- The liquefied remains of a wedding planner are found in her home tanning bed on Valentine's Day, and Cam pressures her team to solve the case in time so she can celebrate the holiday with her boyfriend. While the "squints" works tirelessly in the lab, Booth and Brennan interrogate a slew of possible suspects until they unlock classified files in the victim's computer, which lead to their main suspect. Meanwhile, Booth and Brennan downplay the significance of Valentine's Day, and Hodgins tries to plan a romantic day for Angela, but "squint" Clark helps him realize that the most meaningful gifts come from the heart.—Fox Publicity
- Wedding planner Wendy Bovitz's housekeeper finds her employer's corpse on her home tanning bed, on Valentine's day of all days. She'd been previously stabbed through the heart and suffered wounds to her hands after a fight. Wendy's executive assistant Darren Hargrove is shattered about being left alone to handle the wedding arrangements for Warren and Erickson's daughter Raina. A protected file on her laptop suggests that her husband was the murderer, but is that coach driver Greg or her late first husband?—KGF Vissers
- Lucy (Carla Jimenez),a cleaning woman, enters a house littered with wedding supplies to find a horribly decomposing body in the home tanning bed. She SCREAMS! Sometime later, Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) and Bones (Emily Deschanel) are at the scene. They examine the dripping, female body. Hodgins worries the case will cut in on Valentine's Day. "Are you suggesting that we not do our jobs properly?" Bones asks. Booth tells the team the woman has been identified as a wedding planner. "Someone who specializes in love is found dead on Valentine's Day," Hodgins notes. Recently single Booth (David Boreanaz) doesn't want to hear about Valentine's Day either.
Back at the Jeffersonian, the new, overly sharing Clark (Eugene Byrd) also prattles on about Valentine's Day. Camille (Tamara Taylor), meanwhile, has a big date with Paul (Elon Gold) later that night. Everybody but Bones and Booth, it seems, is romantically involved. Bad news for the lovebirds, though: the victim's bones indicate a stabbing. That probably means everybody stays late. "I'm sorry," Bones tells a disappointed Camille. "This is murder." Camille then gives the team 8.5 hours to solve the case so she can make it to dinner.
Booth and Sweets interview the dead woman's executive assistant, Darren (Peter Paige). He is distraught to learn of his employer's death. Darren explains the victim, Wendy, was planning the Erickson wedding -- apparently a HUGE deal. He then begins to cry. "I loved that woman!" Darren repeats over and over. Later, Angela (Michaela Conlin) tries to engage Booth in a conversation about Hannah, but he doesn't want to talk about it. She then suggests he might want to hang out with another single lady in the building. Again, Booth doesn't want to talk about it. He then examines the victim's laptop. He finds a password-protected file containing a picture of bloody and bruised Wendy. "If anything happens to me, it was my husband," an accompanying message reads.
Moments later, Booth tracks down hubby Greg (Brady Smith), who works as a carriage driver -- and doesn't like the job, explaining he is a horse trainer and belongs on a ranch. Booth breaks the news of the murder and Greg recoils in SHOCK. He denies ever laying a hand on Wendy, though the pair was separated. Greg then says the laptop message probably referred to Wendy's first husband -- a "real piece of work" killed in a bar fight last year. Greg also suggests talking to Erickson (Kip Gilman), who had recently BERATED Wendy for various wedding-related issues. Back at the Jeffersonian, Hodgins struggles to find a proper Valentine's Day gift for his wife. "Angela doesn't care about things," Clark says. "Just give her something that only you can give her."
Booth and Bones head to the reception hall to see rich-dude Erickson, who calls Wendy a "bitch" before learning she is dead. He admits he had a "heated exchange" with the victim, but denies killing her. Bones asks for a DNA sample to compare with residue left on Wendy. "That's never ever going to happen," Erickson says. But Booth has a plan: Erickson's son is serving a prison sentence for insider trading. They can get a DNA swab from the boy as it would be similar to dear old dad's genetic makeup. Back at the lab, Hodgins discovers flora on the victim -- an orchid blossom. Either Wendy was wearing an orchid her hair OR she was smacked in the head with an orchid before being stabbed.
Clark, in the meantime, has analyzed the DNA taken from Erickson's son. It is very close to the DNA found on the victim -- with one major caveat: the DNA on the body belongs to a woman. Camille draws the inevitable conclusion: the DNA belongs to Erickson's daughter, the bride, apparently the only woman in the family. So B&B pay a visit to Raina (Leslie-Anne Panaligan). "Your DNA was found under her fingernails," Bones says. Raina then admits she fought with Wendy, who had samples of a much-desired orchid in her apartment. "That must be how the flower petal got into her hair," Bones whispers to Booth. Says Raina: "I know I'm a bitch, but I'm not a killer bitch."
CUT to the Jeffersonian, where Clark recreates the murder weapon on a computer screen. It turns out to be a sharp, cone-shaped object. Hodgins then examines materials in the stab wounds and determines the weapon is made of cast iron. Angela, meanwhile, finds another protected file on the victim's computer: a court document awarding the wedding-planning business to Darren. Asks an incredulous Hodgins: "If Wendy dies, Darren gets the entire business?" Yup. B&B head back to the wedding site to interview Darren -- and quickly spot the "bride" on the top of the cake. The bottom end of the tiny cake bride is a sharp, cone-shaped blade made of cast iron. Booth arrests Darren, who admits he was having a romantic affair with his boss.
It looks like B&B have their killer. Or do they? Back at the Jeffersonian, Hodgins discovers horse oil on the bride/blade. And who do we know who works with horses? Greg. Still, the evidence is pretty thin. Booth asks Bones if her acting has become any better. Apparently, the FBI guy has a plan. CUT to the interrogation room, where Greg denies killing anybody. Bones then begins to act, pretending to have sympathy for the man because he had to give up his dreams to drive a carriage. Says Bones: "Then the woman that you do all of that for, she goes and gives her heart and half the business to another man!" Greg is now all riled up. "It's him I should have killed -- not Wendy!" he screams. Booth smiles at his partner. Her acting really HAS improved. Case closed.
But not the episode. We see a Valentine's Day montage: Cam receiving a HUGE bouquet from her doctor friend ... Hodgins presenting Angela with the gift of a fine-smelling mold ... Clark ripping off his clothes in front of his girlfriend to reveal red boxers ... and, finally, B&B meeting at the shooting range. They fire old-school machine guns brought by Bones. "Happy Valentine's Day massacre," she tells Booth. Indeed.
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