1 00:00:08,375 --> 00:00:11,071 [Lowing] 2 00:00:13,146 --> 00:00:16,513 - [Siren Chirps] - [Booth] Can you make anything out? 3 00:00:16,583 --> 00:00:19,643 Yes. It's a crater. 4 00:00:19,719 --> 00:00:22,813 We know it's a crater, Bones. The question is, what caused it? 5 00:00:22,889 --> 00:00:24,823 You should ask a geologist. 6 00:00:24,891 --> 00:00:27,553 - I can tell you for sure it's not a meteor. - You got a look what's inside? 7 00:00:27,627 --> 00:00:30,994 Not for long. State troopers didn't want anyone getting near it until you people got here. 8 00:00:31,064 --> 00:00:33,430 - That's very nice of them. - But what did it look like? 9 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:35,559 Uh, I'm pretty sure it was meat. 10 00:00:37,637 --> 00:00:40,470 Meat wearin' clothes. 11 00:00:40,540 --> 00:00:44,670 - [Booth] What do you wanna do? - Let's take a look. 12 00:00:52,652 --> 00:00:54,916 Mmm. So what do you think? Dead? 13 00:00:54,988 --> 00:00:59,186 I'm just saying, ifhe fell out of a plane, that plane is long gone by now. 14 00:00:59,259 --> 00:01:00,988 No sign of a parachute. 15 00:01:01,061 --> 00:01:03,825 - What do those shoes look like to you? - [Booth] Loafers. 16 00:01:03,897 --> 00:01:07,355 He hit the ground at approximately 200 kilometers per hour. 17 00:01:07,434 --> 00:01:09,766 How can you tell that by his shoes? 18 00:01:09,836 --> 00:01:12,600 124 miles per hour is terminal velocity for a falling human. 19 00:01:12,672 --> 00:01:15,664 So we're gonna go with the theory that this was once human? 20 00:01:15,742 --> 00:01:18,142 I've never read about an alien encounter in which the aliens wore loafers. 21 00:01:18,211 --> 00:01:21,806 How much you wanna bet Hodgins has? 22 00:01:24,317 --> 00:01:26,615 [Saroyan] The crows and critters sure made quick work of him. 23 00:01:26,686 --> 00:01:31,055 Yeah, but these Calliphora vicina eggs will confirm time of landing. 24 00:01:31,124 --> 00:01:33,115 Blowflies on aliens. Who knew? 25 00:01:33,193 --> 00:01:35,559 You're taking a shot at me because I happen to believe... 26 00:01:35,628 --> 00:01:38,529 that we are not all alone in an infinity of space? 27 00:01:38,598 --> 00:01:41,863 It's not the believing in extraterrestrial life that's odd. 28 00:01:41,935 --> 00:01:45,302 - It's the believing that they're visiting us. - This guy is wearing loafers. 29 00:01:45,371 --> 00:01:48,238 Aliens don't wear loafers, people. 30 00:01:48,308 --> 00:01:51,334 - Even if they wanna pass unnoticed amongst us? - Before taking us over? 31 00:01:51,411 --> 00:01:53,845 Oh. Oh, this is harassment. 32 00:01:53,913 --> 00:01:56,848 You know, it's illegal to mock people for their fundamental beliefs. 33 00:01:56,916 --> 00:01:59,976 Is the tissue damage consistent with a long fall? 34 00:02:00,053 --> 00:02:03,511 - Definitely. - You've seen something like this before? 35 00:02:03,590 --> 00:02:06,150 Suicide off the Chrysler Building. At least this one didn't hit the pavement. 36 00:02:06,226 --> 00:02:10,185 A human being reaches terminal velocity after falling 200 to 220 meters... 37 00:02:10,263 --> 00:02:12,561 depending upon air resistance. 38 00:02:12,632 --> 00:02:15,430 Velocity would be achieved between five and eight seconds... 39 00:02:15,502 --> 00:02:19,199 depending upon atmospheric conditions, body position and clothing. 40 00:02:19,272 --> 00:02:21,900 He fell from a minimum of 1,200 feet. 41 00:02:21,975 --> 00:02:25,342 - I can run through the math if you'd like. - Send me an e-mail. 44 00:02:33,419 --> 00:02:35,114 - Extremely porous bones. - What's that mean? 45 00:02:35,188 --> 00:02:37,213 That means he was ill. 46 00:02:37,290 --> 00:02:40,782 His right femoral head shows significant demineralization. 47 00:02:40,860 --> 00:02:42,452 [Brennan] Zack? 48 00:02:42,529 --> 00:02:45,726 - I'd put him at... 130. - 130 what? 49 00:02:45,798 --> 00:02:48,096 - Years. - Old? 50 00:02:48,168 --> 00:02:50,568 There's an alternate explanation. 51 00:02:50,637 --> 00:02:54,937 - Then that's the one we should go with. - He was in outer space. 52 00:02:55,008 --> 00:02:59,138 And so he fell from outer space in a pair of loafers? 53 00:03:00,346 --> 00:03:02,109 Hodgins left too soon. 54 00:03:38,084 --> 00:03:41,815 - [Device Buzzing] - The F.A.A. reports no recent accidents involving anyone... 55 00:03:41,888 --> 00:03:45,449 falling from a plane, balloon or blimp, commercial or otherwise. 56 00:03:45,525 --> 00:03:48,358 The F.A.A. doesn't have jurisdiction over the entire universe, my friend. 57 00:03:48,428 --> 00:03:51,488 Little green men? 58 00:03:51,564 --> 00:03:54,965 Gray. They're gray. Not green... gray. 59 00:03:55,034 --> 00:03:57,502 Being as you're half alien yourself, you should know that. 60 00:03:57,570 --> 00:04:01,870 If they dropped him from orbit, he'd have burned up and his loafers would've fallen off. 61 00:04:01,941 --> 00:04:05,672 lfhe was an abductee tossed out of an interplanetary spacecraft... 62 00:04:05,745 --> 00:04:10,148 why do his bones show that he has spent an extended time in outer space? 63 00:04:10,216 --> 00:04:13,208 The only rational explanation is that he was an astronaut. 64 00:04:19,092 --> 00:04:22,755 Astronauts lose two percent of their bone mass for each month spent in space. 65 00:04:22,829 --> 00:04:26,993 Our victim's legs, hips and lower vertebrae have demineralized over 20%... 66 00:04:27,066 --> 00:04:29,296 indicating 10 months in space. 67 00:04:29,369 --> 00:04:33,066 - Do we do that? - The longest shuttle flight was STS-80. 68 00:04:33,139 --> 00:04:36,700 - 17.66 days in 1996. - The longest we know of. 69 00:04:36,776 --> 00:04:39,506 The man who spent the most time in space was a Russian cosmonaut. 70 00:04:39,579 --> 00:04:41,809 - That we know of. - Why do you know that? 71 00:04:41,881 --> 00:04:45,146 - My knowledge is vast. - Why did I ask? 72 00:04:45,218 --> 00:04:49,416 Anyway, there can't be all that many people who have accumulated 10 months in space. 73 00:04:49,489 --> 00:04:52,049 That we know of. 74 00:04:52,125 --> 00:04:55,993 Call Booth. Tell him to see if anyone's missing an astronaut. 75 00:04:57,230 --> 00:04:59,164 Meet Colonel Calvin Howard... 76 00:04:59,232 --> 00:05:01,894 senior training specialist and crew liaison in the shuttle program. 77 00:05:01,968 --> 00:05:06,166 Currently working in the National Space Agency in Bristol, Maryland. 78 00:05:06,239 --> 00:05:09,868 Angela just sent me her work in progress of the partial skull reconstruction. 79 00:05:09,942 --> 00:05:12,502 She says we expected too much too soon. 80 00:05:12,578 --> 00:05:15,376 But the shape of the head, the cheekbones... 81 00:05:15,448 --> 00:05:17,177 Close enough for jazz. 82 00:05:17,250 --> 00:05:20,583 Six months on the international space station. 83 00:05:20,653 --> 00:05:24,521 Plus, a number of servicing missions to both the Hubble and Lansing Telescopes. 84 00:05:24,590 --> 00:05:26,888 Wait. Does that add up to the right amount of bone rot? 85 00:05:26,959 --> 00:05:30,918 Loss. Bone loss. And... yes. 86 00:05:30,997 --> 00:05:33,693 - Has anyone reported him missing? - No, not exactly. 87 00:05:33,766 --> 00:05:38,430 - Not exactly? - Well, astronauts are regarded as viable terror targets. 88 00:05:38,504 --> 00:05:40,597 Their whereabouts are extremely confidential. 89 00:05:40,673 --> 00:05:42,436 I bet if you told the agency... 90 00:05:42,508 --> 00:05:45,136 you were going to identify Howard to the press, they'd be a little more cooperative. 91 00:05:45,211 --> 00:05:47,441 Yeah. You know, I have been a wonderful influence on you. 92 00:05:47,513 --> 00:05:49,242 Well, actually, I learned that move from Cam. 93 00:05:49,315 --> 00:05:52,910 Well, I went the other way with it, okay? Looked up his wife in the phone book. 94 00:05:58,091 --> 00:06:01,151 Did my husband die in some kind of training accident? 95 00:06:01,227 --> 00:06:03,491 - We don't believe so, ma'am. No. - It couldn't have been. 96 00:06:03,563 --> 00:06:06,828 - How do you know that? - Because the Space Agency would be all over this. 97 00:06:06,899 --> 00:06:10,562 You're probably right. They wouldn't let anybody else take the lead, not even us. 98 00:06:10,636 --> 00:06:14,265 You say your husband left the day before yesterday? 99 00:06:14,340 --> 00:06:16,433 - On what airline? - Cal flies himself. 100 00:06:16,509 --> 00:06:21,173 - What kind of plane? - He has a turboprop Cessna out at McNichol. 101 00:06:21,247 --> 00:06:26,310 What exactly does a senior training specialist and crew liaison do? 102 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:29,150 Um, we're not supposed to discuss these things. 103 00:06:29,222 --> 00:06:31,247 For the past three years, Cal's been training others to go up. 104 00:06:31,324 --> 00:06:35,090 - Because he lost his medical clearance? - How did you know that? 105 00:06:35,161 --> 00:06:39,655 His X-rays show that he was suffering from a dramatic loss of bone density. 106 00:06:39,732 --> 00:06:41,723 Must've been hard on the colonel... 107 00:06:41,801 --> 00:06:44,031 training others to do what he loved to do. 108 00:06:44,103 --> 00:06:47,539 No. Cal was a team player. 109 00:06:47,607 --> 00:06:50,838 He was training her husband, James, for almost a year. 110 00:06:50,910 --> 00:06:53,970 - Actually, it was hard on him. - It would be hard on any of them. 111 00:06:54,046 --> 00:06:57,538 All they ever do is think about going back into space... 112 00:06:57,617 --> 00:07:00,609 and all we ever think about is getting 'em back home. 113 00:07:00,686 --> 00:07:04,178 Is there some kind of rule that astronauts' wives travel in packs? 114 00:07:04,257 --> 00:07:06,316 When you marry an astronaut, no one really understands except... 115 00:07:06,392 --> 00:07:10,658 Except other people who are in the same situation. 116 00:07:10,730 --> 00:07:12,357 This is Cal's itinerary, uh... 117 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:16,129 mainly when he intended to call me and... [Inhales] 118 00:07:16,202 --> 00:07:19,228 when he'd be back. 119 00:07:19,305 --> 00:07:21,569 You expected your husband home today? 120 00:07:21,641 --> 00:07:24,041 Yeah. 121 00:07:27,613 --> 00:07:29,205 [Sniffles] 122 00:07:33,853 --> 00:07:36,720 Yeah, I just need to know if it's still in the hangar or not. 123 00:07:36,789 --> 00:07:40,418 It's a Cessna turboprop plane registered to Colonel Calvin Howard. 124 00:07:40,493 --> 00:07:42,427 Thanks. 125 00:07:42,495 --> 00:07:45,589 It just seems so odd. Those women stick together like a harem. 126 00:07:45,665 --> 00:07:48,657 What? They support each other, you know? A lot of service wives are like that. 127 00:07:48,734 --> 00:07:50,395 Well, what about astronauts' husbands? 128 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:52,563 Look, their husbands train for years, Bones, all right? 129 00:07:52,638 --> 00:07:55,436 - Their families invest their entire lives. - [Cell Phone Ringing] 130 00:07:55,508 --> 00:07:57,738 Yeah? 131 00:07:57,810 --> 00:07:59,744 Are you sure? Okay, great. 132 00:07:59,812 --> 00:08:02,076 Thanks. Well, plane's still in the hangar. 133 00:08:02,148 --> 00:08:06,380 Well, if that's the plane he got tossed out of, then it didn't fly itself back. 134 00:08:09,322 --> 00:08:14,021 If someone simply pushed him out of the plane, there might not be any evidence. 135 00:08:14,093 --> 00:08:17,620 We have to hope there was a struggle. 136 00:08:17,697 --> 00:08:20,393 Excuse me. Can I see some I.D., please? 137 00:08:20,466 --> 00:08:22,900 Well, yeah, sure. I'll show you mine if you show me yours. 138 00:08:22,969 --> 00:08:25,529 Right. Here you go. 139 00:08:25,605 --> 00:08:28,802 That airplane belongs to the agency. 140 00:08:28,875 --> 00:08:31,571 Our information is that it belongs to Colonel Calvin Howard. 141 00:08:31,644 --> 00:08:35,273 - The agency leased it to him. - Well, it's being investigated as a possible crime scene. 142 00:08:35,348 --> 00:08:37,782 - You were Colonel Howard's boss? - Yes. 143 00:08:37,850 --> 00:08:41,251 Nina Sanborn. I carry a rank equivalent to an air force general. 144 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,756 Hmm. Why didn't you report him missing, General Sanborn? 145 00:08:44,824 --> 00:08:47,452 Equivalent, I said. I'm a civilian. 146 00:08:47,527 --> 00:08:53,227 Cal was... Colonel Howard wasn't missing. He was barely gone a day. 147 00:08:53,299 --> 00:08:56,097 General Sanborn, I know you people are really tight-lipped. 148 00:08:56,168 --> 00:08:59,228 But I'm really good friends with a very aggressive federal prosecutor... 149 00:08:59,305 --> 00:09:01,205 who's great at getting warrants. 150 00:09:01,274 --> 00:09:05,142 Agent Booth? I got the usual fibers, hair, particulates. 151 00:09:05,211 --> 00:09:07,645 No blood? No sign of a struggle? 152 00:09:07,713 --> 00:09:09,647 Nothing. You'll have my full report by the end of the day. 153 00:09:09,715 --> 00:09:13,742 Great. Okay. I need to know what Colonel Howard was working on at the time of his death. 154 00:09:13,819 --> 00:09:17,585 Get your warrant, Agent Booth. Dr. Brennan. 155 00:09:17,657 --> 00:09:22,321 Hey, excuse me, "equivalent to a general" Sanborn. 156 00:09:24,063 --> 00:09:27,464 - I got that warrant. - Why didn't you just tell her right away? 157 00:09:27,533 --> 00:09:30,366 Well, I was hoping that we could all be friends. 158 00:09:30,436 --> 00:09:32,427 Let me see that. 159 00:09:34,707 --> 00:09:36,504 [Sighs] 160 00:09:38,511 --> 00:09:40,445 These are the documents you subpoenaed from the agency? 161 00:09:40,513 --> 00:09:42,310 Yeah, but all the info's blacked out. 162 00:09:42,381 --> 00:09:45,282 - Want me to see if I can get anything out of this? - Can you? 163 00:09:45,351 --> 00:09:48,445 No. I'd need originals. These are photocopies. 164 00:09:51,424 --> 00:09:54,291 - Then why'd you offer? - Well, why else would you ask me here? 165 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,023 'Cause you're a conspiracy nut, and I thought you'd enjoy filling in the blanks. 166 00:09:58,097 --> 00:10:00,156 - With paranoid ravings? - It's better than nothing. 167 00:10:00,232 --> 00:10:04,032 - Lansing Telescope. That mean anything to you? - Yeah. 168 00:10:04,103 --> 00:10:07,095 It's a multigazillion-dollar, deep space... 169 00:10:07,173 --> 00:10:10,700 multifrequency telescope that keeps needing "repairs." 170 00:10:10,776 --> 00:10:13,506 - Why'd you say it like that? - It doesn't need repairs. 171 00:10:14,747 --> 00:10:17,841 There's no rust in space. 172 00:10:17,917 --> 00:10:22,286 So-called "repair crews" are up there retrieving classified information. 173 00:10:22,355 --> 00:10:28,123 Classified information, huh? The telescope is pointed up at the planet Pluto. 174 00:10:28,194 --> 00:10:30,526 Pluto's no longer a planet. It was demoted. 175 00:10:30,596 --> 00:10:32,621 And if the Lansing was pointed away from the Earth... 176 00:10:32,698 --> 00:10:34,723 why would they need to black out all this material? 177 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,667 - Huh. - Can I ask you a question? 178 00:10:37,737 --> 00:10:41,002 Yeah. 179 00:10:41,073 --> 00:10:43,633 What's the deal on proposing to, you know, a woman? 180 00:10:43,709 --> 00:10:47,611 - Oh! - I mean, what is the absolute proper way to do it? 181 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:50,376 I don't know. The one time I did it, I got shot down flat. 182 00:10:50,449 --> 00:10:53,885 - Did you do it by the book? - Mm-hmm. Well, no. 183 00:10:53,953 --> 00:10:56,751 We were waitin' for the stick to turn blue or not to turn blue... 184 00:10:56,822 --> 00:11:01,418 and I realized I wanted to marry her if the stick was blue or not. 185 00:11:01,494 --> 00:11:05,260 Yeah. That's sort of what I did, only without the sticks. 186 00:11:05,331 --> 00:11:07,231 You asked Angela to marry you? 187 00:11:07,299 --> 00:11:09,859 - Apparently, I didn't do it right. - Do it again. 188 00:11:09,935 --> 00:11:11,869 Go all out this time, right... 189 00:11:11,937 --> 00:11:16,431 with the dinner and the gettin' down on one knee, the violin. 190 00:11:16,509 --> 00:11:18,500 Forget the violin. 191 00:11:20,212 --> 00:11:22,976 Hey, hey, hey. With his bone density... 192 00:11:23,049 --> 00:11:25,279 Colonel Howard sure as hell wasn't going back into space again. 193 00:11:25,351 --> 00:11:27,751 Yeah, I know. That's why he was training his replacement. 194 00:11:27,820 --> 00:11:31,415 - His replacement? For what? - To repair the Lansing Telescope. 195 00:11:31,490 --> 00:11:34,857 Oh! Brothers in arms, my brother. 196 00:11:34,927 --> 00:11:38,658 That replacement's the guy who can tell you things the agency doesn't want you to know. 197 00:11:38,731 --> 00:11:40,722 Eh. 198 00:11:49,642 --> 00:11:53,009 - Makes you feel small, doesn't it? - Because the picture's so big? 199 00:11:53,079 --> 00:11:54,979 No, because the universe is so big. 200 00:11:55,047 --> 00:11:58,983 You're not looking at the universe. You're looking at an enlarged photograph of Earth. 201 00:11:59,051 --> 00:12:02,817 Well, you see one thing, and I see another thing. Personally, I like what I see. 202 00:12:03,923 --> 00:12:06,323 Agent Booth, Dr. Brennan. 203 00:12:06,392 --> 00:12:09,623 I'm afraid Commander Adams is scheduled for time on the A300 Zero-G. 204 00:12:09,695 --> 00:12:12,289 - You're welcome to talk to him there. - The Zero-G? 205 00:12:12,364 --> 00:12:14,696 The vomit comet. 206 00:12:15,901 --> 00:12:17,835 [Man] It makes no sense. 207 00:12:17,903 --> 00:12:20,337 A man flies eight missions into space, and he falls out of a plane? 208 00:12:20,406 --> 00:12:22,271 - I don't think so. - All right, look. 209 00:12:22,341 --> 00:12:26,072 You don't know anyone who would want to throw him out of a plane? 210 00:12:26,145 --> 00:12:28,613 Look, I don't mean to tell you your work... 211 00:12:28,681 --> 00:12:32,139 but shouldn't you be tracking down everyone who flew over that particular piece of real estate? 212 00:12:32,218 --> 00:12:34,152 We are. But not everyone files flight plans. 213 00:12:34,220 --> 00:12:36,017 And not everyone sticks to flight plans. 214 00:12:36,088 --> 00:12:38,022 And you didn't answer the question. 215 00:12:38,090 --> 00:12:40,490 Look, I don't know anyone who didn't like and respect Cal Howard. 216 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:43,153 It's just that all these, uh, itineraries... 217 00:12:43,229 --> 00:12:45,356 people keeping secrets... even from their spouses. 218 00:12:45,431 --> 00:12:48,662 Look, sir, I understand you have to ask questions like these. 219 00:12:48,734 --> 00:12:51,032 But Cal Howard and Jean Marie were a very solid couple. 220 00:12:51,103 --> 00:12:53,697 - Did you ever get drunk together? - What? 221 00:12:53,773 --> 00:12:57,368 What my partner is trying to ask is if you two were buddies. 222 00:12:57,443 --> 00:13:00,139 Did you go out and have drinks and exchange confidences? 223 00:13:00,212 --> 00:13:03,807 - Yes. That's what I asked. - Yeah, sure. Of course, at times. 224 00:13:03,883 --> 00:13:06,147 So you would've known if his marriage was in trouble? 225 00:13:06,218 --> 00:13:08,686 - Yes, sir, I would. - How can you be sure? 226 00:13:08,754 --> 00:13:12,019 [Man On Headset, Indistinct] 227 00:13:12,091 --> 00:13:15,151 Because Cal knew when I was unfaithful to my wife. 228 00:13:15,227 --> 00:13:18,993 - Colleen? - Right. You guys met her at Cal's place. 229 00:13:19,064 --> 00:13:21,726 Look. That has to stay between us. 230 00:13:21,801 --> 00:13:24,497 Strictly between us. 231 00:13:24,570 --> 00:13:29,337 Cal Howard was my friend, my colleague and my teacher. 232 00:13:29,408 --> 00:13:33,003 If somebody tossed him from an airplane, I'll do whatever I can to help. 233 00:13:33,078 --> 00:13:35,945 Then why do I get the feeling you wanna tell us something? 234 00:13:36,015 --> 00:13:38,040 [Man On Headset, Indistinct] 235 00:13:40,085 --> 00:13:42,610 [Man #2] Prepare to go weightless. 236 00:13:42,688 --> 00:13:47,557 We're about to go weightless. As the plane reaches the apogee of a climb, then falls... 237 00:13:47,626 --> 00:13:49,924 we will have 15 to 20 seconds of weightlessness. 238 00:13:49,995 --> 00:13:51,986 [Man On Headset] ...two, one. 239 00:14:32,471 --> 00:14:34,268 [Brennan] That was great. 240 00:14:34,340 --> 00:14:37,309 [Booth] Man, you're not kidding. 241 00:14:37,376 --> 00:14:40,607 I would like very much to do that again. 242 00:14:42,181 --> 00:14:44,411 I believe you were about to tell us something? 243 00:14:48,754 --> 00:14:50,745 Cal was talking to the S.T.C. 244 00:14:50,823 --> 00:14:53,656 - The what? - Space Travel Coalition. 245 00:14:53,726 --> 00:14:57,355 It's a privately funded space exploration and tourism group. And did you? 246 00:14:57,429 --> 00:15:00,694 - [Together] Did we what? - Vomit in the comet? 247 00:15:00,766 --> 00:15:03,064 No, I didn't vomit. Okay, I'm sure they were trying. 248 00:15:03,135 --> 00:15:06,002 They can try me anytime. It was truly amazing. 249 00:15:06,071 --> 00:15:08,130 You had a little bit too much fun, okay? 250 00:15:08,207 --> 00:15:10,334 What's up with this whole thing about the space tourists? 251 00:15:10,409 --> 00:15:12,343 Celestial joyrides for gazillionaires. 252 00:15:12,411 --> 00:15:14,140 Selling seats on a spaceship that don't even exist yet. 253 00:15:14,213 --> 00:15:16,477 And won't even be viable for at least another few years. 254 00:15:16,548 --> 00:15:19,176 That's what they want you to think. But these guys are swimming in dough. 255 00:15:19,251 --> 00:15:23,187 I already bought my ticket. I wanna see what's going on up there with my own eyes. 256 00:15:24,390 --> 00:15:27,223 What? 257 00:15:32,464 --> 00:15:35,865 - These are the victim's clothes? - Yes. 258 00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:37,732 And you'd like me to do what with them? 259 00:15:37,803 --> 00:15:41,796 Construct a three-dimensional hypothesis of what caused this damage to the clothing. 260 00:15:41,874 --> 00:15:43,865 Falling from an airplane isn't enough? 261 00:15:43,943 --> 00:15:46,878 Well, that would explain the burst seams and pressure tears. 262 00:15:46,946 --> 00:15:50,404 - But this seems to be... - Slashes. 263 00:15:50,482 --> 00:15:52,416 Yeah. When Zack gets a hold of the bones... 264 00:15:52,484 --> 00:15:55,248 maybe you two can figure out if something catastrophic happened to this man. 265 00:15:55,321 --> 00:15:57,983 - You mean before he fell to Earth? - Yes. 266 00:15:58,057 --> 00:15:59,922 Go do your magic. 267 00:16:01,660 --> 00:16:03,252 Now? 268 00:16:03,329 --> 00:16:06,321 Are you certain you can't do what needs to be done with X-rays alone? 269 00:16:06,398 --> 00:16:09,196 Do you need continued access to the soft tissue? 270 00:16:09,268 --> 00:16:12,237 Why would the body burst vertically when all the forces are horizontal? 271 00:16:12,304 --> 00:16:14,932 Ah. So you need more time with the soft tissue to answer that? 272 00:16:15,007 --> 00:16:17,202 Not really. 273 00:16:17,276 --> 00:16:20,268 Please explain to me your reluctance to remove the flesh from the bones. 274 00:16:20,346 --> 00:16:23,076 I'm all right with it, Zack, if it's absolutely necessary. 275 00:16:23,148 --> 00:16:25,412 Even the boiling part. 276 00:16:25,484 --> 00:16:28,510 But perhaps you could at least acknowledge that this is a person? 277 00:16:28,587 --> 00:16:31,522 - Was, you mean. - Was someone's husband, Zack. 278 00:16:31,590 --> 00:16:34,718 What does that have to do with removing the flesh from his bones? 279 00:16:36,295 --> 00:16:38,525 [Sighs] Fine. Do what you have to do. 280 00:16:38,597 --> 00:16:41,293 Thank you. 281 00:16:41,367 --> 00:16:45,235 - [Saroyan] Igor. - I beg your pardon, Dr. Saroyan? 282 00:16:45,304 --> 00:16:48,102 Nothing. 283 00:16:51,176 --> 00:16:54,111 Hey, Bones, I ran a check on S.T.C. 284 00:16:54,179 --> 00:16:57,546 - They're part of the tinfoil hat squad. - What's that? 285 00:16:57,616 --> 00:16:59,709 They wear tin little hats. 286 00:16:59,785 --> 00:17:03,221 - Probably to keep aliens from controlling their minds. - Oh. Schizophrenics? 287 00:17:03,288 --> 00:17:06,280 It's hard to believe that Colonel Howard was part of an organization like that. 288 00:17:06,358 --> 00:17:09,259 Do they have access to planes? 289 00:17:09,328 --> 00:17:12,923 Access? Are you kidding me? They actually have a border patrol division. 290 00:17:12,998 --> 00:17:14,966 "Members fly their own private planes... 291 00:17:15,034 --> 00:17:17,628 and do bimonthly sky patrols in search of U.F.O.'s." 292 00:17:17,703 --> 00:17:20,934 - Do they file flight plans? - Bones, you're a genius. 293 00:17:21,006 --> 00:17:23,600 Look, two nights ago, they had planes on U.F.O. patrol... 294 00:17:23,675 --> 00:17:27,475 within spitting distance of where Colonel Howard's body was found. 295 00:17:33,819 --> 00:17:35,753 Look, we're not a collection of kooks. 296 00:17:35,821 --> 00:17:40,121 Just ordinary people with a mission to promote a friendly liaison with the visitors. 297 00:17:40,192 --> 00:17:42,353 That's quite a manifesto. 298 00:17:42,428 --> 00:17:44,794 Until you've had an encounter, you couldn't possibly understand. 299 00:17:44,863 --> 00:17:47,593 - You've been abducted? - Multiple times. 300 00:17:47,666 --> 00:17:51,568 - Mm-hmm. - Through hypnosis, I discovered that medical testing was done. 301 00:17:51,637 --> 00:17:57,041 - And follow-ups were required. - Are there any side effects from these medical procedures? 302 00:17:57,109 --> 00:17:59,077 You mean like tin hats? 303 00:17:59,144 --> 00:18:04,241 Paranoia, outbursts of anger, loss of connection with reality? 304 00:18:04,316 --> 00:18:06,546 You asked me to come. I'm here. 305 00:18:06,618 --> 00:18:10,145 I run a very successful aeronautics engineering company. I'm richer than God. 306 00:18:10,222 --> 00:18:12,281 Do I appear to have lost contact with reality? 307 00:18:12,357 --> 00:18:15,087 Well, what about post-abduction syndrome? 308 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,060 Similar to post-traumatic stress disorder. 309 00:18:17,129 --> 00:18:20,895 - P.A.S. is very real. - I admit to bouts with it. 310 00:18:20,966 --> 00:18:22,900 Frankly, it's one of my main motivators. 311 00:18:22,968 --> 00:18:27,132 When we meet the visitors face to face, they will explain so many things to us. 312 00:18:27,206 --> 00:18:28,867 Including why you were taken. 313 00:18:28,941 --> 00:18:32,240 And why they put an implant in me only then to remove it. 314 00:18:32,311 --> 00:18:35,212 Great. Do you, uh, know this guy? 315 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:37,214 Colonel Howard. Of course. 316 00:18:37,282 --> 00:18:40,649 So it's true that you offered him a position with the S. T. C? 317 00:18:40,719 --> 00:18:42,516 Yes. 318 00:18:42,588 --> 00:18:44,556 As a method of bringing credibility to your organization? 319 00:18:44,623 --> 00:18:48,753 Yes. But you have to understand, it was Colonel Howard who came to us. 320 00:18:48,827 --> 00:18:51,819 - Why? - He wanted to pilot our suborbital flights. 321 00:18:51,897 --> 00:18:56,994 Till your spaceships were ready, he was gonna help you look for the U.F.O.'s? 322 00:18:57,069 --> 00:19:01,028 Laugh if you must, but Cal didn't think we were crazy. 323 00:19:01,106 --> 00:19:04,200 He'd seen something himself up there, you know? And he's hardly the first. 324 00:19:04,276 --> 00:19:08,337 Quite a few astronauts and military pilots have reported seeing evidence of the visitors. 325 00:19:08,413 --> 00:19:10,540 - Colonel Howard told you this? - Yes, he did. 326 00:19:10,616 --> 00:19:15,110 So trust me, I would've been proud to have been the one to send Cal Howard back into space. 327 00:19:15,187 --> 00:19:19,146 - Would've been? - He changed his mind six weeks ago. 328 00:19:19,224 --> 00:19:21,988 That didn't make you a little angry? 329 00:19:22,060 --> 00:19:25,029 No, not angry. Disappointed. 330 00:19:25,097 --> 00:19:28,430 Great. Then you wouldn't object to my partner and I taking a look at your fleet of planes? 331 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:30,263 No, not at all. 332 00:19:30,335 --> 00:19:33,600 Why do you think Colonel Howard changed his mind? 333 00:19:33,672 --> 00:19:36,573 They got to him... through his wife, I believe. 334 00:19:36,642 --> 00:19:38,872 - "They"? - The agency. 335 00:19:38,944 --> 00:19:42,209 - They can be very persuasive. - Persuasive? 336 00:19:42,281 --> 00:19:45,375 In my opinion, the agency would rather have Cal die... 337 00:19:45,450 --> 00:19:47,918 than have him announce to the world he'd seen a visitor. 338 00:19:50,455 --> 00:19:53,754 That's not true. The agency loved Cal. 339 00:19:53,825 --> 00:19:56,555 - They valued him. - Why didn't you tell us about S.T. C? 340 00:19:56,628 --> 00:19:59,256 Because it's embarrassing. 341 00:19:59,331 --> 00:20:02,960 Cal wanted to get back into space so badly, he would even listen to those crazy people. 342 00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:05,094 Did your husband see something up there? 343 00:20:05,170 --> 00:20:08,469 Yeah, something that made him sympathetic with Mr. Bahr's organization? 344 00:20:08,540 --> 00:20:11,839 Well, obviously you know that he did, or he said he did. 345 00:20:11,910 --> 00:20:14,606 - And you doubted him? - It doesn't really matter now, you know? 346 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,808 That was three years ago. It was his last mission... 347 00:20:17,883 --> 00:20:20,875 and the agency explained it in such a way that Cal was satisfied. 348 00:20:20,953 --> 00:20:23,148 Look, it's important we know the truth, Miss Howard. 349 00:20:23,222 --> 00:20:25,520 [Sighs] Why? 350 00:20:25,591 --> 00:20:28,788 Because what I've seen, your husband was a man of principle. 351 00:20:28,860 --> 00:20:31,920 And ifhe saw something, he wouldn't just back down to save his career with the agency... 352 00:20:31,997 --> 00:20:34,431 even ifhis wife begged him to. 353 00:20:38,103 --> 00:20:42,597 He insisted on filing an official report. He wouldn't withdraw it. 354 00:20:42,674 --> 00:20:44,505 - They asked him to? - Yes. 355 00:20:44,576 --> 00:20:47,374 But he stuck by his story. They weren't happy with him. 356 00:20:47,446 --> 00:20:49,971 But like I said, that's ancient history. 357 00:20:54,519 --> 00:20:58,387 Cal's friend knew about the S. T.C. His wife knew. Maybe the agency did as well. 358 00:20:58,457 --> 00:21:00,652 So they killed him by tossing him out of an airplane? 359 00:21:00,726 --> 00:21:04,025 That field is less than a mile from the coastline. 360 00:21:04,096 --> 00:21:06,496 Obviously, they were aiming at the ocean and they missed. 361 00:21:06,565 --> 00:21:10,160 The question is why. I mean, it's a big ocean, right? There has to be a reason. 362 00:21:10,235 --> 00:21:12,465 Maybe it wasn't a U.F.O. that Cal saw. 363 00:21:12,537 --> 00:21:14,402 - Ah. - He could've seen something else. 364 00:21:14,473 --> 00:21:18,239 Oh, yeah, like a death beam or a space baby. 365 00:21:18,310 --> 00:21:22,974 I was thinking more along the lines of a spy satellite or experimental technology. 366 00:21:23,048 --> 00:21:25,676 Maybe the agency was afraid... 367 00:21:25,751 --> 00:21:28,584 that Cal was sharing sensitive information with the S.T.C. 368 00:21:28,654 --> 00:21:31,589 Well, regardless, our government does not kill people. Okay, Bones? 369 00:21:31,657 --> 00:21:34,217 [Scoffs] You were a sniper. 370 00:21:34,293 --> 00:21:37,660 Wasn't it our government who sent you to kill people? 371 00:21:39,231 --> 00:21:41,495 Just saying. 372 00:21:41,566 --> 00:21:44,034 [Sighs] 373 00:21:44,236 --> 00:21:46,796 [Liquid Bubbling] 374 00:21:48,974 --> 00:21:51,340 Mmm! Something smells good. 375 00:21:51,410 --> 00:21:54,174 Help yourself. 376 00:21:57,849 --> 00:22:02,081 [Groans] Those definitely human bones? 377 00:22:02,154 --> 00:22:06,557 Because apparently, there are a few types of aliens... races, if you will. 378 00:22:06,625 --> 00:22:08,752 One is quite reptilian, widely known as Greys. 379 00:22:08,827 --> 00:22:12,126 - Definitely human. - Another's bone structure's more amphibian. 380 00:22:12,197 --> 00:22:14,631 These bones are as human as you are. 381 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:17,931 If you only knew how irony-packed that is. 382 00:22:18,003 --> 00:22:20,233 It's a joke. 383 00:22:20,305 --> 00:22:23,604 Don't you be coming around to boil me in the middle of the night. 384 00:22:23,675 --> 00:22:28,442 There's a strange callus formation on his right femoral head. 385 00:22:28,513 --> 00:22:30,743 Also, bone marrow edema in the same spot. 386 00:22:30,816 --> 00:22:32,477 - Healing from a fracture? - No. 387 00:22:32,551 --> 00:22:35,714 It's some kind of tuberous cortical defect. 388 00:22:35,787 --> 00:22:37,721 I've never seen anything like this before. 389 00:22:37,789 --> 00:22:42,590 - Now you're freaking me out. - I have to get Dr. Brennan to take a look at this. 390 00:22:42,661 --> 00:22:47,121 It looks like he was in the initial stages of osteonecrosis. 391 00:22:47,199 --> 00:22:49,394 What did you get from the tox screen? 392 00:22:49,468 --> 00:22:55,270 Excess levels of vitamins "D," "K," "E," "A," and "C"... 393 00:22:55,340 --> 00:22:58,901 along with glutamine peptides and creatine monohydrate. 394 00:22:58,977 --> 00:23:01,912 [Zack] All the supplements he was taking before his last space mission. 395 00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:05,438 There's something odd about the texture of this bone. 396 00:23:05,517 --> 00:23:07,985 Leucine, isoleucine and valine. 397 00:23:08,053 --> 00:23:09,987 He foresaw going back into space. 398 00:23:10,055 --> 00:23:13,388 - This is not bone. - [Zack] What is it? 399 00:23:13,458 --> 00:23:17,417 A callus has formed over some kind of thick, porous substance. 400 00:23:17,496 --> 00:23:22,024 - Careful. - It's an implant of some kind. 401 00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:24,694 I never saw anything on the X-rays. 402 00:23:24,770 --> 00:23:27,432 How could that not show up on X-rays? 403 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,270 What the hell is this? 404 00:23:35,013 --> 00:23:37,948 Zoantharia of the order Sclerotinia. 405 00:23:38,016 --> 00:23:41,042 Sclerotinia has a calcium carbonate exoskeleton... 406 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,053 with a porosity similar to human bone. 407 00:23:43,121 --> 00:23:45,055 Which would make it biocompatible. 408 00:23:45,123 --> 00:23:46,920 - So it wouldn't show up on X-rays. - Wait. 409 00:23:46,992 --> 00:23:49,460 So this is coral, like from a reef? 410 00:23:49,528 --> 00:23:53,225 Suspended in a biphasic hydroxylapatite calcium phosphate coating. 411 00:23:53,298 --> 00:23:56,461 Theoretically, the calcium from the exoskeleton would grow... 412 00:23:56,535 --> 00:24:00,904 hopefully overcoming the loss of his degenerating bone. 413 00:24:00,972 --> 00:24:02,837 Then this attachment would be... 414 00:24:02,908 --> 00:24:05,570 An electromagnetic device implanted to accelerate growth. 415 00:24:05,644 --> 00:24:08,704 So it's a combination ofhuman and alien technology. 416 00:24:08,780 --> 00:24:11,408 Don't say that to Booth. But if that's the case... 417 00:24:11,483 --> 00:24:14,281 then all the vitamins and amino acids he was loaded up with... 418 00:24:14,352 --> 00:24:17,150 - were mainly to ward off infection. - And he'd need them too. 419 00:24:17,222 --> 00:24:22,057 Bone marrow's highly susceptible. This is a very risky procedure. 420 00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:24,425 I gotta say it. Frank Olson. 421 00:24:24,496 --> 00:24:27,021 He was a U.S. Army scientist in the '50s... 422 00:24:27,098 --> 00:24:29,692 and an unwitting participant in Project MK-ULTRA. 423 00:24:29,768 --> 00:24:34,364 They said he committed suicide, but an exhumation 45 years later proved he was murdered. 424 00:24:34,439 --> 00:24:38,739 You need more. Project Paperclip, MK-Artichoke. 425 00:24:38,810 --> 00:24:41,278 And who could forget Tuskegee? 426 00:24:41,346 --> 00:24:44,179 The government experiments on people, and then abandons them or worse. 427 00:24:44,249 --> 00:24:46,183 What's the point of this experiment? 428 00:24:46,251 --> 00:24:50,085 The main obstacle to long-term space travel is bone demineralization. 429 00:24:50,155 --> 00:24:53,056 If the space program could overcome this one effect... 430 00:24:53,124 --> 00:24:55,058 their funding would triple overnight. 431 00:24:55,126 --> 00:24:59,722 Well, there you go. Experimental program for deep space fails... 432 00:24:59,798 --> 00:25:01,663 and the evidence has to be gotten rid of. 433 00:25:01,733 --> 00:25:05,863 By tossing it from a plane? Why notjust have the visitors toss him into the sun? 434 00:25:05,937 --> 00:25:08,599 - That... is a good question. - [Saroyan] No, it's not. 435 00:25:08,673 --> 00:25:12,040 Sometimes when people try to cover things up, it goes wrong. That's all. 436 00:25:12,110 --> 00:25:16,444 First thing we should do is find out the source of this technology. 437 00:25:18,149 --> 00:25:22,381 [Sanborn] Colonel Reed was Cal's commanding officer on three missions. 438 00:25:22,454 --> 00:25:24,945 So you were the person to whom he reported the U.F.O. sighting? 439 00:25:25,023 --> 00:25:26,991 Oh, for God's sake. 440 00:25:27,058 --> 00:25:30,687 You see what happens? You people get all secretive about things and... 441 00:25:30,762 --> 00:25:33,458 What Cal saw was space junk. 442 00:25:33,532 --> 00:25:36,558 It was satellite parts, a discarded hatch, a screwdriver. 443 00:25:36,635 --> 00:25:38,569 That information isn't cleared. 444 00:25:38,637 --> 00:25:41,265 - Sounded like more than a screwdriver. - Well, it wasn't. 445 00:25:41,339 --> 00:25:43,170 Cal just thought we should be able to explain... 446 00:25:43,241 --> 00:25:46,074 why it was whizzing around space at 25,000 miles an hour. 447 00:25:46,144 --> 00:25:51,514 - And that's all. - Was Colonel Howard in a cast recently? 448 00:25:51,583 --> 00:25:54,074 Last winter. Said he broke his leg parasailing in the Caribbean. 449 00:25:54,152 --> 00:25:57,019 All of our astronauts suffer from brittle bones. 450 00:25:57,088 --> 00:26:00,546 I stepped off a ladder once, and my tibia snapped like a twig. 451 00:26:00,625 --> 00:26:03,526 - Why do you ask? - Because of this. 452 00:26:03,595 --> 00:26:06,291 We found it in Colonel Howard's leg. 453 00:26:06,364 --> 00:26:09,800 We think it's designed to counteract the effects of osteonecrosis. 454 00:26:09,868 --> 00:26:13,429 Experimental surgery on one of our astronauts? Absolutely not. 455 00:26:13,505 --> 00:26:16,030 Our efforts to counter bone loss are limited... 456 00:26:16,107 --> 00:26:18,541 to strength and resistance training and supplements. 457 00:26:18,610 --> 00:26:20,544 I trust you have documentation? 458 00:26:20,612 --> 00:26:23,046 Follow me. 459 00:26:23,114 --> 00:26:25,207 Thank you. 460 00:26:26,251 --> 00:26:29,812 Colonel? Have you ever seen anything? 461 00:26:29,888 --> 00:26:33,051 Any screwdrivers up there? 462 00:26:33,124 --> 00:26:36,287 There's an awful lot up there to see, Doctor. 463 00:26:36,361 --> 00:26:39,387 - The trick is not to let it cloud your judgment. - Did it ever cloud Cal's? 464 00:26:39,464 --> 00:26:41,295 Never. Not once. 465 00:26:41,366 --> 00:26:44,961 And yet he wanted to go back into space so badly... 466 00:26:45,036 --> 00:26:49,234 in spite of the physical damage it had caused him, the pain he was in. 467 00:26:49,307 --> 00:26:51,571 Let me show you something. 468 00:26:53,011 --> 00:26:57,243 You see this? That's me. And that there, that's Cal. 469 00:26:57,315 --> 00:26:59,943 Twenty minutes I spent out there that day... 470 00:27:00,018 --> 00:27:02,418 and it is the last thing I think about every night. 471 00:27:02,487 --> 00:27:06,480 - I can imagine. - No. All due respect, you really can't. 472 00:27:06,558 --> 00:27:10,824 This was the best moment of my life, counting marriage, kids, everything. 473 00:27:10,895 --> 00:27:13,329 I'm not saying that's good or right... 474 00:27:13,398 --> 00:27:15,423 but I do know it was the same for Cal... 475 00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:17,764 for all of us who went up there. 476 00:27:17,836 --> 00:27:20,202 And we would do anything we could to get back. 477 00:27:23,074 --> 00:27:25,133 [Hodgins] This coral's growth was aided artificially. 478 00:27:25,210 --> 00:27:29,146 It was seeded with resin beads on glass plates. 479 00:27:29,214 --> 00:27:31,910 Which makes it rare enough to trace to a pharmaceutical supply house... 480 00:27:31,983 --> 00:27:33,917 based in Geneva, Switzerland. 481 00:27:33,985 --> 00:27:35,919 I searched the literature. 482 00:27:35,987 --> 00:27:38,683 There's a number of clinics and researchers working on bone replacement. 483 00:27:38,757 --> 00:27:43,694 The doctor most likely to have performed this procedure on our victim is Dr. Henry Pascal. 484 00:27:43,762 --> 00:27:47,596 - In Switzerland? - Based in Bethesda, with a clinic in Haiti. 485 00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:51,033 Plus, he worked for the Space Agency until 1998. 486 00:27:51,102 --> 00:27:55,061 - What happened? - He lost his funding and turned to the private sector. 487 00:27:55,140 --> 00:27:57,108 Namely, the Space Travel Coalition. 488 00:27:57,175 --> 00:28:01,942 The foil hat squad funds this guy? Booth is gonna love that. 489 00:28:02,013 --> 00:28:05,414 - Why? - Because he doesn't believe in coincidences. 490 00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:10,553 [Jean Marie] Cal wasn't on vacation when he hurt his leg. 491 00:28:10,622 --> 00:28:12,954 He was in Haiti for a convention. 492 00:28:13,024 --> 00:28:16,187 Can you think of any reason Colonel Reed would tell us a different story? 493 00:28:16,261 --> 00:28:19,230 No. Please, what... what's going on? 494 00:28:20,498 --> 00:28:22,466 We found evidence in your husband's remains... 495 00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:26,436 that he underwent an experimental surgery in Haiti. 496 00:28:26,504 --> 00:28:28,438 What kind of experimental surgery? 497 00:28:28,506 --> 00:28:31,100 - To replace his bone loss. - Does that sound like him? 498 00:28:31,176 --> 00:28:35,442 - Yes. - Was it like your husband to keep it a secret from you? 499 00:28:35,513 --> 00:28:38,778 Yes. 500 00:28:38,850 --> 00:28:41,011 Cal wouldn't want me to worry. 501 00:28:44,089 --> 00:28:47,752 Cal Howard's skeleton before... 502 00:28:48,893 --> 00:28:51,885 and after he fell to Earth. 503 00:28:51,963 --> 00:28:55,524 Every bone showed trauma. 504 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,262 His clothing before... 505 00:29:00,338 --> 00:29:02,431 and after he fell to Earth. 506 00:29:02,507 --> 00:29:05,203 Ripped. Every seam pulled apart. 507 00:29:05,276 --> 00:29:08,302 If I make the clothing translucent... 508 00:29:11,182 --> 00:29:15,812 we can see that some of the clothing damage lines up with the trauma to his skeleton. 509 00:29:15,887 --> 00:29:19,050 And if you isolate the bone damage caused by a device capable... 510 00:29:19,124 --> 00:29:22,287 of making robust cuts in a linear path... 511 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,157 - The guy was chopped. - Chopped? 512 00:29:24,229 --> 00:29:26,720 Yeah. Clothing damage, flesh wounds... 513 00:29:26,798 --> 00:29:28,959 Bone damage. He was chopped. 514 00:29:29,033 --> 00:29:34,232 Ange, tonight, you and me, reservations at Les Deux Copains, 8:00. 515 00:29:34,305 --> 00:29:36,364 Wow. Fancy. 516 00:29:36,441 --> 00:29:40,741 - Suit-and-gown fancy, baby. So leave your mukluks at home. - What's the occasion? 517 00:29:40,812 --> 00:29:43,838 An ax or a hatchet or a machete make sharp, well-defined cuts. 518 00:29:43,915 --> 00:29:46,907 - These edges are abraded. - This our guy? 519 00:29:46,985 --> 00:29:50,887 - Hey, do aliens use any weapons resembling a... - A broadsword? 520 00:29:50,955 --> 00:29:54,652 - How about a light saber? - No. Those can cut through any known substance. 521 00:29:54,726 --> 00:29:56,819 The victim would've been completely dismembered. 522 00:29:56,895 --> 00:29:59,489 If they existed, Zack. 523 00:29:59,564 --> 00:30:03,330 Makeup, hair done, high heels... the whole enchilada. 524 00:30:03,401 --> 00:30:05,995 Only whatever's French for enchilada. 525 00:30:06,070 --> 00:30:08,368 No mukluks. Got it. 526 00:30:10,141 --> 00:30:12,905 Oh. 527 00:30:12,977 --> 00:30:16,879 Dr. Pascal, Colonel Calvin Howard is dead. 528 00:30:17,916 --> 00:30:19,850 Not because of anything I did. 529 00:30:19,918 --> 00:30:23,410 - Wow. Didn't even blink. - Colonel Howard sought me out. 530 00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:27,219 - May I know how he died? - Let's just say it was a really bad fall. 531 00:30:27,292 --> 00:30:30,750 - And what's this got to do with me? - Was your procedure a success? 532 00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:34,390 - How do you define success? - Just answer the question. 533 00:30:34,465 --> 00:30:38,094 - That's actually a fair question. - The results were heartening. 534 00:30:38,169 --> 00:30:40,763 There were extremely painful calluses growing over your implant. 535 00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:42,704 I'd very much like to see that. 536 00:30:42,774 --> 00:30:46,437 And there was no indication of an actual reversal of necrosis. 537 00:30:46,511 --> 00:30:48,843 The calluses were part of the healing process. 538 00:30:48,913 --> 00:30:53,475 See, coral resorption is slow but effective as a scaffold for osteoprogenitor cells. 539 00:30:53,551 --> 00:30:56,315 Incorporating the electrode was speeding the process. 540 00:30:56,387 --> 00:31:00,949 In my opinion, Cal was only months away from having mature lamellar bone. 541 00:31:01,025 --> 00:31:04,791 - No way to know for sure now. Right? - Correct. 542 00:31:04,863 --> 00:31:07,764 Probably to your benefit to terminate your experiment before it went wrong. 543 00:31:07,832 --> 00:31:10,630 Keep those venture capitalists on the edge of their seats. 544 00:31:10,702 --> 00:31:14,103 [Chuckles] You think I... I pushed Colonel Howard off a ladder? 545 00:31:14,172 --> 00:31:16,299 Or out of an airplane. 546 00:31:18,409 --> 00:31:22,846 Look, you can have all my data, my projections, everything. 547 00:31:22,914 --> 00:31:27,408 Colonel Howard goes on the next shuttle mission to repair the Lansing Telescope... 548 00:31:27,485 --> 00:31:29,453 I'm in every medical journal in the country. 549 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:33,616 That mission's a month away. Would his body have been ready? 550 00:31:33,691 --> 00:31:35,591 At the rate Cal was healing, I believe so. 551 00:31:35,660 --> 00:31:37,685 Did anyone at the agency know about this? 552 00:31:37,762 --> 00:31:41,664 We were gonna petition them officially next month. 553 00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:45,760 Look, you may not like me, but I was his savior and he was mine. 554 00:31:47,071 --> 00:31:49,665 I didn't kill Colonel Howard. 555 00:31:56,714 --> 00:31:58,648 - Somebody's lying to us, right? - Yeah. 556 00:31:58,716 --> 00:32:01,378 - Maybe everybody. - Well, this is your strength. 557 00:32:01,452 --> 00:32:04,888 - Reading people's minds, telling when they're lying. - My strength? Wait a second. 558 00:32:04,956 --> 00:32:06,947 The trouble is... No, no. You haven't given me anything... 559 00:32:07,025 --> 00:32:09,789 that I can spring on the suspect to see how he reacts. 560 00:32:09,861 --> 00:32:11,692 - Like what? - Like a murder weapon. 561 00:32:11,763 --> 00:32:14,061 Or whether the poor bastard was dead before he hit the ground. 562 00:32:14,132 --> 00:32:16,828 - Zack and Angela say he was. - Well, that's something. Dead how? 563 00:32:16,901 --> 00:32:19,495 - Best guess right now, a broadsword. - Broadsword? 564 00:32:19,570 --> 00:32:22,130 - Like King Arthur? - Yes. 565 00:32:22,206 --> 00:32:24,071 Broadsword? 566 00:32:24,142 --> 00:32:26,576 You know what? Bones, I like the whole alien thing much better. 567 00:32:26,644 --> 00:32:29,374 Broadsword? Where do you people come up with this stuff? 568 00:32:29,447 --> 00:32:33,144 I didn't say an actual broadsword. I said like a broadsword. 569 00:32:33,217 --> 00:32:35,515 It was the closest analog I could access. 570 00:32:35,586 --> 00:32:37,213 No traces from the weapon left on the bone? 571 00:32:37,288 --> 00:32:40,086 Traces are left when the weapon cuts deeply into the bone. 572 00:32:40,158 --> 00:32:42,388 Whatever this was wasn't very sharp. 573 00:32:42,460 --> 00:32:45,020 - Left nothing behind. - How about shape? 574 00:32:45,096 --> 00:32:48,259 [Angela] The pattern is consistent with sharp force trauma... 575 00:32:48,333 --> 00:32:52,099 from a curved blade approximately 65 millimeters thick. 576 00:32:52,170 --> 00:32:56,368 And if I am late for dinner, I will find whatever it is and I will hit you with it. 577 00:32:56,441 --> 00:32:59,376 Wow. You... You look incredible. 578 00:32:59,444 --> 00:33:03,073 - [Brennan] You really do. - You know what else I can tell just by looking at you? 579 00:33:03,147 --> 00:33:04,876 You smell great. 580 00:33:04,949 --> 00:33:07,247 You cannot see smell. 581 00:33:07,318 --> 00:33:09,343 The victim was struck four times. 582 00:33:09,420 --> 00:33:13,584 A glancing blow to the head, right humerus, thoracic and left femur. 583 00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:17,389 We couldn't figure out in what order. It's almost as though it was simultaneous. 584 00:33:17,462 --> 00:33:19,726 - The blow to the head is what killed him. - Come on. 585 00:33:19,797 --> 00:33:21,560 Four hits simultaneously with a broadsword? 586 00:33:21,632 --> 00:33:23,566 Was he attacked by the Knights of the Round Table? 587 00:33:23,634 --> 00:33:27,764 Sixty-five millimeters is too thick for a sword. Did you estimate a velocity? 588 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:31,070 The blade was moving at a velocity of approximately 116 meters per second. 589 00:33:31,142 --> 00:33:34,407 - What's that in American? - About 260 miles per hour. 590 00:33:34,479 --> 00:33:37,175 All right, look. I'm no expert in broadswords, but I do know... 591 00:33:37,248 --> 00:33:39,944 I know what happened! 592 00:33:40,018 --> 00:33:43,579 - How fast does a propeller turn? - At full speed, the tips approach the speed of sound. 593 00:33:43,654 --> 00:33:46,487 But Howard exits the airplane in flight. 594 00:33:46,557 --> 00:33:48,582 The propeller is ahead ofhim and pulling away. 595 00:33:48,659 --> 00:33:51,127 - How could he come into contact with it? - There are pusher propellers. 596 00:33:51,195 --> 00:33:54,926 - It didn't happen in the air. - He was pushed into a propeller? 597 00:33:54,999 --> 00:33:56,990 He would've turned into steak tartar. 598 00:33:57,068 --> 00:33:59,059 Scratch one item off the menu tonight. 599 00:33:59,137 --> 00:34:01,162 Not if the plane was idling. 600 00:34:01,239 --> 00:34:03,673 Propeller speeds would decrease to a thousand or so R.P.M.'s. 601 00:34:03,741 --> 00:34:05,971 - Let's go. - Where? 602 00:34:06,044 --> 00:34:09,775 - To look for a dented propeller. Come on. - Which you do not need me for. 603 00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:14,684 Hey. You're right. Here they come. 604 00:34:15,887 --> 00:34:19,288 I hope you have another warrant. 605 00:34:19,357 --> 00:34:22,383 This is for the, uh... the hangar, but not the individual planes. 606 00:34:22,460 --> 00:34:24,758 Then why are your people looking at propellers? 607 00:34:24,829 --> 00:34:27,263 Because the warrant includes anything that is in plain sight. 608 00:34:27,331 --> 00:34:30,323 "Plane" sight. [Chuckles] Get it? 609 00:34:30,401 --> 00:34:34,667 - It's a pun. - Yeah. This is not the only hangar we'll be checking out. 610 00:34:34,739 --> 00:34:38,004 - What plane are you looking for specifically? - We'll know it when we see it. 611 00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:41,136 We believe that Colonel Howard was struck by a propeller. 612 00:34:41,212 --> 00:34:44,306 We're looking for blood stains using alternate light sources. 613 00:34:44,382 --> 00:34:46,942 You think Cal walked into a propeller? 614 00:34:47,018 --> 00:34:49,350 No way he makes a bonehead move like that. 615 00:34:49,420 --> 00:34:51,980 - We surmise he was pushed. - But why? 616 00:34:52,056 --> 00:34:56,550 Here he was, this great guy. But he was a liability to one of you. 617 00:34:56,627 --> 00:34:59,528 - One of us? - Somebody wanted him dead. 618 00:34:59,597 --> 00:35:00,859 That's ridiculous. 619 00:35:00,932 --> 00:35:03,196 If it turned out Cal was able to reverse his bone loss... 620 00:35:03,267 --> 00:35:05,201 would you put him on the next shuttle? 621 00:35:05,269 --> 00:35:07,863 You know, the one to repair the Lansing Telescope again. 622 00:35:07,939 --> 00:35:10,908 - Colonel Adams is slated for that mission. - Colonel Reed? 623 00:35:10,975 --> 00:35:13,637 Well, Cal would be my first choice, yes. 624 00:35:13,711 --> 00:35:17,670 All due respect, James, but why send the student when the teacher can go? 625 00:35:17,748 --> 00:35:20,182 Look, I take no offense. Cal was the best. 626 00:35:20,251 --> 00:35:22,242 [Woman] Dr. Brennan, Agent Booth. 627 00:35:25,923 --> 00:35:28,721 - Blood. A lot of it. - It was washed down this drain here. 628 00:35:28,793 --> 00:35:31,819 - High-pressure hose. - Can you tell which plane's propeller may have done this? 629 00:35:31,896 --> 00:35:33,989 Not within the parameters of the current warrant. 630 00:35:34,065 --> 00:35:37,762 Some of these planes have covers on the propellers, so we can't see if they're damaged. 631 00:35:37,835 --> 00:35:40,303 That is your plane, isn't it, James? 632 00:35:44,342 --> 00:35:48,005 - Take it off. - Take off the cover, James. 633 00:35:48,079 --> 00:35:50,445 I respectfully decline. 634 00:35:50,515 --> 00:35:54,417 It's not his plane. It's the agency's. 635 00:35:58,589 --> 00:36:01,114 A propeller like that wouldn't get you very far. 636 00:36:01,192 --> 00:36:06,255 - Certainly not over the water. - Which is why you had to dump Cal's body short of the ocean. 637 00:36:06,330 --> 00:36:10,790 Booth! Booth! It doesn't make sense. 638 00:36:10,868 --> 00:36:13,234 The whole thing would take at least two people. 639 00:36:13,304 --> 00:36:17,035 Putting the body in the plane, cleaning up the blood, shoving the body out of the plane. 640 00:36:17,108 --> 00:36:19,633 Who are you protecting? 641 00:36:28,286 --> 00:36:31,084 ♪ [Soft Rock] 642 00:36:38,229 --> 00:36:42,256 Mrs. Howard? Is Colleen here? 643 00:36:42,333 --> 00:36:47,100 Colleen came to see me off. Saw me talking to Cal. 644 00:36:47,171 --> 00:36:50,902 He was telling me that he was going to be okay in time for the mission. 645 00:36:50,975 --> 00:36:53,443 He was sharing good news. 646 00:36:54,879 --> 00:36:58,906 But it wasn't good, not to me. 647 00:37:00,384 --> 00:37:03,080 She slapped him. That's all. 648 00:37:03,154 --> 00:37:05,679 Because she loves me. 649 00:37:05,756 --> 00:37:08,782 She knew what it meant to me not to go up. 650 00:37:10,361 --> 00:37:12,761 Cal took a step back. 651 00:37:12,830 --> 00:37:15,321 Just one. 652 00:37:15,399 --> 00:37:17,333 He fell back into the propeller. 653 00:37:17,401 --> 00:37:20,461 Why didn't you just say it was an accident? 654 00:37:20,538 --> 00:37:23,769 I don't know. We panicked. I mean, would they believe us? 655 00:37:23,841 --> 00:37:26,537 - Would they understand? - Would you ever get into space? 656 00:37:31,549 --> 00:37:35,110 [Adams] It happened because my friend shared good news with me... 657 00:37:35,186 --> 00:37:38,280 and because my wife loves me. 658 00:37:40,758 --> 00:37:42,692 I'm a blessed man. 659 00:37:46,731 --> 00:37:50,326 ♪ [Continues] 660 00:38:27,405 --> 00:38:30,374 - # [Ends] - [Angela, Hodgins Chuckling] 661 00:38:33,177 --> 00:38:35,270 How-How are you feeling? 662 00:38:35,346 --> 00:38:38,179 - What do you mean? - It's a good meal. 663 00:38:38,249 --> 00:38:40,410 Nice bottle of wine. 664 00:38:40,484 --> 00:38:43,317 You feeling loving? 665 00:38:43,387 --> 00:38:46,413 You didn't need to do all of this to get me in a loving mood. 666 00:38:46,490 --> 00:38:49,391 I don't mean in that way. 667 00:38:49,460 --> 00:38:52,395 I am madly in love with you, Angela. 668 00:38:52,463 --> 00:38:56,524 You-You are the most amazing woman that I have ever met. 669 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,468 My life is so much better since we... 670 00:39:00,538 --> 00:39:02,597 - Oh, my God. - What? 671 00:39:02,673 --> 00:39:05,301 Are you breaking up with me? 672 00:39:05,376 --> 00:39:09,073 Why would I get you all dressed up for dinner just to break up? 673 00:39:10,348 --> 00:39:12,543 I don't know. 674 00:39:12,616 --> 00:39:16,712 Because you're... I'm not thinking straight. Go ahead. 675 00:39:16,787 --> 00:39:18,778 You know, I had this all laid out in my mind. 676 00:39:18,856 --> 00:39:20,790 - Mm-hmm. - You are an upsetting woman. 677 00:39:20,858 --> 00:39:23,156 - I'm sorry. - [Chuckles] 678 00:39:23,227 --> 00:39:25,695 Please, go ahead. 679 00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:38,731 I believe that if two people care enough for each other... 680 00:39:38,809 --> 00:39:41,403 the rest of the world disappears to them. 681 00:39:41,479 --> 00:39:44,175 I feel that when I'm with you. 682 00:39:51,589 --> 00:39:55,787 I'm prepared to put you ahead of me for the rest of my life. 683 00:39:57,428 --> 00:40:01,831 Angela Montenegro, will you marry me? 684 00:40:14,945 --> 00:40:18,437 Dear man, good heart. 685 00:40:19,884 --> 00:40:21,818 No. 686 00:40:24,054 --> 00:40:25,988 Why? 687 00:40:26,056 --> 00:40:28,354 I didn't do it right again. 688 00:40:28,426 --> 00:40:30,621 But... How... 689 00:40:31,962 --> 00:40:35,125 - Oh, you're not gonna tell me. - I don't know, Hodgins. 690 00:40:35,199 --> 00:40:37,394 If I knew, I would tell you. 691 00:40:37,468 --> 00:40:42,997 But when you ask me, I have to have this... this feeling. 692 00:40:43,073 --> 00:40:45,166 It has to be... 693 00:40:49,713 --> 00:40:51,647 I'll know it when it happens. 694 00:40:51,715 --> 00:40:54,843 And I hope you won't stop trying. 695 00:40:54,919 --> 00:40:58,013 I don't know if I should laugh, cry, or punch out the sommelier. 696 00:40:58,088 --> 00:41:02,184 I'm sorry. I hope that you choose laugh. 697 00:41:02,259 --> 00:41:04,227 I don't understand. 698 00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:06,058 I don't either. 699 00:41:06,130 --> 00:41:10,658 Look, let's just finish the dessert and go back to your place... 700 00:41:10,734 --> 00:41:13,999 and make love, and maybe it'll come to me. 701 00:41:14,071 --> 00:41:16,403 - While we make love? - I said maybe. 702 00:41:21,312 --> 00:41:23,837 But... you love me? 703 00:41:27,651 --> 00:41:29,380 More than you know. 704 00:41:40,498 --> 00:41:43,433 - Did you eat yet? - I said I'd wait. 705 00:41:44,969 --> 00:41:47,597 How did you know thatJames would tell me? 706 00:41:47,671 --> 00:41:51,801 Man loves his wife. He may not be strong, but he has a conscience. 707 00:41:51,876 --> 00:41:55,073 See, I... I can't tell that stuff. 708 00:41:55,145 --> 00:41:57,807 And I can't tell the difference between coral and bone. 709 00:41:57,882 --> 00:42:01,477 So I guess we make a great pair. Hey, speaking of marriage... 710 00:42:01,552 --> 00:42:03,486 Hodgins is gonna propose to Angela tonight. 711 00:42:03,554 --> 00:42:05,988 - Huh. - What? 712 00:42:06,056 --> 00:42:09,856 I guess right now, it looks to me like marriage is having someone... 713 00:42:09,927 --> 00:42:13,488 who will slap your enemies and then toss their dead bodies out of airplanes. 714 00:42:13,564 --> 00:42:16,032 [Booth] Try not to mention that to Angela. 715 00:42:52,703 --> 00:42:54,102 What's that mean?