User Reviews

This is a really powerful Bones episode.

I think that they handled this serious and intense topic in a very good way. When Kat goes into Sweets' office and says "I was raped," I got goosebumps. It was just such a powerful moment and both actors did a great job making these interaction feel real. Then, later when Sweets talks about his past childhood abuse, it just shed more light on why Sweets is able to connect so well with Kat.

I also really enjoyed how they used the photos from the party to put together what happened throughout the night. I think it is pretty realistic that high schoolers would take pictures of a party (though I'd like to think they would be smart enough to not upload it to the internet, but oh well).

I also thoroughly enjoyed the end in the interrogation room where they got the guy to admit to the rape. I think it was a fun little trick that they played on him (but maybe he should have considered a lawyer before getting put in this situation).

Overall, this was a really great episode. The writers handled this serious topic really well and I felt like I was able to follow along easily. I really liked that it was more of a Sweets focused episode. This is definitely a Bones episode that always stands out to me. My one complaint was that I was sometimes confused about the age of the people we were talking to. They were all high schoolers but apparently some were 18 because they didn't have parent present. I just wish that was made a bit more clear.

Best part: how trusting, understanding, and approachable Sweet was in this episode

Worst part: Bones not knowing about Gilligan's Island, c'mon Bones that show is way before my time but even I have a general sense of the show!

This episode was just amazing! The way they dealt with such a serious and actual subject was simply spectacular. When Booth and Sweets went to talk with the victim's mother and her neighbor and her daughter we could see that Sweets knew that Kat was hiding something (probably due to his past as an abused child he knew she was afraid or embarrassed of something like he used to be on his childhood).

Then when the girl went to Sweets' office to talk to him he didn't seem very surprised because he knew something was wrong and he didn't want her to keep the secret any longer. She told him she had been raped. He didn't ask any questions because she was a minor and her mother was not present, he just tried to make her tell him the whole story so he could press charges. Kat was mad at Sweets because he reported what she had told him. We could see that Sweets was worried about the girl and desperately wanted to save her for her suffering.

That scene outside with sweets and the girl was very intense because they were connected by the pain they both suffered. When Sweets told her he had been beaten regularly by his foster father we could see the pain on his eyes. He truly understood what Kate was passing through. And the girl immediately trusted this man to find the person that had attacked her. It was such a beautiful moment because he exposed his own painful past to her so she could know she was not alone. I must say both John F. Daley and Lizze Broadway did an amazing job.

On the last scene in Sweets' office both Sweets and Kat broke down because they knew that everything that had happened to them it wasn't their fault but knowing this didn't make it hurt any less.

"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt." Max Lerner