- In Howard Fileman's house, which is for sale, estate agent Katie Selnick and two prospective buyers discover a corpse, charred except for a fat foot. Clever forensics gradually show it was actually two people, a fat man and PriceCo saleswoman Meg Tracy, who recently lost half her excessive weight and met her lover in a fetishist club. Seeley however is greatly distracted by a surprise visits from Hank 'Pops' Booth, who left his retirement home after hitting a male nurse and now tries to "correct" Booth's life, but rather lost control of his own.
- Booth's grandfather Hank comes to live with him and tags along as Brennan and Booth investigate ashes and charred remains found by a real estate agent while showing a property to prospective buyers. The team identifies the victims as plus-size lovers, neither of whom seemed to have many enemies. Meanwhile, Hank tries to play matchmaker for Booth and lets Brennan in on some family secrets.—Fox Publicity
- A realtor shows an attractive young couple a suburban home. "What's the smell?" the woman asks. Turns out it's a body -- most of it reduced to ash. Cut to the diner, where Booth (David Boreanaz) explains his grandfather Hank (Ralph Waite) recently slugged an orderly at the nursing home. Just then, Booth's "pops" enters, calling our favorite agent "shrimp." B&B get a call and Booth seems only too happy to leave Hank in the care of young Sweets. (John Francis Daley)
B&B arrives at the crime scene to find Katie, the Realtor, and Howard, the owner. They examine the body (or what's left of it). "Stop!" Bones yells, afraid that the slightest movement will cause a preserved hand to crumble to ash. "What are we talking about here -- spontaneous combustion?" Booth asks. Bones (Emily Deschanel) calls the suggestion absurd. Back at the lab, Jack (T.J. Thyne) likes the spontaneous combustion theory, explaining the victim's body fat could have burned like a candle. Ugh. Clark (Eugene Byrd) notices marks on the heel of the unburned foot -- probably from a high heel. Other tests reveal the victim was probably obese. "It's a fat lady," Clark says with raised eyebrows. Indeed.
Later, Angela (Michaela Conlin) and Bones examine a 3-D rendering of the ash hand. Jack enters with news: orange goo found on the scene is polyester. Angela recognizes the color and does a quick computer search. BINGO! The woman was wearing the vest of an employee at a nearby wholesale club. Booth heads to the store, bringing Hank along for the ride. Pops wonders why Booth isn't with Bones. "Are you gay?" Hank asks. Nice. Once at the store, Booth retrieves the employee file on the dead woman. And guess what? Photos reveal the young woman to be only a size four. "Someone else was in that bed," Bones decides. "Two people died in that fire!" Clark attempts to separate out the remains. The second victim appears to have been a 260-pound male.
Later, Bones and Hank eat lunch. Pops breaks down and admits he is responsible for the absence of Booth's father. Turns out Hank saw the man beating his grandchildren and ordered him out forever. "I didn't know what else to do," Hank says. "When the time is right, you'll tell him. And if he needs it, you'll hold him, OK?" Bones agrees. Later, the female victim's roommate comes for questioning. She doesn't know who the victim was dating, but suggests B&B check out Club Jiggle, a place where skinny dudes go to meet big girls (or vice versa). Sweets then explains the sexual fetish known as "feeder and eater." But the female victim had recently lost more than 100 pounds. Asks Booth: "So you're saying that she missed overeating so much that she fed other people in order to feed herself?" Exactly. So the former eater became the feeder and then ended up in bed with a big dude. But how did she also get killed?
Later that night, Bones come over to Booth's place to have grilled cheese sandwiches. Bones notices Hank is out of a certain kind of pill, so they head to a pharmacy before going to the Jiggle Club. Naturally, pops comes along for the ride. And what a ride it is. Sir Mix-a-Lot plays on the sound system (of course) while little people feed noodles and other carb-heavy products to big folks. Jiggle, indeed. "Freaky," Hank says. The bartender explains the female victim used to party/ eat with a fat man named Hugo. Hank, meanwhile, boogies with the ample-sized ladies on the dance floor.
The next day, Katie and Howard meet with B&B. The Realtor has a prospective client on her list named Hugo. Howard and Katie, meanwhile, continue to fret over the fact that the house is a crime scene -- and therefore can't be shown or sold. "I'll see what I can do," Booth says. Later, Jack discovers a gastric banding device melted into a bed spring. "So that's how she lost so much weight in so short a time," Angela says of the victim. A quick computer check reveals that the female victim, Meg, used her roommate's insurance to pay for the procedure. "Bet Stephanie was pretty mad about that," Camille (Tamara Taylor) says. But mad enough to kill? Suddenly, Booth gets a call. There has been a fire at his apartment. Looks like ol' Hank was trying to cook dinner again.
Seconds later, Booth returns home to find pops looking mighty guilty. "You left a dishtowel on the stove, pops," Booth says. It's clear Hank can't fend for himself but Booth doesn't have the heart to tell him -- nor will Hank admit it. So Booth turns to Sweets, who agrees to talk with the old man. Later, Booth interrogates roommate Stephanie, who claims she didn't know that the victim used her insurance. "That's how she lost the weight!?" Stephanie says. "Bitch!"
Clark, meanwhile, has discovered resin on the bone fragments. "He was struck with a weapon made of wood," Bones decides. The team quickly deduces the victims were beaten to death with bed-post knobs and then set on fire. The bed is listed on the Realtor's Web site as being hand-carved by the owner, whose wife passed away not too long ago. "So it wasn't about who was having sex, but where they were having sex," Camille says. In other words, Meg and Hugo were using the house as a free hotel room. Howard walked in at the wrong time, saw the couple having "cake sex" in his former marital bed and beat them to death in a rage. That's just crazy enough to stick!
Sure enough, Howard is brought into the interrogation room and quickly confesses. "When I found them ... it wasn't right," he whispers. Case closed. But not the episode. Booth and Hank have dinner together (take-out this time). Pops tells Booth how proud he is of the FBI agent. "I don't want you to think I don't love you, but I gotta go back to the place," Hanks says of the nursing home. "They need me." It's pops way to bow out gracefully. Booth agrees to let his grandfather return to the home.
As the episode ends, Hank urges Booth and Bones (separately, of course) to quit wasting time and get together already. Of course, neither takes the advice -- immediately anyway.
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