A conspiracy blogger is found burned to death in his trailer, but his death investigation gets more complicated when the team discovers a complex web of conspiracy, blackmail, and lies involving the country's top government and business leaders, including the McNamara family. Booth's classified military service records are exposed, and the lives of his family are threatened when Delta Force agents invade his home.
Tropes
- Blackmail: The Jeffersonian team uncovers a blackmail conspiracy that has control over congressmen, billionaires, federal judges...
- Big Damn Heroes: Brennan disobeys Booth's order to stay away and shows up at the last minute to shoot a bad guy in the neck and force the last one to use up the last of his ammo.
- Crazy-Prepared: Booth kept a stash of weapons and bricks of C4 in his home, just in case.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: Brennan's German is terrible. For example, instead of "sprechen", she pronounces it "spreshen".
- Home Field Advantage: Three Delta Force operatives come after Booth, but he has enough time to prepare that he's able to take them all down almost single handed.
- How We Got Here: The episode opens with Booth on a gurney with gunshot wounds, then we learn how that happened.
- Neck Snap: Booth kills one of the Delta Force guys this way when they storm the house and attack him and Brennan.
- Revealing Cover Up: The blackmail conspiracy tortures and murders a conspiracy theorist who found out about their scheme. They don't cover their tracks well enough to prevent the Jeffersonian from determining what happened and what kind of people were involved.
- Season Finale: The show's ninth. Booth is shot by three corrupt Delta Force agents, and is arrested for their killing.
- Trash the Set: Booth and Brennan's house gets destroyed.
