Three months after Brennan is forced to go on the run following her being framed for murder by Pelant, The team is still reeling from her sudden departure and Booth has been demoted to desk duty. However, the team catches a break when the body of Pelant's old guidance counselor is discovered and the discovery helps clear Brennan of the murder charge. However, Pelant soon escapes from FBI custody once more using some rather unorthodox means.
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- Bad Boss: Clark Edison, he's really just a little annoyingly anal, but the fact that he's taken Brennan's job and office is what really annoys everyone.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Pelant shows up to taunt Hodgins when he delivers flowers to a grave, and Hodgins chokes him unconscious.
- Choke Holds: Hodgins applies both a blood choke and an air choke until Pelant falls unconscious. He was tempted to kill Pelant.
- Diplomatic Impunity: Pelant falsifies records to claim Egyptian citizenship, without any mention of him actually having (fake) diplomatic status.
- Foreshadowing: Max to Booth after Pelant's arrest.Max: This guy needs killing, Booth.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Bones has gone blonde to go undercover.
- Hollywood Law: Pelant falsifies records to claim Egyptian citizenship, without any mention of him actually having (fake) diplomatic status. Somehow, all Egyptian tourists are diplomats now.
- Plot Hole: The samurai sword belongs to Pelant's WWII veteran grandfather, yet his grandfather's existence is never used to disprove his fake Egyptian identity.
- Properly Paranoid: Brennan and Max have been on the run for months and know how to stay hidden. Max figures out immediately that Pelant has sussed out the flower signal system and so doesn't return to her, heading instead for Mexico. Booth then realizes what Max's continued absence means.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Special Agent Hayes is an antagonistic figure through most of the episode, working within the law and trying to find Brennan, but when Booth comes to him with evidence that Pelant has violated his parole, he gives in and starts to work with him to take down Pelant and clear Brennan's name.
- Time Skip: It's been three months since the end of the previous episode.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Sweets quietly chews Booth out for sneaking Brennan into the Jeffersonian and calling Sweets in to watch over her.Sweets: I am very uncomfortable with this, Booth. As an FBI agent it my sworn duty to arrest Dr. Brennan. [to Brennan] So great to see you, by the way, it's been too long.
- What You Are in the Dark: It takes Cam a few hours to realize that Clark, working on the case Brennan has left for them, is working on getting himself fired.Clark: That occurred to me.
Cam: And yet it didn't occur to you not to do a good job.
