Bones

Traffic?

Dr. Brennan looked a little hurt when I told her

you asked me to come out here instead of her.

No, Bones' feelings, they don't get hurt.

- She's not like you. - Like me?

A girl.

Yeah, the word you're looking for would be "woman,"

who, incidentally, makes more money than you.

- Touchy. - What can I say?

- I'm just a girl with feelings. - Listen, construction crew

they found the body this afternoon. Key word here is "body."

As in still meaty.

Male, middle-aged.

Bones, she usually... kneels next to the remains.

These are designer pants.

And my bodies are always so much gushier than Dr. Brennan's.

I'm just saying.

Looks like a stab wound to the middle of the chest.

Naked, wrapped in plastic.

Bite marks to the face and extremities.

Looks like rats.

Rats.

Looks like he might have been kneecapped? Mob thing, maybe?

What's that?

Some kind of gem stone.

This blow through the sternum would have been fatal.

Dealt by a double-edged blade.

So we know our killer is strong.

Based on the rate of decomp, I'd say he's been dead three days.

- Probably dumped Friday night. - The gem stone is jade.

- I'm narrowing down the exact type now. - Grit from the wounds.

Hey, grit to you, open book to me.

The injuries to the knees aren't from baseball bats or bullets.

Zack is right.

The victim's patellas were removed surgically.

King of the Lab.

Dr. Brennan?

Yes?

Amy Hollister.

I'm your brother's girlfriend?

Of course. Please come in.

Would you like something to drink?

No, no, I-I'm sorry, I...

I don't have a lot of time.

Do you know where Russ is?

Amy, I haven't seen Russ in months.

I have two little girls, well, you know, and...

The youngest one, that's Hayley, she's not doing too good.

Cystic fibrosis.

Russ mentioned that she had lung problems.

Well, her breathing's real bad

and... now her liver.

And... she keeps asking for Russ.

I'm...

going to give you the...

phone number of Dr. Leo Goetz.

He's the premiere authority on cystic fibrosis in the country.

I can't afford that.

Oh, no, Amy... Leo and I are friends.

He'd do it for me as a favor, no charge.

I'm going to give him a call, tell him to expect you.

I... I don't know what to say.

- Thank you. - And as for Russ...

I think you're be better off talking to Dad.

I understand.

Thank you for your time.

The knees.

Bones S03E07 "The Knight on the Grid"

You human kneecaps in the mail?

That is like ugh.

Zack says they match our victim.

Look, we're dusting the envelope for prints.

It was sent somewhere from the D.C. area.

- These patellas are unusually worn. - Worn from what?

It's hard to say definitively, but I'd say the man did a lot of kneeling.

Wait a minute, I've seen that before.

That symbol looks familiar.

Like it's from some kind of seal.

Hey, look, Bones, you are gonna, you know, stay with a friend,

- check into a hotel, right? - She can stay with me.

Great. Thank you. No. Why?

Mr. Kneecaps has your home address.

I can't freak out every time somebody Googles me.

Cam? She goes nowhere alone.

- Cam? Don't listen to him. - Who are you more afraid of, me or her?

So this is what it's like to be a kindergarten teacher.

Fascinating interpersonal interaction.

Dr. Sweets.

I...

Oh, my...

that is gross. Yeah, it's an autopsy room.

It's no place for therapists. What do you want?

You and Dr. Brennan missed our session this morning.

Maybe because somebody sent body parts to Bones in the mail.

Oh, my God.

I've identified the murder weapon.

Oh, that was quick.

Tapered inch and a half wide with both a hilt and a quillon.

The cannelure is also quite distinctive.

That's the Gormogon knife.

The serial killer?

Which is why the symbol looked so familiar.

I've seen it on a tapestry in the vault.

So this is the famous bank vault where the violinist was murdered and eaten?

We transported everything from the bank here to the Jeffersonian.

So, if you touch anything, Sweets, you put it back exactly the way it was.

Oh, awesome.

The Widow's Son sculpture.

It's complete silver skeleton which is replaced piece by piece

with the bones from murder victims.

Then all of the relics, including that skeleton,

can be traced to the Gormogons.

A 17th century anti-Masonic group. Supposed to be extinct.

How many victims?

Oh, the statue contains the bones of at least five

five unidentified victims plus the violinist.

That is the actual violinist's pinky.

Well, obviously Gormogon sent you his kneecaps to continue his work.

We are not fitting those kneecaps onto this skeleton.

Mark my words: you'll find something special about those kneecaps.

Okay, this tapestry here is off somehow.

Off?

Don't look at me. My idea of art is a half-naked woman on the side of a van.

That's interesting.

No, it's not interesting, Sweets, because it was a joke.

Okay, what's the matter?

Russ's girlfriend, Amy, came to see me.

Her daughter's sick. She's looking for Russ.

I told her that my dad might know where he is.

Your brother is a wanted fugitive, he's a material witness in your

- Dad's murder trial. - Amy knows that.

He's not gonna come back just because your niece has a cough.

Technically, she's not my niece and it's not a cough.

It's cystic fibrosis.

Missing persons sent over dental records from middle-aged men.

I checked them against the victim.

- You get a hit? - Father Douglas Cooper.

Vicar General to the Archbishop of Washington D. C.

Okay, Sweets was right about the kneecaps.

This guy would have been a world-class kneeler.

Saying that someone is a whiz at psychology is like saying they're

good at mind reading. It's a series of lucky guesses.

I'm bringing Sweets in on the case.

- You make fun of him all the time. - Only when he messes with our heads.

He was right about the knees.

Zack, shouldn't you be figuring out what was used to excise the kneecaps?

Yes, Dr. Brennan.

What?

You just dismissed Zack.

No, I didn't.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I, I liked it.

Thank you for coming in, Archbishop Wallace.

You found my Vicar General?

Yes, your Holiness.

Monsignor.

Or Steve.

So, how did Doug die?

- Well, Steve... - Bones!

- He said to call him Steve. - Monsignor.

Father Cooper was stabbed to death.

As a part of a series of cannibalistic murders.

A series of cannibalistic murders?

We're still trying to find out what they have in common.

Doug Cooper was a, a quiet man.

He'd been on sabbatical for the past six months.

- He was writing a book. - About?

The history of early Christianity.

Its ties to paganism.

Esoteric stuff.

Somebody ate Doug?

Just a part of him.

A lovely, decent man,

humble, dedicated to serving others.

Unfortunate choice of words, given that someone ate him.

Just a part of him.

There's too much evil in the world.

God forgive me, but...

sometimes I wonder if I'm little more than a Band-Aid.

Amen, Monsignor. Amen.

Thanks, Steve.

Angela identified the red-haired figure on the tapestry.

Barabbas.

A murder and rapist who was condemned to death in New Testament Jerusalem.

The Gormogons believed that the descendents of Barabbas

started the first secret societies.

To the Gormogons, Barabbas is an enduring symbol of all that is backwards

upside-down, or inside out.

So if you find his figure on a Gormogon relic...

It's a sign to interpret it backwards or in a mirror or upside-down.

The numbers on the tapestry are a simple alpha-numeric code.

Each number corresponds with a letter.

Civitas capitolium.

Which means "Capitol City."

D. C. was laid out according to Masonic symbols.

Now, notice the Pentagram here over the White House?

And you see the compass and the square.

The point of the compass is over the U. S. Capitol building.

But here's where Angela's Barabbas thing really kicks in.

The presence of Barabbas on this means backwards and upside-down.

When the compass is inverted, it points to some very interesting landmarks.