Broken Bones

Episode 87 ''The Twisted Bones in the Melted Truck'' Part 2

-Venus POV-

I nod as the students begin asking us some more questions about different things and our thoughts about it. After Booth took us back to the lab as I go to my office to finish up some paperwork. As I check I see that Hodgins was missing a bit as I take it to talk to him about it. As I get to his workspace, I see Daisy inside as I noticed them doing something. It seemed like an experiment as I go over to them asking, "What are you two doing?"

They both turning to look at me just as a gunshot was fired. I felt something hit my arm and the other two jump from the loud noise. Pain begins to surge down my arm as we look down as I tell them, "Ow!" Daisy quickly turns off the fire, "Oh! Oh, are you okay?" We look at my arm as blood begins to seep out as Hodgins says shocked and worried, "We just shot her!"

Daisy corrects, "Well, technically no. The bullet is in the backstop. She was struck by the bullet casing. because we failed to account for Newton's Third Law of Motion. 'For every action, there is..." I then remind the two, "'An equal and opposite reaction.' You both know I am here, and I still am bleeding with a bullet casing embedded in my arm."

Hodgins nods, "Right, we'll take you to the hospital." Daisy nods as we leave so they can take me to the hospital as Daisy pleads to not tell the FBI when they ask me, but also happy that their experiment was a success. Temp was first to hear about it from Hodgins who had to call her, who she called Booth.

They both arrived in which they learned what happened as Booth reprimand the two who looked like children getting lectured for doing something wrong. Wendell later found out when Booth took my phone from my hand letting him know what happened as well, causing a bit of unnecessary panic which led us meeting him at the front of the hospital with Jupiter by his side.

He was really worried but felt more reassured that I was going to be fine when he saw me. It was really a sweet moment and thing of him to do. We after went to eat lunch as we get a call from Sweets as he informed as that Vader 649 is Paul, one of the kids we meet at detention. He was selling star war merchandises for $500, even though they aren't worth a few bucks.

Leading to also talk to the teacher who revealed that it was blackmail since he knew she was having an affair with one of her students Randy Siminoff, the boy with the red cap and the one that works in the shop where Booth first meet him. We thanked him and told him he did a good job.

Temp and I go back to the lab over to Angie's workspace as she explains over to the computer, "So, after I scanned in all the bones, I remembered Girolamo Cardano." I ask, "The 16th century Italian mathematician and anatomist?"

"Yeah, that's the guy. He developed a series of mathematical equations to describe the skeletal system. So, programming the equations into the computer, I was able to reconstruct the skeletal system, the same way a forensic architect could reconstruct a collapsed building."

I nod impressed as Temp asks, "You straightened out the bones?" "I sure did. Check this out." We watch as the image of the bones begin to straighten out and expand back to how they originally supposed to be as Temp says, "Amazing." I nod as Angie continues, "Now, there are marks on the victim's illeum."

She enlarges the image as we see some scuff looking marks as Temp says, "I don't believe an injury at the location would be fatal. But a nicked mandible could be. Especially if the carotid was transected. The victim would have bled out." "And we'd have cause of death."

I nod, "Based on the wound track, which narrows to a point, we're looking at a knife." "So he was stabbed." We nod as Temp says, "Daisy will need to find the actual, warped bone so she can swab the wound for trace from the murder weapon. No problem."