Recap: 'Bones,' Season 7, Episode 3, 'The Prince in the Plastic'

In "Bones," Season 7, Episode 3, "The Prince in the Plastic," a couple of people find the remains of a human being in shrink-wrapped plastic. It consists of a skeleton surrounded by the goo that used to be the victim's flesh.

Spoilers follow.

The victim turns out to be a woman executive at a toy company. Her body also has the worse-for-wear doll called "Prince Charmington" who, apparently, every girl had except for Dr. Brennan. The irrepressible Daisy Wicks vows to find the malefactor who did that to the prince.

While all this is going on, there is a subplot of Sweets wanting to get firearms certification. Booth is thoroughly against this, thinking that being able to pull heat is incompatible to the role of being a shrink. However, encouraged by Daisy, Sweets becomes a potential contestant for "Top Shot," perforating targets right and left and even successfully going through the FBI's urban simulation course. Even Booth is impressed. Daisy certainly is and demonstrates it as only she can.

Also, the theme of childhood and play rears its head. Apparently Brennan never played as a child and does not know how. This is a worry as she will be expected to do so when her own kid comes into this world.

Angela and Hodgins have their own problems with a toy that is designed to help babies walk, but apparently not designed to be assembled by normal human beings. Finally she is forced to pay the folks at the store to do it for her.

As for the case at hand, the usual red herring suspects are gone through and then eliminated until the real killer is found. What it the business rival at the toy company? No. Was it the brother who resented her for her relatively higher socio-economic status? No.

In a warning that an Italian sports car can be really expensive, it turns out to be the president and CEO of the toy company. It seems the victim, who was a successful toy developer, wanted to leave the company. She was killed accidentally in the tussle that followed. Instead of reporting the accident to the police, she tried to get rid of the body in the back of her sports car. Bad mistake.