Bond In The Boot - Season 5, Episode 2
A man waits in a parking lot, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. An assailant attacks the man, shooting twice. He cuts off his victim's hand, and makes off with the briefcase. Shots ring out as his car peels away, running over the body.
At the crime scene Booth is incredulous that Brennan's publishers gave her a Rolex in addition to her large advance. He can't even afford a plumber to fix his pipes. Brennan offers him money, but Booth won't accept; he'll fix the pipes himself. Cats feast upon the remains of the victim. The body went unnoticed for two days: it's a long-term parking garage, and the security camera was cut. There's paint on the speed bump, and the man has a broken leg from being run over by the assailant.
At the lab Cam finds steel wool on the remains, suggesting the victim was shot with a silencer. Wendall notes that an Ilizarov Apparatus was used to lengthen the bones, thus proving that the victim was Russian: this device was employed solely in the Soviet Union prior to 1981. Wendell can also tell there is bone bruising; someone tried to pull something from the victim's wrist. Hodgins finds plastic from a Russian airline in the cats' excrement. The victim was a recent arrival. Both meets with Harold Prescott of the State Department, who says the victim is Yuri Antonov, a courier for a Ukrainian diamond firm who arrived three days ago via the diplomatic checkpoint. The State Department didn't authorize a diplomatic visa. No one knows what's in that briefcase. This is a matter of national security. Booth meets with Lena Brodsky, the Ukrainian woman in charge of the diamond firm. Antonov was carrying two million dollars worth of diamonds. She doesn't know why he went through the diplomatic checkpoint.
Angela finds that the car that hit Antonov was 3700 pounds. According to Hodgins, the paint from the speed bump is called Tungsten Silver. Angela has a match for the car. It's an Aston Martin... James Bond's car. Cam interrupts with bad news: Wendell lost his scholarship. The trust that funds it has run out of money. Cam hopes to find other financing, so she hasn't told Wendell. Booth and Brennan ask Sweets to profile Antonov. He believes that Antonov could have been a spy. Booth tries to locate a book called Plumbing for Dummies. Sweets discerns that Booth is uncomfortable because Brennan makes more money than he does. Booth says he simply wants to relearn a skill he lost while in his coma. Booth gets a call: the Aston Martin has been located. Sweets privately advises Brennan to allow Booth to teach Brennan about plumbing so that he won't feel that he's beneath his wealthy partner.
Officer Lisa Kopek tells the partners that the Aston Martin is registered to a rental service, and was leased with a corporate credit card. Brennan notes that the car is bleeding. There is a corpse in the trunk, along with a Walther PPK and a CIA badge. Brennan views damage to the spine of their newest victim. Hodgins finds residue on his fingers that suggests he killed Antonov. Brennan is saddened that Wendell is losing his scholarship, but she won't donate money to his cause; she doesn't like getting attached to her interns. Cam is on a board that awards scholarships, but they are only for high-school students. Does Hodgins' foundation give grants? Hodgins replies that all assets are frozen due to the economy. Wendell appears and the Squints panic. Did he hear?
At the CIA, Booth and Brennan meet with Arthur Rutledge, the Assistant Director of Intelligence. He identifies the victim as Greg Dorit, a CIA analyst. Dorit studied websites, searching for hidden content. He was not given a weapon. Yet Brennan reports that Dorit's gun killed Antonov. Cam inspects Dorit's bloodshot eyes. Wendell discovers tiny holes on the right radius. Were they made by a drill? Cam asks about his neighborhood. Wendell relates that his scholarship was a miracle. If he ever comes into money, he is going to start a scholarship for other students from impoverished areas like him. Cam's heart breaks a little more.
At the CIA, Mandy Summers ⎯ who says she was "close friends" with Dorit ⎯ brings Booth to his office. She tells Booth that Dorit identified lots of threats. He pushed until his leads were followed, so some people resented him. Mandy doesn't know what Dorit was working on last. She does know that the CIA made him testify against a man named Pedro Marquez. Greg wasn't sure if Pedro was guilty, but he wanted to help. Pedro was held for a year before being released last week. Pedro is questioned, and he says he isn't angry with Dorit. The CIA gave him $100,000 for wrongful incarceration. Brennan notes that Pedro owns a chop shop. Does the chop shop have a 70-gauge drill bit? Pedro admits it does. Brennan knows a drill that size could make the holes in Dorit's arm. A calm Pedro says he wants to go to court. With the money from another wrongful incarceration, he could buy his mother a condo. Wendell determines that a drill did not make the holes in Dorit's arm. There are no striations: this tool left smooth cavities. Brennan is impressed, and says that she will be sorry to see Wendell go. Wendell is nonplussed, and Brennan spills the beans about his lost scholarship. Wendell is devastated. Hodgins rushes over. He found a bug! Not an insect, but a surveillance bug in Dorit's watch. Shouldn't they look more pleased? Wendell tells Hodgins that he lost his scholarship. Hodgins is upset that Brennan told him. Brennan says she thought he knew.
Mandy confesses that she put the bug in Dorit's watch. She thought he might have been cheating on her. She heard Dorit and Rutledge talking about diamonds. It sounded like Dorit was going to propose, so she disconnected the bug. Then Dorit e-mailed her a picture of him waving goodbye. He was breaking up with her. When Angela analyzes the photograph of Dorit, she finds that the image file is bigger than it should be. Something is hidden inside. Dorit wasn't breaking up with Mandy. He was sending her a message. Wendell still has no cause of death, but he does know that Dorit was tortured. He was forced into a painful position. Despite the torture, Cam found no distress to the heart. Perhaps Dorit was tougher then he let on. Brennan gives Booth the Plumbing for Dummies book. Booth offers to teach Brennan how to fix pipes, and she accepts. They now know that Rutledge was lying. He talked to Dorit about the briefcase. Still, they need more proof that he was involved in this murder.
Wendell, who seems more focused than ever, discovers that a precision knife-hand strike was delivered to the victim's C3 vertebra. This would have caused severe nerve damage. Only a skilled agent like Rutledge would know this special maneuver. Booth, Brennan, and Sweets meet with Rutledge. Prescott informs them that Rutledge was a field agent in Russia known for his torture. A junior agent hands Booth a file: Rutledge requested that a baggage inspector be pulled from the diplomatic checkpoint. He allowed Antonov into the country. Rutledge explains that Antonov brought an extra twenty million dollars in diamonds with him. The diamonds were to be exchanged for political prisoners in Pakistan. Rutledge didn't kill Dorit. He told Dorit to stay away, but Dorit read chatter about the exchange, and thought Antonov was bringing something dangerous into the country.
Cam has urgent news: the CIA is taking over. They are coming to collect both bodies in ten minutes. Angela doesn't know how quickly she can decode the image file. Cam tells her to work fast. In the Bone Room, Booth, Brennan, Wendell, and Cam try to solve the case in nine minutes. This is Wendell's "last game." He has to shine. Wendell quickly determinds that Dorit's hands and feet were tied behind his back, and he was hung from his hands. This would lead to asphyxiation, which explains the bloodshot eyes. Brennan has seen this before: it is a Ukranian torture called the "Swallow." And diamonds are cut with lasers. Perhaps a laser made the holes in the radius. Lena Brodsky is a Ukrainian with access to a laser, as she heads a diamond firm. The case is solved just as Rutledge arrives.
Booth, Brennan, and Rutledge confront Lena. She remains silent, though the FBI has the laser she used to torture Dorit and the gun she fired at his car. Booth wants to send her back to Ukraine. Her boss won't be happy. Lena says she doesn't know where the briefcase is. Dorit never told her, no matter how much she tortured him. He was the bravest man she has ever seen. Just then, Angela decodes the image. Dorit encoded a map in his hand to tell Mandy where the briefcase was hidden. Rutledge calls in the calvary, and they find the briefcase. Inside is a USB data drive. This was all about valuable information.
Angela, Hodgins, and Brennan say their goodbyes to Wendell, but Cam arrives with good news. His scholarship has found new funding. Someone made an anonymous donation. Wendell can stay. Brennan sends a grateful and thankful Wendell back to work as Cam tells the Squints that the trust received enough donations for three scholarships. No one claims responsibility. They just smile. At Booth's apartment, Booth and Brennan huddle under the sink. Booth reads the instructions while Brennan fits two pipes together. Even with their differences, Brennan says that she feels close to Booth. Booth turns on the water. The pair is pleased with their work until the pipe begins to spray everywhere... and Brennan's Rolex takes a direct hit.
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