BONES: Someday My Prince Will Come

Bones 7.03: The Prince in the Plastic

Character Development:

Sweets is working on getting his gun certification and Booth isn’t supportive but Brennan disagrees. She thinks that at the very least, he can draw fire away from Booth, thus reducing her risk of becoming a single parent. Sweets confronts Booth on why he is so against him having a gun when he’s been shooting well at the range. Booth explains that the range is different from real life.

Meanwhile, Daisy’s back at the Jeffersonian (and annoying as ever!). She’s ecstatic about the idea of Sweets packing a gun because she thinks it’s really sexy.  Booth takes her to the toy company with him for a second visit because Brennan can’t go and in the car she berates him for not being more supportive of Sweets carrying a gun. He makes her promise not to speak unless spoken to. She later goes to meet Sweets at the shooting range where he is practicing and tells him to protect her. He shoots excellently and she can barely contain her lust.

Sweets shows up for his test and Booth is his evaluator. He tells Sweets that he called in some favors and that if something like that distracts him, that he doesn’t want him in the field with a gun. Sweets starts the test and is doing very well until at the end a bullet ricochets off a target and hits him in the shoulder. Booth stops the test and runs over to see if he needs help. Sweets wants to know how he did. Booth tells him that he did well enough to have his back and then takes him for medical attention. Daisy thinks that Sweets is a hero and after he passes his test, he shows her the gun and she can’t contain herself. He tells her that they can’t have sex in his office anymore…after this time.

Brennan and Booth still haven’t decided on a house as she wants at least an acre of land and he wants a man cave (must these two things be mutually exclusive?). During their visit to Dillio Toys, she takes all the toys a bit too literally and gives us more insight into how bizarre her childhood must have been. Later, Angela takes Brennan to a toy store with her and her son and she sees how happy one of the tops makes her baby and she comes home with two guns that shoot foam balls. Her and Booth end up running around the apartment shooting each other with the balls.

Case of the Week:

A body, Deborah Cortez, is found in a garbage dump, mostly liquified, with a plastic “Prince Charmington” doll with her body. Debbie was a creative executive at Dillio toys, where she worked in toy development. Morgan Fairchild (yay!) guest stars as Bianca, the company president. Brennan and Booth visit the toy company and meet with Bianca and interview one of Debbie’s coworkers but it soon becomes evidence that he was not involved in her death. Angela and Brennan determine that the victim was killed by asphyxiation after a crushing blow across her back.

Booth and Daisy make another trip to the toy company and they visit the prototype lab where Debbie’s key card was last swiped. Daisy notes all the cellophane around that seems similar to the cellophane wrapping the body. Booth notices evidence of a break-in on a huge retractable door. Daisy realizes that the large retractable door is the murder weapon.

Daisy does an autopsy on the Prince doll found with the victim – apparently he was a limited edition that was worth a lot of money and the killer and Debbie struggled over the doll. One of the legs also had burns and fibers. Angela finds computer records showing that Debbie had an internet alert out for vintage Dillio toys. She had found several for sale online and accused the seller of stealing them from Dillio toys. It turns out that one seller was her brother, who quit his job as a security officer at the company before her death. They haul her brother in for questioning. He admits to stealing toys, but not to hurting his sister. He identifies the found doll as the last toy their mother gave her before she died in a plane crash that nearly killed Debbie when Debbie was 9.

Hodgins finds some skin cells under the victim’s fingernails and they identify the cells as belonging to the actor who plays Prince Charmington in commercials and live appearances. Apparently he was having a relationship with Debbie but she had stopped returning his calls. He also tells them that Debbie was planning on leaving Dillio to start her own company. The team determines that the burn marks on the doll’s leg were caused by car battery acid and there were also fibers from a trunk liner. Putting the two together, the team finally finds the real killer – Bianca, the Dillio president. She says that the door falling on Debbie was an accident, but Bones points out that Debbie didn’t die quickly, so she could have saved her if she wanted to.

My thoughts:

Another average episode. While I enjoyed Brennan’s reaction to the various toys, Morgan Fairchild as a guest star, and I always love any episodes where Sweets plays a big role, I was less than excited to see Daisy back. Unlike the rest of the relationships in the show (Hodgins and Angela, Brennan and Booth), Sweets’ and Daisy’s relationship just makes me uncomfortable. I’d love for Sweets to find a less annoying life partner! I’d also like to see more of the new southern boy squintern we met last week and less of Daisy.

Memorable quotes:

“Shrinks have couches, not guns.” – Booth to Sweets,
“I have a couch and I’m not a shrink.” – Brennan

“A small insentient plastic humanoid should not make you sad, Ms Wick.” – Brennan

“Lancelot is the kindest, most decent man I’ve ever known. Why shouldn’t he carry a piece?” – Daisy

“Lance is so smart…and soon he’ll be able to shoot people!” – Daisy

“Kids love to play with bears!” – Fairchild
“They shouldn’t! Do you know how many fatal bear maulings occur in American every year?” – Bones, in response to the “Bouncing Bears” at Dillio Toys

“It’s only fitting that the King of the Lab would make the prince whole again.” – Hodgins

“I cop, you squint.” – Booth, to Daisy

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