Recap: 'Bones,' Season 7, Episode 6, 'The Crack in the Code'

"Bones," Season 7, Episode 6, "The Crack in the Code" begins with a skull and an unusually rearranged spine set at the feet of a statue of Abraham Lincoln. Written in blood on Mr. Lincoln are the words, "Where is the rest of me?"

Spoilers surely follow.

The episode introduces the latest super villain who is going to blight the lives of the folks at the Jeffersonian, just like the Gormogon and the Gravedigger. The perpetrator is clever enough to kill a 20 something Danish girl and rearrange her spine to make up a code. The blood that paints the message turns out to be from five FBI agents, all of them still very much alive. The killer is annoyed with the Bureau because of cases involving some informants that were squashed secretly. He is also a sociopath who probably would have wound up doing what he is doing for some other reason. He turns out to be, as known to the audience if not as yet the characters at the Jeffersonian, a parolee who is forbidden to leave his house or use the Internet. And yet he is committing horrible crimes.

There is also a tabloid reporter who has not read or seen "Red Dragon." This means that he does not know what happens when a tabloid reporter gets too close to an insane serial killer. St least he does not know until it is too late. We also learn that Hodgins' granddad was one of Nimitz's code breakers who helped to win the Battle of Midway.

Bones and Booth are also still searching for a house in which to start their new family, the newest member of which has started to kick. Bones, a wealthy woman, could buy a great house at will. But this would hurt Booth's pride, hence the futile search.

The solution that Booth arrives at is a creative one, which has actually been under his nose the whole time as a law enforcement officer. Let us just say that the prior owner of the house they find is now residing in Leavenworth. Thus the episode ends on a happy note - at least for now.

Source: Bones, The Crack in the Code, TV.Rage