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Episode Essentials

Original air date: October 1, 2008
Writer(s):
Elizabeth Benjamin
Director(s):
Steven DePaul
Guest stars:
  • Kim Robillard (Dave Farfield)
  • David Greenman (FBI Forensic Tech Marcus Geier)
  • Joel David Moore (Colin Fisher)
  • Edward James Gage (Stan Nokes)
  • Omi Vaidya (Hamid Hirani)
  • Pete Gardner (Gary Flannery)
  • Devin McGinn (Ted Russo)
  • Ewan Chung (Chip Yap)
  • Katherine Leonard (Christine Gertin)
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Episode Summary
The remains of a despised office manager are discovered in an elevator shaft, and Booth and Brennan must figure out which employee killed him. After some investigating, they find that the manager had more than a fair share of complaints on file. Meanwhile, Angela and Hodgins try to make peace in the lab after their break-up.

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An office workers snaps Cam's picture because she's beautiful, sorry Bones your just a wall flower today.
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Bones Opening Crime Scene Description
An office elevator is stuffed with people. The elevator begins to descend rapidly, then suddenly jerks to a stop. A woman's severed leg falls out of the elevator's escape hatch in the ceiling. Booth, Bones and Cam are called to the scene where they find that the rest of the remains are smeared along the entire length of the hoist way.



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Victim's name: Patty Hoyle Suspect: Dave Farfield
christine Murderer: Christine Gertin
Methods used to solve:
Motive: Patty caught Chrisitne and Chip having sex in the copy room and threaten to get them fired. So Christine thew the stapler at Patty and hit her in the head
Notes: The staple punctured the aneurysm, so it was an accident
Cause of death: aneurysm that was punctured by a stapler Relationship to victim: co-worker that she got fired
Time/location of death: office building in DC, 3 days prior
Finds/evidence: semen on carpet and victim's clothing Suspect: Gary Flannery
What do the bones say? hairline impact fissures on the lateral epicondyle, aneurysm in skull Relationship to victim: Patty's boss whom she was blackmailing
"Aha!" moment: Booth and Bones find part of a blue fingernail in the elevator doorway.











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  • Bone's intern Fisher mentions ribs R3-R11 they don't exist.
  • Booth has worked for the FBI for 12 years, that would mean he started around 1996. Two years before Bones started at the Jeffersonian, see "The Woman in Limbo" from season 1.

Bones Episode Guide - Bones Best Bones/Booth Moments

  • Bones: "See? Booth? Some people accept their position as a drone". Booth: "Are you calling me a drone?" Bones: "It’s not a pejorative statement, without the drones, the hive would die".

  • Booth: "Look, I do not work for some faceless bureaucracy, okay? I work for the United States Government, and so do you, which makes you a drone, too". Bones: " No. No, I’m a completely independent contractor operating out of the Jeffersonian. In the hive, I would be the queen bee". Booth: "Still in the hive". Bones: "In which I am the queen".

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  • Bones explains what she said to help Booth get the office chair everyone wanted. Bones: "I mentioned your dedication, courage and sensitivity".





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I'm okay with us breaking up, me too.
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When you work for The Man he buys all the office furniture
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Booth: Don’t say it like that. “Okay,” like I’m some kind of kid.
Bones: I see you got your throne.

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