- The team talk to the deceased teenaged victim as if he is alive. A psychic visits and says the victim called her to help with the case. The boy's spirit affects everyone as they look for his killer.
- A teenage corpse, later identified as Colin Gibson, is found reburied in a hothouse. A wasp-nest in his cranium and rare birch material ultimately allow to Hodgins to provide hints for Booth to find his original burial place, a remote pump house. Colin was a fun-loving, enterprising, generally liked model student and individual athlete. The death cause seemingly renders his father a suspect, but no motive works out.—KGF Vissers
- Everything we see is from the perspective of the victim, who may or may not be a ghost. Hodgins examines a skull covered in wasps. Bones and Booth argue over whether the skull belongs to a man or a woman. Bones would rather not hazard a guess. "I can be more definite about age -- pubescent," she says. "Thirteen or fourteen." The news depresses both Booth and Hodgins.
The body is taken to the Jeffersonian. Avalon, a quirky psychic, is brought into the lab -- much to Hodgin's chagrin. "He's listening," Avalon says of the victim. "He's got unfinished business." Hodgins then finds a wasps nest in the skull, which might yield clues. Angela then takes the skull to her office and begins to talk to it. "If Avalon says it, I believe you're here," she says before beginning the digital reconstruction of the victim's face. Hodgins uses the wasps nest to theorize that the time of death was almost two years ago.
The facial reconstruction along with the time of the death reveals a result: a 14-year-old boy named Colin. In a rare display of emotion, Bones begins to cry. Booth comforts his partner and wife. Later, Hodgins discovers the species of wasp did not burrow, meaning the body was moved and placed above ground where it was found in a greenhouse. But why move the body?
Colin's parents then visit the lab. They weep as they look at the their sons remains. Bones gently explains that the injuries indicate the boy would have died instantaneously. The parents say Colin was a sports nut with no problems with anyone at school. "Everyone liked him," the mom cries. Later, Bones speaks to the victim, saying the instantaneous death was a kind lie told to make his parents feel better. She also theorizes that the boy was running at a high rate of speed when he fell forward. Sweets then introduces Miranda and Shawn, friends of Colin from high school. They hand over Colin's skateboard and a CD left in Miranda's locker by Colin, who apparently loved music. "I didn't have the heart to listen to it after he went missing," Miranda says.
Hodgins then finds paint chips on the bones -- and matches them to a number of different models. Avalon reappears and Hodgins grudgingly allows the woman to talk to the remains. "Your death is a tragedy because you were going to make the world a better place -- and that's the way it should be," she says. "I don't understand. But I will." Later, Bones examines the possible car models. Booth informs her that one of those models matches a car owned by Colin's dad. Sweets, who has listened to the CD, theorizes that Colin was in love with Miranda, who was three years his senior. Was Shawn jealous perhaps?
Bones then decides to take home Colin's skull. She stays up late talking to it and listening to the mix CD. "I find your musical taste eclectic," she says. Booth, who holds their baby, explains how he questioned Colin's father and doesn't believe that dad is responsible. Bones then has a epiphany. The discolored areas on the victim's skull could have been caused by exposure to a certain light pattern over time. Later, Booth and Bones take the skull to a location that matches plant materials found on the remains. They find a pump house with the matching light pattern cut in the walls. "Colin's body was dumped here after he was murdered," says Booth, who discovers a hood ornament.
Back at the Jeffersonian, Angela recreates the death blow from the car on her computer. After running through numerous scenarios, the group theorizes that Colin was surfing on the hood of his father's borrowed car. "The driver probably panicked and hid the body," Camille says. Bones looks at the victim. "You made a foolish decision," she says. "I just wish it hadn't killed you." Booth, Bones, and Sweets bring in Colin's friends: Miranda, Shawn, and Carl. Sweets explains that the body was hidden twice -- in the pump house and in the greenhouse. "It happened just like you said," Shawn admits. "I was driving."
Shawn and Carl admit to collaborating to try to hide their terrible mistake. Miranda is angry and sad as she had nothing to do with it. The case is solved, but Avalon insists that Colin is still "here." "Dying is not what made him sad," the psychic explains. So what is he sad about? Bones finds a loud noise at the end of the CD he made for Miranda. When played on a different machine, it reveals a video from Colin professing his love for Miranda. "I believe this might be the answer," Angela says. The team shows the video to Miranda.
The girl cries -- and we watch as Colin's spirit leaves the skull and disappears.
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