While the interview room is being prepped, Gordon and Sweets talk in the observation room. Sweets doesn't think he's ready. Gordon says that from what he knows of Sweets, he is ready. Sweets asks him what he knows. Gordon says that Sweets was adopted at a late age, and that he was a damaged child. Sweets says he found terrific adoptive parents when he was 6. Gordon believes they died recently. Yes, just before Sweets started working with Bones and Booth. Gordon's final analysis is that Sweets was mostly alone as a child, but his parents came along in time to save him. That's why Sweets wants to save people; because he know it can be done. Their talk ends there when the interview starts.
Wrath is a tough guy. He admits to digging the bullet out of the corpse's arse. If other people want to think that he killed Mayhem, that's fine with him. Booth asks what would have happened to Spew's reputation if others found out that Mayhem was quitting to go to mainstream. Wrath is adamant that it would never have happened; Spew is the genuine article and their power comes from their life in hell. Gordon whispers in Booth's ear (via microphone) that the kid is vain; play on his pride.
Booth says that speculation is that the other band member Murderbreath committed the murder because Wrath didn't have the balls. Wrath is insulted. Murderbreath didn't kill Mayhem. He doesn't have it in him to strangle somebody with barbed wire. Gotcha! We didn't mention barbed wire!
Booth and Bones celebrate another closed case by having a dinner cooked for them by Gordon. They toast him for giving them the tips to close the case, but Gordon demurs, saying they should be thanking Sweets. Speaking of, Gordon gives them some unsolicited advice on the other shrink. The book that young Sweets has written is a vehicle to get to what he wants. In this case, Sweets wants a new family since his parents died. Bones kind of understands - he imprinted on them like a baby duck. Gordon says that he is trying to find his place in the world. In a show of compassion that we have not seen in months, Bones blurts out that she and Booth can find him a place in their world! Gordon tells them that his casseolet got him into the culinary institute, but it doesn't keep so be back in an hour. Bones wants to know where they are going. "Duck hunting," Booth replies.
Sweets is in his office, working on his manuscript. Bones and Booth invite him to their family-style dinner with Gordon, but he declines. Bones bursts out with a horrific foster parent story. When she was little, her foster parents locked her in a car trunk for 2 days because she broke a plate. She was a clumsy child and they warned her she would be punished but she was little and the dishwater was too hot and the soap on the plate was slippery. The men are shocked that she shared this painful memory. She says, "Isn't that why we're here? To share scars?" She tells Sweets she saw the scars on his back and she wants him to know he's not the only one with a painful childhood. Booth isn't quite so forthcoming. "If it weren't for my grandfather, I would have killed myself as a kid." And he's not saying anything else on the matter. Now Bones is crying and Booth is on the verge. He gives her his hanky and she dries her eyes. She tucks it gently back into his suit jacket pocket, and he taps the place where she rested her hand on his chest.
Sweets smiles. What? He said that Gordon said something to him and he just figured it out. Then he is smarter than me. A wise friend said that the scene meant that Bones was the one who knew she was in love and she was fighting it off but losing when she acted gently towards Booth. I was thinking that the tap on the chest was Booth making a memory because that was as close to a caress that he would ever get from his twue wuv. So the debate rages on.
"Come for dinner already," they say. Sweets agrees and puts away the manuscript. Which he has retitled, "Bones: the Heart of the Matter."
Great recap, Featherlite! I don't really know what to think of that last scene either.
This is a heavy recap 2 week period for you- you have my sympathies :)
It will be great if that comes into play later again this season.
Fox is trying to kill me.
Great recap, Featherlite! I don’t really know what to think of that last scene either.
This is a heavy recap 2 week period for you- you have my sympathies :)
It will be great if that comes into play later again this season.
Fox is trying to kill me.