The way they handled the explosives to scuttle the ship in the episode REALLY bugs me.
Let me count the ways:- 1. The explosives would have been placed against the hull, meaning the Booth would have had no access to them.
- 2. These were 'professionally placed' demolition charges, not something the criminal rigged up, meaning that they weren't booby-trapped. HE COULD HAVE JUST PULLED THE WIRES OUT OF THE BRICKS OF EXPLOSIVES!
- 2A. OR DISCONNECTED THE RECEIVER!
- 3. Using WAY too much explosive to get through the bulkhead. Technically the ghost/hallucination did that, but that just raises further questions.
- 4. The way the ship explodes at the end. What. The HELL. SCUTTLING DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
- That's your biggest issue with the episode? Really? Not the fact that, despite the Ghost being a hallucination, multiple parts required two people to pull off?
- Unless Booth also hallucinated the presence of those multiple parts, and was actually just stumbling around at random when he thought he and Parker were cooperating?
- The Ghost isn't a hallucination, or its a shared one, as it says hello to Brennan and she responds at the end of the episode.
- Or Brennan really interacted with some random passerby, and Booth hallucinated that the person looked like Parker.
- Not poking around the plinth may have been self-preservation. If the Gravedigger'd already left one bomb there, the possibility that the perp might have double-rigged the plinth, and/or could be watching the site through a sniper rifle, surely occurred to them too.
- Since the reality of what happened on the ship is meant to questionable and we only see it from Booth's perspective and he may be hallucinating and/or experiencing a paranormal event we can pretty much call anything on the ship a wash. As for the explosion well, explosions in fiction are always like that, sense be damned.
- That's your biggest issue with the episode? Really? Not the fact that, despite the Ghost being a hallucination, multiple parts required two people to pull off?