Broken Bones

Episode 70 "The X in the File" Part 1

I look at the photo of the ball bearings as I comment, "Well, there's no striations on the ball bearings in this photo you sent, so there's no evidence that they were shot." Cam suggests, "Shotgun maybe? Full of ball bearings." Temp then says, "Well, the owner of the ranch threatened us with a shotgun." I then ask surprised and worried, "What?! Not so fast, sis." Cam nods adding, "I know you dislike flesh, but we're going to need you... to remove the adipocere and organs and send them to me." Wendell then says, "Ooh, Dr. Brennan dealing with flesh. Like a cat dealing with water." Temp then says, "Flesh is not my strength." Cam then tells her, "You're gonna need a hair dryer and some cooking spray. Hodgins and I were examining things Temp sent us as we got something. We made our way over to Cams workspace as Hodgins then says, "She was covered in ethyl parathion and aldicarb. It was all over her space-age outerwear." I add, "It's an insecticide. It's extremely illegal in the U.S., but it's still sold south of the border." Hodgins nods, "It explains why the adipocere dried so quickly." Cam then says, "So our victim was using a dangerous insecticide. Not unusual for someone who's a couple of tacos short of a combo plate." I chuckle as Hodgins says, "Nice metaphor." "Thanks." 

We then hear Temp say, "I found something." She shows us a memory card as she says, "It's a memory card... tied to a string. It appears to be dental floss." Cam then says, "Check her teeth. Any evidence of floss still on her teeth?" We watch her check, "Yes. There's a fragment tied to the left second premolar." I then say, "She was hiding the card. It's an old prison trick. She tied one end of the floss to her tooth and the other end to the memory card. So if she needed it, she could use the floss to pull it up." Temp then says, "I'll overnight the card to Angela. Whatever is on it was important enough to hide." Hodgins then says, "My guess- it's important enough to kill for." Hodgins and I are back over at his workspace doing some tests as I then see Wendell walk in. I give him a smile as he does the same to me as he says, "Hey Doll, Hodgins." Hodgins then says looking at him, "Hey, man. Did you hear? Brennan's sending the victim's SD card from Roswell. Probably video on there the government wanted suppressed. Because at Area 51-" Wendell nods cutting him off, "Right. Um-" He looks at me as I understand what he was going to do and say as I stay quiet and back away as he continues, "Look, do you have a second?" Hodgins nod, "Sure. Yeah." 

I then ask, "Do you want me out?" Wendell shakes his head, "No. It's fine for you to stay, it will be really quick." I nod as Hodgins asks Wendell, "Something wrong?" "We're friends, right?" "Yeah. I don't like to keep things from my friends." "Okay. All right." "Angela and I-" Hodgins stops him as he says, "Oh. You're kidding, right? You do know that your girlfriend is right there. To be honest she's my friend as well and I wouldn't want you hurting her feelings. So, good luck with that." "No. Hodgins, what I'm trying to tell you is that it was Angela that I was kissing when the whole incident happened with Venus and I." I look at him having a conflicted look, but quickly tries to look normal about it as he says, "Oh." Wendell continued, "I would never want you to think that-" Hodgins shakes his head, "Look, Wendell- Wen-Wendell, stop. Stop. Stop. It's been over between Angela and me for a long time. I have moved on. So you weren't doing anything wrong. Plus whatever happened helped you and Venus to bet together. And you know what? I'm happy for you both." I give Hodgins a really look as Wendell smiles believing what he was saying, "Really?"  "Yes. Really. I forgive you man." Wendell smiles, "Okay. Thanks, man." He nods, "Of course. I'll tell you what." He points at the two of us and himself, "Hey, why don't the three of us grab lunch together, huh? This is a good thing. Wendell, this should not be weird for us." Wendell nods looking at me to say if it's fine with me. I give him a smile nodding as he says, "Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Lunch. That sounds great, man." "Great. Good. Good." "Well see you two later." He gives me a kiss bye as I just smile at him waving him off as he walks away happily.

I turn to Hodgins when Wendell was far out of hearing range, "You're such a liar, you know that." He looks at me pretending to be shocked, "Me! Never. I am being very serious right there." I give him your lying look again, "Hodgins, I have been friends with you way much longer than Wendell back when were where the three musketeers, so of course I know when your lying. And I also know when your planning something." "What...?" We stare at each other as he sighs, "Fine. But I'm sure you were doing the same thing." I think about it for a moment recalling that I was going to do something, "That's true... But I never said I was going to stop you. I'm kind of interested in what you got up on your sleeves." He chuckles and points at me, "Ooh. We may be friends but you're a real scary person Venus. I learned my lesson." I nod, "As it should be. Could I see that tattoo? I never really got to see it." He takes off his lab coat and lifts up his sleeve revealing the tattoo of Angela's face on it as I nod, "He's really good." He shakes his head as I chuckle getting back to work.

I go into Angie's workspace with Cam as I ask, "Did you have any luck? Was the data damaged?" Angie nods, "A bit. There might still be a few corrupted frames." Cam then says, "So it's a video." "Yeah, but I think it's gonna play." She starts the video as it starts of all staticky for a few seconds. But then we see a very bad imaging as it looks like there was some machinery and green glowing goo on the ground as Angie says, "Oh, my God. Is that what I think it is?" We then see something walking around as she then says, "And are those-" Cam cuts her off, "No." We then see a weird light shaping, but we can't distinguish it as Cam continues, "Impossible. This was doctored." I look at Angie as she shakes her head, "No, it isn't. This was verified by the scanning software at a pixel level." I then say, "Are you saying our victim might have stumbled on a real U.F.O.?" The three looked at each other not knowing what to make out of this video as I then say, "You know what. This is what we are going to do. We are going to take this one step at a time and calculate each detail of this footage. We are not going to assume outer world just ours for now." They nod as Cam says, "Yeah. Let's go with that." Angie nods, "Yeah... I could do that." I nod as Cam leaves as I then tell Angie, "Could you call up Temp and Booth?" She nods calling them up on the glass screen.

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