- Dixie ex-con Finn Abernathy, a genius, joins the team and impresses even Bones. He has to face hard questions about his past and morality but soon bonds with initially hostile Hodges. The case is that of a female eating competitions champion, whose corpse is being eaten from the inside by a live snake. Booth concentrates on her rivals for the impending Gluttony Games, a premiere with a $10,000 prize, her husband and hard-handed manager Brian Tobin. Everyone tries to make Bones understand she must take account of Booth's emotions as a proud father-to-be.—KGF Vissers
- The Jeffersonian team identifies the remains of a competitive-eating champion, just days before the start of the Gluttony Games, a premiere eating competition with a $10,000 prize at stake. The remarkable work of new squint-and former juvenile delinquent-Finn links obscure evidence found in the belly of a snake with laws of physics that helps solve the crime. Despite his brilliance in the lab, Finn is met with hostility and skepticism, leading Cam to question her decision to give him a chance to start anew. Meanwhile, Booth is caught off-guard by an announcement Brennan makes about their baby. To diffuse the tension between them, the couple agrees to experiment by putting themselves in each other's shoes.—Fox Publicity
- An ancient superintendent (Pat Crawford Brown) lets herself into a man's apartment, demanding he pay the rent. It turns out the man is now a rotting corpse. "Looks like somebody isn't getting his security deposit back," he says. Look like. Back at the Jeffersonian, Camille (Tamara Taylor) welcomes Finn (Luke Kleintank) to the lab. His record has been officially expunged, she explains. Finn is a happy, young man.
CUT to the ruined apartment, where Bones (Emily Deschanel) and Booth (David Boreanaz) examine the body. It's a female -- like Bones's unborn baby, she explains. Booth's jaw drops. "The fetus growing inside my womb has female genitalia," Bones says. "I had an ultrasound at the doctor's office this morning." Booth can't believe he wasn't informed. Bones can't believe he is reacting so strongly. She fails to see the importance of breaking such news in private. Back at the lab, Camille, Finn and Bones further examine the body. The top half was eaten by animals after it was thrown through a glass terrarium in the apartment. The bottom half is unaffected. Just then, the upper half of the body MOVES. A python crawls out of the ribcage. Camille shrieks. Finn smiles. "This is the best damn job ever," he says.
Later, Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) asks Finn what he did to spend three years in juvenile detention. The young intern explains he did some "joyriding" and might have stolen a few items from the local grocery store. Finn is well past that these days. Meanwhile, Camille discovers the victim was eating an unusual amount of food when she died. The woman was living in a rent-controlled apartment and has yet to be identified. Sweets (John Francis Daley) suggests she might have been a prostitute with an overly aggressive client. Back at the Jeffersonian, Caroline (Patricia Belcher) visits Camille and questions her decision to hire Finn. Camille defends the young man -- saying his criminal days are long behind him.
Later, Hodgins openly makes fun of Finn's dialect. The young man fires back, explaining he speaks "science" -- the only language that matters. Angela (Michaela Conlin) then tries to explain to Bones why Booth is upset he wasn't invited to the ultrasound. Not surprisingly, she doesn't get it -- at all. Angela then IDs the victim based on facial reconstruction: Tina Thomas. Booth and Sweets then interview Greg Thomas (Paul Hewitt), the victim's husband. He soon reveals his wife was a world-class competitive eater. She kept the apartment to "work." That would explain the chicken bone lodged in her throat.
B&B then share a meal at the diner. Bones reveals she has a meeting with a financial advisor to set up a college fund for their daughter. Booth explains Bones is "doing it again." And, again, she doesn't quite understand. Booth suggests Bones live in his shoes for awhile. Back at the lab, Camille discovers a foreign substance in the food in Tina's throat. She might have bitten -- and swallowed -- a piece of her attacker. Booth then interviews the head of the competitive eating league, Mitch (Brad Grunberg), who explains Tina had a big contest scheduled that week -- one that could have netted her $10,000.
Caroline, in the meantime, has opened Finn's sealed file and discoversthe intern once attacked his stepfather with a knife. That stepfather then went missing a few years later -- and his body was never found. Camille is suddenly very, very concerned. CUT to the competitive eating contest. Booth is very excited. Bones comes along because she is determined to see the world through Booth's eyes. She is soon cheering loudly and rather rudely as the "athletes" devour giant stacks of hot dogs. So, yeah, just like Booth. Later, B&B interview the winner, Ron, who denies killing Tina between massive belches.
Finn and Hodgins then have a bonding moment. Turns out the python in the victim's ribcage might have devoured some evidence. Finn sets up a spring-loaded dummy animal to "scare" the snake in vomiting. The snake throws up (against its glass enclosure). Hodgins is immediately smitten. Camille, meanwhile, runs a check on chuck of human meat in the victim's stomach and reveals a big man named Brian (Joel McCrary), one of Tina's sponsors. Photos of the pair indicate a fairly chummy relationship. Camille then quietly asks Angela to run a background check on Finn -- just in case. B&B return to the eating competition to interview Brian, who appears to be forcing a hot dog down an eater's throat. Bones charges the big man and TACKLES him. Why? Because she is still walking in Booth's aggressive shoes. Turns out Brian was only training the eater.
Brian is soon in the hot seat. "Why would I risk hurting such a valuable asset?" Brian asks. He then admits he was in Tina's apartment. The two got into a fight. Tina was apparently eating and then hurling. She also wanted to quit the sport. The fight turned physical. Tina bit Brian's finger. Brian insists he didn't kill Tina. Back at the Jeffersonian, Finn discovers Angela reading old newspaper articles about his missing stepfather. He sighs and says he understands people always assume the worst. "Don't worry -- I'm used to it," he says. Angela is embarrassed and somewhat ashamed. Finn then suggests Angela calculate the mass of the killer using the thickness of the glass terrarium and the length of the room. "That's brilliant," an awed Angela comments.
Bones then reexamines the victim's body and discovers she was eight weeks pregnant -- thus, the hurling. Greg is immediately hauled back into the interrogation room, where he continues to deny any involvement in Tina's death. Greg then admits he didn't want his wife to quit competitive eating to start a family. Then he clams up. "I don't have to talk to you," Greg says. "I don't have to say another word." Yet based on the mass of the killer -- calculated using Finn's formula -- Greg couldn't be responsible. The husband weighs less than 200 pounds. The calculations call for someone tipping the scales at more than 300 pounds. And who weighs more than 300 pounds? Brian and Mitch.
Back at the lab, Bones gives Finn some tough love. She asks him straight out if his interest in forensic science came out of a plan to kill his stepfather. Finn answers: "yes." She then asks if he indeed murdered his stepfather. Finn answers: "no." Finn threatened his abusive stepfather with death shortly before not-so-dear-old dad skipped town. Bones simply nods. Time to get back to work. Finn promptly discovers evidence of a parasite on the victim's body -- a parasite native to Japan. And who was recently in Japan? Mitch.
Booth brings the competitive eating league owner in for questioning. Mitch signed a big deal with the Japanese -- one worthless without Tina, who wanted to quit to have a baby. Mitch breaks down. "I shoved her," he says. "I'm a big man and she just flew into that thing." So it wasn't intentional. But it doesn't matter. Mitch is arrested. The case is closed. Later, Bones declares her "experiment" of living in Booth's shoes to be a success. "I understand how upset you must have been to not have been included in the ultrasound," she says. Bones then produces a DVD of the ultrasound -- and the future parents watch it together. It's sweet.
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