The first episode of season eight of ‘Bones' starts off with a thrilling jolt. A body is found during a friendly game of paintball, though at first glance it appears to simply be an innocent victim caught in the crossfire of the paint.
After the commercial break, we find that Booth and Bones are living together and that Bones is heavily pregnant! Several awkward conversations are exchanged over toast and coffee, one of which includes Booth's idea of the two of them going to find a place of their own. After getting the call to go to the crime scene, Bones determines that the victim is a female in her late twenties, completely ignoring the fact that a woman in mid-pregnancy would not be working a crime scene. The victim was killed by damage to the hard pallet, which hit the brain.
Viewers are introduced to a new lab assistant of Dr. Brennan a.k.a. Bones, though it is never clear on what his name is. The lab assistant discovers that there were beetles in the brain of the victim along with a metal-like substance. Hodgins takes the bugs in order to see if they can determine the material that killed their victim.
Booth and Sweets talk about the case and about the possibility of Bones moving in with Booth. Sweets states that he wants in on the case, something which is odd as he usually does not express interest in cases.
Bones reveals that the victim had an injured collar bone and had been lying in a type of oil. She also had past brain damage and was treated for anxiety. The scene quickly changes to a touching one between Angela and Bones as she tries to convince the latter woman to live with Booth.
Booth finds that the victim had had two missing persons reports filed—one was six months before she was discovered, and the other was one week before her body was discovered. After Booth runs ideas past Bones, he becomes angered when the discussion turns to personal matters, and Bones clearly couldn't see that they were family.
Back at the lab, Hodgins finds that there was an odd cloth that lined the grave before the body had been placed in it. Brennan, when visiting the hospital that the victim had been admitted to, reveals that the body had had recent head trauma. Booth discovers that she possibly had a stalker. The stalker is discovered to have had a bottle of oil in his violin case that was the same type of oil in which the victim was lying in. However, it is not a match.
The lab assistant discovers that the victim was shot in the leg and whoever cleaned her wound did a pretty poor job of it. This goes on to reveal that the victim had been shot during a robbery. Her partner was arrested, but during questioning, tells Booth that there were $80,000 hidden in the area where the victim was found.
Sweets goes through the doctor's notes and finds that there were no notes for the last six months of the victim's life. Bones also manages to discover a piece of gum left at the crime scene which places the victim's doctor at the same time as the victim. He admits to killing her when Sweets and Booth go to question him once more.
The show ends with a touching scene of the family online shopping for their new home. Booth goes over and listens to Bones' stomach in such a way that viewers can't help but smile.
