The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond

The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond is the fifth episode of season four of Bones. First airing in 2008, it shows Brennan and Booth investigating the death of an obsessive-compulsive author.
== Cast ==
* Seeley Booth - David Boreanaz
* Temperance Brennan - Emily Deschanel
* Zack Addy - Eric Millegan
* Dr. Sweets - Tamara Taylor
* Wendell Bray - Michael Grant Terry
* Tilda Addison - Lisa Kaminir
* Kelly Sutton - Debra Christofferson
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== Summary ==
The pieces of a dismembered body are found lying in a purple pool of water, except the head is missing. The team finds that the body belongs to Jared Addison, a science fiction writer who had several mental problems. With Sweets's help, several suspects are hunted down, however the team has trouble finding enough evidence with the victim's head still missing... that is until they turn to Zack for help.
== Plot ==
Two teenagers find a dismembered corpse floating in a pool after one of them urinates in the pool - making the water a vibrant purple. Booth and Brennan are sent to investigate and learn from an on-scene detective that the head of the corpse is missing. Though Brennan initially wants only a sample of the purple water, she decides to have the entire pool moved to the Jeffersonian. Meanwhile, Dr. Sweets interrogates Zack Addy about his delusions.
During the initial examination of the corpse, it is revealed that the victim's fingerprints were burned off (which Brennan's new intern Wendell Bray believes was done to hide his identity), that all of the cuts were clean until the victim's head was removed (showing that the killer hesitated) and that the victim wore oversized children's shoes and (according to Wendell) had Ehlers'-Danlos syndrome. Hodgins revealed that the water turned purple due to a species of fungus agitated by urine. Camille asks Hodgins if he has moved, leading to a discussion about Zack (whom Wendell hasn't heard of before). While driving, Bones and Brennan discuss the new intern and Booth's back pain (which Brennan first noticed while examining the pool and which has lead to Brennan driving). It is also revealed that the victim is a twenty-five year old man named Jared Addison.
Booth and Brennan meet with Jared's mother - Tilda - and talk with her about her son. Tilda allows them to look around Jared's room, which is revealed to be filled with various childish things along with copies of Jared's novel Robot Eyes, which features a man with no resemblance to Jared Addison on the back cover. Brennan is aware of Jared's authorial career and deduces that the publisher used an actor to stand in for Jared on the back cover (something her publisher wanted to do). Jared's mother reveals that her son's publisher had dropped her and that he was working extremely hard on his next book.
While examining Jared's shoes, Hodgins finds sea kelp and coffee grounds. After Camille jokingly suggests that the victim was "making coffee on the seashore", Hodgins snaps at her - leading to Camille talking about Hodgins' bad attitude. Meanwhile, Booth brings Sweets to examine Jared's room. Sweets initially assumes that Jared is mentally slow but Brennan corrects him, stating that the complexity of Jared's novels suggests an extremely high IQ. Due to this, Sweets postulates that Jared was an obsessive-compulsive and that by looking into Jared's patterns of behaviour, they can discover how he died. Sweets further postulates that the disruption is sexual in nature and begins looking for evidence - finding pornographic images of a much older woman named Kelly Sutton in Jared's shoes.
Booth interrogates Mrs. Sutton. Mrs. Sutton reveals that Jared wanted to marry her, which leads to a discussion about marriage and older women living with younger men between Brennan and Dr. Sweets. Mrs. Sutton also reveals that she first met Jared while he was buying an orchid for his mother (which was made difficult due to Jared's fear of germs). Mrs. Sutton also reveals that Jared was at a hotel for a conference for behaviour modification shortly before his death.
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== In-series continuity ==
* Zack Addy was last seen in The Pain in the Heart - which revealed that Zack was working with the serial killer Gormogon. This episode led to his injured and incarcerated state shown in this episode.
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