Body found in a plane’s microwave. Booth & Bones have to find the killer while still in American jurisdiction on the plane, before it lands in China. Leads to a lot of McGyveresque tactics.
What I want to know is what airport they were flying from that would let knitting needles, tweezers, butane lighters and whoknowswhat else in the way of potentially lethal instruments through security?
I mean really - I had a 65-year-old friend whose knitting was taken away from her prior to a flight to Yellowknife. Were they afraid she was going to knit an Afghan?
I enjoyed last night’s episode. I like the way the relationships are moving, especially Hodgin’s and Angela’s partnership. I was surprised at the end. (don’t want to post a spoiler) I thought the killer was someone else.
With Booth plopping himself down in the co-pilot’s seat and interfering with air traffic, I just figured they were kinda giving a wink and a nod to reality for the sake of one entertaining ep. Not my fave, but acceptable light entertainment.
I kept trying to figure the expense involved in flying the killer back from China on an empty jet. Seemed almost more preposterous than much of the rest of the show.
They sure had the suspects flying fast and furious near the end, didn’t they?
Wouldn’t the smell of cooking human flesh permeate the plane? Maybe not…? or at least the flight attendant might have wondered about the smell before opening the microwave.
But yeah, suspending disbelief it was a fun episode.
When Bones & Booth are making the folks in coach show their hands, someone asks about the smell. I believe Booth says that it’s pork.
As for the needles, et al, the only really questionable thing was the lighter which the flight attendant had. My wife has taken large (dull) knitting needles onto planes post 9/11 and I could see the tweezers getting on. They’ve relaxed some of those rules in the past years.
Also, airline security isn’t exactly a crack business. Twice I’ve gone through Midway with an illegal item (not intentionally) only to have it taken from me on the return trip. Once was, coincidentally, a refillable butane lighter I found in the parking lot and stuffed into my carry-on without thinking about it.
When Angela threw herself at Roxie, my wife and I looked at each other and said “Bitch!” at the same time.
Stupidest breakup ever, and then a few months after the wedding was supposed to happen, she throws herself at an old girlfriend? Hodgins is better off without her.
In last weeks’ episode Angela and Sweets were talking about hurting people and Sweets suggested that Angela ask Roxie if she wanted her back. They resumed their relationship last week, and in the very beginning of this week’s episode they were going away together for the weekend. When did she throw herself at Roxie? When she asked her to move in with her?
This was caused by the wierd Hollywood TV rule that you can’t have any happily married couples. Sexual Tension must always be there among everyone.:rolleyes:
Look at Grey’s Anatomy- not a single happy married couple. Same with CSI, NCIS, and so forth. After a while it gets ridiculous.
But who else could it be? According to Ebert’s Law of Conservation of Characters, “Any main character whose purpose is not readily apparent must be more important than he or she seems.” Everybody else with a prominent role had been eliminated as a suspect, either after questioning (in a “We’re done wth you for now, but don’t leave town” way) or because they were too old or ill to be viable suspects.
ETA: Now, why Ms Boddy was on the same flight as Philandering Dad’s family when they were supposedly going to China so Dying Mom could stand on the Great Wall was either very convenient or really, really tacky.
Why was Booth on that plane, anyway? Brennan was going to China to identify ancient remains not as part of her FBI consultant job, but as a world-famous forensic anthropologist. Is he her permanent bodyguard these days? And yet, she didn’t pay to have him upgraded to first class.
There was a mention that Booth was tagging along to safeguard the high tech equipment Bones was going to use in China. Trying to prevent China from getting ahead of us in the pivotal forensic pathology race.
The return flight wasn’t going to be empty. It just wasn’t loaded with passengers yet. They weren’t getting off the plane themselves as that would complicate matters legally.
Knitting needles and such are ok on planes now. The lighter was the flight attendant’s. Flight crew have a much easier time getting things on board than regular people.
Just started re-watching the show. This one might convince me to stop watching again. Implausible to the point of ridiculous.
Wasn’t that explained a bunny-boiler-type behavior? She booked the flight on purpose to follow them?
HA! I said to Bog during the show, “She’s got money coming out the wazzoo. Why didn’t she upgrade Booth’s ticket?”
I kept wondering why Booth didn’t just bring the little old lady with all the stuff up with him so he’d have all her stuff when they needed it! They broke all these other rules, like having Booth in the copilot’s seat.
And has anyone else every been on a flight that had stairs to another level? I’ve never been on one and that plane appeared, from coach, to be a 2 - 3 - 2 seating (or maybe 2 - 4 - 2, but still) Are those big enough for stairs? 
I just got back from Italy on a 2 - 3 - 2 seating arrangement and there was no staircase I could see. Maybe I missed it.
I personally haven’t been one a 2-story flight, but they do exist. The Airbus A380 is one. And it comes complete with stairs (:50 seconds in)!
It is an old crime device,put the detective or the crime on a boat.plane ,train,submarine or train. It limits the number of people who could commit the crime and keeps them from leaving. It never fails.
Having been on a flight from the US to China - none of that episode represented anything remotely possible.
Firstly, there are ALOT more flight attendants than the two… there is no way the body couldve been cooking for 6 hours with no one knowing.
Beyond that, I enjoyed it as I always do.
Do microwaves normally allow you to set the timer for over six hours? Someone said from the condition of the flesh it had been cooked for 6.5 hours.
It was a combination microwave/convection oven. I think the kid just turned in on high and left. You don’t need to set a timer on an oven.
I just discovered this show during the turmoil caused by the writers’ strike. I love it! The characters are all just a little bit off kilter.