OOM: The Blonde in the Game
Booth doesn't want to play any games.
Unfortunately, with Epps, it's all Booth seems able to do.
The victim they found in the woods shows all the signs of an Epps murder. Tire iron. Face down. Bound. A murder that was committed seven to ten years ago. A man and his dog found the body. The dog chewed on one of the bones from the wrist.
Booth talks to the monster alone, in large part because he thinks Bones might break another of Epps's body parts and he can't see how that would help find out who the girl was.
All they know is that she was a teenager and a golfer. And Epps doesn't give him anything else, nothing he can use. All he'll say is that his wrist hadn't healed right and that he can't partake in his 'favorite activity.' That, and:
Everything you need to win the game is right there in front of you.
Right in front of us.
Bones said that the right wrist wasn't from the same body.
The wrist belongs to another victim. And they still don't even know who the first victim is.
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Bones goes to talk to him. Epps wins that round.
They meet his new wife, Caroline, and Booth manages to hide his disgust enough to be kind to her. She might be needed at some point. Bones can't manage to hide how she feels, but that's OK. She's not here to make nice.
Caroline is a hairdresser, Epps tells Bones. He hopes to see Brennan again after she analyzes the bones. The smell of antiseptic in the interrogation room reminds him of his mother, who used to clean both their hands with it. That he wishes he'd made his mother his first victim, and buried her under a stone cross.
Booth doesn't know if it's enough, but Brennan seems to think it's plenty. He trusts her.
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The bone is covered in laxative, Hodgins says. And ammonia is a clue. Exposing the bone to ammonia gas reveals the symbol for a mine, and they narrow it down to the one that has the other trace elements on the bone.
Victim number two is buried under a stone cross. It's only a week old.
The victim has a medallion in her shoe. Her name was Sarah Koskof, and she was a hairdresser. Is Caroline Epps the accomplice? Is she that crazy?
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A search of Caroline's house reveals nothing. Tracing the medal, however, turns up a potential new victim. Helen Majors, a student at St. Agnes High School, who has been missing for three days.
Epps taunts them again when they go back, but gives them nothing new.
Caroline has an alibi for when Helen Majors disappeared. She's not that crazy. But someone is.
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It's the man who 'discovered' the first body. He and Epps worked at the golf course where the first victim used to play. Lapin now works at the post office.
Helen Majors is being held at a plant used to sort mail during the anthrax scare. She's suspended, but alive. Lapin finds Booth and Brennan, hits Booth with a pipe.
Brennan shoots Lapin.
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They go back to visit Epps, to tell him the game is over. Brennan says they've won, that Epps has lost, but Epps gloats. This is better than I'd hoped, he says, then looks at Booth. I thought it would be you.
Brennan stares. The whole game was to have us kill someone.
And her flat tone of voice, the way she acts later, lets Booth know that Epps did win. He's changed Bones, made her a killer.
He just hopes she'll come back from this, and that she won't have to shoot anyone again.
There is always a cost. If only she hadn't been the one to pay it.
Unfortunately, with Epps, it's all Booth seems able to do.
The victim they found in the woods shows all the signs of an Epps murder. Tire iron. Face down. Bound. A murder that was committed seven to ten years ago. A man and his dog found the body. The dog chewed on one of the bones from the wrist.
Booth talks to the monster alone, in large part because he thinks Bones might break another of Epps's body parts and he can't see how that would help find out who the girl was.
All they know is that she was a teenager and a golfer. And Epps doesn't give him anything else, nothing he can use. All he'll say is that his wrist hadn't healed right and that he can't partake in his 'favorite activity.' That, and:
Everything you need to win the game is right there in front of you.
Right in front of us.
Bones said that the right wrist wasn't from the same body.
The wrist belongs to another victim. And they still don't even know who the first victim is.
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Bones goes to talk to him. Epps wins that round.
They meet his new wife, Caroline, and Booth manages to hide his disgust enough to be kind to her. She might be needed at some point. Bones can't manage to hide how she feels, but that's OK. She's not here to make nice.
Caroline is a hairdresser, Epps tells Bones. He hopes to see Brennan again after she analyzes the bones. The smell of antiseptic in the interrogation room reminds him of his mother, who used to clean both their hands with it. That he wishes he'd made his mother his first victim, and buried her under a stone cross.
Booth doesn't know if it's enough, but Brennan seems to think it's plenty. He trusts her.
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The bone is covered in laxative, Hodgins says. And ammonia is a clue. Exposing the bone to ammonia gas reveals the symbol for a mine, and they narrow it down to the one that has the other trace elements on the bone.
Victim number two is buried under a stone cross. It's only a week old.
The victim has a medallion in her shoe. Her name was Sarah Koskof, and she was a hairdresser. Is Caroline Epps the accomplice? Is she that crazy?
.............................................................................................
A search of Caroline's house reveals nothing. Tracing the medal, however, turns up a potential new victim. Helen Majors, a student at St. Agnes High School, who has been missing for three days.
Epps taunts them again when they go back, but gives them nothing new.
Caroline has an alibi for when Helen Majors disappeared. She's not that crazy. But someone is.
....................................................................................
It's the man who 'discovered' the first body. He and Epps worked at the golf course where the first victim used to play. Lapin now works at the post office.
Helen Majors is being held at a plant used to sort mail during the anthrax scare. She's suspended, but alive. Lapin finds Booth and Brennan, hits Booth with a pipe.
Brennan shoots Lapin.
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They go back to visit Epps, to tell him the game is over. Brennan says they've won, that Epps has lost, but Epps gloats. This is better than I'd hoped, he says, then looks at Booth. I thought it would be you.
Brennan stares. The whole game was to have us kill someone.
And her flat tone of voice, the way she acts later, lets Booth know that Epps did win. He's changed Bones, made her a killer.
He just hopes she'll come back from this, and that she won't have to shoot anyone again.
There is always a cost. If only she hadn't been the one to pay it.