The Con Man in the Meth Lab 4.8

Clark is back with the team and still doesn't care about anybody's personal lives he just wants to solve the mystery of a man blown up in a meth lab. The team also meets Booth's brother, Jared. Read the BeeSight recap and review to find out what happened on the eighth episode of the fourth season of Bones on FOX and join in the discussion.

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Police cadets are being trained on the use of a tear gas launcher. The instructor shows the cadets an abandoned meth lab and asks how they think the officers were able to arrest the people inside. Someone suggests tear gas. The officer tells the cadet he is wrong, then shows them the consequences of firing tear gas into a meth lab. The officer launches the gas, then the mobile meth lab explodes, sending a body into the air. The body crashes down and the instructor calls for help.

Booth and Bones are meeting with Sweets. Booth tells Bones that he was late because he was closing a deal that will earn him fame and fortune. Bones asks if he is talking about the Rico case, then Booth gets a call from his brother Jared. Sweets is upset he never knew about his brother or the Rico case. Booth and Bones leave, arrive at the crime scene and examine the remains of the body that was ejected from the meth lab. Bones identifies the remains as belonging to a 45-50 year old male. The officer asks if he killed him. Bones tells him no because the man was shot in the chest. Booth notices something in the jacket pocket and pulls out a book. They see that it is filled with technical designs. They identify the book as belonging to Paul Stegman.

Back at the lab, The detectives analyze the body further. Clark is back and Angela asks if he is interested in what happened between her and Hodgens. Clark tells her that he only wants to talk about work. Clark then pulls up an image of a pattern on the body's face and says that he must have been hit before he was killed. Booth's brother Jared walks in and Camille is excited to see him. Bones meets Jared and tells him that his face is even more symmetrical than Booth's. Jared tells the team that he needs to borrow someone as a date for a party. Bones offers herself, but Jared agrees to go with Camille instead. Angela walks in, meets Jared, then Jared leaves. Angela says that Booth's brother is attractive and Bones asks if Angela is done being a lesbian. Angela tells her that she doesn't like to be labeled. Booth fills Clark in on Angela's reunion with her ex. Clark says that the only exes he cares about are x-rays.

Booth and Bones meet with Paul Stegman and his wife Lily. They ask him if his father owned a blue windbreaker. They show him the book and Paul says that he lent his dad his jacket and his book must have been in the pocket. Paul tells them that his dad was an alcoholic. Lily tells them that Jim, Paul's dad, got in a car accident when Paul was a kid. She says that the accident broke both of Jim's legs and Paula and his mother were hurt. Paul tells the detectives that he recently reconnected with his father when he found out where Paul lived from a newspaper article. Lily tells the detectives that she saw Jim arguing with Paul's partner Mike Campbell because Jim thought Mike was stealing from Paul.

Booth and Bones meet with Mike. He tells them that he and Paul were partners, but they went their separate ways. He explains that Paul was more into inventing toys and gadgets and Mike wanted to work on more serious problems. Bones notices a grate with a mesh pattern similar to the one found on Jim's face. She asks if she can take it and Mike says she can. In the car, Jared calls Booth and tells him that Cameron had to cancel their date. Bones offers herself again, and although Booth objects, Jared agrees.

At the lab, Clark tells Bones that he studied Jim's bones and found that there was no alcohol related bone damage and no evidence of broken legs from the accident. Clark and Bones realize that they have misidentified the victim.

Bones and Jared go on their date to a party with high ranking politicians and officers. Jared asks Bones if she is having a good time. She tells him she enjoys observing powerful people mingle. He tells her she's beautiful. She tells him that Booth would be bored at an event like this. He says that Booth is afraid of success. He then kisses Bones and says that his brother would probably be too scared to have done that too.

The next morning, Camille tells Booth that she found a DNA match to their body belonging to Anthony Pungetti. Booth asks if she has seen Bones and Camille says no. Colonel Ryan Wolchuck walks into Booth's office. He tells Booth that a body being discovered during training makes them look bad. He asks Booth not to disclose the facts of the case to the press, but Booth refuses. He tells Wolchuck that it's best to tell the truth and take any lumps that may come.

Camille sees Bones and notices that she hasn't changed from her date. Bones admits that she was up all night, but says that she didn't sleep with Jared. Angela walks in and tells her that it's a good thing she didn't because it would be wrong to sleep with the fake Booth before sleeping with the real Booth. Bones says that both of the brothers are Booths, but Angela says that Jared is Booth lite.

Angela finds the real Jim Stegman who was logged in the morgue as a John Doe. She says that he was found in the river last week, but he didn't die from drowning, he was shot to death. Bones and Booth are escorted through Jim's house by Sheriff Leonard Wilkinson. They find that Jim had written a check to Anthony Pungetti. The sheriff tells the detectives that Jim and Anthony had worked together before running a fraudulent repair shop. He suggests that Anthony might have stolen Jim's identity. Booth then receives a phone call and leaves.