Recap – Bones 5.04 “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”

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Do you know how difficult it was for me to do this recap as a Canadian?  We don’t spell it “neighborhood”.  We spell it “neighbourhood”.  My spellcheck wouldn’t recognize the American spelling and it was driving me crazy!

We open this week’s episode of Bones at a neighborhood luau.  The neighbors are standing around, chatting, when something explodes in the luau pit.  As it turns out, under the roasting pig there was a charred body.

Cut to the Jefferson, where Booth is waiting for Brennan and Cam.  Parker’s with him, since his mom and her boyfriend are away for the night.  Parker’s getting so big and he’s sooo cute.  He wants to see the barbecued body, but Angela’s on babysitting duty instead.  And she’s going to paint Parker’s face.

The team arrives at the crime scene and Brennan starts going on and on about cultural studies of the suburbs.  I lived in the suburbs my entire life and none of my neighbors ever killed each other or went crazy like these people.  Maybe the suburbs in Canada are less crazy.  I don’t know.  Cam tells a story about how a guy on her street cut his lawn diagonally and the rest of the people got so pissed they set his garage on fire.  Uh….psycho much?  Booth goes off to interview the neighbors.

First we meet James and Nate, the two gay guys who had the BBQ pit in their yard.  Then there’s Trey, who is the gardener/handyman and hopefully my next boyfriend, because he is cute.  Then there’s Mary Kay and Bob Sayles, and their daughter Paige (who’s about 18 and blonde).  They’re talking about digging the pit and Brennan comes by with aviator sunglasses.  They recognize “Kurt’s” glasses and realize he’s the dead body.  Kurt and his wife live in the house with the big wind turbine on their front lawn.

Sweets is now talking to Kurt’s wife, Kelly, at the FBI, confirming that her husband was the one who died.  She discusses the fact that she and her husband didn’t fit into the neighborhood because he installed solar panels and the wind turbine.  She tells a story about the time a dog peed on the wind turbine and then Kurt gave the dog a laxative and nearly killed it.  Nice guy.  Anyways, they got shunned after that.

Hodgins is examining the BBQ pit and communicating with Cam and Arastoo over video link, who are back at the Jeffersonian, examining the body.  Hodgins found pebbles embedded into the body and then spot the same pebbles on a nearby lawn.  She tells him she respects his religion and he doesn’t have to touch the dead guy and then when he gets so pressured by her constant nagging, he drops the accent and reveals his American accent.  Cam is shocked.  He goes off to pray and Hodgins calls to say he found pebbles covered in blood.