A skull with bite marks falls off a truck, suggesting a cannibal. Booth and Brennan discover a secret lair filled with Medieval artifacts and a silver skeleton where some of the silver bones are replaced with actual bones.
Tropes
- Big Bad: The cannibal replaces Howard Epps as the major villain for Bones and Booth to focus on.
- Conspiracy Theorist: Hodgins wastes no time tying everything back to Illuminati. In this case he's somewhat right to do so, since the murderer is also a Conspiracy Theorist trying to strike at the Illuminati in very messed up way.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Clark Edison appears as a potential Zack replacement in the episode. Zack returns and Clark leaves before later becoming one of the rotating interns after Zack leaves the show.
- I'm a Humanitarian: The killer they're looking for boils humans and eats them.
- Likes Older Women: The victim whose remains fell off the truck.
