Bones (2005–2017): Season 9, Episode 4 - The Sense in the Sacrifice - full transcript

Previously on Bones...

SWEETS:
There's a hacker named

Christopher Pelant.
Where are you?

Pretty much anywhere
I want to be.

- This guy's killed how many people?
- Eight.

This guy is worse than anyone

you and I
have ever come across.

And he told you that if you
married Temperance, that

he would choose five random
human beings and kill them?

BOOTH: Not only if I married
Bones but if I told her

why we couldn't get married.



What kind of flower is that?

It's a marigold.

What's that mean?
Pain and grief.

Christopher Pelant,

you are under arrest.

We have nothing on him.
So Pelant wins?

SAROYAN:
Yes, today

Pelant wins.

Down!

Been looking for this guy

for three months,
and I got nothing.

It's a complete dead end.

Pelant's laughing
at us right now.

The key will be to tie Pelant
to the murders specifically.



BOOTH:
Pelant is still out there.

We're still waiting for him
to make the next move.

Hey, I-I love
the closeness, sweetie,

but isn't there something else
you could be doing?

Just want to make sure
the shield works.

Yeah, well, I've set up
a trident sub's worth

of microwave-emitting
jammers.

There is no way that Pelant
is hacking through this thing.

Hey, Sweets,

what are you doing here?
Thought you were on leave.

Well, this whole idea
started with me.

CAROLINE: Pelant thinks he's
smarter than all of us,

which might be true,

but he's not smarter
than all of us put together.

Hey, is this the guy?

Yes.

Late 30s, excellent dentition,
good tone.

His name was Donald Hestnes.

Yeah, what happened to him?

Coronary occlusion.

Fortunately
he had willed his body

to the Jeffersonian.

Somehow I don't think this is
quite what he had in mind.

Do you object to our plan,

Ms. Julian?

Legally it passes muster, as the
deceased donated

his body to science.

That being said, what you're
doing gives me the chills.

The situation necessitates it.

Pelant's fundamental
personality structure is

psychopathic
with extreme narcissism

that demands an audience.
Less shrinky, cher.

He won't be able

to tolerate someone else
stealing his spotlight.

We're going to smoke him out.

MONTENEGRO:
I, uh,

conceptualized
a copycat body drop.

Pelant usually goes
for the baroque,

so I modeled it
after a painting

by Salvator Rosa.

The punishment of Prometheus.

He was bound to a rock
and his liver was torn out

by a giant eagle.
SAROYAN: That body may not be

sufficiently degraded
for us to get the call.

I already took care of that.

HODGINS:
Aw, Angie,

that is brilliant.

Yeah, I kind of hate it.

We'd better get to it.

♪ Name

♪ This night

♪ And hold me here

♪ Till morning

♪ Takes my eyes

♪ Name

♪ This song

♪ And hold my voice

♪ Till silence takes it down

♪ There's a secret here

♪ A grown man could not find

♪ And I told you
there was nothing ♪

♪ I have to hide.

This is excellent
work, very thorough.

Lovely.

Makes me want
to poke my eyes out.

You may hate it,

but it is amazing.

Let's hope it worth it.

Nobody followed you?
No, don't worry.

I doubled back, like, five times

to make sure no one tailed me.

Where do I deliver the body?

Back entrance to the Jackson,
uh, Arboretum, all right?

There's no night security
there since the sequester.

What's my window?

Five hours all in.

I know you don't like this idea.
Yeah.

You've been hunting Pelant
for months on your own.

Yeah, and I've gotten nowhere,

so I got to try
something new here.

But you don't like it.

Yeah, I don't like it.

Pelant put me behind a desk

for the rest of my career.

I appreciate you giving me
this chance

to catch the bastard.

Wow, that's... wow.

It was actually a
fascinating exercise.

Do you know this is the first
time I've burned a human bone?

Not the right tone, Bones.

Oh, yeah.
SWEETS: So, the body

has to be displayed
on this big boulder

at the entrance to
the fern grotto.

According to the myth,
Prometheus' torment began

each day with the rising sun,

so the skull needs
to face the east.

You got it.

Presentation is vital. Deviate
even slightly, and Pelant will know

we're setting him up.
All right.

Well, I'm not about
to argue with a woman

who can solve a murder

using only a tooth
and a magnifying glass.

I have solved a murder
using only a tooth,

but I used significantly
more sophisticated equipment

than a magnifying glass.

I'll do it exactly
the way you said.

Well, Flynn's motivated,
he'll get it done.

Five hours, Flynn.

I won't forget this, Booth.

You're doing me a big favor.

Do you wish
you were going with him?

I wish I'd killed Pelant
three months ago.

It'd be better
to catch him alive.

Better for who?

I wish the call would come in.

We could have sex.
Huh?

Well, our bodies need
to relieve tension

so we can sleep.

Oh, way to take
the romance out of it.

Well, I'm just being practical.

I just know I always sleep
best after several orgasms.

Okay, what, is that
some kind of a challenge?

Maybe.

Flynn?

No, FBI.

They found the body.

Police responded to a call...
BOOTH: Okay, so what do we got?

SAROYAN: The remains were found by
a dog walker one hour ago.

She called it in to Metro.

Poor woman will have nightmares

for the rest of her life.

Well, we can't fake
everything. Time of death?

Blowfly larvae indicate
ten hours ago.

The extent of the evisceration

and the manner

in which the body
is bound indicate

a retelling of the Prometh...

Oh, God.

A flower.

It's not us?

Oh, no.

Hodgins, do you know?

Yeah, it's, it's a monkshood.

Means "A foe is near."

This is a message from Pelant.

He's telling us
we didn't fool him.

It's worse than that.

What?
This isn't our body.

What?
Are you sure?

BRENNAN: This victim
has remodeled fractures

on the third and fourth
left ribs and both clavicles.

Come on, come on, come on.

This remodeling wasn't
in our corpse.

It suggests bullet wounds
that are less than a year old.

It's Flynn.
Well, how do you know?

He took those bullets for me.
I know those wounds.

Hi, this is Flynn.

If you're listening to this
instead of talking to me,

I must have
a really good reason.

♪

Visual inspection
of the mandibular offset,

in conjunction with the angle
of the zygomatic

and the already noted
remodeled bullet wounds,

indicates...
that Booth was correct

and this is Hayes Flynn.

Oh, my God.

You all right?

SAROYAN:
There are no defensive wounds.

Pelant has used
injectable anesthetic

to immobilize victims
in the past.

Well, I'll, uh,

run a tox screen to confirm.

Kerf marks on the sternum
congruent

with a manual bone saw.

Striae indicate
32 passes were made.

32 passes... is that
one of Pelant's ticks?

No,

it's one of mine.

He mirrored my technique.

Why?

MONTENEGRO:
Be-Because he's trying

to get under your skin.

I'll swab for particulates.

Pelant does not leave
particulates.

Well, someday he'll
make a mistake.

I just hope I'm the
one that catches it.

Oh, God.

There are clamp marks
on the hepatic artery.

What, what does that mean?

What does that mean?

Tell me.

My guess... it was so he
could keep Flynn alive

while he fully removed his liver.

Like Prometheus.

He's telling us that
this is our fault.

But it's not.
We were trying to piss him off.

Well, we succeeded,
and we got Flynn killed.

We did not kill
Hayes Flynn; Pelant did.

Now, the only thing we can do
is try to catch Pelant,

using the evidence in front of us.
MONTENEGRO: Well, what if we don't?

What if this
just goes on forever?

It won't. In fact, I almost
feel sorry for Pelant.

What?

He killed someone who
saved Booth's life.

Cam's right;
Booth will never give up.

Look, I don't need that
right now, okay, Aldo?

I have more important stuff
to deal with, you understand?

I'm a bartender, not a priest.

You want to talk, you
got to buy a drink.

Fine. Here.

There's your money.

It's not your fault
the guy died.

Look, I went
along with the plan.

I didn't like the plan
but I went along with it,

and a good guy died from it.

I absolve you of your sin.

You think this was my fault?

I do not, but you do.

Now, how did psycho
killer find out?

I don't know.
I mean, we thought

that he couldn't hear us
or see us,

but obviously we were wrong.

Or somebody told him.

Not me, because I
didn't know about it.

So who does that leave?

People I trust with my life.

And maybe the guy
who got killed?

BOOTH: Okay, let's take this
place apart, all right?

Pelant had eyes on Flynn...
we're not leaving

until we find them.
Booth, I know you didn't like the plan,

and since it was my plan...
You know what, Sweets?

It was a good plan, okay?

What went wrong after
was not your fault.

Thank you.

So, how do you think
Pelant found out?

Like he always does... he hacked
a phone or planted a bug.

I had another idea.

What's that?

Flynn.

That's not possible.

All right.
Have you been here before?

Yeah, a couple times.

And does anything
look different?

Not really. Ever since
his divorce, he didn't really

care much about stuff.

It looks like he was trying
to come to grips with something.

Look, Sweets, Flynn was a hero
who got shot to pieces, okay?

He's lucky that he survived.
They put him behind his desk

to end his career... so yeah, he
was coming to grips with stuff.

Check out all
the power sources, okay?

And look for any
kind of transmitter.

SWEETS: And what if there
isn't any, Booth?

Will you suspect Flynn then?
No, I won't, Sweets.

I'll just figure that
Pelant got here before us

and he removed it, okay?
So take a look around,

and if you see anything strange

or out of the ordinary,
just tell me.

I looked at the swabs
from Flynn's body

with polarized light microscopy,

energy-dispersive X-rays
and mass spectrometer.

I found a few spores

from the arboretum, but that
would be just plain weird not to.

I got nothing that points us
anywhere else.

Pelant isn't working
from the arboretum.

No, no.

I-It's too public, you know?

He needs privacy.

The absence of evidence
is in itself evidence.

That's right.
Yeah, as well as privacy,

Pelant needs
a sterile environment

with air filtration,
a power supply,

soundproofing.

You know, Angela
can map up a...

a radius...
Cool, great.

We're gonna get right on that.

What is that?

BRENNAN:
Flynn's clavicle was fractured

by a bullet,
surgically repaired,

then a pin was inserted
after it started to set.

Isn't that standard?
If the pin

is made from steel or titanium.

This pin is made
from artificial bone,

an extremely
expensive procedure.

I don't see how Hayes Flynn
could afford this.

Okay, look, Flynn had some,
uh, expensive surgery done

after the shooting.

How expensive?
Too expensive for him.

Even if he lived like
this to save money?

We're talking about,

like, rich-aunt money...
he didn't have a rich aunt.

So, did you get
anything off the books?

All in all,
they are appropriate to

someone whose life has been
changed by a huge trauma.

Obviously, forgiveness...

is something that he
was struggling with.

You think maybe Pelant
paid for his surgery?

Sweets...
Booth, just hear me out.

What if Flynn's
forgiveness obsession

was actually an effort
to come to grips

with Pelant helping him?

Did you come up
with anything useful?

No.
MAN: You need to see this.

Agent Booth?

SWEETS: Fake passports,
credit cards, cash.

BOOTH:
Yeah, Sweets, I get it.

That's getaway stash.

Look, how do we know that
Pelant didn't set up Flynn?

It's called "preponderance
of evidence," cher.

Expensive surgery,
wads of cash...

You know what, he manipulates
evidence all the time, okay?

Look what he did to you,
Caroline.

Right? A-And he set Bones up.

Digitally...
in the virtual world.

He moves around bits and bytes;
That's his thing.

This is real money, paper,

things.
I don't believe it.

If Flynn were still alive,

I'd have to send you out
to arrest him.

Right, and I wouldn't do it.

You're that sure?

Really, just think
about it, okay?

Think, right? We keep
finding this evidence

because Pelant wants us to.

You know what would
make me suspicious?

If we didn't find
any evidence, okay?

That proves to me
that Flynn was clean.

Oh, wow.

Look at this, huh?
Bones just found

the doctor that did
Flynn's surgery.

Now we'll get the truth.

I hope so.

BRENNAN:
You implant micropor

ceramic pins
into complex fractures.

It's a highly
experimental procedure,

and you are the only
surgeon on the East Coast

capable of doing it.

That is correct.

You operated on this man.

BOOTH: What you don't want to do
right now is pull

some doctor-patient crap,
'cause this man was murdered.

Flynn. FBI agent.

Yes, I performed the
procedure on him.

How'd he pay for it?

Anonymous donation
to my research foundation.

From whom?
I can't tell you that.

Can't tell me?
You son of a...

Booth!
This anonymous donor

not only murdered Flynn,
but he's using you

to make him look corrupt.
Booth,

Booth, please,

let go.

I'm sorry.

No, I'm sorry.

What I should have said was,
I can't tell you because

when we looked for the source of
the money, we couldn't find it.

Shell companies?
Yes. The money

was going to aid an FBI agent

who was severely wounded
in the line of duty.

Our ethics committee found
no reason to refuse the money.

Agent Flynn... did he know?
I'm sorry,

I have no idea what Agent Flynn

did or did not know.
BRENNAN: He was

sedated for quite a while.

Agent Flynn should have died,

and he would have
if it weren't for me.

And this anonymous donor?
Booth,

the doctor did an incredible job

repairing 11 fractures
from bullet wounds

in such a short period of time.

Ten. There were
ten fractures.

But I found 11 remodeled fractures.
I'm telling you,

there were only ten...
your memory is playing tricks on you.

That's not possible.

It simply isn't.

Pelant paid that surgeon
to save Flynn's life.

Well, it doesn't mean that
Flynn, you know, knew.

I think Pelant is framing Flynn.
Why?

BRENNAN:
Because it's what you believe.

Whoa, wait a second,
Bones, th...

that is not rational.

Certainly it is.
You told that doctor

that I couldn't
possibly be wrong

about the number of remodeled
fractures I found. Why?

Why? Because all the time
we've been working together,

you have never been wrong
about something like that.

It is not possible that
you are wrong about Flynn,

so I'm being
completely rational.

WOMAN:
Aw...

We a-agreed to avoid
public displays of affection

at the FBI.

The hell with the FBI.

I have to go...

do scientific things
to catch a serial killer.

Right.

Sibley Memorial made
these X rays

the day Flynn was shot.

You'll notice there
are ten fractures,

all caused by
high-velocity bullets.

Those must be the ones
that Dr. Itzkowitz fixed.

He was telling the truth.
And these are our intake X rays

of Flynn's body.

The hospital's X rays
show only ten fractures,

but our X rays show 11.

The damage to Agent
Flynn's left humerus

is not a true fracture.

What is it?

It's likely Pelant
used an etching tool

to simulate the break

and digital lithography
for the remodeling.

The craftsmanship is...
really astounding.

Are you complimenting Pelant?

Well, his skill,

his intelligence.

His abilities are
awe-inspiring.

I've seen this one before.

This is identical

to a fractured bone

from a homicide
I worked on nine years ago.

One of Pelant's?

I don't know.
It's still unsolved.

Pelant is sending me a message.

Oh, here we go,
down the rabbit hole.

Identical.

Hello, Temperance.

Pelant.

Let's talk.

BRENNAN:
If that goes off,

it'll kill you, too.

You and I are destined
to die together someday.

Hope not today, but...
but that's up to you.

I-I'm just...

I'm gonna remind you
that you're a mother,

so self-sacrifice
isn't the best option.

Plus, whoever is right
above us will also die.

That's a public area.

Is it?

What-what do you
think happened

to poor Chloe Campbell?

- I think you killed her.
- No. Wasn't me.

You know who did it?

Same person who did 1870,

3606, 4005, 7932

and 9224.
No, that's not possible.

I wouldn't have missed that.

Don't be so hard on yourself.

They were found in different
geographical locations,

killed by completely different
methods, different ages.

Nothing to connect them.
And yet...

they were all killed
by one person.

Who?

I don't know.

Yet. But...

because I'm better than you
and all your squinterns,

I will figure out
who the killer is.

I think, um...
I think she's pretty bad,

and I think
she's still out there.

She?

Well, I'm-I'm being
sloppily generic, but...

I have my reasons for thinking
it's a woman.

And if anything happens to me,
sh-she'll keep doing

what she's doing

and you won't even
know she's there.

I know you.
You'll find me.

It's in the stars.

Yeah, um, don't move
until that beam goes off.

Think about all
the innocent lives

you're saving
by-by doing absolutely nothing.

I scanned the currency
you found in the apartment.

Flynn's money was all

new bills.
Wait, not Flynn's money.

Okay, fine.

The money you found hidden
in his fridge.

The bills with serial numbers
on either side of the money

you found are circulating
in central Maryland.

There's just too many there
for it to be a coincidence.

Each of these pins represents a
place where the money was spent.

By Pelant.

Yeah, he works alone.

It's got to be him.

That's still
a few hundred square miles.

Wait, where's Bones?

I don't... I don't know.

Bones.
Don't come in, Booth.

What's going on?
GUARD: There's an explosive device.

We've called the bomb squad.

You all right, Bones?
It was Pelant.

He says if I move,
the bomb will go off.

It's not real.

You can clear out.

BRENNAN: Booth?
Yeah.

It's not that I doubt you.

I'm just curious how you know
it's not real.

It's a toy.

Okay? You can order this thing

from the back of a comic book.

You know, we can wait
for the bomb squad,

but you're gonna be standing
there for five hours.

I'm fine.

See?

Fake. All right?

So...

what did Pelant say to you?

That there's a serial killer
out there

and that we'll never catch her
without him.

Do you believe him?

I haven't looked into it yet.

You know what?
I think we're getting close.

Pelant knows it and he's afraid.

Because you're gonna kill him.

You looking for something
you might have missed? him.

I can't find anything
that connects these cases.

Pelant could be lying.

He's never lied to me.

Well, this could be his way
of distracting you

from what's really important
right now.

Or it's a clue.

Dr. Brennan, I need your focus

for a moment.
Were all

Flynn's teeth intact?

Yes. All teeth are present,

except the third bicuspid
is chipped.

I think I found
your missing piece.

Where did you find this?

In his stomach.

Pelant may not have had
the opportunity

to sterilize it as he did
the rest of Flynn's bones.

Hodgins should swab this
for particulates.

The last time I saw

Agent Flynn, I boasted
that I once solved a murder

using only a tooth.

Okay.

Dr. Brennan, do you really

think it's possible that Pelant

could find a link
between these cases

that you missed?

Something I've learned from
Booth is to question myself.

You've known Booth
longer than I have.

Do you think he'll kill Pelant

the next time
he has the chance?

Usually I'd say no, but...

the way Booth's turning Flynn
into a saint,

feels like he's working
himself up for something.

But Booth's a complex man.

I'm not sure any of us can tell

what he's really thinking
deep down.

Call me if Hodgins gets
any information from the tooth.

Is it okay
if I don't have a drink?

No. You people
are killing me here.

This is a business.

Not a very good business.

Because people don't buy drinks.
Okay, what if

I buy a drink
but don't drink it?

That works for me.

Booth wants to kill Pelant.
Which is fine.

He's a very bad man.
He's murdered...

we don't know how many people.
What if there's

someone worse and we need Pelant
to catch that killer?

Oh, God.

It's these ethical dilemmas

that drove me out
of the priesthood.

I need to know
what Booth is going to do.

So you can protect Pelant?

He's more valuable alive
than dead. That's all.

It depends which Booth is there.

Seeley Booth, the one I love.

No, I mean, like all of us,
he has two sides to him.

He has one side that wants
to save the world

and one side that wants
to take care of the people

he loves.

Those two collide, well,

that's what you call
a tortured soul.

There's no such thing as a soul.

Says you.

But Booth values nothing higher

than his soul. Yet...

he's willing to sacrifice
his soul by killing Pelant.

Why?

For you, of course.

It's always gonna come down
to you.

How's your work
going, Dr. Brennan?

Pelant has left me a puzzle.

I just don't know
what the solution is.

Maybe there isn't one.
He could just be

using these bones
to distract you.

Pelant doesn't distract.
He leaves clues.

The key to finding him must be
in these bones.

Even if these are all
the victims of one killer,

they still have nothing
to do with Pelant.

Let's go after one murderer
at a time.

These are the wrong bones.

That's what I've been trying
to tell you.

Pelant switched the bones

in all of the drawers
he directed me to.

These aren't the bones
that belong in drawer 1870.

They originate
from drawer 1452.

Except for Chloe Campbell,
none of the remains

are in the correct drawers.

Why would Pelant switch remains
from one drawer to another?

It's another code.

He's sending me a message.

SWEETS: All right,
you're gonna yell at me,

but this is my job
and I'm gonna risk it.

What? Are you gonna say that you
found something that indicates

that Flynn
was Freudian delusional

with synergistic
narcissism disorder, huh?

What? I don't...
That's not a thing.

I'm here about Pelant.

Okay.

I believe he's trying

to seduce Dr. Brennan.
What?

With this whole
nonexistent serial killer thing?

No.

Yes, but mostly no.

I'm saying
in a more profound way.

Bones hates Pelant.

Exactly. Pelant is using
my research

against you and Dr. Brennan.

And the lesson
that he's taken from that

is that Dr. Brennan changes
her mind about people.

Okay, what people?
After your first case together,

she detested you.

And she hated me at first, too.
Right?

You know what?
She never hated you. She just

didn't believe in the stuff
that you were saying.

That's all.
Right.

But now we're very close.

Pelant truly believes

that he can make Dr. Brennan
see him in a new light.

The-the same way that you did.

You got to be kidding me.
That's crazy.

Pelant's crazy.
What does... what does

all this mean, Sweets?
Spell it out.

Well, Dr. Brennan

is Pelant's endgame.

He's trying to replace you.

Has he done anything
to prevent the two of you

from getting together
that we don't know about?

I'll take that as a yes.

Does this mean
he won't hurt Bones?

Up until the moment he discovers

that she'll never have him,
yeah.

Then what happens?

Then he kills her,

he kills himself
and anyone else nearby.

You sure we're safe
to work in here?

I've tripled my firewalls

just to be sure.

Security has no idea
how Pelant got in the building.

I pulled the closed circuit
files to see

if I could find anything
they missed.

Let me guess,

they were all corrupted.

Completely.

Pelant only lets us find
what he wants us to find.

I swabbed the tooth you pulled
out of Flynn's stomach.

Please tell me you found something.
I found a whole lot

of minerally goodness.
Look at this:

Iron oxide, sulfur,
uranium, thorium,

calcium, potassium, a smidgen
of silicon dioxide.

Let me rephrase. Please tell me
you found one thing I can use.

All of this is one thing:
It's bituminous coal ash.

So Flynn was in the proximity
of a coal-burning fire

when his tooth was chipped?

Who burns coal anymore?

Old foundries or power plants.
I mean, their furnaces,

they would definitely have
this kind of mix of compounds.

We know Pelant is working out

of central Maryland.
HODGINS: Okay. All right.

Well, then see what you can
find in that radius.

MONTENEGRO:
Okay, there's this.

The Keeler Power Plant.
They shut down

operations ten years ago.

An abandoned power plant.

Yeah, that would give Pelant
isolation,

scale, a power supply.
Hey,

this is the perfect
infrastructure to work from.

I'll call Booth.

CAROLINE: What's this?
What's this?

We found Pelant.
I'm going after him.

Yes, with a SWAT team.
No,

he's not gonna let that happen,
you understand me?

This is between me, him,

and Bones.
What makes you think

Pelant didn't put that tooth

in Flynn's stomach himself
to lure you out there?

Because I know Flynn, all right?
He chipped his own tooth

and swallowed it
so we could find it.

You must be pretty damn sure

Hayes Flynn
was the man you think he is.

I'd bet my life on it.

The Keeler Power Plant
is 23 miles away.

Booth is gonna need a schematic.

All right, I'll send
this to his phone.

Pelant will have eyes and ears
all over this place.

I mean, he's gonna pick up the signals.
I'm frequency-hopping.

We have at least 15 minutes
before he suspects anything.

Unless he set it all up.

I'm inventorying all
the security feeds in the area.

SAROYAN:
Is that Booth?

Oh, man. He's way too early.

That's Brennan's car.

HODGINS:
How the hell did Brennan

know where to go?

Booth.

Hold on, hold on.

Damn it.

Oh, my Lord.

SAROYAN: Can you pick up her
visual on another feed?

I don't have anything
from inside the plant.

How did she find him?

I was looking at these old cold
cases, and these are her notes.

I mean, there isn't much.
It's a list of cities.

Damascus, Germantown,
Aspen Hill in Maryland.

Woodstock and Sterling in
Virginia and Washington, D.C.

These cities all correspond
to the original victims

from the bone drawers
Pelant named.

How did this lead Brennan
to the power plant?

HODGINS: I don't know.

She also wrote down this word
"Aquila." A-Q-U-I-L-A.

What does that mean?

Okay, Aquila.

Uh, Latin for "eagle."

Game reserve,

Italian aircraft
carrier, constellation.

Constellation.
It's the name of the bird

that devoured Prometheus' liver.

Lay the constellation
over the map.

Six

of these stars line up,
and the seventh star...

Altair. This is it.

This is the brightest one,
and that's where Pelant is.

That son of a bitch
wrote her a love note

that only she could understand.

PELANT:
Welcome.

Turn left and walk straight

until I tell you to stop.

There's Booth.
Can you open the gate?

I'm trying, but Pelant's
got me blocked out.

Can't you do something?

Christopher?

I'm here.

So am I.

Nice to see you.

Temperance, you look beautiful.

How much time do you think we
have before Booth gets here?

I'm alone.

Yeah, but that never lasts

for very long, does it?

If you surrender to me,
Booth won't kill you.

And if I don't, you'll shoot me?

There's only one
rational choice.

Good.

But you know Booth.

Very sneaky, very stealthy,
sniper at heart.

It'll take him forever
to get inside.

If I try to run away,

where will you shoot me?

In the head.

Never the head.

That's the part
of me you like best.

The mysterious serial killer...

are you curious why
I think it's a woman?

No, but I do want to know

if Hayes Flynn was working with you.
Not wittingly.

I mean, he didn't know
about the money in his fridge

or the bug in his car.

Please drop the gun.

What?

Oh, God.

Something exploded.

Hey, can you hear me? I-I...

I tried to shape the blast

so that it wouldn't
deafen you, but,

you know, no-nobody's perfect.

Here, come here. Hey.

I'm always ahead of you people.

I-I... I know how you work.

You let me lead you into
this trap, and Booth is still

circling the building
looking for a way in.

Looks like I came full circle.

You okay, Bones?
I'm okay.

Surprise! The next explosion
will level the entire building.

Dr. Brennan, tell Booth to leave
now, or I will blow us all up.

He's bluffing. It's a toy
just like the last time.

I'm not gonna take that risk.

Do you see, Booth?
She's willing

to risk your life to keep me
alive. What does that tell you?

You put it down,
or I'm gonna kill you.

Shoot him, Booth.
What?

I'm not willing to risk
your life to keep Pelant alive.

Not for one second.
Shoot him!

Time's up.

You okay?

Don't worry. It's okay.

He's dead.

He is dead?

I'm sorry.
Well, you know, you should be sorry.

I did want him alive,
and I was pretty sure

that you'd kill him
if you could.

Well, you know what?
You weren't wrong.

I did kill him.

You gave him a chance.

You're a very good man.

I'm in to Pelant's
security system.

That's them.

Oh, thank God.

Look, we got to make a deal,

and this deal has got
to stick, all right?

From now on, I will
do all the fighting

and the shooting and the
apprehending of killers, okay?

You can do all the
smart stuff, right?

You can stay in the lab
and play with your bones

and all that good stuff.

You know, I don't come
into your lab there

and play with your telescopes
and stuff like that.

I don't have a telescope.

What's wrong?

Are they both all right?

Looks like it.

Why'd they stop?

Look, the main
reason that I, um...

wanted to kill Pelant

was because, um,

he kept me from marrying you.

I thought
it was something like that.

Look, and if I told you

why we couldn't get married,

he was gonna kill
innocent people.

You made the right choice.

It's all right.

Bones...

if I ask you to marry me,

will you say yes?

If I say yes,
will we get married?

Yes.

Was that what it looked like?

Looks like a proposal.

I feel like
we missed a whole bunch.

Who cares? We were here
for the big happy ending.

What's that mean?