All language subtitles for Bones S04E21 Mayhem on a Cross

Norway?

We don't have enough
crucified corpses of our own?

Now the Vikings are sending them?

Well, the annual murder rate
in Norway is 0.7.

- Less than one murder a year?
- In that case, they should solve

the ones they have
or they'll never get any practice.

- The victim is American.
- Still, if a Norwegian was

murdered here,
we'd conduct the investigation.

The Norwegians say the victim died here
and then got shipped to Norway.

- What's their evidence?
- Nothing forensic.

It's just police work.
The remains were found in the possession

of a Norwegian black metal band.

What's black metal?

I don't know. It's Norwegian.
Whole different kind of black.

Apparently it's a genre of heavy metal
featuring macabre imagery of death

and horrific violence.

Skalle.

- It's the name of the band. Skalle.
- Oh! It means "skull."

- You speak Norwegian?
- No. I'm a forensic anthropologist.

I know how to say "skull"
in just about every language.

Well, Skalle...

Skalle.

- Skalle.
- Skalle.

They stole the body
from an American metal band

while on tour in DC six months ago.

The remains are male,
late teens.

Significant staining on the skalle.

- Skalle.
- It leached into the bone.

Desiccated flesh
on the face and scalp.

- Mmm-hmm.
- Perhaps enough for DNA.

If the scraps of clothing and the boots
were actually on the victim

when he died, then maybe Hodgins
can give us something.

What's... What's the story on this?

The posterior ribs were either broken
or severed.

Detached at the spine
and then fanned out.

- It's the Blood Eagle.
- Beg pardon?

It was an ancient torture
in which the victim was held face down

while his back was sliced open.
The ribs were then broken at the spine

and then spread to look like an eagle.
Thus the name.

Absence of blood on the periosteal surface

of the fracture suggests the ribs
were broken postmortem.

I'll remove the bones from the cross
and clean them.

- See if we can find the cause of death.
- This is definitely murder.

- There are other possibilities.
- I have to admit, none spring to mind.

One possibility, drunken,
death-obsessed, Satan-worshipping,

drug-abusing teens rob a grave
and re-enact an ancient torture.

Ah! Just another Saturday night.

Right, okay.
So for the Norwegian crucifixion case,

I'm gonna need to know all there is

about the heavy metal music scene
in DC, okay?

And tell you what,
get me all the recordings that you can...

I think you're gonna have to be
more specific than that,

- Agent Booth.
- Gordon-Gordon, huh?

There's black metal, speed metal,
grindcore, thrash, doom, drone, glam,

sludge, metalcore, stoner metal,
death metal, and deathcore.

Must you shake my hand
with quite such a viselike grip?

- Right. Yeah, okay. You got all that?
- Yeah.

Go, go, go, huh?
Thought you were a psychiatrist.

How'd you become such a musical expert?

I've got quite a...
Quite a musical background, you know?

Oh, yeah, right. St. Wetherby's Glee Club
in Doo-Daw-in-Henley.

So I thought we loaned you out
to Interpol?

Yes. Part of the serial killer task force.

Traveling the globe,
bathed in perversion and gore.

Have a seat.

And on a happier note, I'm to meet
your bright young thing, Dr. Sweets?

- Sweets? Why Sweets?
- Well, he wants to interview me

for the book he's writing on you
and the lovely Dr. Brennan.

Anyway, I can see you're... You're busy.

Listen, perhaps while I'm here,
I can barbecue for you one evening.

Oh, no, no. I am the barbecue master,
remember? You can do the boiling.

Ah! I have it on good authority
that my culinary skills

have advanced somewhat
since last we ate.

- Anyway, it's good to see you.
- Yeah, you, too.

Hey. I have a computer rendering
of what our victim might've looked like.

Look at him. He's a puppy.

- A 278-pound puppy.
- Sometimes puppies are big.

Well, prelim tox results came back
negative for embalming fluid.

So he was never buried
in a sanctioned grave.

- So probably murdered.
- Murdered and his remains crucified

for the entertainment
of people who hate life.

Gordon. Gordon Wyatt.
It's a pleasure to meet you, Dr. Sweets.

Dr. Wyatt, I am a huge admirer
of your book

on the role of sexual sadism
in female serial killers.

Do I detect a certain caveat in your tone?

Uh...

- Well, the sample is small.
- Well, comparatively speaking,

- there are few female serial killers.
- I was wondering if you had a chance

- to take a look at...
- Your manuscript.

Yes, indeed. And may I say, Dr. Sweets,
that I think this is probably

the best work I have ever read
on the dynamics

of opposite personality types
working towards a common cause.

- Okay. Now I'm hearing a caveat.
- It's a small one.

It's just that Brennan and Booth
aren't in any way opposites.

Wow! Small? What... What is that?
British understatement?

Well, I guess he's a man, she's a woman.
He's instinctual. She's empirical.

- Opposites.
- Superficial ephemera, Dr. Sweets.

Wow! Okay. What about the sexual
component in their relationship?

Ah.

Would you agree that they have both

sublimated their attraction to each
other out of fear of endangering

their working relationship,
because their working relationship is

paramount to both of them?

Alas, I'm afraid
I wouldn't agree with that. No.

Wow.

- Which part?
- Well, everything you just said.

Yes, one of them is acutely aware
of that attraction.

- Struggles with it daily, as a matter of fact.
- Wow.

I'm sorry I keep saying that.

- Which one?
- It's your book, Dr. Sweets.

I would never tell you what to write.

I was actually gonna ask you
to write the introduction.

That's very flattering. But I'm retiring.
I'm relinquishing the field

to Young Turks like you.

- Do you think she actually enjoys this?
- This whole sexual abstinence thing,

totally twisting her out of shape.

Oh, here. The staining on the skull
was propylene glycol dicocoate,

alkyl benzoate, and sorbitan sesquioleate.

What is that?
Some kind of systemic poison?

That's common theatrical makeup.
It leached into the skull during decomp.

Oh, sorry, sorry. I put the music on
to get me in the right space.

Well, extrapolating from the stains
on the skull, it turns out

that at the time of his death,
the victim looked like this.

Looks like your puppy moonlighted
as a zombie werewolf.

Yeah. I ran this through my facial
recognition program

with an image search of metal Web pages.

- Check this out.
- There's our boy.

- Spew. It's very evocative.
- So our victim, Mayhem, was the bassist.

The drummer is Wrath.
And the guitarist, Pinworm.

But they do have a new bassist now.
His name is Grinder.

- What about real names?
- Well, I imagine they play

- that pretty close to the vest.
- Yeah.

Kind of ruins the magic

when you find out that Satan's name
is Todd or Larry.

Okay. I'll tell Booth to search
for a death metal band named Spew.

Wait a second. What do you mean
Gordon-Gordon is gonna quit psychiatry?

Well, I asked him to write the intro
to my book about you two,

and he told me he couldn't
because he was retiring.

- Is it possible he just hated your book?
- Thank you.

Perhaps now he'll find a pursuit
worthy of his intellect.

- Neurochemistry, for example.
- Yeah, Booth. Hold on.

- Slow down.
- Okay, why would a man

with Wyatt's insights
into the human psyche

want to be a mere scientist? No offense.

Perhaps because psychology is a field
which is ill-defined in conception

- and ineffective in execution.
- Thank you.

Okay, sounds great.
So Cam says we gotta track down

a death metal band named Spew.
Totally underground, no concerts listed,

- no contact information.
- A death metal band?

- Yeah.
- But our victim's skeleton was found

in the possession
of a Norwegian black metal band.

Death metal, Black metal.
What's the difference?

In essence, death metal is
about brutal technical proficiency,

while black metal is about emotion.
Now, both of them exploit

adolescent feelings
of alienation, depression...

Right. Because it all just sounds
like a truck full of cymbals

- crashing into a saw factory for me.
- Well...

But historically, picayune,
internecine squabbles

account for a huge number of deaths.

Bones, just figure out cause of death
for me, all right?

"Interocerine" or whatever.
How do you know so much about this?

I was really into death metal as a teenager.

- Not anymore, obviously.
- Really?

- Oh, come on.
- "Come on" what?

"Rah-rah-ray." I don't like that anymore.

According to Booth, there's no way
to track down this band, Spew.

No bars, clubs, or high schools.

The cross is carved of 120-year-old
black oak, and was stolen

from St. Benedict Episcopal Church
six months ago.

That is some determined desecration
going on.

Yeah, well, the bones themselves were
covered in a patina of smoke, tobacco,

marijuana, meth, animal blood, semen
and saliva.

- Who are these people?
- Sweets sent over a briefing.

Concerts are set up at secret locations.

- And then only insiders are invited.
- Then how do we find them?

Ah-ha! Well, the dried mud from the treads
of the boots that were duct taped

to the victim contained bovine fragments
and infectious prion proteins.

A slaughterhouse.

Yeah. A slaughterhouse closed down
due to mad cow disease.

Death metal enthusiasts prefer morbid,
horror-centric venues for performance.

In addition, they tend to perform
for their fans in the same place

they practice, and sometimes squat.

Like maybe this horror-centric,
condemned slaughterhouse.

Wait. How do we know
that those are his boots?

- He was in Norway for months.
- You are gonna be so proud.

The victim's foot size is 11,
same as his boots.

We need something more
than a matching shoe size.

He's not finished.

Wear on his calcaneus and cuboid
suggest our victim walked mostly

- on the outside of his feet.
- Supinator.

One percent of the population
are supinators. That's a lot.

One percent of size 11 teenagers
isn't good enough?

This missing toe,
did it fall off after decomposition?

- Or was it a preexisting condition?
- That's exactly what I was thinking.

You see here?
His toes left an impression inside the boot.

But there is no impression
corresponding with the big toe.

Are you satisfied that this was
the boot worn by the victim

- while he was still alive?
- It's a reasonable conclusion.

- You want to say "king of the lab"?
- No.

So why do I have the feeling
that I'm being taken somewhere terrible

for a gangland whacking?

We are going somewhere terrible. We are.

- Look, we... We need your expertise.
- I'm sure the estimable Dr. Sweets is

- more than qualified.
- Booth is lying about needing you.

- What?
- He wants to talk you out

of quitting psychiatry.

Bones, I was easing into that. Okay?

Well, matter of fact, I might
be able to help you.

When I was a young man,
I dabbled quite extensively

in the rock music scene.

Whoa, wait a second.

What were you?
A lead dulcimer in a flute band?

As a matter of fact, I was
the founder member

- of a proto-glam rock outfit.
- I don't know what that means.

It means that for three glorious years,
I wore spandex, silver lam�,

pancake makeup, and played a guitar
shaped like a spaceship.

- I was quite pretty, in my way.
- Wait. You... You were Noddy Comet.

- What's that?
- Noddy Comet! I always wondered

- what happened to you! You were Noddy!
- I changed jobs, that's all.

Noddy Comet!
I gotta get some of those original tapes.

Actually, you know, that fellow
playing the bass is really rather good.

- What?
- Okay, let's shut it down, guys.

Come on. FBI! Let's go! Hey!
I said, FBI. Shut it down.

Oh!

Yes. Now if you recall, it was
shooting inanimate objects

that had you brought to me for therapy
in the first place.

I thought it was a justifiable shooting.

- I agree.
- She agrees. See?

- You gonna put your gun down?
- Don't rush me, okay?

I'm thinking.

Are you coming?

No. I discharged my weapon.
And I pulled desk duty

- until the paperwork clears.
- You're 50 feet away.

At my desk, okay?
So just put in the earplug and let's do this.

Don't tell Sweets about the earplug.

Booth wants us to interrogate them.

Yeah. He's not really supposed
to be watching on his laptop

and talking in your ear.

You just tell him that's not happening.

These are their real names.

Monty Bigelow, Matt Stickney,
and Darryl Moss.

All right, Bones. So just ease into this.

What was Mayhem's real name?

Or you can just go at them
like a freight train.

Dabbler.

His stage name was Mayhem, not Dabbler.

Mayhem's a dabbler, a poser, a douche.

Do you want to spend time
in jail, Pinhead?

You can't actually arrest people, Bones.

We live in a slaughterhouse.
You got something worse than that?

All right, let's start over. Tell us the name

that Mayhem's mother
and father gave him

and we'll charge you with assaulting
a federal agent.

Oh!

- No. You have that backwards.
- No, Bones. He's right, okay?

They want to be arrested.

Ah!

Reverse psychology.

That term is almost always misused.

Look, just tell Tapeworm
that felony assault is the best you can do.

Felony assault is the best
we can do, "Tapeworm."

Take it or leave it.

- Justin. Justin Dancy.
- When did you last see Justin?

When I killed him, ate his heart
and took his job.

- I killed him, too.
- I never even noticed he was gone.

I ate his face off before I killed him.

I am so much better
at interrogation than I thought.

Those aren't legitimate confessions.
All right, guys. Come on.

Give us a real answer.

About a year ago, when he quit the band.

How about those charges?

Where's he going?

- Booth.
- Yeah? What?

The one called Grinder is different
from the others.

His body language displays
an emotional connection

- to the murder victim.
- Okay. So what do you think we should do?

We should arrange to have him
cleaned up, revealed so to speak,

so that Dr. Wyatt and I can talk to him
and exploit that connection.

Okay, great, you do that.
I'll stay here on desk duty.

Yeah, okay.

Posterior ilium, right side.

Damage to the cortical bone layer,
extending into the trabecular.

This skeleton was carted
from DC to Norway, then used

as a prop at ultra-violent concerts.
There's bound to be damage.

I enlarged the x-ray.

See the multiple clefts and wastage?

Suggesting the damage done
to the pelvic bone happened

- very near time of death?
- Now because Dr. Brennan isn't here,

I'll guess that these gouge marks
came from a knife.

Someone went digging
into the victim's gluteus?

Yes. Bone damage consistent
with a bullet wound.

So the victim was shot in the ass,

then killed in some way
yet to be determined,

then the killer dug the bullet
out of the victim's...

Gluteus. Yes.

Okay. Let's have Hodgins swab
for trace evidence.

God knows what he'll find.
Maybe a little piece of Norway.

Ah!

Darryl Moss. Do come in. Sit down.

- My name's Grinder.
- Grinder? Have you looked in the mirror?

Where are the other guys?
Did you de-louse them, too?

- No, nobody else. Just you, Darryl.
- You're the new guy in the band, right?

- You replaced Mayhem on bass?
- I told you. I killed him for the job.

Dr. Wyatt tells me that you are a skilled,
classically trained bassist

- influenced by... Who is it?
- Jaco Pastorius.

But you do everything you can
to hide that, don't you?

- I've never heard of him.
- No.

No. Because that would ruin
your street cred.

Justin Dancy's remains show evidence
of being used as a stage prop

for approximately the last six months,
four of those in Norway.

- His name was Mayhem.
- He wasn't always Mayhem.

Just as you weren't always Grinder.
Look, there he is. That's Justin.

And that's you, Darryl. Justin and Darryl.

You see, what we want to do is

find whoever it was that killed
your boyhood friend.

What makes you think I even know?

Everyone knows everything
in the metal world.

It's a small world breeding
whispers, conjecture,

secrets.

You may have even heard rumors
of who murdered him.

But you're not gonna tell us, are you?
Because we're outsiders.

- That would be breaking the code.
- So we're just gonna ask,

who had him before the Norwegians?

Who crucified your boyhood friend?

We would've got him back, you know?

- Got him back from who?
- Zorch.

- Excuse me?
- That lame deathcore outfit?

They consider themselves deathcore.
I consider them crapcore.

What they did to Justin, though,
was totally awesome. It was brilliant.

And what would you have done
with Justin if you had stolen him back?

We would've hung him up behind us, man.
It would've been epic.

Legendary.

I'm disturbed that despite
my extensive training

as an anthropologist,
all of these bands sound alike and

appear to share identical belief systems
and mores.

Yeah, right.
Except for the trained anthropologist part,

that's how my dad felt
about Black Flag and the Dead Kennedys.

I have no idea what you're saying.

Listen, Bones.
I don't want you there alone, okay?

Just get a good look at this guy
and you get out. You understand?

You ready?

Sweets?

Sweets is there?

Well, I think it's him.

Yeah, I had to meld to get information.
Zorch's lead singer is Murderbreath.

Look at that.
Who does he think he is?

The guy with the tongue from KISS?

Do you know what?
Just tell Sweets to leave Gene alone.

Just get a photo and get out of there.

Zorch and Spew are sworn enemies.
It started out with the fans

throwing feces at each other.
Then some attacks.

Culminating in medieval torture?

- He's got a knife.
- Who's got a knife?

No, don't worry, it's totally fake.

That's not fake.

What's happening?

Murderbreath slit his own throat.
Excuse me.

Is he still alive?

We need a compress.

You could've asked.

Hold this against the wound.

Booth, can you call it in?

Listen. I'm not hanging up, Bones.

- Help is coming.
- Bones? Bones!

Stand back, please! FBI! Stand back!

Why did you arrest me?
I'm the one with the cut throat.

Ooh! Maybe you shouldn't talk too much.

No. His larynx wasn't affected.

- This is my actual voice.
- Sounds exactly like when you sing.

It's like gravel in a hubcap.

So that was
a very good night for you.

Word gets around
that you slit your own throat for real.

You got it. Tonight I'm a legend.

Do you have any idea

- who switched your prop knife?
- One of the guys in the band,

a fan... Someone from another band...

Maybe I did it myself. Who cares?

I bet it was Spew.

How about Spew? Evidence indicates
that you killed and crucified their bassist.

This just gets better and better.
I'm getting credit for that?

Mmm. No. See, the thing is,
that same credit could send you to prison.

Okay, listen, Bones.

Just tell him you don't care
if he did it or not.

You'll just throw his ass in jail.

Look, it's all right to lie
during an interrogation, Bones.

It's a technique.

The evidence is inconclusive
regarding your guilt.

But I will damn well make sure
it's conclusive!

- Whoa! What?
- Attagirl. Give it to him.

I will perjure myself if I have to
because you make me sick, punk.

- Dr. Brennan?
- I'll put your ass on death row

and laugh at your execution.
I will testify that your knife was

used to make these gouges.
I will also prove that whatever

implements we find, any props, knives,
cleavers, all of your stageware,

I will show that it was used
to mutilate his remains.

- Which they probably were.
- Good to know.

There's no rock concerts in prison.

- There are no rock concerts in prison.
- Rock concerts!

I want immunity from desecration
of human remains.

No promises, dirt bag.

Just tell him that, "We will talk
to the prosecutor on your behalf."

But we'll see what we can do.

Maybe six months ago, there's a rumor.

Mayhem's dead and buried

under Bridge 6, westbound lane,
State Road 66.

6-6-6?

- The sign of the devil.
- Who told you?

I don't know. Nobody. Everybody.
It was in the air, man.

Dug up the bones. Somebody heard
about this old Viking torture thing.

It sounded like a great gag.
And it was, until Skalle stole it.

Skalle.

It doesn't matter.

- Just trying...
- I dug him up, stole the cross

- and fastened the bones to it.
- But you didn't kill him?

I believe him.

Mmm.

Now my last official task

as an FBI shrink is
to declare you fit for duty!

Gordon-Gordon. Put the gun
under the table.

Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

- So Booth is back?
- He's back.

And so what's next for you, Doc?
I mean, when you stop shrinking heads.

I've been accepted
by the Institute of Culinary Arts.

- You're gonna be a chef?
- That's correct. Yes. I'm gonna put

good things into people
instead of taking out things that are bad,

which I know sounds rather Freudian,
but Sigmund's been largely discredited,

- so to hell with him.
- I don't see why you can't do both.

Well, we still don't know
who murdered Justin Dancy.

- Baby steps. You will prevail.
- This subculture, it takes every notion

- of community and turns it upside down.
- Well, no matter what they say,

the fact remains that they are artists.
They create. No true nihilist ever creates.

These dark tortured people
may rail against the night,

but they make music.

On an oscilloscope, what we call music
is demonstrably distinct

from what we call noise.

Your Dr. Sweets liked it as an adolescent.
He's turned out rather well,

- for the most part.
- "For the most part"?

Well, I read his book.
And as is the case with most writing,

it reveals more about the writer
than about the subject matter,

- which, in this case, is you.
- Can you provide an example?

For one thing, he finds it
extremely frustrating,

your lack of willingness to discuss
your childhood experiences with him.

- What does that tell you?
- Don't... Don't... Do not ask him that.

He's gonna think
we both have traumatic childhoods.

We did!

Your father was a violent drunk
and mine abandoned me.

Great. Thank you.
Just tell everybody here at the diner,

- why don't you, Bones? Go ahead.
- Sweets has scars on his back.

- Old ones.
- Really?

- What kind of scars?
- Well, like he'd been whipped.

- Whipped?
- I saw them.

That explains his near obsession
with your childhood trauma, doesn't it?

Okay. I did an Internet search
of Spew's concerts.

Now this stuff is all uploaded
from cell phones.

So the quality is crap. All right.
Check this out. This girl runs up.

Here's the gun. She fires.
Then Mayhem literally spews the blood

all over the crowd.
And there's the blood.

- Okay. Obviously fake.
- Yeah. It's a set piece.

I've seen this same setup
maybe 60 times in two years.

Is it the same girl every time?

I'm pretty sure it is.

- The image quality stinks.
- Except I combined all the different

- cell phone versions...
- Nice, we can get an ID from that.

Can you arrange these shows
in chronological order?

Well, they all contain embedded
cell phone codes. So yeah.

And did he ever bleed from his ass?
Because that's where we found

- the bullet fragments.
- Clark determined that the gunshot wound

to the victim's ilium occurred 10 months
prior to his death.

There.

He fell down that time
behind the audience.

Have you got another angle on this?

Oh, there.
The bullet splinters his instrument.

Right into his ass.
That's our money shot right there.

Not so tough when the blood is real,
are you, metal boy?

So this is you, isn't it, Lexie?

My manager said not to talk to you
until he gets here.

Death metal chicks have managers?

Ah!

Look at that. Metal to what?

- Power punk?
- It's a much larger market.

But I still retain my artistic integrity.

Right. Do you still shoot bass players
in your new gig?

Is that what this is about?

It's not my fault someone replaced
the blank with a real bullet.

No. I think you knew
that the bullet was there.

Otherwise, you would've shot
the guy in the neck like every other time.

- I'm waiting until my manager gets here.
- Okay, we can do that.

In the meantime, I'll show you
this picture here. Okay?

You see, your boyfriend is flinching
before you even pulled the trigger.

I say the two of you were working
on this together.

It was Justin's idea, okay?

He was always trying to prove

to the other guys
he was more hardcore than them.

- Was he?
- Well,

he wanted me to shoot him.
So, yeah, I gave him his props.

So, what? Now that I'm making
some money, he's coming after me

for shooting him in the ass two years ago?

Justin's dead. He was murdered.

What? God, those stupid bastards.

- Those stupid... You have to get them.
- Get who?

I don't know, probably a fan found out.
You know, maybe someone in Spew.

- This is totally my fault!
- Okay, found out what?

- Why is it your fault?
- Maybe a year ago, he gave me a call

saying that, you know, he wanted
to get back together and join my band.

Some hardcore metal fanatic found out
and killed him.

The striae and kerf width on each side
of the bisected ribs match

the saw that the FBI found
at the Zorch concert.

- Fingerprints are all Murderbreath's.
- He already confessed to digging up

the corpse and mutilating it.

So you're looking
at the greenstick fractures?

Yes.

- Would you mind getting on all fours?
- Is that strictly necessary?

Yes, please.

So the fractures are adjacent
to the articulation with the spine.

Now with evidence of inward bowing...

Incomplete fractures,
evidence of inward bowing...

If I place my knee in your back...

Hello...
Tunnel vision, Dr. Brennan...

Oh, sorry, sorry.

That scenario explains
all of the bone damage and fractures.

So stabbed and then garroted?

What if the wounds to the C5 aren't
from a stab, but instead the result

of the victim being garroted?

The puncture occurred on the back
of the neck. But what would do that?

- Barbed wire.
- Yeah.

Yes. His ex-girlfriend is right.
Following her into the mainstream

- would be seen as the ultimate betrayal.
- Mmm. Like leaving a cult.

We think that the victim was garroted.
Most likely with barbed wire.

Now the murderer will lay claim.
He'll keep a souvenir.

Yes. In the same way
that a serial killer will.

Right. But it isn't for his own satisfaction.
It's a way of boasting

- of what he's done to the community.
- Yeah, it's... It's a totem,

a signifier of some kind that can only be
discerned by the cognoscenti.

Okay, how are we gonna figure this out?
None of us speak Italian.

He does that, doesn't he?
He wants to be underestimated.

But you...
You're one of the cognoscenti, Dr. Sweets.

Oh, no. I've outgrown that.

Mostly. Okay, maybe sometimes
I'll listen to a few bootleg tapes

- when I've had a bad day. But...
- Oh, that's good.

Because this music sucks.
And the people who listen to it

- are defective.
- Thank you so much.

I have no doubt that your parents
said the same thing to you

when you listened to my music,
Agent Booth.

Mmm-hmm. And according
to one of your squint reports,

a bullet was gouged out
of the victim's ass?

- You read Clark's report?
- Well, only because I was on desk duty.

Now that bullet
could be a good totem pole.

A totem, Booth.
A totem pole is much larger.

Yes, but nonetheless, it would be
a good totem, pole or otherwise.

So someone murdered the kid
for leaving the fold.

- Then uses a knife to gouge out the bullet.
- Buries the body under the bridge.

Knowing that the cognoscenti
will see the bullet

- and assume he is the murderer.
- But Murderbreath finds the body,

- puts it on display.
- Stealing credit.

- So we're looking for a bullet then.
- Mmm-hmm.

And lookit here.

Our good happy friend, Pinworm,
wears a smashed bullet 'round his neck

inside of a cross.

Is it too much to hope that the fellow's

scratching out his confession
in block letters?

Right here. Right inside the cross.
.22 caliber.

Completely consistent with the mark it left
in the victim's ilium.

Okay, Bones and I are gonna go in there.

What we do not need to hear is
a lot of psychological mumbo jumbo stuff

in our ears.

Okay, so are you bored with psychiatry?

Is that it? People don't have
the capacity to surprise you anymore?

People surprise me. You surprise me.

- Me?
- Few people looking at you would know

what you had been through.

- I beg your pardon?
- Well, you were adopted.

And the people who adopted
you were an older couple,

probably too old for standard adoption
of an infant.

Meaning you weren't an infant.
You were what? Four?

Six.

Six. Yeah. Special needs.
A child who had been through

some sort of hell, a damaged child.
But these were loving, wonderful people.

- Yes.
- They saved you.

But now they're gone. You're an orphan.

My parents died within weeks
of each other.

Recently, I'd say. The wound is still fresh.

Just before I came to work here.

Yeah. So now you're mostly alone
in the world.

But they had time to save you.

They gave you a good life.

And that's why you believe
that people can be saved

by other people with good hearts.

That's the gift your parents left you.

That, and the gift of a truly good heart.

That gives you a deeper calling
I do not share.

I don't remember where I got this bullet.

Well, you dug it out of Justin Dancy's
pelvic bone with a knife.

Hardcore, man. I dug it out of his ass
and then hung it around my neck.

Legendary. Well, if people think
that means I killed him,

there's nothing I can do about it.

You know, you're one of us.

Up to your elbows in corpses and murder.
It's hot.

- Thank you.
- So what was Lexie?

- Like your Yoko Ono?
- What is that? A Bible reference?

So let's just say Justin decided
to go with Lexie.

What would that do to your band?

No way any member of Spew does that.

- Never happen.
- Why not?

Because we are the real thing.
The genuine item.

Our music isn't made to be enjoyed.

It's made to be feared.
It comes straight from Hell.

Right. But you don't know anything
about Hell.

And you do?

Well, see, I was a soldier and a cop and...

I've identified
hundreds of victims of genocide.

I accept Hell as a metaphor
for what I've seen.

You haven't seen Hell until you've been
inside my head. Dreamed my nightmares.

Your delusional cozy reality
doesn't even come close.

- He's... He's enjoying this attention.
- It's what he feels on stage,

isn't it? The... The power.

But his sense of power is totally
dependent on an audience.

Ruminate on Milton, Agent Booth.

Think Paradise Lost.

What does that mean?

Oh! Satan's greatest sin was pride, vanity.

Great, okay. Well, you know what?
You're free to go.

- What?
- Well, my associate here tells me

that Murderbreath confessed
to the murder and crucifixion

- of Justin Dancy. So you're free to go.
- What? Murderbreath?

- Yeah, you're free to go. Come on.
- No. Murderbreath did not kill anybody.

He weighs what? 40 pounds?

Have you not seen Mayhem?

Murderbreath didn't strangle somebody
with barbed wire.

It takes heft to choke a big guy to death.

Barbed wire.

Wow. Well, you know,
nobody said anything about barbed wire.

I think the correct term is "gotcha."

Noddy Comet!
Look at that, huh? Unbelievable.

- This is you singing?
- Well, yeah. My alter ego,

I suppose you might say.
A bisexual spaceman

with a taste for six inch platform shoes,
spandex, glitter,

and an exhibitionist's disdain
for underclothing.

Well, here's to Gordon-Gordon.
Without him, we would not have

- been able to solve the murder.
- I hate to admit it, but it's true.

- To Gordon-Gordon...
- Stop. Stop, please.

Look, this is exactly what Sweets wanted.
"I am too good a psychiatrist

"ever to leave," et cetera.
Well, no. Just put your glasses down,

will you, please?

Might I offer you a word of advice

- regarding young Dr. Sweets?
- Might we try to stop you?

- Why do we need advice about Sweets?
- We don't. Sweets is just fine.

He most definitely is not fine.
I've read his book.

What? Does he say something mean
about us?

On the contrary. You might as well know
that he lost both his adoptive parents

just before he came to work
for your de facto crime fighting unit.

Jeez, what are we?
The Land of Misfit Toys?

Well, he's a good lad, Sweets.
But this book he's writing, he's using it

as the vehicle to get
what he actually wants.

Which is a family.

So he imprinted on us? Like a baby duck?

So what do we do?

Nothing, okay? Sweets is not a baby duck.

He wants what we all want.
He wants to find out his place in the world.

We can find a permanent place
for him, right?

Gordon-Gordon is gonna want us
to divulge or share,

or bond, or something awful.

Look. Perhaps you might just show
the lad that he's not the only one

- with scars on his back.
- But he is.

- Too literal?
- By the way, what I'm making here,

this is the masterpiece that got
me accepted into the Culinary Institute,

all right? But it doesn't keep.
So be back in an hour, yeah?

- Let's go.
- But where are we going?

- Duck hunting. Come on.
- Not literally.

- Quack.
- Right?

Come on. Quack-quack.

You don't have to tell me now
If something's on your mind

It really doesn't matter what...

I miss you,
rock and roll, I really do.

Sweets?

- Hey.
- What are you doing here?

Well, Gordon-Gordon is making dinner
for us at my place, family style.

And you're invited.

Thank you. But I've actually got
a lot of work here, and...

My foster parents locked me
in the trunk of a car for two days

when I broke a dish.
I was a very clumsy child.

They warned me it would happen.
But the water was so hot

and the soap was so slippery.
I still don't think it was fair,

even though they gave me fair warning.
The water was so hot...

No. It wasn't fair at all. It wasn't your fault.

Bones, what are you doing?

You said that "scars on the back" was
a metaphor. Isn't that why we're here?

- To metaphorically compare scars?
- I came to bring Sweets back

to my place for dinner. That's all.

Scars on the back?

- I saw them, Sweets.
- So...

What? You decided to just share
something from your past?

That is so unlike you.

I still hate psychology.

Okay, your turn. Go.

I came here to bring Sweets back
to my place for dinner. That's all.

Okay. If it wasn't for my grandfather,
I probably would've killed myself

when I was a kid.
Okay, that is all I'm gonna say

on the subject matter, understand?

- Are you okay, Bones?
- Yeah, I'm fine.

Here.

Why are you nodding?

Nothing. Just...
Wyatt made an observation

about you two.
And I think I just saw what he saw.

- You coming?
- Booth means that we'd like it

if you joined us.

- Thank you.
- Great. Here we go. Let's go.

Gordon-Gordon
is making cassoulet.

It's stew. It's bean stew.

Cassoulet
is better than regular stew.

Just because it's French
doesn't mean it's better.

- It sounds better than stew.
- See?

- It sounds better.
- It's stew.

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