Bones season 4

I like this series too. I appreciated very much the idea of not chosing right away her new assistant, but have them rotate turn, one each episode. My favourite assistant is of course Vincent Nigel-Murray, but this time I admit it's not only because of the character, but also because of the actor. I like how he speaks, how he moves his hands and eyes while speaking :-) I hope to see more of him, although I doubt it.

1-2 - The yanks in the UK, part one and two - Grayson comes to the Jeffersonian to meet Angela, and he really is... very good-looking, they weren't joking :-) He's still in love with Angela, but then he gets how much Angela and Jack are in love, and signs the divorce papers. Cam then sleeps with Grayson, and Sweets advice her to come clean and tell everything to Angela who shouldn't mind, since she wanted the divorce so much because she wants to marry Hodgins, right?? Seriously?? Come on now, who is so enlightened in real life huh? Don't ask a man, even if a psycologist, ask a woman!! Of course she'll mind, the ink used to sign the divorce is still fresh, you don't say a word to her, pretend to give him a drive to the airport and nothing more, and the next day you tell her you slept with him?? Come on! She does mind, and Hodgins is confused by that, and in the end they decide that they are not trusting each other and that therefore should break up. Ok, now Angela is the idiot! and Hodgins too for not trying to stop her! Idiots.
Clark is Zach's substitute for this episode.
Brennan is giving a lecture at Oxford, (apparently the day after Booth at Scotland Yard). They are then called for a homocide, and Dr. Ian and inspector Cate are the English version of Booth and Bones, as he says himself! There are two cases in this two parts episode, and they are different, but in a way related.
The girl is killed because it turned out that her father was actually the same as her boyfriend's father, and the butler confesses to the murder, don't know if he actually did it of if he's covering for someone in the family. Then Dr. Ian Wexler is murdered. The girl working with Ian killed him because had he ruined his own career, he'd have ruined hers too.
3 - The man in the outhouse - Daisy Wick is this episode's new grad student-assistant, and Brennan is seeing two guys at once, one for sex and one to go out with. At the end Daisy was apparently fired, and Sweets, hurt after being left behind by Booth and Bones going to dinner without him, calls her...
I admit from that computer image I'd have never recognized that man, even after seeing him, he doesn't look like that image at all to me. Again, it annoys me so much Brennan's attitude vs religion, so aggressive, so reverse-fanatic.
case: a tv guy was killed by the ex-boyfriend of a girl he was sleeping with.
4 - The finger in the nest - The assistant this episode is a middle-age man very nice, but I didn't catch his name. Parker finds a finger in  a bird's nest, and Booth is worried for him.
The victim is a veterinary. A guy set his dog on him , using the dog as the 'murder weapon', because he had seen the dogs fighting and was taking pictures. They also found the dog responsible, who was actually a very good dog, and Brennan wanted to adopt it, but it had already been put down :-( Her words at the end:
"Like all dogs, Ripley only saw the good in people. Dogs are like that. People should take a lesson."
5 - The perfect pieces in the purple pond - We see Zach again. First, Dr Sweets talking to him, and again when he appears in the lab, escaped, come to help them find the head. At the end, he goes quietly back with Sweets, and tells him that he didn't actually ever kill anyone, he just told the master where to find him, and thinks he'd have done it had the master asked him, but doesn't want anyone to know about it. Sweets would want to tell about it, because he says you can't really know if you'd be able to do it or not, but can't, it's confidential.
case: an ocd young man recovered from his disease was killed by his ocd mother who dismembered him into 13 pieces, put 12 in a pond and the head buried in the garden.
6 - The crank in the shaft - This ep's assistant is Mr. Fisher. I wasn't very impressed by him, I have to say. Booth makes a lot of fuss about getting a specific old chair for his office, and Angela and Hodgins have difficulties working together.
(case:the remains of a woman are found in the elevator shaft. She had been accidentally killed by a girl who threw a stapler at her, because she was going to report her relationship with a man in the same office.)
7 - The he in the she - As always Booth and Brennan are mute/hostile during their therapy sessions, they don't show much respect to Sweets, for true. Then, she's hard and unpleasant to one of her grad students. This ep's assistant is Mr. Nigel-Murray, my favourite :-) I really like the way he speaks.
Also, Brennan should have some respect for Booth's praying, and she should be told of that!! They indulge her a lot, I know she's a good person and I guess she deserves it, but she's often disrespectful and rude and offensive; I know she's very intelligent, but that's not excuse enough, and she should be taught that. At the end apparently Mr.Nigel-Murray quits his internship voluntarily.
(case: A woman is killed by a jealous wife with a boat while swimming, and now Ryan, the son she had when she was still a man, takes over her place as the pastor of the community.)
8 - The skull in the sculpture - In the rotation of students doing their internship, Daisy is up again. The victim's assistant was Roxie, Angela's ex-girlfriend. They meet each other, and some of the old flame seems to be back..since they kiss at the end. Daisy is driving Camille crazy, so Cam asks for Sweets' advice, and he says he'll fire Diasy in her place. He goes to her, in the lab, and tells her directly that nobody likes her ther, and that since she doesn't work there anymore, there's no more reason to keep their relationship a secret .-) nice, those two.
(case: the remains of an artist are found into one of his sculptures, made out of crashed-cars. It was the gallery owner, that woman who put so much make-up on because she was ill)
9 - The con man in the meth lab - Clark comes back for his turn as assistant. We also meet Jared, Us Navy Lt. Cmd, Booth's little brother. Bones is very keen on going with him to an important party, and dressed very smartly. He tells her that Booth never liked success, that he prefers to stay in the 'comfort zone', she shouldn't have gone, it was clear he did mind, although she's rubbish at understanding people's feelings. Still, had he told her, she probably would have gone anyway, since she's so into always doing what she wants, proving she's not depending on what others want her to do... she even says "Booth shouldn't be threatened by the fact that his brother is more successful"... can you believe that?? At moments like this I think his love is waisted on her... Come on, she's spent years working with Booth, and only one night chatting with Jared!!
Well, in the end they settle things, and Brennan makes him a very nice speech... I guess she's learning something new every day, maybe one day she'll be human, who knows...
(case: a body is found while a meth lab is blown up, and at the end the bad sheriff is caught)
10 - The passenger in the oven - Angela is still going out with Roxie, and now she asks her to move in with her, but Roxie says no, that neither one of them is ready.
(case: Booth and Brennan are on a flight to China, when a body is found roasted in the oven. It was of a woman who had been killed by the 16 years old son of a man who was cheating on his dying wife with her.)
11 - The bone that blew - The assistant is Wendell Bray :-) Cam hires Max to teach science at kids, but Bones doesn't want him there. Sweets tells them what he think the reason is, and Max says "load of crap. you're far too rational for that".. again, poor Sweets; is there anyone who treats him well?? Aside from Daisy, that is.. Then Max and Jack do an esperiment together, and she jumps on the occasion to fire him.
Looking at Max teaching Cola-mint experiments to Parker, Booth asks Bones not to fire Max as a personal favour..
"Italians make the best automobile" really? Thanks Booth!
(case : a little rich girl shot the male nanny because he caught her cheating on her school homework and was about to report it to the school! Her mother took the body away and burnt it to protect her..)
12 - Double trouble in the panhandle - The assistant is Mr. Nigel-Murray!!! Yeah! Am I the only one who likes Mr Nigel-Murray very much?? He's so nice, funny and sweet...
We hear that Sweets was adopted, and time ago had tried to find his mother who worked in a circus in Florida. We also see Bones and Booth ilfiltrate the circus where the twins worked, as a knife-thrower and his wife. Booth is the son of a barber.
(case: the bones of siamese twin-sisters are found at the border between Oklahoma and Texas. They worked in a circus, their doctor had a relationship first with one then with the other sister, but in the end turns out that it was an act-accident, they weren't murdered at all, but their bones were moved.)
13 - Fire in the ice - This time's assistant is Wendell. He was also playing hockey in Booth's team. At the end, Booth and Bones are alone in the ice ring, and he's teaching her how to skate :)
(case: Booth punches hard a guy while they were both playing hockey. A month later his remains are found. under ice, so Booth is a suspect. It's found that he stole jewellery during a fire, working as a firefighter, and one of his team killed him.)
14 - The hero in the hold -  Another episode with Booth having allucinations... It seemed quite casual, after the blow to the head on the ice ring, but this time it's a little more... strange.
case: The Grave Digger is back, and this time has taken Booth. They find him alive, after catching the FBI woman responsible. Jared helps them find him, but he has to break rules in order to be able to save him in time, and is later arrested for this.
15 - The princess and the pear - Booth has back problems, so Brennan works again with agent Perotta from ep. 13.  This episode's assistant is Mr. Fisher... :-/  I don't know, I'm not very fond of him, although I should, since he admitted he's a fantasy geek, he said he loves it all: Star Trek, Star Wars, Xena, Akira, Buffy, even Fringe (and apparently his girlfriend dumped him for it... why is that?? Where is it written that girls don't like all that stuff?? Personally, I love it!!!). They go to Imagicon.
(case: they discover the victim was dressed in a cosplay outfit, from Imagicon, and had a sword, Excalibur, the real prop from Le Morte D'Arthur, the first fantasy film ever made... did they make this up or is it real? I haven't checked, maybe I will sooner or later, if I remember. They find it, and plan a fake auction, then Sweets and Bones are in a car and get thrown off the road, and then attacked by a black Knight who came to steal the sword, but Bones fights with him and takes it back. They find him, and it turns out he gave the victim his most valuable possession, worth tens, hundreds of thousands, because he loved her, and she tried to sell it for rent)
16 - The bones that foam - The assistant Mr. Nigel-Murray!! yeah!!! :-) He was really adorable this episode, wasn't he??? And he was starting to bond :-)
Camille: so, when you spout facts, it's your way of maintaining focus?
Vincent: facts are the stitches that hold the fabric of existence together.
Camille: in that case, is it individual chop sticks, or pair?
:-) Cam is great, I like her very much. At first I was a bit sorry that she replaced Dr. Goodman, because I liked him, but she's a great character, with much more space for development.
Bones asks Sweets to help her connect with people like booth does. Then, Bones watches with interest while a girl lap dances on Booth's lap... omg she's incredible, she really is, meaning simply that it was hard to believe she would just feel interest with no embarassmente whatsoever... is she a woman or what??
And she must always be the best at everything, she's right in saying that she lacks empathy, and modesty too I'd add. Sometimes I ask myself how can they stand her, this seems to be the real fiction, even more than the cases. Nobody ever tells her what an ass she's being, always telling everyone how much smarter she is, how they don't matter while she's so important (do you remember the "there are hundreds of you and only one of me" line??), how she can do everything, what an excellent driver she is, even after she messed up the new car, and blah blah blah... aaargh!
(case: a body is found on the rocks, and there's a strange foam inside it. Because of the foam, the bones are disintegrating... so Angela does a virtual reconstruction... which seemed so stupid, just so stupid... from a few pieces you get the whole virtual skeleton, and you watch that to find clues, irregularities and whatnot. Absurd, simply stupid. How could they say it was accurate? How could they base their investigations on something like that? It's a random guess, it's not science, there's no way that starting from the bones of a leg you can reconstruct the virtual skeleton and find the specific wound in the chest that will make you catch the right killer... come on! Lucky for Booth that the woman confessed that she killed because he saw her cheating on her husband, otherwise he wouldn't have had a case...)
17 - The salt in the wounds - The assistant is Mr. Arastoo Vaziri, from Iran, who simply takes spiritual breaks every time he needs to pray.  no surprise that Brennan acts  all intollerant, like she always is with Booth! She thinks only what she says it's true, so she's offensive to everyone, thinking they are all wrong and talking stupidity, while actually she's the one betraying science with her obstracysm to religion! Doesn't she know that you can't say something is impossible until you can prove that it is not possible??
Roxie breaks up with Angela, and Angela then has sex with Hodgins in the storage room... did they forget there are security cameras in there???
Brennan looked so upset that Cam was right, that she even discovered the cause of death, what with her always saying that bones are the most important thing... but at least she ackknowledges the fact that she had been wrong.  Also, Angela is worried because Bones approves of the way she conducts her love life...
(case: they find the remains in salt of a teenage footballer, who like several other team girls was also pregnant. The leader was the first, she felt so much pressure on her that was happy to be pregnant and put a stop to it all, and the other girls wanted to be like her. The victim was killed by the doctor she was trying to blackmail to get some money)
18 - The doctor in the den - the assistant is Clark. Apparently Angela took Sweets advice to abstain from sex for a while. Well, he suggested six months, but I don't know if she'll be able to do that.
Cam takes Michelle in with her. We meet Clark's beautiful girlfriend. :-) And once again, like sometimes happen, I could almost hear the 'action' shouted before a scene, so obvious it was that they were all still, waiting for the order to say their line... I like this show, but these things shouldn't happen, it's not very professional..
(case: Dr. Andrew Welton is found murdered. Cam had lived with him for two years, although she hasn't seen him in 10 years. He was killed by a jealous nurse.)
19 - The science in the physicist - The assistant today is Mr. Nigel Murray!!! Hello Vincent! I was so glad to see him and Jack do experiments together, and outside eating together...:-) Maybe they'll bond and we'll see more of Vincent! I hope so, I like him very much!
Angela's dad comes to punish Jack for screwing things up with Angela, and they are all scared, but Angela asks him to go easily on Jack, so he simply leaves him with a big tattoo of Angela's face on his shoulder.
Who is Angela's dad?? Is the actor someone famous? Is he a real musician??
Can you believe how offensive Brennan was this whole episode? Telling Booth "you wouldn't understand" like he's some kind of idiot, as if she was an ace in all kinds of science! Well, she's not.
Again, "I figured out a long ago how stupid you are", then trying to express herself better "I don't care how stupid you are"... she can't say it better because truth is she does think him stupid. Speaking of intelligence, she went on: there are people who have it, like her and Vincent, Angela not so much but she's talented... and Angela says thank you... okay, I guess in Brennan's way that really was a compliment, wasn't it? :-)
(case: the editor of the most important science journal is killed by a young scientist who didn't want to share credit.)
20 - The Cinderella in the cardboard - While investigating, Booth and Brennan see Daisy trying on a wedding dress and hugging a man, and are convinced that she's engaged to him, while going out with Sweets. She wants to tell Sweets but Booth insists that it's none of their business, but when she finally finds herself alone with Sweets, without Booth to stop her, she tells him everything. She just couldn't keep it shut, could she? As always, she was convinced her judgement was better than Booth's, that she was right. He's shocked, and asks for Booth's advice on what to do, than confronts her. It turns out Daisy was trying on the dress for her cousin who's out of town, because the dress was 50% off for a day only, and they're the same size. The man was her cousin's fiancée..so Brennan wanted to avoid him pain, instead she had caused it for no reason, and she went to tell Booth. She admits to experience jealousy herself, of Angela, Jack, Cam, him... because of how they live and feel things, and she can't do that.
Wendell asks Jack out with him and his girl friends, and Jack goes. I really like that all of the assistants are getting their space, and being part of the group.
(case: a future bride also used a dating service called Date Or Hate to meet other men, and the guy of that agency killer her because she didn't want him, didn't even look at him)
21 - Mayhem on a cross - Bones knows how to say skull in several languages :-) The assistant is Clark. And... Dottor Wyatt is back!!! Stephen Fry!!! hooray! Dr Wyatt is here because Sweets wrote a book about Booth and Brennan's relationship, but doesn't agree on his view of it, he says they're no opposite at all, also on the fact that they are avoiding a romantic relationship to avoid endangering their friendship, Wyatt tells him that only one of them is aware of it, not both.It's true, of course, we know it, but I can't believe that Sweets asked "which one?". Come on, really?? Also Wyattis retiring, and he reveals he played guitar while young: he was Noddy Comet :rofl: and Booth knew his music .-) We see Sweets' shoulders are full with scars.. it turns out Sweets was adopted when he was 6 by loving old people who died just before he came to work here; Wyatt wants them to make him feel at home, so Brennan shares a sad memory from her foster days, and asks Booth to do the same, then they take him to dinner at Booth's place where Wyatt is cooking. Oh I love Wyatt!! So sorry this will probably be the last time we see him.. Stephen Fry is great :-)
At the end, we see that Sweets has changed the title of his book from "opposite attracts: yin and yang in the workplace" to "Bones - the heart of the matter".
It was funny when Booth was directing her during the interrogation, when she lied and played tough :lol:
(case: a rave in Norway. Local police finds that the skeleton on the stage is real, and of an american, so they send it to the Jeffersonian.  How can they tell how heavy he was just by looking at the bones? Ok, the weight on the bones, yeah, but it seems very sci-fi anyway.  The victim was a bassist killed by one of his band because he wanted to leave them for another band.)
22 - The double death of the dearly departed - this was a strange episode :lol:
(case: it's Dr Reilly's wake, of the Jeffersonian, and they all knew him, except Bones doesn't remember him. After paying their respects, it's Brennan's turn, and instead she examins the body and says he was murdered, so they sneak him away :lol: Bones and Cam examine the body at the lab: it seems he did have a heart attack, but was alive when sent to the undertaker who stabbed him 7 times.. because he was scared when suddently the body had opened his eyes while being...prepared. This is because the heart attack wasn't natural, he was poisoned... with tea leaves, by his mom, because she wanted to leave the money to the other son.)
23 - The girl in the mask - Bones has to decide which assistant to hire... :-( I don't want to lose Vincent, but I feel she won't choose him...
Bones words "I'm not convinced that loving someone is worth it" meaning the pain of the loss.
(case: Booth's friend Nakamura is worried for his sister. They look for her and find her remains. Ken brings in the help of Dr Tanaka, and they make such a fuss about finding out if she's a man or a woman-at the end they say male, which is absurd, it's clearly a woman.)
24 - The beaver in the otter - The assistant is Mr Vaziri again. Jared is fired with "dishonourable discharge", and now he wants to go to India on a bike trip. Booth lets him go alone, for once, it might do him some good to stand alone without his big brother, for once. Brennan is as always so skeptical as to be insulting to Sweets, because she can't understand it.
At the end, Booth makes Bones believe that they're doing something bad (exciting) by leaving the bar without paying, but he leaves money on the counter before following her, running outside :-) She seemed a child :-) He really loves her, doesn't he?
(case: a frat guy assaulted a girl and she fired a nail gun at him, then tried to help but he pulled it out himself and died.)
25 - The critic in the cabernet - The assistant is Mr. Fisher.
Bones says she wants a baby, and asks Booth to be the sperm donor. She says "emotional ties are ephemeral and undependable. I've thought this through, rationally" You see here why she hates psychology? Because she needs it, that's why. She clearly has big problems, fear of abandonment, of being hurt again...
Booth has hallucinations again... but this time Brennan sees him talking to thin air, and she forces him to go to the hospital, where they say it's brain tumor, usually benign, but he has to undergo surgery.
(case: a wine critic's remains are found in wine)
26 - The end in the beginning - This episode has the same effect that those Star Trek episodes had on me, you know, those with dreams or whatnot where you saw every actor playing a different character, without their usual make-up... here they have different clothes, in a different scenario.
Vincent here is so cute, with that red shirt, still I can't wait to hear him talking. Love him when he talks. .-)
Loved it when he said "I'm not gonna fare well in jail. I'm lovely" :lol: yes you are, Vincent, indeed you are.
When Hodgins was at the bar, was he using an Irish accent?? Because I thought he was pretending to be drunk! About Vaziri, I will have to google this actor, I'm sure I've seen him somewhere, I mean in some other show, but I can't place him... damn my stupid memory.
Sweets sings in a band called Gormogon. At the end, we see it was Brennan writing a book, waiting for Booth to wake up at the hospital. She's unusually sentimental, but there she is, deleting the whole thing! Apparently Booth has been in a coma for four days, now he wakes up and asks "who are you?"-The End.
(story: Jared and Cam are the cops investigating, Mr Booth owns the club called "the lab", Bones is his wife who's never seen a dead body before, Sweets is the bartender, Vincent is the dj, Wendell is the security guard... there are also Daisy, Fisher, Angela and Zach working there. There is Max, not clear if friend or foe, Mr Vaziri who wants to buy the place, Caroline is the lawyer representing them for the case, Hodgins is a pulp crime novelist, there's also Clark)