EPISODE 9 - 'THE MAN IN THE FALLOUT SHELTER'
Merry X-mas! The whole bones squint squad gets stuck in the lab over Christmas coz Booth brought Tempe a skeleton that was found in a fallout shelter (he wanted to avoid paperwork) and Hodgins and Zack cut into the bones thereby contaminating the lab. The bio-hazard alarm goes off and we see Zack and Hodgins run into the bio-hazard shower. A conference call reveals that the bio-hazard alarm picked up Valley Fever and the Squints with Booth are now confined to the Lab.
Booth is affected by the medicine they give them for the Valley Fever and starts hallucinating:
Booth: What are those little tiny lights dancing on the ceiling?
Goodman: For the third time, those are minute firings of neurons on your optic nerve due to your reaction to the antifungal cocktail.
Booth: Wow. They're beautiful.
It's not really a case, but Bones finds out that the victim was murdered and she also find certain items in his suitcase which sheds some light on his life - she is determined to give him and his loved-ones back their lives by finding out what happened to him. She found two airline tickets to Paris and other indications that he was about to get married to a African American lady - controversial considering he was Caucasian and it was illegal. She also found very valuable coins and determined that he was killed for his coins before he could meet his love.
In this episode we find out more about Tempe's past and that her parent's had disappeared just before Christmas - she shares a very sad story with Ange about not wanting to open her presents because her brother had put their presents under the tree and she had thought that their parents had come back - Booth witnesses the interaction and gets more insight on his partner.
Ange convinces everyone to be someones secret Santa and make each other gifts as they are unable to spend Christmas with their loved-ones - she is also very self-conscious about her dad who is Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. Every ones' loved-ones come to visit them at the lab through the glass door.
We also find out that Booth has a little boy named Parker and that he and his ex, Rebecca, are on strained terms. Parker is soooo cute!
At the end of the episode, Tempe is left standing alone in the lab and Booth invites her to join him at his favourite diner, Wong Fu's, to celebrate Christmas. She goes eventually to meet him and his son. Ivy (the victims' lover) also comes to the lab with her granddaughter and Tempe tells them the whole story, giving her back her life and a coin worth alot of money.
Tempe finally opens the presents her parents left for her and cries in a very heartfelt moment.
B&B Moments:
Booth: Bones, it’s after midnight. Hm? Christmas Eve day. Both an Eve and a day it’s a Christmas miracle.
Bones: Still enjoying your medication I see.
Dr. Brennan: You have a son?
Booth: Yeah.
Dr. Brennan: You've never mentioned that.
Booth: Well, nothing brings people together like a Christmas lung fungus
Tempe isn't big on religion but Booth is catholic:
Brennan: How would you like me to spend my Christmas?
Booth: Christmas is the perfect time to re-examine your standing with, you know (pointing upward)
Brennan: A helicopter pilot?
Booth: Oh, right, right. You can't measure the man upstairs in the beaker, so he can't possibly exist.
Brennan: The man upstairs?
Booth: Hmm. You know, you don't know if you're sick, but you're more than willing to take drugs just in case. Seems to me you could give the man upstairs the same benefit of the doubt that you do an invisible fungus.
Bones: Hey. I'm sorry you didn't get Christmas morning with your little boy.
Booth: Thanks.
Bones: Ivy Gillespie came to the lab after you left with her granddaughter.Don't you want to know what happened?
Booth: I know what happened. You told her about Careful Lionel. You showed her the letters, the tickets. She cried, but you made her happy.
Bones: Not to mention I gave her a penny worth over a hundred thousand dollars.
Booth: She won't care about that today. You just gave somebody the best Christmas gift they could ever get. Who's the secret Santa now?
Bones: Stop.
Booth: And that weirdo assistant of yours just made me the coolest dad in the world.
(Zack gave Booth a mini-robot)
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