Bones 4.23: The Girl in the Mask

Cam and Dr. Haru are testing the skull. Cam is looking for gunshot residue. Oddly, the shot exited at the top of the cranium. Given that Sachi was only 5 feet tall, even if the shooter lay one the ground, the angle would still be wrong. She would have had to have been standing on a balcony and the shooter would have had to shoot her from the street. I’m guessing not an impulse shooting then because that would be a hell of a shot. Cam saws off the top of the skull and hands it to Dr. Haru. She can have the entry trauma; Cam will keep the wound track in the brain.

Sgt. Ken’s assault has gotten him pulled from the field. So Booth has Bones pulling babysitting duty. They talk about how Sgt. Ken met Booth. At the Japanese/American exchange conference, they spoke of organized crime. All the other Americans immediately started telling the Japanese police how to solve their Yakuza/mafia problems. Booth sat and listened for two days, and then asks them how they would solve the American mafia problem. That initial respect was the basis of their friendship. Ken says that Bones is very luck to have Booth. ‘As a partner? Yes, I know.’ Oh, it was just a mini-Anvil of Unresolved Sexual Tension. It’s not even going to leave a dent.

In other sexual news, Angela joins Hodgins and Sweets at the diner. She Googled Dr. Hanu and found 300 articles and no personal pronouns. Sweets is giddy at the fact that they can identify somebody from a single cell but can’t find out a living person’s gender. He starts to talk about androgyny being a cultural subset in Japan, but I fell asleep. Ever practical, they decide the quickest route would be to ask. Sweets says s/he won’t tell.

Booth and Bones track down the owner of Elegant Escorts. His name is Jimmy Sok and he has attitude. He fully admits to attacking Bruce the Cleaver but says it was in self defense. When they ask where Nozomi is, Jimmy pleads ignorance. His guess is that she went back to Japan. He is more cocky than Booth’s belt buckle, and Booth does not take kindly to being out-cockied. He tells Jimmy that he has a pretty sweet life right now; fast car, fast boat, fast girls. Jimmy should give Booth something shiny right now or his sweet life will be over. Jimmy gives them the name of a client who likes it rough.

Meanwhile, back at the lab, Cam and Dr. Haru discuss their findings with Sgt. Ken. Dr. Haru tells them that the skull shows no signs of slivers. Sgt. Ken corrects her; she means fragments. No, she means slivers. There were no striations; the hole was not caused by a bullet. Cam asks the sergeant to inform Booth they should not be looking for a gun.

After he leaves, Hodgins arrives with the data from the particulates. I really should have created a particulate drinking game when I started doing these recaps. ‘Blah, blah, blah, it’s all consistent with swamp stuff.’ Dr. Haru is unfamiliar with ‘blah, blah, blah.’ Perhaps he should have tried “yadda, yadda,yadda.’ Anyway, something he did find that was interesting was bird vomit. I’m sure we’ll all find this fascinating. In the local marshes, there are high marshes, low marshes, and salt marshes. The bird was from the high marshes; the head was found in the salt marshes. Cam wants to know why someone would cut off and move the head. Hodgins replies that he rarely finds motive in bird vomit.

Booth and Bones go check out the high marshes and find a decapitated body. Booth calls the lab. ‘We think we found her.’ Well, odds are pretty good there aren’t two headless corpses in the vicinity.