Booth is going to complain about technology.

Brennans going to learn something.

Theyre both fluent in eight languages.

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(AMI: Very impressive.

For a human.)

Brennan is 78 percent curious, 22 percent jealous; Booth is 94 percent amused and 6 percent skeptical.

That sounds about right.

He did not join the FBI to interrogate a robot.

like hes been eating his words since before they left his mouth.

AMI isnt capable of lying; her memories of her last day with Ian have been erased.

From AMIs point of view, this episode is a sad, backward50 First Dates.

MacArthur Fellow Angela Montenegro (Im introducing her like this from now on) just keeps doing the work.

That knife does him in Ians wounds contain traces of a preservative used in sausage.

Brace yourself for the best accidental confession inBoneshistory: The package said it was all natural!

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This is the kind of authentic interrogation experience you just dont get with robots.

Randy is so incompetent that he looks smart.

Brennan is so empathetic that she looks cold.

Brennan knows how she comes across, and she uses her 40th birthday to have some fun with it.

before unveiling three cakes.

But as it turns out, Brennan is the one who recommended Daisy in the first place.

She also nominated Angela for the MacArthur Fellowship.

Were all guests at this surprise party.

Like Brennan, I dont always like to be surprised, especially when Ive been misled first.

And her support for Angela has always outweighed her own ambitions.

Of course, thats the point.

Brennans attempts to throw everyone off the trail felt out of character because they were.

But if The Brain in the Bot is commentary on that characterization, Ill take it.

We learned too late that Sweets used his birthday to give his friends gifts.

It looks like Brennan is carrying on the tradition.

Brennan doesnt even want any presents for herself, though Booth obviously gives her one anyway.

Even though shed rather not presume innocence or guilt, Brennan is flattered by Booths trust.

And shes going to need something good on the horizon because her father has bad news.

She doesnt know what that means.

Brennan, for once, probably will.