Not everything works out perfectly, but everything works out.
Cam and Arastoo want a nice quiet first day as a married couple.
They aren’t going to get it.
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But Cam and Arastooneedtheir wedding to go off without any interruptions (or is it that I need thatforthem?
It’s so hard to tell), and it does.
One murder-free night coming right up.
We initiate the penultimate episode ofBonesat Cam and Arastoo’s wedding receptionalmost.
Cam has never looked happier.
Her dress is gorgeous.
Her husband is gorgeous.
She’s not changing her name.
(Not one of the lead women on this show has taken her husband’s name.
Nasty women unite.)
And for letting them exist in the first place.
Their wedding seems like a real party.
The newlyweds are apparently taking some kind of amazing six-month vacation that might be extended further.
It’s probably notGoodman.
Anyway, has marriage made Cam chill or what?
Cam will have the respect of your children.)
The next morning, Cam wakes up at 11 a.m. and gasps, “Eleven!
I have toI have to do nothing!”
The honeymoon lasts as long as it takes her to check her phone.
Wouldn’t her purse have been among those things?
Or did she have it with her at her table?
In any case, I’m on purse watch.
Now back to those eight voicemails.
Arastoo has to swipe in for her.
And when Cam asks what’s wrong, Brennan gets uncharacteristically vague: “Everything.”
All of this happens before the opening credits.
We come back from the break to… the wedding reception!
I wasn’t ready to leave the party.
Cam got the pre-credits sequence.
But that’s not even the best callback in this paragraph.
When you say Angela’s real name three times in public, a teacup pig gets adopted.
He’s come a long way since Cam worried about putting him in front of a jury.
He’s king of the courtroom.
The victim is wearing a prison uniform, and two inmates recently escaped from the closest prison.
One of them was Mark Kovacthe same guy Booth and Brennan recently arrested for killing Max.
Angela does a facial reconstruction and determines that the body in the lab is theotherinmate.
Kovac’s on the loose.
They’re a thing), and he’s dealing with his problems by double-fisting drinks.
The fact that the bouquet lands directly in Jessica’s arms does not help.
“I’m saying I don’t think there’s a future for us,” Jessica explains.
“Not in L.A. or anywhere.”
Jeannine claims to want nothing to do with her husband.
This is Cyndi Lauper’s fifthBonesappearance!
She’s not just here to have fun.
Angela’s psychic says she had a vision, and she’s desperate to talk to Booth.
Or, in Brennan’s words, “What is it they say?
Female friendships before male romantic partners?”
Angela and Brennan toast to their friendship, and Brennan winces that their drinks are too strong.
Ange just smirks: “Not for me.”
Cut to Angela slinking out of the bathroom at Zack’s trial, looking ill.
But a talk with Aubrey helps put Angela at ease.
We’re gonna be great, even."
This is the kind of maturity that comes from weathering your husband’s paralysis.
There’s more than one way to be okay.
Also, whoever stole that explosive took way more than it would take to blow open that storm grate.
About a thousand times more.
BRENNAN
At the start of Brennan’s segment, we flash back to her friendship toast.
These drinks are too strong for her.
“Not for me,” Ange smirks.
Nice one,Bones.
Angela goes to get a third piece of cake (how did Brennan miss the signs?!)
Then, over Angela’s pleas for one more dance, she takes the kids home.
Okay, so it goes sleepy children, then female friendships, then male romantic partners…
In true Zack form, he says he’d rather let the evidence speak for itself.
But the team can’t take Zack to a celebratory diner lunch just yet.
It’s been a decade already.
But he’s happy.
“Sometimes, not often,” Caroline says, “I underestimate you, Dr. Zack thanks Brennan again, and they hug.
It’s belated, but it’s closure.
Justice for Zack Addy.
Back at the lab, Brennan and the squints aren’t exactly solving their usual murder.
She tells Cam that she’s close: “There’s something I’m missing.
It’s like I see it, but I just need more time.”
So when Booth shows up in a panic, Brennan is a little less patient than usual.
She doesn’t want to hear about what Avalon told him; she just wants to solve this case.
Booth throws Avalon’s cards on the table: Temperance and Death.
This seems like a good reason never to give your kid a name that doubles as a Tarot card.
BOOTH
We’re back at the wedding again, and Booth has just stepped outside to talk to Avalon.
(Good boy.)
But Avalon knows that Booth knows she isn’t a fraud.
“Look for the signs,” Avalon calls.
Booth goes back inside to do the sprinkler.
NEXT: Where is Marshall Flinkman when you need him?
When you’re expecting signs, everything has a way of looking like a sign.
That comes out of nowhere, but good for Michelle, I guess!
We pick up with Booth at the Jeffersonian after he’s literally laid his cards on the table.
SWAT is on it, but Brennan thinks Booth should go make the arrest.
“This is what we do,” she says.
That’s usually his line.
Something clicks into place.
The bomb is here.
Booth hits a big red button to sound the alarms, and everyone starts evacuating.
The doors to the lab start to close automatically, and Cam’s override code isn’t working.
Somebody should tell the Jeffersonian that Booth only shoots doors when he has a good reason.
No one is making it to the basement today.
By this point, the music is starting to sound like theStranger Thingstheme.
Booth starts whispering a little pep talk to himself and cuts the wire with one second to spare.
But the bomb is on an electronic repeater, which means there’s more than one.
“We gotta get to the basement!”
Booth yells, jumping out of the hatch and running from the platform.
Now he gets it.
But he’s too latethe whole Jeffersonian goes up in flames.
To be continued, one last time.
Headherefor showrunner Michael Peterson’s thoughts on the hour, as well as what’s to come.
