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Recap / Bones S 1 E 12 The Superhero In The Alley

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The decomposed corpse of a teenager in a superhero outfit traces back to a group of similar-minded kids patrolling the streets of D.C. and role-playing as superheroes from the deceased kid's comic book.

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  • Bittersweet Ending: The teen is still dead, but he did succeed in saving the day in real life.
  • Damsel in Distress: One of the most recent characters in the comic book is a beautiful woman called the Opalescence, who is being threatened by another character called the Twisted. It turns out to be the teen's representation of his boss's wife and her abusive husband.
  • Secretly Dying: The team eventually learn that their victim was already dying of leukaemia when he was killed, a resurgence of his past diagnosis.
  • Subculture of the Week: LARP nerds are the focus of the episode. Booth originally dismisses them as potential psychos disconnected from reality, but he becomes more sympathetic to the victim upon finding out what he was trying to do.
  • Wife-Basher Basher: The victim was killed when he tried to scare a local woman's abusive husband on her behalf. Booth himself tells the guy he hates woman-beaters as he cuffs him.

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