An archaeologist's remains have been spun into a cocoon around a tree, but the man's prolaticity for writing sensationalized novels based on artifacts (that he also sold at exorbitant prices) make for no shortage of suspects.Meanwhile, Brennan and Edison compete on who will get to analyze bones that seem to indicate that they could be the victims of the world's first hate crime.
Tropes
- Dissonant Serenity: When Brennan gets a faceful of worms, she takes it with the utmost calm.
- Flowery Elizabethan English: The team solves a 25,000 year old murder involving both modern humans and Neanderthal. They are recreating the scene, and Dr. Hodgins is playing the part of a Neanderthal male:Hodgins: Hark, I bring thee meat which we thus shall feast upon, and...
Angela: Hey, honey, it's not Shakespeare. - Interspecies Romance: Subverted. The pair from the Stone Age were obviously the same species, having a child and all, but they are different subspecies — homo sapien and neanderthal. It's not quite an interracial romance, though, and the team refer to it as an interspecies romance for simplicity.
- Rhetorical Question Blunder: Brennan hangs a bone on her tongue. When Booth asks why on Earth she would do that, she explains that the porosity of human bones makes it so they stick to the tongue, and repeats the demonstration.
