Human remains are discovered with a meteorite found among them leading the investigation to the famed Collar Institute of Science in D.C. While there, they discover that the victim had been involved in a controversial project that incited many death threats against her. Meanwhile, Angela's father arrives in town to confront Hodgins.
Tropes
- Artistic License – Physics: The episode features a murdered physicist who had worked at the Large Hadron Collider and has another physicist say he was glad the Body of the Week was dead because of the LHC black hole scare
. Actual physicists had discredited the idea almost as soon as it was brought up because Black Holes Do Not Work That Way. - Human Popsicle: The victim's body was disposed of by freezing it in liquid nitrogen then running it through a woodchipper.
- Writers Cannot Do Math: The dose of radiation the victim got, causing a tumour and leukemia, is estimated at "1000 to 5000 rem". For comparison, 50-100 rem is where acute radiation poisoning starts - vomiting, confusion, visible burns on the skin - 480 rem is the median fatal dose, and 1600 rem is the highest estimated dose that anyone got at Chernobyl. With a source powerful enough for that kind of a dose, the air in the room would be literally glowing, the chair would be on fire just from decay heat, and everyone in the building would be dead.
