I never liked Hodgins. He was always incredibly unprofessional and disrespectful of everyone, but especially of Dr. Goodman, his African-American supervisor. Dr. Goodman was the director of the Jeffersonian, and TJ Thyne/Hodgins was always very dismissive and sarcastic towards Dr. Goodman. It honestly seemed very racist to me.
In this episode, there is a private plane full of Chinese embassy officials that crashes. Five people are identified, but there are six bodies. The US Secretary of State wants to know who #6 is, as it may have been a spy. Dr. Goodman wants this to be the priority for the team, so that the dead person can be identified, and his family contacted. Brennan and the rest of the team blow him off, in a sign disrespect for Dr. Goodman's authority, and unprofessionalism on their part.
Big Brain and her team focus on some bone chips that are five years old. That makes no sense, since they can investigate the old bone chips at any time. The identity of the person that just died should be a priority out of any professional responsiblity for the family of who ever died on the plane. In spite of the ethics of identifying someone that just died in a plance crash, Dr. Goodman was disrespected numerous times when he tried to find out the status of the investigation of the plane passenger. Genius Brennan and her team never identified the sixth victim, they just came up with DNA markers and punted to the FBI, so they could focus on the five year old bone chips, and the guy who claimed to be the son of the victim.
Perhaps the most unprofessional, was that Brain Brennan was updating the alleged son of the mystery bone chips on every issue about the bone chips, and it turned out to be someone else's bones. Brennan was in violation of HIPAA laws, and any Taco Bell crew would have acted more professionally than Brennan's team of geniuses.