The Hole In The Heart - Season 6, Ep 22
Sniper Jacob Broadsky shoots at a grapefruit with colleague Matt Leishenger. The pair appear to be good friends. Leishenger says he doesn't believe the FBI's warnings about Broadsky. Broadsky asks to borrow Leishenger's rifle, and Leishenger says he'll think about it.
Booth tells Brennan and Sweets that he is focusing all his efforts on catching Broadsky. Vincent rushes in with "massive" news: the skeletal replica of a Tyrannosaurus rex has arrived. Brennan is delighted. She and Vincent are delivering a paper at an upcoming conference entitled "The Comparative Forelimb Osteology and Biomechanics of Therapod Versus Homo Sapien." Brennan and Vincent laugh while Booth and Sweets are puzzled. What does that mean? Booth gets a message: Broadsky was spotted placing flowers on Paula Ashwaldt's grave. He rushes out.
Special Agent Genny Shaw is at the cemetery. Broadsky fled when he noticed her taking photos of him laying flowers on his girlfriend's grave. There's a cell phone inside the boquet, and it rings. It's Broadsky, who still believes he is doing good work. He tells Booth, "You never see the bullet that takes you down." Sweets believes Broadsky left the phone for Booth to keep the lines of communication open. Booth asks Sweets to make his best guess: What is Broadsky's next move? Someone who doesn't know that Broadsky is evil may be helping him.
At the lab, Vincent wears an articulated T-Rex upper-body skeleton. Hodgins doesn't understand why Vincent is going to the conference dressed like this. Vincent shows him the abstract, and it all becomes clear. They are presenting a paper about an arm-wrestling competition between a T-Rex and a human! Wait... just a paper? Hodgins has a way to spice this up.
Angela tells Booth that Broadsky's call was too short to trace. They were only able to register his unique Mobile Equipment Identifier. Your cell phone transmits it every time you use it. Angela sends Booth an app which can help him pinpoint Broadsky's location. Agent Shaw went through the financials of Broadsky's known associates. Matt Leishenger made a big withdrawal 48 hours ago, a couple grand in cash. It's the largest withdrawal he's made in two years. Sweets, Booth, and Shaw go to Leishenger's cabin, where crows lead them to a corpse covered in maggots. It must be Matt Leishenger. They notice an empty rifle case. Shaw notices a camera in a tree. Broadsky is watching them. Booth shoots the camera as Shaw calls for backup.
At the lab Cam estimates time of death at five days. It looks like Broadsky stabbed Leishenger under the chin. It's clear that he went through the victim's wallet, but no cash was missing. What was he looking for? Hodgins rushes up to borrow Vincent. He whispers something, and they both run off the Forensic Platform. Soon, Vincent is wearing the articulated T-Rex skeleton, which is now motorized. He is as strong as a T-Rex! Hodgins and Vincent prepare for the very first human/T-Rex arm-wrestling match. It looks like the T-Rex is winning, but the arm can't move past 40 degrees. The T-Rex humerus pops out of the scapula. Humanity wins! A bemused Cam finally interrupts. She hands Leishenger's wallet to Hodgins, and gives him strict instructions to find out what is missing and where Broadsky is.
Sweets believes that Broadsky killed Leishenger because Leishenger defied him. Perhaps he refused to lend him his rifle. Once Broadsky takes out Booth, the rest of the Jeffersonian team may be next... Broadsky will see them all as being on Booth's "side," and therefore "bad guys." Booth says he should've shot Broadsky in the back when he had to chance. Sweets says that professionally he disagrees, but personally... not so much.
Vincent is excited about the conference, but Brennan asks him to focus on catching Broadsky. Leishenger has a cracked rib, a crushed foot, a neck fracture, and faint bruising on the mastoid process. Broadsky is an expert in close-quarter combat. Meanwhile, Broadsky readies for his next kill in a tower crane high above DC. Who will be his next target? As he surveys the city we see the various members of the Jeffersonian team across the city. Broadsky makes a call, and the phone that Broadsky gave Booth begins to ring. Booth, at the lab, hands it to Vincent so he can activate Angela's app. Vincent answers... and Broadsky, who can see a heat image on his phone of the phone being answered, fires right into the Lab. Booth pushes Vincent down, but he's too late. Vincent is bleeding profusely. Booth and Brennan apply pressure to the wound, and try to keep Vincent conscious. Vincent says over and over again that he doesn't want to leave. He wants to stay. Brennan desperately tells him that nobody is going to make him leave, and that Vincent is their favorite. Vincent just keeps on repeating that he doesn't want to leave; he loves it here… but it's no use: Vincent dies.
Later the team mourns Vincent. Hodgins will miss his facts. Cam will miss his confessions. Booth enters, and reports that Broadsky got away. He saw into the lab with thermal imaging, and aimed for the person who answered the phone. Broadsky meant to kill Booth. He says he doesn't blame himself; he blames the person who pulled the trigger. Booth suggests they take the night off. Tomorrow they will work to catch Broadsky. As everyone leaves, Booth tells Brennan that she'll stay at his apartment tonight. She doesn't argue.
At Booth's apartment, Booth shuts the blinds and instructs Brennan to stay away from the windows. Brennan prepares to sleep on the couch. They say goodnight. In the middle of the night a sleepless Brennan lets herself into Booth's room, waking him up. Booth jumps for his gun before he realizes it's Brennan. She is upset. Vincent thought Brennan was going to make him leave. Why would he think that? What kind of person is she? Booth consoles her. Vincent was asking the universe for more time. He wasn't ready to die. She crumples into bed with Booth and cries.
The next day Cam tells Angela that she called Vincent's mother, and informed her of his death. Cam promised they would send his body back to England so he can be buried there. Cam can't help but cry. Hodgins says he put the wallet under a black light, and discovered an impression. It seems that Broadsky stole an access card from Leishenger. It must've had a gold contact plate. Broadsky wanted his rifle and the access card. Booth speaks to Skip MacDonald, Leishenger's boss from Hylton Trucking. He says they don't use access cards. Leishenger worked in the security department, running checks on drivers and such. Leishenger needed an access card for the International Port in Wilmington.
Brennan works at the Lab, staring at Leishenger's skull. Angela enters to try and console her friend. Why would Broadsky have struck the mastoid process? Brennan confesses that she climbed into bed with Booth last night. Angela's mouth hangs open. What happened? Hodgins arrives, and Angela throws him out of the room. Hodgins finds Cam in the Autopsy Room. He has the results on the bullet that killed Vincent. It was made near the ocean, someplace where they decontaminate produce. Cam wants Hodgins to call Booth right away.
Booth questions the Security Guard at Port Wilmington, who says that Broadsky arrived an hour ago. Booth wants the place sealed while he searches for Broadsky. He gets his sniper rifle, and heads into the Port, where he searches for Broadsky amongst the shipping containers. Broadsky sees Booth, and realizes he could be caught. He grabs his rifle. Brennan calls Booth. He can hear her but he can't answer for fear of giving his location away to Broadsky. Brennan tells him that the bruising on the mastoid process is from Broadsky's knuckles. Hodgins tells her to get to the point, but she can't help but speak in medical terms, assuming that what she's implying is clear. Hodgins grabs the phone and tells Booth that Broadsky broke his right hand when he attacked Leishenger. Booth says they may have just saved his life. Broadsky, on top of a shipping container, fires at Booth but misses. Booth calls to him: "You want to give up?" Broadsky moves up higher. Booth sees him from the ground, and aims his weapon. He has Broadsky cornered. Booth knows that his hand is broken. Broadsky won't surrender, so Booth shoots him in the leg. As Booth captures Broadsky, Broadsky asks if he's really so sure that he's the good guy here. Booth says he's as sure as Broadsky is. The difference is, Booth's right. At the lab the Squints wait by the phone. When the call comes that Booth got Broadsky, they all celebrate.
That night the Squints and Booth wait by the Jeffersonian loading dock for Brennan to arrive for a wake for Vincent. Lab techs wheel his coffin onto the dock. Brennan arrives with flowers. They all recall their favorite facts that Vincent told them. Brennan recalls that Vincent's favorite song was "Da Lime in Da Coconut." They all sing the song as they load Vincent's body into a waiting hearse. As the hearse pulls away, Brennan takes Booth’s arm, and they leave together.
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