The Lost in the Found is the seventeenth episode of the tenth season of Bones.
Synopsis[]
When the remains of a private high school student are discovered in a ditch, Brennan and Booth surmise that bullying was a factor. When Brennan discovers similarities between her own teen years and the victim's, it leads the team to question whether or not the girl's death was, in fact, a murder. Meanwhile, Brennan is in denial as to how far along she is with her pregnancy and Daisy contemplates dating for the first time after Sweets' death.
Summary[]
Sixteen-year-old prep school student Molly Delson is found dead, in a ditch in the Virginia Woodlands, her flesh mostly gone after having been dead for four days.
One of the suspects is the man who found the body, Tyler O’Brian. O’Brian has a history of sleeping with underage girls. Her parents are also suspects, as fractures in the bones show signs of abuse that stopped at puberty. But the fractures could also point towards Molly having been overweight as a child. Her parents explain that Molly was an over-achiver and unable to stand disappointing anyone, especially her parents. Due to that, Molly lost the childhood weight as she entered her teen years. Other suspects include the Headmistress of Molly's school, Amelia Minchin, as well as three of her fellow students, Cayla Seligman, Arianna Donas, and Kathryn Walling.
Donas and Seligman are the first to look guilty, since they are found in Molly's blocked off dorm room, rifling through her belongings, when Booth and Aubrey go to visit the campus. Walling is the third classmate to become a suspect when it is revealed that she had a fight with Molly shortly before the murder. After the discovery of Molly's diary, which Donas and Seligman were looking for, the team discovers that Molly was bullied consistently. Brennan discovers similarities between her own teen years and the victim's; which leads them to question whether or not Molly's death was, in fact, a murder.
As the facts and story unfold, it becomes obvious that Molly's murder was cruel. The breaking point was bullying, when Booth and Aubrey turn back to Ryan after discovering that Ryan had posted a nude photo of Molly on the internet with her phone number attached on the night she died. Ryan says that he knew Molly because she was trying to buy benzodiazepine, but that did not make sense with the evidence. No such drug was found in Molly's tox-screen.
Brennan and Booth question Donas, Seligman, and Walling, but they do not get anywhere. The three bullies insist that they did not kill Molly. Because the evidence does not add up, Brennan is driven to go back and re-examine the evidence. After discovering that there were no fractures on Molly's left arm, Brennan discovers that Molly's murder was in fact a suicide. She returns to Booth, and explains how she got there.
The three bullies were not the murderers, but what pushed Molly over the edge. Molly purposefully staged her suicide, with the use of various drugs, to get back at the bullies. By offering vodka laced with benzodiazepine, the three bullies blacked out, causing their alibis to be unreliable. Then, she took lidocaine to numb her nerves in order to stab and injure herself to make it appear like a murder. The weapon she used was one of the bullies' scissors, adding to the evidence against the three bullies. Earlier in the episode, Brennan discussed how Molly had textbooks, Brennan's own, implying that Molly used that knowledge to harm herself. As the final piece, Molly's diary contains evidence leading towards her suicide; she was depressed, lonely, bullied, and incapable of disappointing her parents. That is why she chose suicide, specifically suicide that made her bullies look guilty. Brennan reveals that from the beginning she knew her murder was a suicide, however she refused to see the truth. Her reasoning was that she was in denial about her pregnancy being so far along, and was also scared to admit to Booth the fact that she is scared about having a bigger family. Booth comforts her, saying that it is worth it.
Meanwhile, Daisy may have found a new romance, in her yoga class. The instructor had approached her, asking for her number. While flattered, she is unsure whether she is ready for new romance, so close after Sweets' death. She asks numerous times whether it is the right decision to do.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Temperance Brennan - Emily Deschanel
- Seeley Booth - David Boreanaz
- Jack Hodgins - T.J Thyne
- Angela Montenegro - Michaela Conlin
- Camille Saroyan - Tamara Taylor
- James Aubrey - John Boyd
Intern of the Week[]
Guest Cast[]
- Amelia Minchin - Alysia Reiner
- Kathryn Walling - China Anne McClain
- Cayla Seligman - McKaley Miller
- Arianna Donas - Brielle Barbusca
- Tyler O'Brian - Adam Zastrow
- Kurt Delson - David Monahan
- Kim Delson - Jenny Cooper
- Jake Ryan - Jordan James Smith
Featured Music[]
- Fading Bright Eyes Dark by Scars On 45
Notes[]
- This episode stated Brennan is six-months pregnant.
- The young victim attended a private boarding school for girls run by Amelia Minchin. Amelia Minchin was also the name of the younger of the two sisters who owned the boarding school in "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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