A brilliant employee in a government-employed accounting firm was fatally pierced with an improvised metal weapon while dating a woman in a motel. Searching it, Booth must chase and let go fellow vet Danny Beck, now a CIA agent, respecting a delicate balance between professional secrecy and courtesy. Sweets pleases a greater field role now Bones retreats bitterly into the lab and Booth is gloomily distracted.. Booth's former army chaplain, now barman, becomes the mediator to prevent the other secret, Pellant's silence demand, from causing worse damage then delay to his wedding plans.
—KGF Vissers