Hayes Flynn

Hayes Flynn was a by-the-books FBI agent who worked for the Bureau's Domestic Terrorism Division.
== History ==
He worked to bring Temperance Brennan to justice when Christopher Pelant framed her for the murder of Ethan Sawyer. When Booth was demoted to desk work after he was tricked into assaulting Pelant, Flynn took over the case and the Major Crimes Unit. The squints frequently clashed with Flynn while attempting to clear Brennan to the point where they would omit anything related to their investigation to keep Flynn out of their way. 
Despite his judgmental demeanor towards the team and his on-the-level investigation, he remained loyal to the FBI and worked to catch killers within the confines of the law. However, he decided to overlook his rigid outlook on the investigation to trust Booth's instincts and find the evidence to convict Pelant. After the Hacktivist was captured and Booth reinstated, Flynn moved back to working at Domestic Terrorism.
In The Corpse on the Canopy, Flynn took part in the investigation, even calling in a favor to inspect secure files from the Pentagon to help Booth identify the victim. Booth and Flynn infiltrated Serberus to capture Pelant, until the latter was shot 10 times by a machine gun remotely activated by Pelant. He barely survived after having a lengthy surgery to keep him stable, using ceramic pins made from artificial bone, an extremely expensive procedure, that Pelant ironically funded through a shell company to keep him alive knowing the damage was done; those injuries effectively ended his work in the field and he was permanently assigned to desk work to end his career, which he disliked. 
A visibly disheveled Flynn was killed by Pelant in The Sense in the Sacrifice, while setting up a fake corpse for Brennan and Sweets with the goal of luring Pelant out of hiding. While setting up the fake corpse, Pelant had sedated and killed him to set him up on the exact way the Jeffersonian team planned set up the fake corpse, even mirroring Brennan's technique to make it look like she was the one who dissected Flynn's body and keeping him alive while he removed his liver to imitate the Punishment of Prometheus. The FBI later found stacks of cash in his refrigerator, leading Sweets to believe that Flynn was working for Pelant, though Booth adamantly denied this and believed wholeheartedly in Flynn's innocence. Cam discovered that there was a tooth in Flynn's stomach, which Brennan believes was purposely done as he heard her boasting about how she solved a murder with only a tooth. Flynn swallowed his own tooth so the team could get revenge for his death, as Hodgins was able to find Pelant's hideout; the abandoned Keeler Power Plant in Maryland. Later, Pelant confesses that Flynn had no knowledge of the cash in his refrigerator or that Pelant had planted a bug in his car, thus proving his innocence. Booth was later able to shoot and kill Pelant, thus avenging Flynn's death and ending his rampage.
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