Meanwhile back at the lab, Hodgins as confirmed that the glass shards in the wound match the special bottles used by Bedford Creek.  They don’t need to do the experiment.  But since they’ve already bought the watermelons…  Hodgins winds up and whacks a watermelon.  It explodes messily but the wine bottle remains intact.  Eeyore winds up and lets the watermelon have it.  Watermelon guts fly everywhere.  Hodgins snatches the bottle back and says he’ll try to hit with the narrow end.  Nothing.  Eeyore says that the suspect is a carpenter and they should try attacking with more strength.  The melon explodes just as a well-dressed Cam enters the room.  She gets covered.  “I was going out for dinner,” she informs them as she pulls melon from her cleavage. Hodgins offers her a towel.  And another plea for his job.  They don’t understand what went wrong.  Bendy Holt was definitely killed with a bottle with the imprint that belongs to Bedford Creek but it wasn’t a Bedford Creek bottle.  How strange.   Cam is not impressed.  They still have no murder weapon.

Angela tries to talk to Bones again.  Has Bones considered making a baby with Booth and letting him stay as part of the family?  She accuses Bones of being scared.  Bones says that she has been to Rwanda and Iraq.  She’s not scared.  Is too.  Is not.  Is too.  Is not not not to infinity. 

How is a bottle of Bedford Creek Cabernet not a bottle of Bedford Creek Cabernet?  If it’s counterfeit, that’s how.  If authentic Bedford Creek Cabernet sells for $110 per bottle, replacing it with a cheapo wine would give a person a tremendous profit.  Oh, and it turns out the arsenic they found wasn’t from wood stain; it was from pesticide.  And the only place in the area that uses a pesticide containing arsenic is Dunwood winery. 

Charlie Dunwood is being interviewed again.  He says that Holt found out he was counterfeiting Bedford Creek wines and he was going to tell Mortenson.  Dunwood was not about to let a wine critic run his family off land they’ve had for almost a century. 

Stewie appears in a high chair beside Dunwood and tells him to man up and ask for a lawyer.  How sad is it that cartoons are smarter than criminals nowadays?  Booth tells Stewie to shut up.  Both Dunwood and Bones are taken aback by Booth’s outburst.  Stewie accuses Booth of having a baby and then walking away.  He’s going to abandon his own child.  Booth argues with the cartoon for a bit and then tearfully admits that he wouldn’t be able to walk away from his own baby.  Bones freaks out and drags her partner from the room, leaving Stewie shouting that Booth is leaving a helpless child alone with a killer.

In the hallway, Bones demands to know what is going on with Booth.  Booth ignores her, saying that if he’s going to be the father he has to be the father.  “What did you see in there?”  “Stewie, you know, from ‘The Family Guy’.  It’s not a big deal.” 

Bones’s analytical minds works right for once.  “You thought you saw Luc Robataille.  Then the ghost of a dead friend.  Now a cartoon.  Trust me, something is wrong. Trust me.”  Ms. Deschanel really rocked the concern in this scene, by the way.  And she drags him off to the emergency ward. 

The gang gathers as they learn that Booth had a CAT scan.  Cam says they are getting a second opinion.  Sweets says that they should have had the second guy standing by.  Which actually makes sense.  Angela asks if he’s okay.  No, he’s not.  Sweets isn’t a being a level-headed shrink right now; he’s just a guy worried about his friend.

In the background, Angela and Hodgins talk about life, love, death and everything in between.  Hodgins says that either one of them could have stopped it.  (“It” being their senseless breakup.)  Angela agrees.  Hodgins tests the water by saying they could just as easily start it again.  Writers, you are such a tease. 

Bones arrive to update them.  Booth has a tumour.  It’s not a tumour!  Actually, it is.  But this type of tumour is usually benign.  “Usually,” Cam says.  She’s not using her comforting voice.  Angela tells Bones to go back to Booth; he shouldn’t be alone.  Bones tells them that statistically, he should be fine. 

Booth is in a surgery prep room.  He looks out the window for Bones.  He gets distracted by the nurses and such, but he keeps looking for Bones and he gives her a big smile when she finally reappears.  She tells him that the surgery should take about two hours.  He tries to joke about brain surgery.  He was getting used to hallucinating; now he’ll be lonely. He asks her to come into the surgery with him.  She says she isn’t a surgeon or a neurologist.  “No, but you’re a genius and that’s good enough for me.  Plus, you’ll know if they are screwing up.” Only if they try to attach his ankle bone to his thigh bone.  She promises to ask.

They must have said no, because they stop outside the theatre.  Booth asks the attendants to stop for a moment.  They give them some privacy.  Bones reassures him that he will be fine.  Booth says that if he doesn’t make it, he wants Bones to have his stuff.  No, not his stereo.  His other stuff, you know, for a kid.  He tells her that she would be a good mom. 

He calls the attendants back and tells them he’s ready.  And they wheel him through the doors and into the light.

No, not the light!  Don’t go into the light, Booth!  Don't you know what happens in the light?  Guess not.  Fade to white.

Next time, the season finale.