By Jeremy Monsayac
Fancast.com
The latest episode of Bones titled "The Baby in the Bough" opens with a woman’s car run off the side of a road. She is found burned to death, but her baby survives the accident without a scratch – in a tree. Brennan takes custody of the baby, to her chagrin. The victim is a tire plant worker living in a depressed area in West Virginia, where Booth and Brennan head to find answers. Angela learns that the key, which was swallowed by the baby at the crime scene and recovered as Booth changes his diaper, is to a safe deposit box at a bank in West Virginia where Booth and Brennan find a gun. Preliminary evidence leads the team at the Jeffersonian to think that an accountant from the plant’s corporate office – who was thought to be romantically interested in the victim and had been missing for the past four days – was a suspect. However, bone and tire fragments from the gun are matched to the accountant and the plant, proving that he too was a victim. Booth and Brennan pay a visit to the tire plant and indeed discover bone fragments in mulch belonging to the accountant. After making this discovery, Angela advises Booth and Brennan that there are accounting discrepancies that point to the manager. The gun, it turns out, was used by the tire plant manager to kill the accountant when the accountant threatened to turn the manager in for embezzling. The victim tried to blackmail the manager and kept the gun in the safe deposit box as proof, but the manager murdered her as well. After resolution of the case, Brennan has bittersweet feelings as she hands custody of the baby to his late mother’s friends. Her maternal instincts kicked in during the case and consequently she uses her six-figure advance to help the baby’s new family.
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