The Blackout in the Blizzard - Recap

Brennan & Booth are squabbling about climate change vs global warming.
Sweets tries to discuss their partnership, but Booth heads him off at
the pass. They are all interrupted by a call which Bones takes. It's
Camille, with news of some newly arrived remains. Boone gets all excited
when he sees seats from Veterans Stadium being dumped at the curb. Bones
is all for heading back to the lab, but Booth is adamant that they stop
and drop his newly acquired seats off at his apartment. Sweets agrees to
help if Booth commits to talking another time, and he does. So it's up
to Bones. A dead body is still going to be dead if there's a 15 minute
delay; cmon! She reluctantly agrees as well.

Wendell and Hodgins check out the body, a female. Hodgins finds a tick
on her brow, species unrecognizable to him. Angela arrives from her
doctor's appointment, which went fine. She heard they were in need of a
facial reconstruct.

The seats are very heavy, and Booth, Bones and Sweets are fighting to
get them up to his apartment.

Hodgins understands that Angela is really apprehensive about being an
LCA (Leber's Congenital Amaurosis) carrier, but it only matters if he
is, too. So she should just relax and stop stressing until they get the
results of his tests as well. It's a very small chance that he's a
carrier too. Stop worrying.

He hears a beep and Angela shoos him back to his tick. He mutters
something about uncontrolled bleeding and nose bleeds - not good, before
wheeling out of the lab. The camera shows "Hyalomma Impeltatum" on his
screen as being the identified tick.

The trio is still trying to get the seats into the lift.

Cam announces that the victim had Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever when
she died. They have Bones on speaker phone so they can discuss the case
with her while she's AWOL with Booth and Sweets. She's concerned that
the lab should be quarantined. Cam reassures her that it's not
necessary, since there are no active variants. However, the kill took
place face-to-face two weeks ago. With the diseases incubation period,
the killer is now contagious. She tells Booth she needs to get back to
the lab immediately. He tells her no problem, it's a matter of minutes.
Of course, that was before the electricity died and they were trapped in
the lift together. She tells Cam about the outage, and just as Cam
responds that she heard there were outages all over town, the lights go
out at the lab. Bones fills Booth in about the killer and the danger,
and he promptly starts yelling for Sweets.

Booth contacts emergency services, but his "killer virus that only we
can stop" story is so farfetched that they hang up on him. Bones spoke
to Cam, who spoke to the CDC, and there have been no other reported
cases of CCHF. Sweets tries to pass a menora down to the duo, but they
freak out because if the elevator starts moving again, his arm would be
spontaneously amputated. This news makes Sweets a little woozy.

The team is going to work by candlelight. Camille fills them in on the
history and specifics of CCHF. Wendell says that thus far, his guess is
that the body is at least part native American Indian. What would such a
person be doing in that segment of the world? Wendell speaks to Bones
about the case. She remembers an article in a magazine near her desk
that she wants him to look up. He finds the article, and tries to do
what it says. It works!

Bones starts freaking out in the elevator as Booth gets a text saying
they have no match on the victim as yet. She blames him, because if they
weren't moving the stupid chairs, she'd be at the lab. He figures they
can go through the emergency safety hatch up top.

Hodgins calls in to try to get his LCA results, but they have nothing
for him.

Bones climbs to the top, but the chairs are in the way of the hatch
dropping. She drops her phone, and when Booth tries to pick it up, they
both hit the floor. Dr. Brennan is fine, because she landed on Booth.
His back promptly checks out. Sweets goes to get some painkillers. Bones
gets pictures from the lab, showing foreign objects embedded in the
body's left femur. Bones says they appear to have been there at least
four years. Booth recognizes it as shrapnel.

Sweets returns with aspirin, a bottle of water, and a bag of frozen peas
so that he can ice his back.

Hodgins and Wendell remove the shrapnel from the femur. They appear to
be pieces of coins, so Hodgins figures he'll go to an exhibit at the
Jeffersonian and compare these coin remnants to the ones over there.
Awesome idea, but how can he carry it out when they have no electricity?

Sweets talks to Bones and Booth about their relationship. He brings up
Hannah, and Booth comes completely undone. He throws the frozen peas at
Sweets and orders him to never mention Hannah again.

Angela shows up in the lab because she smells food. It's actually
Wendell boiling body parts. Eww. Her husband returns, wheeling what they
need to identity the coins.

Wendell calls Brennan so he can send her pictures of the clean bones.
She tells him now he needs to do a penetrant test. Soak the bones in a
liquid dye, which will permeate the bones' compromised surfaces. This
will increase the contrast, making the injuries clearer.

Hodgins, while trying to generate electricity, destroys one of the items
from the Smithsonian. He tells Angela he'll just blame Wendell. He asks
about the victim's cell phone, and the only part of it that's
recoverable is the SIM card. Angela wants to put it in a working phone,
so she can recover information. She starts to use Hodgins' phone, but he
won't let her. She realizes he's worried about the test results. Rather
than being honest, he tries to placate her. Even if he tests positive,
there's less than a 25% chance that their baby will be blind. That
leaves 75% that everything will be fine. He likes those odds. She
doesn't believe him, and says she'll use Cam's phone.

Hodgins is up near the ceiling, wearing a harness and preparing to
remove a battery from a back-up light. He assures Camille and Wendell he
knows what he's doing, right before he takes a major jolt and flies, out
of control, into the dye vat which promptly splatters all over Wendell.
That was all the dye they had for working with the bones. Wendell asks
Hodgins about his beetles, because if they grind up the shells they can
make dye.

Bones and Booth continue trying to find solutions. He's finally mad at
himself for getting so excited over the whole chair thing, when this is
the end result. He fills Bones in on why they mean so much to him. He
was at a major game, with his dad. He'd quit drinking, for about two
weeks. Long enough to remember that Booth was his kid. It was his one
perfect day with his dad. He agrees with Sweets. They should discuss
"us". But not now.

Hodgins got his call. He tested positive. He's very upset, his voice is
shaking. He has to tell Angela. He has to tell her, and she's going to
hate him. Wendell tries to reassure him, but he returns to the job.
Ruble. Russian ruble is the only coin that matches. Wendell tells him
again. She's not going to hate him. Angela loves him. They're solid.
They'll get through this. It's like the lottery. Somebody always wins.
Angela hears the last bit and smilingly comments that that sounds like
good news. Then she sees the look on her husband's face. Wendell leaves
them alone to talk. He turns, and sees Angela reassuring Hodgins.

Bones gets the Ruble news, and she and Booth put together the war in
question. Chechnya. If an American took fire four years ago, the press
would have covered it. This should lead them to their victim's name.

Angela can't find a phone that matches the victim's. She's afraid if she
plugs it in, it'll short. Wendell has an idea. He leaves as Camille
arrives with microfiche for the time in question, in Chechnya.

Booth is on the phone with maintenance when Sweets rejoins the duo.
Booth apologizes to Sweets about earlier. Angela calls and tells Bones
that she may have found their victim. An American aide worker named
Ann-Marie Weston, age 28, was a field worker with the Alliance for Human
Dignity. Booth talks to the director of AHD, and he says that Ann-Marie
was still working for them, and she did a lot of traveling to Albania.
Bones figures there must be a local outbreak of CCHF in rural Albania.
Sweets wonders what she was doing in Albania, and Bones doesn't know
yet. The director was going to pull her file and get back to him.

Wendell calls and he and Bones try to work out the markings on her
femur. It looks as though she may have received injuries trying to go
through security glass.

Angela arrives and wonders aloud why she's looking at hundreds of pounds
of potatoes. He's going to run currents through the potatoes so they're
not too strong for the victim's phone.

Bones is giving Booth a massage. He's loving it. He just wants her to
stop before Sweets gets back, so he doesn't misread their interaction.
They talk a bit about their relationships. She thinks if they slept
together, they'd be great. They both have amazing stamina. Making love
would be quite satisfying. Yes, true. But then what? Bones says it
wouldn't work.

Sweets returns with news from his conversation with the director.
Ann-Marie was investigating human trafficking reports.

The potato plan worked, and Angela has a workable cell phone from the
victim. Everybody cheers. Call history is 5-3-4-2. She starts losing
power, and the men go to work on the potatoes. No good; the phone is dead.

Booth reports Angela's news to Bones. The phone history was only
inbound. She did recover a call from a nearby building, but with Bones
and Booth trapped in the elevator, it doesn't matter how close the
building is. She has a final suggestion for getting them out of there,
but Booth won't like them. She says they should be able to break the
chairs apart if they use enough force on the rusted bolts. They are
successful on their second try, and he boosts her out of the lift.

They arrive at the address in question, and see a broken window. There
are women in the basement, and Booth tells them he is FBI. A man with a
heavy accent approaches, obviously unwell. Booth tells him he needs to
go to the hospital, but the man won't listen. Booth calls him "Boris"
several times, and Bones points out that he's Albanian. Albanians hate
Russians. The man starts attacking Booth, and Bones nails him with a
2x4. He lands on top of Booth, and Bones yells at him not to touch him.

Camille wraps up the case with the team and sends them home. Hodgins
asks Angela if she wants to grab a bite, but she says no. She just wants
to go home, curl into a ball and maybe cry some more. He figures he'll
take up piano, and she can take up sculpture so they both have
activities they can do with a blind offspring. She reassures him the
same way he did her, earlier. "25% chance." Hodgins smiles. She
pronounces him clever. He tells her that together, they can handle anything.

Booth asks Bones what she thinks the chances are that they are sitting
in the same seats he sat in with his dad, back in the day. He doesn't
stop her as she tries to do the math. He has to take horse pills, thanks
to his close encounter with a CCHF carrier. They banter a bit, then
things turn serious. He says he's angry, and he needs time to kind of
hang back and find his inner peace before he gets back out there. Bones
says she's improving, she's getting quite strong. Strength is different
than impervious. She used to be impervious, and now she's strong.
Someday, maybe they'll meet when she's strong, and he's healed. He
writes down a date, and wants her to do the same. A guess as to when
that date will arrive. She questions why, so he tells her that when he
was a kid, and he wanted something really really bad, he'd write it
down, then burn it. She laughs at him - and they do it anyway.

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