The Couple in the Cave
The Couple in the Cave: In which Hannah comes and Brennan begins to crack
Okay, Sweets' “Truth Zone” moment: I had a hunch that the park ranger was the murderer before the credits rolled and pretty much knew it was him by the time he showed up in Booth's office with the file about the squatter. Maybe it's from watching too many crime shows to know that the guy who inserts himself into the investigation is the ONE. Regardless, I found that even though I'd figured it out, I didn't care. Let's face it, there have been a few stellar cases along the way but by and large if we all watched Bones for the complexity of the cases we would've left years ago.
No, I think no matter where we fall on the Booth/Brennan/Hannah spectrum we can all agree that the strength of Bones lies in its characters. This week, the characters were brought to life by Stephen Nathan and WOW did he ever bring it!
This is the episode that has been talked about and hashed over time and time again since the spoiler crap hit the fan in May telling us that Booth would return with someone else. Last week, he did the gentlemanly thing and told Brennan that he was seeing someone and that it was serious. I kinda love that just like when he was dating Catherine, Brennan takes every opportunity she can to probe at him and figure out what the size and scope of his relationship with Hannah really is.
When they're in the park, she asks him if he talks to her often and then wants to know why he left Hannah. Later in the diner, she's questioning him again; this time wanting to know if he misses Hannah. She offers to help in any way she can and if Angela had been there, she'd have cried “AWKWARD!”
Hannah, apparently, is tired of waking up alone, so she hops a flight back to DC and puts in a request to work for the DC press corp. The reunion at the diner is a joyful one, though the couple is interrupted mid-kiss by Brennan, who feels the need to introduce herself right away, but that's okay, because Hannah's heard a lot about her and once introductions are exchanged she goes right back to kissing Booth.
The final shot before we cut to the lab shows just how amazing Emily D can capture emotions on her face and this only continues to get better as the episode rolls along. The vibe that she's now the third wheel whenever Hannah is around is clear as day and while she tries convincing herself and everyone around her that she remains unaffected, nobody's buying it.
Even Dr. Edison- the consummate professional- is done tiptoeing around the obvious UST and when Brennan wants to know why she should be jealous, he launches into an emotional, and hilarious, rant on how even a blind man could see that the dynamic duo should just get “butt-naked” and do it already! (yeah, Clark, we feel your pain)
Meanwhile over at the Hoover, Booth seems to really have missed Hannah and gives her the key to his place in a bit of a suggestive manner, though not before he questions whether the press corp will be enough excitement for her. This restlessness of Hannah's is brought up a few times, so much so that it feels to me like foreshadowing. Hannah has few “faults” but this could be a deal-breaker down the road. I can very easily see Booth breaking things off so that he doesn't hold Hannah back.
The other thing that keeps popping up in this episode is love. Booth's love for Hannah, Hannah's love for Booth, and Brennan wrestling with how to put what she's seeing into context with what's gone on between them in the past. She talks to Angela about living the life she's always expected and you can feel her pain when she admits that Booth probably didn't expect to fall in love in a war zone any more than Angela planned to settle down. I don't get the impression that living the life she always wanted is as cracked up as Brennan wants it to be.
After the obligatory visit to the squatter who Sweets' shrinky mojo tags as not being the murderer, we get back to the real story, which is the new Booth/Brennan/Hannah dynamic. Hannah likes that Brennan is a go-getter without modesty, because she's one too, and there's no modesty whatsoever as she lets Brennan in on how they met. Now, Booth might've arrested her like he said he did last week because she was where she wasn't supposed to be, but it seems our boy left out the fact that he saved her life in the process; something Brennan picks up on right away. Maybe Booth concealed that because he knew Brennan would immediately figure out that he'd broken his promise to her at the airport not to be Boothy(remember, he lied about the work he did over there too), or maybe he did it because of the reward he collected under the fig tree... either way, Brennan seems to be more than happy to be saved from the conversation when Hodgins calls with more case information.
[side note: the fact that Hodgins is a wee bit infatuated with Hannah is awesome and fixing his hair when he found out she was on the other end was hilarious and perfectly timed. That whole thing reminded me of his “bombshell from the bomb squad” from days of yore, right down to his flattering of Angela. Love it!]
Brennan is obviously taking everything to heart and when the topic of the victims' unlikely romance comes up, she's quick to point out that she and Booth couldn't work through their differences. For the second week in a row, Brennan talks about her dreams while she was over in Maluku and Booth looked as gobsmacked as I felt to discover that she dreamed about them being a couple (however fanciful it may've seemed) during their time apart. At this point, that big sign that told us about nothing happening unless first it's dreamed back in the 100th episode is starting to make a whole lot more sense.
If everything that had happened up to this point in the episode was all that we got, I would've been more than satisfied, but that's not all, folks!! Because while Booth is having a “nooner” or two in which we find out he's lying through his teeth to Hannah about things once upon a time being anymore than they appear to be with Brennan and are once again reminded that Hannah craves action beyond what DC is offering her(if you skipped the bedroom scene you not only missed mostly naked Booth but also this great window into Hannah's thoughts, FYI), Brennan has the mother of all meltdowns, in her house of reason, on the forensic platform and whether you choose to read a deeper subtext into her words or not, it's clear that her emotions right now have NOTHING to do with forensics and EVERYTHING to do with Booth and Hannah. Her giggle as she tries to delude herself is just plain creepy.
And that right there is something I've been waiting for since the 100th blew up in Booth's face. I braced for it with Catherine and never got it, but now it's in full swing and if the writers gave us so much on the first episode with Hannah, I can only imagine how much worse for Brennan(better for us, the audience) this love triangle is going to be as this arc unfolds. Brennan's line about previous acts of heroism for someone you have fallen out of love with are VERY telling about how she's sorting through Booth's repeated claims of love and bless him because he tells her it's still love that motivated things; perhaps cluing us in on just how little he's fallen “out” of love with Brennan despite how happy he seems to be with Hannah.
The single saddest scene in the episode is Brennan sitting alone with the two celebratory glasses while her mask slips even further and we see just how hard she's taking this whole thing.
Is anyone else as excited as I am right now? Are you all BEGGING for Thursday to come so that Brennan can continue to become more self-aware, as Booth continues to try and persuade himself he's moved on, and Hannah learns just what kind of emotional wasps' nest she's stepped into now that she's a part of Booth's real world?
Oh, you guys, I'm still spoiler free but I can tell in my bones that the best is yet to come!!!
Gum :)
Okay, Sweets' “Truth Zone” moment: I had a hunch that the park ranger was the murderer before the credits rolled and pretty much knew it was him by the time he showed up in Booth's office with the file about the squatter. Maybe it's from watching too many crime shows to know that the guy who inserts himself into the investigation is the ONE. Regardless, I found that even though I'd figured it out, I didn't care. Let's face it, there have been a few stellar cases along the way but by and large if we all watched Bones for the complexity of the cases we would've left years ago.
No, I think no matter where we fall on the Booth/Brennan/Hannah spectrum we can all agree that the strength of Bones lies in its characters. This week, the characters were brought to life by Stephen Nathan and WOW did he ever bring it!
This is the episode that has been talked about and hashed over time and time again since the spoiler crap hit the fan in May telling us that Booth would return with someone else. Last week, he did the gentlemanly thing and told Brennan that he was seeing someone and that it was serious. I kinda love that just like when he was dating Catherine, Brennan takes every opportunity she can to probe at him and figure out what the size and scope of his relationship with Hannah really is.
When they're in the park, she asks him if he talks to her often and then wants to know why he left Hannah. Later in the diner, she's questioning him again; this time wanting to know if he misses Hannah. She offers to help in any way she can and if Angela had been there, she'd have cried “AWKWARD!”
Hannah, apparently, is tired of waking up alone, so she hops a flight back to DC and puts in a request to work for the DC press corp. The reunion at the diner is a joyful one, though the couple is interrupted mid-kiss by Brennan, who feels the need to introduce herself right away, but that's okay, because Hannah's heard a lot about her and once introductions are exchanged she goes right back to kissing Booth.
The final shot before we cut to the lab shows just how amazing Emily D can capture emotions on her face and this only continues to get better as the episode rolls along. The vibe that she's now the third wheel whenever Hannah is around is clear as day and while she tries convincing herself and everyone around her that she remains unaffected, nobody's buying it.
Even Dr. Edison- the consummate professional- is done tiptoeing around the obvious UST and when Brennan wants to know why she should be jealous, he launches into an emotional, and hilarious, rant on how even a blind man could see that the dynamic duo should just get “butt-naked” and do it already! (yeah, Clark, we feel your pain)
Meanwhile over at the Hoover, Booth seems to really have missed Hannah and gives her the key to his place in a bit of a suggestive manner, though not before he questions whether the press corp will be enough excitement for her. This restlessness of Hannah's is brought up a few times, so much so that it feels to me like foreshadowing. Hannah has few “faults” but this could be a deal-breaker down the road. I can very easily see Booth breaking things off so that he doesn't hold Hannah back.
The other thing that keeps popping up in this episode is love. Booth's love for Hannah, Hannah's love for Booth, and Brennan wrestling with how to put what she's seeing into context with what's gone on between them in the past. She talks to Angela about living the life she's always expected and you can feel her pain when she admits that Booth probably didn't expect to fall in love in a war zone any more than Angela planned to settle down. I don't get the impression that living the life she always wanted is as cracked up as Brennan wants it to be.
After the obligatory visit to the squatter who Sweets' shrinky mojo tags as not being the murderer, we get back to the real story, which is the new Booth/Brennan/Hannah dynamic. Hannah likes that Brennan is a go-getter without modesty, because she's one too, and there's no modesty whatsoever as she lets Brennan in on how they met. Now, Booth might've arrested her like he said he did last week because she was where she wasn't supposed to be, but it seems our boy left out the fact that he saved her life in the process; something Brennan picks up on right away. Maybe Booth concealed that because he knew Brennan would immediately figure out that he'd broken his promise to her at the airport not to be Boothy(remember, he lied about the work he did over there too), or maybe he did it because of the reward he collected under the fig tree... either way, Brennan seems to be more than happy to be saved from the conversation when Hodgins calls with more case information.
[side note: the fact that Hodgins is a wee bit infatuated with Hannah is awesome and fixing his hair when he found out she was on the other end was hilarious and perfectly timed. That whole thing reminded me of his “bombshell from the bomb squad” from days of yore, right down to his flattering of Angela. Love it!]
Brennan is obviously taking everything to heart and when the topic of the victims' unlikely romance comes up, she's quick to point out that she and Booth couldn't work through their differences. For the second week in a row, Brennan talks about her dreams while she was over in Maluku and Booth looked as gobsmacked as I felt to discover that she dreamed about them being a couple (however fanciful it may've seemed) during their time apart. At this point, that big sign that told us about nothing happening unless first it's dreamed back in the 100th episode is starting to make a whole lot more sense.
If everything that had happened up to this point in the episode was all that we got, I would've been more than satisfied, but that's not all, folks!! Because while Booth is having a “nooner” or two in which we find out he's lying through his teeth to Hannah about things once upon a time being anymore than they appear to be with Brennan and are once again reminded that Hannah craves action beyond what DC is offering her(if you skipped the bedroom scene you not only missed mostly naked Booth but also this great window into Hannah's thoughts, FYI), Brennan has the mother of all meltdowns, in her house of reason, on the forensic platform and whether you choose to read a deeper subtext into her words or not, it's clear that her emotions right now have NOTHING to do with forensics and EVERYTHING to do with Booth and Hannah. Her giggle as she tries to delude herself is just plain creepy.
And that right there is something I've been waiting for since the 100th blew up in Booth's face. I braced for it with Catherine and never got it, but now it's in full swing and if the writers gave us so much on the first episode with Hannah, I can only imagine how much worse for Brennan(better for us, the audience) this love triangle is going to be as this arc unfolds. Brennan's line about previous acts of heroism for someone you have fallen out of love with are VERY telling about how she's sorting through Booth's repeated claims of love and bless him because he tells her it's still love that motivated things; perhaps cluing us in on just how little he's fallen “out” of love with Brennan despite how happy he seems to be with Hannah.
The single saddest scene in the episode is Brennan sitting alone with the two celebratory glasses while her mask slips even further and we see just how hard she's taking this whole thing.
Is anyone else as excited as I am right now? Are you all BEGGING for Thursday to come so that Brennan can continue to become more self-aware, as Booth continues to try and persuade himself he's moved on, and Hannah learns just what kind of emotional wasps' nest she's stepped into now that she's a part of Booth's real world?
Oh, you guys, I'm still spoiler free but I can tell in my bones that the best is yet to come!!!
Gum :)