bones: new sides involve brennan’s sexy novels!
When I first saw the sides were out for an episode called “The Bones on the Blue Line,” I was hopeful that they had finally written the episode I’ve been pitching for years: a tourist gets pushed in front of a Metro car. (Hint: I turn out to be the killer.) The D.C. subway system is color-coded, and while the case does indeed center around a body found in the Metro tunnels, it doesn’t look like a tourist finally got what was coming to him when he stood to the left on an escalator.
More info and speculation is after the jump.
Basically, an earthquake rattles the city, collapsing a subway station (almost assuredly impossible, considering DC’s arched vaulted ceiling set-up, but okay), shaking a party Booth and Brennan are attending together (I’m speculating it’s a party for her book), and sending long-buried bones crashing into a Metro tunnel with a flood of water from a watermain break.
What. A. Mess.
The more they get into the story, the team learns that there’s a love letter conspiracy going down, involving Metro employees and professional love letter fakers. Oh, the intrigue!
I’m actually interested if this episode might get some local attention here, as this has been a particularly embattling six months or so for the DC transit authorities, who make up several of the guest stars in this episode. You might have heard about a crash this summer that made national headlines when nine people were killed.
Anyway, the important part, of course, is the Booth/Brennan storyline, which this week seems to revolve around a new book Brennan’s got out. (That’s why I speculated the reason for their party-going was literary in nature.)
Turns out, Kathy and Andy, who we ALL know are based on Booth and Brennan, are doing the deed in Brennan’s books now. (Were they already? I don’t think they were. Or at least it was never explicitly said that they were.) ”I just bought your book,” someone says to Brennan. “Loved the sex scenes.”
And Booth at one point asks, “Bones, how many times are you going to ignore that a lot of what people like about your books is NOT the forensics?”
And Brennan’s got some weird stuff going down with Angela; at one point, she offers Angela a significant portion of her profits. The way I see this going down is this:
Brennan feels dismayed by the attention the love story/sex scenes are getting in her newest novel. She rationalizes that she’s obviously been listening to Angela a lot, and owes her success to her friend’s frequent musings on love. In my mind, Angela chuckles and says, “Sweetie, I think the person you need to be sharing your profits with is Booth.” Because it seems like the moral of this episode is that Brennan’s books are changing because Brennan herself is changing.
Might she finally be willing to admit that Andy takes at least a few traits from her own FBI partner?
