Their
Russian Knives of Death!

♪♪ [ Drumroll ]

♪♪ [ Fanfare ]

- Huh. What's up
with Brennan's eye?
- Eye patch. That's very rakish.

Plus, she only has
to be half as scared.

Bones, just keep your arms
outstretched like this, okay?

Be very, very still.Okay.

Shouldn't the balloons
be closer to my body?Not if you want to live.

♪♪ [ Orchestra: Circus ]

[ Grunting ]

Waah!

♪♪ [ Stops ]

♪♪ [ Drumroll ]

[ Crowd Gasping, Applauding ]

[ Exhales ]

[ Man ]
That was amazing!
That was really amazing!

♪♪ [ Drumroll ]

[ Cheering, Applauding ]

[ Wild Cheering ]

Oh![ Angela ]
Whoo!

Da! Da!

Natasha's balloons
are no match...

for Boris's
Knives of Death!

Ah! Da!Hmm.

♪♪ [ Orchestra Continues ]

- Ah!
- Hmm?

Boris.Moya lyubov.
Spare the life
of yourlyubov.

[ Booth ]
Da.

Definitely.Da.

[ Hodgins ]
Are they sure they know
what they're doing?

♪♪ [ Drumroll ]

- [ Cheering ]
- ♪♪ [ Fanfare ]

- Oh!
- ♪♪ [ Continues ]

Hey!
[ Laughs ]

You really are
as good as you said.
You should try a blindfold.

Says the half-blind woman.

- ♪♪ [ Fanfare ]
- [ Whistling ]

[ Crowd Oohing ]

Is it me, or does she seem
a little too into this?

Well, there is, of course,
a sexual component
to an act of this sort.

- The knife representing--
- We get it.

Dr. Brennan
is showing remarkable
trust and willingness.

[ Man ]
Be careful!

She's only got
one eye left!

- [ Laughter ]
- Da! Da!

♪♪ [ Drumroll ]

[ Inhales ]

♪♪ [ Drumroll Continues ]

[ Gasps ][ Wild Cheering ]

♪♪ [ Fanfare ]

[ Cheering ]

♪♪ [ Continues ]

[ Ringmaster ]
Well, how about that!
Let's hear it for 'em, folks.

Boris the Brave
and the knee-knockingly
lovely Natasha!

Come, Boris. [ Crowd Cheering, Whistling ]

Let 'em hear it, folks.

[ Laughing ]
They loved us.
You were great.

Superb hand-eye
coordination there,
Buckie.

I could've killed you.Therein lies the excitement
for the spectators.

- Our own superstrong
Mighty Magnum!
- [ Cheers, Applause ]

[ Booth ]
My God. What?

- Magnum. Look.
- [ Grunts ]

- ♪♪ [ Loud Whistle ]
- [ Cheering ]

He definitely has
the upper-body strength
to swing a foam barbell...

hard enough to cause
those fractures.

[ Ringmaster ]
Check out those arms of steel!

- Hey there, big guy.
You got a minute?
- [ Spits ] For what?

I want to ask you a question
about my friends,
Julie and Jenny.

Look, this is getting old.
Now, I told you.

They were here. They left.
That's all I know. Check
with some other circuses maybe.

- They're dead.
But you knew that, didn't you?
- [ Scoffs ] Dead?

- What are you talking about?
- Their heads were smashed
together, weren't they?

[ Grunting ]

Oh!Oh! Geez.

That guy is strong.Well, he is called
a "strong man."

Well, help me
get out of this.I'm trying to get out.

[ Booth ] Look, I want to put
a BOLO on this guy right away.

Magnum the Strong Man.
Real name-- Norman von Gluck.

Well,
of course he's big.
He's a strong man.

Look, he's wearing
a tank top
that says "Magnum."

He shouldn't
be too hard to spot.[ Beeps ]

Mr. Nigel-Murray has found
some additional bone anomalies.

[ Brennan ] Can you explain?"Anomaly,"
from the Greek anomalos.

I'm thinking we could move
this along a bit faster,
Mr. Nigel-Murray.

[ Exhales ]
I found slight
longitudinal fractures...

along the distal ends
of all four lower leg bones...

and stress fractures
on the cuboids.

Fractures to
the lower legs and feet.

Does the guy
torture 'em first?
Rubber hose to the feet?

That wouldn't be consistent with
the injuries which are isolated
to those specific areas.

[ Brennan ]
Can you send me
the X-rays?

The X-rays are--They're on their way.

I was more than capable
of telling her that.

I was afraid you'd start talking
about Wilhelm Conrad Roöntgen...

and the discovery
of the X-ray.

November the 8th, 1895.
He made an image
of his wife's hand--

I rest my case.
By the way,
we all loved your show.

Oh, thank you.
Did you hear the cheering?

- Eh, it was all for me.
- Booth was undeniably good.

However, he's not
very imaginative
as far as the act goes.

Look, there is a difference
between imagination
and tempting fate.

I am just asking
for a little flair.

Flair?
You want flair--

- Can I ask about the eye?
- No.

I was thinking that
I could wear a hat of fruit,

and then you could slice
through each fruit while--

Bones, it's over.
No more undercover.

The act, it's over.

We have to go question
the other performers.

Right.

Hey.

You two want to explain
what happened
with Magnum?

[ Brennan ]
He trapped us in the net.For no reason?

- We asked him
about the twins.
- Asked what?

If he knew anything
about how they died.

[ Clown ] You want us
to take care of this?Settle.

Who are you people?F.B.I. Special Agent
Seeley Booth.

And Dr. Temperance Brennan
of the Jeffersonian
Institution.

Okay, uh,
the Van Owen twins
were murdered.

Our prime suspect
right now is Magnum.

He had
the requisite strength.

- Magnum never killed anyone.
- People, can you
please come back now?

Tell them to come back.None of us
are gonna help you.

- Don't you care
what happened to the twins?
- You aren't one of us.

You don't get it, do you?
How could you?
You're gillies.

No. No. We're not gillies.
Our act was good.

Yeah. You're gillies.

Right.
[ Sighs ]We have no case.

Yeah. We will
when we bring Magnum in.

We have no definitive forensics
tying him or anyone else
to the murder.

You will when you
get back to the lab.
You'll find evidence.

The "boneus maximus"
will have his initials
on it or something.

I really was pretty good
on the high wire.

I'm gonna try it.No-- Up there? Now?

Wait a second. Bones, no.
You will-- You'll fall.
It's too high.

- There's a net.
- You got no depth perception.
You have a patch on your eye.

- You won't be able to see.
- No. It's more a case of feel.

- I could do it
with my eyes shut.
- You shut your eyes,

and I will shut mine,
'cause I am not watching.

My teacher said
I was one of his
best students.

This is crazy.

- Booth, look!
- No.

I told you.
I'm not gonna look.
I'm keeping my eyes shut.

This is absolutely--
Oh, my God.

Bones. Whoo!
Wow! You are fearless.

My feet.
I'm not in shape for this.

Look at you.
You're doing great.

You think maybe you
could ride a bike
on that thing...

and maybe spin
a ball on your nose
at the same time?

- Ow! My cuboids.
- Your what?

- The cuboids are the bones
in my feet.
- Bones, you all right?

- Bones.
- Yeah, I'm fine.

[ Shouts ] Oh, my God!

[ Panting ] Bones,
are you all right?

Yeah, I'm fine.
[ Gasps ]
I know what happened.

- It's pretty obvious.
You lost your balance.
- No. To the twins.

They weren't murdered.

The stress fractures
to their fibulas
and cuboids?

They were caused by walking
on the high wire.

And-And the kissing fracture?

Their heads snapped together
when they fell into the net.

That's why there
was no other trauma.

Oh. A conjoined twin
high wire act.

Henry said that Jenny
wanted to be famous.

Their act would've been
completely unique.

[ Brennan ]
Well, that's a first.

Yeah. He covered up
an accident by making it
look like a murder.

[ Magnum ]
I didn't kill 'em.

I didn't kill 'em.

I loved them.

I would never
hurt them.We know.

I buried them,
and they needed
a proper burial.

Don't say anything,
Magnum.

You asked them not to go on the
high wire, but that's exactly
what they wanted to do.

It's probably the only thing
Julie and Jenny ever agreed on.

When they dropped to the net,
the force of the fall
snapped their heads together.

An accident like that,
their mother definitely
would've sued.

The circus
would never have survived.

I'm gonna have to arrest you
for interference
with a dead body.

- We're sorry. Aren't we?
- Yeah.

- Sorry.
- We're going to get you
a good lawyer.

Just don't bring them
into this.

'Cause I don't wanna see
the circus die
because of me.

What you're gonna
have to explain is why
you wrapped 'em in a sheet,

because that's
something a woman
would do out of respect.

You'll also have to explain
how you forged their
handwriting on a note.

Yeah. I will.

Thanks.

Well, I'll just call up
the Dallas field office
and have them pick him up.

Think he'll run again?

[ Booth ]
No. He won't run.

[ Man: Ballad ]
♪ Some are reaching
Few are there ♪

♪ Want to reign
from a hero's chair ♪

♪ Some are scared
to fly so high ♪

[ Groans ] ♪ Well, this is how
we have to try ♪

♪ Have no envy and no fear ♪

♪ Have no envy ♪

♪ And no fear ♪

They're gone.Yeah.

We slept through it?Yeah. Yeah.

"Boris and Natasha and Their
Russian Knives of Death."

I guess we all
got it in us, huh?

The desire to run off
and join the circus.

- We did it.
- Buck and Wanda were damn good.

Buck was more dashing
than you. I mean,
Buck drove a motorcycle.

- Well, Wanda
was funner than you.
- How?

She let me knock off
a rubber nose from her face
with a knife.

You would never
let me do that.
You are way too rational.

♪ Have no envy ♪[ Both Laughing ]

♪ And no fear ♪

Where do you think
they are now?

Over the horizon.

♪ When your sister
turns to leave ♪

♪ Only when
she's most in need ♪♪

What's that mean?