Max (who is that, anyway?) is accused of murdering an FBI director.
Max is her dad.
Phalanges!
Oh… Wait… Wrong episode. 
And he thinks bones are dry and boring!
So what was the story about the skeleton in the first scene? Are they ever going to resolve that?
Fully articulated but without the usual soft tissue to hold it together? Like Tempe said, it should be a pile of bones. I’m betting it was prank by some med students. Gross but not very illegal (desecration of a long-dead and identity-free corpse for isn’t FBI territory).
Maybe they rolled it up in a carpet.
Rolled it around a carpet, they probably meant.
ETA: My guess is that somebody from Props had some fun at lunch and somebody else saw it and tried to work it into an episode, even as a throwaway gag.
Man, I’ve never seen Bones laugh so hard.
I thought Max was guilty of that crime from about a year ago…?
Sucks that he got off for it. He really should be in prison.
Yeah, and what happened to him being a bank robber? Booth first wanted to arrest him for that, so at least one of the states he worked in must have tolled the statute of limitations when Max first went bush.
ETA: I tend to agree, though, that “he tried to kill my kid so I iced him” is a valid defense.
Edited too late to add: Not legally, but should be an extenuating circumstance at the sentencing.
Mitigating factor.
The prosecuting attorney’s comment when questioned as to whether she was going to charge Bones left me perplexed: “You’ll have to go back to school for that one. That’s a fine woman there.” 
In the real world, I agree wholeheartedly. In the world of the story, I liked it.
What you said.
Sweets or the defense’s forensic anthropologist, I can’t remember which said it, is highly educated but a bit naive. US Atty Julian (love that woman!) is more worldly and saw that Tempe was willing to sacrifice herself for her father, though it was not in a way that gave her any real chance of being prosecuted–by showing there were at least three other people with motive, means, and opportunity (I’m not entirely sure Max is guilty) the case is poison and no prosecutor will touch it until more evidence appears. Tempe was loving, noble, brave, and smart, all qualities Caroline would expect in a fine woman.
Also, Ernie Hudson needs to work more. Wasn’t his character once married to Caroline? Brave man; I may love her but she scares me too much to marry her. :eek:
I can’t remember any more. Do we know for certain that he did it, or do we just have a “re-enactment based on evidence that shows a theory of how he could be the one who did it”? I ask because it seems odd to me that his “trademark” sharpened copper pipe thing should be found at the scene where the body was recovered but the victim was actually killed with Bones’ misericorde.
And you’d think that Max himself could have told the defense attorney “psst, that ain’t the murder weapon. And Russ, go swing by your sisters apartment and ditch the copper knife. Trust me.”
This episode sucks. I don’t care about their relationships and family dramas! I wanna see corpses in odd situations and the crack forensic team figure them out. If you want character development then work it into the murder case. If I wanted sappy dramatic trial scenes, I’d watch Lifetime.
I kinda really liked the ending bit, where Bones offered herself as “reasonable doubt.” When Booth was on the stand, I wondered if he would eventually question whether she HAD done it, and if that would affect their relationship.
As a lawyer, I found very jarring that they allowed the prosecutor to ask so many leading questions of her own witnesses. Also, what was the deal with the brother offering to testify, when he ended up being called by the prosecution? If that were the case, he would simply be subpoenaed - no choice involved.
Finally, disliked the fragmented openings and questioning, flipping from one to the other. I understand that it presents more compelling TV, but it just ain’t how it’s done.
Meaning he needs more education in psychology if he thinks Bones is capable of murder.