Moments (Bones)

The Crack in the Code (Part 2)

It didn't take long for the lab techs to arrive at the scene after the rest of the body had been discovered. They began to clear away the remains.

"Get those back to the Jeffersonian as quick as possible." Booth told the lab techs. "Bones gets the rest of the remains. Hopefully, she'll be able to figure out cause of death."

Sweets nodded at Booth.

"Looks like these are all criminal case files." Sweets said as he looked at the files.

"Closed cases?" Booth asked.

"No, no, no." Sweets said. "It just says 'Investigation Suspended.'"

"Whoa, whoa, wait a second." Booth said surprised at Sweets' response. "There's either open files or closed files. What the hell does that mean?"

"I don't..." Sweets managed to get out before his phone began ringing. "Oh, hold on. Um..."

"Careful with that." Booth said to Sweets who was fiddling around in his pockets. "That's evidence."

"I know, I know, I'm sorry." Sweets said pulling off his gloves and grabbing his phone from his pocket as he spoke. "This could just be very important. Yes, score."

"What is it?" Booth asked thinking something was wrong. "What?"

"I, I got Daisy's birthday present." Sweets explained, a smile on his face. "It's a powder blue Vespa. It's cute as a button."

"You got her a scooter?" Booth asked.

"Got it ten cents on the dollar at the, uh, U.S. Marshals' auction." Sweets explained.

"Oh." Booth responded.

"They got everything there; they got boats, cars..." Sweets began to explain before Evie elbowed him softly in the ribs. "My bad, your plate is full. Solve murder, buy house, have baby."

"Yeah, go through the files, now." Booth told him. "And give me some of the perp names."

"All right." Sweets said flicking through the files and he began reading out the names. "Colin Freakley."

"Freakley." Booth repeated writing it down on a notepad he'd pulled out.

"Daniel Cassutto." Sweets read.

"Cassutto, wait, Cassutto, he's a CI." Booth said looking up from his notepad.

"Confidential informant?" Sweets asked before turning back to the files. "Well, check out some of these. All right, Gino Nicoletta, Jimmy Valentine..."

"These are all FBI informants." Booth said.

"Yeah, well, there are about 20 of these." Sweets said as he skimmed over the files. "Looks like someone decided not to prosecute their crimes."

"Well, maybe Headquarters feels it's worth letting them slide on the small stuff in order to, you know, solve the bigger crimes." Booth reasoned.

"No, this isn't small stuff." Sweets said as he looked at one of the files. "These are major felonies."

"Drug trafficking, extortion, fraud." Booth read over Sweet's shoulder.

"If I was one of their victims, I'd do pretty much anything to call attention to this." Evie said as she moved from the spot she was leaning against.

***

Evie had stayed with Booth while Sweets went off to test ride the Vespa. They were walking with Caroline towards the meeting room.

"I'm gonna kill this man." Caroline told them. "You should record me saying that so you have the evidence to arrest me."

Caroline turned on the TV and they were met with he sight of Ezra Krane reporting on the case they were currently working on.