A field trip to a beaver dam finds two teenagers stumbling upon a dead body mixed up in sticks and covered in gross stuff left by giant slugs. The body is identified as a male, around 28 years old because of the brow ridge, narrow nasal opening and minimal dental damage. The insect activity allows Hodgins to say that the time of death was only three days ago.
In an interesting discovery, Bones finds out that the victim is missing his missing a front tooth, which is an unusual genetic marker. The missing incisor along with where he allows Angela to identify him as a print model named Sean Nolan. Booth and Sweets interview the girlfriend who thought he was on an assignment but his agent says that he had not been booked anything in Charlotte. After breaking into his online media accounts, they find a bunch of pictures with children while playing at a local park. Booth and Bones go to the park and they go talk to a group of parents asking if they had seen Nolan around. Bones recognizes that several of the children are from the pictures and they all have another unique genetic trait, something called Darwin’s tubercle of the ear. She asks if they are all related and one mom says that they are all fathered by donor 562. They had all went to the Camus Sperm Bank to get their children. Booth goes to talk with the sperm bank and questions Judith Franco who is the manager. She talks about how Nolan was a donor but they found out he lied to them on his impressive credentials which had made him a popular choice. This leads Booth to check into people who maybe were upset after finding out that the donor was not as prestigious as they thought. Booth goes to talk with a Mr. Robertson who had gotten the sperm off of Craigslist, he lets them know that it was Franco who suggested donor 562 to them. The way she talks about him leads Booth to think that Franco is …show more content…
I had never heard of Darwin’s tubercle or realized that missing certain teeth were genetic issues. That lent credibility to this episode. Genetic forensics, like DNA, have greatly improved solving crimes over the last few decades. This showed how even the unusual traits can help.
One thing that didn’t fit was how would Franco, who was a tiny pregnant woman, not only kill Nolan with the hoe (he couldn’t disarm her) but then manage to drag him away from the rest stop and throw him down the hill. She would had to be swinging that hoe very hard to do that much damage and how did her fingernail get into his eye? Why didn’t she notice she was missing a nail? What happened to his clothes? There was nothing anywhere near the body to identify him and why was the body become a skeleton so quickly? That made the killer seem more like a twist than an actual believable possibility.
The writer had so many things going on that it was hard to follow. There were also side story lines that seemed to totally distract from the main plot. The use of genetics did make it more interesting but the end reveal of the killer seemed rather
In an interesting discovery, Bones finds out that the victim is missing his missing a front tooth, which is an unusual genetic marker. The missing incisor along with where he allows Angela to identify him as a print model named Sean Nolan. Booth and Sweets interview the girlfriend who thought he was on an assignment but his agent says that he had not been booked anything in Charlotte. After breaking into his online media accounts, they find a bunch of pictures with children while playing at a local park. Booth and Bones go to the park and they go talk to a group of parents asking if they had seen Nolan around. Bones recognizes that several of the children are from the pictures and they all have another unique genetic trait, something called Darwin’s tubercle of the ear. She asks if they are all related and one mom says that they are all fathered by donor 562. They had all went to the Camus Sperm Bank to get their children. Booth goes to talk with the sperm bank and questions Judith Franco who is the manager. She talks about how Nolan was a donor but they found out he lied to them on his impressive credentials which had made him a popular choice. This leads Booth to check into people who maybe were upset after finding out that the donor was not as prestigious as they thought. Booth goes to talk with a Mr. Robertson who had gotten the sperm off of Craigslist, he lets them know that it was Franco who suggested donor 562 to them. The way she talks about him leads Booth to think that Franco is …show more content…
I had never heard of Darwin’s tubercle or realized that missing certain teeth were genetic issues. That lent credibility to this episode. Genetic forensics, like DNA, have greatly improved solving crimes over the last few decades. This showed how even the unusual traits can help.
One thing that didn’t fit was how would Franco, who was a tiny pregnant woman, not only kill Nolan with the hoe (he couldn’t disarm her) but then manage to drag him away from the rest stop and throw him down the hill. She would had to be swinging that hoe very hard to do that much damage and how did her fingernail get into his eye? Why didn’t she notice she was missing a nail? What happened to his clothes? There was nothing anywhere near the body to identify him and why was the body become a skeleton so quickly? That made the killer seem more like a twist than an actual believable possibility.
The writer had so many things going on that it was hard to follow. There were also side story lines that seemed to totally distract from the main plot. The use of genetics did make it more interesting but the end reveal of the killer seemed rather