The body washed up on the bay. Could be Carlie Richardson.
- And I'm supposed to know who that is? - Disappeared a year ago. She was pregnant.
Come on, Bones. You have to get a TV.
Or at least thumb through a People.
Was it in the Journal of Forensic Anthropology?
I forgot to renew my subscription. You need to take up some other interests.
I'm reading Ted Gioia's History of Jazz. Was she in there?
Or maybe in McGee's Science and Lore of the Kitchen?
Or perhaps I should develop an interest
in the media's exploitation of crimes for entertainment value.
It's amazing, Bones. You can really be snotty sometimes.
- So, Carlie Richardson? - Newlywed.
Everyone assumed she was murdered. Husband was cheating on her.
There was evidence they had a fight. He was covered in scratches.
Witnesses saw him down by the marina, but without the body, they had to kick him free.
Well, if she's been in the water for a year, the bones will be saturated.
- I'll need nylon mesh bagging... - Cam's bringing in everything on the truck.
There's not gonna be a lot of flesh for Cam to deal with.
Hey, Bones, Cam is in charge now. She runs the place. It's her call.
Then let's hurry. I don't want my remains compromised.
- OK. - I don't care if she's the boss.
The bones belong to me.
Booth. Oh, yeah, Rebecca.
Whoa, wait a second. Slow down, OK? This is my weekend with Parker.
I am his father. All right? Stu is your boyfriend.
We're gonna be in the water, Doc. Remember to bring Traxtone and soluble tape.
Does she think I am new at this? I developed the use of Traxtone with...
- On the phone, Bones. - We have to go.
He's spending a lot of time with Parker and I don't even know this guy.
- She took Zack. Zack's mine. - I wanna make sure he's a good influence.
The fact that he, you know, rocks your world,
surprisingly that... really, you know, doesn't concern...
- I'll just meet you there. ...doesn't concern me.
I gotta run. OK, Rebecca? We'll talk about this later.
Bones, wait up.
Why can't you go faster? I don't see why I couldn't drive.
You're agitated. You've turned this into a competition between you and Cam.
I just like to be first on the scene to protect the evidence.
She's not going to disturb anything.
No, it's all tissue and blood and DNA with her. She doesn't appreciate the skeletal system.
- You can take the l-70. It'll be quicker. - Don't back-seat drive.
- I think I know who's agitated. - Someone is annoying me. That's different.
Your ex. That's who's annoying you, because she has a new man in her life.
That's funny. I am concerned about my son.
I wanna know what kind of guy this new boyfriend is.
And if she's not gonna tell me, I'll find out on my own.
- You gonna run a background check on him? - You have kids and we'll talk.
That's a lot to ask for a little conversation. Make a right. We can cut through Grafton.
Fine.
We have no information right now.
- She beat us here and she was in a truck. - You wanted to go through Grafton.
You could've used the siren. Why have one if you're not gonna use it?
What's that smell?
Zack, I need sterile tubes before she's fertiliser.
OK.
That's the smell.
Caucasian, female. 25 to 30.
Barnacle and small mussel encrustation indicates she's been in the water about a year.
They have.
God.
- Size indicates the foetus was viable. - How could anyone do this to their own kid?
Multiple fractures from an assault or being battered by rocks and debris in the water.
Stab wounds evident on ribs, manubrium and clavicle.
And ulna, radius, one to the sphenoid.
This was a very violent attack.
- Find the murder weapon? - Scoop guys just got here.
Tell them to look for a left leg and missing foetal bones.
Looks like we finally get to put Richardson away. I love being a hero.
- A heroine. - Sounds too druggy. I'm going with hero.
- What are you doing? - Scraping the adipocere from the hand.
You could compromise the bones. Use suction back at the lab.
If you want a conviction... Of course, it's your call.
Are we gonna have another murder here, or what?
No, no. I have the utmost respect for the doc. Glad she works for me.
Good. The clothes, they match the ones she was last seen wearing.
The rope could be a match to the type in Richardson's house.
While you two do your thing, I'm gonna go bring the sonofabitch in.
... the body of a mother and child...
- Where's Richardson? - I don't know.
He saw this and then he took off.
I tried to stop him, but then he hit me.
He said he's never coming back.
Sources indicate both mother and foetus were stabbed to death.
Kyle Richardson remains the chief suspect.
Cam, this is the evidence taken from Kyle Richardson's house a year ago.
We got rope, the plastic sheeting, knife set - one knife missing, Richardson's DNA results.
Witnesses placed Richardson at the marina the night she disappeared.
- He's not walking this time. - Ironic, since he's running now.
You know Booth is bigger than you, right?
Right.
- Wasn't your fault, dude. - Let's focus. This should be a slam dunk.
Screw this up, I look like a fool and someone's gonna pay.
We just started collecting evidence.
There are boxes of evidence. The remains are icing on the cake.
Let's hand the prosecutor what she needs so I can knock back some shots and play poker.
Yeah. That should motivate us.
I'm gonna strip the flesh and adipocere, remove anything from the fingernails.
- There was a dead fish in the plastic. - Ooh! And it's not even my birthday.
You saved the fish.
The stomach contents could show where she was left before she washed ashore.
Not much left of the organs.
I can still find a few surprises from what's left of this lung... Looks like some liver here...
I'll take any tissue stuck to the plastic. There'll be sediment and organic particulates.
- What do you want? - George Clooney naked on a white beach.
But I can give you faces after the skulls are reconstructed.
Zack will start them. After you strip any tissue I'd like to reassemble the victim and foetus.
Sounds like fun. Let's do it.
- It was male. - "He". Not "it", Bones.
I'm gonna go talk to his girlfriend. No mistakes on this one.
- He always was a little touchy. - Yeah.
I didn't know Kyle then.
We started going out after his wife went missing.
Did he mention the night she disappeared?
Of course. It was terrible for him.
I just tried to support him and help him get past it.
He looks like he had a lot of people to help him.
I mean, he looked really, really broken up.
I know he dated other women. But he is not who you think he is.
Of course not.
- Oh, my God! - Is that necessary?
- Just trying to help her remember. - He would never do this.
- He could never do this. - He hit you when he was leaving.
That is because I wanted to go with him. And he knew everyone would be after him.
- He was just trying to protect me. - Yeah, he's a real prince.
If he contacts you, call.
Or you're looking at obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting,
and a few other charges to make it worth the money you're paying your lawyer.
There was another gash on the second rib, right side.
- Approximately 45 degrees left to right. - Why didn't he just divorce her?
Why did they get married in the first place? It's an antiquated ritual.
Carlie Richardson believed in it and look what happened.
So this is marriage's fault?
Committing yourself to one person isn't in the interest of the species.
- You have multiple partners. - Don't say it like that. I date.
The notion of a committed relationship, it's fantasy.
Look at Booth. Fighting with his ex, his son caught in the middle.
We make our lives out of chaos and hope... and love.
- Someday you'll meet somebody. - I don't need anything more than I have now.
Talk about a fantasy.
The skulls are in multiple pieces, but the damage is from debris in the water.
Then let's start on the stab wounds. Confirm the type of knife used.
These all appear to be from the knife missing from Richardson's set.
"Appear"? No conclusions without corroboration.
But Dr Saroyan seems certain that Richardson...
"Seems"? You're my grad student. You work for me.
We're building a case, not getting our rocks off on research.
Rocks and sediment are Hodgins's specialty.
You're serious?
OK.
I found organic material under the fingernails. Should match Richardson.
And I found something else I'd like you to look at.
It's here in the lung. It's a locket.
It must've been around her neck and melted into the lung during putrefaction.
I wanted to see if any of your cyborgs could do anything with the photo paper.
There's not enough left. It's liquefied.
It's probably just another picture of the lovebirds anyway.
Oh, what's this?
- Oh, no. - Who's Kenny?
I don't wanna know. I just want it to be Richardson.
That's right. Because of the drinking and the poker.
I know, there's a lot of animals at the zoo.
The monkeys are Daddy's favourite. They're just like people.
Actually, three million base pairs of the genome differ
in protein encoding and other functional areas.
- What? - Differences between chimps and humans.
I'm talking to a four-year-old, Bones. Oh, yeah.
You're spending a lot of time with Drew, huh? That's great.
You gotta go eat. OK, go eat. Make sure... OK, I love...
Boyfriend spending time with your son?
Yeah. So you got any new information for me, Bones?
- I'm sorry. - There's no need.
It must be hard not being able to see him.
See, this is information that I already know, Bones.
What do you say we just discuss the case, hm?
Sure.
You know, I'm his father. Parker knows that.
That's what's important, not some stupid trip to the zoo.
- Absolutely. - Right. Done.
- Of course. - Boom.
We found this in her lung.
What?
- Her lung? - It was enveloped during decomp.
- "Kenny"? - Any reference to a Kenny in the case file?
No, but he liked her enough to get her a locket.
- Maybe Kyle wasn't the only one cheating. - Opens up a lot of possibilities.
I'd say we just go talk to Carlie's friends and see if they know who Kenny is.
The four of us got so close being in the same Lamaze class.
Losing Carlie was like losing a sister.
It was her idea to start this baby group.
We felt connected. Feeling someone growing inside, waiting to meet them. You have kids?
- He does. - They make you feel whole.
A release of serotonin necessary for the survival of the species.
- Huh? - Never mind. We found this locket on Carlie.
It says "I love you, Kenny." Did she ever mention a Kenny?
- She talked about Kenny all the time. - It was never mentioned in the police report.
- Kenny was her dog. - Her dog?
Kyle bought her the dog when things were better between them. She loved that dog.
- There used to be a picture in there. - Well, where's her dog now?
It died. Mary took care of it.
I'm a vet. They brought it in a few months before Carlie disappeared.
Kyle said he backed over it accidentally. Carlie always felt he did it on purpose.
He was a real piece of work when he got mad.
- A dead dog. Excellent. - So we're back to one suspect. Richardson.
I like this. Good work.
Do you want children?
- What? - Children?
Maybe, if I find one that sleeps late and cleans. Does this apply to the case?
No, just curious. Most people think it's odd when a woman doesn't want children.
But obviously you don't.
Are you pregnant?
- No, I'm not. - Why are you looking at me?
Long as you don't keep leaving the lab to pee.
No intention of it.
So all this back and forth was for nothing? Good to know.
Now, unless the liver has a written confession in it by a pet parakeet,
we should have enough to build a solid forensic case against Richardson.
I found something that puts a new wrinkle in things.
Great.
Oh, God.
The fish was a Pomatomus saltatrix, a bluefish common to Delaware Bay.
And there were dinoflagellates consistent with the salt water in the bay.
- Dozing off, Hodgepodge. - But I also found Didinium, a ciliate.
And Oomycota, a mould. Both of which are found in fresh water.
- So the body was in fresh and salt water. - The fresh water first, for at least six months.
Witnesses put Richardson at the marina.
- There is no fresh water in that area. - So maybe Richardson didn't do it.
Richardson's the only logical suspect. Are we working for the defence now?
I'm working for the victims. We have to be open to the evidence.
The knife, the rope, the plastic sheeting are all from Richardson's house.
- We're trying to build a case. - Don't ignore facts that change the outcome.
I just want you to fill in the blanks.
There must be fresh water close enough.
It has to have the same sediment, larvae, helminths.
Whatever the hell-minths those are, find 'em.
If we find water that matches, it has to be dredged.
We're missing the left patella, tibia and calcaneus. The foetus...
OK, fine. Just stop talking and do it.
Hey. So, is this the only fresh water near the bay?
The only water that might have algae and sediment that could match what we found.
- Whoo! Seems to be a lot of gamophyta. - Is that good?
I won't know until I get it to the lab.
- Then why'd you act so excited? - I just like gamophyta.
You really don't have to act any geekier. The whole outfit does it for you.
Geek chic, dude. Agent Blondie over there thinks I'm hot.
How you doing?
- Anything? - Another Top-Flite.
- I went out with a woman who had a little kid. - Aren't you looking for slime?
- Kid hated me. He said I used big words. - He got that right.
Hit me with a Tonka truck. I could never sleep with his mom again.
At least the story ends well.
I was good to him, though. I did not deserve an 18-wheeler to the parietal bone.
- Ooh! Nematodes and planaria. - Does that mean anything?
Not sure.
Anything?
Bones. Could be from the foetus.
Hamate, triquetral. Portions of the phalanges. And another Top-Flite.
According to the reconstruction with these new bones, the foetus has seven fingers.
- And two right hands. - Was there another victim?
Double the magnification.
Look at the structure of the phalanges.
Ah.
- The bones from the lake are from a raccoon. - Mm-hm.
The formation of the hands is almost identical to an infant's hand.
- How did you do? - Found a raccoon. You?
The sediment and organic material from the lake doesn't match.
I have to look for another body of fresh water.
- What have you got? - Nothing.
The next fresh water that might match is over 60 miles away.
Richardson couldn't have been there.
I've got the board, the federal prosecutor and Nancy Grace ready to devour me
if I don't hand them Richardson.
- If you want us to manufacture evidence... - I want us to find out who killed Carlie.
Whoever did it is messing with me and I don't like that. I like doing the messing.
- Let's see whether we're wasting our time. - Tell me what you need.
His plates were found in a ditch on Route 432. His car in a vacant lot in Huntsville.
He could be using another car or hiding out.
- Anybody ID him? - IDs are coming in from all over the place.
This is where the concerned citizens all come out for the reward.
- Excuse us. Agent Booth? - Let me know if you find something else.
I'm Dennis Campbell. My wife Patricia. We're Carlie's parents.
Yes, I know. Please sit down.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
At least now our daughter can rest with her baby and Kyle can never touch them again.
- The reason we're here... - We were going through some photos.
- And we came across this one. - Kyle used to go out of town on business.
His firm had an office in Boston. Carlie went with him once.
This is them with some people in Boston.
That woman on the news, Karen Tyler, she said she met Kyle after Carlie disappeared.
But here she is looking at him.
He admitted to being involved with those other girls. Why did he lie about her?
- Can I keep this photo? - Of course.
We need them to answer for this.
She was our little girl. She wasn't supposed to go before us.
That's not the way it's supposed to be.
I know.
We'll find Kyle. I promise.
- You want me to what? - Stab the body for me.
We need to match force with the injuries recorded on the remains.
- OK, I'm stabbing the body. - Well, it's a replica.
We're all going to do it. You're just closest to Kyle Richardson.
I'll be there in 20. But in the future, just ask me differently, Bones.
"Come over to your place and stab a body", that is just freaky.
- Seeley, you sonofabitch. - Oh, Rebecca. Wow. You look great.
Save it. I need more than compliments from you.
Keep it down a little bit. I'm at work. All right?
You sent agents to investigate Drew? You're gonna stop that.
I'm being cautious. What do you know about this guy?
I know that he has a good job.
I know he fixes stuff around the house when he says he's going to.
I know Parker is crazy about him and he's not terrified that he's going to get shot at work.
And I know that I love him.
I love him.
- Now everyone thinks he's a criminal. - He was spotted with explosives.
He does demolition. You must have figured that out when you were snooping.
I have a right to know who's hanging around my son.
You think I would put Parker in danger?
Why is it that you keep all the men in your life such a secret?
You always interrogate them or intimidate them and it freaks them out.
A lot of them are a little strange. The guy with the tattoos on his neck?
I don't even have to let you see Parker. OK? Not legally.
- One of the upsides of not being married. - Don't.
I'm a good father. You know that.
You have to stop trying to run things. Some things in my life have nothing to do with you.
We are always gonna have something to do with each other because we share a son.
Drew's a good man. And you need to back off or you're not gonna see Parker again, I swear.
Back off.
- Here's Kyle. - Funny. Don't we have something to stab?
This. I hate my job.
From the stab wounds, we can tell the approximate force required in newton metres
to inflict the marks we see on the bones.
So we have to measure the amount of force generated when we stab
to give us the size, weight and body type of the assailant.
- You had to dress her up? - Clothes figure in the resistance to the blows.
The knife is consistent with the one that caused the wounds.
We've fitted it with an instrumented blade
to give us a digital readout of the newton metres of each stab.
- It's a dual-mass drop system. - All I hear is "Blah, blah, blah".
- We all stab, one of us is the killer. - Sort of like a real creepy party game.
The violence of the attack shows rage, so everyone should stab as hard as they can.
This better work.
That was weird.
- OK, OK. - Results?
The force used to make the injuries on the bones was 24 newton metres.
And the winner is, with 24 newton metres...
- Angela. - What?
- Congratulations. - Really?
- Height and weight? - Oh, God.
5'8". One hundred and...
- What? - 135. It's all muscle.
Karen Tyler is 5'7" and 132 pounds.
So Kyle's girlfriend kills Carlie so they can be together.
- Why did Kyle run? - Maybe he didn't.
It sounds nuts but maybe Karen got rid of him too, to keep him from talking.
There's no way Richardson made these marks?
His blows would have sliced deeper into the bone.
- Well, these seem to go right through. - Delivered after she was on the ground.
So Karen does the killing because they know everyone will be suspecting Kyle.
I'd prefer not to make any more assumptions.
There are particles in the knife marks.
When she was on the ground, the knife picked up sediment from the dirt.
The next stab embedded that into the bone.
I might be able to locate the site of the murder.
- DNA results. It was Kyle under her nails. - So he was there too.
Maybe, but he had a fight with her earlier, that he admits.
Fortunately, there was also the skin of somebody else. Test showed it was a woman.
- Karen Tyler. - We should get her DNA drawn.
Smart. Let's go.
I didn't do it. I swear I would never hurt her.
And you said you and Kyle didn't know each other until after Carlie disappeared.
- We knew what everyone would think. - Karen, don't say anything.
Even your lawyer thinks you did it.
Kyle thought we should separate and meet up in a few months, so it wouldn't look so bad.
- Well, that didn't work out, now, did it? - Open your mouth.
- Do I really have to do this? - They have a warrant.
When you were sleeping with Kyle, didn't it matter that you were destroying a family?
- We were in love. - Oh. Love. Sorry. Now it's a beautiful story.
Open again.
- Ouch! - Oops.
Kyle was gonna tell her. We were gonna be honest.
- Cos you do that so well. - I would never hurt her.
- And neither would Kyle. - Kyle.
Right, the love of your life who no one has seen for two days.
Can you see why I'm leery of relationships?
We hit pay dirt. Actually, we hit silt that contains gipsy moth faeces, quartz and mica.
That and the zinc levels in the dinoflagellates, as well as the Pinaceae pollen,
led us to a patch of pitch pines outside of Gloucester City, New Jersey.
- She was killed right here. - When did they move her to the bay?
They didn't. They left her in New Jersey, in the Rancocas Creek.
- She made it on her own. - Did she take the shuttle?
Basically. Two days after Carlie disappeared, there were thunderstorms in New Jersey.
Heavy, heavy rains.
The body must have been flushed down the Rancocas and into the Delaware River.
Then she slowly made her way down the Delaware and into the bay.
The movement and the battering on the rocks loosened her weight,
so she floated to the surface and washed ashore.
I'm pretty sure Karen didn't see that coming.
- You're sure this is it? - Zinc, mica, faeces. This is the place.
- It's beautiful here. - Yeah, that's important for a murder.
The bodies were wrapped on the bank of the river. Sift the soil for the missing bones.
Agent Booth. Over here.
Look at that. "CR". Carlie Richardson's initials.
Ugh.
You don't pack face cream and a nightgown if you're being abducted.
Vacation cabins nearby. If she was upset, this is a good place to unwind.
Karen Tyler said that she liked Carlie.
She could've befriended her to lure her up here.
Maybe Carlie's friends knew that she and Karen were getting chummy.
- Did Carlie know about her? - They just started going out.
No. They knew each other from before.
Bastard.
Carlie knew Kyle was cheating. That's why they fought.
- And why she didn't want the baby. - Did she say that?
To say you don't want your child when you're getting ready to give birth, it's not right.
I think I did see this woman. They were in front of a Starbucks.
I'm not sure if it was the day she disappeared, but it was around the same time.
Thanks.
Your kid's eating sand.
- I don't know how they can do it. - They're self-obsessed, no conscience.
- I don't know. - They destroy everything. They're not human.
- The mothers? - Huh?
- I meant the mothers. - I'm talking about the killers.
I understand killers. I don't know how mothers can do it.
Dogs can be trained in a couple of weeks. Kids, mothers give up their lives for years.
You don't feel like you're giving up anything.
- So you'd do it again? - What?
- Even with everything you're going through? - What kinda question is that?
Wouldn't it be easier if Parker wasn't caught in this drama with Rebecca, new boyfriend?
God, no. He's my son. Whatever we're going through, it's not about that. He knows that.
That's what parents say to justify themselves.
I haven't walked out on Parker. I would never have done what your parents did.
I didn't say you would. I just... I don't know.
You're the father. I don't know anything about raising kids, so...
Parker's fine.
It's not Karen Tyler. The DNA from under Carlie's fingernails doesn't match.
And something else is weird. Tissue from the foetus shows evidence of escitalopram.
- What's that? - A drug prescribed for depression.
That's not weird. Carlie Richardson was having emotional problems.
- Carlie wasn't taking the drug. - None of this is making sense.
I agree. The only way the foetus could have the drug in its system
is if it were passed by the mother in utero.
- Or through breast milk. - How do you breastfeed an unborn child?
Zack?
An infant's skull is made up of several separate bones
that are eventually fused together.
- Look at the moulding. - Oh, my God.
- I don't believe it. - Yeah.
- OK. Now everybody knows but me. - This is not a foetus.
The skull bones have shifted and overlapped because it passed through the birth canal.
This baby was born alive and lived about two weeks.
- But Carlie was pregnant. - This isn't Carlie Richardson's child.
The escitalopram in its system came from breast milk.
Then what happened to her baby?
The baby was cut out of her and stolen.
This child replaced it.
This child was dead before Carlie was murdered.
You can see the traces of blood pooling in the cranium.
- Abusive head trauma. - Evidence of shaken baby syndrome.
- Oh, God. - The little guy was only two weeks old.
The mother was probably taking medication for postpartum depression.
She got upset with the baby.
Crying's the most common cause. And she shook him to quiet him down.
It can take as little as five seconds for an infant to die by shaking.
- Five seconds? - The veins that attach the brain detach.
- Blood pools, the brain swells... - OK, I get it.
What you're saying is the mother kills her own son and replaces him with Carlie's.
Fits the pattern. She feels the guilt and needs to prove to herself she's still a good mother.
She takes Carlie's child and makes it her own.
It's only been two weeks. Not many people have seen her kid.
- But the stab wounds? - All to the upper part of the body.
The killer was careful not to hit close to the uterus because she wanted the baby alive.
There were knife marks on the lower ribs.
These seem to be made by whatever instrument was used
to remove the child after Carlie was dead.
I'm working on identifying it.
We can use the child's genetic characteristics to see similarities with the mother.
Ange, can you input the information from the infant's skull to give us a face?
- Sure.
Booth.
Yeah. Right away. They've found Kyle Richardson.
I wonder if he'll even care, finding out that his wife is dead.
- He didn't kill her. - No, but he ran.
How do you just cut your family out of your life?
- Well, what about Abraham? - You're gonna throw religion in my face?
- You find answers in what you believe. - That's one Bible story I just don't like.
God commands Abraham to kill his own son and he does.
- Abraham does not kill Isaac. - Old Abe, he had the intention.
- I thought what he had was faith. - I have faith.
But if God himself came down, pointed at Parker and said,
"I want you to...", you know, that ain't gonna happen.
- God's messenger stopped Abraham? - Yeah.
Grabbed his hand right before the knife was about to go in.
Then the lesson I would learn from this myth...
- "Myth"? - Well, it fits the definition.
When it comes to your children, your love has to be absolute.
The messenger represents goodness, what you know to be right.
Ergo, you have to remain open to what you know is true.
- Sure you're not religious? - Science all the way.
- Even an empiricist can have a heart, Booth.
Too bad Richardson doesn't.
Just lock me up. I can't go through this any more.
We know you didn't do it.
- What? - Evidence doesn't fit you.
- Then who was it? Who killed them? - You ran. Seems like you'd know.
- I would've told someone if I knew. - You're such an honourable guy.
The knife, rope, sheeting all came from your place. Why didn't you say it was missing?
- You check what's in your garage every day? - So why did you take off?
Because I'm a bastard. I'm a selfish, pathetic bastard.
Everyone had already decided I was guilty.
- That's true, Booth. - Bones.
No one wanted to find another suspect. I kept on insisting.
- Thank you. - But I didn't do it for you.
You are a pathetic bastard. Your wife was having your baby.
Look, I did wanna leave her, yeah.
I was out that night trying to figure out how to tell her.
What with the baby and everything. But, for God's sake, I didn't want them to die.
So you have no idea who did this?
I should, shouldn't I?
I mean,
I ignored her for so long.
It's like this whole thing is my fault anyway.
You know, if I'd been there that night, maybe they'd still be here.
We think your child might still be alive.
I don't understand. The bodies you found...
That wasn't your child.
Whoever killed Carlie took your child and left theirs.
Oh, my God.
Then...
So where's my kid?
We don't know.
Zack was working on the other knife mark. I saw staining, so I did some tests.
The stain was from Betadine, an antiseptic used to prep patients for surgery.
- Someone was being really careful. - It was the baby they were concerned with.
Were you able to get enough detail from the skull for a digital reconstruction?
Since someone this young is still being formed, the features are generalised.
That last place I worked had a drunk sketch artist.
Wow.
It's a baby. It looks like every baby.
I ran the reconstruction through an aging matrix.
It posits the most likely growth pattern the skull would follow.
Now, as it ages, the features become more distinct.
By the time he's about ten, he shows very definite genetic characteristics.
Robbie! Don't eat that, honey.
There you go. There you go.
The mark on the ribs was from a scalpel.
The woman is a vet, so she has medical training, which explains the Betadine.
Look at her playing with the kid.
- It's OK. - Miss Corbis.
- I have to ask you to hand us the child. - What? Why?
- I think you know why. - No.
- You want me to give you my son? No. - He's not your son.
- We know what happened. - He is. Robbie is my son.
We have a warrant to take a DNA sample from you. It'd be pretty hard to argue with that.
Shh.
She didn't want him. She told me she wished she had never gotten pregnant.
- It was wrong for her to have him. - And killing your own child wasn't wrong?
That was a mistake! I am a single mother! I'm alone!
I just wanted him to stop crying. It was just a few seconds.
The doctor said I was sick, but I'm all better now.
- I know, sweetie. I know, sweetie. - Miss Corbis.
You can't take him from me. I'm a good mother. You can ask anybody.
It's OK.
Give us the child.
It's OK.
I'm a good mother.
You're under arrest for the murder and kidnapping of Carlie Richardson
and the murder of your son Robert.
No. That's my Robbie. That's my Robbie.
I'm a good mother. I'm a good mother. I'm a good mother.
- He's fine? - He's perfect.
- And you're sure? - He's yours.
When I thought he was gone,
and Carlie, I wished I could've changed how things had been.
Don't you wanna hold him?
I don't know.
The kind of guy I am... I'm no father.
You don't get to decide that.
You have a son.
Step up. Take him.
Hey.
Thank you. Thank you.
Hey.
So you think Richardson can rise to the occasion, be a decent father?
He's got Carlie's parents to help him, and I like to think that people can change.
- Faith and hope, right? - Right.
- Angela threw in love, too. - Love is good.
- Daddy! Daddy! Daddy! - Parker.
- Look what I did. - Wow! Look at that.
Listen, you stay here with Dr Brennan, OK? I'm gonna go talk to your mommy, all right?
All right?
This is how it's gotta go down? I gotta meet your boyfriend with Parker here?
- Look, man, we're here because we want... - I'm talking to Rebecca.
Look, this was Drew's idea, and I told him that it was gonna be a bad one.
- Dad, look. - One second, bud.
- Booth? - Parker wanted you to see what he made.
And he kept saying how much he wanted us to meet, that we'd be friends.
Look, I got a kid I don't get to see much myself. I know what it's like.
And I swear the explosives were for work.
Booth.
OK. Look, look, look, look, look. We are what we are.
And you can fight it if you want, but you're just gonna fight with yourself.
Maybe this isn't a good time. Maybe later.
No. No, it's a good time.
Let me buy you a cup of coffee. All right? It's cool. Have a seat.
- Seriously? - Thanks, man.
- It's OK, Bones. You can stay. - It's a family thing. Bye, Parker.
- Bye. - Hi.
All right, what have we got here? Huh?
- A diorama. - Whoa!
- It's the zoo. Drew helped me. - I hope you thanked him.
- He did, yeah. - We got to go to the zoo.
- He knows all the animals. - All the animals? Wow.
OK, well, maybe afterwards we could all go out to dinner, if it's OK with your mom.
Yeah. That sounds good.
- My dad knows a burgers place. - I used to take him there after his T-ball.
- Tell Drew about the burgers. - He says they're as big as my head.
We can all go. We can even bring...
What's that mean?
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