And there’s plenty of joy in this episode.

A few endings, too.

You get what you need.)

It was a bomb that put him in that wheelchair to begin with.

Booth finds Brennan face down in the rubble outside what used to be her office.

Brennan coughs and opens her eyes.

But something’s not right; she feels “different,” and she’s struggling to focus.

There’s a paper in her pocket with the names of four bones written on it.

She clarifies: She knows they’re bones, but she doesn’t remember their significance to the case.

Brennan’s brain isn’t cooperating.

Meanwhile, Booth and Hodgins are looking for another way out.

“You don’t have to be a hero!”

That’s usually Brennan’s line.

The bomb can take her intellect, but it can’t take her reverence for life.

It can’t take her memories with her students, either.

Daisy nods: “In the Maluku Islands.”

Brennan shakes her head: “I was thinking of the motorcycle bar.”

“I remember the day each of you was hired,” Brennan says.

“I remember the name of every victim I’ve ever identified.

I remember just how meaningful this work can be.

But I don’t remember how to do it.”

Brennan still remembers the name of every victim she ever identified.

It would all be uplifting if not for the head trauma.

(Brennan and Booth circa seasons 1 through 6 would say no.)

So she goes where she always does when nothing makes sense: straight to Booth.

I may not have had a family, but I understood things that nobody else could.

My brain, the way I think, is who I am.

Who I was…I mean, if the thing that made memeis gone, who am I?"

Now, he sits down with his wife to remind her that’s still true.

“You’re the woman I love,” Booth says.

That’s who you are.

You’re the Roxie to my Tony.

You’re the Wanda to my Buck.

Who else is gonna sing ‘Hot Blooded’ with me?

And besides, we are way better than Mulder and Scully."

But, you know, A+ callback to the pilot, courtesy of David Boreanaz.

Family and work are too important to each of them to be excuses.

NEXT: Give Booth a hand

Anyway, speaking of work, the investigation is still happening.

Unlike Booth and Brennan, I cannot emphasize enough how much I’m not paying attention to it.

We just got two speeches that were basically just lists of callbacks!

Since Kovac was still in jail when the bombs were set, his accomplice must be a relative.

Booth’s magical gut instinct figures it out instantly: The accomplice is Jeannine.

She’s not actually Kovac’s wife; she’s his sister.

setting up Booth for this chestnut: “No, we’re accusing you of murder.”

He killed her father, so she killed Brennan’s.

First of all, Jeannine, what did Brennan ever do to you?

By taking a sample of tooth enamel, they find where that is.

One last time (at least on our screens), Booth and Brennan charge into danger.

“Where you go, I go,” Brennan insists.

No matter what state her brain is in, that never changes.

(It’s so big!

Is she certified for this?

Does the FBI just give anybody an automatic weapon now?)

I Do Not Care.

A light bulb goes off: She knows what’s wrong.

She lights upshe did it.

But they’re both more than that.

I believe that it did that, especially because Brennan gets that intelligence back.

It’s an important part of her; it’s just not the only part.

Meanwhile, Mark’s still driving that jeep.

NEXT: Did you ever see something great that almost ended, and then it didn’t?

Do you have any idea how stressful it is for me to have such a brave friend?"

He invites her to join him, and you just know they’re going to get together.

“They won’t change it much, will they?”

“They try not to,” Cam answers, “but you know how it is.”

It’s a lot.

It’s a little out-of-left-field but very cute.

They are perfect humans!

And there’s one more surprise: The position of interim director of the lab goes to Hodgins.

Jack Hodgins is officially king of the lab.

“It’s a special place,” she says.

She’s got Sweets' book, cueing up one last look back on the team’s baby duck.

It’s Brennan’s turn to dangle him in Booth’s direction now.

And she’s got a drawing Parker gave her 11 years ago.

He told her he liked her.

Like father, like son.

The last thing in Brennan’s bag is one analog clock, lightly singed, frozen at 4:47.

It stopped when the bombs went off, and Brennan wants to hang it in her new office.

“Why would you want to be reminded of the moment when everything almost ended, Bones?”

Brennan smiles: “Because it didn’t.”

Brennan said it to Angela in season 1: “Nothing in this universe happens just once.”

They could have ended, but they never did.