- Award winning ad man Ross Dickson's corpse is found by prancing youngsters, buried in a public playground, beaten to death in a mysterious way. He was a member of a radical truth-society, which caused many conflicts in private and professional life. Encouraged by Bones, Wendell Bray follows his example to secure the extra hours only he needs desperately while Camille would divide them indiscriminately, a one-off success while the others explicitly prefer 'civilized untruthfulness'.—KGF Vissers
- The team identifies the remains of a successful ad man found in the grounds of a newly built community center playground. Upon inspecting the victim's home and interrogating his former partner and employer, Booth and Brennan discover that the victim burned bridges by adopting an aggressive attitude toward honesty and was a member of a radical honesty support group. Meanwhile, each of the team members attempts to adopt a more honest way of communicating that doesn't always lend itself to good relationships, and Angela urges Hodgins to confront the realities of their pregnancy.—Fox Publicity
- At a community park, a teen boy climbs a wall. He sneaks a look into the girl's locker room. When one of the babes spots him, he falls into a flower bed, unearthing a dead body. The boy SCREAMS. Angela (Michaela Conlin) and Sweets (John Francis Daley), meanwhile, are having breakfast at the diner. Angela explains Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) has been very overprotective as of late. Hodgins calls Angela's cell -- and she doesn't answer it. "You're both dealing with a lot -- the baby is at risk," Sweets sympathizes. Angela cuts him off. "We're fine," she snaps.
CUT to B&B, who arrive at the murder scene to find Hodgins searching the dirt. He finds hook worms everywhere. The victim was a host to parasites. Judging by the distance of the worms from the body, the victim died three days ago. It's science. Back at the lab, Wendell (Michael Grant Terry) gets a disappointing call. He didn't get a bartending job. "I'm broke," Wendell explains to Bones (Emily Deschanel). Angela arrives with a smart key found at the crime scene. Booth (David Boreanaz) and Sweets track the information to the home of a wealthy man who has been missing for four days. It's a HUGE bachelor pad with many trophies for the man's work in advertising.
Later, Camille (Tamara Taylor) drains the victim's small intestine into a bowl when Wendell approaches, asking for extra hours in the lab. Camille explains she plans to divide the hours equally among the interns. Disappointed, Wendell points out FOUR fractures on the victim's skull. "Looks like the hits just kept on coming," Cam quips. CUT to Booth, who watches a video from an advertising awards show in which a woman BASHED the victim in the face with a trophy. The woman is Nicole Francuzzi, the man's former boss.
Moments later, Nicole is in the interrogation room. She denies any involvement in her ex-employees boss. "I wasn't the only person who had something against Ross Dixon," she says. "One day, out of nowhere, he turned into a real ass ... we lost six clients in six months." Turns out the victim joined a group to make him more honest. Sweets explains "radical honesty" is a controversial movement with a local presence. Sweets, Bones and Booth head to the community park where the honesty group meets -- the same park where the body was found. They meet a lawyer named Burt, who runs the group. A party clown then enters -- and admits he had a big problem with the victim, who insulted his act. Booth, scared of clowns, asks Bones to please escort the man out.
Back at the lab, Wendell decides the honesty group might have something -- and decides to begin telling all his coworkers the truth and nothing but the truth. Hodgins warns this approach might be a bad idea. Sweets, in the meantime, interrogates the clown, who admits he was with the victim the night he died. The clown, brutally honest, matter-of-factly says he watched a ballgame with Dixon and, after the man left, visited a prostitute. Dixon, meanwhile, was apparently going out to dinner with someone later that night -- but the clown doesn't know who.
At the diner, Bones wants to know when Booth has lied to her in the past. "I'll give you an example when we're finished solving this case," Booth promises his partner. Hodgins then approaches his wife and tries to start a policy of open honesty by insulting one of her paintings. Angela then admits that Hodgins has been "a little bit underfoot lately. You're overcompensating. You're too cheerful." Angela wants to be more honest about what the two could face with their child. The baby could be blind -- and Hodgins is just smiling and ignoring the fact. Hodgins hugs his wife. "I'm sorry," he said. "I was just trying to help. Sometimes I can't breath I get so worried." They embrace. The honesty works.
Later, Wendell attempts to be honest with Camille. "I should get the job," he says. "I need it. It should be mine." Camille laments: "OK, you have the job." Wendell lets out a yelp of excitement. Again, honesty works. Hodgins then appears with lab results: Dixon had a gourmet pizza the night he died -- and got into the fight with a waiter named Jonah. Turns out the waiter was also the victim's son. Moments later, Jonah is interrogated by Booth. The son says dear ol' dad drove away his entire family after he joined the honesty group. Jonah admits he overreacted when his dad came into the pizza restaurant, but didn't hurt him. He also says he went to his father's place after work, but didn't go inside. Instead, he noticed a small, red convertible parked outside the house. Hmmm.
Hodgins then finds chips of wood in the body: Red Oak. Wendell notices it is an experimental wooden bone implant. So if the victim had a wooden implant, why was titanium found on the body? The answer, supplied by Angela, is the victim was struck with a titanium object. Booth and Bones then do a search on the red convertible and discover it belongs to a married woman named Dorothy. She was apparently having an affair with the victim. "That's not very honest," Bones notes. She then asks Dorothy why the woman was at the victim's house on the night he died. Dorothy, a member of the honesty group, decides not to say anything all. Instead, she asks for a lawyer.
Later, the lawyer arrives: Burt. He explains Dorothy and Dixon got in a car accident months before which damaged vertebrae. Bones notes the injury would make it difficult for Dorothy to bludgeon anyone. "I'll need to see X-rays to confirm," Bones says. CUT to the community park, where Hodgins and Angela find monkey bars covered in titanium paint. Bingo. Turns out the bars were assembled AFTER Dixon's death. "So they were lying loose the night of the murder," notes Wendell, who communicates with the couple via a live laptop feed. Later, Dorothy's X-rays arrive -- only they're clearly from a Caucasian woman while Dorothy is African American. "This X-ray belongs to another woman?" Camille asks. "So the honest lawyer lied to us."
Turns out Dorothy was not injured in the car accident, but Burt planned to help her fake injuries to get a big settlement. Dixon found out about the plan and, being such an honest guy, was on the verge of blabbing. Burt, fearing disbarment, killed the man. As proof, Bones presents the monkey bars pipe -- with fingerprints. "You see, there's no such thing as an honest lawyer, Bones," Booth quips. Later, B&B meet for a drink at the bar. Bones asks Booth to own up and provide an example of when he has lied. Booth explains he never told Bones how important her friendship was when he broke up with Hannah. "It meant the world to me," he says. They toast and drink.
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