The Rocker In The Rinse Cycle - Season 5, Episode 19
When the body of a rich adventure-seeker is found in a hotel laundry machine, Booth and Brennan's investigation leads to a Rock 'n Roll Fantasy Camp; at the lab, a fragment of prehistoric woolly-mammoth tusk (found with the remains) and Angela’s knowledge of the music industry are used to connect the evidence to potential suspects; meanwhile, Cam looks for doctors for her daughter Michelle.
The manager of a fancy hotel shows his date the facility's new and improved laundry room. The manager's date is not impressed with the large, industrial sized washers and dryers.... even less so when one load turns red... and then a skull floats into view! Brennan and Booth arrive, and wonder if the body was thrown down the laundry chute. Brennan notices Booth's new tie, which is a gift from Catherine; she surmises that the two have "entered into a social contract." Cam climbs into the large washing machine to collect more of the remains, and notices that the body tissue is mangled from being in the washer. Brennan determines the victim is middle aged. While scraping the sides of the machine, Cam asks Brennan about her gynecologist (since Michelle will need to start seeing one soon). Booth immediately tries to change the subject as fleshy goop falls onto Cam and rolls out of the washer. Booth is disgusted by what he believes is an eyeball, but Cam and Brennan tell Booth it is, in fact, a testicle. This does not help.
At the lab, Brennan and Arastoo examine the victim's maxilla (mustache bone), noticing a hole in the bone caused by oral cancer. They conclude that the victim smoked cigars. He also has a number of fractures on his right hand, which are commonly seen in baseball players. Additionally, however, there are compression fractures on the tibia, tarsus, and hyoid all occurring after the fractures on the hand. The compression fractures are common in rock climbers, but Brennan also determines that the victim was in a high-speed collision while wearing a helmet (from X-rays of the skull). Cam looks for the victim's second testicle. Later Brennan, Booth, and Sweets discuss the victim, whom they believe is a thrill-seeker born without a testicle. Brennan believes that he may have had two, and lost one during his adventures. Brennan tells Sweets about Booth's relationship with Catherine. Sweets is happy to see the two of them happy and dating.
Cam meets Dr. Paul Linder, a potential gynecologist for Michelle. The two seem to hit it off. Cam returns to the Lab, where Hodgins shows her fingernails, clothing remnants, and molded silicone. Cam grabs the dish with the silicon, realizing that prosthetic testicles are made with silicone and saline. Now that they have the second testicle, they can ID the victim. Cam and Angela use the Angelatron to get the serial number from the testicle. They find that the victim is millionaire business-tycoon Richard Cole. Cole said in an interview that every year for his birthday he would attend fantasy camps, places that allow adults to pretend to be whomever they want. Booth and Brennan watch the ad for this week's event, a rock-n-roll camp run by legendary rock promoter Simon Graham. They decide to check it out. They are prepared for screaming people, pushing, and loud music, but when they get there everyone is in line, waiting patiently. One of the purple-haired campers, Gino, points them to Simon Graham. According to Gino, Simon and Richard had been fighting. Famous rocker Erik Dalton begins a guitar solo, and everyone hurries into the ballroom, including Booth. Erik starts shredding on his guitar, and everyone goes wild. Booth dances and plays along while Brennan insists they focus on the case. She unplugs Erik's guitar. Everyone is silent. Booth is shocked: Nobody unplugs Erik Dalton! Simon rushes out, and is confronted by Booth and Brennan.
Sweets meets with Booth, and asks him to be there when he questions Simon. Sweets promises to be professional, even though he is a rock fan, but he just can't stop himself from asking questions about his favorite rock stars. Simon says that Richard was an amateur and a poseur. Richard blackmailed Simon: Richard would play a solo with Erik Dalton, or tear down Simon's old rock club, the Stockyard. Hodgins finds a piece of bone that isn't human. It's the bone of a woolly mammoth. The bone is a piece of a guitar pick. Angela pulls up a video of a past concert where Erik punches a fan for getting on stage. The man has a short fuse. Booth and Brennan meet with Erik Dalton in his hotel room. Brennan examines the room while Booth questions him. Erik thought Richard was a fake, and wasn't concerned when Richard stopped coming to practice. As for his violent past, Erik has been clean and sober for two years. Brennan finds splintering on a side table, and scuffs that resemble a fight, as well as blood on the carpet. Erik explains that the campers had a party here a few nights ago. When things started to get a little crazy, Erik left to see a girlfriend.
At Dr. Linder's Office, Michelle joins Cam in the waiting room after her appointment. Cam is happy that Michelle liked her new doctor. Dr. Linder asks to speak with Cam privately. He shyly asks her out on a date, and Cam happily accepts before running back to work. Brennan, Arastoo, and Angela examine all the fractures on the body using the Angelatron. Many of these were on the skull, sternum, scapula, and ilium, meaning Richard died from being beaten to death. Angela gives Arastoo 3-D scans of the other injuries so he can determine a murder weapon. Brennan and Cam discuss the blood in the hotel room. Cam found two different DNA types: one from the victim, and one (presumably) from the killer.
Brennan meets Booth back at the hotel. He is in full rock-n-roll mode, playing the guitar by the stage and wearing his tie on his head. Booth convinces Brennan to relax and enjoy the camp while they wait to hear about the blood. The duo get up on stage and sing "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner. Brennan's PDA goes off mid-song: the blood belonged to camper Fred Keaton. Later, Keaton is brought in for questioning. Fred (who is nerdy, bespectacled, and balding) tells them he is a fantastic guitar player waiting to be discovered. Richard was a poseur. One day during camp, a reporter claiming to be from Rolling Stone told Fred he wanted to include him in an article about great guitarists, and then a few girls said they wanted to spend the night with him because he was going to be famous. Fred was ecstatic, and even left his wife. It all turned out to be a cruel joke concocted by Richard: the "reporter" was an actor, and the girls were professionals; however, Fred claims he didn't kill Richard. He simply went back home to try to save his marriage. Booth and Brennan aren't sure they believe him.
Hodgins, Arastoo, and Angela examine scans of what they believe could be pieces of the murder weapon. Angela realizes that each part represents a piece of a guitar, and concludes that the victim was beaten to death with a 1957 Gibson Les Paul, which is worth more than a quarter of a million dollars. Meanwhile, Cam and Dr. Linder get to know each other on a lunch date.
Booth gets a lead from a local guitar-dealer. A woman with a pierced eyebrow brought in the Gibson Les Paul. Brennan and Booth head back to the hotel and find Bebe Kasarda, a rocker chick with a pierced eyebrow. Bebe admits she broke into Richard's room, and stole the guitar from him. She was completely unaware that the guitar was worth so much. She only stole it to get back at Richard for dumping her. Booth meets with Brennan and Sweets, who agree that Bebe is innocent. Sweets further concludes that Richard was a poseur, and only liked the external lifestyle of rock-n-roll: the girls, the clothes, and the instruments. Sweets also states that because the killer put the guitar back in Cole's room rather than destroy it, it shows his true love for music; Sweets believes that music was the killer's motive.
The Squints admire the Gibson Les Paul on the Forensic Platform. Cam instructs Arastoo and Hodgins to take apart the guitar, and see if the killer missed anything after returning it to Cole's room. Cam notices Michelle in the doorway, and greets her. Michelle confronts Cam about dating Dr. Linder. In an unexpected role reversal, Michelle chews Cam out for sneaking around behind her back... but to Cam's surprise, Michelle supports her decision to date him. She wants a new gynecologist, however, one that isn't dating her mother; and she counsels Cam to take it slow. Arastoo and Hodgins report that the guitar was thoroughly cleaned and restrung. Hodgins notices a piece of hair from the person who restrung it... and it's purple. Booth and Brennan return to the hotel, where a concert is full swing. Gino, the purple-haired camper, rocks on his guitar with Erik Dalton. After the concert is finished, Gino is ready to be cuffed. Gino has no regrets; Cole was a poseur who didn't deserve to play with Dalton, and he's glad he stopped it from happening.
At the Founding Fathers, Booth and Brennan celebrate, and affirm that though they're now dating other people, their partnership is still important to each other... though they get into a bit of an argument when Booth learns that Brennan once turned down free Led Zeppelin tickets, thinking it was an air show, instead of offering the tickets to Booth.
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