The evidence in this weeks Bones crime is made up entirely of two garbage bags of nearly-liquified human remains. Its a bit far to go to reenforce Bones’ status as THE place to go for network TV corpse-porn. Never the less, the investigation starts strong. Inside the bag, some rare metals and stones are found. This leads to an eccentric blind genius and his laboratory of super smart weirdos. Bones never ceases to make people into insane caricatures. Sometimes its funny, other times its just sad.

Back at the lab, the crew theorizes that a wood chipper isn’t to blame but a deep freeze. The body seems to have been frozen in liquid nitrogen and then shattered. The theory is ruined however, after a Mythbusters-style experiment goes askew after a frozen turkey hits Angela in the face.

Now the investigation takes a turn for the insane. Lab results suggest that the victim was dieing of leukemia, but the victim had a recent exam and was given a clean bill of health. A source of radiation may have been the cause of death. While investigation some sort of massive vibration chamber in the lab, Bones and Booth are locked inside. Someone attempts to kill them, but they escape with the help of the blind scientist. After some seemingly random lab results come in, the investigation settles on the uber-emo pseudo scientist. Again as usual, the capture of the murderer is a total anticlimax. On Bones, catching the murderer isn’t nearly as important as the various corpse shots and inter-laboratory shenanigans.

On that front, Angela’s father is in town. Angela’s dad blames Hodgins for their messy break up and he’s in town to defend his daughter’s honor. Angela’s dad is played by ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons. He spends most of episode menacing Hodgins through a restaurant window and trying to look tough for a man in his seventies. Daddy gets his revenge in the final scene when Hodgins wakes up in a desert with a brand new “Angela forever” tattoo.

Not sure what the point of having Billy Gibbons guest star was. I can only assume one of the producers is a ZZ Top fan. It really added nothing to an already stale relationship. Sadly, this episode of Bones was more pointless than most.