Does Hodgins Walk Again on Bones
I'one thousand not entirely kidding when I say I didn't think this mean solar day would come up — the last Bones episode. Bones seemed poised to outlive united states all. But it's also a prove about the basic biological truth that everything ends, coupled with the reminder that it'south up to u.s.a., for the duration of our little lives, to find the joy in that. And there'south enough of joy in this episode. A few endings, also. Maybe.
We pick up in the bombed-out Jeffersonian, making dreams come true for David Boreanaz, who directed this hour. (He's always said he wanted to drive a tank through the lab; they blew it up instead. You get what you lot need.) Booth, Hodgins, and Angela are quick to pull themselves out of the rubble, leading to a nice — in a this-is-already-ripping-my-heart-out kind of way — moment between Hodgins and Angela, who lean on each other as they worry almost their baby. And while I'm glad this isn't how it happened, since it's probably not how science works, did anyone else half-wait Hodgins to be able to walk again later the boom? It was a bomb that put him in that wheelchair to begin with.
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But it turns out 2 bombs don't abolish each other out; they but make a bigger mess. Booth finds Brennan confront down in the rubble outside what used to be her office. As he begs his married woman to stay with him, he calls her "Temperance" for the offset fourth dimension in a while, which is fine, it's fine, I'm FINE, OKAY. Brennan coughs and opens her optics. Everybody breathe.
But something's not correct; she feels "different," and she's struggling to focus. At that place'due south a paper in her pocket with the names of four basic written on it. "I don't know what that means," Brennan says — by far the most terrifying utterance of that phrase ever on this show. She clarifies: She knows they're bones, simply she doesn't remember their significance to the case.
Brennan's brain isn't cooperating. When Angela, looking almost as worried near Brennan as she is nearly her child, enlists her help to check on the babe, Brennan is surprised to acquire that a stethoscope and a beaker tin can be used equally a makeshift fetal Doppler, even though she'south the one who taught Hodgins that trick in the first place. Agape and frustrated with herself, she takes longer than usual to find what she'south listening for, but she does find it: a steady baby heartbeat. The women take a moment out from panicking to hold hands, because these last two episodes are really doing justice to their friendship.
Meanwhile, Berth and Hodgins are looking for another manner out. There isn't one ("ironically, for safety"), so Berth, drastic to go Brennan some help, grabs the bomb he managed to defuse. He's ready to accident his style out of here, but this building literally just exploded; information technology can't withstand another boom. "You don't have to be a hero!" Hodgins yells. That's normally Brennan's line. Booth wouldn't be Booth if he didn't exercise the hero thing, simply he doesn't do himself or anyone else whatsoever favors when he carries helping people similar a burden.
Hodgins rolls his way over to his friend and offers an olive branch, admitting that some of his insults about Booth'southward sniper past may take been off base of operations: "Killing Kovac'southward father, that was the correct thing to practice." I'm not certain I needed our large moment betwixt these two to involve Hodgins endorsing an onetime war; I was happy just to come across them fight again. Simply it is a truth universally acknowledged that pseudo-arguments between Booth and Hodgins must end in That Face David Boreanaz Makes When Booth Is Secretly Very Touched. And it is a truth unique to this finale that those apologies must so be interrupted by rescue crews tunneling into their workplace.
The Jeffersonian Four are gratuitous, much to poor Cam'southward relief (get her a thicker shock coating, stat), only Brennan isn't out of the woods. Her CT scan doesn't show any internal bleeding, but there's a contusion, annnd for the first time in her life, Brennan doesn't sympathise the medical jargon, so let's cut to the hunt: Brennan's memories are fine, simply her ability to process complex data has been compromised.
The idea that she'southward lost her ability to do what she does better than anyone else is, well, too circuitous for Brennan to procedure. So she does as she always does and gets back to work, insisting that they don't have time to waste material if they want to catch Kovac before he strikes again. But she'south going to have to phone call in some reinforcements; every bone in the lab has been shaken out of its storage drawer. The os room is just a huge pile o' bones. It is haunting.
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Squinterns new and onetime, with doctorates and without, gather at the lab to sort through the bones and observe the body they were investigating before the blast. They tell Brennan most "irregular projections" on abrupt ribs similar it means something, but she doesn't understand anymore, not that she'll let that stop her from setting the young scientists straight on her anthropological past. When Wendell compares the lab to a mass grave, Brennan shuts him down with a story of the horrors she'due south witnessed. The bomb can take her intellect, only it can't have her reverence for life.
Information technology can't have her memories with her students, either. Arastoo asks if she'south getting any better, and Brennan takes a moment to prove to her former interns that her retentiveness is not the trouble here. She remembers watching Cam propose to Arastoo, the cigarette Wendell tucked behind his ear, Clark's "mawkish" book (poor Clark), "chirping" (tweeting) with Jessica… "And I remember fighting off attackers with yous by my side," she tells Daisy. Daisy nods: "In the Maluku Islands." Brennan shakes her caput: "I was thinking of the motorbike bar." Cut to Wendell looking delightfully confused — a perfect comic beat in the middle of a spoken language that had me in tears.
"I remember the solar day each of you was hired," Brennan says. "I remember the name of every victim I've ever identified. I retrieve just how meaningful this work tin can exist. But I don't remember how to practice it."
Wow. Emily Deschanel told me that filming this scene really got to her, and it'due south not hard to see why; I cried once again just typing that quote. Brennan still remembers the proper name of every victim she ever identified. That's so Brennan, and while I'thou not at all surprised, information technology feels similar we're years past the last time she said anything like that. She used to worry that expressionless people were the only ones she could connect with; at present, Brennan's empathy for the victim goes mitt-in-manus with her love for a group of (very much not dead) people she in one case tried not to get fastened to.
It would all be uplifting if non for the head trauma. Is there anything worse than staring at the life you lot're supposed to have and not being able to live it? (Brennan and Booth circa seasons 1 through half dozen would say no.) Brennan asks the interns to requite her some time lone with the bones, which has always been her affair, merely it doesn't assist, and she misses the obvious idea to compare them to 10-rays of the victim's skeleton. Then she goes where she always does when nothing makes sense: direct to Booth.
"And so much of my life," Brennan confesses to her husband in his role, "my intelligence is all I've had. I may non accept had a family, just I understood things that nobody else could. My encephalon, the fashion I think, is who I am. Who I was… I mean, if the thing that made me me is gone, who am I?"
This is where the whole idea behind this episode starts falling into place: The last story Bones wants to tell is the story of who Brennan is. It'due south a parallel to the first flavor finale, when she learned that her parents weren't who she idea she was; her nascency proper name wasn't fifty-fifty Temperance Brennan. Equally she recited her name to herself, Berth came up behind her: "I know who you are." Now, he sits down with his wife to remind her that's still truthful.
"You're the adult female I dearest," Berth says. "Yous're the 1 who kissed me outside of a pool house when it was pouring rain, took me to shoot tommy guns on Valentine's 24-hour interval. That'south who you are. You're the ane who proposed to me with a stick of beef jerky in her hand fifty-fifty though you're a vegetarian. You lot're the Roxie to my Tony. You're the Wanda to my Buck. Who else is gonna sing 'Hot Blooded' with me? And besides, we are way meliorate than Mulder and Scully."
(It should be noted that at this, I stopped crying long enough to total-on gasp, "Y'all did not." Simply, you lot know, A+ callback to the airplane pilot, courtesy of David Boreanaz. And there'southward no denying that Berth and Brennan are getting a much better send-off than Mulder and Scully have ever gotten.)
Then, considering Berth and Brennan barbarous in love on the job, Booth answers the question she didn't ask: He loves her even if they can't do this chore together. In that sense, this scene likewise has echoes of the season 7 finale, when Brennan assured Berth that she wasn't just with him because they had a child together. Family and work are besides of import to each of them to exist excuses.
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Anyway, speaking of work, the investigation is still happening. Unlike Booth and Brennan, I cannot emphasize enough how much I'thou not paying attention to it. Which is a compliment! The Gravedigger herself could hook her way out of the grave, and I would non have the emotional energy for her headless donkey right at present. The case in this episode is literally life or death, and information technology's woven organically into the story, but it also unfolds in as piddling screen time as possible considering Basic understands our priorities. Nosotros simply got two speeches that were basically just lists of callbacks! I'm busy.
Hither's what you need to know: Booth, who has non worn a conform this whole episode, and long may his FBI T-shirt reign, did this investigation a real solid when he defused that bomb. The killer fix it without gloves, and Hodgins is able to pull Dna from an epithelial cell — it'south a partial match to, get this, Mark Kovac. Since Kovac was nonetheless in jail when the bombs were set, his accomplice must exist a relative. Booth's magical gut instinct figures information technology out instantly: The accomplice is Jeannine. She's not actually Kovac'due south married woman; she's his sis.
When Berth and Brennan call her out on her charade, she keeps up the innocent act long plenty to inquire, "You're accusing me of incest?" setting up Booth for this anecdote: "No, we're accusing you of murder." Brennan launches herself at Jeannine, yelling that she killed Max, but Jeannine tries to pivot it all on Booth, as if he doesn't pin enough on himself. He killed her father, so she killed Brennan's. First of all, Jeannine, what did Brennan ever do to you?
Sister-wife clams up, but the squinterns are having some luck dorsum at the lab, where Hodgins urges them to take everything they've learned and solve this case for Brennan. She said in the season 10 finale that she'd never exist able to step away from her work without knowing the lab was in capable hands, and as sad as it is that she tin can't solve this case, it's still her victory that the squinterns tin can. They notice that the four bones Brennan noted prove signs of lead poisoning, pregnant the victim grew up somewhere remote — Kovac escaped with this item prisoner considering he had a place to hibernate. By taking a sample of tooth enamel, they discover where that is.
One last time (at least on our screens), Booth and Brennan charge into danger. On the drive out to the subcontract where Kovac is hiding, Berth apologizes for inadvertently starting all of this, just his wife won't hear information technology. Afterward all these years, they've finally found the right residuum between guilt and accountability: Berth takes responsibility for every shot he always took, fifty-fifty though he was post-obit orders, and Brennan tells him that she stands beside his choices. Then he asks Brennan to stay in the machine, which has never once worked before, but ya gotta dear him for trying. "Where you become, I become," Brennan insists. No matter what state her brain is in, that never changes.
The partners share a casual pre-shootout osculation when they roll up to the farm with the remainder of the FBI team, and Brennan lives out her season 1 dream of getting to carry a very big gun. (Information technology's so big! Is she certified for this? Does the FBI just give anybody an automatic weapon at present?) They have out one of Kovac's men, just Kovac is still on the loose, and I mean that in the nearly cool mode: He's simply doing circles on the backyard in a jeep. Why?! I Do Not Intendance.
Kovac makes a run at Berth, who rolls out of the way only hurts his hand in the process, and listen, no one has ever been so extra about a hand injury. Our former Ground forces Ranger falls to the ground as shortly every bit he and Brennan get away from the car, then Brennan takes a knee abreast her dramatic husband and studies his wrist. A light bulb goes off: She knows what'due south wrong. She rattles off some os science and snaps his wrist right back into place, because naught brings Brennan dorsum to herself like having to gear up Booth. She lights upwardly — she did information technology.
When Booth's manus was hurt, my starting time thought was that it should have been his heart to balance out Brennan's brain, but it couldn't be his heart because then he'd be dead. At present I retrieve his hand might actually be a more plumbing equipment counterpoint: Booth, as a sniper, and Brennan, equally a scientist, take both immune their steady hand and sharp heed, respectively, to ascertain them at times. Simply they're both more than that. I was worried for a trivial while that past taking away Brennan's intellect, this episode was going to suggest that Brennan needed to alter while Berth didn't — that in the argue between heart and brains, the scales had just tipped in favor of the heart.
Simply even without her ability to wait at a os and know how someone died, Brennan is even so defined by her brain. She leans on her memories with her coworkers and with Berth, so her unique, logical approach to empathy is notwithstanding intact. This episode had to walk a delicate line: affirm Brennan as a whole person with more to offer than her ability to solve crimes while however jubilant the intelligence that sets her apart. I believe that it did that, especially considering Brennan gets that intelligence dorsum. It'south an important part of her; it's just not the simply office.
Meanwhile, Mark'southward nevertheless driving that jeep. He takes another run at Berth and Brennan, and Booth shoots him square in the head, correct where he shot the shooting range target in the scene that we all know is the reason the pilot got picked upwards to series. The jeep drives off an beach and crashes into a bunch of barrels; Booth and Brennan watch the explosion like they're taking in a nice fireworks show.
Adjacent: Did you ever see something great that almost ended, and then it didn't?
There are nevertheless 11 full minutes left in this episode, and nothing bad happens in any of them because this is Bones, and Basic loves usa. Back at the Bureau, Caroline bustles into Booth's office and, as always, speaks for us all: "You and your damn sense of duty. Do you lot have whatsoever thought how stressful it is for me to have such a brave friend?" Amen. Merely she's but going to have to live with that stress; Booth has no plans to ever terminate nearly getting killed. At least he'll have Aubrey with him — Uncle Aub got an offer to take over for a retiring agent, significant he gets the same promotion, but in D.C. And Booth and Brennan get to continue their babysitter.
On his style out of the office, Aubrey runs into Karen, who heard about his breakdown and decided to send him a consolation gift: ii buckets of fried chicken. He invites her to join him, and you just know they're going to gather. I tried for about ii seconds not to detect this adorable, but I practise — and not even necessarily because they're cute (merely they are! Sue me) just because this is the most Basic matter. These people aren't allowed to date outside the team, and these people must date.
Back at the lab, Brennan gives Cam, Angela, and Hodgins the good news: The doctor says her agnosia is almost gone, and she'south going to be okay. Cam's news is a trivial less happy — repair work on the lab starts tomorrow, and so they've only got today to pack upwards their things — but these people just survived an explosion, then putting a few things into boxes doesn't seem then bad. They written report their burned-out but still sunny husk of a lab and get meta, in the way all Tv set series finales must. "They won't alter it much, will they?" Angela asks.
"They endeavor not to," Cam answers, "simply you know how it is."
Bones has always been proficient at finding the bright side of change, but as Angela said in the flavour five finale, that doesn't always accept to hateful picking a fight with your quondam life. Equally the team packs upwards, we get the chance to say goodbye to that life: Hodgins' rubber ring ball (which he throws away along with the band on his wrist), the book of Western farsi poems Arastoo wrote Cam, a photo of Max on Brennan'south wedding 24-hour interval, the dolphin he left at her female parent'south grave (at present on a necklace), a photograph of Hodgins and Zack in the season 1 Christmas episode, the salt and pepper shakers Cam shares with Michelle… It'southward a lot. Moby sings in the background (I'll decide at a moment's time/ to turn away/ leave it all behind).
Hodgins and Angela stumble upon a project they've been working on, and the team gathers to look: Information technology's a popular-up children's book nearly all of them, but they're farm animals for some reason. It's a little out-of-left-field but very cute. More chiefly, Cam has a confession: Her 6-month go out of absence isn't a European vacation after all. She and Arastoo have petitioned to adopt three brothers, who look to exist teens or pre-teens, out of foster care, and they desire to give the family unit time to settle in. They are perfect humans! Brennan already knew this, and the look of appreciation she, as a foster child, gives Cam is the perfect wrap on their relationship.
And at that place'due south one more surprise: The position of interim director of the lab goes to Hodgins. Jack Hodgins is officially king of the lab.
That brings usa to our last Basic scene, set to John Lennon (out the blue y'all came to me/ and blew away life's misery). Booth — wearing his cocky belt buckle — strolls upwardly to a bench in the Jeffersonian garden and sits beside Brennan, who isn't quite set up to leave the lab. (Booth says it'll be back up and running in a couple of weeks, which seems… optimistic?) "It's a special place," she says. That information technology is.
Every bit if we hadn't all cried plenty at callbacks already (not that I'm lament), Berth rummages through the things Brennan is bringing habitation from the lab. She'southward got Sweets' book, cueing up one final await dorsum on the squad's baby duck. She's got Jasper, the toy sus scrofa Booth gave Brennan to condolement her after she took her first life. It'southward Brennan's turn to dangle him in Booth's direction at present. And she's got a drawing Parker gave her 11 years ago. He told her he liked her. Like begetter, like son.
The last thing in Brennan's pocketbook is ane analog clock, lightly singed, frozen at 4:47. It stopped when the bombs went off, and Brennan wants to hang it in her new office. "Why would you want to be reminded of the moment when everything about ended, Bones?" Booth asks. Brennan smiles: "Because it didn't."
I don't know virtually you all, but this is the only resolution I needed to the "mystery" of iv:47, which has been popping up in Booth and Brennan'due south lives for years. The meaning that matters is the meaning they take from it, which is also a good lesson to take from this finale: Everything ends, merely endings are rarely absolute. Brennan said it to Angela in season 1: "Aught in this universe happens just once." For Booth and Brennan, 4:47 is what keeps happening, usually when they're on the precipice: of losing each other (season four finale), leaving each other (season 5 finale), or getting together (afterwards Vincent's death). They could have concluded, but they never did.
With that, the partners hold each other'due south gazes for a while and then prepare off to call up their kids from the diner, bickering all the style. In the identify where they chased each other then got married, in an image that echoes the end of the pilot, Booth and Brennan walk off into the night to keep solving murders.
Bits and pieces:
- Hodgins thinks their baby is going to be a male child; do we recollect he'due south right?
- All these years, Angela'due south been listening to Hodgins' conspiracy theories. He's never loved her more.
- I tried making an anagram out of the iv basic Brennan made note of, and I only got every bit far as "Cam naps." Let Cam nap.
- The fact that everyone gets to continue working together has me very emotional.
- Bank check out Emily Deschanel's thoughts on this finalehere and co-showrunner Michael Peterson'south thoughts here. And thanks for joining all these years. It's been a pleasure.
- "Squints of the earth unite, baby."
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Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz play a will-they-won't-they criminal offence-solving duo.
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