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Season 4  "Mayhem on the Cross"  4x21

Aired 15 years ago - Apr 16, 2009

When it is discovered that a stage prop used by a Norwegian death metal band is in fact a real human skeleton, the remains are sent to the Jeffersonian when authorities determine the victim was an American citizen.

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Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 1
Absence of blood on the periosteal surface of the fracture...
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 2
Ah, Gordon-Gordon, huh?
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 3
Well, he wants to interview me for the book he's writing on you and the lovely Dr. Brennan.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 4
Murdered and his remains crucified for the entertainment of people who hate life.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 5
Dr. Wyatt, I am a huge admirer of your book...
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 6
What-What is that, British understatement?
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 7
I'm sorry I keep saying that. But which one?
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 8
Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 9
- What about real names? - Well, I imagine they play that pretty close to the vest.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 10
Okay, sounds great. So Cam says we gotta track down a death-metal band named Spew.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 11
As a teenager. Not anymore.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 12
- Then how do we find them? - Aha! Well...
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 13
Wear on his calcaneus and cuboid suggests our victim walked on the outside of his feet.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 14
So why do I have the feeling that I'm being taken somewhere terrible...
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 15
- I was quite pretty in my way. - Wait. You-You were Noddy Comet.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 16
Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 17
And I pulled desk duty until the paperwork clears.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 18
Do you want to spend time in jail, pinhead?
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 19
Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 20
so that Dr. Wyatt and I can talk to him and exploit that connection.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 21
- Gluteus. Yes. - Okay.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 22
- I've never heard of him. - No. No. 'Cause that would ruin your street cred.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 23
But you're not gonna tell us, are you? 'Cause we're outsiders.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 24
Legendary.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 25
- Sweets? - Sweets is there?
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 26
No, don't worry. It's totally fake.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 27
Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 28
This just gets better and better. I'm getting credit for that?
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 29
cleavers, all of your stage ware-
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 30
Mayhem's dead and buried under Bridge 6, westbound lanes, State Road 66.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 31
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Shh. I'm sorry.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 32
but they make music.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 33
Sweets has scars on his back. Old ones.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 34
- I'm pretty sure it is. - The image quality stinks.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 35
Not so tough when the blood is real, are you, metal boy?
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 36
Okay? You see...
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 37
You know, maybe someone in Spew. This is totally my fault!
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 38
Would you mind getting on all fours?
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 39
Barbed wire.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 40
But you're one of the cognoscenti, Dr. Sweets.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 41
Then uses a knife to gouge out the bullet.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 42
Completely consistent with the mark it left in the victim's ilium.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 43
But these were loving, wonderful people.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 44
I do not share.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 45
Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 46
He's, uh- He's enjoying this attention.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 47
- Whoa. What? Murderbreath? - Yeah. You're free to go. Come on.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 48
A bisexual spaceman with a taste for six-inch platform shoes, spandex, glitter...
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 49
for your de facto crime-fighting unit.
 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 50
But he is.

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Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 2
Ah, Gordon-Gordon, huh?
#2 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 3
Well, he wants to interview me for the book he's writing on you and the lovely Dr. Brennan.
#3 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 4
Murdered and his remains crucified for the entertainment of people who hate life.
#4 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 5
Dr. Wyatt, I am a huge admirer of your book...
#5 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 6
What-What is that, British understatement?
#6 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 7
I'm sorry I keep saying that. But which one?
#7 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 8 #8 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 9
- What about real names? - Well, I imagine they play that pretty close to the vest.
#9 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 10
Okay, sounds great. So Cam says we gotta track down a death-metal band named Spew.
#10 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 11
As a teenager. Not anymore.
#11 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 12
- Then how do we find them? - Aha! Well...
#12 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 13
Wear on his calcaneus and cuboid suggests our victim walked on the outside of his feet.
#13 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 14
So why do I have the feeling that I'm being taken somewhere terrible...
#14 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 15
- I was quite pretty in my way. - Wait. You-You were Noddy Comet.
#15 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 16 #16 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 17
And I pulled desk duty until the paperwork clears.
#17 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 18
Do you want to spend time in jail, pinhead?
#18 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 19 #19 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 20
so that Dr. Wyatt and I can talk to him and exploit that connection.
#20 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 21
- Gluteus. Yes. - Okay.
#21 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 22
- I've never heard of him. - No. No. 'Cause that would ruin your street cred.
#22 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 23
But you're not gonna tell us, are you? 'Cause we're outsiders.
#23 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 24
Legendary.
#24 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 25
- Sweets? - Sweets is there?
#25 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 26
No, don't worry. It's totally fake.
#26 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 27 #27 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 28
This just gets better and better. I'm getting credit for that?
#28 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 29
cleavers, all of your stage ware-
#29 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 30
Mayhem's dead and buried under Bridge 6, westbound lanes, State Road 66.
#30 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 31
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Shh. I'm sorry.
#31 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 32
but they make music.
#32 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 33
Sweets has scars on his back. Old ones.
#33 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 34
- I'm pretty sure it is. - The image quality stinks.
#34 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 35
Not so tough when the blood is real, are you, metal boy?
#35 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 36
Okay? You see...
#36 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 37
You know, maybe someone in Spew. This is totally my fault!
#37 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 38
Would you mind getting on all fours?
#38 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 39
Barbed wire.
#39 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 40
But you're one of the cognoscenti, Dr. Sweets.
#40 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 41
Then uses a knife to gouge out the bullet.
#41 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 42
Completely consistent with the mark it left in the victim's ilium.
#42 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 43
But these were loving, wonderful people.
#43 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 44
I do not share.
#44 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 45 #45 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 46
He's, uh- He's enjoying this attention.
#46 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 47
- Whoa. What? Murderbreath? - Yeah. You're free to go. Come on.
#47 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 48
A bisexual spaceman with a taste for six-inch platform shoes, spandex, glitter...
#48 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 49
for your de facto crime-fighting unit.
#49 Recap of Bones Season 4 Episode 21 (S04E21) - 50
But he is.
#50