This week, Bones dealt with relationships, particularly those of mothers and fathers. However, the episode, titled “The Twist in the Twister,” also addressed the awesome power of Mother Nature.
When a man’s dead body is found on an archery field, cause of death seems to be a fencepost through the chest. However, once the body’s examined in the lab, they find out it had been in a tornado that happened a few weeks back.
The crew identifies the victim as Scott Braley, a 32-year-old storm chaser. After talking with his brother, they learn his expensive storm chasing vehicle is missing. They think if they find it, they’ll know where Scott got murdered. So Booth (David Boreanaz) puts out an APB and the motor home turns up in Virginia.
Without telling Temperance (Emily Deschanel) where he’s going, Booth and Sweets (John Francis Daley) head to Virginia, where they find Scott’s former driver, Nolan, using the vehicle like a motel. He tells them he has it because Scott owed him back wages.
While his story checks out, Nolan tells Seeley that Scott had a female rival named Toni Lawrence. The two of them were vying for the same movie contract. With Scott gone, Tony automatically gets the deal. It’s a motive for murder.
Booth and Sweets find Toni just as a tornado forms nearby. Booth spies an orange tank—the same color as the murder weapon—strapped to one of her vehicles. While everyone else runs to a nearby storm shelter, he wrestles the tank loose, narrowly missing getting caught up in the tornado himself.
As the group closes the shelter doors, someone else arrives—it’s Bones. Booth isn’t happy that she’s risked her and the baby’s lives in the storm.
As the tornado passes, Bones and Booth interview Toni, Wes, the movie producer, and his film assistant/girlfriend. Wes claims Scott never showed up for their interview, so he couldn’t have killed him and neither could his girlfriend. Toni says she didn’t kill Scott either, but that she heard him arguing with someone whom he owed a lot of money. Once the storm passes, a rainbow overhead pleases the film assistant but affects no one else.
A check of Scott’s finances leads Booth back to the victim’s brother—his funding source. His brother agrees they did argue but says they also came to a deal. Scott had one more year to make a go of the business before he pulled financing.
In the lab, Angela (Michaela Conlin) and Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) are working sleep deprived. Baby Michael won’t sleep. So when Angela’s dad wants to take him out, they try to stop him, fearing he’ll stimulate the child even more.
Eventually, however, they give in and let grandpa babysit. Angela’s figured out a formula to ID from where the victim’s body came. She and Hodgins take a team to look for more clues. They find one of Scott’s storm chasing machines, proving he’d been there. They also find orange-colored glass covered with Scott’s blood. They also find green, blue, and purple glass. The murder weapon was a rainbow-colored water bottle.
Booth questions Wes’s girlfriend. She confirms she was in Scott’s mobile home, where she had sex with his driver, Nolan. Her boyfriend found out and dumped her, but apparently not before killing Scott by mistake.
When Angela and Hodgins return home, they hear loud music playing. They’re furious until they find Michael sound asleep. It seems the music soothes him.
On another home front, Bones confronts Booth about being overprotective. He tells she’s right but he isn’t going to stop.
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