Cam quotes from Bones

Brennan

Did you see the person who stole your identity?

[uncomfortably] Yes, and I struck her.

Hodgins

[smirks] Awesome.

Oh you have no idea. [Brennan look at her in amusement]

Arastoo

[amazed] What are the chances of lightning hitting a corpse?

Don't ask that question in front of Dr. Brennan. She'll force you to find the answer.

I don't think we need bones to let us know that the victim was a male.

Brennan

We have no other way, Dr. Saroyan. [points to her bucket of evidence and fishes out some remains with tongs]

Hodgins

I think we do.

Angela

[disgusted] That mangled piece of meat is his...

Yeah.

Wendell

Breaking my arm seems like nothing now.

Hodgins

These guys haven't evolved in 360 million years.

Sounds like they could run for Congress.

Hodgins

Look at them. They're doing what they do best, relaxing and watching life go by.

What was that?

Hodgins

[grins] It's still growing. It's feeding off the remaining tissue.

I've seen this movie. It doesn't end well for humanity.

Angela

They're dead when they're frozen, aren't they?

Hodgins

Yes, but they keep oxygen circulating while putting in the cryoprotectants to save the cellular integrity of the remains.

And they use propofol to keep the remains from animating during the process.

Angela

[shocked] Animating? You mean like, the "walking dead"?

Hodgins

[grins excitedly] Yeah, it's actually––

Angela

[cuts Hodgins off] If you say "cool", you won't have sex for, like, a year.

Hodgins

Revolting.

Hodgins

The truth is, the family was always strange, you know? They were living under a cloud.

A very wealthy cloud.

Hodgins

Yeah, tons of money and all that's left is murder, sadness and secrets. I'm telling you, I'm doing a hell of a lot better broke.

So how do you even know this is a murder? The deceased could've been sitting on the edge, fallen in after drinking too much

Sweets

Well, there're drag marks that go all the way from the trail, all the way over to the well here. If you look at the grate, it shows signs of stress as if someone stomped it in. It was a body dump, Dr. Saroyan.

Ok. I'm impressed.

Hodgins

Wow, did he just "Brennan" you?

I believe he did.

Brennan

What does it mean to "Brennan" someone? Is that a compliment? Dr. Sweets seems to be very thorough.

Sweets

[smirks] Thank you.

So the first sample came back negative for drugs, alcohol, no poisons...

Rodolfo Fuentes

Look at his cortisol level.

That can't be right. When someone's attacked, their cortisol levels spike. It's a direct response to stress.

Rodolfo

And his oxytocin levels are up. It's like he was enjoying being murdered.

Brennan

We're positing torture, but look at the damage to the radius.

Rodolfo

Mmm. I see what you mean. Compared to what I've seen in Cuba, the damage is relatively slight.

So we're looking for a compassionate torturer?

Brennan

Using your guts in the field is one thing but there's absolutely no room for guts in my lab.

[holding the victim's intestines for Brennan to see] [deadpan] Then...what do I, uh, do with these?

What kind of person shoves a dead body under a piece of playground equipment?

Fun-loving person.

Angela

[watches Cam attempt to do a facial reconstruction using the corpse's face skin] Cam, you're either a genius or a deeply disturbed human being.

Would you mind passing me the victim's nose?

Angela

It's weird that that's not a weird question.

Hodgins

Well, I also found traces of sulfuryl fluoride, also known as Vikane, Zythor or Master Fume.

Those all sound like names of super villains.

Adults don't go climbing inside trees alone.

Hodgins

I do. That's where the really beautiful Hymenoptera are.

Right. But unless by some chance the victim was not an obsessive entomologist, this is probably a body dump.

Brennan

But why dump her inside of a tree?

Hodgins

Body stew like this, I feel like one of the witches from Macbeth.