Bones 4.17 – “The Salt in the Wounds” Recap

Pa Clark has come to see Booth, sans Ma. He wants to tell Booth that he suspected his daughter was pregnant, he had found a pregnancy kit a few wees earlier. For the sake of awkward, Booth mentions that his wife is young enough to be pregnant, but Pa shoots him down — they haven’t had sex in years. ‘Splains a lot. When Pa confronted her, Ashley claimed it was a friend’s. Booth asks again, ‘Was there a, uh, a boy in Ashley’s life?’Pa doesn’t know, but there was an argument about a boy with her best friend Becca — and oh, by the way? Don’t tell my wife I lied to her. Nice family. Good people.

Angela’s still trying to sell Roxie on the dog and getting nowhere, possibly because Roxie looks like she’s about to, or has been, crying. It’s both. Angela knows what’s coming, and you can almost hear her shut down. Roxie’s breaking up with her. She says Angela lives in the moment and that’s great, but she has to look toward the future. She leaves and Angela sits, taking a deep breath.

There’s a clank-shuffle-pound and we see the vending machine is not Booth’s friend today. A voice calls out from behind him and he turns to find a VERY pregnant Becca looking to talk to him. He looks very concerned and once he has her settled he begins asking her about the argument Ashley’s dad heard. Becca catches on quick and is a little incredulous that she might be a suspect, or that her boyfriend, no ex-boyfriend might be as well. I don’t know why she’s surprised since the argument was about Ashley going behind Becca’s back with him, but she seems less concerned that her friend is dead, and more that Booth is naming suspects. So, now that we’ve interrogated the pregnant teen, it’s on to the two-timing boyfriend, Rory. But not yet.

Back at the Jeffersonian, Cam is overseeing the re-hydration set-up with Hodgins and Vaziri assisting. Hodgins gives us the narration: submersion, chemically enhanced solutions, and viola! Insta-corpse. As the misty solution is misted onto the body, we get the details of those fibers Vaziri found, likely from a car. Vaziri duhs that the body must have been transferred to the dump site and Cam asks Hodgins if that’s enough to ID a car. Does she remember what show she’s on this week? The answer is “yes” and before any more exposition can follow, Vaziri’s watch beeps and it’s ‘time out for Allah.’No, really, that’s actually what he says.

Angela comes in, a bit flustered, asking if there’s anything else Cam needs her for because she could really use the afternoon off. Hodgins, because he loves her madly still, picks up on her distress and asks her what happened. She fesses up and without even missing a beat he tells Cam he’s going to take Angela for some coffee. They leave, and Cam says that’s perfectly alright, the murder can solve itself. Poor Cam.

Bones has joined Booth at the high school to interrogate some stereotypes, uh, students. Pressing weights are a jock and the somewhat chubby nerd spotting him. Guess which one’s Rory? If you guessed the jock — points for you. And points for Becca who totally ratted out Booth via text mail, causing Rory to spit out, ‘I didn’t do it,’before he’s asked a single question. Nerd-boy thinks being a murder suspect is awesome and cool and Booth shoos him away. But wait — there’s a hitch to the investigation. As Bones and Booth interrogate their young suspect, he maintains that he never slept with either girl — he’s saving himself. Not that it mattered to Ashley because according to Rory, she was all over him, really all over him. But the trip isn’t a complete waste, during the course of things the Duo find out Ashley had an argument with the volleyball coach, too. One loud enough to be heard a room or two away.

Oh, hey — there’s a ton of artifacts in a room…and a bed…with a shirtless Hodgins in it. I like this room. Oh, Angela’s there, too because apparently ‘getting coffee’means the same thing at the Jeffersonian that it does in Grand Theft Auto. Hodgins and Angela are definitely post-coital. And they’re chatty after sex, too because they immediately start talking about Roxie and what she said to Angela about being ‘in the moment.’They cuddle, they banter, and Hodgins manages to not really convince a skeptical Angela that this was just a moment, and he’s not looking to rekindle anything. The look on his face when he finds an earring after she leaves shouts to differ.

Back at school, Bones and Booth are talking to the next red herring, er, volleyball coach. Not only does he cop to the argument, he says it wasn’t the only one. Curious, the Duo ask for more and Coach obliges. The first was when she tried to seduce him and the second was when she tried to blackmail him for five grand after she was pregnant. Both Bones and Booth get a little caught on the seduce bit, and Coach invites them to check with the administration — he reported it, especially under the circumstances. Eyebrows raised, the audience joins our heroes in thinking ‘what circumstances?’

‘Half my volleyball team got pregnant.’Damn. Now that’s teamwork.

Asking for the team roster, Coach offers to do Booth one better — the girls are in the multipurpose room, ‘having another baby shower.’