Looking out of the window

A still from The Bones That Foam: Brennan and Booth at the jungle themed dealership!

Bones is back after a staggered and ruptured hiatus with last night’s episode  ‘The Bones That Foam’.  If you haven’t inferred anything from the obvious title, the bones of a car salesman are foaming and disintegrating  at an alarming double digit percentage per hour and the quirky team at the Mythical Jeffersonian only have a few hours before their evidence dissolves into green slime.

It’s the turn of fact-obsessed Vincent Nigel Murray played by Ryan Cartwright to be Dr.Brennan’s intern from the bag of rotating, quirky grad students. His fascination with out- of -context trivia and Cam’s exasperation with the same are amusing as ever as he attempts to regain focus at his task by recalling how many pair of chopsticks the Chinese dispose annually (900 million!)  The punch line really is when Cam asks him if those are individual or pairs! Brennan’s attempts at learning how to manipulate while interrogation  from Suites are hilarious as is her debut in the holding cell, where she pulls off the worst bad cop act in history, much to the amusement of Booth.  Lead actor, David Boreanaz’s direction is adequate.

The sub-plot of the episode is average at best, and the storyline feels a little thin. Also, the sparse  use of Angela and Hodgins is not very satisfying. The lack of their comic  and bitter sweet exchanges is something, I hope the writers work on rectifying ASAP. On the whole, no complaints but it could have been better.