Bones On The Blue Line - Season 5, Episode 15
When a subway train is thrown off the track by 60,000 gallons of flood water, a partially skeletonized body emerges out of the overflow; while Dr. Sweets (a passenger on the derailed train) copes with post-traumatic stress, the rest of the team and intern Daisy Wick identify the victim as a professional ghost writer caught up in a deadly love triangle; Brennan releases her second book to great success, but has to accommodate a nosy reporter; and Sweets' near-death experience leads him to make a drastic decision.
On the subway Sweets strikes up a conversation with Marco, who just learned he is cancer free after an eight-year battle. His life can finally begin! Meanwhile, at the bar, Booth and Brennan meet with Riku Iwanga: a Japanese reporter who is interviewing Brennan about her latest book. Suddenly the room shakes: it's a rare earthquake for Washington DC. Below ground, a water main breaks. On the subway, Sweets and Marco see a skeleton in the flood of water. Their train jumps the track and crashes... and Marco strikes his head, dying instantly.
A distraught Sweets watches as Marco is sealed inside a body bag. Booth and Brennan approach, with Riku in tow. Officer McKenna Grant leads them to the skeleton. Brennan determines that the victim is male, and has been dead for at least a week. At the lab, the team finds that rats have eaten the tissue and left teeth marks on the bone. Angela reports that there were no fatalities from the earthquake aside from Marco. Riku recognizes Angela as "Amanda" from Brennan's books. When Sweets appears, Daisy moves to comfort him, but he pushes her away. Brennan notices a blue pigment on the victim's clavicle and on the C7 vertebrae. Something blue sliced the carotid artery. Meanwhile, Hodgins drives Sweets home. "He was going to do all the things that he'd been putting off and then he was gone," Sweets laments. He doesn't want the same thing to happen to him.
Riku wonders if Angela and Brennan are best friends like Amanda and Kathy. Angela says it's true; however, Angela and Booth have not slept together like Agent Andy and Amanda... the books are purely fiction. Brennan enters, and Riku asks if Brennan and Booth have the same passionate sex life as the characters in the book. Brennan replies with an adamant “No,” and is relieved when Daisy bursts in. She found a tooth in the victim's scapula. It's a canine; the victim is missing his canine. The tooth is an anchor for a prosthetic lens. The victim was blind. This is a rare operation, so a local ophthalmologist could help with identification. Hodgins finds that the blue pigment is a polymer. He needs to search the subway tunnels for rat excrement to get more information. Cam assigns Daisy to be his aide. In the subway tunnels, Daisy chatters about Brennan's book: Has Hodgins read page 187? It details a sexual move that she and Sweets have tried several times. A trail of fecal matter leads them to the rats' nest. The body could have entered from ventilation grates above the nest. Daisy discovers a white cane, the kind a blind person would use. The victim, identified by his eye surgeon, is Martin Aragon. He was a scribe; he and a woman named Sophia Meade wrote ghost letters for a living.
At the bar, Riku comments that Booth believes he is the inspiration for Agent Andy. Brennan thinks that is preposterous. She wants to talk about the forensics in her book, not the characters. At the lab, Hodgins sneaks a peak at page 187. He can't believe his eyes! He confronts Angela: "That's that thing that I do. Nobody else does that thing. It's my thing that I do." Angela told Brennan about it, and now it's in print. Hodgins advises Angela to sleep with illiterate men from now on, because guys all over the country will be trying this move, and Angela won't ever be able to forget about him. Meanwhile, Daisy shares her concerns about Sweets as she and Brennan work in the Bone Room. Brennan is uninterested. She detects a pattern of blowback on the victim's skull. This suggests that the victim was shot with a gun while he was standing in front of glass. Could the bullet have been blue?
Booth interviews Sophia Meade. She and Martin were partners for six years, writing letters since college. Sophia and Martin put the words to paper, writing legal documents, complaint letters… even break-up letters. Sophia saw Martin last week. She works from home because of her children. She offers Booth their archives to look for clues or possible suspects. Later, Booth and Sweets review the letters. Sweets is distracted, thinking about Marco. He believes the whole encounter was a message that he needs to live life to the fullest. Booth finds a letter that Martin wrote on his own behalf, complaining to a sandwich franchise. Stewart Bonder, the owner, replied with a death threat. Hodgins shows Cam his rat-poop timeline. The oldest waste containing human remains is from seven days ago. He is looking into companies that manufacture blue ammunition. He also has a leather piece from the sole of a shoe. It could belong to the killer. Booth interrogates Stewart Bonder, who lost his franchise because of Martin. Is that why Martin lost his life? Stewart can't believe Martin is still causing problems for him from beyond the grave, and asks for a lawyer.
Riku continues her interview with Brennan, who tries to steer the conversation to forensics. Riku wants to talk about the sex between Kathy and Andy, which Brennan dismisses as meaningless trifle. Riku believes those are the things that mean everything. Later, Brennan complains to Booth about Riku. She only wants to talk about the characters. Booth believes the characters make the story real, and Brennan must too, or she wouldn't write them so well. Brennan confesses that Angela helps her a bit in that department. Angela and Sweets review Martin's letters. Sweets reads from a poetic love letter. Angela swoons. Martin did a good job. Although it was for a client, Sweets believes the letter was written about someone Martin loved. Daisy arrives to talk to Sweets, but he is distant, and says he'll call her later. She leaves dejectedly. Angela hacks into the client's computer using the IP address to which the letters were sent. She turns on the webcam and they glimpse Colin Casey. Sweets recognizes him as the manager at the subway station.
Angela drives Daisy home; Cam wanted Daisy out of the lab until she stopped all her sighing and moaning. Daisy thinks she is getting dumped. She's never been dumped before. Angela smiles a fake smile, pained. Meanwhile, Booth interrogates Colin Casey. He paid Martin to write letters to Officer McKenna Grant. She had another boyfriend, Eddie Ceraficki, and Martin said he could help; however, the letters didn't work. Colin was out a lot of money, and Martin may have even fallen in love with McKenna. Colin must have been mad. Was he mad enough to kill? Booth and Angela talk about Brennan's books. Angela explains that once Brennan is finished with her book, she reads it to Angela. Angela drinks wine, and makes little suggestions about the characters. She stresses that Brennan writes the books. Angela is simply an editor, and editors don't get credit. She hangs up when Booth mentions page 187.
Booth confronts McKenna Grant about the love letters. She claims that she didn't know Colin hired someone to write them. She only went out with Colin a few times. Her previous boyfriend, Eddie, knocked Colin around a bit when she left him. She met Eddie when she arrested him for carrying a concealed weapon. Later Hodgins tells the Squints about the Quasar Safety Plug, a bullet designed to disintegrate so it won't ricochet after hitting the target. It has a thin coating of blue polymer. They know that before the bullet disintegrated, it shattered glass behind the victim. Angela uses photographs from the tunnel to find the place Martin was murdered. Booth, Brennan, and Riku meet Eddie at his Pawn Shop. Booth wants to see his gun. Eddie protests, but brings out the weapon. Booth finds nothing amiss, so he asks to see the ammunition. It is all blue-tipped. Eddie is taken in for questioning. He believes he was well within his rights to punch Colin, who stole his girlfriend with those love letters. When Booth reveals that Martin Aragon really wrote the letters, Eddie gets confused, but says he didn't kill anyone. The blue bullets don't even fit in his gun. Booth wants to see the gun they do fit in. Eddie admits he gave it to someone: McKenna Grant. He gave it to her for Valentine's Day. It was the gun that brought them together.
McKenna Grant meets Booth in the Conference Room. He has the murder weapon. McKenna isn't impressed. They don't have any evidence that she was involved. She tries to leave, but Booth hits her with a warrant for her shoes. They found a piece of leather at the scene. If they can match it to her shoes, they will have all the evidence they need. McKenna breaks down and confesses: Colin lied to her. He didn't write those letters. Eddie was a good man. She shouldn't have left him. Martin ruined her love life. Brennan says goodbye to Riku. She has learned so much from her time with Brennan. For example, she says: people should not take credit for what other people write. Riku claims she is talking about the love letters, but Brennan thinks she means something else. Meanwhile, Sophia Meade reads one of Martin's letters. Sweets tells her that Martin wrote them for her. He was in love with Sophia, but never said so, since Sophia was married with a family. Sophia is sad that Martin could never have what he wanted.
Brennan approaches Angela at the lab, and hands her friend an envelope. She says she's realized that Angela has contributed greatly to her novels. She deserves twenty-five percent of what they have made. Angela gasps at the amount on the check. It is a lot of money. Sweets interrupts Daisy as she works in the Bone Room. Marco's death has made him think about his life, and he has come to a decision. Will she like his decision, she wonders. He says he doesn't know. He pulls out a ring. It belonged to his adoptive parents, who were married for sixty years, so this ring represents sixty years of love. He asks Daisy to marry him. Daisy says nothing would make her happier. She's sorry for the people who died, but that earthquake is the best thing that ever happened to her. They kiss happily.
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