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One of the better early episodes - both Brennan and Both seem comfortable in their skins but the writers are just a little shaky about what to do with those skins. For example, how hard to emphasis Brennan's sexuality, a recurring problem almost up to the point when Brennan and Both finally give in to their mutual attraction.

To be fair, the writers occasionally have fun with this issue, like the episode where Brennan tries to juggle two 'boyfriends' and loses both, but more often they fall flat, flailing between one-night stands and serial monogamy. They don't do much better with Both - introducing attractive characters only to have them disappear when the 'relationships' fail, leaving a void that is very much felt for an episode or two.

The only real issue I have with this episode, apart from Brennan jumping into bed with Charlie (and her wardrobe), is geographic continuity: the Flathead are a Western Montana tribe with the western border of their reservation abutting the eastern border of Idaho. No Washington State in the picture. And I've got to wonder where the episode was really shot, the terrain doesn't match either the Rockies or their foothills(Eastern Washington). It is reminiscent of the Cascades (both Washington and Oregon versions) and their southern extension, the North California Sierras. Small point but very confusing - are Brennan and Both in Northwestern Washington, Oregon, California or Western Montana?

Back to sexuality - the FedEx courier is really hot, by herself, and the scene where she chooses to deliver her 'package' to Angela must have had a ton of adolescent males reaching for handkerchiefs with one hand and something else with the other.

Morbid, dark-humored episode of Bones about the findings of cannibalism when a hand is discovered in the belly of a dead bear killed by a poacher for its gallbladder. Booth and Bones head to Washington State where a small town could house a cannibal who uses an old Indian ritual in a perverse ceremony, having killed two people, one for his arm, another for her heart. The two victims were a hiker and out-of-towner wanting to be a park ranger. KD Aubert is Toni, a courier both Zack and Hodgins are competing over. Tom Kiesche is the Washington town's sheriff, Steve Reevis as Indian Park Ranger Sherman Rivers, Marguerite MacIntyre as the veterinarian Dr. Denise Randall, Alex Carter(of CSI)as the local doc, Rigby, and Rusty Joiner as Charlie, the Post Office guy interested in Brennan(and known as someone well versed in hiking). The different location does get us out of the Jeffersonian a bit, and we see Angela skillfully link markings on a small piece of skin found in scat to a specific tattoo which leads to the identity of the poor fellow whose arm was eaten by the black bear. Dr. Goodman is acknowledged as an authority in Native American philosophies and customs so his expertise comes in handy when Booth and Brennan need information on a "wheel"(made of stones) found in the woods. Bones is quite popular among the men of the town who aren't accustomed to many beautiful women(the vet "gets around" since boredom around their parts sets in rather easily).

I don't understand why the veterinarian isn't the killer? She's not a vet. She can't be. No veterinarian, no matter how drunk they were, would use the word autopsy instead of necropsy. I even went back to watch the scene again, thinking maybe I misheard. So, from that scene on, I assumed she was the killer, or at least that there was something off about her, yet they never explained what. I was so confused by the end that I couldn't enjoy this episode.