The Killer in the Crosshairs - Recap

While Bones is out for her morning run, Jacob Broadsky grooms himself
for the day. There's a sniper rifle in the closet with his things.
Seeley catches up with her, and gives himself a head start as they race.
Broadsky loads up his rifle in a carrying case.

Booth wins the race, but Bones declares she did, using her version of
scientific logic. So he's buying the coffee. Booth agrees to buy the
coffee, but because he won, and he's a gracious winner. He also invites
himself to a lecture she's going to.

Broadsky takes a call. Says he's on his way to work, and he can meet the
caller up at the cabin Friday night.

A very nervous man takes a phone call. He's in a warehouse, expecting
Broadsky. The call is from Broadsky, who has him in his sights. He
tells the man he's coming in from the north, and asks if he can see him.
When the man turns to look, Broadsky kills him. There's a shower of cash
from his briefcase when he falls. Rats arrive, and begin feeding on the
dead man.

When the team arrives, the money is still there. Bones tells Seeley that
the rats devoured the body in hours. Caroline is there because thus far,
$150,000+ has been recovered from the scene. Why did he leave the money
behind? Booth answers that for Broadsky, it's about the kill. Booth
rhapsodizes about how perfectly Broadsky executed the kill. He knew him
in the service. Broadsky is his. The victim's name is Walter Crane.

Bones chats with Vincent. He's trying to learn to have normal
conversations, which he finds awkward, rather than using factoids to
keep people at a distance which, for him, is comfortable. Bones asks if
he'd be more comfortable discussing the case before them. Yes, very much
so. They get to work. Based on preliminary testing, the remains do not
appear to match the identity. Angela will need to do a facial
reconstruction.

Angela's dad arrives in her lab. He wants to name her baby, because the
name came to him in a dream.

Hodgins informs Booth that the big money found at the scene is counterfeit.

Caroline tells Booth that the victim was in witness protection. She
sprung a friend of Crane's, Ortis. He's in interrogation. Caroline and
Booth question him. He says that he didn't call for a sniper. The sniper
contacted him. It would seem that Jacob has taken to hunting bad guys.
When they're done, they bring Bones up to speed.

Angie and Hodgins discuss her dad naming the baby. Hodgins reminds her
that her dad gave her a name that was so bad, she had to change it.
Lance joins them, and Hodgins tries to pick his brain. He can't answer,
he's afraid. Look what Angela's dad did to Hodgins! He leaves them
sitting there, saying he'll do some reading and get back to them.

Booth and Bones are trying to find some connection between the
Gravedigger case, Broadsky and this case. Booth finds it: Paula
Ashwaldt. She's a US Marshal who served with Jacob in Afghanistan. The
two of them go to ask Paula a few questions. She doesn't want to talk to
them without a supervisor present. Booth says that since three people
have died because of intel she fed Broadsky, that's probably not such a
good idea. She admits to the Gravedigger relation, but Jacob promised
her nobody else would be hurt. Did Jacob ever have access to her
computer? She thinks and tells him that there are thousands of names in
those computers. Thousands. She knows he has to take her in, but maybe
he could give her time, one soldier to another, to do the right thing.
Booth agrees.

Booth tells Bones that Jacob has been using Paula's cabin because he
likes to hunt. Booth says they're going to get this guy, he's not going
to get away with this. Bones finds it ironic; that's the same thing
Jacob probably says about his victims. Booth makes the point that he's
the good guy. Jacob isn't. Bones says they both think they're doing the
right thing. She admires his surety, but good and bad are such
subjective concepts. How can he ever be sure he's doing the right thing?
Booth doesn't think they are subjective. There's good, and then there's
evil. Life is all about taking sides. Broadsky joined the wrong team.

When they arrive at the cabin, Booth leaves Bones in the car. He doesn't
want to take any chances, in case Broadsky is there. She gets out when
she sees ravens. They're carrion feeders. There's something dead up
there. What appears to be a hallway in the middle of nowhere holds the
remains of a deer. The fragmentation from the shot seem consistent with
some type of explosion, according to Bones. Booth can't figure out how
Jacob made the shot. If he was using the deer for target practice, then
he is planning another kill. Booth takes a call. Paula Ashwaldt just
killed herself at her desk.

Bones brings back venison from Paula's cabin freezer. It appears to
Vincent that the deer was shot using a shotgun. That's not the norm for
a sniper. Whatever he used gave the appearance of a shotgun blast.
Vincent is going to recover the blast bits and take them to Hodgins for
analysis.

Booth arrives home, puts his weapon in the safe behind a fake bookcase,
and finds Jacob sitting in his living room with a pistol pointed at him.
He blames Booth for Paula's suicide. Booth demands he either hand over
the gun or get the hell out. Jacob says the day he wakes up and there
are no more bad people that need killing is the day he turns himself in.
Booth gives Jacob fair warning. Next time, he won't aim for the knees.
Good to know, Jacob retorts. Because next time, he will not hesitate to
make Booth's son fatherless. He lets himself out.

Caroline confronts Booth about the apartment visit. Why didn't he stop
him? He's crossed a line. He should get lethal injection, just for
sneaking in and threatening Booth like that.

Angela and Bones discuss the composition of the bullet. It fragmented
into 154 pieces. Angela says if it were any bigger, they'd have to refer
to it as a shell. Vincent dug circuitry out of the deer meat as well,
inclusive of a computer chip. Basically, it looks like they have a
programmable bullet in their possession.

Bones swings by to talk to Lance about Bones comparing him and Broadsky.
He's taking it to heart because he was in a war, pulling the trigger. It
was a necessity. Not like what Broadsky is doing, now. "It was a
terrible act, for the greater good. Now why does Bones question that?"
Lance asks if Bones is really doing that, or is Booth the one
questioning himself? Booth doesn't want questions. He just wants to
talk. He asks another direct question, then looks to Lance for an
answer. Lance is apprehensive about answering, given what happened last
question. Lance helps set his mind at ease, and he does well, but Booth
comes back to Bones. Lance suggests he talk to her.


Angela shows Camille and Bones that a smart bullet already exists.
However, that's not what was found in the deer. That one was custom-made
for Jacob. But by who? And why is he training with a bullet that kills
people in places that are difficult to access?

Hodgins finds Angela's dad in his lab. The baby's name is Staccato
Mamba. Hodgins refuses. If her dad has a baby, that can be his baby's
name. Their baby is going to be Michael or Catherine.

Carolyn and Booth go talk to Benny Winkler, the creator of the bullet in
question. He assures them that he saw the paperwork, it was all in
order. Booth physically attacks him, and Benny starts talking
(especially since Carolyn appears to have something in her eye. She
can't see a thing.) He diagrams the room that Jacob told him about.
Booth wants to know when he picked up the bullets. Jacob never did.
Benny dropped them in a locker at the bus station. He needed them today.

Angela, Carolyn and Bones are working on figuring out what room Benny
described. Carolyn already knows. It's the ladies room, in the federal
courthouse.

Angela finds the rooftop where Broadsky would be firing from. Booth
heads out. Bones doubts that he's operating from the right place, and he
reassures her before they head out.

Broadsky isn't at the expected rooftop. Maybe they're waiting in the
wrong place. Carolyn feeds them information about who's there, basing it
on females because the ladies room is involved. They finally come to the
realization that the mens room would look just like the womens room.
They run to the other side of the building, and Booth locates him
immediately. The bad cop arrives in the bathroom, and Booth shoots and
hits Jacob's weapon. He claims that was his only clear shot.

Hodgins wakes up in an alley. Apparently he's no good with celebratory
tequila. He has another tattoo. Angela's dad is proud of him for
standing up to him. He leaves Hodgins sitting in an alley with two baby
caps, one with each name on it.

Booth finally tells Bones he doesn't like the things she's been saying
about him and Broadsky being alike. She says Broadsky is bad and Booth
is good. He appreciates it and thanks her.

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