The Doom in the Boom

The Doom in the Boom is the tenth episode of the eleventh season of Bones.
== Synopsis ==
Team investigates the murder of a police officer that sends shockwaves through the Jeffersonian-FBI team. Behavioral analyst Karen Delfs is assigned to work with Booth on the investigation and lends her professional assessments on who the cop killer could be, while Cam must make some decisions in her personal life and the entire team re-evaluates what is truly important to them.
== Summary ==
Late at night, a body is found in Columbia Heights, Washington D.C. Aubrey, Hodgins, and Saroyan arrive at the scene and begin looking over the remains. From preliminary studying, the victim is an adult male in his mid to late 40's. Hodgins notices that the torso looks weird, and when he opens victim's shirt, he reveals hundreds of maggots. The maggots put time of death around two days. But due to the high traffic area in which the body was dumped, the body was not there for the entirety of two days. Then, Saroyan steps away to call the Jeffersonian to get the lab prepped. It is just Aubrey and Hodgins at the body when somebody's phone starts ringing. Hodgins pulls a phone out from the victim's pants, and comments that there is a wire attached to it. Aubrey, realizing it is an explosive device, yells for everyone to run. Hodgins hesitates, and it is Aubrey who pulls him away. They do not make it far though, only a handful of feet before Aubrey falls onto Hodgins due to the force of the explosion. Before going to the hospital, multiple bodies are sprawled on the ground, including Hodgins and Aubrey.
At the hospital, Brennan, Booth, and Angela rush in to meet Saroyan in the waiting room. Since Camille had stepped away for a phone call, she was unharmed. She tells the others that four other responding police officers were killed, but that was only what she knew so far. The doctors were not telling her anything, leading Angela to believe that her husband is dead. She turns away to find a doctor, and sees Hodgins entering the waiting room. He is limping and quite pale due to blood loss, but alive and unharmed nonetheless. When asked about Aubrey, he says that all he knows is that Aubrey was rushed into surgery and that it didn't look good. He recounts his experience, saying that Aubrey saved his life by pulling him away and using his body to shield Hodgins. Angela tells him that they need to go home and rest, but Booth and Hodgins both say that they will not rest until they find out who did this. 
From there, they go back to the lab. Booth and Brennan drive together, where Booth tells her that the four officers who were killed are being sent to the lab for examination. Brennan asks if him if he'll be okay, since the situation is very similar to Sweet's death. Booth admits that he blamed himself for Sweets, but he does not believe that he will react the same way if Aubrey dies. Brennan does not fully agree, but they arrive at the lab before they can continue.
In the examinations first done at the lab, they conclude that the bomb was placed in the victim's rib cage. That was done on purpose, even if it was not easy, in order for the ribs to become shrapnel. The intern of the week arrives, and it is Arastoo. Angela greets him happily, but Camille is hesitant. Officially, Arastoo is not the intern (technically a consultant now), but he saw what happened on the news and came as quickly as he could. Brennan accepts his offer since in the rush of things, she forgot to call an intern. Immediately, Arastoo notices that the victim has an artifical knee, and it could provide an I.D. for the victim.
While they work at the lab, Caroline Julian arrives at the FBI to help Booth. He first tells her that Aubrey is still in surgery and it doesn't look great. Then, he tells her the victim's identity has been confirmed. Thomas Gallo, a D.C. police officer. Caroline brings in a behavioral analysist, knowing it will be helpful since a body of a police officer was used to kill more police officers. 
At the lab, they discover that that asbestos was in the lungs of the officers killed from the explosion, but not from Gallo. That means that Gallo was already dead when he was exposed. In theory, the asbestos can lead to a location, but Hodgins brings up the fact that asbestos is still unfortunately common. He then swears that he will find something that will help. Hodgins tries to comfort Saroyan about working with Arastoo, but she is short with him and he lets the topic go. 
The next morning, the behavioral analysist, Karen Delfs arrives. She tells Booth that she believes that there is a level of sophistication on the killer's part, because killing a cop and planting the bomb takes more organization than an amatuer has. Booth deduces that this isn't the killer's first time. Delfs also believes that Gallo was targeted specifically, and if they find that reason then they could find the killer. Booth dismisses her, saying that he already knew that information. Delfs is slightly disheartened.
== Cast ==
=== Main Cast ===
*Temperance Brennan - Emily Deschanel
*Seeley Booth - David Boreanaz
*Jack Hodgins - T.J Thyne
*Angela Montenegro - Michaela Conlin
*Camille Saroyan - Tamara Taylor
*James Aubrey- John Boyd
=== Intern of the Week ===
*Arastoo Vaziri - Pej Vahdat
=== Recurring Cast ===
*Caroline Julian - Patricia Belcher
*Karen Delfs - Sara Rue
=== Guest Cast ===
*Alex - John Bain 
*Seth Turkland - Billy Lush 
*Lieutenant - Marlon Young 
*Julian Molina - Carlos Sanz 
*Jesse - Owen Teague 
*Doctor - Sharon Omi 
*SWAT Agent - Gatsby Coram 
*Motherly Woman - Tonja Kahlens
== Featured Music ==
*"Hold" by Built for the Sea
*"Lung" by Vancouver Sleep Clinic
*"Marbella" by ANDY BIANCHINI
== Notes ==
*The episode was initially considered as the plot for the this season premiere, which would bring Booth and Brennan back into their old jobs. But David Boreanaz got sick before filming began, so the showrunners instead came up with the "Booth goes missing" two-parter in response.
*While talking with the victim's boss, Booth mentions he's familiar with El Salvadorian gangs, most likely referring to the events of "The Woman in the Garden", where they had issues with the El Salvadorian gang Mara Muerte.
*Due to the explosion in this episode, Hodgins is left paralyzed from the waist down.
== Quotes ==
:Booth: How'd you get out of the hospital in the first place?Aubrey: I might've snuck out.Booth: Snuck out?Aubrey: I didn't need to be there anyway, I'm fine!Caroline Julian: You just put yourself in the crosshairs of a couple of deranged cop killers, the last thing you are is fine!
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:Caroline Julian: How was it with the little devil children?Karen Delfs: Well, the leader of the two is extremely intelligent with clear psychopathic tendencies, a deadly combination.Aubrey: I'm guessing he was the one that was practically foaming at the mouth when we took them down?Karen Delfs: The kid's father was a cop. He died years ago. Seems the job took a toll on the man and he would in turn go home and redirect his anger onto his wife and his kid.Caroline Julian: When the authority figure in your life starts treating you like a punching bag, eventually your gonna punch back.Karen Delfs: Right, so when he and his friend got into a scuffle with a security guard over skating on private property...Aubrey: He punched back.Caroline Julian: And the next thing you know the little creep is manipulating his simpleton buddy into waging an all-out war on authority.Karen Delfs: Okay, well just so you don't have to keep calling them "the creep" and "the simpleton," the boys names are...Caroline Julian: I don't need their names. The world doesn't need to know their names. These fools wanted notoriety and I'm gonna make damn sure they never get it.Aubrey: I second that.
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:Angela Montenagro: Somebody tell please tell me what's going on?! Please!Brennan: Hodgins is paralyzed, Angela.
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