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Recap / Bones S 3 E 4 The Secret In The Soil

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The organically cooked remains of an entrepreneur are discovered. He was an organic farmer despised by his less organic farmer neighbors, except the unmarried one.

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  • Backhanded Compliment: Elizabeth doesn't think her husband had any reason to be jealous of the victim, as looks aren't everything.
  • Dramatically Missing the Point: Booth argues that he has a right to leave a carbon footprint, seeing as he has just as much right to be here as anyone else.
  • Handsome Lech: The victim, Franklin Curtis.
  • Hypocrite: Franklin Curtis was a very aggressive climate activist but lived in a home that made use of non-ecologically sound conviences.
  • Mistaken for Cheating: Franklin was meeting his grown daughter, Emma, who was the product of an affair he had a long time ago, and his other grown daughter by his wife, Kat, mistook it for him having an affair.
  • Rewatch Bonus: Zack being disgusted by the idea of cannibalism feels pretty ironic when you know how the season ends.
  • Secret Test: Dr. Sweets makes a few jabs at Booth, provoking Brennan into defending him.
  • Self-Made Man: Franklin Curtis, a.k.a. the victim of the episode, started a chain of organic products supermarkets.

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