Brennan's working vacation in New Orleans to identify Katrina victims hits a snag when she wakes up beaten and with no memory of the previous day. Booth flies down to help only to discover that his partner is now the prime suspect in a murder case, but is Brennan truly guilty? Or is some classic New Orleans voodoo at work?
Tropes
- Early-Installment Weirdness: This episode introduces Caroline Julian and while her personality is broadly the same as it will be when she later becomes a regular character in this episode she's framed as being a contact of Booth's in New Orleans whereas later she'll be his go-to lawyer back in Washington (with a flashback indicating that has been the case for years before this episode).
- Easy Amnesia: Brennan loses a day and a half thanks to a head injury.
- Everyone Can See It: Detective Harding refuses to believe Booth and Brennan are just partners.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Was Brennan drugged or bespelled in New Orleans?
- Negated Moment of Awesome: Benoit is in the middle of casting a scary voodoo curse and Bones pokes him in the eyes.
