Booth needs a break.Explanations done, loose ends tied up as much as they can be, and he's bone-weary and still in a state of shock. Well. Who wouldn't be, with Zach going into a mental institution for helping a serial killer ( Read more... )

Vasili GregarinThere's a blast from the past. A name Booth hasn't heard in years. Doesn't mean he hasn't thought of Gregarin, though. Doesn't mean he's forgotten ( Read more... )

((Earlier.))

At first Booth thinks, maybe it's just the drugs that are making him slow.

He can't possibly be hearing this right. It just doesn't make any sense ( Read more... )

((Earlier)).
Being fake-dead is possibly the most boring thing ever, Booth decides.

To be fair, actually being dead wouldn't be so hot either. Oh, sure, there would be the afterlife, whatever that entails (Booth's figuring he's got a decent shot at Heaven, or at least Purgatory. Still. Hell can't be entirely discounted as a possibility), and ( Read more... )

((Sometime after this.After arresting Tommy Sour's neighbor for killing him (and seriously, what kind of a lame motive is that? Killing someone who makes too much noise? How freaking hard is it to just call the cops? The artistic temperament will never, ever make sense), Booth thinks a little bit of fun is in order ( Read more... )

((Sometime earlier.The phone rings, interrupting a conversation about power and prestige ( Read more... )

"Hello, is this Martha Noonan?" Booth asks the woman on the other end of the line ( Read more... )

((Just before.))Booth almost doesn't hear her call his name. It's like a whisper in his ear, and he turns around but thinks he's sort of wasting his time, jumping at shadows. So he's surprised to see Pam, staring at him hard enough to burn a hole in his jacket ( Read more... )

The Vickers's financial records clearly showed large, regular payments - the largest coming at the time of Lynn's faked death. The payments abruptly ceased two months before Lynn's body was found in the blown-up federal building. That alone was enough to get them a search warrant for the Vickers's home, but it wasn't actually needed ( Read more... )

Previously...Booth hasn't heard much good about the Neptune sheriff. The worst stuff comes from when Vinnie van Lowe was a PI in town, but there's a fair amount of unethical behavior and skeevy treatment of employees coming from since the man was elected ( Read more... )