Previously on Bones...
He was a good man. He was gonna make it.
BOOTH: So everyone in here has done time?
Yeah. I told you my guys had nothing to do with this.
Oh, three more bodies.
The bodies burned for different amounts of time.
SAROYAN: That and the creepy removal of the tattoos.
I'm calling this a serial killer.
There appear to be symmetrical curve marks
through the clavicles and the upper thorax.
Just like Freeman.
These killings could have
a ritualistic component.
We found three more bodies where Connor was being held captive.
Two of them had connections to Rockwell,
one we're still waiting on.
Listen to me, Alex, if you run, they're not gonna believe you.
You need to talk to them now. Rockwell?
He has a knife in the car!
I don't have a clear shot. I do.
(grunts)
Booth.
Rockwell?
How you doing?
You decided what you want for your last meal request?
I'll eat whatever the kitchen is serving the other inmates.
Aw. They'll make whatever you want.
Final 48 hours are approaching.
Means you get one visit with your family and a priest,
but you got to fill out this form first.
I know the rules.
I have no family and no priest.
They gave up on me a long time ago.
Listen.
The warden can assign you a chaplain if you want one...
I need nothing, thanks.
I'm all I need.
(knocking)
Look, Bones, this is, like, the fourth message
that I've left you already, all right?
So just do me a favor.
I'm getting just a little worried right now, okay?
So, you get this message, I want you to call me
or text me, got it?
Well, this is a big honor.
Being invited to Sunday dinner.
Everything okay?
Bones was supposed to be home hours ago.
She's been at the lab all weekend long
going over her findings from the Alex Rockwell case.
Why? I mean, that was seven months ago.
And she got a conviction.
Well, it's her process before anyone is executed.
You know? She has to look at her work.
So Rockwell didn't file for an appeal?
No, not at all.
He even aske$ to move up the execution date.
Well, if that doesn't say guilty, I don't know what does.
CHRISTINE: I'm starving.
If I don't eat soon, I'll die.
BOOTH: Right. Coming up!
Hey, what if I sneak you a snack?
Seriously? You carry snacks in your pocket?
Uh, yeah, in case of emergencies like this one.
I don't think my mom would want me eating those.
No, I'll tell you what-- she wouldn't want you eating those.
That's a good choi... She's not picking up.
Okay, Christine, you know what?
Field trip time. Let's go get Mom.
But I'm hungry!
You know, if you want, I can watch the mini-Booth.
What? I mean,
I'm closer to her in age.
We'll have plenty to talk about.
Go, go. It's fine. I'm good with the kids.
Come on, Christine and I will be fine, right?
Okay.
Listen to me then, all right?
I don't want you eating any of these.
No sugar. Broccoli only, all right?
You hear me? Broccoli.
Can I see those gummy bears again?
Dr. Brennan.
It's late. You shouldn't be here.
He has osteophytes on both coracoid processes.
It makes no sense.
Are you okay?
No, I-I don't believe I am.
Is it the baby?
What? The baby?
No. The baby's fine.
Look at these.
What am I looking at?
Our murderer!
These are Alex Rockwell's humeral heads and scapulas.
There is increased bone growth around
the glenoid fossa of the right scapula
and osteophytes on both coracoid processes.
Okay, Alex Rockwell
had untreated rotator cuff injuries in both shoulders.
And they're over ten years old.
I'm sorry, I don't get the cause for alarm.
Because he's going to be executed.
And there's no way he could've killed Leonard Barnes.
He wasn't tried for Barnes' murder.
Only the other three. Caroline...
I know. The evidence for Barnes
was older than the others, but...
Bones, wait a sec, what are you still doing here?
You were supposed to be home hours ago.
I need to find Leonard Barnes' file.
Barnes? He was Rockwell's first victim.
We found him with the others at the ironworks factory.
I know who he is. Why are we looking for his file?
Because I don't think Alex Rockwell is our serial killer.
Hold it right there, okay? He was convicted
off of your evidence and your testimony.
SAROYAN: Dr. Brennan, how long has it been since you slept?
You're pregnant. Maybe the stress...
Yes, I am pregnant, Dr. Saroyan.
But that in no way compromises my mental acumen.
I am making sense, Booth.
I found her like this
poring over Alex Rockwell's X-rays.
BOOTH: His X-rays?
What are we doing with Rockwell's X-rays?
They were taken by the prison doctor after he got into a fight
a few months ago. And they confirm
that he couldn't have killed Leonard Barnes.
Barnes sustained blunt force trauma to his left parietal
and spinous processes of the L1 through L5
from someone swinging a pipe
from a high angle in a downward motion.
Oh, my God. BOOTH: Okay, look, everyone just...
someone, please tell me what's going on.
This case was a slam dunk.
BRENNAN: Alex Rockwell's rotator cuff injuries.
He would've been incapable of meeting
the force profile required to beat Leonard Barnes to death.
SAROYAN: All the victims,
including Barnes, had that same ritualistic
triangle carved into the tissue of their upper chests.
All their DNA was found on the knife
in Alex's car-- I-I ran the tests myself.
BOOTH: Okay, if Rockwell didn't kill Barnes, then
it's possible he didn't kill any of the victims we found.
Which means... they could be executing an innocent man.
In just over 48 hours.
♪ Bones 10x18 ♪ The Verdict in the Victims Original Air Date on May 7, 2015
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WOMAN: I don't understand.
You three are responsible for the conviction
of Alex Rockwell,
and now you're asking me to stay his execution?
BRENNAN: Yes.
Or at least just postpone it
till we get to the bottom of all this.
We did get to the bottom of it,
several months ago in court.
You consulted with the D.A. prosecuting Rockwell,
Ms. Julian. Why are you wasting my time?
CAROLINE: I trust these two, Your Honor.
If they say something's hinky,
then something's hinky.
The last time I looked, hinky was not a legal strategy.
Listen, I haven't had breakfast yet, so...
The blows to Leonard Barnes could not...
Wait, wait, wait.
Leonard Barnes?
Alex Rockwell wasn't even tried for Barnes' murder.
Right, but the four murders were linked.
I mean, look, if Rockwell didn't kill Barnes,
it's likely he didn't kill any of them.
"Likely," "hinky."
What's next-- "maybe"?
Leonard Barnes is not relevant.
Alex Rockwell is being executed for the murders
of Father Douglas Nabors, Ted Widmer and Connor Freeman.
But those... No, no, no.
No more theories, Dr. Brennan.
Do you have conclusive evidence
that would overturn his conviction?
Not yet. You know, we just... we just need more time.
Sorry, kids,
I have no legal grounds
to postpone this execution.
I can provide the evidence if I can re-examine the remains.
You want to exhume four bodies?
How else would I be able to re-examine the remains?
BOOTH: Please, just give us this one.
You don't want an innocent man's death on your head, do you?
Cute.
Any objection from the Justice Department?
I have no objection.
All right, I will sign an exhumation order.
But I don't want to see any of you
in my chambers again
until you have concrete evidence.
Angela's particle scanner uses similar technology
to what was used to read through the layers
of the Herculaneum charred scrolls.
Yeah, think of it as a high-pressure X-ray.
It should be able to determine
the force applied to these fractures,
and hopefully prove Brennan's theory.
I can't believe your country still executes prisoners.
I believe it's your country now, too.
Yeah, and if you want to prevent the death of an innocent man,
I suggest you familiarize yourself with these case files.
BRENNAN: And the 824
bones before you, because Mr. Rockwell
will be dead in 36 hours and 16 minutes.
FUENTES: So, based on time of death,
Leonard Barnes was the very first victim.
SAROYAN: Which explains why that murder was the most violent.
Our killer hadn't honed his skills yet.
FUENTES: And all the remaining victims
were then killed in a similar manner.
But the jugular veins were more
expertly severed. BRENNAN: Except for Connor Freeman,
who escaped and died in the mine explosion.
MONTENEGRO: Okay.
That should do it.
I'm gonna load this in the Angelatron.
My God.
You okay there, buddy?
All these victims were tortured and left to slowly bleed out.
I can never understand
how somebody could do something like this.
Let's hope we figure out who it is before it's too late.
So why have we brought in Thomas Saltz?
Well, if Rockwell didn't do it, then somebody planted
the murder weapon in his car, right?
Saltz-- he worked with him at the bakery,
borrowed his car all the time.
Giving Saltz means and opportunity
to plant evidence in the car.
Look, during the trial, Rockwell's lawyer
tried to drum up reasonable doubt
by pointing the finger at Thomas Saltz.
So maybe it was more than reasonable doubt?
We're gonna find out, huh?
The jury convicted Alex.
Man, I had nothing to do with those murders.
Well, we have reason to believe that Alex may be innocent.
So you think I did it instead? Borrowed his car
a few times a week, didn't you?
So? So it would've been real easy for you
to stash the murder weapon in it.
Look, I borrowed his car to go to my N.A. meetings.
Ah, look at that.
N.A.-- Narcotics Anonymous. That's good.
Right? Now we're getting somewhere.
Look, I'm clean. You can ask my sponsor.
Why would I kill all those people? I've never even had
an assault conviction. You had a connection
to at least two of the victims.
Yeah. Two of your prison mates there,
Widmer and Freeman.
Plus, we know that Father Nabors visited Alex
at the bakery, tried to get him back to church.
You were friends with Alex;
maybe you didn't like the idea of losing him.
SALTZ: That's crazy.
What's crazy? The night Connor was killed,
I was at one of my N.A. meetings.
I go to the same meeting every week.
You can check.
FUENTES: All the damage I'm seeing
is already listed in the case files.
It is new.
What is it, Dr. Fuentes? Right there.
A faint, curved striation toward the medial end
of Father Nabor's left clavicle, further in than the kerf mark.
Do any of the other victims
have that same striation on their clavicle?
Not that I saw, but some of these remains
are extremely damaged by the fire.
Perhaps Angela's scans will see something else.
I hope, because this could just be Rockwell's hand slipping
when he was carving up his victim.
But now we know,
even after examining these remains numerous times,
we still have new evidence to find.
GUARD: Open 12.
GUARD 2: 12 open. (door buzzes)
(door opens)
GUARD (over intercom): Closing 12.
I declined all visitors.
Yeah, I'm sorry, but the laws concerning
an ongoing investigation, they trump those wishes.
Look, I'm here to help you.
No, thank you.
Just listen to me. We...
(sighs)
We reopened the investigation into the murders.
We think you may be innocent.
You understand what I'm saying to you?
You'd be wasting your time.
Are you saying you're guilty?
I'm saying there's nothing left for me on this earth.
You have a son.
Is he nothing to you?
I've been fighting for a decent life
since I was born, Agent Booth.
I've finally learned that true justice isn't here,
not on this earth.
I'm putting myself in God's hands now.
If you're putting your faith into God,
then you should put your faith into other people.
Nice thought.
The truth is, once I'm dead,
after a couple of days, I won't even cross your mind.
Look, who else would've killed those people, Rockwell?
Who else?
(muffled): Pick it back up.
Pick the phone back up.
(muffled): Hey! I am trying to help you!
Listen to me. Hey!
Who else?
(door buzzes)
You wanted to see me, Dr. Fuentes?
Did Ted Widmer use drugs?
Not that we found in the initial investigation.
Why?
I found a tiny nick
in the base of Widmer's manubrium,
indicative of an injury caused by a needle.
Was this nick in Dr. Brennan's original findings?
No.
I didn't see anything like it in the other remains.
SAROYAN: We know the killer
injected his victims with opiates
at the base of their skull.
Maybe this is another injection site.
Have we heard anything from Booth?
Apparently,
Alex is being uncooperative,
so Booth's on his way to see Alex's ex-girlfriend.
Maybe she can help. Well, hopefully,
she can point us in the direction of a suspect.
'cause I got to say, I'm gonna swab this,
but honestly, with only 27 hours left,
I am not feeling too optimistic.
So no luck with the fibers retrieved from Alex's car?
No. So far, everything points back to Alex.
There's nothing that links to Saltz. FUENTES: This is ridiculous.
We're trying to find a serial killer in one day.
Yeah, this is the problem with the death penalty.
Innocent people die. Well, we don't know
for sure that Rockwell is innocent.
Perhaps Dr. Brennan was mistaken,
and his rotator cuff injuries didn't prevent him
from killing Barnes. FUENTES: Makes no difference.
Putting people to death is inhumane.
What happened to these people in that factory was inhumane.
So you believe in the death penalty?
My personal beliefs aren't pertinent to this case.
You cannot be serious.
42% of death row population is black,
yet African-Americans make up
only 13.2% of the overall U.S. population.
SAROYAN: So a person shouldn't believe
in the death penalty because of
the color of their skin? How liberal of you.
If it was Michelle on this table,
I'd want the person who killed her to pay in kind.
And so would you, if it was Michael Vincent.
I'd like to think that I'm better than that.
And I'd feel fine
knowing justice was served.
And I'm grateful to finally be in a country
where we can debate about this.
But not right now.
Rockwell dies
tomorrow at midnight.
Me, personally?
I don't want his life on my head
if he's innocent.
I'll swab the needle mark.
WOMAN: Now Alex is saying
he was framed? BOOTH: No.
He's not saying anything.
See, that's why we're here.
All I know is I was living
with a criminal.
I can't help you.
Lauren... No, Torrance.
I have stood by Alex time and time again,
and he always lands back in prison.
I have to think about Zeke now.
My son is my priority.
No one else. All right. Pastor Evans,
I-I remember you from Alex's trial.
You, Alex and Lauren-- you go way back, right?
Yeah, Alex and I came up
as altar boys together under Father Nabors.
I guess you could say our lives took different paths.
Are you two...
He's Zeke's godfather.
That's all.
TORRANCE: It's hard to raise a child
without a man in the house.
I'm just doing what I can.
BOOTH: I'm sorry, but where was all this concern
for Lauren and Zeke
when you testified against Alex at the trial?
Excuse me, but I didn't testify against Alex.
You testified that Alex held a grudge against Father Nabors.
Father Nabors kicked Alex out of the altar boy program
when he caught Alex stealing.
Alex never forgave him for that.
You see how that could be construed
as pretty damning testimony?
I was asked a question.
I was under oath.
A-Am I a suspect now?
Well, we're just asking questions, that's all.
Gentlemen,
I'm sorry Alex is about to be executed.
I personally believe that his judgment
should be between him and God.
But he's there because of choices he made.
Not because I put him there.
BRENNAN: You don't really believe
that Torrance Evans killed all those people
and framed Alex to get to his family, do you?
Look, I don't know anything, but we don't...
we're running out of time right here.
We got to look at everyone, okay?
Aubrey is-is digging up
everything he can on Evans right now.
I'm just trying to say that there's no evidence
to indicate that Evans is a serial killer.
There's no evidence that indicates anything
about anyone except Rockwell.
Do you see? That's the problem.
So you think I'm wrong.
That Rockwell is guilty.
(scoffs) I didn't say that.
You didn't have to.
Look, I think that you're the best, okay?
I am putting everything on you.
I'm trusting you.
MAN: Excuse me, Agent Booth?
Mr. Flender. What are you doing here?
Thomas Saltz came into work today very upset.
He said that you guys brought him in.
I don't have time for your lectures
on how good your men are. That's not why I'm here.
Like you, I believe that Alex Rockwell is innocent.
Do you have any information pertinent to the case?
No, but...
you could bring me in. Officially, as a suspect.
I don't understand. Why would you want to do that?
Are you confessing? No.
But Rockwell, Saltz, the other ex-cons--
they all worked for me.
That makes me as much of a suspect as Saltz, right?
So the judge will have to postpone the execution
if you tell her that I'm your main suspect.
You would do that for Alex?
I'd do that for any of my men
who I believed were innocent. The judge
is not gonna stop the execution because we bring you in.
She's gonna want hard evidence.
So where does that leave Alex?
HODGINS: There was nothing in the new swab.
So I just went over every one of my original findings--
I mean, every particulate, every fungi...
Let me guess.
You found nothing new. (sighs)
I feel completely useless here, you know?
What are these? What, are we house hunting?
Oh. Uh, that's nothing.
Oh... don't worry about that. Oh!
These are Paris listings.
You want to buy a vacation home in Paris.
I... I was thinking about a home home.
It-it... it's stupid.
It's not even important right now.
Angie, Angie,
talk to me. What's going on?
I just started imagining
what our lives would be like without all this death
and shadow governments and-and serial killers.
What a life would be like
without my best friend's house getting shot up.
Where you could maybe teach at the Sorbonne and-and...
I could paint stuff.
Doesn't that sound nice?
This is a little more than imagining.
I mean, you're serious.
Wh-When were you gonna mention this to me?
Well, I mean, I was working on the case.
You-you brought it up.
It was sitting on your desk. Well, I-I...
I don't think we should talk about it right now.
(sighs)
You're right. Yeah.
So, uh, the scan I did
confirmed Brennan's theory.
Rockwell was incapable of the force profile
for the fractures to Barnes' skull.
So then I remembered something that Sweets said.
That a serial killer usually has
a personal connection to his first victim.
So I went through Barnes' e-mails and bills.
Mm-hmm.
Now, we already knew he was into cocaine.
Two weeks before he died,
he spent an exorbitant amount of money
on flowers for a funeral.
A funeral? Who died?
His driver. He had a driver?
Yeah. He was loaded.
I'll keep looking and see if anything else jumps out at me.
Yeah.
I looked into Pastor Evans and found a sealed juvie record
from when he was 15 for car theft.
Are you trying to tell me
you didn't pull any dumb stuff in your youth?
Me? I was a Boy Scout.
Actually a Boy Scout.
Anyway, look,
other than the sealed juvie record, guy's clean.
What about Dr. Brennan and the cute Cuban at the lab?
Between all those victims,
they've got enough bones to fill a clown car.
Have they found anything?
Uh, a needle mark, a cut that they didn't see before,
but nothing that gives us another killer.
What is it?
What are we missing?
Bones.
Wait a second. Bones, wake up.
What is it? Wh-What's wrong? Wake up, listen.
Uh... there's a pattern.
The dates that the victims died.
I can't believe I didn't see this.
It was right in front of me. Wh-What pattern?
Look, the killer hasn't gone more than three or four months
without killing someone.
Sweets used to say
that serial killers are compulsive by nature.
They can't stop. Right, so and if Rockwell's been in jail
for more than seven months-- I mean,
if the real killer is still out there...
He must have killed someone in the last few months.
There has to be another body out there, Bones.
There just has to be.
(sighs)
So we have to get into the head of the killer,
so I did some research on the history
of the Scovell Iron Works factory.
Now, it turns out that land belonged
to a monastery in the 1700s.
So the factory was built on holy land.
Given the ritualistic nature of the killings,
that can't be a coincidence.
Yeah, exactly. Which means the killer would
want his new hideaway to be on holy ground.
Well, this is a map of all of the religious ground
in the tri-state area.
That's a lot of ground to cover.
Yeah, but we know he needs his privacy, right?
So we can rule out any active churches, mosques,
synagogues.
So that narrows us down to 42 locations.
42. Well, that's a start, Dr. Hodgins.
Send everything you have over to the FBI.
I want us all working on this.
Well, it looks like you haven't moved in quite a while.
Have they found a new victim yet?
Angela's working with the FBI
to try to narrow down a possible location.
And Booth is trying Rockwell one more time.
And I brought you breakfast.
Oh, thank you, I'm not hungry. Maybe you're not,
but that little person inside must be starving.
It's an eggless tofu omelet.
Booth said it's your favorite,
which is upsetting, but eat, please.
Thank you.
Have you found anything yet?
No.
No, I-I pride myself on my thoroughness
and not making mistakes, and yet I've made a mistake.
All the evidence pointed to Rockwell,
including the knife they found in his car.
This isn't your fault.
Of course it is.
It's my work that put him on death row.
The only person responsible is the bastard
who killed those four men and framed Rockwell.
I wish I could believe that.
MONTENEGRO: Hey.
I think we did it. We found a location
that might give us a new victim.
Aubrey and Caroline are on their way
to the judge right now to get a warrant.
See?
We will solve this case, Dr. Brennan.
Yes.
But my fear is that when we do,
Rockwell will already be dead.
You can sit.
No, we can't, Cherie.
C-Can you try the judge again?
We really need that warrant.
She is probably in the parking structure.
There's no cell service there.
It won't hurt your fingers
to push those little buttons and try.
Look, we find a location, yet?
This kid here has a good brain stuck
in that cute head of his.
Okay, so needed to find a place
that was remote, abandoned and holy.
This abandoned water treatment plant was built on land
that belonged to the Kiskiack tribe.
It's on holy ground.
And at a treatment plant, they purify water...
Guy's a religious nut-- okay, so the deaths
and the burning after is just some kind of a purification.
You got it, Cher. Couldn't you just eat him up?
Oh, God.
What now? Search warrant, Your Honor.
All right, let me get a coffee,
and then we'll talk. No, no time.
(sirens wailing, indistinct police radio chatter)
N-N-No, l-listen to me for a second.
Bones, all right, listen, it's not safe for you to be here.
I don't know, they kicked us out
because they smelled some kind of fumes.
All right, I'll tell you what.
I'll get all the information to you
as soon as I find things out. Thanks. Bye.
So we found the victim
in a barrel of ammonia inside the facility.
Ammonia's one of the chemicals they use to purify water.
Also good for dissolving tissue
if used in a high enough concentration.
Wow, I could make you an honorary squint.
Listen, before they rushed us out of there,
we also found a worktable with large dried blood stains.
Victim was probably bled like the others. HODGINS: All right, well,
we'll know for sure when we're done examining the remains.
I got to get back under the tent.
Well, I got to get back into the plant.
There's got to be evidence in there that needs to be secured.
We'll take care of it. Guys, you don't understand.
One false move in there, one mistake,
and any moisture on your body could react with the ammonia
and burn you from the inside out.
I'll stay out here, no problems.
Don't have the suit, gonna stay right here, right?
Yeah. Sir, this was found
hanging from a pipe inside the plant.
Okay.
There you go-- it's a piece of tattooed skin
like the one we found at the ironworks.
This is our guy.
Which means we definitely got
the wrong guy on death row.
FUENTES: Based on the pitting on the bones, these remains
have been in the ammonia for roughly three months.
SAROYAN: That fits the right time frame based on our killer's pattern.
HODGINS: Hopefully, I can pinpoint a more specific
time of death once I get a sample of the ammonia here.
Well, we need to hose down the remains immediately.
N-N-No, that could wash away vital evidence.
If we don't, the ammonia's gonna keep eating away
at what little tissue we have.
Forward protrusion of the anterior aspect of the mandible.
Narrow zygomatic arch.
The victim's a black female.
His first female victim.
That we know of.
Keep it.
Thank you, ma'am.
CAROLINE: Judge Edwards.
This cup of coffee I'm drinking.
We found another victim, same M.O.
The evidence matches the other victims.
Evidence? Real evidence?
This victim has been dead for three months.
Her tattooed flesh was found hanging at the crime scene.
Just like at the ironworks factory.
CAROLINE: And they found a similar
work area at the plant,
with bloody restraints, worktables.
It's all in the file. BRENNAN: Alex Rockwell has been
in solitary confinement on death row for seven months.
He could not have done this.
I sympathize with what you're trying to do,
but Rockwell's was a very highly publicized trial.
This latest murder could be a copycat killing.
No... the method is too precise,
too exacting to be a copycat.
CAROLINE: Why don't we all just admit
what's really happening here?
Executing Alex Rockwell furthers your political aspirations
as a law and order candidate.
I don't give a crap what you think about me, Miss Julian.
The law is the law.
Provide me with proof
that Rockwell did not kill Nabors, Freeman or Widmer,
or he will be executed as planned in nine hours.
(sighs)
Damn.
"Harbor no ill will.
"Forgive those who might hurt and betray you.
"Expect nothing, but give everything.
"What others say is not who you are.
"The love you hold inside is who you are.
"Trust in the Lord, for there is no other justice than in him.
Love, Papa."
(door opens)
GUARD: Rockwell, it's time.
For my son.
Sure.
Open 14.
(door buzzes) GUARD: 14 open.
Step out.
We'll take you to the holding room.
You'll wait there until it's time
to take you to the execution chamber.
Right hand.
There's a deep striation to the victim's anterior C-6.
SAROYAN: Well, that confirms that she bled out
through her jugular vein
like the other victims.
I also found kerf marks on the victim's right clavicle
and marks on the upper thorax.
She was definitely killed by the same person
who murdered all the other four victims.
(computer beeps)
Ooh, I got a match.
FUENTES: Already?
Yeah, looks like an ex-con.
Seems like the black-sleeve rose tattoo really did the trick.
It was listed as a unique identifier.
Tracy Taylor, 33,
reported missing by her parole officer two months ago.
CAROLINE: Possession,
dealing, DUIs, prostitution.
This little Tracy Taylor was a busy woman.
Makes her a perfect candidate to be purified.
So I get why this sick puppy thinks
the ex-cons need to be purified,
but what did Father Nabors and Barnes do
to earn their spot on the list?
I have no idea. When we catch him, you can ask him yourself.
Spoke to Tracy Taylor's parole officer;
apparently, Tracy was getting her life back together.
CAROLINE: And I'm planning on entering
the Miss USA Pageant. Right?
He said that she was regularly attending
Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
Let me guess-- the same meetings that Thomas Saltz attended.
You got it. Look, I want Saltz back in here now.
And anyone else from the N.A. meeting
who may have seen him and Tracy Taylor together
the day she disappeared.
On it.
Right, okay, so witnesses at the meetings say
that you and Tracy Taylor fought for months
leading up to her disappearance.
One guy even said that you were the reason
Tracy stopped coming to the meetings.
Oh, so now I've killed five people?
Did you call Flender?
'Cause I'm not saying anything till he gets me a lawyer.
Really? Okay, what was it, huh? She get on your nerves?
She find out about the other murders?
Maybe she knew that you weren't at N.A.
the night that Connor Freeman was murdered.
BOOTH: That makes sense. What?
She's the only one standing between
you and the perfect alibi? No.
You guys are wrong. Oh, really?
Why don't you help us out, then?
Tracy and I fought.
She kept trying to get me using again.
Why'd she finally stop? I don't know.
Maybe someone threatened to call the cops on her.
I swear on my mama's soul,
I had no idea that she was dead.
BRENNAN: Kyle Martin. Who is Kyle Martin?
SAROYAN: Please don't tell me you found another victim.
MONTENEGRO: No. I've been looking
for the link between Leonard Barnes
and anyone else in Rockwell's life.
And he's the link.
So who is he? What's the connection?
He was Barnes' driver.
He died two weeks before Barnes went missing.
You said he spent a ton on flowers for a funeral.
It was Kyle Martin's funeral? Yeah.
Look at his death certificate.
BRENNAN: Says he died of a drug overdose.
Well, Barnes had cocaine in his system, lots of it.
Maybe they were drug buddies.
I'm still confused. What does this have to do
with Alex Rockwell? MONTENEGRO: It doesn't.
It has to do with
someone else in Rockwell's life.
Look at Kyle Martin's mother's name
on the death certificate.
"Rosamund... Flender"?
Oh, my God.
So Kyle Martin was related to Roger Flender, the baker.
Rosamund Flender was Roger Flender's sister.
Kyle Martin was his nephew.
Kyle O.D.s while working for Barnes,
and then two weeks later, Barnes is murdered?
Flender is the only one connected to all five victims.
Barnes was the first victim,
which means he must have been Flender's trigger.
Roger Flender framed Alex.
He's our serial killer.
So Flender thinks he's some kind of a messiah
and all the ex-cons that are working for him
are like his disciples.
He even offered himself up in place of Alex
like some sort of martyr.
So as long as they abide by his rules,
he keeps them protected. Right.
And they're all devoted to him because you know what?
He gave them all a second chance.
CAROLINE: So he kills anyone
who tries to lead his men away from righteousness.
And to Flender,
only death could wash these sins away.
This isn't gonna be enough
for Judge Edwards.
It's all circumstantial. We need proof.
BOOTH: Bones is looking at the remains again.
She's gonna come up with something.
Hope she can do it in less than an hour, Cher.
Start at the distal ends of the tibias and proceed upwards.
Tell me everything you find,
no matter how small or insignificant.
This mark...
What is it?
Well, you found a curved striation
on Father Nabors' left clavicle yesterday.
Yes, it seemed to have been caused
when his hand slipped as he was cutting into the victim.
I don't think it was a slip.
It looked just like this one.
I believe you're right, yes.
It's a perfect curve.
One mark like this could be a slip, but...
Not two.
This is the kind of mark
you'd expect to find if it was drawn with a compass.
I'll check the other remains.
Even if the mark is not evident,
Angela's particle scans should show evidence of pressure
that could indicate the same curve.
We might be able to determine
the weapon that was used to do this.
If this man Flender felt that he was performing a ritual,
then he'd consider his weapon holy.
Which means he would still have it. Go!
BRENNAN: Focus on the clavicles, ribs and sternum.
MONTENEGRO: Okay, these are the burnt layers
being stripped away.
FUENTES: There it is.
The curved striations are forming a circle
in the triangle.
SAROYAN: What's that dot in the center?
It's probably from the weapon
that was used to create the perfect circle.
BRENNAN: A compass of some kind was used
to create this ritualistic symbol.
A triangle pointing downward could represent a lot of things.
Femininity, water...
No. Hold on, hold on.
It's deity.
This is the Masonic symbol for deity.
Look-it, look...
The point in the center
represents an individual "brother."
The circle itself signifies
the boundary line of his duty to God and man.
That's it! I-I'll call Booth.
(heart monitor beeping steadily)
(indistinct police radio chatter)
(indistinct conversations)
FLENDER: You'll find nothing, Agent Booth,
because there's nothing to find.
There's no way you're getting away with this.
Getting away with what? I provide a livelihood
for men that society has deemed worthless
because they served a little time.
God's work?
I don't expect you to understand.
Look, I understand you're not God.
No sign of the knife used on Tracy Taylor
or anything that ties him to the ironworks factory.
Well, it was good (phone ringing) seeing you all again.
Ah! Have a seat, will you?
Sit down.
Bones, listen, you got to give me something,
or this guy's gonna walk.
It's a compass.
The circles were created with a Masonic compass.
It will have all five of the victims' DNA on it.
Okay, okay.
What? What are we looking for?
Make sure he stays put.
Hurry, Cher, Alex Rockwell has less than 15 minutes.
Okay, okay.
Wait a second. Masons are builders, right?
AUBREY: Yes. Traditionally,
stone and brick builders.
Uh, Aubrey's correct.
Hold on.
What is it, Booth?
Did you find it?
Hold on for a second.
There we go.
(mutters quietly)
Wow. What do we have here, huh?
We got him. Call it in.
Bones, we got him.
We got Flender.
(chuckles softly)
I kept my men safe, and I was obedient to my calling.
My perfect obedience is through my suffering, my death
and ultimately, one day, my resurrection.
I may not believe in the death penalty anymore,
but with you, I'd make an exception.
Get him out of here.
Judge? Ms. Julian.
We have your evidence.
♪ Idle as it seemed ♪
♪ Trudging through the mist ♪
♪ Following the creeks ♪
♪ Erasing dim lines on theist ♪
♪ Eager to arrive ♪
♪ Leaving footprints in the clay... ♪
Rockwell's alive.
Oh. Thank God.
I can't imagine what he must be feeling.
Probably grateful to have
another shot at living his life.
If it were me,
I would vow not to put off any dreams until later,
because later... later is not a guarantee.
Oh.
Hey, I'm sorry about the whole Paris thing.
I-I wasn't trying to be sneaky, I just...
Well, if you had
talked to me, I would have told you
that I thought you were dreaming a little too small.
Oh, my God.
Whoa. Wait, these...
these houses are beautiful.
Well, we have the money now, right?
And Michael Vincent needs a place to play,
and you need a studio.
Are you actually considering this?
After ten years,
I think we deserve to let life surprise us, don't you?
Yeah.
BOOTH: Well, you did good today.
We did. Yeah.
Was so afraid, Booth.
(sighs) You know what, Bones?
You got to have as much faith in you as I do.
I imagine if Flender is sentenced to death,
Judge Edwards will get what she wants after all.
Yeah.
A society based on vengeance.
You don't believe in the death penalty anymore?
No.
Not after all this, no.
No.
But you know what? Enough about death.
I mean, we have a whole new beautiful life to focus on.
Isn't that right, Tiger?
Tiger? Ah, it just came out of my mouth.
Come on, let's get mom and baby to bed.
Oh, well, I'm actually a little hungry.
Hungry? Of course you are. Tigers, they love to eat.
Tell you what, I'll make you one of those
big, huge veggie sandwiches you like.
I would like that very much.
Ooh! And some leftover dumplings from Hop Li.
Of course you would like that.
And a piece of that, um, banana walnut cake.
Right, Bones, by the time we get all that eaten,
it's gonna be breakfast.
Well, an omelette sounds good, actually.
Omelette and waffles. Yes.
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