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Bones Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
The Yanks in the U.K.: Parts 1 and 2
Wed, Sep 3, 2008120 mins
After doing a guest lecture at a British University, Dr. Brennan and Booth are asked to investigate the death of a young woman. Her father is a wealthy American businessman working in the U.K.. Their counterparts assist them in the investigation. Meanwhile Angela's husband arrives at the Jeffersonian, he is not interested in divorcing her.
Episode 3
The Man in the Outhouse
Wed, Sep 10, 200844 mins
The relatively new corpse found in the contents of an accidentally exploded outhouse is identified as Bill O'Rourke, star of a TV show that publicly exposes adulterous spouses, which provides a list of suspects with strong motives. Booth even enlists a stalker to tail Jim Dodd, who best fits the profile according to Sweets. Furthermore, studio politics and love life provide further suspects. Booth's doubts about Bones's polyandry with a man for sex and another for conversation prove founded. Lance gets a crush on overzealous forensic showoff-apprentice Daisy Wick.
Episode 4
The Finger in the Nest
Wed, Sep 17, 200843 mins
While Booth enjoys playing with his young son Parker, the boisterous boy accidentally finds a severed finger. Dr. Lance Sweets reassures Booth his boy is fine, not traumatized at all. The victim is a missing veterinarian, who is somehow connected to illegal dogfights, and to the death on Don Timmons's farm in the area where the dismembered corpse was found. Don's son Robbie was an apprentice at the vet's surgery and was tutored by Dr. Andrew Hopp, who vouches for the family, discrediting the vet.
Episode 5
The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond
Wed, Sep 24, 200844 mins
A teenager's urination into a sewage pond makes it turn purple. Via a rare medical drug this leads to discovering the headless corps in 12 more hacked-up pieces of SciFi cult author Jared Addison (25), who has a 'sexier' impersonator, C. D. Howard, hired by editor Gary Tushman. The Jefferson is working in another gifted intern, Wendell Bray. Ralph, Jared's fellow germ phobia therapy patient with professor Jim Amerian, volunteers a confession based on a crazy compulsion. Meanwhile Booth has back trouble. Sweets proves an excellent third investigation partner and team confident. Hodges visits Zack in psych ward and leaves the case file with him, which inspires more then brilliant insight.
Episode 6
The Crank in the Shaft
Wed, Oct 1, 200860 mins
Part of a leg drops into an elevator. The gruesome discovery finds the body had been in the shaft for a few days. The victim was an office manager who was disliked by everyone. As the team investigates, Angela and Hodgins come to terms with their break up.
Episode 7
The He in the She
Wed, Oct 8, 200843 mins
Two 'hippies' fishing at the beach find a nearly consumed corpse, a few weeks old. It's Patricia Ludmuller, the missing reverend of the close-knit Inclusion church parish on a fairly isolated island. She was a closet transsexual. Bones' blatant disbelief embarrasses devout Catholic Booth. Anthropology student Vincent Nigel-Murray proves his forensic talent and conversational wit. Angela reconstructs her male identity: TV preacher Patrick Stephenson, presumed dead, disappeared with a fortune in Thailand six years ago, leaving a wife Cecilia and teenage son Ryan, who left commercial religion.
Episode 8
The Skull in the Sculpture
Wed, Nov 5, 200844 mins
Car junk yard robbers find a press-crushed wreck containing a corpse. It's identified as postmodernist 'crushing art' sculptor Geoffrey Thorne. Gallery owner Helen Bridenbecker claims that he planned to commit suicide by becoming part of his last sculpture, which can't be deconstructed until it's proven to be a murder case. His assistant and heir, Roxie Lyon, was Angela's lesbian partner at college. A 89th fracture on his skull proves he was first murdered. Suspects also include his rival, forger Lucas 'Anton Deluca' Denton. Sweets convinces Angela it's time to dare date again.
Episode 9
The Con Man in the Meth Lab
Wed, Nov 12, 200843 mins
A state police anti-drugs-bust training meth-lab explosion reveals an adult male corpse, circa 48. It seems to correspond to inventor Paul Stegman's absent, recently turned-up father Jim, an addict, last seen by Paul's ex-business partner, Mike Campbell. That proves a set-up, the exploded corpse is conman Anthony Pongetti, who was tortured. The real Jim's corpse was shot and found at sea near a naval base. Pongetti stole Jim's identity, fooling even the family. Seeley Booth enjoys a visit from his kid brother, US Navy lieutenant commander Jared Booth, an ambitious smooth operator and Cam's ex, but with an alcohol problem. More family and drug cash complicate the case too.
Episode 10
The Passenger in the Oven
Wed, Nov 19, 200860 mins
On Booth and Bones' flight to China for an archaeological examination, a travel reporter's body is found, cooked to death in the microwave. Sweets gets Bones' editor to name her possibly relevant adulterous flirt and her next article subject, pilot alcohol abuse. The Jeffersonian team must help with forensics on transmitted data before the Chinese authorities get jurisdiction after the plane lands.
Episode 11
The Bone That Blew
Wed, Nov 26, 200860 mins
Poachers in a pelican reserve find a recently burned skeleton which is soon identified as USMC Special Ops Calvin Warren, discharged three years ago. Bones isn't pleased that her father, ex-science teacher Max, is employed in the museum to show kids around, although he does a great job. She gets him fired after he helps Hodgins and Bray with forensic experiments. Cal had a painkiller problem and was employed as a 'nanny'-bodyguard for CEO Richard King's kids, Royce and Alexa, at the exclusive Woodbury school. Upper class families prove interesting suspects. Booth worries if he's giving his boy Parker all possible advantages.
Episode 12
Double Trouble in the Panhandle
Thu, Jan 22, 200944 mins
Two young female corpses are found on the Texan-Oklahoman border, making it an FBI case. They actually were Siamese twins, joined from the hip down, they are soon identified as missing circus jugglers. Booth and Bones go undercover, as Russian knife thrower and his assistant. They are coached by Sweets, who knows the circus world from a previous search for his biological mother.
Episode 13
Fire in the Ice
Thu, Jan 22, 200944 mins
Shortly after Booth is banned to the ice-hockey bench from beating up fire department Pete Carlson, who hits his 'fragile' teammate Wendell Bray, the bully's corpse turns up in a frozen lake. Booth is technically the first suspect, yet remains 'advising.' Bones' team officially works with agent Payton Perotta, who actually digs Booth. Sweets helps examine the key, social team dynamics.
Episode 14
The Hero in the Hold
Thu, Feb 5, 200944 mins
Hodgins, Bones and author Thomas Vega are officially suspected of stealing FBI evidence concerning the Grave Digger, who once buried both team members alive. The team aborts Bones' award gala after the fiend sends a coded message: he has captured Booth and will asphyxiate him in a coffin within 24 hours unless the evidence is paid as ransom. Now Hodgins admits he has it, but convinces the others to try first 8 hours to identify the monster. Vega is found murdered in his car. Meanwhile Booth suffers a hallucination - he is with the ghost of corporal Edward 'Teddy' Parker, whom his best efforts couldn't save in combat. Teddy seems to help his efforts to escape from his 'coffin', an entire Navy ship loaded with explosives. The evidence is handed over, with disappointing result. Booths' brother Jared risks everything to enable more illegal moves even after once special agent Payton Perotta has them all taken from the case.
Episode 15
The Princess and the Pear
Thu, Feb 19, 200955 mins
Children on treasure hunt find in a sewer the fast decomposing corpse of Bruce Kim's estranged wife Kendra. She was in town for Imagicon, a traveling SciFi & Fantasy convention, where she was to auction off the prized Excalibur Sword used in the first Fantasy movie Le Morte D'Artur. Horrible back-ache aggravated by Bones' amateur chiropractics keeps Booth bed-ridden. Sweets the 'walking polygraph', Hodges and constantly depressed Fisher enjoy helping agent Perotta and Bones investigate. Undercover parts prove particularly dangerous after toad blood allows Hodgings to trace the sword.
Episode 16
The Bones That Foam
Thu, Mar 12, 200960 mins
Remains are discovered by a newly wed couple after they literally take the plunge. The squints soon determine the identity of the victim, but discovering the cause of death presents interesting dilemmas as a mysterious corrosive foam secreting from the bones is destroying the remains and causing the Jeffersonian's alarms go off with each test they try.
Episode 17
The Salt in the Wounds
Thu, Mar 19, 200955 mins
Pregnant 16 year-old Ashley Clark was found dead in a salt truck. While looking into her murder they find that all of her school friends are also pregnant, four of which also have the same baby daddy as the the murder victim. They find that the girls have made a so called "pregnancy pact" to raise their kids together. Dr. B, Booth and Sweets interview the teens trying to figure out why and who killed Ashley Clark. Meanwhile, Angela decides to try celibacy.
Episode 18
The Doctor in the Den
Thu, Apr 2, 200955 mins
Rock Creek Wildlife Park keepers find their tiger is eating a large adult. He's identified as Cam's ex, Dr. Andrew Weldon, so she takes an exceptionally active part in this investigation. He was drugged and killed during a hospital benefit at that zoo, which Sweets reconstructs by hypnosis. Possible motives include Weldon's infidelity, his complex relationship with his daughter Michelle and his refusal to grant a major benefactor's gifted son Dr. Rick Annenberg a hospital post, which Rick didn't want.
Episode 19
The Science in the Physicist
Thu, Apr 9, 200944 mins
During a photo shoot, a model discovers a human ear along with its body's frozen remains. Inside the remains are some gold flakes and a fragment of a meteor. The meteor was kept in a space research center, lead by Landis Collar, who was the boss of the victim, physicist Diane Sidman. Other possible suspects are her graduate students, Milton Alvaredo and Jennifer Keating, plus Diane's lovers, including direct superior and successor as research periodical editor, Dr. Christopher Beaudette. Diane's corpse shows a confusing history shortly before and after her mysterious death. Meanwhile, Angela's father comes to town to exact revenge from Hodgins and teach him a lesson.
Episode 20
The Cinderella in the Cardboard
Wed, Apr 15, 200955 mins
Meriel Mitsakis' body is found, mechanically crushed in a recycling plant. She had experimental plastic toe surgery, as final touch for a life long-planned perfect wedding with Mike. Tracing her wedding dress, Booth and Bones see Sweets' bossy girl, crazy Daisy, being fitted for one, presumably with her fiancé. Against Booth's and the others' advise, Bones ends up telling Lance. Meriel's multiple infidelity made her enemies, some without alibi. She was overrun by the car owned by her date (from the cellphone-proximity dating service) which Hodgins also uses.
Episode 21
Mayhem on a Cross
Thu, Apr 16, 200955 mins
Skeletal remains used by a Norwegian Black Metal Band lead the team to explore the underground music scene. Gordon-Gordon prepares to retire from psychology, but not before meeting with Sweets and helping Bones and Booth solve their current case.
Episode 22
The Double Death of the Dearly Departed
Mon, Apr 20, 200955 mins
While attending the wake of a coworker who reportedly died of natural causes, Bones notices something that causes her to believe he was actually murdered. But a judge will not allow her to confirm her suspicions. Now they must covertly investigate his death.
Episode 23
The Girl in the Mask
Thu, Apr 23, 200943 mins
Booth's Japanese police exchange program friend Ken Nakamura reports his orphaned kid sister Sachi (21) missing. Shortly after her severed head is found in a salt marsh, under a mask from her still missing roommate Nozomi Sato. Japanese forensic expert Dr. Haru Tanaka, a 'kei' (androgyne), joins the Jeffersonian team for this case.
Episode 24
The Beaver in the Otter
Thu, Apr 30, 200955 mins
When the Middlesex university team publicly burns its Otters adversary's stolen mascot, it's discretely shot and a corps falls out. It's not from anatomy, but James 'Beaver' Bouvier, a popular member of the Delta Beta Sigma fraternity. Sweets analyzes frat-life, Bones looks down upon it, Booth enjoys the male bonding memories. Beaver also was a bookie and involved in hacking to steal test questions. His disputed sex-life also provides suspects. Meanwhile Seeley worries that his brother Jared, who just was paroled, refuses a job interview, desiring to travel India by motorbike.
Episode 25
The Critic in the Cabernet
Thu, May 7, 200955 mins
A wine cask sealed years ago by cellar-master Bruce Hanover in Sean Mortenson's well-reputed Virginia winery contains the remains of influential wine critic Spencer Holt. While the forensic team searches for precise cause of death and weapon, the criminal investigation soon digs up possible motives in wine economics and marital infidelity. However the Jeffersonian team is more preoccupied with Bones' announcement she wants a baby, and expect model male Booth to donate the sperm. Sweets had a hard time making them admit the relational significance, but something worse surprises even him.
Episode 26
The End in the Beginning
Thu, May 14, 200955 mins
In Booth's elaborate hospital nightmare, most of the series' (semi-)regulars, including the alternating apprentices, Zach, Wendell, Nigel, Clark and Colin, play very different characters. Several are suspects, defended by Caroline, in mob 'cleaner' Vorstenbach's murder in the toilet of a nightclub run by spouses Booth and Bones, which Iranian mob baron Arastoo is determined to take over. Sweets is the barman and Gormogon band's lead singer, Wendell the loyal bouncer, Vincent Nigel-Murray the DJ, Fisher the chef, Hodges a crime writer. Jared and Saroyan are in charge of the FBI investigation, which is complicated by loyalties inspiring lies and other secret agenda's.