The Bones that Weren't

The Bones that Weren't is the fifth episode of the sixth season of Bones.
== Summary ==
After the skull of a promising young dancer is found lodged in concrete at a construction site, the team must first figure out what happened to the victim’s skeletal structure. After learning the victim quit ballet to pursue hip hop, Booth and Brennan uncover another layer of evidence that points them to a suspect who had a secret relationship with the victim. Meanwhile, when Hannah is put on assignment in a dodgy part of town, her safety is jeopardized and her life is put in critical danger.
== Plot ==
A young man holding a skateboard sneaks into a restricted construction site to thrash. After said thrashing, he stumbles upon a human head sunk in the concrete. Better call Booth and Brennan. 
Booth (David Boreanaz), however, is busy with his girlfriend Hannah, working on a story about corrupt cops. "I'll miss you," Booth says as his GF exits the apartment.
CUT to the diner, where Bones (Emily Deschanel) suggests -- absentmindedly, of course -- Hannah is doing extra work because she is bored at home. Booth now has something ELSE to think about. The partners then head to the crime scene and discover the skull is missing its back half. So a slab of the concrete is brought back to the Jeffersonian, where Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) and Arastoo (Pej Vahdat) wait. Oddly, there is no skeleton -- just the impression of one. Arastoo then discovers the victim had a tattooed tooth. It appears to be of a hip-hop dancer. 
Back at Booth's apartment, the FBI agent has cooked an elaborate dinner for his lady in an attempt to keep her happy. She explains her editor has forbidden her from investigating corrupt cops, but Booth guesses she will do it anyway. He's right.
Back at the Jeffersonian, Angela (Michaela Conlin) uses super-cool lasers to build a replica of the skeleton. "The detail is remarkable," Arastoo says. "These nicks suggest that he was stabbed." Camille (Tamara Taylor) isn't so sure. Perhaps the man was accidentally impaled after wandering into the construction site. Booth and Brennan, in the meantime, have identified the victim through the tooth tattoo -- and discovered he was a former ballet dancer. They visit the studio, where a tough-talking instructor barks at her students. Booth and Brennan ask about the victim. "Robert?" Cynthia (Kelly Stables) the ballet instructor asks. "I hope you're here to tell me he's dead." Why? Because Robert is responsible for the instructor's broken ankle, which set back her career. It's called motive, people. 
CUT to the Jeffersonian, where Arastoo notices marks on the reconstructed skeleton consistent with break dancing. Hodgins enters with news: traces of a bone-eating fungus were found in the concrete, explaining the lack of a skeleton. An outbreak of such fungus, meanwhile, was reported at a nearby park often populated by hip-hop dancers. Also: flecks of bronze were found in the skull.
So Booth and Brennan head to the park. They show performers Beverly (Melinda Dahl) and Johnny Wizard photos of the victim. "I told you it was weird that he disappeared like that," Beverly tells Johnny. Derrick (Ronnie Steadman) the park cleaner remains suspiciously quiet on the matter. They then notice a BRONZE statue. Turns out it's a living statue! Moments later, the living statue is in the interrogation room. Sweets (John Francis Daley) uses lines from Shakespeare to question the man. "There is no honor amongst thieves," the living statue says. So Robert was a thief.
Later, Hodgins discovers the bronze did not come from the living statue, but perhaps a pipe. Meanwhile, Angela uses a computer recreation to theorize that the body fell from a walkway and was impaled on construction rebar. Booth and Brennan, meanwhile, head back to the park to question Russell (Stephen Boss), a competing dancer with a history of threatening others. They discover a rusty screwdriver in his backpack. Just then, Booth's cell phone rings. It's bad news. "I got to go," a distraught Booth says. "Hannah's been shot!" 
Booth rushes to the hospital. The bullet in Hannah's leg came from a typical cop gun. The good news: her editor suddenly loves the story. The bad news: Bones notices the wound is not just a simple nick. It's actually a hairline fracture which could sever the femoral artery. Hannah needs surgery. "So, basically, you saved my life," Hannah notes.
Back at the Jeffersonian, Hodgins examines the screwdriver but can't find hard evidence of any fungus. Then again, the victim was killed six months ago, so it isn't likely the fungus would still be present. Hodgins and Arastoo then head to the park to search for fungus evidence. They notice the trash has fungus traces. Then they notice park cleaner Derek using a pointed spear to pick up trash. "We just found the murder weapon," Hodgins declares. Back at the Jeffersonian, Bones tells Hodgins to search for a palm print in the plastic surrounding the victim, as the killer would've supported his/her weight with a left hand in order to cut the plastic and shove the body beneath it.
CUT to the hospital, where Booth visits Hannah. "Ten bucks I catch him before you do," Hannah says of the person (likely a dirty cop) who shot her. Booth proposes they "catch him together." It's a romantic moment, believe it or not. The two make out.
Hodgins, in the meantime, has discovered a palm print in the plastic through a process involving gold dust. The print is tiny -- either a child or a small woman. Of course, we've met a few small women this episode (and no children). Booth and Brennan bring in Beverly and the ballet teacher. Booth suspects Beverly as police records indicate all pickpocket cases in the area occurred while Robert and Beverly were working. They were a team until Robert cheated Beverly, who chased him through the park with the clean-up tool, eventually stabbing him at the neighboring construction site and hiding his body under plastic. Case closed, but not the episode.
Bones visits Hannah in the hospital and the two hit it off. "Perhaps you should be more careful in the stories you pursue in the future," Bones said. "Booth would be very upset if you died." Hannah asks Bones if she would "back down." Bones admits she would not. The pair laugh.
== Cast ==
=== Main Cast ===
*Temperance Brennan - Emily Deschanel
*Seeley Booth - David Boreanaz
*Jack Hodgins - T.J Thyne
*Angela Montenegro - Michaela Conlin
*Camille Saroyan - Tamara Taylor
*Lance Sweets - John Francis Daley
=== Intern of the Week ===
*Arastoo Vaziri - Pej Vahdat
=== Recurring Cast ===
*Hannah Burley - Katheryn Winnick
=== Guest Cast ===
*Russell Leonard - Stephen "tWitch" Boss
*Cynthia Rinaldi - Kelly Stables
*Beverly Houle - Melinda Dahl
*Tyler Milford - John Fleck
*Johnny Wizard - Alex Weed
*Derrick Price - Ronnie Steadman
== Featured Music ==
*"In One Ear" - Cage The Elephant
*"System Overload" - Pjayz
*"Waltz C Minor Op 64" - Fredrick Chopin
*"House of Wax" - Wax Tailor
*"Why Don't You Love Me" - The Dahis
*"Nobody Hot As Me" - KU
== Notes ==
*This episode features more production errors than usual. The edges of several facades can be seen in the opening scene. Also, light reflects off the camera during one of the night scenes.
*Vacuum Metal Deposition must be performed under a vacuum, so the device Hodgins uses with its open ports on the top would not work.
* When the women are brought into the FBI headquarters to get their hand prints, the guilty woman drinks from the glass with her right hand. However, the print that Hodgins found on the plastic was a left hand. (Pointing this out, the print Hodgins finds is left hand which indicates the murderer is right handed [the hand used to hold the knife], so that the guilty person is more likely to use their right hand, not left.)
== Quotes ==
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