Bones

Up here in Canada we don’t get to watch those awesome Super Bowl commercials. And we often have to watch different previews for next week’s episodes. There are some channels and shows that we don’t ever get and we can’t watch videos on Hulu or MTV online. But we get Bones a whole day earlier. So there.

We open with the Bond theme song and a man smoking and holding a briefcase. Another man approaches behind him with the a gun. He shoots briefcase guy, grabs the knife the other guy used for about one second to defend himself, cuts off the guy’s hand and takes the briefcase (briefcase guy was handcuffed to the case, you see). Then, as he drives off in a sweet car, the killer gets shot at.

Cut to morning, where cats are picking at the dead body and basically eating the flesh. Gross. Brennan’s showing Booth her new Rolex, which she was given by her publishers because of the success of her new book. Booth seems a bit put out by the money that she’s made. Booth also gets a call about a plumber wanting to charge him $800 to fix a leak, but he’s all “that’s extortion and I’m a big, strong man and I’ll fix it myself”. He admits to Brennan that he can’t really remember how to be a handyman since the coma and when she offers to lend him the money he refuses.

They come upon the body and Booth is all “this is why I hate cats” and I wonder whether he hated cats before or just dogs. Because I remember an aversion to dogs. The two of them shoo away the cats and Brennan says the body’s been there for two days. The parking attendant who found the body says this is a long-term parking lot, which accounts for why the body wasn’t found earlier. Then the cats stare creepily - and hungrily - at Booth and Brennan. Great. Now I hate cats too.

Back at the lab Cam concludes that she’s definitely not getting a cat for Michelle as she examines the body. She finds steel wool (commonly used in silencers) on the clothes. Wendell concludes that the guy is from Russia and he and Cam try to figure out why the guy’s hand got cut off.

A State Department employee is talking to Booth, trying to decide whether to provide him with sensitive information. Turns out the dead guy, Antonov, arrived in the US three days and then went missing. He went through the diplomatic customs upon arrival and Booth wonders why a diamond dealer would have a diplomatic passport (but the State guy says that Antonov was never given diplomatic clearance). So basically the government has no idea what’s going on. Typical.

Booth’s interviewing a blonde lady (Lena) at the FBI, who says Antonov was moving $2 million worth of diamonds from their Siberian mine. She’s surprised that Antonov got past the diplomatic checkpoint. Blonde lady wonders whether Antonov wasn’t carrying diamonds, which is why he didn’t want customs to see the briefcase.