I don't know that they so much believed that Brennan could be a murderer, but that someone else could have done it.

It was "pennies" according to CC, not "panties".

For the record, this is some of the worst Ally McBeal style trial lawyering I've ever seen.

Yeah, it was pretty bad. When Angela started going on to Brennan about what was "right" as she was being taken from court, I was thinking "They're letting her say this in front of the jury?"

I don't know that they so much believed that Brennan could be a murderer, but that someone else could have done it.

Yup. It was a circumstantial case, so all the defense had to do was find someone else who fit the circumstances to raise a reasonable doubt.

One other nitpick was Brennan mentioning that her dad was facing lethal injection because that's how Maryland carries out the death penalty. Doesn't matter what Maryland does. It was a Federal case.

Just got caught up on the last Bones/House (before tonight's).

Loved the phalanges. Good for Bones for investing in the town.

CSI was kind of jokey, and the burning death was horrifying.

DX, could you please explain the green blood? I thought I understood it the first time they explained it but I didn't retain it.

The blood tidbit I know is that abalone have copper-based blood, so it's blue, and they are all hemophiliacs. (Also that awful people are poaching them by illegally scuba diving to get to them, and the ab populations are crashing. Why don't those people get chomped by great whites instead of 60+year old triathletes! /rant.)

I finally watched this past Bones. I'm very impressed with this little show. Just when they go all schmoopy Bones-n-Booth troo luv, they have Bones push Booth up to the very edge of what he's willing to do. And if you allow yourself to think that what was presented in the episode with the murder was not necessarily the entire truth--the montage with Max stringing up the Deputy Director etc.--it's a plausable story, that Bones could have done it (whether she's strong enough to haul a body up on that cross is something else).

It falls apart on why she would plant the sharpened pipe in the ashes to implicate her father etc. and Miss Julian should have said, "She's a mystery writer, this is a made-up plot!", but I found it plausible enough to look at the calm faces of Bones and Max as Booth was looking at them and think "In this situation, she could possibly do it."

This reminds me of the character Harriet Vane, also a mystery writer accused of murder, but Harriet was always so horribly, horribly mortified by it all. It will be interesting to see what publicitiy will come out of this and whether there will be calls for Bones to be arrested.

I do like my little show. I wonder if the curled up body is part of that serial killer they were starting to follow at the beginning of the season.

I do like my little show.

I do to. It's not love, but I feel protective of it nonetheless. And I've been seeing affectionate write-ups of it TV Guide (take that for what you will now that fonebone is gone) and in Entertainment Weekly (which is pretty much my pop cult bible these days), which makes me psyched. It may have flown under the radar but been successful enough to keep doing what it's doing.

Though, stupidly, I will probably sitting down to eat at the beginning, which is always a bad idea.

Well, I was right about that.

Also, didn't the Piano Man singer look an awful lot like David Boreanaz? Obviously not him, because he could sing, but...

Okay, if this is going to turn into yet another fat girl stalker story I'm going to lose some of my affection for this show.

Boy, this is pretty watch from the hall.

I've wondered this before, but -- how is Brennan a best-selling author, but no one's heard of her for that?