Broken Bones

Episode 86 ''The Babe in the Bar'' Part 1

-Venus POV-

We get called in for another case which I find it to be a special and one of the interesting cases I've worked so far. We are at a chocolate opening of a new brand of chocolate, where a body was discovered in their new brand of chocolate that was the size of the stave and a bit taller than all our heights.

It was really impressive chocolate bar. Cam tells us, "Decomposition's almost complete. I don't know how I can separate the organic material from the chocolate." I shrug a bit, "We'll figure it out." I then take a look at the skeletal remains with Temp as I tell them, "Os coxa suggests female. The earliest stages of spondylosis indicate an age range in the late 20s."

Booth then suggested, "Hey, maybe it's an Oompa Loompa." We look at him as I chuckle a bit as he bends up and down as Temp was confused following him, "I don't know what that is." I just go along with the two bending up and down as Booth says surprised at Temp, "Oompa Loompa. Oompa Loompa." I hum a bit along with him as I tell them, "I did watch the movie." Booth points at me to make a point, "See."

Cam smiles trying not to laugh as she tells us, "Gasses that would normally be released into the air during decomposition were trapped in the hard chocolate, reducing the soft tissue to putrid fluid." The owner of the chocolate company comes over to us looking a bit sick as he holds a towel in front of his mouth, "Agent Booth? I'm, uh, Jimmy Walpert. I'm sorry that I wasn't here, but I-I got a bit sick."

Booth nods, "Well, that's no surprise there." he then points to his chef, "This is Scott." Scott nods, "Scott Kimper. K-I-M-P-E-R. Chief Chocolate Engineer." Booth rights it down as he adds, "Oh, I didn't know chocolate required engineering." "Making chocolate is a science unto itself." Temp then cuts in, "No, it's not. It's a technique which requires various scientific disciplines- physics, chemistry-"

Booth cuts her off, "So you guys were both present when the body was discovered?" They both nod as Walpert says, "It was awful." Kimper nods, "It didn't make any sense. I was there the day we poured." Walpert nods, "So was I, and there certainly wasn't any..." He then whispers, "dead body." Booth mocks back using the same tone, Really? Well, it's not a secret now, is it, Mr. Walpert?"

I look at the chocolate as a whole as I tell them, "This is an awful lot of chocolate to pour." Kimper nods, "I tempered our new formula to withstand additional humidity and loaded up a cement mixer." Booth asks, "When was that?" "Tuesday morning. 10:00." I nod asking, "How long did it take to set?" "I confirmed solidity on Thursday, 3:30 that afternoon. I can give you my notes." I nod, "I would like that."

Mr. Walpert adds, "I personally monitored it every eight hours. I saw nothing strange." Booth then asks, "Do you have any security cameras here, any surveillance I can take a look at? Footage?" "Just a temporary fence with a padlock for insurance purposes." He looks at the chocolate and then back at Booth, "You don't think that a child saw the chocolate and fell in?"

Temp quickly answers, "No. The victim appears to be an adult. Judging from this section of pelvis..." Mr. Walpert looks as he starts gagging not liking to see a body like that as Booth and I glance at him for a moment, but listen to Temp say, "female, late 20s." Cam then says, "I'll tell you one thing I've noticed. That I'm sort of off chocolate."

We are back at the lab as the chocolate was transported up on the platform getting a scanning of the chocolate as Vincent who came back to work with us says, "You know, it was widely rumored that Pope Clement the 14th was killed with a cup of poisoned chocolate." 

Cam asks, "Was he a good pope or a bad pope?" "He was no Urban the Sixth." We look at him as Cam says a bit sarcastically, "Oh, no. Of course not." "Oh, who, by the way, was the answer to my record-breaking Daily Double win on Jeopardy. The category, of course: Torture."