By Faith McQuinn

Please join me in the zone of truth because this week, Brennan (Emily Deshanel) and Booth (David Boreanaz) are starting therapy.

But before their 12-year-old psychotherapist can get very far with them, the two find themselves knee-deep in a new case. This week, it’s a body cooked by a composting heap. Yeah, that’s nasty (and is a really weak punch line to my knee-deep joke).

Our cooked man is one Frank Curtis, the owner of a nationwide organic supermarket chain. With a dead environmentalist on their hands, the entire team finds themselves in conversations about the environment. Thankfully, this didn’t become a message episode. Instead, it became a don’t-blame-the-traditional-farmers episode.

After questioning Mrs. Curtis (played by Tasha Yar, I mean Denis Crosby) and her daughter Kat (Erin Chambers), Booth and Brennan discover that Mr. Curtis wasn’t too popular with all the other farmers. Not because he liked organic farming, but mostly because he would buy out anyone who didn’t like organic farming. I don’t care how environmentally friendly you are, kicking people off their land and taking their business is not the best way to make friends.

OK, as not to spoil anyone who has yet to watch, I’ll just say this: from this scene alone, I know who did it. The body language and dialogue was set up very well to point all fingers at the suspect. Was I disappointed in this? Not really, I don’t watch BONES for the mind-riveting cases.


Even though I’d figured out the who, it was still funny to watch Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) get a little too excited about traipsing around in fresh compost. I know the man loves bugs, but come on! Also interesting to rediscover Zack’s (Eric Millegan) odd enjoyment of his job. His visible disappointment at not being king of the lab was literally laugh-out-loud funny. And, best of all, seeing Angela (Michaela Conlin) verbally bitch slap a suspect. Once again, Cam (Tamara Taylor) didn’t do much but provide the other side of dialogue.

Let’s go back to the therapy, shall we? Booth and Brennan are in therapy because Booth arrested her father. We all know that this is something that wouldn’t really change their relationship, but the FBI feels differently. Therefore, it’s left up to an extremely young doctor Sweets (John Francis Daley) to decide if these two can still be partners. Both Booth and Brennan are both aversive to the sessions, but since they want to stay partners, they deal with it.


At the end of the episode, Dr. Sweets gives them the okay, but he wants to keep seeing them. Why? Because he feels that there’s some deep, deep, deep emotional bond between them. It’s great to see someone else besides Angela mention the sexual sparks floating around these two. Maybe we’ll be treated to some hilarious sexual commentary in the coming weeks.