TEXT: "Stargazer in a Puddle" [SCENE_BREAK] TEASER (Open: Booth and Brennan are entering a wet and muddy abandoned warehouse.) BOOTH: (Stepping over puddles in mud) Ooh oh oh... BRENNAN: Well, you should've worn gumboots. BOOTH: (Jumping over the puddles) It's fine, you know I- I'm agile. BOOTH: So, Hodgins asked, uh, Angela to, uh, marry him? BRENNAN: Twice. BOOTH: Oh and she uh, turned him down both times. BRENNAN: I heard all this from Angela. BOOTH: Yeah but did she tell you that he said that he wasn't going to ask her to marry him? BRENNAN: (slightly annoyed) Yes. BOOTH: And she said? BRENNAN: (gesturing) I'd like to marry you. BOOTH: Kinda sudden Bones. Let me think about it. BRENNAN: (Looks at him in disbelief) What? No. Booth, that's what Angela told Hodgins... (Trails off as she notices Booth laughing at her) BRENNAN: (Gets it) You're joking.(Booth jumps over puddle and laughs) BRENNAN: You know, a lot of psychologists say that jokes are the way that we manifest a lot of our hidden desires. BOOTH: (His grin fades and as he turns to follow her he steps in a giant puddle, soaking his right leg.) Ah jeez! BRENNAN: You okay? BOOTH: (annoyed) Yeah, fine. (Shakes off wet leg and looks at the cop at the scene) What do we got? DC COP: Uh, during a foot pursuit last night a suspect tosses a knife into this muck in an effort to avoid incarceration, the fluid gets drained and we start finding stuff.
SUMMARY:
The team works on finding how Chelsea Cole, a fan of astronomy who suffered from Werner syndrome , died. Meanwhile, Hodgins and Angela prepare for their wedding. Zack is asked to serve his country in Iraq. Brennan's father, Max, tries to let her in on her past and brings her a 1993 video of her mother. Booth and Max get into a fist fight before Max surrenders to his arrest. The investigation leads to the victim's mother as the killer who admits guilt, confessing that she killed her disabled daughter thinking she was dying herself, fearing what would happen to Chelsea if she died. Brennan has a confronting revelation about the mother, acknowledging that she did what she did out of love. This holds significance for Brennan due to her parents abandoning her as a child, realizing they did it out of love. After resolving the case, Angela and Hodgins prepare for the wedding and Booth shares some touching information with Brennan. After a surprising turn of events, Caroline Julian informs the couple that Angela is still married to a man from a previous relationship, which she assumed hadn't been serious. The couple escape embarrassment, leaving Brennan and Booth facing each other awkwardly at the altar.