Lets take the episodes as they come, poncho-wearing Aubrey and all.
Hold those horses: For better or for worse, we are not revisitingPony Play.
Guitars dont impress him much.
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Big River Bucks solo trip to the Frontier Games is derailed when Brennan shows up anyway.
Whats she doing here?
Being unexpected and exciting!
And solving a murder, of course.
Sometimes a motorcycle, Ange, is just a motorcycle.
She also volunteers to take Christine and Hank for the weekend, because Angela has baby fever.
Her accent is seamless.
This battle is on.
whines Glen, the cowboy trying to court Brennan.
Brennan just leans back and admires her husbands handiwork: Hes not.
Anyway, should we solve this murder?
When Stanley found out that Luke had been embezzling from his wife, he threatened to expose him.
The men are getting shoved aside left and right today, sometimes literally.
Booth and Glen are both disqualified from the Games, making Brennan the winner.
You want to win on a technicality?
Of course she does.
Brennan loves technicalities like how that bike is technically a motorcycle.
Cam isnt in this for the walks, man.
Just give her some hot sex, and get out of her silk robe.
The second hour of this fall finale wastes no time in taking everyone to a dark place.
Aubrey barely has time to yell at everyone to get back before it explodes.
Four cops die at the scene, but lets get to the fate of the people we care about.
(I mean…I care about everyone.)
Cam is in the clear; shes far enough back to be out of the blast zone.
Hodgins limps into the hospital waiting room to hug his friends; hes sore, but hes alive.
Aubrey, who shielded Hodgins from the blast, is still in surgery.
Personally, ever since Brennan killed off Agent Andy, Ive been harboring a totally irrational (right?)
fear for Booths life, so dont think I didnt spend this whole episode watching him like a hawk.
Thats probably for the best;Bonesisnt really the place for big-picture social commentary.
Sometimes that reaction is well intentioned.
Booth makes people want to risk their lives.
Booth should know; hes the child of an abusive father.
His history with his dad doesnt come up here, but it doesnt have to.
The victim was hit on the head with a skateboard.
The stronger of the two personalities, Alex, came from an abusive home himself.
He even roped a friend into his schemes, and that is all we need to know.
I dont need their names, Caroline insists.
The world doesnt need to know their names.
These fools wanted notoriety, and Im going to make damn sure they never get it.
When does Caroline Julian get to run this country?
Im never going to stop asking.
He asks her to think about how serious this thing is with Sebastian.
Hodgins is on the floor; they were on their way out when he just dropped.
That swelling, combined with the aspirin Hodgins was popping, resulted in an epidural hematoma compressing his spine.
It takes Brennan, looking at the MRIs, to translate it all for Hodgins wife: Hes paralyzed.
He and Angela had just decided to have more kids!
Watching Hodgins give a shot to fight for his optimism all over againisnt going to be easy.
But hell get there.
Theres no room for him to be taken for granted anymore.
