This episode was fantastic when it comes to the personal interaction of our favourite characters, though when it came to the actual case, well, I'd say that having a nose is not a guarantee of a win, but I think I'm reaching with that pun.
On the one hand, we had Booth (David Boreanaz) taking responsibility for his grandfather, Pops (Ralph Waite), which had your comic highs and your emotional lows, and on the other hand, we had a bizarre fetish murder which turned out to be a violent act of passion and grief in which a man beat a couple he found in his bed (the bed he shared with his late wife) and beat them to death with a bust of his own face (hence the nose comment above).
As for the case, it would not have been solved if not for Angela (Michaela Conlin)'s super computer skills (isn't she supposed to be an artist, not a graphic design and computer genius?). The computer determined that the melted polyester was an employee jacket, leading to the discovery of the identity of one of the victims; it also mapped the shape of the weapon imprint, displaying what was obviously a nose. Apparently all crime labs need to get this computer, it solves problems as well as magic!
I realize that the strength of Bones lies in the characters, which is why I still consider this a terrific episode, but couldn't try try to make the methods used to solve cases plausible?
Enough about that, and more about Pops! Booth's granddad was hilarious! He called Booth "shrimp", asked if he was gay when he professed no interest in Brennan (Emily Deschanel), and then told her that she had ovaries of steal (well he tried to tell her she had balls of steal, but she informed him that she had ovaries, not balls, so he corrected his statement)! Even better was when he told Booth at the end of the episode that he had to go back to his nursing home to help some of the women with crochet AKA sex.
The man who raised Booth when his abusive father took off is everything we hoped and expected. It is no wonder that he turned out to be emotionally well adjusted despite everything.
The best part of the episode? The fact that Clark (Eugene Byrd) was finally drawn into talking about his personal life - his grandfather - at work. He is human after all!!!
What did you think?
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