Bones

What do you know about the Cayman Islands?

Great diving, lots of sea turtles.

- Why, are you going? - No, my accountant

- wants me to set up a tax shelter there. - Tax shelter?

Exactly how loaded are you?

Well, that is an offensive way to phrase a question.

I'm quite loaded. I'm betting on...

a seven-figure advance for my next book.

Seven figures, wow.

Without the decimal point?

The publishers make considerably more.

What's the first of those seven figures?

A prime number. What do you do with your money?

I use it for food and rent.

What do we got here?

- You Agent Booth? - Special Agent, how you doing?

- Sheriff Delpy. - This is my partner.

I can introduce myself. Dr. Temperance Brennan.

- Somebody ran the car off the road. - Gravel makes it impossible

to get an traceable tire marks.

The victim was doused with gasoline and then set on fire.

Farmer three miles away saw the smoke, called it in.

It's female,

probably in her early 20s.

Preauricular sulcus on the iliac.

She's given birth.

Ran off the side of the road, set on fire.

Somebody wanted her dead.

That's why I need your help.

I've only got six deputies covering 400 square miles.

We're stretched thinner than plastic wrap.

Compound fractures to the right tibia and fibula,

crushed menubrium, massive skull trauma.

I'm not certain yet whether she died in the accident or the fire.

You hear that?

Everybody, keep quiet! Stop working!

- Did you hear that? - It sounds like a cat.

It's a baby.

Holy crap!

Get a ladder down here now!

- There's not even a scratch on the boy. - It's a miracle.

Hardly. Car seats are specifically engineered to protect the child from...

From what, flying out of the back of the car and landing in a tree?

Oh, look at him, Bones. He looks a little fussy there.

Why don't you pick him up and give him a cuddle?

Just because I have breasts doesn't mean I have magical powers over infants.

- You're the one with a son. - All right, fine. I'll take him.

Here you go. You can have fun with the diaper bag. You look good.

Come on, little man.

Hi.

Why don't you say hi to your grumpy old Auntie Bones?

I am not grumpy.

The, the vinyl

seat melted and fused to the body,

so we need that brought back to the Jeffersonian,

and the driver's door for particulate evidence.

Kid smells a little ripe.

Might want to take care of that.

Bones, I'm gonna have to change him. Just hold onto to him here.

Got him? Okay.

All right, here we go.

We'll work together on this one.

Changing Diapers 101, Bones.

Here we go, little big man.

Okay, watch your head.

We'll put you down right here. Look at that! All right.

Give me a diaper there, Bones.

- All right. Here you go. - Thanks.

Baby powder.

You know, Booth, I have better things to do with my time...

- There's no powder. - No powder?

Yeah. Hey, wait a minute.

- Where'd that come from? - There's a rip in the ling of the bag.

Seems like someone's trying to hide it.

I'll get an evidence bag and I'll ask EMT if they have any baby powder.

- Just watch him. - Wait, wait.

Booth, there's a baby. I don't feel comforta...

Coochie-coo.

No, no, no need to fuss.

Obviously, something's upsetting you.

- Children have toys. - You must have some.

Let's see.

Elephants are not purple. This is wrong.

Hey, look at that. He flipped over.

Bones, that's because you got to watch him! Geez! Okay, whoa!

All right, okay, look, little big man, if you're gonna be in my jacket,

we got to get you out of that dirty diaper. Oh, whew!

Okay, where's the key?

I put it on your jacket.

Next to the baby?

Yeah.

Are you crazy? Do you know that babies put everything in their mouth, Bones?

He could swallow the key. It's so dangerous!

All right, look, okay, shh-shh.

Oh, look. Okay, look.

Key, Bones, look for the key.

It's not here.

Oh, no, he must have...

... swallowed it.

Okay, here you go.

- Get used to him. - What do you mean?

That key was evidence.

You know how chain of custody works.

That kid stays with us till we get the key back.

That's a stream.

Bones Season 3 Episode 12 The Baby In The Bough

I've never seen anything so gorgeous on this table before.

Or so alive.

Why is Dr. Brennan the official custodian?

She's registered as a foster parent.

Russ asked her to do it after he began his prison term.

Russ wants to make sure his stepdaughters are taken care of

if anything happens to Amy.

Prodigious saliva production.

Okay, now if we can determine if the little guy

really did swallow a key or if he has been falsely accused.

Well, unless

he's already had a hip replacement, sounds like there's a key in there.

He liked it. Do it again.

What are you doing?

We're just...

We verified that the baby did indeed swallow the key.

Then you should X-ray him to get a clear view of it.

He's not a plaything.

And you're supposed to be examing the victim.

We thought it would be bad for him

to examine the remains in front of the baby.

You know, creepy formative memory.

Then would you mind taking him for a little while so that we can work?

I'd love to.

Get used to it.

I want, like, a million of these.

Cool.

What do you think she meant by "a million"? Two?

Agent Booth?

- Yeah? - Got a hit on your burned car.

It was registered to a dead guy.

Dead woman driving a dead man's car.

Plates expired five years ago.

Dead guy's family said they sold the car for scrap

at a junkyard in Seneca Rocks, West Virginia.

Let me guess. Junkyard guy sells off

the old heaps to people who want to get off the grid?

He used to.

Operation got shut down two years ago. No one's seen him since.

Let me know if Forensics finds anything to help Bones ID the remains.

Is it true that Dr. Brennan's taking care of the baby?

Because that's something I'd pay to see.

Good-bye, Charlie.

The victim exhibits enlarged hypertrophic lesions

at multiple muscle attachments.

The result of strenuous activity, most likely occupational.

Ligamenta flava shows evidence of whiplash.

All the perimortem injuries are consistent with vehicular trauma.

She was dead prior to immolation.

Zack, grind some bones so Hodgins can perform an isotope analysis.

We might be able to figure out where she lived.

Junior made us a little present.

The key, finally.

Not yet.

This is just the usual present, but

with one major difference.

I assume pink isn't a normal color for this type of thing.

Does yours ever look pink?

No, but I'm not an infant.

- Where's the baby? - A sleep in your office.

I was gonna start the facial reconstruction

He's my charge. I'll sit with him.

Let me run some tests.

- See what I can find. - Actually,

one time when I was visiting my cousins, we ate a lot of beets,

- and the next day... - Zack, really,

too much sharing.

You know, you look very mom like with that baby monitor.

I have responsibilities under state law as a foster parent.

I already bought him toys and clothes.

- Ah, so you bought him some clothes. - I sent an intern who

apparently loves bears which, in reality, would devour a small child.

I tested the ground bone for strontium.

Strontium is an element found in most rocks.

Human beings absorb it through

the consumption of local vegetation and water.

Over time, the isotope collects in the bones, meaning...

You can use it to figure out where someone's from.

That is right, people: I am a constant surprise.

I don't understand.

He's been fed; he's changed; I patted him;

and now he's just complaing.

He's acting like a real baby.

The victim was from northern West Virginia.

Tucker County, to be more precise.

Are you sure she's from Tucker county? The crash was in Pendleton.

Very sure.

Particulate matter collected from the salvaged area of the car

contained guano from a corynorhinus townsendii viginianus.

So we know where to look.

- Are you gonna go? - No, I figured you'd get him.

Don't you have a responsibility under state law?

- But you're the baby daddy. - Baby daddy?

You have prior experience with preverbal infancy.