Watching Bones

The Man in the Fallout Shelter – aired tonight as a rerun – was fittingly a Christmas episode. Let me just start by saying that Zach’s robot is awesome! It doesn’t do anything he says, which prompts Hodgins to laugh at him, and then mention watching reruns of Firefly – which is funny because that was a show that was created by Joss Whedon, whom David Boreanaz worked with closely with on both Buffy and Angel.

While investigating a case, Zach cuts into a skeleton and releases a spore that is a biological contaminate. Hodgins, who was there with him, wasn’t following protocol and was drinking eggnog, so now they’re all contaminated and must be quarantined. And, we got to see TJ Thyne win a towel! (Not so much fun, but also Eric Millegan…) Sorry, I digress.

Trying to make the best of Christmas, they decide to decorate and play secret Santa. The squints don’t even know how to draw names and Booth has to show them the old “draw a name out of a can�? trick. When Booth has a reaction to the medicine they’re given for their contamination, he reveals to Goodman that he has a son. Everyone is shocked with the news that Booth is a father. When Bones confronts him about have a son and why he never told her, he responds with, “well, nothing brings people together like a Christmas lung fungus.�?

How sad to see them all have their family visit through the glass, and watching Booth wait for his son; when he finally comes, it’s incredibly touching. Zach’s whole family shows up, and Angela’s dad appears to be a member of either ZZ Top or some other dead-head band. Goodman’s twin girls are so sweet, and Bones, well, she has no one. Although not surprising, it’s still sad.

The funny thing is that, of course Bones solves the case, but in doing so, she gives a lady her own Christmas present. She reveals what happened to her lover years ago, letting her know that she was not left alone but was he was the victim of a murder and could not come back for her as planned.